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Why porn industry comes with a stigma even in the technical world?

8 pointsby one2three4about 4 years ago
I think this is a nice sign of how high and deep hypocrisy is these days.<p>I&#x27;ll find it very hard to believe that any single person with access to a computer has not visited pornhub at least once in his&#x2F;her life. That alone makes pornhub a high traffic web-site. Without any insider knowledge I&#x27;d presume it&#x27;s also technical savvy if only for it to support the high traffic. So, that would place it amongst a place that as a tech person I&#x27;d love to work in. At least according to the stereotype techies are after technical challenges.<p>Only that it does not exist. At least not in the regular &quot;serious&quot; jobs sites. E.g. Linkedin. And I guess that this &quot;stigma&quot; is perpetuated and rains over the professionals in all of this industry with mostly bad consequences for them and their families. And TBH I don&#x27;t understand how and why I rarely if ever hear of a startup in that business domain. Is it the &quot;stigma&quot; again? Because I find it hard to believe that there is not money to be made there and stale waters to be disrupted there.<p>Dunno. Does anyone else feel the same?

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borplkabout 4 years ago
I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s complicated. There&#x27;s some stigma because you can&#x27;t comfortably talk about it around the dinner table with grandma and the kids. Not because how popular it may or may not be.
h2odragonabout 4 years ago
Porn tends to involve, at the business end, people who are comfortable exploiting others. They tend to be assholes who don&#x27;t pay their bills and chisel at everything around them. Not <i>all</i>, certainly, but enough that the whole category of business should be asked to pay up front.
mtmailabout 4 years ago
I&#x27;d label Indeed.com a serious job site. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;q-Adult-Film-Industry-jobs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;q-Adult-Film-Industry-jobs.html</a> Pornhub has 8 job postings on their website.
chakhsabout 4 years ago
if you&#x27;re interested you don&#x27;t need to see a job posting in linkedin, they probably have a careers page in their website.<p>As of why there is a stigma, it&#x27;s because many people consider porn unethical, even if they participate in it, just like people who believe smoking is bad but still do it. It&#x27;s not hypocrisy, it&#x27;s more likely an addiction.
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pestatijeabout 4 years ago
Because some porn is very objectionable. This is a case of the whole basket being judged for its rotten apples, and I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s a bad thing.
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gcheongabout 4 years ago
Probably depends on the company: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;kink-com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;kink-com&#x2F;</a>
zeeshanqureshiabout 4 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure if this is 100% accurate, but in some TV shows&#x2F;movies I&#x27;ve watched, the Japanese are portrayed to be pretty tolerant&#x2F;non-judgemental of people who work in the adult entertainment world.<p>People often passionately discuss trivia about (adult entertainment) actors like they would about sports personalities in the west.
ta4545544545about 4 years ago
Its the highest paying job in the arena, if you&#x27;re in it. It&#x27;s a base instinct. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to exploit.<p>The same people that own the highest porn sites, own the highest real estate estate sites etc. Its just business.<p>Don&#x27;t feed em. Just flog it off to imagination if need be, or a partner.
blackcatsabout 4 years ago
I feel it’s just TV industry, not tech.