By paulnem on

Good morning everyone

I have a simple question after some experience getting my site up and running. What is the problem with working on or for adult related websites?

In the course of creating the site I needed to contract some of the work out, there seems to be quite a lot of hate directed towards adult, at least in the professional drupal sphere. I have people just straight out ignore me, people tell me they didn't want to work on adult and even the people that did want to work on adult didn't seem that impressed with the job.

I mean people certainly have the right to pick and choose what they do in life, but I'm just curious.

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cog.rusty commented

Your problem obviously is not technical but social. Why and how do people choose what they do in life? Free will? Necessity? Big words. Probably it is more meaningful to say that "people strive to improve their status within their own social/professional space".

For most people, becoming an assistant pimp is not going to do much good to their social and professional status, besides earning them some quick bucks. Hell, it is not even considered "work-safe" to look at those sites, let alone work for them. Even including their work in their portfolio could have adverse effects in their own social/professional space. Is it as easy to display your own name on that site as it would be to display it on any other professional site? Or would you prefer to keep it secret, "for the sake of the children and, after all, my name is nobody's business"?

So, there are direct and indirect ideological considerations behind this
- by "direct" I mean objecting to facilitate this kind of work opportunities for the girls (yes, usually girls).
- by "indirect" I mean seeking status in a social/professional space where the above ideology dominates.

Sometimes there are technical/aesthetic considerations as well, for example when the job is to create a popup hell.

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I pretty much agree with the previous answer. Some it is also the reputation adult sites have of popping up when they aren't welcome and then being impossible to break out of without restarting the browser. When the adult site community polices itself and clears up these really bad practices, maybe their reputation will improve.

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sirstabby commented

I think maybe it is because the people that develop for it think it is more a of technically elite CMS? Certainly some of it is social. Even down to the household. Wives (or vice versa), even for contracted work, might not like their hubbies coding on a layout with a bewb in it.

A few bad apples in the adult industry have helped in creating a stigma (more than there generally is) for the entire group. That is really too bad. Generalizations are usually wrong. What, just because z**go hijacks browsers that are trying to look at CLEAN videos...I should hate all video websites? They might all be bad you know.

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cog.rusty commented

Wives (or vice versa), even for contracted work, might not like their hubbies coding on a layout with a bewb in it.

That would be "their status within their own social space" that I was talking about.

What, just because z**go hijacks browsers that are trying to look at CLEAN videos...

I couldn't have put it better. We are web-conscious and we only want to watch CLEAN videos. :-|

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