This article at Erotic Scribes (the house blog for Sssh.com) is a sort of ranty mashup of several related screeds from the perspective of someone who has been making commercial porn for a long time. Themes include

  • Google’s abandonment of its “don’t be evil” corporate ethos;
  • How Google makes money prioritizing search results for stolen porn over results from the people who make and sell the porn in the first place;
  • How Google makes even more money selling arguably-illegal ads for obviously-illegal frauds and scams and criminal enterprises; and
  • How the mainstream press is useless, craven, and stupid about anything having to do with porn and the porn business.

Although I think these rants could have been more usefully subdivided into separate posts, they’re all somewhat intertwined (along various tangents) and it’s no exaggeration that in just a few short years, Google has gone from “an important ally of and primary traffic source for the internet porn business” to “a huge obstacle to anybody trying to market internet porn”. Since I’m in the porn business and I like making money, this particular exercise in soapboxing comes from a place close to my heart. Thus, some excerpts:

It’s a well documented fact that the vast majority of viruses and malware come not from pornsites, but high traffic mainstream ones. Tech Republic and Cisco published some interesting findings on this. Read it and please then shut up about the “porn problem”.

As part of my job at a porn company, I probably visit several hundred porn sites per week to ferret out our movies that have been stolen and are being promoted by Google links. Never ONCE in 12 years have I ever gotten a virus. But then, I know enough not to download shit from the internet, porn or not! Viral payloads typically come with special offers for ringtones, screensavers, free software and apps to database your DVD collection on your GameBoy. Not Pornsites, you dummy. Pornsites want you to come back again and again so maybe they can sell you something. Not infect your computer.

Anything you read on the internet from “mainstream media” about porn or adult entertainment is now simply bullshit. Yes, we had a nice recess from abuse from “Fifty Shades Of Grey” (mainstream media made a LOT of money off of that), but just realize anything you read now about porn from a mainstream media website or news source is going to try to make you feel afraid of it. Or disgusted by it. Or think Hitler invented it. It’s their way of boosting readership by blaming every ill of society and the net on porn. Don’t believe it.

Porn surfing and consumption is, and has been, created as a very safe experience for you by all of us in the responsible adult industry. We have worked hard for 20 years to gain your trust and patronage. Don’t let mainstream scare you. We are on your side to bring joy to your panties and get a reasonable amount of money from you to pay the actors and operating expenses. Yeah, go watch a free vid on a tube once in a while, but realize the good stuff is over at the paysites, DVD stores and other places that charge a bit of money. Fair is fair, and we aim to please!

Indeed!

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