Sunday, February 10, 2008

#1

Hi. An explanation is in order; I am a 26 year old male from Southern California and I have spent the last 8 years of my life working in the adult industry. Don't get excited, it's really not excitable. WAY behind the camera. Very little experience with the actual production of pornography. I've been working the customer service sector of the adult industry, everything from website support to face to face novelty retail. My job is uncomfortable conversations: the man who looses streaming video with his pants at his ankles, the 80year old who wants only a last erection, herding crack heads, closet bisexual fetishes, fan mail written to male porn stars etc etc etc, pretty much the worst things possible.
The pay is decent, health coverage, no uniform, and at this point in my career I pretty much control of my schedule and workload as the "Operations Manager" (whatever the fuck that means) of a chain of novelty, video, and arcade stores in California, Arizona, and Oregon. I really love my job. Its swaaan-key. I directly operate a warehouse but I kinda do everything possible in the field of retail management. My dad ran drugstores at this age, I run porn stores; its a neat convergence.
Recently I've come to see my job as an 8 year anthropological study of pornography. I deal with the people who use the adult chat site, buy the squirt movies by the armful. I bust your local heroes and villains in the seedy adult arcade, I use graphic hand gestures to show you the best way to make your girlfriend squirt; and also the best hypoallergenic lubricant to use so that irritation doesn't come back. And I've noticed that, respectively, your porn customers are all the same what ever you niche or question. There is always a uniform answer i have lined up for you...
So one of the things i wish to do with this blog is update examples of porno anthropology. I'm sure this field exist...but i need to use this to expell some of these dreadful funny akward and sometimes touching stories i've been grossing out my friends with for the past almost decade.

sorry. enjoy.

1 comment:

Foodiegal said...

hahaha this is kind of like how my livejournal was the whole time I was working there.