I Don't Do Pr0n

 

No, that pic's not me, but you get the point. Many of us in the PHP web dev industry are often approached to do pr0n websites. These are lucrative and provide repeat gigs, and we just so happen to have a skillset that this industry needs desperately, with more and more guys coming online every day. I mean, one can purchase a pr0n CD package for like $1000 to $2000 and then provide it on a subscription basis on the web pretty easily -- so the barriers to entry are low.

However, I turn every one of these down. And it's not that I can't lock my office door while I work so the kids can't see it, and not because I haven't seen several parts of female anatomy. Heck, I've been emailed every kind of shock picture in the world and by now I've gotten pretty used to whatever you can throw at me.

No, the reason I don't do it is because:

• All it takes is for that guy to post something online about me, complete with photos from the site, and my freelancing career is in jeopardy.
  
• If I say no, I don't want to work for them anymore, the guy can merely send a letter to my wife's supervisor to get her fired for even being remotely related to this, or send me extortion letters about my connection unless I come back to work for him.
• There's no way in heck this guy is going to give you his real street address, but yet he knows yours.
• It's so easy for him to send me bad stuff in the postal mail to the point where my kids start looking at it.
• These guys definitely get audited by the IRS and state agencies quite a lot, and that means it could trigger an audit of me as well all too easily.
• If these guys get pulled in by Federal Agents over obscenity or child pr0n, these guys can call me the mastermind or a co-conspirator, pulling me down into that sewer all too easily.
• Every day you help these guys, another kitten dies. Okay, just kidding.

Look guys -- dealing with pr0n websites is like playing fire. Avoid it at all costs. Sure, it's much harder to survive, but that's what squeaky clean affiliate marketing and residual income websites are for. Hop to it, and stay clean.