Way worse :)

See above :)

Did they leave the pages stuck together? ;)

errr I'm right here ;)

Dianna, while I have no kids yet, I am no hypocrite. I will not willingly expose them to porn, but I am not going to hide. Of course by the time I have kids who have an idea of what is going on, I will be retired.

I am semi-retired as it is, Stan the Man runs day to day operations. I am just the smiling face of HiRise. :rolleyes:

My sister brings my nephews by the office all the time, you would never know we run a porn business.

Same here. I think outside visitors expect to see a Playboy mansion type setup. :(

Not that I would be against that kind of setup.... hahaha


I am off to Atlanta!!

Going to the Saints-Falcons game?

Gonna be a good one.

I'll answer for Mike, Colin - since he just walked out the door on his way to the airport... YES! :yowsa:

I feel that way. My son happens to know but today if you walked in my office you would now unless you opened the closet. Then you'd get an eye full.

It's beter your loved ones hear it from your mouth then on the news.

wow, last night I had a dream...

I dreamed that the humane society came to my house and took my dogs away because someone told them I did porn. I'm not kidding.

When my son was growing up I ran the BBS, published a magazine and ran a phone sex room. I was also into the scene pretty heavy. I had a huge dungeon in my house. I'm great friends with my son and he knows everything I do, but I use to worry that they would take him away from me. I was lucky I guess.

Now we talk about it and he tells me that he really wants to get into the business. It's not hot air because he's been telling me this for a few years. He's 25 now. I told him if he still feels that way in two more years I'll let him run my business.

I use to think that I'd feel weird talking to him about the industry and sex. In fact I avoided it because I didn't feel he was ready for it. I did answer his questions but stop short of any details. Now that he's older and our relationship has evolved, I talk more openly. He's given me some great ideas on concepts and I often talk to him about the course of my business.

Wow, thinking about it almost brings a tear to my eye because I get so caught up in the stress of life that I forget to look at my life and see how lucky I really am.

I think its great that you and your son have that kind of relationship in this day and age - cherish it, Dianna!

I've never hidden my involvement in the industry - except from my last girlfriend's parents (at her request). I tell anyone and everyone who asks me what I do for a living! Personally my parent's could care less that its adult - moms only worry about their children's happiness!

I definitely lost a few friends from my Stanford days when they found out I own a porn co. Then again they are now cheating on their wives, souless attorneys and scumbag wall streeters.

I like to cloak myself in the comforts of the First amendment- hey we are defending the right of free speech, freedom of expression, etc.

Oh and also the money.

You will find your real friends will be genuinely intrigued by your invlovement in porn. The rest aren't worth your time and energy.

Would you rather be in insurance? Banking?

My coming into the industry was something that was unexpected, but not really out of the norm for me. I started off with singing. That got expensive, overly-time consuming, and unforgiving. I've had a life-long love affair with horses, so I turned my time and attenion to training (I have ridden horses since before I could walk). After working my way up, I found that I had to move on, and I tried a few different things. I did art, etc, but when I got together my husband (we met on the internet 8 years ago), he was already in the industry. This was not shocking or upsetting to me in the least. In fact, I thought it was a bonus, because myself, being a very sexual person, was pleased to finally find a man who could handle me as I was, instead of me having to tone myself down for him. After that it was just natural progression that I would get involved with him in the industry, and we've been business partners ever since. I couldn't possibly ask for a better partner. As for the kids knowing, they're a little too small to understand just yet, but when they're old enough and responsible enough, I have no problem explaining things to them. I don't find shame in my business. Sure, I have a few family members who don't know EXACTLY what I do, but I haven't told them simply because they are elderly, old-fashioned, and religious, and I see no reason to offend their sensibilities. Anyone else though I have no problem telling, although I do mainstream work as well, and generally don't just blurt out "Yes I'm in the adult industry". I think that's a little more fear because I have small children, and the possible reprecussions involved as far as that is concerened. I love my children desperately and would never want to have any problems where they are involved. :inlove: Of course, I am careful not to expose them to things, but the average person has no idea of the measure I take to avoid having my children see anything they shouldn't at their age.

Thank you very much for your story. I think most of us fell into the adult biz. I know I couldn't go to college, rasie a kid, work and then pay off student loans.

As much as we think that times have changed there's even more concern over child protection. Having seen cases where children were removed from a house my advice to you is to make sure you keep videos, content, etc. outside your house. I always preferred buying or renting big houses to set up an office and a lot of people do this, however I don't recommend this if you have children. If you'd like I can search out cases that were lenghty and costly battles of people who simply had home movies of themselves engaging in kinky sex who lost their children or at least during the suit. Get a small office close to your house.

So you trained horses? Where do you live? When I move out onto property I need help with horses.

Thank you Ed, I do.

My mom is a trip. I hooked her up with WebTV one year. On a visit I asked to use it to check my email. I noticed that some of my sites were book-marked. This is how she keeps tabs on me.

I asked her about it and she said she knew everything. She then pulled out news clipplings, interviews, articles and even a VHS taping of when I was on Geraldo.

Something even funnier you'll all get a kick out of... when I lived down here a long time ago I had a townhouse on a golf course. It was a gated community with security but somehow my mom always got past them without a call. She had a key because she took care of my cat when I went out of town. I was doing professional sessions at the time. This one time she lets herself in and heads upstairs to find a guy dressed in a maids outfit, high heels and his ankles chained to the ironing board. A pile of clothes next to him.

I was in the downstairs bathroom and didn't hear her come in. I see her coming down the stairs and I'm like, "Oh shit!" She was laughing so hard she had tears in her eyes.

"Mom, I keep telling you to call before you come over. You ned to respect my privacy!" I was stern but she couldn't stop laughing as she snorted through her covered mouth, tears rolling down her face.

She asked me if all that made him iron any better and she's still laughing.

Since that day she would kid around on the phone and ask me when I was going to send one of those freaks to her house and clean. I never knew if she was serious or not. I never had the heart to tell her that the lawn guy, electrician and the guy who installed her tile were all slaves. <s>

But then again she's probably reading this now! :agrin: