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Old 03-22-2007, 05:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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PORN! From the inside (The "Comments" edition)

First, the story BEHIND the Porn article:

It was written over the course of 4 hours, very late at night, after having been up for 2 days already. It is totally true. It was a rush of inspiration in which the mental fatigue is evident toward the end. It has been "edited" 2 times. Once for grammar and then the second time to smooth out the colloquial references into more digestable wording. I don't think I've cut down the length at all, but I have written an alternative ending that I deleted 'cause it wasn't funny.

Anyways...

I thought it would be fun to quote a couple comments that have been posted about my story from all over the internet. Just to let you know... my responses are supposed to be in a good spirit. I hope nobody is offended by them.

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Originally Posted by iamjames
is it just me, or does this sound a little too well rehearsed? Doesn't sound like a guy remembering his last job, sounds more like a story, with tons of tiny little minute-by-minute details most people forget overtime but author's often put in stories.

I call BS.
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Originally Posted by ftljohnson
Yeah, do the shoots take place in the office where you built websites? They didn't where I worked.... Typically photographers have their own studios, and the pictures are sent digitally to the sites that use them. Basically all these porn sites just buy sets from the same photography studios... There's no set rules though in that business.. So, it's POSSIBLE it could have been run that way... but it certainly wouldn't be a major site.
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Originally Posted by apoc06
this guy has two front page articles in under a week? guy must be a good writer.
Apparently I have 3 now.

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Originally Posted by GarySZ
Uh, no... did you read the article? He never referred to Violet as "fucking hot." In fact, his description of her began "She wasn't a knockout. She had a few crooked teeth and it was obvious she didn't exercise anywhere else besides the stripper pole."

The "fucking hot" girl referenced was the girl who answered the door when he went for his interview. There are no pictures (that I know of) to verify or dispute that particular claim.
I thank the readers who actually pay attention to the writing.

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Originally Posted by animeguru
I worked for a porn shop for 7+ years. I have to say that it is extremely dull after the first month. You just become so desensitized to everything that goes on... peeing, fisting, masturbation, girl/girl, gaping anal shots, etc.. After a while you don't even think of them as actual people anymore; they're just pixels on a screen.

As far as the yeast infections, if that's all he was privy to then he should count himself extremely lucky. Try touching up a pic of a girl having a herpes outbreak. In all my time working in porn, I saw many, many things that a man was never supposed to see. Fortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it), I worked in an office and very rarely met the models. We never did shoots at work, they were always done off site so at least I didn't have to experience a lot of the crap first hand.
One of the rare "discussion" responses from a professed professional who didn't claim that my article was bullshit based on his own experiences. Dude, where's your pride?

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Originally Posted by masteryan
yea i've been running matt's site for almost 2 years so i can shed *some* light on this.

first, this isn't a marketing ploy by us, although that's a great idea! lol
second, at least 1 in every 50 models will wanna fuck anyone in the room.

we have a lot of behind-the-scenes videos if u like seeing what really goes on at a porn shoot.
u can also read about many of matt's shoots in his very popular photo blog: (edited)

if u have any questions just let me know. - ryan
And Matt's current webmaster comes swooping in to grab some publicity.

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Originally Posted by Haroshia
Diggvertisement for a porn site...awesome to see this on the top 10. I get enough of this garbage in my inbox. Burying this article hard and deep.
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Originally Posted by popfrogs
A good story but I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit on this one.

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The 'leaving the girl tied up' and pizza guy scene was just a money shot for the whole story. Fiction.
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Originally Posted by dbarbour
Craigslist is going to be innundated with dudes looking for similar postings. "What? I can spank and beat a bound and tied girl? Wah-wah-wee-wah!"
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Originally Posted by boredandold
Please dont waste your time reading this, in summary Geeks Dream:

Gets IT job at porn shop, meets girl that plays dungeons and dragons, spanks her for fun.

obviously contrived
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Originally Posted by naeldayyan
I registered just to say that, as guy who has worked in the industry since 1998 as a developer, this story is total horse shit.
Someone has watched Swordfish too many times.
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Originally Posted by bradbury
yep, entirely too well-rehearsed to be believable. has the whiff of a "penthouse forums" letter to it. but a great piece of viral publicity for their business.
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Originally Posted by ilyag
This is probably a ploy by the owners of this porn site to drive more readers to the site. I don't buy that they'd let their webmaster screw one of the models and then tape it. Sounds like a fantasy that these guys are exploiting to get more subscribers.

In other words: SPAM!!!
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Originally Posted by eizooo
well written but fictional
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Originally Posted by plaxx
Your argument may be persuasive to some, but face it, this guy writes up two (very well written) pieces of a story and just wants other to read it. If he were to say, "PORN: INSIDE" and u go to it, see a link for a that wants you to click on an AD to see the story, or even to sign up and read it .. that would be spam. Nowhere in the article does he say, "If you liked the story, sign up!".

So go on, read the story.. maybe even look around the board to see what it's about. If you like the content, sign up. No ones got a gun to your head.
Thank you for posting this. People react badly to sites that ask you to register, even if they dont force you to. I find it ironic that they complain on a site that also requires you to register.

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Originally Posted by Rtothe2
This guy is definitely a duclod...
I have no idea what this is, but I'm quoting it anyways.

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Originally Posted by ilyag
The fact that this is written in the style of a tell-all book (with chapters), coupled with some ridiculous claims, incessant self-promotion, and not-so-subtle hints to the identity of the porn website in question makes me suspect very strongly that this is probably spam for the porn company (or some upcoming fictional book)

I thought Part I was obvious enough. Now, Part II gives us this gem:

"She was queefing 'Mary Had A Little Lamb.'"

Yeah, excuse me if I don't buy this for a second. However, as far as viral marketing campaigns go, you've gotta admit that this one is very impressive.
This guy just doesn't quit. It's kinda flattering.

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Originally Posted by loki440
Wow this guy says a lot but doesn't tell us shit! The title, provocative as it is, promises us a little insight into porn. What do we get. . .a story about an April Fool's joke.

Who gives a fuck about that? I've read cereal boxes that were more titillating.
But you read it, and for that, I thank you.

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Originally Posted by phatomsnow
Hey, here's a question:
WHO CARES WHETHER OR NOT IT'S REAL!

It's a story, regardless of the fiction or non fiction status.

This isn't viral marketing, it's a story. This is one mans story about life in Porn. Fiction or non Fiction, it's literature.
No matter how perverse or swell it makes you feel.
Thanks! Standing up for literature!

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Originally Posted by BitWarrior
This sounds very much like a fake. The original author of the first "chapter" was much, much more modest. Additionally, when he applied for the job the "company" was already well into porn. There are simply far too many discrepancies from the original writing to possibly be from the same author, I believe this is a poor attempt on someone's behalf to have their little 15 minutes of fame.
You super sleuth, you!

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Originally Posted by gbustafunk
as an english major who has proof read literally thousands of pieces of written material, i have to say that there is no chance the person who wrote Part 1 is the same person who wrote Part 2. completely different voice.
I'm flattered that someone would dissect my writing to such a degree as to completely deny that I wrote it.

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Originally Posted by pornholio21
Not only the writing style but also the different url, site look and feel, etc. made me wonder whether or not part 2 was written by a person totally unconnected to Matt and the original author.

Say, maybe, a guy who liked part one so much he tried to come along an spoof a part two.
The mystery gets more twisted!

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Originally Posted by illuminatedwax
I can't believe how incredibly unprofessional and stupid this porn company is. Allowing staff to touch models?

They let their domain name lapse?! Unbelievable.
Also, the writing is really bad.
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Originally Posted by panique
Sorry, not buying it. Not for a second. One of my good friends is a pornographer who shoots for several high-volume websites, and has been doing it successfully for over 6 years. He does make a shitload of cash, has two apartments and leases two high-end vehicles. When we get together for lunch, we talk about our jobs among other things.

Here are some things he has told me in those various conversations:

1) The hot chicks don't "hang around". They are models who are paid to do a photo shoot, then they move on to the next shoot. Or go to the club. They don't need to hang out anywhere to get work, their agent takes care of that for them.

2) Obviously models are present during a shoot. A shoot takes places at the photographers apartment/studio/in the field, etc. NOT at the corporate HQ or owners apartment.

3) They don't hire IT people who are "in" to porn. For the same reason drug traffickers don't hire crack heads to package crack into little vials.
This is the best response. You tell 'em how the porn industry runs, dude. You tell 'em.

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Originally Posted by pornholi21
If I'm Matt, and I come back to see the staff fooling around with the models, my reaction is not "let's get that on video", rather it would be "you're fired".

The blog is made-up.
I guess there's a reason why I worked for the real Matt and not you. The real Matt was cool.

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Originally Posted by Yst
As for the story, it's possible "Matt" really is what he's described to be: just a ludicrously unprofessional low-life photographer at the bottom of the industry food chain, who's destined to remain there. If this is the way he works, he'll never make any money. The only money in this kind of low-volume work is with solo girls (or boys) providing a consistent, good-quality output, and the only kind of solo girl who's worth anything is one supported by an agent who does his paperwork and provides his material reliably, on time, in a professional manner. Girls who are in and out the guy's door to do a low-quality shoot, who you can't sell as a long-term feature are worthless.
Awww. I thought I made Matt out to be a cool guy. His success was misleading because he didn't spend money to make the photography better -- because his success was based on the photography being amateur. Go figure with all thes know-it-alls spouting off.

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Originally Posted by pornholio21
Yeah, it was semi-believable until he started on the "I touch her breasts, then spanked her" stuff.

He might have been better off writing to "Dear Penthouse" instead.
This guy AGAIN. He's funny. So confident.

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Originally Posted by zeeone
I am the senior developer of a porn empire. I've been holding the position since 1999. I prefer not to mention any of the websites I am responsible for, but they are huge. Nothing in this article is even remotely close to reality. Either that, or I have been irreversibly pornified.
You go, dude. With all that experience telling you how reality works.

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Originally Posted by brispone
you know all this talk of whether this is real or fake doesn't really matter. i thought the writing was pretty damn interesting. the whole time i was reading this (part 2 as well) i was thinking, "geez, flesh this out a bit more and it could possibly become some sort of novel", regardless of whether it's true or not.
Hmm.. a novel. Maybe in the future.. on a different subject. Hey, this post is turning into one.

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Originally Posted by illuminatedwax
Oh, there's no doubt that poorly executed things or people with no talent can become popular.
Ouch! I shared this one with my co-workers who just shook their heads. They loved the story.

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Originally Posted by zem
i think he was being self-deprecatingly sarcastic with the 'witty'
I think this dude is the one person on the planet who truely understands my real sens of humor.

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Originally Posted by isleshocky
Maybe he isn't that cute.
I'm not



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