1 post tagged “doing the right thing”

It is amazing to me that youporn continues to hold the top spot in keyword searches.  Not that I dislike porn, it can be fun to watch, but it has never been a driving force in my life.  Just in case the jury was out on the question of sex selling I guess we have our answer.

I had a classmate in graduate school who had a porn website. This was in the early days of the internet, around 1995.  I remember going by his house and he was always playing video games.  HE never really needed to work since he made more than enough money from his website.  The problem was he never felt comfortable earning money that way.

Eventually he got rid of the site.  I don't know if he sold it or simply shut it down, but he had trouble with his conscious and didn't want to continue to earn a living that way.  He joined MBA's without borders and was assigned to the Ukraine. The last I heard he was still there, having married a Ukrainian girl and was operating a nightclub.

I am sure that there are a lot of people who would call him crazy for giving up what to a lot of people would be an easy life.  It seems there is not much respect for shame any more or for trading an easy life for hard work, but I always respected him for that.

Steve