How I lost my Adsense account for life.
Before I was the Editor/Publisher of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, I published a blog on blogspot.com that had Adsense ads. The Gazette is on WordPress. WordPress does not allow ads. I moved to WordPress because I deleted my blogspot blog. I had been banned by Adsense because of the explicit content on the blog. I wrote pornography.
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Why did I write porn, flash fiction stories full of raw sex? Because of the number of hits I got every day. I was making money. The type of online writing I was doing is BIG business.
You will be surprised where I got the idea for a blog with adult short stories as an important part of the content. My niece is a web cam stripper. Her name is Brianna Frost. You can google her. She goes by her mother’s maiden name. For a while there she was an Internet sensation. One of her videos would get a million hits in a month. She made a good living at it, too. A one month membership to her site was $19.95.
I figured if she could make good money from sex I could make good money from sex, too. Of course I’m not young, shapely, female and beautiful.
So, I became a sex blogger. And Adsense banned me for life. I forget the name of my old blogspot blog. Once I realized my career blogging porn was over I deleted the blog. My real name was all over it. At least I hope no one can find it.
That’s what I did for money. Brianna has since moved to Arizona to be with her boyfriend. She and I were never close. I’ve had no contact with her since she was a little girl. I wish her luck. She’ll need it. She won’t always be young, shapely and beautiful.
I know what money, the dream of a lot of money, can do to you.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I get it.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Petalm, it was a walk on the wild side. It’s all part of my journey as a writer and a blogger.
October 18th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
whoa
October 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Well darn, at least you came out of it! Sorry, but I don’t go for porn, never did, but I do know there’s a ton of money to be made in it, however, there is also a ton of money to be made in the kid’s industry-stories, games, you name it.
I’m glad you are now here with us Guy-maybe not your real name but we like the Guy we know here! I happen to think you’re too good a writer to go below yourself.
October 18th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
royee, I certainly learned a lot about blogging and finding an audience. But I’m really glad I got out of it because I really didn’t want people to know what I was writing.
October 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
mo, adult reading actually has a long and respected history; but it’s really not what I want to write. I did it strickly for the money.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I loved you ending to this story.Money can do a lot of things to you, power makes greed and vise versa. Yes internet porn is actually big money,I’m not into it myself but there are so many smutty sites that people go for that it is not hard to tell what makes the money. Thanks for the share,it was a great read!Nice to have a real life story for a change!
October 18th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Mystify, if Adsense had not banned me I might still be writing porn; but porn gets boring. You find you’re writing the same thing over and over again. I’m a lot happier here at Triond.
October 18th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
People have done worse things for money and you clearly had an audience, but I can see why you would want to get out. If you didn’t want people to know what you were writing it shows that you were not comfortable with what you were doing. Thank you for writing about it.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Frances, once I knew I wasn’t going to make a lot of money I wanted nothing to do with it. I was just another hungry writer trying to make a fast buck.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:29 am
won’t always be young, shapely and beautiful – very true
October 19th, 2009 at 8:44 am
this confession must have been a tough decision for you.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Mythili, in webcam stripping you’re old at thirty. She’s around twenty four. She started stripping when she was nineteen. She has aged. I can see it in her face. She is no longer that young sweet thing doing something cute but naughty.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Jane, if writing porn was the worse thing I ever did I would be a happy man; but it’s not. For one thing I’m a Vietnam War veteran.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:57 pm
interesting!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
cassandra, being a sex blogger was a great learning experience. In life you learn from the good and the bad.
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:52 am
Well Guy, you got to do what your happy with. You were a great porn writer and although I write erotica, which is different I am not a shamed of it at all and really enjoy doing it. You are a very wise and respected man in my eyes!
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 am
lillyrose, I was good at writing adult flash fiction. I thought my stories were very well written; and literary porn has a long and respected history. I still have the stories. Who knows; maybe I’ll find an outlet for them yet.