Redditor Throwaway4561947373 wanted to discuss everyone's thoughts on dating options, so they asked:
"Would you ever date a pornstar? Why or why not?"
I did briefly date a porn star.
It was fun. But I'm way too jealous.
Schedule
Disgusted Season 6 GIF by Brooklyn Nine-NineGiphy"I dated a stripper. Her schedule was the real deal breaker. Well, that and her cocaine addiction, but that's beside the point."
C-C-C-Coolah
"The schedule thing was kind of nice at first because I value my alone time, but after a while the showing up at my house at 530am before I went to work was starting to make me feel really gross."
C-C-C-Coolah
No Mas
"I dated a stripper once. Craziest couple of months of my life. I still have no idea how old she is or what her actual life story is/was. The sex was shockingly tame, but she did have awesome ti*s. Not a chapter in my life I’d like to revisit tho haha."
Climate_Face
"I had a roommate who was dating a stripper and eventually dating her 'show partner' at the same time. It was a very wild 5 months where he got almost no sleep (schedule thing, not sex thing) and eventually said 'no mas.' Turned out there was too much of a good thing."
ksuwildkat
Wild
"I don’t think I personally could. Little too wild of a lifestyle/profession for me."
JessiePeteWhite
"Also, just imagining dealing with the fans that come from dating a regular celebrity makes me feel uneasy. The kind of people who'd seek out a pornstar in public would be a whole other level of cringe."
Poignant_Porpoise
"I wonder how you envisage their lifestyle. Plenty of them live normal lives and just go to work like anyone else. And especially with how many are independent these days the work is a lot more in their control and safer."
Athaelan
Patreon
"I dated a girl who sold nudes on Patreon back in the day. When we first started dating I knew she had nudes up on deviant art, bit didn't know about the Patreon. She never liked going out during the day except if we went to the movies. One day I got the tines for the different theaters mixed up."
"Got there, the next shoeing was in an hour, so we said f**k it and went to the cafeteria (the theater was attached to a mall) and ate some food. Some random chubby dude comes out excited and out of breath calling her by her handle saying he buys a bunch of her pictures and he couldn't believe he was meeting her."
"We were both frozen. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to scare the guy off or let her try to make another sale while she thought I was gonna be pi**ed that she didn't tell me about her Patreon. We laughed about it later."
AshyBoneVR4
About the $$$
Pay Me Kim Kardashian GIF by GQGiphy"Thought about dating a stripper but even outside the club when we just hang out as friends she’s very monetary about everything. If I have to pay a service fee to hang out with you then I’d rather just not."
Keyguin
Always follow the money.
That's where the truth is.
Work
Sexy Jessica Alba GIFGiphy"No, because I'd feel like I was asking them to work whenever I wanted to have sex. I never said it was a rational thought, people."
Froticlias
Do what you Gotta!
"I dated a porn star for a bit. he was straight but did mostly gay shoots because it's higher paid. when he would tell me he had a good day at work it usually would mean that everyone was being cooperative or something funny happened."
night-gloss
"I have a friend that’s a porn star, and she said sex on set is very different from sex with someone you love/care about."
Gogh619
"That makes sense, but I could still imagine feeling like you’ve been touched and simulated so much that doing it more seems overwhelming, even if emotionally you would want to do it. And if you’re a guy you might not have much left in the tank so to speak."
Leet_Noob
For Love
"It's easy to say I wouldn't judge but in all honesty pretty sure many people wouldn't be comfortable, some would be I guess but most wouldn't. I think it all falls down to when you are dating them if you are truly in love enough to allow this or well maybe you like they do that anyway, it's really hard to say in real life."
DemonCyborg27
Lack of Potential
"Definitely not. Whenever I've dated someone, I've been at least open to the possibility of it potentially turning into marriage and a family; I would not want my kids to have to deal with that. Can you imagine going through your teens, with people sending you clips of your mum doing whatever to and with whoever? Your teenage years can be a tough enough experience by their own merit; let alone adding in that crap."
J-in-the-UK
A Current Affair
"A former pornstar and I wouldn't have an issue, we all have a past after all. An active pornstar though would be a serious no from me. I know I wouldn't be able to handle my partner being intimate with another person while they are with me, it being their job wouldn't matter."
votemarvel
Well to each their own.
Just be nice about people's choices.
Reddit user ohlawlz asked:
People of reddit who have accidentally showed NSFW things from your computer during important presentations, what is your story?
Here were some of those stories.
"Motivational"
"I was being presented to rather than presenting. My boss called our team in for a morning review, he was a bit like David Brent/Michael Scott so at the end of the meeting he liked to show "motivational videos".
"This one time he goes on YouTube and as he starts typing his laptop freezes with only the letter a in the search bar (he was looking for the Any Given Sunday speech), as I'm sure you know when you start typing YouTube will make suggestions or show previous searches. So on the screen the first result under the "a" was "Asian lesbian massage".
"Everybody saw. Nobody said a word. Before his laptop had unfrozen he closed it up and said the video could wait until next time."
"It was never mentioned around him again but the rest of us laughed about it for weeks."
"I was a university 'professor' (I was a grad student filling the part as cheap labour)."
"There was a time when QuickTime on the Mac would open the last video you were watching. I don't know if it was a feature or what, or is still an option, I have no clue. But I didn't realize it somehow. I think I'd always just double clicked my new video file and it opened."
"Well, I was sharing my screen giving a lecture and wanted to show a video clip. I clicked QuickTime icon at the bottom. Window opens and it's paused on a clip of my girlfriend of the time in a pretty compromising position."
"As soon as I saw it I ripped the power plug from my computer.... but it was a laptop."
"As soon as I'd realized that wasn't going to work I pulled the VGA adaptor thing out of the side."
"I said, "Oh sorry, technical problems." and got a ton of laughs."
"I closed that thing down and launched the right video, then plugged everything back in and went on like it never happened."
"After the class one of the kids said, "You're hilarious."
"Thankfully, they are 'adults' when they are that age, and no one ever reported it or said anything as far as I know."
"I used to work for a point of sale systems company, my coworkers and I would mess with each others demo accounts, put in very inappropriate Easter eggs etc.. which is ok because we weren't in customer facing positions."
"All of a sudden I get asked by my boss to go on site to a very important customer to train them and demo the system. I go there, quite a formal setting, the customer sets me up with a projector. About 7 people in this meeting. I start showing everything, everything is fine until I show a lesser known function of the system (it makes a picture pop up of a food item or a product or whatever)."
"My favourite jerk coworker had changed all those pictures to some very explicit gay adult videos. With a didgeridoo."
"My immediate reaction was to just start laughing, luckily the other people started laughing too and I said "well... As you can see, you can add any picture you want to this function, so if you're selling didgeridoos..."
"Back at the office everyone thought it was hilarious, luckily the customer thought so too and is still with our company"
Inadvertent Porn
"Old story, but that context is important for understanding the 'why'. I was interning at an small US ad agency in the early days of the internet. Boss/principal wanted me to do some internet research on something mundane - US automobile market share, methinks. He was going to be out of the office for a couple hours and I could use his desktop computer to do it, as interns back then had no computer to call their own."
"This is pre-google when porn companies would manipulate keywords to show up in your Yahoo search results no matter what, so I search for 'automobile market share' or whatever and get a list of links. The whole first page of the list is porn sites, and my curiosity gets the better of me. I click on a few just trying to understand what they could possibly have to do with automobile market share, poking around the metadata etc, and yes of course just a bit titillated as internet porn was a new concept at the time."
"However, I am in someone important's office, door open, etc, so I quickly shut it down without any self-service and continue the struggle to complete the task at hand, leaving the browser window open with the data I found to satisfy his question."
"Boss gets back and quickly calls me into his office, asking basically "what's the meaning of this?" Well, unbeknownst to me, pop-unders had just been invented, so I unknowingly left a dozen small browser windows full of adult videos ads sitting open under the main window with the research in it. That was a seriously awkward conversation, trying to explain that yes, I did click on some things, but honestly wasn't being inappropriate and was more just baffled and confused. Even worse, the data I had found was pretty much useless, so he essentially thought the intern had just been inappropriate in his office the last 2 hours instead of doing the requested task."
My Thesis Defense
"So I wasn't the one presenting, but I was involved in the situation. I my 20s, one of my college friends was in a slump with the ladies (like 7 years w/ no dates). He was in graduate school for art and I was out of college and working. He sent a text out late at night on a thursday with news that he had gone on a date and hooked up with a woman."
"I didn't get the text since I was asleep, and when I saw it in the morning at work, I hopped onto AOL IM (This was like 15 years ago) to congratulate him. He was away, so I sent a TON of messages like "Yeah dude, good job! What's her name? What does she look liked? What did you guys do?" and emojis and meme pictures of cartoons having sex etc etc."
"After about 10 mins, he signed off without responding and was offline the rest of the day. I didn't think anything of it and then I got a call from him at like 8pm all upset. Apparently, when I IMed him, he was doing his thesis defense and he had his laptop plugged into the projector at the back of the room and only had the little slide advancer tool. So when I IMed him, they kept popping up on screen and he'd have to stop talking until they went away or I sent another message."
"Finally, after a long enough time that he realized I was not going to stop IMing him, he paused his presentation and ran to the back of the room to log out. He was really mad, but mainly out of embarrassment. My IMs actually helped him out because most of his thesis questions ended up being about the girl and his dating slump and not hard questions on his work."
"So he was mad that it happened, but also relieved that his thesis was over. . ."
Not The Christmas Card I Expected
"I was running a training class offshore we wrapped for a break and I decide to check my personal email. Didn't think to turn off the projector cause everyone was exiting the room, and just didn't think about it. I was expecting an email from my mom maybe, was really just going to quick scan the headers to make sure all my bill pays had processed. Any sales. I see an email from my bestie. Header says we miss you here's you xmas card. This should be sweet so I click. And for a brief second all my friends were on the projector naked posing in front of a xmas tree wearing santa hats. I'm sure a few of the trainees saw but no one said anything."
Hot Mic
"Idk if this qualifies. When I was a kid I went to a friends Bar Mitzvah. Probably 150 so people are attending. Halfway through the service there is a time where everyone prays quietly to themselves. At this point in the service its damn near silent in the room except for some quiet muttering. At that point the Rabbi decided to go to the bathroom. He also didn't turn off the lavalier mic on his lapel and we heard him peeing, farting, and saying "well g*ddamn" and yawning. At first no one knew what the sound was, and then everyone figured out at once. By the time we all knew what we were listening to it was pretty much over. I did feel awful for him when he walked back out. I'm sure someone said something at some point but I never saw it."
Whoopsie!
"I was in Iraq. Part of my job was to publish this report that was sent out to basically every unit in Iraq. My coworkers and I had got into the habit of messing with each other on our shifts and leaving random NSFW things on the screen for the next shift to find. One of my coworkers changed the title page of this report to say "F*** This Report." I didn't catch the change until after it was already sent out to high ranking officers throughout Iraq. Almost instantly I was bombarded by equal comments of 'WTF' and 'thats hilarious.' Thankfully, our commander fell into the 'that's hilarious' category, so we didn't catch too much flack for it, but I am sure that ominous feeling I had taken at least a few years off my life."
"It wasn't a presentation but a funny story anyways. In college we where working laptops in lab and I left mine unlocked when I went to the washroom."
"When i came back the room was silent because everyone was working. Until I get a msn message and my computer screamed at top volume "HEY EVERYONE i'M LOOKING AT GAY ADULT VIDEOS OVER HERE"
"My usually stoic teacher just calmly said "Mr. Mackey can you please do that on your own time."
The 90s Came Back
"I was talking with someone about an old porn site from the 90's, I googled it to see if it still existed. Realized that it did, we had a good laugh, and forgot about the conversation."
"A couple weeks later I was in class and my professor's laptop dies, I offer mine up so she can finish her presentation (which included googling reference images). As soon as she typed in the word "the".. It auto filled to the aforementioned porn site. I dont think she caught it but there's no way out of a room full of people that no one else did. I was mortified, and learned the valuable lesson of not googling weird stuff outside of incognito."
Okay, we'll forever have fear about presenting to coworkers now!
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