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I don't think that's unique to adult industry though... I know plenty of people in programming business who are depressed. Read some stories about gaming compa

I don't think that's unique to adult industry though... I know plenty of people in programming business who are depressed. Read some stories about gaming company death marches. Financial business is also notorious for numbness and meaninglessness it often engenders in its participants. Let's not fail to mention the innumerable hundreds of thousands who are stuck in menial/warehouse/retail/tech support jobs that offer little to no mental nourishment. "Wage slave" is a common term for a reason. I think pretty much any industry can numb and dehumanize people who are not careful to build and maintain their relationships and social structures. I would not expect to be best friends with all my coworkers, and I would feel my life to be severely one-sided if I only had friends among coworkers.

calvinwest 13y ago
I didn't say unique to, but "essential to." It may also be essential to those other industries, but I have no experience in them. Sure, shady and disheartening things can happen at any company. However, if that type of negative culture is cultivated at the expense of everything else, it can be jarring even for the most stable individual. I experienced some things that were pretty terrible (and illegal) that gave me pause, but more veteran employees shrugged those things off with cavalier sarcasm. I left because I didn't want to become like them.