My family found out about my cousin when she crash landed a plane on a highway in California and the news reports called her a porn star.

I’m not a parent but my little brother is in the porn industry. I was shocked but not disappointed. The kid dropped out of high school and is not the brightest kid. He also is very good looking. I found out by my friend showing me his twitter porn page. I don’t judge cause I accept him for who he is. But my parents don’t know.

I was at the local bar where it was ladies night with amateur male strippers. Left immediately with my eyes averted away when my 25 year old son who I did not know participated in such came strutting down the aisle tugging off his t-shirt and swinging it around in the air on one finger.

I know someone in the opposite situation. Her mom is a casting director for porn. She grew up going with her mom to shoots and even started being a clothed extra once she turned 18. She has no social skills and dances like a stripper, she has no tact when it comes to men and she pretty much has no idea that the way things work in porn is NOT how real life works.

Not quite porn, but stripping. At my club once a new girl had just started on her first night, her dad happened to be in the club, he went up and literally dragged her out. She was back again the next night and worked for a little while. Another girl I work with is very close to her family and once brought her dad into work with her (both as customers) just to chill and drink and have fun. It was a little weird.

Many, many years ago I sent some nude photos in to be published in a magazine and they were. My mother found out a few months later because my cousin worked at a gas station and apparently looked through this magazine each month it came out. He took it home to show his father (my mother’s brother). Since they had a fallout at the time, my uncle called her to tell her about it and also told her to go yell at me as if I was a little kid. I was 19 and not living at home anymore. I was free to do what I wanted. Anyway, she showed up and demanded to see the photos. I showed them to her and she saw they were slightly erotic photos- no man or toys or anything like that. Her brother called back the next day and started yelling at her when he learned she hadn’t yelled at me. She turned it around since his son (the one who busted me) did a lot of criminal shit. “Well, brother, at least what she did isn’t criminal.” I think that was the last time they ever spoke. When she told my father about it, he said he already knew. Some of the young guys at his work brought the magazine in each month and they all looked through it so he had seen the pictures. As far as I know, he didn’t tell the other men at his work that I was his daughter though. Just hurried away from that page and never looked at them again.

I accidentally found my sister in laws porno, when she pisses me off it takes every ounce of control not to scream at her that I’ve seen her take a facial on camera.

My older sister was in Playboy a handful of times when I was younger. She was also a stripper and was one of the more popular ones in town, so she was featured in several magazines and calendars. I was 16 or so at the time, so I’d accompany her to her photoshoots a lot and became something akin to an on-set assistant, helping with hair and fetching drinks and fixing lighting. I also used to spend afternoons at the strip clubs hanging out in the dressing rooms because I was alone at home a lot. My family was super accepting, and bought all the things she was featured in and framed them. My mom pulls them out to show friends and is very proud of them. Our family is very sex positive and open so it wasn’t weird or anything. It did kinda fuck with my self esteem because I was the ugly duckling of the family, but other than that, it is just a fun fact I share at parties now.

I found out a while before she told us. I was browsing some porn one day and came across one of her videos. It was probably one of the most shocking days of my life. I couldn’t tell my wife because I’d have to explain how I've found it. It made things awkward for a while. She told us about a year later. It’s been a challenge for our family, but we’ve mostly made it through it.

My brother does gay porn. Our entire family knows (he kind of made a big deal out of it). You’d expect a lot more judgment but weirdly everyone acts upbeat and pleasant toward him and the idea (he even made a video about it). Dad once said “it’s fucked up” but again in public he’s fine with it. The weird thing for me came when I did check out one of his videos. It was about “brothers” so I turned it off.

Not exactly my family but it’s a story about a parent of a porn star. I used to drive for a mobile mechanic business and while we were fixing this woman’s mini cooper she was talking to us about her daughters. One had just graduated hs and was going to a local community college and the other one… the other one was becoming quite popular for her anal techniques. “I know it’s not a normal job but I’m still proud of her. This is what she wants to do and not many girls are doing that. I wouldn’t have thought this life for my daughter but she’s happy and likes what she does.” She shot objects out of her butt.

My son has been a very successful pizza delivery boy, pool cleaner and handyman. I have never seen his work, but his Yelp reviews are great.