The Man Behind Online Porn's 'Steve Lightspeed'

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "'In the online pornography business, just about everybody has heard of Steve Lightspeed,' who runs a network of sites, reports the Wall Street Journal Online. 'But few in the porn world know much about Steve Jones, the 39-year-old married father of two behind the Lightspeed persona -- and that's the way he wants to keep it.' In WSJ.com's profile of Jones, tension between his job and the rest of his life is evident: 'He said he and his wife mostly socialize with others inside the porn business, in part because it avoids the awkwardness of explaining his line of work. "Most of our friends tend to be in the industry," he said. Relationships with family members can also be tricky. Mr. Jones's mother works for Lightspeed Media, handling customer service duties, but he said some relatives don't know about his work and likely wouldn't approve.'"

Here's a photo of the dude

[Anonymous Coward]

Steve Lightspeed [stevelightspeed.com] - He seems to enjoy his job.

Re:I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morni

[hackstraw]

As his children get closer to adulthood, he said, he'll explain what their parents do. "I wouldn't mind if my kids get involved in this business," he said. Then he added: "Behind the scenes."

These statements are in no way contradictory or hypocritical. Steve is behind the scenes, and is recommending the same to his children.

There may be more to Steve Lightspeed than I know, but I've seen some of his work and it was primarily very young and young looking girls doing naked dances and/or heavy petting with another similar girl. Jordan Capri was/is his star model, and she is extremely cute. AFAIK, there is no guy/girl stuff or hardcore, just cuties being cute.

In my eye, its not even porn. But there is no clear definition of porn at this time.

Re:pr0n... the $14 billion business

[British]

In the article's header it mentioned Lightspeed's mom working in the same place. Seymour Butts' mother also works for the same pr0n company Seymour is in charge of. Heck, a reality show was made about it(Family Business)

Uh, no?

[thepotoo]

google for "steve jones" [google.com]

Guess his secret is safe enough, even if that is his real name. I bet they DID obfuscate it, anyway.

Tech ignorant parents can do that till age 8 or so

[bADlOGIN]

If this guy knew what he was doing, he'd have his cable modem/DSL connected to a proxy server that only routes http (e.g. Squid) in a locked closet and tell the kid they can surf whatever they want, but he'll know all about it. That child protection software will do no good once the kid figures out how to download and burn a copy of any live Linux distro...