Sometimes, adult webmasters run in to excess criticism and baggage that other webmasters never see. Some overzealous individuals and organizations are always quick to place blame on adult sites, saying they foster immoral activity and child pornography.
These comments are, of course, unfounded and unjustified. But how often do you see someone stick up for the entire adult industry as a whole?
Alec Helmy does so on a regular basis. Helmy, president of adult Internet media company HELMY Enterprises Inc., not only runs a number of well-respected adult sites, but is also the innovator of ASACP (Adult Sites Against Child Pornography), a non-profit organization dedicated to wiping out child pornography.
ASACP first launched in 1996, not long after the launch of Helmy’s first adult site. Helmy says he founded ASACP because he thought the media was skewering facts about the adult industry and child pornography. Believing the industry needed a "central voice to express its utter disgust and disapproval of such vile content", as his official biography states, he launched ASACP. To date, the organization has helped to bring down literally hundreds of child pornography sites.
Aside from ASACP, Helmy operates a diverse set of adult Web sites. His arsenal of sites includes seven premium membership-based websites, XBiz.com, a popular adult webmaster resource site, two affiliate programs (TrueClicks and SuperPartners), and 4adultsonly.com, a free adult site. While Helmy is president of the over all company, he’s become less involved as the sites and his staff grow. "I'm only involved in the decision-making process", he says.
While each of Helmy’s sites has succeeded in their own way, XBiz.com has truly taken on a unique life of its own. XBiz.com has emerged as one of the premier adult webmaster resource sites on the Internet, and is a name nearly every adult webmaster recognizes. Helmy says he launched XBiz.com to try and provide organization to the vast and often-disorganized adult sector of the Internet. "The main goal was to organize the most complete set of webmaster resource links in the most user-friendly format", he says.
The site proved to be very popular, and now sees more than 1600 webmasters passing through a day. Helmy says the traffic load required him to obtain a dedicated server, which he hosts in-house. "Our dedicated servers allow us to optimize our website's performance as well as increase flexibility for future expansions", he says.
Although he has launched some of the Internet’s most popular adult content sites, an extremely popular adult webmaster site and one of the most trumpeted anti-child pornography sites on the Internet, Helmy says his work is far from over. "For example", he says "XBiz.com is far from reaching its plateau". Over the next year, Helmy says the site will most likely increase its webmaster offerings and become an even more prominent player in its field. And if XBiz.com follows in the footsteps of other HELMY properties, it won’t be long before the site becomes extremely difficult to beat.
