I started this blog because I wanted to process my experiences in the altporn world, because I wanted to open up a discussion about what it all meant, about what those years of my life had been dedicated to.

I stopped writing in this blog because I got kinda bored: because I felt repetitive, uninspired.

After thinking things over, I ultimately realized something:

I got into porn because I wanted to start a discourse on sex.  Because I wanted to talk about healthy sexuality, about female sexuality, about body image, and because pornography seemed like the most effective, most direct, way of accomplishing that goal.

I got into porn because I wanted to talk about sex, but then I was in porn for so long that I thought I wanted to talk about porn.

I love porn, I think porn is a useful and powerful medium, but porn, in and of itself, is a fundamentally limited medium.  Porn is not sex.  Porn is porn.

And I wanted to talk about sex.

I’m somewhere else now.  I’m over at Sexerati with my good friend Melissa Gira, writing about sex.  Saying smart (and sometimes snarky) things about sex and culture: the kind of stuff I always wanted to do.  The kind of stuff I got into porn with hopes of doing.

You should stop by and visit some time, its good stuff.

I’ll be back here from time to time, but not as often as I’d originally intended.

I’m somewhere else now.  I’m somewhere else, and it’s good.