So, your whole world has been blowing up since your blog post about Kink.com. In your post, you said you got into porn because you wanted to commit social suicide. Can you explain what you mean by that?
I think it's because once you do porn, you kind of cross a river. And they don't really let you integrate back get into "civilian" society. It's sort of hung over your head for a very long time, and it's a card that's always pulled out. It is something that is so caging and liberating at the same time. I majored in literature in school. I used to say if this whole becoming a writer thing doesn't work out, I can always teach English in high school. I don't really have that fall back anymore.

How would you describe the type of porn you make?
It's actually in many ways the anti-porn. A lot of it is being honest and open with where we're at. It started with a shoot on a discarded video camera that we fixed up. We literally put zero dollars into it. It's always been more artistic and intellectual than a site to create traffic. We steer clear of the tropes of porn. We also try to play with what we can get away with. A lot of the things we put on that site can be a little more graphic and hardcore than what you may see on a couples site. Because we're constantly saying, "I love you," it doesn't come off that way. We have so much dirt and grime on each other and we've seen each other at our worst and still love each other. It changes the way the sex looks. A lot of it is an examination of porn. Taking a stand and saying these are the challenges you will face.

Speaking of your subversiveness, let's talk about that post on Kink.com. You told of the presence of guns in the workplace and work conditions such as being chained by the neck for six hours without a break and being made to pee in an off camera bucket. Is there anything else you'd like to take the time to air?
There was a new writer and journalist called Kate Conger who didn't realize that just giving a quote about what is was like in the Kink workplace could result in somebody being blacklisted. She wrote this big feature story. Kink.com is totally going to declare war on her. She had no idea what she stumbled into. She was getting back in touch with Nikki Blue, who was the young girl who did the virgin shoot back in 2011

It was a virgin sacrifice in that it had nothing to do with the hymen, it had everything to do with someone who could not discern between right or wrong because of her mental health. Her mental state now is positively devastating. At the start of the new year, one of my friends that entered the industry at the same time who worked as a slave on The Upper Floor, the things that she said could get me in a lot of trouble to repeat. She attempted suicide at the start of the new year. After she left her Upper Floor contract, she couldn't work. She lived right down the hallway from Peter Ackworth [CEO of Kink] where he was housing models in the armory illegally. He didn't have any of the permits to do that, but he wanted to have their 24/7 Stanford Prison reality show experiment with porn. It was a 24/7 party.

Kink.com doesn't seem to be in trouble from any of this.
There will be people that will say, "Well, it's an armory." But, it's decommissioned. The staff includes janitors and cleaning staff that already come in the middle of the night and clean up the dirt of people who don't think they're as important as they are. I have no opposition to people doing coke, this is not me saying don't do drugs, this is me saying don't bring cokes and guns to work. I knew they were exactly the wrong people to be shooting guns in the workplace. There are accidents behind the scene all the time. They settle out of court very often. But they're absolutely out to destroy anybody who talks about it.

Has there been a reaction or retaliation from them since your blog post?
You know, I've been left alone. It's harder to blacklist me at this point. I'm an anarchist performer, I've never worked in Los Angeles. I don't care if Los Angeles or a studio ever hires me, that's not why I do what I do. My source of income mainly comes from other sites. There's no check I would sign to be quiet about something that violated my ethics. 

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