How did you get into porn?
When I was 17, I read a book called "Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush" by Lael Morgan, and was fascinated by the strong, feisty, independent women who left behind comfortable lives and families to become sex workers in the harsh north. I pondered my options for joining Team Whore, and decided to give porn a try once I hit 18. I did my first day shoot in LA in May of 2002 for a big online porn company, where the creepy, fumbly photographer and I cranked out 20 solo photosets of me in various outfits, looking increasingly tired/bored as the day wore on. I was paid $750, and the porn site paid the photographer $1250. I realized I was doing it wrong, and researched starting my own company. I launched my first site in January of 2003 with a startup cost of a few thousand dollars.

You were abused and raped as a kid, right?
No, but thanks for trying to use that as a means to discredit me.

What's your educational background?
I'm most certainly not an academic, and have a general disdain for the theory class. I barely completed junior high, and I use the term "completed" only in the sense that they allowed me register for high school, where I soon stopped showing up all together. Before totally dropping out, I started out as an overachiever kid with killer standardized text scores and dweeby extracurriculars like the Science Olympiads. Then, I had the epiphany that school was optional, and that there were much more engaging uses of my time and energies. Dropping out of school is, by far, one of the best decisions of my life.

What are your politics?
I am an eco-centric pragmatist who is ravenously anti-asshole. While my general bent is antiauthoritarian, I'm too much of a "libertarian" to be a proper leftist, and too much of a "leftist" to be a proper libertarian. I pick and choose the best bits of many ideologies like a cheapskate assembling a full meal from cocktail garnishes and condiment packets. I am an atheist with an equal-opportunity distaste for all religions, since every single religion is anti-sex, anti-woman, anti-queer, and anti-science. I rejects all forms of superstition and fantastic claims asserted without evidence.

Why would you NOT want call yourself a feminist? That means you're sexist, then, right? Pick a side! We're at war!
I don't call myself a suffragette, either, but that doesn't mean I am against women being allowed to vote. I still consider myself super-duper anti-sexism, because sexism is still a problem in my society. Unfortunately, it's frequently perpetuated by people who call themselves feminists.

What could you possibly have against feminism?
For starters: "feminism" doesn't have anything close to a singular meaning, so it's too hard to have rational debate about it when it means opposite things to different people; the feminist pendulum has run its course and too often turns into pointless misandry; feminism used to be about women's right to be more than just barefoot and pregnant, and now it fights for the "right" of women to be barefoot and pregnant and be given a ton of government and corporate handouts for churning out babies; feminism is commonly embraced by people who's underlying beliefs are that women are stupid, feeble creatures who need to be controlled and saved; feminism these days focuses way too much on imaginary first-worlder problems like women choosing to feel badly about themselves because they think they're not pretty enough, rather than real-world problems in the Global South where women aren't allowed to own property, vote, or have a safe abortion; some feminists are obsessed with fanning and exploiting insecurities in women in order to indoctrinate them to their style of victim feminism, rather than being positive and helping women see that they're strong and powerful. Last but not least: it's REALLY FUCKING DIFFICULT to spend your entire life being viciously picked on by girls and women for various reasons, then swallow the idea that women are your true solidarity sisters and that men are the cruel enemy that oppresses you.

What do you mean when you use the terms "feminist" and "feminism"?
Except when noted, I'm referring to the feminisms of Western, industrialized nations- the sort spouted by shrill, irritating people with too much time on their hands and a bizarre desire to feel oppressed by everything. These are the feminisms that focus on throwing angry pity parties about how harmed all women should feel by sexy advertisements, not the feminisms that fight for a woman's right to birth control or divorce. Women's movements and feminisms are still totally inspiring and vital in many other countries in the global south. I am not slagging those off at all- just the whiney privileged bullshit that I, as a slutty sex-working North American, have been bludgeoned with for so many years.

Don't you think it's a total dick move to piss on feminism when you've obviously benefited from it?
I genuinely tip my hat to those who made the world a better place before I was born, but I've got to move forward.

Are you a mean and spiteful person?
I come across more abrasive online than I am as an overall person because I don't create much "filler content" for my "online persona" between the fighty stuff.