An essay I wrote about my experiences in Porn Valley, "A Porn Valley Story," appears in the recently released Best Sex Writing 2006 from Cleis Press and edited by Frederique Delacoste and Felice Newman.
"It's possible, I suppose, I was the first woman to set out to acquire Post-Traumatic Porn Disorder. It's possible, I suppose, I went to Porn Valley searching for something of which I was not altogether aware. Now, as I look back on it, I can see, undeniably, Porn Valley and I were two of a kind. When I first met the adult movie industry, it was changing. Faced with rising competition from the unbridled, uncensored, and uncharted world of Internet pornography, born captive but raised in recent years to run free without chastisement under a series of liberal political regimes, Porn Valley was becoming far, far more extreme. Starring stunt sex acts and unprecedented multiple penetrations, pushing the parameters of sado-masochism and redefining the meaning of degradation, seeking to uncover how far humans could really go, Porn Valley was the new Wild, Wild West, a land beyond sex, where anything went."
