Way Back In The Beginning

While moving, I found these original prints of me a photographer shot on one of the first adult sets I ever covered as a journalist in 1999. That's Nina Hartley sitting on the couch. I remember not knowing these photos were being taken and it being a surprise when the photog gave them to me as a gift a few months later.

"You're going to want these someday," he told me.

When I asked why he said, "You're going to be around for a while."

Not a day goes by that I'm not grateful to the adult entertainment industry for embracing me, an outsider, and making me a part of a real community and family. Though like all families, it may have it's bad apples and may be dysfunctional at times, as they sing at the end of the movie "Boogie Nights," "God only know what I'd be without you!"