A Literal Adult Diary
We've been walking the Adult Industry road since early 1990, and even though the path has changed quite a bit over the years, the journey has never been dull. Nobody can define past and present nudity like we do.
Inside Like You've Never Been
We don't mindlessly feed "Press Releases" to present an illusion of being in touch (so to speak). We live our lives with the beautiful women around us. Of course we share, so that tends to be pleasant.
America and Around the World
If nothing else, after 20+ years in business we've learned that travel with sexy woman can be a beautiful thing.
A Completely Unique Experience
Give yourself something new to think about. You may learn how much you have in common with some of these stars. You may also laugh aloud. We often do.
a Risque Business
Porn Prognostications
Video Willed the Rock and Roll Star
by Nobody Special
Clearly most of us at risqué tend to appreciate the written word. That comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever even glanced at one of our pages. Similarly, as you might expect, in addition to writing, we read a lot. Sometimes we even read about the adult industry — a practice often laced with no small amount of personal humor, since the majority of these writers happened to be in grade school when I first got into the business. (Actually, some of today’s “stars” had yet to be born, but we try not to talk about that little detail too much at the office. In fact, moving rapidly along appears distinctly in order at this point. … )
The AVN “Evolution” notwithstanding, we have made much mention over the past few years with regards to the transformation of the adult industry, no small part exemplified by the rise in “importance” of XBIZ and its various web incarnations. Well, they ran an article last week showing the results of a poll on the readers’ views regarding the potential for Porn Superstars in the future.
Considering that XBIZ has many concurrent goals, providing insightful articles only one of them, they actually did a good job with this “News Report.” We’d encourage you to read the full article, as a matter of fact, and thus will provide one of those nifty links that make the web wonderful at the end of our small aside. (What can we say? We’re kind that way.) … So … as they wonder, “Did the Internet Kill the Porn Superstar?”
xBIZ found that 46% of the respondents say that, “Yes, there will be other porn superstars; it’s only a matter of time.” But another 27% say, “No, the days of the porn superstar are over as a result of the Internet,” with the remaining 27% saying that, “There will be many porn performers who will be able to achieve only moderate success.”
Frankly when we first discussed the question around here it seemed absurd on its face. The Internet has absolutely changed that way people can view adult content, but it certainly did not change the personal reasons for viewing it. Apparently not much goes without saying in this arena, so to spell it out rather directly, albeit delicately: It all depends on why one has chosen to view the material at that specific time in their lives. The Internet has not changed any of that.
If you happen to be watching a movie, whether alone or with others, and your primary goal involves — shall we say — release of pent up emotions, well, the Internet could be quite handy (as it were). Just being able to pop over to some tube site to find whatever floats your current boat on its cruise to this immediate goal becomes darned convenient. And with the influx of more and more “Internet Ready” televisions, one need not even necessarily be tied to a desk, or table, or whatever one formerly needed in order to view Internet video at home. (Not that any of us have ever attempted self-gratification while seated in an office environment — even ones away from work. That would be wrong, of course, and besides we’d go blind. This would make it difficult to type.)
If, however, you happen to enjoy — again, alone or with another, or others — movies that include a potentially graphic sexual component as a part of the story-telling process, all the Internet has done has been to change the process of delivery of this material to your location. Despite what you’d have to conclude many, many adult company owners believe, all types of people watch porn for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which being as an enhancement to their own sexual experiences — yes, even as a couple. In our very own office you can see a collection of carved “Erotic Art” that supposedly dates back a few hundred years. We did not invent sex, y’all. We did not even invent an interest in it. Technology has made it so that we no longer have to carve dirty pictures on cave walls with sharp rocks, but try not to mistake the topic with the delivery method. Even at the dawning of time some caves enjoyed more popularity than others because of bodacious babes pictured there.
We like stars. More importantly, we need stars in order fill a distinct need for fantasy we all possess. (Honestly, I’d rather fantasize about wild sex with Juli Ashton than dodging bullets and bombs while saving the world, but, hey, that’s just me.) If for a time we find ourselves short of stars, then Society will create them. Just because the Internet has done a number on the profit margins of many of the adult companies does not mean at all that we don’t need stars any more. A certain cross section of women and men will still choose to record their sexual escapades, and some of them will be “more popular” than others. You don’t have to understand the system — or even approve of its choices — in order to see that it exists.
Knowing Diddly and Squat
Last Updated on Friday, 18 May 2012 08:45
Understanding all of the sites, personalities, and experiences that make up risque.com … well … that can be a pretty tall order. So we'll try to be brief.
First of all, we have an extremely difficult time simply being brief. You should appreciate that from the outset. We've been operating our little internet commune for better than a decade now, and the list of contributors spans an amazingly diverse range. Essentially we report on the adult industry "from the inside" – a fact which actually makes some sense because the "inside" parts of adult entertainment seem to garner a significant degree of attraction, for whatever reason. We've basically been blogging since the concept had but miniscule recognition in an extremely geeky community. We have a social network of unique (and even potentially erudite – oooh) dimension. We enjoy sharing; think of it like that.
If you were anticipating a sales pitch for the membership site, we can give you the bullet points you might expect:
- 19,000+ PAGES of Completely Personal Experiences
- Over 300,000 Diary Entries & Photos of the Adult Industry in Action
- More than 96% EXCLUSIVE Content (Industry Conventions y'know?)
- Thousands of cutting-edge Video Segments (and some odd ones)
- Follow the "typical" and very personal Lives of Adult Industry “Prose”
Fairness dictates, however, that we be very clear about what we "do" around here, which explains the rationale behind this rather diverse section out in the free area of the Web. Certainly you have to be of legal age to view the vast majority of the Adult Diary that we publish. Even aside from that, though, you should understand that we traditionally use a lot of words in our presentations. You can skip them all and just look at the pictures and videos (and listen to the audio recordings) of course, but if you're looking for typical porn site fare … honestly, we're not that. We have been working in the adult movie business since 1990, however, and over the years many people have found the diary of the experiences entertaining to say the least.
When you never pretend to be anything that you are not, it becomes much easier as a general principle to remember what you are. That can be handy in life.
If you think we might be a group worth hanging with for a bit, use the search function up top to look around and see what you can find. Naturally, on the inside, fun little picture of Dee like this one get much bigger. Of course you could always register and see some of the sample entries to see exactly what we were doing at a few times over the years, that's fun too. We created the "Free Side Blog" just for this purpose, in fact. You have to register (for FREE, obviously) to see the posts, but that's about it. The registration will entitle you to receive our newsletters, but you should know this about that: We have been doing this Internet thing for almost 15 years now, and we have never once sent out a newsletter. Still, one can dream.
Or you could click on any of the years to the left here and just randomly pick on some months. Surprise yourself. As we say, never underestimate the value of serendipity.
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