a Risque Business
Knowing Diddly and Squat
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 January 2010 19:43
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:
- 16,000+ PAGES of Completely Personal Experiences
- Over 250,000 Photographs of the Adult Industry in Action
- More than 96% EXCLUSIVE Content
- Thousands of cutting-edge Video Segments
- Follow the "typical" and very personal Lives of Adult Industry Performers.
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. And commenting on the blog (which should be functioning again just any time now) has always been free. 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.
Consider us …
Covering the Uncovered ...
While Keeping Them Uncovered …
Actually ...
Sample 01/18/10 - The Hippy Shake
Shooting from the Hip
by A. Jed Dude
If you think about it (a process I wouldn't recommend, for what that's worth), when you're well into your second decade of covering the exact same annual event, it starts to get a little mundane. One of the most difficult truisms of this business we ever try to explain to new people we meet has to be this fact: Contact with even very beautiful and sexually adventurous women begins to have less and less of an "impact" in and of itself. At this year's convention we didn't have any literally new people helping us, and the Big Boss figured out that this was the 20th show he's attended.
It's no wonder, then, that he tends to "Wander into the Weird" coverage-wise. (OK. So he honestly wanders into the weird fairly regularly – as you can tell if you've been a member for any time at all – but that's not really the point today, and I'm quite happy with the regular paycheck here, so we'll just move happily along if it's all the same to you.) We traditionally open our coverage of the Adult Entertainment Expo by offering up a series of scanned memorabilia, along with Mav's condensed floor show video.
The Weird Leader approach this time around, though, seemed like it might be worth highlighting as an introduction. (Again with the paycheck thing; I know.) Considering the unusual perspective presented here, though, a brief explanation seemed in order.
The variety of people attending the show honestly illustrates one of the most fascinating aspects of a porn convention. All the typical "news" coverage of the event, however, sadly misses this element, or you have to look for it yourself in the backgrounds of the myriad of more traditional shots of scantily-clad women. Armed with a new ultra-wide lens, then, for some reason El Jefe decided to just put his camera on his shoulder strap and wander through the show pushing the shutter release without ever looking through the viewfinder. (For a more technical explanation, see the bottom of this page.)*
We thought some of the results were fascinating, but we've already mentioned the internal struggle we face with the Been there. Done that. tendency. While there's a whole other page of some of the "art" that resulted from this approach, we did have a few office favorites, and thought that a little insight into how we viewed these shots might help focus you (so to speak) should you decide to go ahead and look at the other photographs. For example, if you look at the picture above, you can surmise that while the men in the picture and the women in the picture seem to be looking at the same thing, the gender split appears to create a rather different response to the display. … Go figure.
Then we have these, which you can associate with our (left to right) comments should you so desire, or you can just observe and draw your own conclusions. We're big on that here, as you've likely noticed.
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- This could be either a "Piss on Adam & Eve" editorial, or perhaps the chap pictured just really likes the movie poster a lot, and he's only going to do this until he needs glasses.
- For personal reasons, Lon couldn't get to this year's show until the weekend. According to the file data, we captured this shot on Friday. Photoshop tricks aside, we included it here so Lon would know how embarrassed he'd have been if he'd been able to attend this day and had worn this same outfit.
- It may or may not help to know that the woman's shirt here says, "I Love Vagina" … or the shot may simply demonstrate the dangers of too much technology in our lives.
- This woman either had to go to the bathroom or her feet hurt from dealing with the crowds. Either way, shouldn't she simply be able to click her heels together and get back to Kansas?
- We had to include this one. After all, we are all "Evil" in a great many (uncompromising or uneducated) minds out there. At least we should acknowledge that. Who wants to be "normal" anyway? That sounds boring.
You'll find the rest of the photos predictably beyond our old favorite photo icon below, also still working after all these years. From our experience, the shots you plan almost never come out this well. Ain't that a bitch? Maybe that's what makes it "Art" … Or maybe that's how 20 years in the business can guide you. … Interesting.
