It’s not about that at all. I love all of you. I am moved by and encourage love that you share. I am an artist/designer/photographer and I appreciate the effort that goes into every set and I fell lucky to be a small part of what goes on here creatively. What makes me sad is the fact that this is the first real response that I have had to anything that I have written here in the last 5 years. I don’t expect to create relationships in the physical world here. I don’t want that. But I know that deep and meaningful conversations happen in the digital world. My career has been based on my ability to do just that. I don’t expect a lot but in the past I have at least had conversations, real interchanges of ideas, feelings, understandings, more than emoji’s thanks love and have a nice day. As my friend RIS once said,” At the end of the day, SG is just another porno site.” If you ever read the responses that SOPHIE wrote you would know that it once was so much more.

To your point Avorora: The cost of admission is wonderfully cheap. And the addition of tipping has allowed me to support great work and contribute hundreds of dollars to the lives of people I love. That appreciation goes way beyond sex. If you watch MILENCI’S Q&A you will see amazing openness, intelligence and warmth. Such things are not totally absent now but your right, your strapped, gotta make a buck so no time for real response, better get back on to cover Only or Patreon. What, you think I don’t have a job? You are beautiful and you produce great content but the main reason I follow you is that your smart in ways that interest me. But here you have reduced me to just another guy, simply a John, a lookie Lou. That objectifies me. It places me outside the community in a wasteland without feeling.

I appreciate this conversation very much. Sheer numbers are a big player along with a general social media trend toward depersonalization and objectification. I wish that you were paid equitably. Your work/efforts are tragically undervalued. This, of course, is generally true everywhere. I have been a member for 15 years.

Missed the “grace period” in editing,  so, I do repeat: I appreciate this conversation very much. Sheer numbers are a big player along with a general social media trend toward depersonalization and objectification. Conversation and the written word is getting lost in the shuffle. I wish that you were paid equitably. Your work/efforts are tragically undervalued. This, of course, is generally true everywhere. Greed rules, generally speaking, everywhere. I have been a member for 15 years so you can imagine the even greater magnitude of change. I put a lot of effort into the illustrations that I give as gifts. I don’t expect much in return. I give genuinely from the heart and experience has proven to me that the act of giving is its own, ample reward. Yet, I am imperfect and silence, in this case, feels like a wasteland. No individual has really tried to hurt me here, though RIS was frighteningly bright and had a very sharp tongue. This conversation certainly helps. Kind regards and thank you for all your hard work and for your valuable time and attention