Everyone knows Amelia G runs the Blue Blood empire and also does some of the photography and writing for it. Here on APN, we’ve featured photographs she has shot for Blue Blood many times and we’ve mentioned her writing once or twice. (You can also see the interview we did with Amelia G five years ago — Ed.) I write for APN and I have all the old Blue Blood print magazines from the 90’s in plastic bags with cardboard backing, so I thought I was pretty aware and I still found a lot on Amelia G’s new AmeliaG.com site to both inform and entertain me. In addition to running the business end of Blue Blood and working as an editor for many projects, Amelia G has had hundreds of photo sets published and thousands of articles. Amelia G has done writing and/or photography for all the major adult publishing houses including Playboy, Penthouse, Flynt, Crescent, Magna, and AVN, plus niche magazines including Marquis, On Our Backs, Skin Two, Tattoo Teasers, Fetish, Extreme Fetish, $pread, and of course Blue Blood. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best S/M Erotica, and Best Women’s Erotica and dozens more books. But she still took time out of her busy schedule to give APN this exclusive interview.

APN: Blue Blood magazine in print was really ground zero for jump-starting the whole altporn genre and you’ve managed to maintain a top ranking for Blue Blood for more than sixteen years. To what do you credit your remarkable success and longevity?

AG: Thanks. I always hope the universe will smile on me for hard work and doing the right thing, and sometimes it does. A big advantage Blue Blood had in coming to the web is that the magazine was always subscription-driven and we had free sites for the community for years before we launched our first membership site. We actually had paid members before we had even actually launched the first pay site because we tested out a banner rotation for a few minutes and people saw it. I really appreciate the support we’ve gotten over the years and try to really put a lot back into the scene and into having really great creative work on all my sites.

APN: Okay, so, in your bio on your new personal site, your thesis subject really jumped out at me. You wrote your thesis at Wesleyan University on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality?

AG: I sure did. Kind of funny that it seemed sort of shocking, and outrageous, and possibly frivolous to be writing about that sort of topic, at a school like that, but it actually did turn out to be relevant to my job. The name Blue Blood is sort of a play on words with the blood for vampires and gothic spookyness and the blue meaning erotic as in blue movies, but the blue blood phrase overall connoting a certain tastefulness and strength. Especially in 1992, when I founded Blue Blood, it was very common for alt-identified people to feel like they had to accept second class citizen status. So the strength aspect is really important to the core manifesto for me. The most important message I would like readers or members to get from Blue Blood is that purple hair or tattoos or having kinky sex or otherwise living flamboyantly does not mean you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society.

APN: Didn’t the magazine have some bloodplay in it as well?

AG: The very first issue of Blue Blood, my friend Fish wrote a how-to article for safe bloodplay. Fish is a tattoo artist now and he was a military medic then, so he’s educated on the subject, but we got so many angry letters about that article. Blue Blood magazine even showed condoms in shoots and the article was about how to do bloodplay safely, so I’m very safety conscious, but some people just do not understand that it is not the extremity of a sexual practice which makes it unsafe. Unfortunately, in the internet distribution channel, we’ve been forced to move away from anything with blood in it.

APN: How does publishing on the internet instead of in print change whether you can have bloodplay?

AG: A lot of people get all caught up with definitions of genre based on what is and is not shown, but what can be shown in media is very dependent on distribution channel. For example, it did not used to be possible to show penetration in a magazine and be distributed on any newsstands outside of adult bookstores. Online, penetration makes no difference in where something can be seen. By contrast, if a web site accepts credit cards for memberships, they are likely to run into difficulties having any blood content. We’ve had to remove photo sets which showed only topless nudity where the girl was playing with blood made of vanilla-flavored corn syrup and food coloring because it was deemed extreme violence. If you watch Skinemax or cable channels like that, you can’t see penetration, but every other flick is a horror-themed excuse to douse topless women with fake blood. So it is not really that some distribution channels allow more and some allow less; they are just different.

APN: So is publishing on the internet harder or easier than in print?

AG: I love magazines. I still contribute to print projects and still create print projects. I love getting to hold a finished magazine in my hand. But the wonderful thing about the internet is that it is possible to go directly to the people who get it, without having to go through some distributor who hasn’t cracked an adult magazine in twenty years and thinks having tattoos is something that only teenagers would do. Despite a few restrictions on things like bloodplay, I find the internet easier from a distro standpoint. I think it is harder from a community standpoint. Back in the all print days, there used to be a lot of events where publishers would get together and we all traded quarter page ads with each and that is less the case for web publishers in this demographic.

APN: How do you feel about how altporn has evolved?

AG: Well, for one thing, I prefer the expression counterculture erotica to altporn, but I think altporn has definitely become the term for subculture-infused erotic media. In some respects, things are much easier today because being offbeat and being naked on camera have both been really destigmatized most places. In some respects, things being easier means that there are a small percentage of people who decide they want to make altporn who don’t really have the sense of community or individuality which would once have definitely been there. Most people in it are cool, but it has become more difficult to recognize who I have things in common with now, because, for example, there are people who just dress a certain way to be accepted and they don’t really care about personal freedom or get what it is all about.

APN: Your personal pics section on AmeliaG.com is really funny and I spotted so many famous people with you in there. Is your life basically a twenty-four hour party where you go from Hummer limo to book reading to art show to nightclub to fab afterparty?

AG: When I actually do take a moment to go out on the town, I like to make it count. I’m really a workaholic, but I think a gallery of like fifteen shots of me holding a camera and seventy of me sitting at a computer would have been less entertaining than eighty-five of me having fun.

APN: My favorite part of your new AmeliaG.com site is the professional photography portfolio you have on there. I love that you have members of the Misfits, Genitorturers, and Marilyn Manson in there with altstars like Voltaire, Bella Vendetta, and my future wife April Flores and it somehow seems all of a piece. How do you choose who you are going to shoot?

AG: As an artist, it is really important to me that my work be seen, so I like to have an idea of where a shoot might be published. A few hundred people a week apply to appear on the various Blue Blood sites, including BlueBlood.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, and RubberDollies.com in particular, and there is a submission form on BlueBloodPhoto.com. I, of course, publish other people’s photography even more often than my own on BlueBlood.com etc. and there are only so many hours in the day, but I do photograph select people from the Blue Blood apps. I do take commissions from publications, record labels, and such. In general, I most enjoy photographing people who have a certain spark, star quality, individuality, personal style, and passion for self-expression. Hotness is good, but there needs to be hotness with unique self-expression. After all, I think avoiding just conforming to someone else’s aesthetic is important to being alt.

APN: Thanks so much for your time. Congrats on the launch of AmeliaG.com. It looks fabulous, it is fun to look at, and it is really informative.

AG: Thank you for the interview and the kind words.

NoFauxxx pride themselves on being “the longest running queer porn site on the web” (Although a cursory check on the registration date of the clearly queer oriented BadPuppy shows it’s been successfully online since 1995. -Ed) Trouble, the site’s creator, began the site back in 2003 taking photos of herself and her friends and posting them online. NoFauxxx quickly caught on within the alt/queer community as something atypical, diverse, and freakishly outrageous. Fast forward to 2009, NoFauxxx 2.0 has evolved into a social networking porn site with a new site design and both a free and member’s community with many free features. The member’s area features over 139 photosets and 20 videos highlighting queer stars Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Madison Young, Lorelei Lee, Kimberly Kane, Audacia Ray, and Trouble herself. You’ll see lots of diverse alt/queer gender-bending fuckery between boys, girls and transfolk, sporting Mohawks, tattoos, piercings, and strap-ons.

Coinciding with the launch of the new website, Trouble has also been hard at work behind the scenes filming her first full-length alt porn which has been two years in the making. NoFauxxx Roulette (2009) will feature “steaming hot sex scenes that support the existence of the queer sex underground, with authentic and sexually diverse vignettes that uphold feminist and queer political beliefs.”

I remember when your site first launched and what struck me about it (besides the alternative/gender inclusive/queer content) was the name: No “Fauxxx”. Obviously this is a reference to the “fake” quality of mainstream porn. What is your take on mainstream and your Modus operandi, or what you hope to accomplish with NoFauxxx?

I’m not trying to say everything else is fake, but I am trying to say that everything on the site is authentic. There’s really a personality behind the photos, and it’s not just in a model bio or a message board presence. I actually make it a goal to post content that looks personal. I use real settings, real outfits, real couples. I’ve shot porn stars like Lorelei Lee, but the difference between my photos and some other work that she’s done (even though it’s all wonderful!) — I got the chance to take intimate photographs of her in her bedroom, in her favorite outfit, surrounded by the books that have inspired her most in her life. That’s what I’m going for really, an intimacy that could never be read as fake, posed, unreal, or contrived.

How has NF evolved over the years? What have been your challenges and accomplishments? How has this project allowed you to evolve/transform as a sexual individual, an artist, a pornographer? Where do you hope it will lead?

First of all, my photography has gotten waaaay better, and I’ve really learned how to make films over the years. If you see the videos on the site now, you can see how the quality really goes up a small notch in each vignette, and it’s taken a long time to get to the kind of quality you’ll find in Roulette. In a sense, the community has really expanded around me, so where there was once nothing but NoFauxxx, there’s now a whole community surrounding NoFauxxx. I’ve become more interested in making it high art, and I’ve really realized that the site lies somewhere in between “Queer Porn” and “Alt Porn.” — living in between a gay and straight space is hard to navigate, but that’s really where I hope it will lead.

You maintain in your mission statement that NoFauxxx “is the longest running queer porn site on the web”. There are many “girl-girl” and “gay” porn websites on the internet that probably use the same claim. How do you see NoFauxxx as distinct from them in relation to queer/gender politics?

“Girl Girl” is a contrived notion of queerness. I spoke with a company owner who boasts “true lesbians” in his business, and he had the audacity to say to me, “We make sure they’re a little bit bisexual.” And, while bisexuality is certainly a queer notion and bi girls count – the thought of this guy’s testing mechanisms for “real lesbianism” seems a little weak. I think that regardless of whether these “girl/girl” models actually like girls or not, the film is produced by men, with the intention of selling to men who like to watch lesbians.

I think you can be “queer” and be anywhere in the sexuality spectrum, as long as you feel like your sexual identity is somewhere outside the box, and perhaps you just don’t do things the way the world would expect you to as a gay, lesbian, straight, or bisexual.

The word “queer” in relation to “lesbian” and “gay” is an even more unifying word than “GLBT,” because you don’t have to explain your sexuality any further than that unless you feel like it. I think it’s a term used by younger people, certainly people who have transgendered folks in their scenes perhaps because of the complication of calling yourself “lesbian” or “straight” when you date people of varying genders. I believe “queer” also has a very punk rock element to it – we’re more deviant, we’re more dangerous, we’re more exciting, than just being plain old gay or kinky.

Women watch all kinds of porn. But women who identify as lesbians, from my experience at least, find most “girl/girl” porn to be extremely fake. It’s like whoever directed it has absolutely no idea how women fuck each other. Many alt porn sites have the same exact problem when it comes to shooting two girls together. Also, when I was doing girl/girl shows in a peepshow, it translated to men’s ideas of how women fuck in real life – meaning that men are believing this junk. I think that porn has the power to educate people, and that can be enlightening as well as damaging. How many things have you seen in porn where you have thought, “Well, that’s just not right!” Good porn will show you how it’d done right – but porn that was carelessly produced can teach it’s audience that our clits are in the backs of our throats, that lesbians love to show off for men, that all women can take 5 cocks in their asses all at once…. you get the picture.

I think that my site is one of those sites that show the world how people *really* fuck. I’m shooting raw, undirected, unscripted sex – I’m asking my models to show us how it’s really done. I think the end result is hotter both to queer audiences, and straight audiences, when the real is authentic and the chemistry is high.

Why is it important for you to deconstruct typical stereotypes in porn? Do you believe that art (as a vehicle for cultural critique) has the power to effect social change?

When was the last time you had to pick between BBW sex, MILF sex, Gay sex, Public sex, or Black-Dick-Zilla sex in your real, non-porn, you’re-actually-about-to-get-laid sex life? Real sexuality just isn’t thrown into boxes like that, and certainly, the people we are, and the people we’re attracted to, can’t all fit ourselves into those boxes. I think the over-niching of porn is rude to the performers, and I’d prefer that things were set up a little more like mine. I can’t separate my website into “Girls” and “Boys” because there’s some foxes on the site who wouldn’t know which side to pick. I think it’s important to break down gender, race, size, fetish, and orientation stereotypes to create a pornographic world were fat girls can be pin ups, skinny hipster boys can fuck their own asses, and black men can be nice, and not raping somebody’s daughter… Know what I mean? The stereotypes placed on minorities in the porn world is horrible, and I wouldn’t want to work in porn at all if I had to go by those rules.

You mention that NF’s goal is to “uphold queer political beliefs” and “sex-positive theories”. How does porn accomplish this?

Sex positivity has a lot to do with being open with yourself and other’s sexual idiosyncrasies. In that sense, a sex positive porn would be honest and true to the performer and producers sexuality, without creating a stigma or stereotype about the sex being performed. And to me, upholding queer political beliefs in porn means practicing safer sex, showing communication/consent/safewords as a normal part of queer sex, and respecting people’s bodies, gender identities, pronouns, and sexual preferences.

Do you believe that by making sex-positive, gender-queer, diverse sexualities more accessible via the internet, it has changed the way people view typical stereotypes of beauty/sex/gender? Have you seen these views evolve over the years since you first launched NF?

I think it serves as a place where college-aged queers could go and see that they don’t have to be “this or that” to fit into a LGBT system, or the world in general. Also, maybe this would be a question to ask the readers here – has stumbling across my site made you see beauty/sex/gender differently? Over the years that I’ve been doing NoFauxxx, there have been more FTMs [female-to-males] making porn and performing, and many people have started their own queer porn sites.

Much of the content on NF is taken by either yourself or your friends. How has DIY culture changed the porn industry, or has it? Mainstream keeps pumping out the same generic stuff and people still buy it. How can DIY complete with such an overwhelming commercial machine?

Mainstream porn can and always will pump out the same boring shit, but offering up more indie options will undoubtedly bring in our own audience. Once people see DIY porn, watching mainstream porn becomes a different experience–when you can see the different between real and fake.

I would like to talk about your new film: NoFauxxx Roulette. What was the experience like of creating such an ambitious project? What challenges did you face? What did you learn?

Well first off, I have absolutely no formal training in film or editing, so taking this project on was pretty much like enrolling in film school, except I had no teachers. I made plenty of mistakes and had to start over many times. In the end, I think teaching myself how to shoot and edit made Roulette a very unique film – i just don’t do things like everyone else.

I started filming Roulette in early 2007 with no budget. It’s taken me two years to complete, and I still owe money! The budget by far has been the biggest challenge – to keep updating the site and film this movie takes a lot of funds that I just didn’t have. Luckily I’ve been able to just make the movie, and hopefully it will work out in the end. The film is now available for pre-order at: http://www.courtneytrouble.com

There are many women who have become the makers rather than the muses in the porn industry. This is radically different form the 60s and 70s, within the feminist anti-porn movement. How have feminist ideologies changed to support the ability for women to become manufacturers of porn rather than passive pawns of male desire?

2nd wave feminists are our mothers and grandmothers – and naturally – this general of feminists have rebelled. Annie Sprinkle, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle… these people broke the molds that allowed women to create porn, and watch it more freely, than before.

Do you consider yourself a 3rd wave feminist?

Revolution Girl Style Now!!!!

What artists, pornographers, icons (past and/or present) have inspired you? Who are your mentors?

I love classic photography–Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and current photographers like Nan Goldin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Dave LaChappelle. Jackie Strano and Shar Rednoir’s movies inspired me when I was younger, and now Jackie is someone I go to for film advice on a weekly basis.

We’ve been checking out Sean Adamz’ LazerBunny altporn site a bunch lately and we’ve been entertained by some of the things the outspoken Mr. Adamz has had to say, so in honor of their one year anniversary, we thought it would be fun to ask the bunny master a few questions about his site, his creative work, etc. All in all, I must say that I enjoy his site. It has some areas ripe for growth, but he does manage to integrate some of the social features with the content and he doesn’t seem to forget that his members joined to see hot sexy photos and video of interesting and varied girls. I particularly enjoy the video featured on the site, but the photo sets are nice too. To be fair, a lot of the credit for this interview really should also go to KittyTwo. She helped with a lot of the questions and should share credit on the by line. We’d also like to thank Sean for taking the time to enlighten us and here is what he had to say:

I like how well organized the internal structure of the LazerBunny site is and the social features like member profiles and some really enjoyable member blogs give it a nice friendly atmosphere. Was that a challenge to set up?

The community features of lazerbunny, aside from billing and adult website business legalities, were ultimately the hardest to create. Once i had conquered all of that it was on to the wonderful struggle of encouraging the models to consistently use these features. After listening to the girls say it was ‘very important’ to have those blogs and community features (and agreeing), it was frustrating to have to constantly push smart, witty, outspoken people to be smart, witty and outspoken. I’m not the kind of person who really enjoys blogging but I do what needs to be done to make the site happen and sometimes that means writing a blog about a sandwich and a Fugazi song.

You have some interesting features like a magazine style section featuring a handful of movie and music reviews, along with interviews and other entertaining bits. Is this an area you plan on building up a lot more? How popular is this sort of content with your members?

The ‘magazine’ section of the site comes from my old-skool days when ‘zines were really popular forms of counter-culture and erotica for weirdos and punk rockers, alt kids, losers, whatever you want to call them. They raised questions about what was going on, and regardless of the content, it felt more personal and more relevant than the nightlife section of some popular magazine that anyone in the world could read.. ‘Zines were often mailed out by hand and written by a handful of people that likely knew each other and the ’scene’ they represented.. I was always around a lot of punk rockers and industrial/goth types, always the black sheep of both groups, but a good friend of mine had a very popular ‘zine called Psychotic Episode and I helped him out with that sometimes and always kind of mixed it all up without the boundaries of social cliche.

Many of the photo sets featured on the LazerBunny site are really creative from a lighting and environment perspective, not to mention the really sexy sexy subjects, but I noticed that a lot of them are fairly soft core topless style and such. Not that there is anything wrong with that, they are very enjoyable, but we’ve seen you rant about ‘bland pinup photography’ that doesn’t admit it’s pornography. These photo sets seem to contrast with your unabashed ‘hardcore’ sex videos, which are also enjoyable but not nearly as soft. Do you see a difference between good altporn video vs. good altporn photography, from the perspective of trying to create good pornography?

I see a lot of websites calling themselves ‘pornography’ or alt-porn… this is not the case if you are attempting ‘artistic nudes’ or fetish photography. All three are completely different, just like punk is not new wave and hardcore is not emo. I do what I do in the same style, and that plays a huge role at lazerbunny.com primarily because I DO everything on the site. I do not have assistants who edit, or financial backing from larger companies. I’ll shoot a photo set of a model with the same amount of thought that goes into shooting a video. The only difference is that one has ‘action’. I like a lot of different kinds of art; I own an art gallery and an extensive art collection that primarily features deviant artists of the early 1900’s when things were strange in the same ways. On one hand people were very glamorous and on the other hand life was very dirty and a lot of decadence and perversion was happening both openly and behind closed doors. On that note, I am a big fan of the original Bizarre Magazine published by Taschen at that time.

You’ve expressed disgust with people who fail to create pornography. What do you feel makes your work porn and what is good about porn?

I only feel disgust towards people that lie to the public about their product. I’m entitled to my opinion, and it pisses me off. I also feel that the people who do create an expensive and time-consuming product deserve respect regardless of their industry. People that work for our government are responsible for countless murders and even genocide , and they receive a lot of praise and a huge paycheck. Creating pornography was my decision to stand up for something in [duh]merica. Let’s get right to the point: pornography is our right as Americans. We can look at it, we can make it, we can do anything we want as long as its remains within the law. In sexually restrictive countries exists a higher rate of rape, murder, political unrest and sexism…Clearly that exists here as well, but I think that freedoms allow for a tolerance that maybe we stopped appreciating a long time ago, because we only use 10% of our liddo brainz. Wake up please, everyone, alarm clock time.

How did you get into shooting video and photos? Do you consider yourself more of a photo guy or a video guy?

Honestly, I am an artist. That’s it. I’ve toured the country playing in a rock band. I’ve held exhibitions of some of the most renowned artists in the world in my gallery, I’ve had photo shows, and made music videos for other bands. and I’ve had books of my writing published. Sometimes I’m a makeup artist when girls don’t like doing their own makeup. I can do anything it doesn’t matter what it is..’LazerBunnyMansion’ had no plumbing when i got the place..I did that too, while coding the website at the same time….whatever, you do what you want if you want to.

It seems like the role of ‘model’ has changed in the recent years, especially in the world of alt-modeling . In some cases, their expectations of what they are going to get out of a shoot seem very high these days. How do you handle it when a model expects you to work extra-hard to make her look more than perfect these days?

Mostly, I would like to introduce a lot of people to the word and conceptual reality of something called ex foliation… I’m not working for a major publication, so for me the key is do my job, and do it well. I should not have to work “extra hard” to make a model look good, isn’t that the models job? What does a model’s job consist of? 1. Show up on time. 2. Look good and know how to look good A LOT. 3. Wait there is no 3 which also cancels out 4.

What inspired you to start shooting? To start a site?

Well, like I said I have done a lot in the entertainment industry, so after deciding that I wanted to take a break from playing music after 10 years of doing it for a living, it seemed easy to contact a lot of my friends that I knew were ok with that kind of thing, i.e. groupies, strippers, gogo dancers.. . I’ve known Stoya since around the time she had just turned 18 from hanging around Philly and she was the first person I talked to about the site. At the time it was just an idea, and that was well before she had done anything nude in terms of photographs. She was actually turning down great photographers for nude shoots because she was doing more fashion. We collaborated over the years on ideas, and a lot of the original lazerbunnyz are mutual friends and acquaintances. From there it has been really a lot of determination and being kind of generally pissed off that most of the pornography out there is really really DUMB.

You have an interesting collection of talent on your site. What characteristics make you want to shoot a girl?

Each lazerbunny is different, amazing and unique. I noticed early on that alot of things are the same about ‘brands’ of porn.. the girls on the site are similar, the movies are similar, alot of the same stuff being churned out, which is good if you are making cars, because there are performance standards, but when you are dealing with really real hot models in really fake movies about real sex, you hit a conceptual wall that does not allow you to photoshoppe the same thing into every single background or cast the same exact girls as the other sites. I have in fact cast some girls that appear on other sites, and sometimes ALOT of other sites, but there’s always some way that they each represent the best of their ‘type’ of girl. For instance, Pinky Lee is the best 50’s looking retro pinup girl..She also gets more hardcore in alot of videos than some people realize. Stoya is clearly the ultimate supermodel of altporn, Kate Hate is well…Kate Hate..Astrid is a bitchy redheaded dominant girl who makes fun of people in videos about their cock being too small to find, and the list goes on. Each model has her spot in the spectrum of odd girls and mean girls and punk girls etc.

You created some of my favorite content of Stoya. How do you feel about her signing to Digital Playground?

Thanks, I really love all the sets of Stoya, because i know her personally i feel like a lot of personallity shows through in her sets… that’s something I really pride in my photographs. I was and still am extremely supportive of Stoya in her move to DP, mostly because that was the plan all along, to find a good place for her to have a job doing something that she actually enjoys (being a pervert or pervin out as she would call it) I can’t say for sure if S.bot actually ‘enjoys’ making porn all day sometimes. I also don’t think that football players want to train half the year and then go to play games for the rest of the year. It’s all a lot of work, achieving goals that go beyond the status quo. It’s like getting a record deal. If DP was Geffen Records, and I was SubPop, then Stoya would be Nirvana.

What do you think about the way the talent pool has changed since altporn became, as you posted, more corporate?

I have to be totally honest with you on this one, it’s probably become more professional… No different than bands sounding better once they get into a REAL studio to record after signing with a decent label and going on tour for a year, you’re just better. Amateur is cool, but that’s not alternative, and any industry should be professional.

Does it bother you when models and performers you shoot work with other people or are you happy for them getting credits, whether or not they come back to shoot more with you afterwards? How do you feel about exclusivity contracts?

How do I feel about exclusivity contracts…well I touched on this point earlier a bit actually. In the entertainment industry (which includes Altporn AND the price is right and MTV, etc, etc, etc), there are these amazing things called contracts which have existed forever and can also entail “getting signed.” This means you have a JOB. Jobs are good when you have bills. Remember that, kids. If the contract that you are signing will be a bad one, don’t sign it. If it will be beneficial to both parties, then outline the terms of the agreement and stick to it. It’s amazing how people sign contracts (especially non-compete clauses) and think that the words in the contracts they’ve signed don’t mean anything; it’s completely ridiculous. Personally, I don’t use exclusivity contracts for all of my models. I do work exclusively with some models, but that’s their personal choice.

What do you see as the pros and cons for working for a site like LazerBunny vs a corporation like Digital Playground?

The major benefit of working for a smaller company is that you always have some idea of who you are working with and for. Unfortunately this can often lead to theft, personality conflicts, “he said she said” situations, and a lot more drama than working for a corporation. (They just send you to human resources.) I assume that working for a bigger company like DP allows for more job security and less stress.

Who do you work with besides your own site LazerBunny (sites, magazines, video companies, etc.)

I only work for lazerbunny.com, although I do have other artistic projects underway, including a book publishing deal for my erotic and more ‘abstract’ photography. I’m going to be exhibiting in the first deviant art show held in Prague in a few months, and I deal in art and artist management , primarily visual arts. I am also the artistic director of lazertown art collective which is a selective group of artists like the dada group.

I saw that you admitted on your site that it costs more to run than it makes and that you are clearly not doing it for the money, as a matter of fact if you were doing it for the money you’d be doing something else. What are your goals for doing the site?

Well, there’s not much to admit there, as in most business you should expect to be in the red for a year or sometimes even two to three with high-risk businesses as the amount of cash flow is often time very hard to recoup from just one shoot, even when you are paying less than the mainstream industry standard. Funny thing is I just put that blog up about 3 minutes before you read it, probably because there were no blogs posted, so I had to think of something to write about. In the blog I basically say a lot of the same things that I am saying here in this interview, but maybe differently with more confusing metaphors. Even I don’t get where I’m going half the time, and that is exactly how I got here. It’s magical.

You voiced some pretty strong comments about the disappointing outcome of the SuicideGirls vs Lithium Picnic lawsuit. How would you summarize your current opinion of what went down there?

Meh, lolpr0n is funnier than that debacle. I had an initial reaction to it as I am sure a lot of people, models, and industry people had on different levels. As an artist I am ashamed to have someone that is well-respected by their fans make such obviously terrible decisions about where to ‘work’ . But you know, I talk to artists a lot, and almost every artist I work with or for is encouraged by me to own their own work. If LP Studios were independent of SG even after the drama started, I would have supported him in his work. But alas, I do not support people who work for wal-mart just because they need a job.. I don’t have anything against them, but I’m not going to give them the spare change from my pocket that I worked for as they complain about the choice they made to work for wal-mart. That just SEEMS like a rip-off… and it is. I hate to break it to everyone but if all your favorite bands and artists came crying about it and ‘fundraising’ every time they got sued by a record company or movie studio you would never even have known about the situation. Get over it.

Where are you from and were are you located now?

I was born on the banks of a river, raised in New Orleans, and I live in Philadelphia now.

Have you ever appeared on camera?

I’ve been on camera alot, I took a lot of band photos and appeared in a lot of videos and stuff for music. OH OH OH, you mean in porn? Heh, thats a mystery…no one really knows, not even me, one time i woke up in a bathtub filled with ice in warehouse ..with no spleen and Stoya was there smiling ..i’m not sure if there was a camera involved or not, but that was pretty altporn if you ask me.

What should people look for from Sean Adamz and LazerBunny in the near future?

Get used to me fuckers, cuz I’m not leavin’ . More of the same..A LOT more of the different, and also some interesting collaborations with great models..and other photographers…every now and then you can catch a set shot by Bob from CrazyBabe on my site, or a set from bunnymansion on his site….I am releasing my first DVD of lazerbunny scenes which will be part compilation and part full length move called “WE’VE CUM FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS” vol. 5 (we’re gonna skip the first 4)

I have 2 full-length DVD’s coming out after this summer, and A LOT more great photo-sets of Stoya, Pinky Lee, Ariel Adore and all the lazerbunnyz. Currently I am at about 15 thousand photos. There are currently 15 official lazerbunnyz…The idea is to have 13 lazerbunnyz per year 1 per month and a featured ‘upcoming’ star of the year, so look out for her and lazerbunny, and me, Sean Adamz all over the underbelly of the internet.

How do you define AltPorn? What is good about AltPorn? What is bad about AltPorn?

I define altporn as anything that gets the weirdo’z off. what is bad about altporn is the same thing thats bad about alot of things..HUMANS fuck it up. If pornicorns ( unicorns of porn) were flying around with rainbows shooting out of their asses then the world would be such an amazing peaceful altporn heaven, but theyre not …so deal with it fuckers.

KTHXbyeeeeez. SEAN ADAMZ

When did you launch your GeekGirlsOnline site and what made you decide to do it?

Well, it officially launched the first week of October 2007, although it had been in the works since late June/Early July.

As far as what made us decide to do it, it had been an ongoing conversation for the past 4 or so years with my finance. We were always wondering why there were only a handful of geeky-girl porn sites. Being a geek myself, and not having the time to really be in front of the camera lately, I felt it was a great idea to start a site that featured real girls, that had interests similar to mine, since all but a handful of previous similar ideas had failed.

Your GeekGirlsOnline site seems very gamer oriented. Has the gaming community been receptive to what you are doing so far? Have you met any resistance?

The gaming community as a whole has been very supportive. There have been a few minor incidences of single groups not particularly caring for our site, as they see the gamer community as a “family friendly” society.

I look at it this way: Our site community is growing everyday, and our gamer conversations never seem to end. GeekGirlsOnline really was made as an outlet for geeks alike, and it’s not like we are going to all ages conventions and passing out fliers, or shoving it into people’s faces. But, on the other hand, we aren’t going to hide underground somewhere because a handful of people don’t like us. A lot of people in high school didn’t like me, but it didn’t stop me from being myself.

What do you see as the strong points of your GeekGirlsOnline site?

First and foremost, our community. Eclectic and intelligent, and always interactive. And, of course, our models. They are all geeky in their own ways, and love to show that off.

Which models that are not featured on your site yet would you most like to work with in the future?

That’s a toughie. I would love to have Morgan Webb, but the chances of that are slim to none. (hah). But I really would like Scar13, as I feel she is an extremely beautiful and intelligent woman.

You have personally appeared on a lot of sites. What sites have you been on and what have you learned from your experiences?

I started out on the original NaughtyGoth.com , and Eroticbpm.com. After that, I did spiceplay and Citykittie. Unfortunately, 3 of those sites aren’t around anymore. I have tried to take that into account with GeekGirls, and to not make the same mistakes that others had made before me.

It also makes it a lot easier to relate to models, as I have been around the business for about 4 or so years, and have had a few good tutors there to guide me, and show me the right and wrongs on the adult business.

What is your opinion of altporn sites that claim to be run by women but actually are not?

It’s actually the reason I didn’t go work for “that evil altporn empire” that shall not be named. I feel that it’s insulting to a model’s intelligence to claim to be run one way, and in the contract you sign away your life for 2 years to some guy whom you have never heard of.

What are some of your current favorite sites, particularly in the altporn genre?

Of course, Eroticbpm would be in that list, as they were my inspiration for getting into altporn. I would also have to mention BlueBlood.com, as they have given me something to aspire to be. And always have been a fan of JoyofSpex, even though they have kind of dropped off the face of the planet.

Nearly every alt-model we’ve seen lately claims to be highly intelligent, including many that seem to have their own opinions about how to spell the word. Who should we believe and why?

Ask them what Einstein’s theory of relativity is. Chances are, if they don’t know, they are blowing smoke up your ass. What it does show, is that brainy girls are very “trendy” these days. Everyone wants a smart girl, or a gamer girl, as they are seen as the “Unicorn” of the female species. Many guys are getting tired of the same blonde bimbo porn that keeps getting reproduced over and over again.

Is working with brainy girls different from working with regular girls?

Other than IQ and the ability to use a spell-checker…

Yes, it’s quite different. I have, on occasion, had to “dumb down” my language a bit, to better explain myself to girls around me. That’s not to say “regular girls” are dumb, I am just more accustomed to having conversations with a more intellectual vernacular.

Ever since the altporn classification has been recognized, there has been some debate about what altporn exactly is. How would you define altporn?

Honestly, I see altporn as any porn/erotica that stands out from the norm. Whether it’s tattoos and piercings, rainbow colored hair, or just girls that don’t like to shave, it’s all an alternative way to live life.

What is the difference between a geek, a dork, and a nerd?

A dork is that guy who was a class clown, but wasn’t really funny. He picked on you in high school, because he liked you, but you found his personality revolting, so you never gave him the time of day.

A nerd is a braniac. Someone who spends more time in a book, than in reality.

A geek is a combination of a nerd, a dork and a gamer. And normally has a very artistic side to them, whether it’s through writing or physical artwork.

Is geek culture alt culture?

I believe so. It is beyond the norm. How many 25 year old guys do you know that spend all week after work planning a game to play on a Friday night with a set of dice, a pencil and a piece of paper? The same guys spend hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on books for D&D (or other table-top rpgs), video games for their PC and have to buy the latest R.A. Salvatore book weeks in advanced.

Most would be out bar-hopping, or trying to scam for chics.

It seems like there has always been a crossover between the amateurs market and the altporn genre. Your site, and the girls you feature on it so far, seem to have a fairly homegrown amateur feel. Keeping in mind that altporn is not a binary yes or no label, how do you see your GeekGirlsOnline site fitting into the genre?

The GeekGirls are real girls. They aren’t living it up in some mansion in LA, they aren’t spending thousands a year on botox and plastic surgery to fit inside of society’s idea of beauty. They are themselves, and they stand out because of it. They speak their minds, and dress how they feel comfortable. I think GeekGirlsOnline will be one of many sites to revolutionize the porn industry in general, as it shows you don’t need fake tits to be heard.

Thanks for this opportunity!

~ Athena Hollow
www.geekgirlsonline.com

I can’t even tell you how long we’ve been meaning to do this feature on super cool photographer and model Mette Th13teen. We love her attitude and her work. She really brings the right perspective to what really should be a creative, sexy, and fun genre, and we always enjoy seeing her work, both in front of and behind the camera.

You do great work both in front of the camera as well as behind it. What are the challenges to working both sides and what do you see as the advantages?

First of all, thanks! I don’t really see any challenges, only advantages.. Every time, I model, I can learn something new as a photographer, by watching the photographer work, and by asking questions if they work differently in some way. When I shoot people, I know, how it feels to be on the other side of the camera and can give advise to first time models because, I know how it feels and what works and what makes it easier and more fun.

Do you work primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark, or do you travel a lot for your work?

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark so even though, there isn’t that many opportunities here, most of them is in Copenhagen, so I do most of my work here. As a model, I travel a bit around the country but mostly work in Copenhagen. I do some modeling work for people in the other end of Denmark, but those shoots mainly take place here as well. Its a bit different as a photographer, I do some traveling in Denmark but also around Scandinavia and Europe, that depends mostly on where my work for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine takes place, tattoo conventions, interviews and so on.

Which came first, the modeling or the photography, and did one lead to the other?

I have been photographing, on and off, since I was around 13 years old, but until 2004, my work was a lot different. All my work was analog and black & white photos and I never used models. In 2004, I was asked to model for a Swedish photographer, that was my first time modeling, and I really didn’t like the pictures and I was like “I can seriously do this better than him” and that provoked me to start shooting models. I borrowed a camera from a friend and started shooting friends, to find out which style felt most like mine, lighting, which angels worked best for the different types and how to edit model pics in Photoshop and so on. And I have been trying ever since

As a model, what sites and publications have you appeared in?

Other than the various sites of photographers, I have worked with, I did a cover+article for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine in 2004 and that was my first publication. Since then, I started modeling for Broken Dollz, both my sets for them, has been on Altporn, so I appeared there , an upcoming alt. erotic site called Perverse Fixation, which I am fucking excited about! I have also modeled for 3xL, a well known Danish rubber enthusiast, his webblog is one of the best in the fetish scene, if you ask me! Rock Confidential Magazine did a feature on me, I also do a lot rubber modeling for this amazing custom rubber designer called Heavyrubber, basically all my rubber has been made by him and I love it! There is a Danish site called publicfetishgirls.com, I have done some videos, of me wearing rubber in public, for them and I definitely will do more, that is really fun. I also modeled for Vandal X Klothing and for Wicked Ink, they are both t-shirt designers. My most recent job, was a music video for a metal band called Volbeat, that was a lot of fun, I have never done that before but I fucking hope that I get to do that again! I don’t really keep track and this is what I can remember I hope to do more publications, covers, music videos and modeling, because I really love that and it always adds an edge to it, when I model for stuff, that is going out there instead of “just” for my site!!

I just saw some of the beautiful covers you’ve been shooting for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine. As a photographer, what sites and publications have you worked with so far?

I haven’t done much as a photographer, it’s not that, I don’t love it, but I do more modeling.. I work for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine and that is my main thing, doing covers+posters+writing articles and so on. I shot some rubber sets for Heavyrubber.dk, some live shows for sceneskrekk.com, the site of a Norwegian freakshow – those pictures appeared on bmezine.com as well. I did a set for perversefixation.com and some work for flyers+posters for the largest Danish alternative online community. The last thing, I can think of, is a live shoot of a Danish rockabilly band called Wild Wax Combo…

What publications and sites would you like to work with in the future either as a photographer or a model?

Like I mentioned earlier, I would love to do more!! But I don’t have anything new planned, other than the sites, I already work with, like www.perversefixation.com, www.publicfetishgirls.com, www.heavyrubber.dk, www.brokendollz.com, Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine, www.lustlovelatex.com and so on.. I’m pretty excited about what the future brings and I´m open to any offer, I get!

I was just looking at your Th13teen.net portfolio site and saw some of the amazingly sexy rubber fetish photos you’ve been appearing in lately and it occurred to me that the European alt and fetish scenes seem to have a lot more crossover than they do here in America. Do you feel there are specific reasons the mix is better over there or are we just behind the times over here?

Thanks a lot! I actually don’t think that the European scenes cross over more than the American, not that I have noticed or know of. The Danish alternative scene and fetish scene, are both pretty small and we basically all know each other or of each other, there are really only a couple of alt. models that also does fetish shoots. The fetish scene is a lot bigger than the alt. scene here and we always have a lot of European and Scandinavian guests at the fetish parties, but I always seem to be the only alt. model that goes to the parties, but there are some fetish models there too! If anybody is behind the times, I would guess that it would be us, Denmark is pretty old fashioned in some ways and body modifications, fetishes and stuff like that, is still not really accepted and kept at home.. New things and change takes time here!

How would you define altporn and what should it ideally represent in your opinion?

Alt. porn is a huge specter for me! It contains everything that the fashion modeling and commercial world doesn’t and that is what I love about it! That there is room for people, that stand out and are proud of it! Not everybody thinks, that the perfect woman is blond, skinny as hell and has big boobs! There should be room for all of us, I think that, it is what makes us exciting – the fact that we are all different, individuals! Like fetishes, some gets a hard on from touching a balloon and some from checking out girls with tattoos, that gives us the possibility to actually learn something from each other..

The European adult/erotic/porn world seems incredibly more diverse than the mainstream adult industry in the States. Does AltPorn really stand out as much there as it does here?

It might really stand out more here, even though the scene is small, the people, that are a part of it, are proud of it and enjoy being themselves and expressing themselves the exact way, they love! We don’t have that many people “to look up to” so there are not really any guide lines and that probably gives room for more diversity.. I guess that forces us to take a stand as an individual instead of just following the “non-existent” mainstream adult/erotic/porn scene.

You have some great tattoo work, what are some of your favorite tattoo studios?

I would have to say Uncle Allan at Conspiracy Inc. – he is amazing and really respected all over the world! He did a lot of my work.. Besides that, it is really a matter of what tattoo style, you like.. But sticking to the Danish ones, Nick The Electric Pick is also incredible, he is Canadian but works with Uncle Allan at Conspiracy Inc. and Alex, a Scottish guy living here in Copenhagen, his studio is called Rites Of Passage, he does some kick ass realistic work! We talked about doing a little (big) something on me but you will have to wait and see

Does it make a difference to you if a site or publication is run by a woman or a man?

Not at all! The only thing, that matters to me, is respect!! Nothing more, nothing less…

If you could improve the altporn genre or culture, what changes would you make? What would you get rid of and what would you encourage?

I don’t think, there is anything, I personally, would change or improve – it is a very diverse world! Every site has its own manager and that manager is different from any other manager of any other site. Their personal taste, opinions and so on, comes out through the site and that is what, you judge the site on. In overall, I can’t really think of anything.. I have had very little bad experiences, the ones, I have had, are based on how the manager, wants their site to be and you can’t really blame them for disagreeing with me Some people in the culture might think, that they can do what they want, because the genre is some what small and leaves f.ex. models, with not that many other opportunities, so we “have” to settle.. They are wrong though, the culture is getting bigger and bigger by the day and still more and more people, accept and approve of it, but it is still small enough for the word to get out, so all they really do, is shoot themselves in the ass!

Be sure to check out her site: http://www.th13teen.net