For years our friends have been after us to post the articles that we do out on the free side of the site. Their theory has been that mere text itself should be perfectly acceptable as "non-member" content — you know, the protection of Free Speech, a library's right to house books of any kind, and all that. In a way, we've been doing "blogs" since before there was such a thing as blogs, and in some ways that pretty much simulates our approach to the web. As we say repeatedly inside, in most ways these are just regular women … except they're not very shy.
So we're trying to pacify the well-intentioned here, and give you a 100% accurate look at actual posts within the members' area. Essentially the updates here fall into a few basic categories. We cover movie shoots for our clients and industry friends. We cover the main conventions and parties for the adult industry, sometimes from all over the world. We also (of course) cover the "real" day-to-day lives of the stars, often even when the stars happen to be a bit more "covered" than they usually are at work. And then we will on occasion offer up a bit of perspective more in the "editorial" environment. We have said this before here, but it "bares" (pardon the pun) repeating: While sex undoubtedly has a fun factor, and certainly qualifies as fascinating in most aspects, there is more to life than sex. Risque.com tries to maintain that perspective. Beyond that fundamental premise, understand that we picked the following examples to demonstrate the various "types" of posts, and not out of any sense of them being particularly better than any others.
At the risk of making this whole introductory enterprise even longer than it should be, you should know that our general approach employs a sort of benevolent editor approach to writing. You'll see the comments in brackets (and in a contrasting color) and this will make perfect sense. If you remember Point/Counterpoint or MST 3000 at all, this format will be familiar. Also, we should note that we have made some minor presentational modifications in the stories below. Most of our entries take up several pages, separating photo sets and video clips off from the people that just want to skip the words. We understand that there are people like that. Imagine.
Finally, we'll say that we're going to try and keep this area relatively current, but we will also say that we're not very confident in our potential for success. We spend a great deal of time and effort taking care of the members. As much as we try, the free side always seems to fall by the wayside. We only update this "tour" area every few years, and nearly every one of the Really Official people in web management consider this simply crazy.
If you look through any of the stories listed below, though, you'll see that simply ignoring the free blog potential out here barely scrapes the tip of the crazy iceberg in our world.
| 7/9/08 | You'd think we'd learn. Every time we put up a "D.Minion at a convention" story we're amazed at the amount of quirky information she manages to uncover — even when she tries to "tame" her approach. Then, naturally, as we go through the process of adding our minutiae (which sometimes turns out not to be all that "minute" if you want to be technical about it) the posts seem to take on a life of their own — typically a very weird life. … Well, you'll be happy (or maybe sad) to know that we've done it again with Erotica LA, 2008. If you do nothing else in life, at least you should try to be consistent, we think. Consistently good occasionally happens as a bonus, but we always strive for that. It's good to have a plan. |
| 1/20/08 | Upon the internal review of today's contribution we actually had an unusual bit of disagreement among a couple of the troops. D.Minion wanted an explanation "elaboration" while Maverick held firm in the opinion that, "Hey. It's just another story in the life of risqué." ... As for what we all eventually decided, well, we can't really get into that here. There are a couple of football games going on today, and we plan on grilling out and thanking our stars that we live in Southern California and not in either Boston or Green Bay. Brrrr. |
| 11/22/07 | So we had to go to Arizona to get some materials on a story about London. ... Hey, we keep telling you truth is stranger than fiction. ... Anyway, we decided to employ a few of the images in our typically heartfelt, empathetic, and divinely warm holiday greeting. ... That seemed reasonable, seeing as how the rest of the employees seem to think they deserve the day off. Instead of thinking of obtaining some foreign workers around here, though, we'll just wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, and blame all of the wackiness on D.Minion and Bijou being in a hurry to get to the food. To paraphrase a "Wilde" foreigner, as a matter of fact, "In matters of great importance, style and not sincerity is the vital ingredient." |
| 10/20/07 | Well this might be another "how" issue, but of a much simpler variety as Dee offers up one of her very early Cam Shows for replay. Of course we also give a brief look at another of her KSEX exploits, this time with Kiki Daire of the "Triple-D" fame. Sometimes just appreciating the how can look very nice indeed. |
| 3/10/07 | Apparently people are all up in arms because we found out that a government agency abused the power granted them for a completely unrelated purpose. Gee. Did somebody miss the memo on the effects of "Absolute Power" and all that? Well, we've decided to forego political commentary (which is really easy to do when you have sexually adventurous people to talk about anyway), and venture into Day One of Through Her Eyes with D.Minion. Fortunately these eyes belong to Faith Leon, with her supporting cast of Sophia, Selina Draagon, and some boys. We don't pay much attention to the boys if you haven't noticed. ... As for the government folks, maybe you should just try living life as if your mom were looking over your shoulder all the time. That tends to cut way down on that whole "zealous abuse" thing. |
| 8/24/06 | In the midst of all the chaos here (which pretty much could begin just about every paragraph we ever type, come to think of it) somehow, somebody (who may not work here much longer, come to think of that) discovered that we'd forgotten to put up D.Minion's fawning coverage of Justine playing Audrey Hollander's body double (or more accurately "out of body" double) on day one of the Catherine shoot. Then this somebody went so far as to mention it to D.Minion, who then proceeded to scream and yell and loudly complain about it. OK. D.Minion doesn't really scream and yell, but those hurt little puppy eyes that she's learned from the many dachshunds around here work even better. Consequently we quickly caved in our resolve to be done with the last big movie Michael shot until at least we finished talking about this latest big movie Michael shot, and so we're righting our wrong today. It was only right to do what was left, after all. |
| 4/29/06 | Apparently it's "Epic Week" as we get yet another "on the set" piece from D.Minion about a movie that you can't even see for a couple of months. Were this the only oddity about The Catalyst then we'd feel pretty much OK, but as my favorite aunt used to say, "Y'all ain't seen nothin' yet." You know, drawling is a lost art. |
| 8/24/05 | Now this post was supposed to go up before we took off out of town to shoot the next batch of Ninn Worx shows, these being Neo_Pornographia 3 and Angel Cassidy Exposed. That was the plan anyway. We even bribed a couple people to stay late on Friday just to help put all of the galleries together for what we're calling Catherine ... The Finished. But the combination of being in a hurry, and being all but beaten to death turned out not to be really very helpful. For some reason, we couldn't get the darned images to show up when we tried to test the pages on the web. This morning, back from LA, and much better rested, we discovered that we forgot to put the pictures and the trailer on the server. Oops. "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" |
| 5/13/05 | I got fired from my job last week, and I was pretty upset about it. So I was watching the surf, eating a couple of wonderfully spicy carne asada tacos and sipping fresh limeade (that I got from a tiny beach-side place most people never even notice) when I thought, "Hey! Wait a minute. She can't fire me: I own the company." Then I felt much better. Still, we're pretty honest around here, and so if you've a mind to hear it, I'll tell you the story. You can always just look for some amazing Friday the Thirteenth Bonus stuff instead. What did you expect from a guy named Lucky? Oh, and this picture will find its explanation. Really ... |
| 3/23/04 | OK. We finally got enough emails complaining about us not putting up the final chapter of Dee's Cam Show to Define All Cam Shows to annoy us and spur us into motion. OK, It was actually only one email, but it was from Maverick, and he was just across the hall when he sent it, and that was annoying, so it did the trick. We also decided to post a bunch of beautiful pictures of Juli Ashton sunning herself (actually, a lot of herself) in Mexico, just to make the non-video fans happy. We're very friendly around here ... except to Maverick: He still has dirt to move ... =) |
| 6/16/03 | The beauty of the editorial section of the newspaper is that you don't have to read it, and besides you probably don't agree with any of the people in that section anyway. We have a rare editorial for you today entitled "Somebody's Daughter" and we suggest you take the same tack here. You do have the benefit here of being able to see Kristal Summers in her first hard core boy/girl action, helped along with Inari Vachs. You also have the benefit of seeing how Anais managed to struggle through a couple of modeling sessions on her first days on a XXX shoot. You do not have the benefit, as with regular editorials, however, of using it to light fires or perhaps pick up dog poop. Sorry. |
| 11/7/02 | We're just being honest here when we say that most of you should probably just skip this posting. You know how it is when you clean house and get rid of a lot of things that have been cluttering up the place? Well, that happens in offices too, and so we're just tidying up. Consequently, there's almost no naked girls in this entry, and it seriously diverges from the fine adult content you're used to. Still, we promised several members, and even our mom on one thing, and this is the result. You should probably skip the miscellanea and just wait a couple days. Who wants to see yet another hamster anyway? Mascot controversies are worse than quarterback controversies, after all. |
| 9/25/02 | OK, so we didn't make you wait all that long before showing you the first shots from the Members' Party. As typifies most of the Risqué gatherings, actually, this one was primarily about food. And so that's what you'll be seeing a lot of. Actually, we should warn everyone here. You ever meet those kind of people that invite you over to their house and then show you picture after picture of their vacation? Well, WE are those kind of people. So if you want to skip this post, feel free. You have 90 pictures here and only one small glipse of Wendy's naked body. That's it for the nudity. Don't look for it here. Hey, at least we're honest, and we promise to get back to our regular decadent deliveries just as soon as we can. Even if you don't want to see the pictures, however, you might want to check out The New Adult Diary Mascot ... Now we're jammin' ... |