It has become quite common now for adult content creators to have an alternate account on social media, commonly referred to as an “alt”. Many do so as a means to hide from their present or future primary employers. And in other fields, it is to keep their primary career goals separate from their adult entertainment goals. I am not such a content creator.

Many who have an alt account (and/or wear a mask) do so because they feel if the powers-that-be in their main employment or career goals learn of their participation in adult entertainment, it can lead to termination of that employment or derailment of that career path. This is something I understand wholeheartedly. So with such outcomes as a possibility for not creating an alt, I’m sure many wonder why I haven’t made one.

For one, when not doing porn, my work is still in some facet of the sex industry. The greater reason though is that with the combination of my Aries stubbornness and (more importantly) owning my choices, I don’t want that monkey on my back. Constantly in (conscious or subconscious) fear of those people in power finding out. Especially if you are not wearing any attire naming your workplace or filming in your workplace. For then them trying to punish me becomes an act of hypocrisy on their part. One that should be easily thrown back in their face should you choose to fight their chastising. Be that fight within the company, in court, or threatening the company with taking it to court. Making them reconsider should take posing to them just 2 questions…

• 1)If what I do is so “wrong” while off-the-clock, how did you find out about it? Because you had to be looking for it and partaking of it in order to see it. Hopefully, while off the clock. So;
• 2) Why aren’t you penalizing yourself or the person who told you? For if I’m so wrong for doing it while off the clock, then you (and/or your snitch) are just as wrong for watching it on or off the clock.

In any case, their termination of employment and attempt to derail your career path is more a projection of their guilt for partaking of adult entertainment. The ugly cycle of pretentious institutions displaying self-righteousness. So much so that they overstep their boundaries through sexual repression even when employees are off the clock.

Case in point, in my days of studio-based porn, I knew of a flight attendant and a teacher who loss their jobs after their being in the porn industry was discovered. It was not like the flight attendant was flashing passengers and that’s how he was found out. Nor was the teacher showing his porn work to the class he was teaching. That was 15 – 20 years ago. So it is sad to see how a recent disappointing report on Nightline showing teachers losing their jobs after being discovered having OnlyFans accounts shows this overstepping and projection has not gone anywhere all these years later.

In case you don’t know, I believe that God is the higher power. One that sees and knows all. That might not seem to mean anything for this topic, but there’s a reason by mentioning that. So bear with me. With that belief, I do speak and pray to God. I have had such moments butt naked in the shower, before sex, after sex, before masturbation, and post-masturbation. Sometimes with penis still in hand. This is not to be crude, just honest.

My point showing how this relates to this article is that if I don’t even hide from an all-knowing, all-seeing God, an extremely greater power than man, then I refuse to let a man-made institution make me feel guilty for expressing my sexual self. Especially when I am outside of that man-made institution. Since I didn’t put it on full display when I walked in the door, you discovering that expression and feeling a negative way about is all on you. None of it is on me.

Perhaps this is a degree of naivete on my part. As it might have cost me being featured in both ABC and CBS news reporting on the RWDSU‘s rally outside of Macy’s in support of the Retail Workers Safety Act. For when asked my name by the reporters for both networks, I did not give them my legal name. I instead gave them the name I am already publicly known by. With that being the case, they might have researched my name and found me a bit too risqué to feature. Well, in staying true to what I said earlier about not hiding myself from man-made institutions if I’m not hiding myself from God, I do not regret my decision. And it might not have been a bad idea after all.

For in The Chief‘s article about that same rally, not only was the publicly known name, the 1st name mentioned. But a number of quotes from the speech below were also mentioned in the article:

In the end, all of this proves that sexual repression and hypocrisy is very real still. In all facets of society, be it our workplaces, and even in the media to tell of misdeeds by those workplaces. So deciding to have an alt is based on what the individual sees as a potential outcome if their work in adult content creation is discovered, and if they can overcome what transpires if that outcome is seen by them as negative.

With that I hope this article does 2 things: 1)gives content creators some solace to know that someone understands their predicament, and 2)educate those curious about what adult content creators must endure for the sake of their art. For sex is art. And some do make content with motivations and operations that make them not deserve the hypocrisy they face.