A very nice note came in over the weekend. By permission of the author:
“Hi Tony,I suspect you are at the AVN Awards tonight — having a lovely time I hope — but I just watched _Matt and Khym_ (I was a pre-order customer) and couldn’t wait to email you. I found this couple utterly delightful and feel I could not overstate my praise for this film.
“I remember being brought to tears by the sex scene in _Marie and Jack_, and upon reflection it occurred to me that that was because I had never, from the outside, witnessed explicit sexual intimacy like that — that is, despite my considerable viewing history of porn, I had never watched two people in love like that have sex. With Matt and Khym, that reaction in me was even stronger, and I was brought to tears a number of times both while they were speaking and also during their sex scene.
“Thank you, so much, for what you do. I am of the belief that sexuality is truly one of the most important aspects of humanity/life, making its vilification by puritanically-based social factions (which seem so very prevalent in our contemporary society) all the more concerning and, in my option, detrimental. Efforts like yours and Peggy’s are quite heartening to me, and I am pleased to take this opportunity to express my appreciation. My best to both of you.
Namaste,
Emily M.
Coming on the heels of our misadventure with PBS, this note is especially welcome.
We make enough money through this work to sustain us financially, but against the constant backdrop of vilification, it can be tremendously draining emotionally. Whether it’s the OFLC or PBS, or printer that won’t print a poster because it’s “pornographic”, their cravenness and my own impotence in the face of that cravenness is exhausting, it’s discouraging, and sometimes I just want to quit.
Then I get a note like Emily’s, or I read a post like Jenn P’s, and I feel like we’re doing something important, something that matters, something that makes the world a better place. And I decide I can quite tomorrow.