The Machine

Finding a home for a story on the adult movie industry -- that isn't one more shit listicle or waste of space exercise in parachute journalism -- isn't always easy. Editors don't quite get what it is you're doing. They try to plug it into their model -- "[I]s there a central character (or central group of characters) that go through a specific dramatic experience?" -- or cringe at the subject -- "It's just that we might not tend to feature really explicit scenes involving, say, robotic fuck machines." It may be that less traditional approaches require less traditional delivery systems.