What I Do

Luka was kind enough to interview me for his Medium blog and newsletter.

How/why did you decide to become a sex journalist?

I don’t know that I chose this path, per se. It kind of happened. In the late Nineties, there weren’t a lot of women writing about sex.

The most well-known ones were Candace Bushnell, who wrote the “Sex and the City” column that would become the HBO series, and Anka Radakovich, who wrote for Details.

I saw them more as columnists and myself more as a reporter. Less Carrie Bradshaw, more Gay Talese. The year after I moved to LA, I got hired by Playboy TV to be an on-camera reporter on “Sexcetera,” which featured half a dozen sex reporters, of which I was one, covering sex news stories around the world. “Sexcetera” was like “60 Minutes,” but on Viagra.

Each segment we did was about eight minutes, which I seem to recall one of the executive producers saying was how long it took for the presumably male viewer to jack off to it. I described my job as “talking to the camera while people fuck behind me.”

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