Before porn, I was stripping for 8 years, so it's not like my adding 2.5 years of porn to my detour from reality was that detrimental. Who knows if I'd have my name engraved on my door at an NYC ad agency or just continued to work retail with a small lateral move into store mgmt if I hadn't of gone into stripping at all, but I was lured by the personal freedom of stripping, the easy money, the lack of glass ceiling, and avoiding the rat race. At 24 and only 2 years of higher ed, I still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life anyway. Where I'm from, that's very late in the game to still not know. I just made sure I kept my credit score high, bought a house, and saved money so that when I did know, I'd have something concrete to show for it. I saw a lot of girls just make stupid small mistakes rolling like a ball of wax into huge mistakes, and I didn't want that to be me. Trust me, if something bizarre happened and I couldn't be a photographer, sitting at a job interview explaining huge time lapses in my resume would be a challenge.

I honestly had an amazing time in porn and feel fortunate that I came into photography with the opportunity to document my time in it and the porn scene. If I hadn't been in the porn industry, but still chose to document it, my photos wouldn't be the same because my experience wouldn't be the same.

Would I arrive at the same destination if I had foregone seeing the inside of a strip club dressing room and later Jules Jordan's office for eventually finding a career, I don't know. What if it would've still taken me years of selling dress suits and Manolo Blahniks to figure things out, would I be some top ad exec? Doubtful. Attorney? No. I believe I'm better off financially on the path I've taken.