Mélanie Berliet

To be clear, I am all for random, safe sex and all forms of sexual experimentation. But for whatever biological, psychological, environmental, or spiritual reasons, I believe that a lot of us experience a desire transformation at a certain stage.

For a long time, my foremost goal was to be a mom.

To overcome my reservations about walking the line between dating and prostitution, I told myself that any such concerns were the result of societal conditioning.

What some call baggage, others call vital experience.

“That looks like a porn star,” I say, as it occurs to me how strange it is that our medical diagrams don’t depict variations in human anatomy.

Truth be told, I kind of like porn. I’m not into anything overly kinky or sadomasochistic, but the gentler stuff can be interesting, if not always illuminating.

I’m no prude, and I figured I had nothing to lose.

“We both have pasts,” he said. “The difference is that you broadcast yours.”