You had the freak in you already. I just brought it out.

Kewlness gonna be a good one ;)

7. Did you goto the national AIDS confrence cause you have AIDS?

At that stage the only thing I was in danger of catching was a cold.

For some reason that I still don't remember, as a teenager I took a really strong interest in the HIV/AIDs situation. I have always had a strong hatrid for bigotry and ignorance and the way people with HiV/AIDS were being treated at the time was a perfect example of both.

When I was about 16 I started a group in my school called T.A.S.T.E. - Teens Aligned Stopping The Epidemic. I had no idea what I was doing but I took it to the principal of my school and he reluctantly let me set it up as an after school group in the school. It took a while to get a teacher to agree to be the sponsor but I did find one and we started off by doing things for National Aids day and the like. Essentially I wanted to raise awareness in my school that thought HIV/AIDS was something that only people they never met would get.

I was lucky that I had a very good health education teacher that listened to me when I talked. At the time the school was still showing the C. Everett Koop HIV/AIDS education video for school. It was so out of date and in it he blames the whole thing squarely on the shoulders of gay people. When I saw that in class all the political and social justice vibes in my body were set off and I went on a personal campaign to get that video removed from the ciriculum. As I said, my teacher was a good man and took my side and after many weeks and going to the school board they removed it.

Somehow along the line my Senator's office must have heard about me or contacted someone and asked for suggestions of teenagers interested in such matters because I had a phone call from his office asking me if I wanted to be Pennsylvania's reprentative to something called 'Metro Teen AIDs Conference' in Washington DC. After much talking to my parents (my mother who was a scientist but was convinced someone would bleed on me by accident) I was allowed to go. I went for two years and every time I went my mind opened up a bit more.

Suddenly I was taken out of my stuffy and town and taken to this conference that was full of teenagers from all sort of backgrounds, many of whom had HIV and AIDS and even more that were gay, transgender, lesbian, bisexual or just weren't sure yet. The puropse of the conference was to teach us to be 'peer to peer' educators on the subject. For me, it did that but it also took me from being interested in the subject to knowing people that would die..to touching people with HIV/AIDS and suddenly it was my cause and it lit a fire under me.

The good side of that was that it helped me to to what I consider to be my biggest accomplishment in high school. After VH1 did their first 'Concert for Life' I suggested to my school that we have a battle of the bands and do the same thing. Again, the principal said it was okay but he gave me a whole list of things I had to do inorder for it to go off. I had to get so many bands (in a place that never did anything like this), I had to get everything donated so the school didn't have to pay anything and a lot of other little things.

As I said in an earlier answer, I often doubt my abilities and need to push myself and go out of my comfort zone. This was one of the first times I did that. I talked a lot of kids a lot 'cooler' than me to do the show, I got stuff donated from around town and I used AOL and BBSes (old fashioned) to advertise the thing. That last bit was pretty new as no one had the web at that stage and anyone that knew what 'download' meant was a freak.

As a result of advertising like that I was able to reach people on various gay themed Fidonet and mailing lists. As a result we had a big turn out of people from all over the Philadelphia area and our little school earned about $5,000 profit that night that all went to HIV/AIDS charities.

I was particuarly moved when I went onto the school website last year and saw an advertisement for this year's concert for life. They have changed it so part of the money goes to cancer charites but regardless it feels good that ten years on (eek) my school is still mixing music and politics..my two faveorite things.

fight fight fight :1orglaugh

Hey Sleazy, you gonna extract the Q's and A's and put it all in one page per interview anytime soon? I been meaning to read some, but going through hundreds of other replies sucks donkey balls.

You mean something like this on fubar?

8. Did you ever use you journalism university education? Why did you drop out? Was it cause you were failing?

A bit. For a few years my husband (who was a fleet street journalist before his accident) and I ran an online newspaper for our local area and I wrote for that. It made a few bucks eventually. Also, part of the journalism course at university was public relations and that is more or less what I do now.

I was studying journalism at Northeastern University in Boston when I met my husband online and I made the choice to go meet him and because of that I didn't return. However, I did go back to university here and in 2003 I graduated with a double major honours degree in Sociology and Politics.

That said, I have always had the writing bug and I am writing all the time. For the past few years I have been working on a book that I will eventually finish.

9. Why are you taking a master's degree now? Do you have no future in porn?

I hope I have a future in porn but I made the choice to go for my Master's because right now I have enough money to just about pay for it (I think) and without having to care for my husband I have a bit more time. Largely it is for personally fulfillment but I hope that it will help me when it comes to publishing my book too. I know the first degree in sociology helped me to learn how to conduct the research I have been doing.

My mother has a PHD, my dad is a genius and I am the only female in my extended family not to be a teacher so education has always been a big deal in my family.

10. What the fuck is this book your researching and writing now?

I am writing a book that explores the nature of fetish. It is called Explain Your Fetish and it comes from me working a lot with fetishes in this industry. Many times I would start working on a fetish site and think 'how on earth did this person find out they were interested in this?' That combined with moving in the BBW community where many people think I am a fetish object made me want to know more about fetishes. So, I put up a website called Explain Your Fetish which is just a survey that asks people that consider themselves to have a fetish to answer the questions and tell me about there fantaties regarding the fetish, how they think it started with them, when the first time they acted on it was, what they do when acting on it and how it has effected their life both personal and public.

I put that up, used google and contacts to find forums and mailing lists where people with fetishes hang out and told them about the survey and within days the responses started to flood in. I took a break from writing it after Marc died so it is taking longer than I wish it would but in the past two years I have had over 3,000 replies to the survey and I have had to personally contact a lot of them for further interviews so the research has taken a long time.

The idea is to have these people tell the reader how they see their fetish through their own words and with me summing things up. There are books about fetish out there but the vast majority are snooty people looking down on the people they are writing about. My book is about these people telling the story themselves. If anyone has read any of Nancy Friday's books I want it to have a feel like that but still have the feel of something that could be used as a reference point for people that don't have fetishes to learn what particular fetishes are and perhaps get a better insight into why somebody might have that fetish.

I am finally on the point of writing it up and I am a few chapters into it. Today I am writing about cast fetishists.

Sarah is a sweetheart and a babe - and obviously a very strong person too.

Great interview!

:thumbsup :thumbsup

I don't know why, but every time I see your name I think of a flowing chocolate waterfall/fountain .... yummmmmy :winkwink:

Keep up with the answers - I need something good to read in the morning with my coffee frappuccino

:)

lol...The other day I saw that a place in the mall here is selling mini chocolate fountains and you were the first person that came to mind. That fountain was great. No matter how big someone is in the industry flowing chocolate levels the playing field.

that made me laugh....thank you.

11. Are you staring in the BBW website you're making?

Well, there will be pics of me there but I am not the star.

On my trip out to the Pheonix Forum this year I stopped off in San Francisco first to stay with a good friend that has long been one of the best known figures in the BBW community. While I was staying there he mentioned to me that he had a large collection of pics he had taken of various BBWs over the years and that since he had once flirted with doing a website he had IDS and model releases from them all. He said he had no idea what to do with these pictures.

Well, I would have been an idiot to not pick up on that. In addition the few thousand totally exclusive BBW pics he already had he happens to be a very good photorapher and has since been taking a ton of pics for me and the site.

I feel the site will be unique because not only is all the content exclusive but it is shot by a man that truly loves BBWs (and these women in particular). He is so well known in the BBW community that he did litteraly write the guide to fat sex that is featured on sexuality.org. The site also has more supersized models than most sites have simply because he likes them big and treats them like queens.

The site design is almost done. It is just a matter of fitting it all in.

Just a sample of me on the site. So, having seen what I look like at shows after a ton of air travel, etc...this is what he did with his camera when I had a bit of make up on but no other post work..

pah..i put those pics on a url so they actually show up.

http://sjayne.com/fg-samp1.jpg



http://sjayne.com/fg-samp2.jpg

Sweet, thanks alot. :thumbsup
Funny thing is I had that bookmarked. Just forgot about it :(

on the ambush interview site they are all there

Not in Sarah's thread. This is the last line I'm wasting on this asshole anyway, he's not worth the effort.

YARGH! Damn I've been so busy I missed this one till now. Be back in a bit after I read some.

Sarah's taste in music is awesome, whatever happened to that radio thing anyway?

hows the lesbian gf

Great ambush! :thumbsup

100 :glugglug

I had problems with live365 who I was running my station from ripping me off. So, I had to cancel the account. Once I come back from the States after Thanksgiving I will be looking to start it up again. Anyone need a dj? lol

I was Rick James's bitch for the night.

12. Where do you get/do these fetish surveys?

Like I said before, I hunted down surfer forums and mailing lists for various fetishes and started there. I also bought some small advertising in some fetish publications. In addition to all that, when I started I asked around the boards and some webmasters that run feitsh related sites or communities helped me by asking their surfers to respond. The people over at bondage.com were particuarly helpful.

**** SHAMEFUL PLUG ALERT **** If anyone runs any websites, yahoo groups, communities, newsletters, etc that are related to any fetish and would be willing to tel your surfers about my survey PLEASE let me know. The more information I have the better.

13. Have you ever had your ties sucked?

I've had the ties of my pvc garments sucked if that counts ;) Really though, I have had my toes sucked and I have had various entertaining things done to me with other people's toes.

For some reason I find having my toes sucked more stressful than being gone down own. I always worry that they would smell or something even after a shower but they must have been okay as they came back for seconds.

It isn't something I ask for but it if happens I won't stop it.

Easily amused or just a dick rider?

i didnt get one of the previous answers... do you have AIDS?

yes/no

Apparently you need a reading aid.

I learned while meeting 3 people that Scott interviewed and it's the same story; they all know it's coming. That being said, I give a :thumbsup to Sarah for taking it like a pro. Great reading.
PS: I'd hit it. :pimp

those are good questions

WOW, Sarah is totally cool!! Been hanging around the same boards for years but seem to know so little about you. Nice getting to know you a little better

Thank you..that is a very sweet thing to say.

That was my understanding too. But there are ways of asking a question without sounding like an ignorant moron.

Sarah is handling them with class as expected.

YES , you know its coming , the ambush part is you dont know what the questions will be :2 cents:

true..it isn't that it will happen but more how it will happen

Good luck with your book, sarah! :)

14. Do you live in a trailer, apt or house? pics. describe

Sort of none of the above. I live in a pretty unique housing estate in South East London called Thamesmead. This place was a housing experiment in the late 60's/ early 70's when London needeed to find a lot of housing and fast. The way this place is laid out is rather unusual in that all the places are connected by a series of walk ways. There is a walk way that goes over to a doctor office and row of shops and originally there was a walk way that went over to a school. The idea was that at no time did anyone have to go down and cross a road. That combined with the fact that the houses were built in a butt ugly concrete gives is a weird feeling.

In fact, this place is so unusual and odd that it was the setting for the film version of A Clockwork Orange. If anyone remember the scene where they attack the bum? Well that parking garage is across the street from me and I do my best not to be there at night.

This place has also been used in a lot of tv shows in the UK but the only other noteable film is 'A Beautiful Thing' which is a gay themed movie version of a play that was actually written about life as a gay teenager in Thamesmead.

I just bought my cam yesterday so I don't have any of my own pics so I had to search the internet for pics of these places. Most of the pics are old so you have to forgive the quality but they demonstrate it.

This first pic isn't my house but it is exactly like it. Mine is a two story that sticks out on the end like this and doesn't share any walls. Most houses here share walls so I love my place for being detached. I moved here because my husbad lived here..I stay because I am close to London and my rent is sinfully low for this size of a place in London.

http://sjayne.com/thamesmead2.jpg

This pic shows the walkways:

http://sjayne.com/thamesmead3.jpg

This old pic is taken from across the street from me. Most of the Clockwork Orange bits were filmed over there and that parking garage I was talking about is under there. In addition there is a dogging site under there - or so I have been told.

My place is peaking out in the very distance of the pic at the end of the long walkway. You can just see the top of it hiden behind the row of houses on the right:


http://sjayne.com/thamesmead1.jpg

Thank you :)