BlkTouch QnA Live on Discord

Chapter 1: The Beginning

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Um, you know what I what I was thinking about? I wanted to kind of like, you know, how I kind of went over the history of Black Touch uh earlier.

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So, I want to kind of do that for the people who aren't familiar with it. Um, yeah. And I've been, you know, this is

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our seventh year. Black Touch started in 2019, uh, back when I was even more square

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than I am now. Um, and essentially before before I started Black Touch, I was a photographer like a lot of people.

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I was shooting content. I was shooting photos and I was mostly doing implied new photography or like artistically

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leaning photography uh with black women um for maybe like four or five years before Black Touch started. And while I

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was doing that, I was experimenting towards the end of 2018 and I did a photo shoot um a polyandry photo shoot. So um let me think.

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Polyandry photo shoots. Yeah, it was a basically it was a woman with two guys.

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It was like they were all nude, but I shot it in a way that I could still post it on Instagram. So it just looked really good. But I also didn't think

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much of it after we had wrapped that shoot and I edited the images. It was probably the most like sexually charged shoot I've ever done, but I didn't think like I said, I didn't think much of it.

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And so we released it early 2019 and in a in a couple of days like the images were all over the internet. Um, they're

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no longer on the website because now the website's all video, but the website really started off as a place to host uh

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erotic photos that I was shooting. And they weren't even explicit to be honest.

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They were like people were pretending to do things and and I was I was guiding them into their like positions and

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woring about lighting. And the whole point of the project when it started was to sort of capture black intimacy through my own perspective.

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And the evolution from being primarily a photobased

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project to doing this was essentially I was trying to like create reals. I mean Instagram at the time had

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just started doing video. So I was like, let me share my little project website [snorts] on Instagram by like creating

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like stories around the photo shoots that we did. And those uh videos got

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started to get more and more explicit and before I knew it, I was shooting I shot I had shot like an explicit video

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and this was like in 2019. I I uh if you guys all know Darling Nikki who actually works for Black Touch right now, she was

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the first person who I think I miscommunicated what the purpose of the shoot was. I you know she she [laughter] didn't quite know that I wasn't shooting

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porn and so her and her partner started actually Hey Dallas, welcome. Um

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she had what happened? Yeah, basically she and her partner started actually having sex and I was shocked to say the

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least, but I I I filmed the whole thing through. And so I literally sat on that

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photo shoot, that video shoot from like June of 2019 until the beginning of 2020

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when I decided this is this website is going to be explicit. I don't care what people think. D. Um, but I always wanted

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to like make sure that the work that the site projected was focused on our humanity, focus on storytelling because that's the thing that I'm interested in.

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Um, and yeah, it's kind of like an evolution from there. Like shot with more people, came up with more ideas,

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traveled all throughout the US. Um, and yeah, I think that kind of if you go back far enough, you'll kind of see the

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evolution of the quality, but also the evolution of this like the the storytelling and and what have you.

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That's kind of like at the heart of the project for me. So, that's kind of the beginning. That's kind of like how Black Chart started if you guys didn't know.

Chapter 2: Introductions

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So, I should I should also say this. I didn't introduce myself. I'm Brian Dwayne. I'm the creator I guess that's kind of obvious. I'm the creator of of

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Black Touch. Uh, basically I shot everything outside of the views content on the website. I shot everything on the

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website. Um, I edited and and I I also designed and and developed the website.

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Um, I think that's that's basically it.

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That's all people need to know about who I am. And uh, Velvet, could you introduce yourself?

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Yes, I am Velvet Len. Um, I have sweet rawsticky.com, which is basically I'm a sex educator.

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Um, and I was formerly Bearitall.

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I shot erotic photography um, for my books and had erotic art

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shows and then it turned into just Velvet Len and I've rebranded once again to Sweet Raw Sticky. And hopefully this

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is the last time. [laughter] I no longer shoot. Um, as of right now,

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it's possible to shoot again, but as of right now, I'm not shooting. And I work for Black Touch and yeah, so here I am.

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Okay, cool. One thing that she didn't mention that she would never mention is that she is uh part of partially the

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inspiration for me starting Black Touch to begin with. We met in 2016 um through a mutual friend and she was

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already shooting erotic content. Back then I was not even considering it. And so I was like, "So, how do you do that?

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How do you get people to how do you get people to shoot with you like that? Please tell me more." You know, and we developed a friendship

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since then and she's been by my side the entire process. um and and watch the evolution of all of this go from like an

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idea to a little WordPress website to what it is today. Um so um without further ado, I think I'd like to get started.

Chapter 3: How Do We Find Talent

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Um the first question is Mhm.

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where do you find the people for the scenes? Also, I need more scenes with big men.

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Okay. Uh where do we find people? Okay.

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Uh, so this has evolved over time and initially um I basically was just

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jumping in people's DMs and pitching my idea for what Black Touch was supposed to be and also showing them examples of

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the work that I was doing. [snorts] Um, and then, you know, some people would politely decline or not so politely decline, but you know, doing that more

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consistently sort of like built up um helped me build up a library of content and be consistent enough that I started

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to attract people. So, for the most part now, we are attracting our talent um that we work with. Uh let me think.

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Yeah, for the most part, we're attracting them. uh most of the people we worked with, we found them through uh them already publishing content on

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Twitter. Um and you know, they may reach out and then I'll send them a link for them to fill out a form and then we

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start a process where we discuss uh the potential for a scene. Um and if they don't have a partner, we try to like

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match them with people. But in general, it's a it's a it's kind of organic in that now because there's sort of a brand

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and a name for it, people are attracted to the to the project and so they'll reach out to us through our DMs on

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Twitter. Um, but if you guys have been around long enough, you probably would have remembered there was a point in time where there was a form on the

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website for anyone to fill out. And that didn't last very long because we just got a ton of submissions from people

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who, let's just say, aren't uh actively creating content and they're just interested in being on set or shooting.

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Um, and I have literally over a thousand submissions from different guys uh and a few few women. But the my biggest thing

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is that maybe I should get into this right now.

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We try to work with people who already have some history of shooting. I'm not out here finding people who have who aren't even considering it and asking

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them to. For one, they have to have a desire to do it. to um we would prefer that they were already active in to some

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degree um already actively in terms of like shooting and publishing and working with people so that we're we're not like

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breaking their popping their cherry or whatever it's called. Um and yeah, once those two things are settled, if it's a

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woman, it's usually easier to get started uh shooting. But if it's a guy, the challenge is that we uh tend to ask

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the women to first the women have like right of first refusal. So if a woman is not interested in a guy, uh it doesn't

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happen, right? Um I mean it's the same both ways actually. But what I what I mean to say is that um if the average

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guy doesn't have some experience or some content that they could sort of use to profile their work or what they can do

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uh and we present them to a woman that they're interested in working with or that we're interested in working with.

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If there's nothing for them to see, there usually isn't anything. It's usually not going to move forward.

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If you could just imagine being a woman interested in shooting with us and then we show you a guy that has absolutely no

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no work, no content, no pictures, no nothing. He's just a guy off of social media. Uh yeah, that usually doesn't go

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too far. So when it's a guy, we usually want to work with guys who are already actively creating content um and

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hopefully have shot with other people before.

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I know this is a little bit of rambly, but I'm just going to close this out by saying a lot of people that we uh that are making content now and they're shooting themselves, and it's an

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entirely different ballgame. Um asking us to asking that person to now be in

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the room with at least two other people, cameras, lights, microphones. It's a different uh it's a different kettle of

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fish. So, um, usually we find out or we try not to find out if the guy can perform in front of the the crew,

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uh, without him having some reference of shooting with other people at some point. Hopefully that answered that question and more.

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Um, and then also just if I could add on to what Brian is saying and then previously shooting um, just on the

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photography side, it's also to make sure that you know they're serious and they're not coming in here thinking that they can just have sex with someone.

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[laughter]

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Yeah.

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And and call it a day. Um, you know, so that's also a part of it. Um, so we want

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to make sure uh like he said they have some type of experience and that shows that you know being in the sex work industry um that they are more serious.

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Definitely that. But there was a prior question that did not answer the one about more fluffy men or big men.

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Uh I have absolutely no problem with shooting bigger guys. In fact, I have no problem with shooting anybody. The

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problem is the challenge is I shouldn't say problem. The challenge is um like

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potential people. Uh so I work with the people who are interested in working with us and that's gets narrower if you

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think about it. Like if I if I uh were to expressly look for a guy that is one

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active in the industry, two knows how to perform in front of a crew, and three is also a bigger guy. Uh that narrows

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things down so much that I basically am looking for a unicorn. [laughter] I have to sort of be flexible in the

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casting and the ideas. Um, and um, I would definitely love to work with a a bigger guy. I'd love to work with more

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mature women. I'd love to work with bigger women. There's al all these things have to align. And um, I don't go

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like, you know, how you would think about casting in uh, mainstream television and stuff like that. We don't

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quite do casting that way. We kind of work backwards. So, we find the people who are interested in working with us and also working together and then I

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build a story around them and there just hasn't been a lot of bigger guys that that fall into that category.

Chapter 4: Who Writes the Scripts

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Um, okay. The next question is who writes the scripts and will slash can they incorporate more sensual dialogue?

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Um, just like the website and the videography and the other stuff, I'm the one. Well, there's most of the

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time there aren't scripts. Most of the time there's an idea, a concept, and I'm on set and I have a sort of like an idea

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about what it is that we're going to be capturing, what the characters, who the characters are, what their motivation is, what the conflict is, all that

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stuff. Um, the reason why I don't write scripts, um, or why there usually aren't scripts, because sometimes there are.

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The reason why there usually aren't scripts is because we're not usually working with actors. Um, most of the time the people we're working with, they

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don't have the time or maybe even the interest to sit down and memorize their lines and understand the motivation. All

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of that sort of has to kind of come together in the moment when we're all on set. So the way a script is written is it's a it's a living concept in my head.

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Um once I'm on set, uh I essentially start seeing the shots and thinking

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about the interactions and then thinking about how all of that should come together in the edit. Um so there the

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answer is I write the scripts if there are scripts. And the only time there really are scripts is when the story is complex enough that things need to be

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said at certain times or else you sort of like lose track of what's happening.

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But most of the time the stories are simple enough that I could keep it kind of in my head and walk people through their behavior and their acts and stuff

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like that. Um sensual there was a question about like at the end of it like could it include more sensual

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dialogue? [snorts] Uh yes it can but I could write central dialogue all day.

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It's how people perform it that is challenging. Right. So asking the average person in the moment.

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Yeah. Asking asking a person to start being sensual and and what have you.

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Again since these aren't actors by the time they are uh on set they a lot of

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people get nervous. Um, a lot of times when they're supposed to si be serious, they're laughing. Uh, so what I end up

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doing is crafting the idea of their character around their personality so they're not like having to truly become

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somebody else because that's a lot to ask people to do well. [snorts] Um, so the reason why there isn't a lot of sensual dialogue is because

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that is something that would have to be like to do it well, you generally have to like practice it and we don't usually

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have time to practice. Most of the time a scene is shot or at least the story part of the scene is shot in like two hours. And that's like from,

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you know, every everything is sort of like uh still in my head, but I'm I'm chopping it up and I'm trying to like

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make things happen all in two hours so that we can get to the actual intimacy and and shoot that well. So, um, yeah,

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that's why there aren't that much there isn't that much nuance dialogue in the scenes. It's it's a lot to ask somebody to like become somebody else and do it

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well if they've never even considered doing it before.

Chapter 5: Shooting Prior Talent

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The next question is is it possible to have the talents such as the fun sexual gym and juicy thick

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who either contributed only one scene or pleasure portrait in the past to contribute more scenes in the future.

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Um it is always possible if that person is still actively making content. And so it's interesting that they mentioned um

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the fun sexual. So, she's wasn't really like a content creator when uh we shot her solo. Um, in fact, she was shooting

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that solo because she was literally like within that week about to get a breast reduction and she's also like in the

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lifestyle. So, she's open to doing like she was open to shooting the content, but you can't like go and find her and only fans or many vids or she doesn't

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like promote sex her herself in content if that makes sense. So sometimes people

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are working with us and they're doing it um for the first time

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um for the most part that you know like if if they're working with us and they're doing it and they're trying something out is not to say that they've made their mind up to like pro like continue to be content creators forever.

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And a lot of people, they may be at the height or at the tail of their career in in content creation. And a lot of people

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come and go like really fast. Like you you might I might there I could throw a dart at a list of the people we've shot

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and there's a good chance I'm shoot I will hit somebody who no longer makes content and that's all fine, but um

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having people come back is a confluence of a few things. So I think Juicy Thick was mentioned. She's lives in Florida.

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She came out here and it was just by chance that we were shooting here Atlanta. In Atlanta, she came out to Atlanta and it was just

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by chance we were shooting um a set of shoots in that weekend and it just lined up.

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Now for her to come back out here, it'd be like a whole discussion we'd have to have and you know, we'd have to sort out all these like smaller details. But I'm

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always open to working with people as long as they don't become like publicly toxic or something since we shot them because that's happened before. Um I

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don't mind working with people over and over again. In fact, that stability is like the lifeblood of Black Touch. Like working with people who get it and

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respect us and our time. Um yeah, I would love to do that, but it's always has to align. It's an alignment thing.

Chapter 6: BlkTouch Events

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Uh, speaking of location, um, the last question about the more sensual,

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um, came from Brat 30 from Louisiana. Shout out to Louisiana, my second home.

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Um, the first question was out of Houston. And then the question that you

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just answered was New York. Hey, I'm from Brooklyn if y'all don't know. I'm I'm Jamaican but born and raised in Brooklyn. Yeah.

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And then that was Jonathan. Okay. And let's see the next question.

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Would you ever hold an intimacy class here in Atlanta?

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And that is from Montreal here in Atlanta.

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Uh hell yeah. And I've got the perfect person to run it. Actually, [laughter] Velvet, if you don't mind discussing

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that, so since I've been running my mouth all for the last 12 minutes.

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[laughter]

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Yes. So, I will be holding in addition to intimacy classes or anything

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surrounding intimacy, um I will hold classes, workshops. Um, I also,

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um, have experiences, uh, and when I say experience, the last one that I had was a five course meal,

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um, that was infused with aphrodisiacs that was here in Atlanta.

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Um, it was great and that was more intimate. So, I no longer hold the

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larger um, events, 200 plus people. Um so the ones that are more intimate are

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going to be the experiences and workshops. Um sometimes I will collab with other creators, other educators

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and yeah and this also comes at a great time to ask because uh Blacktouch and Sweet Raw Sticky has partnered together.

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So, within the partnership, um, Blacktouch will gain access, um, to

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once you sign up for my newsletter as well, be able to hear first about the workshops and experiences and classes.

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Um, you will also receive a discount.

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Some of that is based off if you are a member. Um, so you have subscribers which are subscribed to Brian's Black

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Touch newsletter, the mailing list, and then you have the members, which are is the paid memberships to be able to see

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everything uh Blacktouch. And so all of those details would be provided, but to answer the question simply, yes.

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Cool. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. uh you know, we we don't send out a ton of newsletter or

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emails, but when they come um if they're not this the presscheduled scene stuff, we're going to be start we're going to

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start to um have more and more outside of just content distribution um being

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promoted and we'll probably get into that a little bit later.

Chapter 7: Shooting BBWs

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The next question is, "Why aren't more black BBW women used in videos?" Um, out

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of Michigan, uh, why aren't more kind of the along I would say the along

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the same lines as what you answered about the bigger men.

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But it's it's interesting because I I don't know. I think I found I I've shot a good a plenty amount of like BBW

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or bigger women. It's just that I don't to to me it's always been interesting like uh people's perception of what a

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big girl is is that like it moves. So, I could name maybe like five scenes right now that I consider these people to be

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sort of like a bigger girl, but I can't say if that's what that person perceives as a big woman, right? Um,

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and it it isn't a a hesitancy on my end to do it. It is not like a a disinterest. It's more of again

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availability and alignment. there's uh of the creators that we have shot

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which which who who call themselves BBW or big I I don't really like using uh

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this is also why like the scenes don't have these weird names like oh black blah blah blah I don't I don't like using labels u for people especially

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when it comes to content but for women that would consider themselves to be bigger and you know like filling that part of the niche or the genre

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Um, I've shot plenty of women that way, but that that who who fill that space.

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But again, that's not to say that other people will take them take consider them to be big girls. And so, I'm not holding

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back. I don't have any issue with it. In fact, I would love to shoot more. It's just um it's just a chance. It's just an alignment.

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Yes. And then to your point for as far as the sizes, you know, sometimes it it's separated. You have the plus-size,

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the BBW, and then sometimes they put it all together. So, like you said, I think it is um subjective and you have shot with

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plenty and maybe they just didn't run across those. So, you can always go back into the library and check for it. We

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are working. I know a few of you have asked, [laughter] we are We are working on the tags and

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while we may not prefer labels, some of the tags will be labeled in that way.

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And then I'm guessing, correct me if I'm wrong too, Brian, it may also be based on if that person is okay being labeled in that way.

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Being labeled that way correctly. Yes.

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Um, yeah, that that that that does matter.

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the the website has 170 something scenes.

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Uh to say that we don't shoot them at all or we don't shoot a certain thing or we've never shot this is actually hard for you to know unless you like sat and

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watched through all of them. The only reason I know is cuz I shot all of it. I I mean I wouldn't expect anybody else to know as much about all of this as I do.

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Um which is actually a challenge for uh that I'm going to be trying to work on.

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I think um I'll discuss it a bit later, but I love the fact of like getting all of what is on the website out of my head

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and like in front of everybody to to use to search and and and find the things they're looking for.

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Um I will say too, um and maybe I'm jumping a little bit forward, but with the Black Views, hopefully you guys have checked it out. Black Views.

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Um, it is in the menu on the top bar and on the side as well. Um,

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because it's new, you can start labeling it.

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So, but going back to all of those scenes, it's it's a different That's a lot.

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So, that's why it's not like, okay, we'll do it. It is a process.

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Yeah. I I didn't start off shooting and um tagging and labeling things. I was just creating and before I know it I'm

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I'm rounding up to like 200 scenes and um in general we can probably go and

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categorize things relatively easy. So category meaning you know a heterosexual lesbian maybe threesome D. We could do

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that generally pretty easily. But then the tags are when you're getting into like specifics about what's going on

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inside of the scene and that takes a bit more uh time to like pull up.

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But even when you talk about like I think you and I had a conversation surrounding anal and when I was looking

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at it and I was like I don't see that here. And so that you know it [laughter]

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and it's wild because I know everything that I've shot. So like if somebody was like you don't do this or it's not there. I'm like yeah and I'm I'm like a nerd.

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I see the one like that you tagged in black views as like because it was a different way of viewing it.

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Gotcha.

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So I'm I'm thinking anal sex but it is just like play.

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Play. Yes. And but it's it was something still missing to me that was there. So,

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I don't know. But that's another thing just really trying to get it so that you guys also when when you search, are we

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putting the right words that you search that you would search for?

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We do hear you guys when you are um uh you know mentioning something in the

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chat. We've done beta tests and we've been able to implement some things fast and some things faster than others and some things just not yet.

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But we just want you to know that we do absolutely hear you guys and we are constantly working. Trust me. Yeah.

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Especially Brian like [laughter] Yeah.

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He built the whole website and continues to enhance it. Yeah.

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So I'll talk about that a bit later if we if we have time. Uh, will you guys make an OF or Fansley?

Chapter 8: OnlyFans

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That's from Nick. An only fans or a Fansley account?

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I guess something. Oh, is that what they're asking? The account or something like that? Well, yeah. A profile on those websites.

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Yeah. No, that's how you took it. I took it as are we going to create something like it?

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Oh, well, I can answer both of those questions. Okay. [laughter] One, Black Touches does not post content

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out. So, in a lot of our um in a lot of our scenes, the people who we work with, they get access to the content to

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publish on their own and on whatever platform they see fit, which is part of the agreement that we have. Uh for that

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reason, I um I don't want to like conflict with having the same content on

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multiple sites. Um, the only thing I'm concerned about personally is growing this brand, growing this website. Um,

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and not really driving traffic through Only Fans and and all the other stuff, you know. Uh,

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I spent a lot of time can tell you, I spent a lot of time building this website, designing it, tweaking it. I

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literally taught myself JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and all this other stuff. In the span of two years, I sat

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and I built it up. I don't I'm I spent that time to try to make it so that the website is first usable, something I can

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be proud of, something that is um has a great like gives a great experience to the user and also frames the work

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properly, right? Because, you know, not to knock only fans, but it's made for everybody. And this isn't really for

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everybody. This is for us. And the I kind of um I kind of think about it in

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akin to if you went to a museum, you'd want, you know, and and and all the artwork that you're seeing on the wall

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is placed up and you might sit and watch it for a little bit and move on to the next thing and maybe have some discussion around a particular thing.

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But like Only Fans feels more like a conveyor belt. Like it's not designed for conversation. and it's designed for

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pro like a ton of content coming at you at the same time. And um for that reason, I I I don't mind the content

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showing up on those platforms when it's uh being posted by uh the the people we collaborate with. But I I don't have any

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interest in publishing our content anywhere else. So that's one.

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whether or not we will build an only fans or a fansly. Uh no, we will not do

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it in the way that you see um the way that those platforms work. We definitely am not interested in doing that. Um

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primarily because whoever has the actual merchant account is being held liable for what people are

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posting. So if I were to strike up a merchant account with a credit card processor and then I start allowing

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people to come in and publish and you know I have to then have work like a broker or escrow of the money collected on their behalf and then distribute it

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to them. There's just too many moving parts and um that's just not uh that's

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not why I got into this. Uh, so my the only thing that I I can say is that the black views portion of the

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website is the closest thing where we where we can essentially acquire content directly from people and then publish it

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and and allow uh for the audience to discover new creators and uh whatever it is that they have to offer. That's like

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the closest thing that I'm willing to do. And for everything that's published on Black Views, I'm personally

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like watching it and making sure that the things are like we're not no laws are being violated and that I won't upset my credit card processor and stuff

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like that. That's not something you can do at scale. Um, not well at least. So that's why uh the answer to both of

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those is no. And what does it take to make it to your set? Because I would love to join your cast crew.

Chapter 9: How to Join the Cast and Crew

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Cast Crow. So those are two different things to make it to the set as cast. I think I discussed that like you know it

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it basically would have it would be good if they if you know I've had this conversation a lot like people call

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the actual phone number for the website and I and it's a lot of young guys and they're like hey man how do I get started? How do I how can I get on your

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set? Um and I usually tell them if they're not actively making content then they're probably not going to end up on

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the set. So, as cast, if you're a guy, uh, I would say start to make content,

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you know, in a a um, what is it called? The word is on the tip of my tongue. Ethical way. Start

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to make content in an ethical way where you and your scene partner are creating on a more or less consistent basis. And then there's something to discuss.

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There's something to show your scene partner for a black touch scene, right?

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So that's one. Um uh but as crew, there's there's only like two people in

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the crew. It's me. [laughter] It's it's me and my lady. I don't I mean this this may be a shock to people, but we don't

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this the crew is not big. It's me and this little lady right here. I'm going to actually ask her to join if she's Let me see. ain't she?

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Wow. Hey. Hey.

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So, we we just everybody, this is Makita, my lady. She's also uh the second camera and uh the camera the the

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the assistant and the person who tells me when the bras are have a a twisted

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strap on them. uh and person who keeps me from keep me from exploding when I'm when I'm

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uh on the edge. Um yeah, everybody here she is. Um but we were just asked a question about who how can they join?

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Somebody asked how could they join the cast of the crew. Uh in regards to the cast, I said, you know, there that

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that's more of a process than than anything else. But in terms of the crew, there's just us two. And this is the

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thing that I don't think uh is, you know, comes through in in the in the work is [snorts] that it's just us

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working super hard on set, managing uh emotions, man, like uh you know, trying

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to get people to show up on time and then uh trying to salvage feel comfortable, making like a

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comfortable space for people to like actually have sex and and experience pleasure. Um but yeah, it's just it's

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just us two and we're not looking to to join to add people primarily because um the

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the challenge is this like if the the more people who are in the space, the more pressure people feel uh especially the guys. And so it's already enough

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with the two of us in in in the mix. uh if you add a third and a fourth, it

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starts to like build on top of the the sort of pressure um around performing whether it's acting or doing that sex

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scene. So, we try to keep things as simple and streamlined as possible.

Chapter 10: Working with NMature Talent

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Is are there any videos with older adults that's from sincere out of Texas?

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Yeah. And that and older is relative because somebody in their 20s, someone in their 40s is older, right? Um I I

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don't want to put people on blast, but I think like the oldest person I've worked with was in their mid50s,

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but it's not because I uh am against working with older people.

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In fact, I prefer because I think that our audience skues to more mature um folks. It's just the availability of

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people who are willing to do that to do the work, right? Who are in that age bracket. And so if you see that we're

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tending to work with people in their like late 20s or early 30s a bit more, it's really because those are the people

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who are actively making content and who are accessible and um follow through. I mean, it's a it's a big part of of this

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of this game is especially the way that we're going about doing it. It's like I think on the on the West Coast inside of

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mainstream spaces, everybody has an agent. I just have to make a call. I'd like so and so on set at this time and we'll let her know who she's having sex with. You know, I don't work like that.

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I want everybody to be excited, energized, um passionate about what we're about to do. And uh in order for

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that to happen, sometimes it's a it's a game of aligning people. Um and for that reason, you're going to see less of a

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certain type of people because the alignment is not that uh easy to do.

Chapter 11: Our Inspiration And AI

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Okay, the next one I do like um it says, "Black touch has a signature standout in the presentation that we all have come

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to know and love. While certainly a studio that delivers adult entertainment for us by us and not whitewashed, you

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all uniquely deliver quality videography, creative, concise story lines, and intense scenes that are

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climatic, yet still leave us wanting more in the next episode. Your flare for exploring certain kinks that are often

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not shown in black adult cinema while keeping the productions class is one of a kind. So I ask, what was your original

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inspiration and vision for the black touch of art when you started?

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Um, yeah, the original inspiration was to create um

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and thank you for all Sorry. Thanks for that positive feedback. I apologize. I went right into answering mode, but I do appreciate that

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because I don't think I I I also don't get to hear people and how they feel about the project too often. So, when I

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do hear it, I very much do appreciate it. So, thank you. Um, but in regards to like the original inspiration for this,

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it, you know, I I may say this a bunch in different ways, but essentially it was just to show our humanity alongside

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the erotica and not make content that's just uh for spectacle sake. There's a

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lot of that. And I think um I used to use this as an example like you could if

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you were to eat candy cane or like you know if you guys know like like sugar cane I shouldn't say candy cane sugar cane

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all the day all the time every day you you generally are going to be okay right you're just like chewing on it and you're sucking out the the sweet juices

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from the from the sugar cane. If you even take the cocoa leaf, the the the same plant that makes you can make

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cocaine from and make tea from it, you might get a little high, but you'll be fine. You know what I'm saying? The problem is when you take that stuff and

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you distill it down to just what stimulates you, right? So, if you take that cocoa plant and you

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refine it a thousand times, now you're feeding that straight to your brain and it would you would never evolve to process that. And the same thing with

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sugar. You know, you could take brown sugar and turn it into white sugar and and increase its potency, but the body's

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not made to process that. Like, we didn't evolve to process that. And I feel the same way about erotic content.

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There, you know, it's good to have the sweeter stuff, but we know what is closer to natural. We know what it feels like to actually have an intimate moment

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with someone. And our entire goal is to not just uh tell stories but also try to

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foster a space where we can see that intimacy unfolding. And it may not be

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fireworks blowing off in your brain and super intense all the time because I really don't tell people what to do. But

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we're always striving for genuine. And if if the these two people or three people's genuine looks intense and

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hardcore, that's 100% okay. But if these people just want to kiss and touch and slow stroke and neck choke and back

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shots and all that other stuff that kind of like feel like a natural progression to sex, that's also okay. We we want to

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be able to present this in this range of uh of experience, if that makes sense.

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Um what was the question? Oh. [laughter] Oh, the inspiration. It was like the

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inspiration. Yeah. I just I think too I didn't start this off like I said at the beginning of this, I didn't start this

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off trying to um create porn. Um, and so what I what it evolved from was just a a

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a desire to show content um to show us in a in a more human humane way where we

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take into account our humanity um and hopefully that comes across in the work.

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But there is a second part to that question as well. Um, and with the online sphere and digital world changing

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through AI and other means, what do you see for Black Touch in the future?

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Um, not much different [laughter] to be honest. I use AI a great deal when it

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comes to the web development and you know developing the systems behind all of this stuff. But in regards to like

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the actual content that's my artistic expression and I feel really uh I feel that the the the the most

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important thing is keeping the humanity in in it. Otherwise, what are we what are we doing? You know what I'm saying?

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So I'm like, "Oh, this is all black, but it's also not real people." You know, like that's That is not even if even if

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that were to lead to more profit and more exposure and more more and more to me I'm losing the point like the point

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was to present this work with real people to real people. I didn't even know when we started this project that

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that would even be a choice to have an individual or people replaced by a digital s fact simile. That's never my

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interest. Um, now in order to make work easier, I may use AI to like make songs. Um, what else do I use it for?

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Which we do have. Uh, you can find the songs, espec

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um, on Apple, Spotify. What else was there?

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Uh, Apple, Spotify, uh, social media, YouTube Music.

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It's on Tik Tok, Instagram, it's actually all over the place. Uh to find a song, if you're watching a video and

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you like the song, just take a look to see if the credit button is there. If you click that, it'll display all the

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links for the song um that uh that's featured in the video. But yeah, like my my intent is to keep AI on the

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peripheral and focus still on telling stories with real people. So, I don't know what the industry is going to be doing. I just know what I'm willing to

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do and it's not um I have no intent on um swapping people out for digital faximiles at all.

Chapter 12: How Often Do We Publish

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Okay.

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Um how often will you be posting new scenes that's out of San Francisco, the Bay Area?

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Uh as often as I can manage. [laughter] there really is not a big team uh behind this and I you know I guess this is a

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good time to express that like you know you're seeing basically most of us right now there's like two other people involved

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in black touch um and so my goal like just so it's understood like right now

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I'm in the process of preparing to shoot like five scenes at the end of this month and that's like having calls

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booking locations um coming up with concepts. At the same time, I'm working on the website to try

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to like um correct some issues in the back end. And uh I'm also the person people call when there's a problem um

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like with their account. There's just a lot. And it's I'm not even really touching the tip of the iceberg. And at

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the same time, I'm never trying to decrease the quality of the edit and the work by just getting it out. Um, uh, I

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think that I'm doing myself and all the work that, uh, and and the team a disservice if I'm just

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shooting out a video every every week when I know the potential for how good

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that video could be. So, I try not to um I try to publish every Friday, a full scene every Friday. Uh, if a if a scene

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is missing, that's because I'm trying not to jip y'all. [laughter] Try not to just go splirtk and put it on a plate and hand it out to [laughter] I mean, it's the truth.

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Yeah. No, really.

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Uh, it's not it's not anything nefarious. It's almost always that the I did not balance the time it took to to

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edit that plus the 20 other things that I'm doing leading up to it. And I could I've actually edited an entire scene and published it

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on a Friday and that almost never looks good. So, I'm trying to find that balance where we can have consistent

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published content. That being said, we also u have other editors with us and it's I'm in the process of training them

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to um to essentially make sure that we have a consistent rate of content being published. The challenge with that is

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that the editing process is as much of an artistic expression thing as the videos and the lighting and the sound.

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And so asking someone to do what I do the way I do it isn't really viable.

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It's more about teaching them how to express themselves. And that takes a little bit more time.

Chapter 13: Working with Creators who do Interracial Scenes

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Uh the next one is are there any adult content creators who have not been considered to collaborate

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with Blacktouch because their frequent appearances in mainstream interracial interracial porn goes against Black

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Touch's vision and values. And uh that is from Jonathan out of New York.

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Yeah. Uh, I do not worry about what people do when they're not on my set unless they're toxic and they're abusive

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and they violate consent and stuff like that. But if you go and shoot like interracial porn, if that were the case,

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if I had to uh decide whether or not I'm shooting somebody and based off of whether or not they've shot an interracial scene

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before, we would not be able to produce content. Most of most of the guys we work with have shot interracial content.

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So, I don't sit and think about it. I don't I mean, it doesn't factor into when they're on set with us. So, no, I

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don't I don't use that as a uh as an excuse not to work with someone. If I don't want to work with someone, it's it's for something legitimate.

Chapter 14: Website Update

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What are some additions, improvements you seek to make with the website?

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We have um yeah, I'll I'll try to be quick with this. So, we want to add um way more

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well search to to be clear. I want to be able to allow people to search through all of the content that's there. Um like

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it kind of happened without me noticing how where the website basically just has a ton of content and a ton of things tags that could be had and all that. I

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think the first thing to sort of like increase the discoverability of like your new favorite scene is by having a a

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a functional robust search feature. Um, and I'm also looking to add a layer of

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interactivity to the website. So, uh, adding likes and the ability to share and having people have their favorites

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and even, um, saving or marking a portion of a of a video to say, "Oh, I want to see that portion again, that

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clip again." That's technically doable, but it requires a lot of work. So, those are like the main focuses for the

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website. Um, also, uh, I'm trying to add the credit new a new credit card processor. Uh, I am

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around the corner on that one. It should be in like the next, uh, two weeks or so. Getting that wrapped up. Um, is there anything else I'm forgetting,

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Velvet? There got to be this. So, I just don't know what you want to be what you

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Oh, I want to discuss. You know what? I think I I've said enough. Yeah,

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[laughter]

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I have said enough.

Chapter 15: What Talent We'd Like to Work With

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Um, this next question, um, [clears throat] if you could do a black touch scene with anyone, adult performer or otherwise, who would it be?

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And that is from Troop 70 out of Maryland. Hi, Troop 70. He's on with us.

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Oh, thanks. Hey, Troop 70. How's it going, sir? I I see you on uh in the chat, sir. Um,

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uh, it would be somebody from the past like Vanessa Del Rio or something.

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I don't know. Like I It's not that I have an issue with people today. It's just that I didn't come up like fantasizing and thinking about these

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folks. Like when I was younger, there was just a a short set of people and far between. Yeah.

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Yeah. That were I was like, "Wow." Like I was mesmerized by this woman. If I could take her from the past and like have her featured in a current scene, that would be that would be awesome.

Chapter 16: Our Favorite Scene

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Do you have a favorite scene or performer that you've shot or shot with? And and that's also from Troop.

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That's a lot. Uh yeah, I'm not going to mention a favorite performer. Um, but a favorite

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scene, there's just too many to be saying that like like which one of the 174 scenes is

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my favorite. Like that's too much. I can tell you in the more recent ones that I'm like very proud of because of how

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well it came out. Um, the new guy, the one the threesome with Rain and and Jabari and all that, [snorts] that one came out really freaking good.

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And um yeah, I would sit down like I I I would have been impressed watching it back. Um but there there are so many

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they're also like different to me even though I'm the one shooting and editing it. Like they're also different because the people are different. The delivery

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of the performances are different. I will say that that one um the new guy scene is so good to me because Rain

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really embodied that character like super well and so I didn't have to like direct her.

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It was like she was truly channeling um this person. It's probably that's how she is to be honest [laughter] and I just love the way it came out. So

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yeah, that's my answer for that. U the so want to see a hen party, male stripper, and five to 10 women having sex.

Chapter 17: Scenes By Request

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Is that a question or just a suggestion?

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Or more swinger parties and couples swinging.

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You know what's what's challenging? Um, so, okay.

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To find that many people to work together.

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Yeah. It's it's it's not, you know what's interesting cuz cuz you might see these these videos that come

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out of the West Coast, but every one of those people are like in the industry and they're getting booked and it's all

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being aligned. We're on we're in Atlanta where if I were to try to do that it would be I'd have to fly like half the people in,

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you know. And it's not to say that there aren't there aren't swingers and stuff like that in Atlanta. It's just that the people who do it are not public about

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it. The ones who are public, they don't live here.

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Underground a lot of underground in Atlanta specifically and I know in other cities but be living here like it's invite only.

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um type of thing and you know there's no phones allowed. You got to you know bring your license all that stuff. Um

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and so because those people even though they're interested in in indulging in those types of activities doesn't mean

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that they would do it for public consumption for everybody. Right.

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Right. So again, I you know, a lot of the times when people are making suggestions and and asking us to to do

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particular things, I get where it's coming from because they see that somewhere else and they want to see it from our perspective. But the thing that

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leads up to the actual shoot, all of the conversations and the like all of that stuff is not the same as what happens to make those other scenes happen here.

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It's a concentrated effort and then we could do a ton of prep work and planning and logistics and then three people don't show up.

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So, uh just have y'all, you know, be patient. If it were, if it's meant to be, it's going to be. Um there are things that, you know, if I were to if I

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really put my mind to do it, I'm going to make some [ __ ] happen, but it just it's just too much that cannot Yeah. too much to to that can go wrong

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to for me to make a promise to somebody that that's what I'm going to do.

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I will work towards it and while we're heading there, two people fall off, another person falls off and then we end up having like a threesome or just it

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it'll just be what it ends up being. And I have to be at be at peace with that.

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And I'm trying to express to people that the challenge is real uh getting these things done.

Chapter 18: Working With New Videographers

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Um, do you Okay, so Romeo O Romeo, do you work with the same photographers and videographers?

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Do you only work with people in Atlanta or where you're based? So, the first one you did answer for as far as the photographer, Brian and Makita, they're

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they're the crew as he mentioned for as far as the photographer and videographer.

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Um ex maybe you wanted I don't know if they're asking about will you work with others if you wanted to respond to that.

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Uh um I probably not for the people who I would work with. There

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has to be some relationship there. It's just a little bit too much to bring people who I don't know into a space

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like that and think that it's going to just continue to work as uh as it has.

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Um I would consider working with other with other photographers and videographers, but it wouldn't be me finding somebody liking their work and then sending them to go shoot.

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Um there's just too much on the line. Um and people got demons, you feel me? So I'm trying not to expose the talent cuz

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in that moment they're very vulnerable to uh somebody that I don't really understand their

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mindset right and their values and all of that stuff. So um the answer is yes I would work with someone else but it's it

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be to become that someone else is a bit of a journey. Um, his second question is, do you only work with people in Atlanta or where you're based?

Chapter 19: Do we work with people outside of Atlanbta

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Oh, no. Um, most of the people we shoot with are they fly in to Atlanta. Give an

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example. So, I'm planning a shoot, a set of shoots, uh, from the 24th to the 27th

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of this month. Someone's coming from Cali, someone's coming from Florida, Maryland.

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I mean, this Tallahassee, by the way, Jordan moved to Tallahassee, babe. Um, really? Yeah. Yeah. He's no longer in Atlanta.

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So, like, there are people who are constantly coming into town to work with us. In fact, very few people in Atlanta that we could work with and we haven't

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worked with yet. So, if you're seeing new people, that's most likely because they're from out of town.

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Okay. He asked a question again about working with other photographers and then he added on especially if they already have a portfolio of erotica and erotic art.

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Um um I think that I think that I would consider it only after uh having conversations with their muses.

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You know what I'm saying? It isn't really just how well you can shoot and and whatnot because I know really good photographers who I'd never let get

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anywhere near my sets. You know, their qual the work of their the quality of their work is but they can stay over there

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and so and that's only because I, you know, I just have the opportunity to hear stories and and there's just too many

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things that could go wrong. So, I probably would have conversations with um your subjects before I'd have a

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conversation with you about that. Um and I would do it without you knowing.

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And then, uh Romeo said he just watched the new guy yesterday and that whole thing was amazing. Oh, sweet. Appreciate that.

Chapter 20: Selling Individual Scenes

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Troop 70 said, "Would you ever consider making scenes or portraits available for purchase separate from having a subscription?" Uh, no.

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Well, the reason why that the technical work to make that happen is too heavy.

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That's one thing. Two, I also someone someone could theoretically purchase everything and like recreate my site. I don't that's not the the intent. The

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intent is to create a home for a global home for Black eratica. And so that's why the subscription is re relatively

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low [laughter] so that I'm trying to allow people to be able to jump in and jump out as they see

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fit and um partake as they see fit, but to purchase and own and download. Uh

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there's just too many problems with that.

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and and just just you know I know this may not be um troops perspective but a lot of people do ask

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hey how do I download this how do I download that because they've been trained by most of these sites that allow them to download but those sites

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if you think about it the people who are hosting the site that let you download the video didn't take the time to make it they didn't craft it they didn't plan

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it they didn't edit it they didn't market it just an aggregation point and they're making most of their money off

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of advertisements. So, um, we've been, you know, the wider public's been trained to think about like this content

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as a commodity. And, uh, the truth is somebody like me who spends most of his waking hours thinking about this,

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shooting it, editing it, working on the website, making, troubleshooting, working, coordinating. I don't want

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people to treat my [ __ ] like it's discardable, right? Or whatever. So,

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that's partially why it's a it's a bit of like emotion behind it. I don't I don't see my stuff as I see it as a library of work. I see I don't see it as individual work. You know what I mean?

Chapter 21: Outro

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Um I recognize some of the names like More Please and Truth. True. um because they have um volunteered when we ask for

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beta testers and they be active. They active as [ __ ] bro. I appreciate that. Very active. That's another thing. Yes.

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We're going to try to and all of that.

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We're going to try to double down on uh on our on our uh presence here. Um, like I said, I'll be super busy and Velvet

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has done a great job like picking up the slack, but I do really want to establish a community feel for for Black Touch.

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And it's that comes with intentionality.

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This is why I don't just do stuff. I try to think things all the way through.

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They can both tell you. I'm always thinking. I'm always grinding trying to figure out how to improve um the

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experience and um like build the actual community around the the brand. So stay stay with us. We we're we've got some incredible stuff coming like real soon.

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