A few years ago, I met Cathy & Peter at an adult content trade show. Cathy handed me her business card, which stated:
"Horniest housewife on the Internet"
Being a smartass that I am, I immediately remarked that this is a very bold claim and wondered what certification they had to prove this. We ended up chatting throughout the evening and again over the rest of that show. We started talking about their production company and websites. Cathy & Peter are married and produce & distribute adult content on their own websites. Cathy is the talent and Peter is the principal camera. They raise kids, shoot porn, travel the world and (apparently) hang out at trade shows talking to salespeople like me.
From the minute I met them, I really was struck with how normal they are. Cathy has a reputation for being a menace behind the wheel of a car, Peter is fucking funny and they're just two people who found a way to mix career, marriage, fun & sex together. What could be better than that? I sure as hell can't think of anything.
As anyone who works with or around the adult content industry knows, there is a difference between the person and the persona. The person pays bills, falls in love, buys a house, drives to work, takes a vacation and plans for retirement. The persona is either who they project themselves to be as part of theater of sex and fantasy; or who their critics make them out to be as they make money by extoling the evils of sex. For some time, I have wanted to interview people in the adult content / sex work business and let them speak for themselves in the language they choose to describe their own lives. Cathy & Peter were the first people I wanted to speak with.
SGB. What terms do you use to identify yourself as individuals and as a couple?
C&P. Not sure if we understand exactly want you mean by this question. We see ourselves as a happily married couple with an open relationship. Open in the sense that we include other people in our sex lives. Unlike some other people living in a similar relationship, however, we are always together whenever another person is involved.