Perverse Fixation.com

So really what is the story with Perverse Fixation?

..Perverse Fixation.. remained a site without a name for a long time. It was more of an ideal. I very much keep up on the goings-on with other sites and was well aware that some sites have made it a policy to not take a model's picture down no matter how strongly she wishes it. I have a very close friend who modeled for one of those sites and who later in her life decided that it was the wrong decision for her. The site sold her images to hardcore sites without her knowledge or consent. She had moved on to philanthropy projects and the actions of the site owners in regard to the handling of her pictures caused her a lot of personal and professional distress.

That incident inspired me and it served to solidify my idea of a perfect site. Instead of sitting and complaining about things-- I wanted to create something that focused on the emotion that can be conveyed through high-quality artistic photography that captures human emotion, sexuality, sometimes sadness-I wanted honesty portrayed on film. I want to have a site that is both pro model and sex positive. We offer all of our models buyback clauses. We offer retroactive pay raises. We offer referrals. And we offer a guarantee in writing that images will never be sold off to any company that is not directly associated with PerverseFixation.com. Of course, there is the reality that once you're on the Internet naked you are, essentially, forever there. However, we make every effort to be cruelty and misogyny free. Our troupe of models are some of the most outstanding, intelligent and beautiful people that anybody could have the pleasure of knowing. . We truly are a family and they're as important to me on the personal level as they are to the company on the business level.

I've noticed that many other sites portray women who belong to .."alternative".. subcultures as deviants or delinquents of some sort. It's obviously, and somewhat hypocritically, based on their expressing their sexuality through photography and their appearance. The more I've gotten into this and met the models and photographers involved, the more that I've found that sort stereotyping both inaccurate and unfair. I've found them to be genuinely good people who are fun to be around and fun to talk to. I would love to help dispel the stigmas that are attached to "alt" models. If this site contributes to that in some way, all the better.

One of my major inspirations in all of this was a friend of mine who passed away long before her time. She had dedicated her life to promoting education and to solving poverty around the world. After her death, a scholarship was set up in her name at a school in Badami, India. The school is set up for impoverished women and we will be taking a portion of the site's profits and donating it to the school. We want to help them buy uniforms, books, and to help them realize her goal. Her and I had a mutual attraction to the philosophy of philanthropy through consumerism. At the end of the day, so long as I feel that her memory has been honored somehow through my actions, I will count myself as having been more successful. We are not slash and burn capitalists. We are trying to make a statement. That statement being that ethics count for something, even in this industry. That philosophy and the idea of philanthropy through consumerism are both integral to the concept of this site

Currently our staff roster is changed up a bit With Zebek and Jessika Co- CEO's Andrew and Matt Programming and Designing and Nexi working on site development and philanthropy projects.

We all have many goals, both personal and business wise, for the site. We would love to see a burlesque troupe come out of this. By the end of next year we will have personally delivered our first significant donations to India.

WE would also very much like to see the alt communities come together. The infighting is counterproductive. We believe that there is plenty of room for fair and honorable competition and, in some regards, we must work together for the health of the industry as a whole.