When I first started asking my customers to collaborate with me in this way, I thought that the only way to convince someone to say yes was to offer them a discount. They paid five dollars for three minutes with me in the Private Pleasures booth (private, but we were separated by glass, so we could hear and see each other but there was no physical contact) and if they wanted extras like to watch me use a dildo or enact bespoke fetish fantasies, it cost extra. So, I decided to offer a free dildo show in exchange for the portrait, which saved them ten dollars.
Not everyone agreed to do this, so the photos you see don’t represent every person who came to see me, and some customers said yes but then covered their faces with hands or jackets. Some people really loved the attention and would express themselves in varied and wonderful ways.
This was all very surprising to me, as I had wrongly assumed that no one would ever agree to be photographed during such an intimate moment, but I’m glad I was wrong.
As time went on, I explored ways to make the images clearer, since the lighting was very dim and I was shooting through glass, so it took some experimenting to get the customer to be more prominent in the image than my own reflection.