Introduction – Louis Friend
As a youth I lived a pretty sheltered life. I was lucky to get an occasional glimpse at a Playboy or sex toy catalog. It wasn’t until sometime after September 1984 that I even considered the idea of the written word being sexy.
I did the typical teenage thing and spent a morning riffling through my parents’ stuff when I uncovered a Penthouse magazine. Maybe my stepfather bought it because of the controversial cover story as it was the infamous Vanessa Williams issue. Regardless, it became fodder for my adolescent mind.
I won’t lie. The pictures caught my attention first but it didn’t take long for me to find the Penthouse Forum. I couldn’t recall any of the letters on a dare… except one. Of course it was written from the male perspective. The young fellow who authored this particular missive related the tale of his girlfriend and her love of anal sex. To share her love of this act, she talked him into experiencing a series of dildos up his rump. From small and slender to big and beefy, he experienced an awakening in his bowels that turned him on and intrigued the heck out of me. I’d never heard of such a thing and it set my mind ablaze with possibilities.
It would be at least a decade before I started to write my own smut. By no small coincidence, these first forays were epistolary exercises. Still a virgin, I wasn’t writing torrid tales to Penthouse Forum. Rather, I slowly opened myself to a series of Dominas to whom I wrote in hopes of popping my submissive cherry. They wanted lurid details and I struggled to provide them. At first it was difficult facing my own desires, admitting the things that haunted the dark corners of my mind. That’s what started the ball rolling. I found that once I started, I didn’t want to stop.
I started writing dirty stories whenever I could. I threw nearly everything away when fits of guilt overcame me. It took years of therapy before I could really admit to what I am and what I enjoy; before I accepted the fantasies (and the realities) as part of me. I continued to pen the occasional story when requested — often to let a Domina know what kind of things I had in mind. Over the years I had quite a few that I would send out when asked. And, due to the convenience of the interwebs, I started up a blog–Prurient Interests–where I posted these stories and began writing more.
That was 2006. The blog has had its rich and fallow periods as my life has had its ups and downs. The most difficult part of being a Smut Peddler, for me, is taking it seriously. I often feel like my writing is barely Penthouse Forum quality and facing up to that deficiency is difficult. But, with enough practice and enough feedback, I think that each story ends up better than the last. I hope my readers agree.
