My Very First Blog Criticism.

This means I've made it right? After my initial shock at the need for such criticism, I wrote back what I felt was a fairly accurate response and one that I wanted to share.

The gist of said criticism was basically an attack on the sexually-tinted blogs I write when I do. In essence, I was accused of using my personal sexual escapades to sell myself as a sexual package.

This is what I said:

I have not ever written specifically involving any particular sexual escapade. And despite what you may think, I do not sell sex. I sell me. And my sexuality is a beautiful, integral part of me. A part that I know longer wish to deny exists. That's feminism for me, baby.

I love burlesque and I adore all the activities I do related to it. And I love sex and occasionally it finds its way here to the pages of my blog—even more often it comes to the pages of my fiction. But sex is not all there is to me, and not all I represent as a writer or dancer. It's just one piece of my (im)perfect whole. So if it's sex that sells me, I would say that some of my buyers will wind up with a lot more than they bargained for.

But I'm also willing to bet that the people who do want to buy what I've got to offer have enough sense to realize that when I consider sex, it is on much more than a physical basis. It's with the understanding that sexual relationships help form who we are. This is something I will never deny to one of my characters in fiction—or on this blog, to myself.

Here's to hopes of more criticisms that make me look at and really consider the places I'm going, the things that I'm writing, and the people worth exploring.