Romance Opens Minds

I had a master plan when I included an eclectic mix of articles and other content in Blue Blood in print.

Some people pick out their persona like flash art off a tattoo shop wall. Blue Blood is for people who construct themselves out of a myriad of sources, always seeking to get closer to the core of their true selves. There are people who decide to “be goth” for example, and they will then attempt to only do and like and wear and say “goth” things. To me, there is nothing less conformist about that, than someone who wants to be an investment banker, and attempts to only do and like and wear and say “country club” things. The only difference is that the investment banker probably at least gets paid for his or her conformity.

I created Blue Blood to reach out to all the other people, like myself, who passed through multiple subcultures, who took that little bit from each which spoke to them, that little bit which fit their insides. I often took flack for my offbeat constellation of interests. At the time, I had thought I was more alone than perhaps I was. From the outpouring of letters to Blue Blood, I found that I had kindred spirits all over the world. There were so many people who had thought they were the only ones into both bondage and RPGs, rap and industrial music, tattoos and science fiction, or whatever their personal mix was. The key to Blue Blood was that they picked that mix based on genuine personal taste and not just trying to be cool or fit in.

Now, of course, Blue Blood featured both erotic pictorials and erotic fiction by big name genre authors. This is where the master plan part comes in, in terms of being able to publish articles on such a range of subjects and give them a common thread.

You know when you are first going out with someone. And you are intrigued and excited and want to figure them out. You will listen to a band they like with a much more open mind than you might normally have. You will give something new a fair tryout.

Because I knew people were likely to feel some of that kind of romantic and sensual excitement paging through an issue of Blue Blood, I was able to take that opportunity to show readers quality and enjoyable bits and pieces of many worlds. The open-minded state of arousal could allow for a certain kind of cross-pollination which could not have thrived otherwise.

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Posted by Amelia G on September 4, 2006. Filed under Blue Blood. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry