Sex Journalism: A crazy ambition?

Doing face to face interviews is a rare occurrence for me. I'm not sure why this is as I always enjoy them more if I can sit and chat with the person. Anyway, today was one of those rare times when I got to actually go and see someone and do an interview with them. It was with a male porn star - I think only the second male adult performer I've ever interviewed, so it was quite an experience and nice to get the other side of the story. The majority of the time it's women from the adult industry that I interview.

Sadly, I can't go into the in's and outs of my interview with him here (at the moment) as it all needs to go to press and stuff first, but we got on well. Cheekily he tried to turn the tables a few times and get me to answer a few questions, most of which I did in a very broad manner without giving too much away about myself, but there was one question he asked and it kind of threw me. He asked, "What's your ambition, there must be an end goal and something you want to achieve?"

At the time I wasn't sure how to answer it. One of the reasons I started this blog was in the hope that it would give me somewhere to put down a few ideas and maybe from that a direction would emerge about my career and what I want to do. It is starting to...I think.

Sitting on the train home, I thought about this question more. I thought about what it is that I enjoy writing and why I write. Looking at my portfolio my subject of choice is pretty obvious, although there are times I crave to write abut stuff other than sex, but why do I choose to write on this subject primarily? Well, thinking back to a slightly drunken conversation I had with a friend of mine last year, what I really want and what I think my ambition is, is for people, everyone, to have good sex.

Mostly I write because there's a lot of bad sex journalism out there. I don't want to be a "sexpert", I don't want to be a psychologist, a relationship councillor or body language expert. My ambition is to be the journalist that takes the time to properly hunt out those people to give good, honest sex advice and create features, articles, stories and books that bring the right, best and most enjoyable aspects of sex to the page.

I want to do this because I give a shit, because I think sex gets a lot of bad press or seedy press or is just used as a fad and so often everything that's fanfuckingtastic about it is overlooked.

So there, I guess that's my ambition. I want to be that journalist.