My Year in Smut, Bimbofication and Bryon Noem

The news of Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon wearing a pair of oversized ta-tas and chatting with a “fetish cam girl” brought me back to 1997. Welcome to the era of public bimbofication.

I was managing editor to the most popular soft, sexy pinup site on the web, once called “soft-core pornography.” When I sent an early draft to a good friend, his response was perfect. “Where’s the sex?”

I am the woman who (finally) managed to keep the stripper content running on time.

Today, online sites have no interest in the star stripper pinup shots that made the site so popular. How hot was the site? Covered by CNN, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

Turns out, Bryon Noem’s eye-popping bimbofication is the worst kept secret in Washington, D.C.

MY YEAR IN SMUT was my first book. Self-published in 2000, long before indie authors had an Amazon platform. Long before my two non-fiction books found a publisher.

Between 1997 and the end of 1998, the site attracted a million eyes per day, with hundreds of thousands of paying members.

Tune into next week’s Blew My Mind podcast to hear details of my research, experience, and interactions in the world of love and pleasure.

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