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Feb '99 IssueDear Readers,
It is a day after Groundhog Day. It was rainy yesterday, but it is beautiful and sunny today. I wonder if this still means the winter is almost over.
It is weird to be busy again with the magazine. In my mind it was all over. Until Dave showed up. And in a way it is over: I don't have all the say in the matters of the magazine any longer.
To fulfill the gap, I am very devoted to the online magazine. It is doing nicely, we log in 10-12,000 people a day, and the feedback is positive, the opinions go from nice to awesome. I wish I found a way to make a full time living doing just that. My dream is to have a "job" that can be done from any laptop and any phone-line. I see myself on a sail-boat in Northern Italy on a lake, or visiting my family in Budapest, Hungary. Or maybe even spend some time, this time as a visitor, in Israel. I bet it feels different when you don't have to earn a living at their terms. I bet I would like it.
I have been doing intensive studying. I started this magazine over 10 years ago, and it has run its course. I had a vision, I failed, and I would be ready to move on, but to what.
One of the tricks of having a wonderful life is to have a vision, a future, and to fulfill it. What future would I like to fulfill?
Is it going to be in the adult industry? Where the rules of the game have changed so dramatically that I can't even follow them? Clubs are not even similar to how they were ten years ago. Guys, dancers are so different, I don't know how to relate to them any more. Two people that used to work with me started their own magazines, one is still successful down in Philadelphia. The other one didn't make it.
The competitors are "marching" to a different drummer, the game is changed. Is this how it feels getting old?
I am lucky that Dave once used to be a competitor, and now we are on the same side. He knows how to play the game. So, thank to his resilience, you are holding a fresh copy of Mentertainment Magazine in your hand. It still comes from good old fashioned desire to inform, and entertain, to educate, and to inspire.
I am blessed. In the middle of the changing world I still have a relatively safe haven, where I can think, create, and write. Where I can create ads based on true and tried methods of attracting and informing potential customers. Where I can design circulation to generate the most visibility for advertisers, because that's--so I think--what they pay for.
In the meantime I am feverishly learning new technologies for the twenty-first century. Technologies of living, working, producing, communicating, selling, advertising. The world is changing. I am committed to change with it. But I refuse to change my values. Dignity, respect, authenticity... they are not just words to me. They are a way of being. And a demand. The world will catch up, I say, Gandhi, Martin Luther King are my pioneers, my heroes. They did not relent when the world didn't like what they envisioned, and refused to cooperate. I won't relent either. I will keep on standing for what's worth standing for, the dignity of the human spirit.
Where? In the stripper industry? Well, I admit it feels a little out of place, but the stripper industry is part of the world too, right? So it is the right place, because that's where I am.
See you in a month. I might get upbeat by then.
Sophie
Mentertainment® Magazine is published monthly from New Jersey, and its two editions cover Northern and Central New Jersey, most of New York State, and Western Connecticut. Once, maybe twice a year we publish a directory of clubs in the North American Continent, that is to say, the US and Canada. It cost $3.00, and you need to mail or fax a check. Info on bottom of page. It is a nine year old newsprint magazine, 48-56 pages, monthly, with local club ads, local club reviews, and local club dancers pictures and interviews. It gives a comprehensive and in-depth view to the live adult entertainment industry. Sophie, myself, is the editor and the publisher. I am interested in dignity, authenticity and excellence in and around the industry... that is my passion. I am also an advocate of people taking risks, especially in the area of "being available" for a relationship, for social encounters, for life. This is Sophie's Mentertainment® Magazine... the brainchild of a Hungarian professional woman who loves people and is willing to give her life to what's important: A World Working for Everyone, with nobody left out. Sounds alien from the adult entertainment industry? Only if you don't consider that all the participants are people... real people.
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