Regarding Valentin@ - An unfiltered interview

I read with special interest an old interview with former erotic content actress Bree Olsen, where she lamented that the easy money she made in the erotic content industry didn't make up for what it would take away from her in the end. Respect. She went on to say that this lack of respect was a burden he must now bear for the rest of his life, whatever she did.

Taking advantage of the fact that I hardly knew anything about our collaborator Valentin@, I sent him a WhatsApp proposing an informal, unfiltered interview. In the end, many topics were touched upon, but it was certainly the word RESPECT that remained in the air. The respect for his type of writing, more pornographic than erotic, the respect to remain anonymous and the respect he had for his characters. Of course at the end of the interview I couldn't help asking if it was a man or a woman... the answer was certainly great because it was unexpected.

I began by asking why such a fulsome need to be so direct and avoid enriching the story with more erotic or sensual content, which would undoubtedly make it possible for his stories to reach more people. Indeed, one reader conveyed to me her anger (even though she enjoyed the stories) at not embellishing the sex with more feeling.

-For me it's very simple. I try to write like what I would like to read. I abhor the slowness, the embellishing of the reason for your decision to read this kind of story. I despair of opening a YouTube tutorial and spending 30 minutes of chatter, but an explanation that is less than two minutes long. When you go to watch the highlights of a football match, you want to see the most interesting plays and the goals, if any. Are you really interested in watching the warm-up, the endless offside, the VAR check? I don't. I understand and respect that someone wants the full experience, that's quite legitimate. But that's not what I'm looking for. I look for the sensations, the excitement, and I place them in a scenario that can attract the reader.

I asked Valentin@ if it bothered him that his/her stories were transferred to a parallel blog a few months ago.

-Not at all. The partners judiciously decided that they wanted to keep the original "Décimo Círculo del Infierno" blog more familiar and were afraid that anyone (especially minors) could access this kind of stories without being prepared for it. I understood perfectly, and we are still friends and collaborating... although I regret that they do not participate with some kind of article in this new blog.

It was time to talk about Papa Booze, Madame Le Noir and the stories of Manu and Vane from OpenFly Air. I asked if at the end all these characters were not too libidinous or promiscuous. That they could be labelled sluts or whores. After all, the stories were about a high-class brothel and an airline where an extra with the ticket, is to have sex?

-First of all, Madame Le Noir's members are not whores. They decide the conditions of their encounters, the fees, and they are free to leave whenever they want. The only condition set by the venue is that they cannot stay there for more than two years, strict confidentiality and a pinch of the proceeds. Manuela and Vanessa, on the other hand, go their own way and sleep with whomever they wish at any time. They are strong women with no strings attached, they are not subjugated to any man. In fact, men are for them only a means to an end... an orgasm or a new sensory experience. I think, moreover, that men in general always end up in a bad way from their adventures...

And how should we imagine Papa Booze, Manu and Vane? The descriptions are rather brief, if not non-existent...

-Right, for me it is of immense value that everyone imagines these characters in the way that most appeals to them. My experience tells me that an author can describe a character ad nauseam, that in the end, the reader will imagine him or her in a very specific way and "skip" all the descriptions... so why bother the reader with more than four brushstrokes? Once you write a story, your characters cease to be yours, and become the reader's characters. And the reader decides what fits or doesn't fit. My intention is that they are always framed in the same line, both the reader's and mine. That they don't squeak, let's go... By the way, I imagine Papa Booze as the multifaceted actor Tom Hardy, although surely this image will not correspond to everyone's image... Manuela is a mix between the French actress Julia Perrin and the model Helenka Demidova. Vanessa is 100%, the also French actress Marilyn Jess. Both pornographic actresses of the 70s and 80s.

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We continue our interview with Valentin@ by mentioning the curious detail of two characters who, regardless of the location of the story, somehow always manage to appear overlapping in the stories. We talked about Samir and "The cockatoo" and wondered why.

-It's true, I think it's a hilarious detail that somehow these two almost always appear. That they are part of a network, of a wider universe than the story itself. Samir is an almost tragic character that reinforces the comic side I try to bring into every story. Nothing goes right for the poor man, and he misses everything. In Madame Le Noir, he is beaten up and fired for breaking the code of confidentiality. In Moscow, he fails to fuck any of the Russian women and is left in the air if he gets to fuck Maddie "Bazooka" Kane. In Claudia's story, he's a poor security guard who doesn't know anything either... He'll come up more often. I love writing about him, just as much as I love writing about "The Cockatoo", a nosy, wise-cracking old woman who always gets a lesson in the end. I encourage you to find these two great characters in every story!

I have to confess that the image I have of her in my mind corresponds to the wonderful activist for legal gender equality, American judge and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I'll explain. When I posted a post in English on a well-known social network, a user rather rudely corrected me for a term I used that was not entirely correct. The image of her profile on that social network corresponded to Mrs Bader Ginsburg, and it was unfortunately her features that stuck in my imagination as a meddlesome and impolite person. And so I return to the point that we can describe a character in a thousand ways, in the end it is our imagination that burns an image into our minds. Pertinent to the user, I never replied. You can say things, but you have to have RESPECT. And we should not forget that a person who writes or expresses himself in a language other than his mother tongue is showing humility and RESPECT. He is interested in expressing himself, in communicating at another level, in approaching another language that is not his own. It is very Spanish, to laugh at those who make mistakes. We think it's very funny, when in reality, we are only showing how uneducated and uncultured we are by laughing.

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Of course, the question of why write under a pseudonym and who is hiding under Valentin@ cannot remain unanswered.

Borrowing the answer from Klaus Fernández and his marvellously funny final chapter of "El lobo de Monte Cristo", what if it was all true what he told... Is it really the most relevant thing? Does it matter whether it's a 26-year-old gothic-leaning lady from Asturias or a half-bald unemployed forty-something from Madrid? Well, no, not at all. Names limit, they label even if we don't subconsciously want them to. If we confess any name, gender or nationality, our imagination, education or life experience, even unintentionally, prejudges. From being a dirty old man to a flibbertigibbet lady, is that really the most important thing? The author doesn't matter, the story matters. If what you read excites you. Who cares who it is. I, in this case, we, are whatever you want us to be in your imagination. What turns you on more? That the author is a gigolo with a horse's dick from Marbella? That's fine.

On the other hand, I will confess that Valentin@ is actually two people. The one who answers the questions and the other who motivates, corrects and polishes the stories. Without this person, Valentin@ is nothing. This person inspires me every day to write better and to make the characters more than just one-dimensional caricatures. From here... I send you a big kiss.

And no... my partner doesn't know I'm Valentin@ either.

We go on to talk about why his characters don't use condoms and that perhaps this is a message in the wrong direction for readers.

-First of all, these stories are a fantasy scenario, where venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancies do not exist. I am not interested in writing realistically. I'm not interested in the moral ramblings of having sex and dealing with the consequences of possible pregnancy or disease. I want my characters to be unconstrained. I want them to have sex with whomever they want. Like someone who isn't interested in talking about politics, I'm not interested in writing about boundaries or consequences. My characters live life by their standards of free love, without moral prejudice. Anyone who wants to read about the consequences of unprotected sex, about the consequences of our actions in a largely Catholic society, please don't read me.

Of course, in the real world, I recommend the use of condoms always, in any case and without exception. And we must beware of those people who tell you, that you don't need to use it, the people where you should use it in any case.

I can't suppress the question that has been going through my head since the beginning of the interview and I ask Valentin@ if it's so important to have a horse's cock, since it's a recurring theme of description in his stories.

Not at all, but let's make use of the most eye-catching and attractive aspects of this fantasy world. No one wants to imagine Batman, bald, overweight and with a boring day job as a haberdashery salesman.

We end the interview with what the future holds.

-Well, first of all, a Manu and Vane Christmas adventure, the fourth part of OpenFly Air in January with another Claudia story and a Valentine's Day special on February 14th with a surprise character. There are still many more stories to tell.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the other members of the blog "Décimo Círculo del Infierno". Starting with the constant inspiration of Klaus Fernández and his fine humour. I laugh my head off with all his stories. The enormous literary and linguistic quality of Alberto Jiménez. I am spellbound by his imagination, his stories and his endings are always tremendous. I try to copy him all the time. And finally, to you interviewer, for your imaginative series "Almas perdidas en la ceniza" (Souls lost in the ash), which has inspired me to weave together all my stories in the way you already do. Thank you.

We say goodbye to Valentin@ with immense gratitude and imagining who or who they will really be.

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