Perette

Welcome to my page.

The problem with writing stuff here is that it never stays current very long, because I'm constantly changing and exploring new ideas and lifestyles; hence, I'm going to be pretty general here. If you want to know what I'm presently up to, or explore aspects of my growth through the years, you'd do better to read my journal.

After growing up in rural Connecticut, I moved to Rochester, NY where I attended RIT. I changed gender there, then entered the business world and worked for 8 years in software until a rather spectacular burn-out, after which I spent 3 years working in the sex industry as a dominatrix while studying the world around me.

I've studied modern American social archetypes and the see-covet-borrow-spend-work cycle, which keeps us trapped in a viscious cycle of trying to fill gaps in our souls with stuff, and thus distracted from realizing that this can't work because stuff can't feed the soul. This has helped explain why, despite making a pitance compared to my prior life, I am happier.

I've moved on to study socializing and developing my social skills. It seems that being an introvert is something that can be overcome, though not easily or painlessly, by studying and practicing interacting with others. Given time constraints of life, this requires making the trade-off of faux interaction such as television and less personal forms of interaction such as the Internet, for experiences in the real world. So, although you can mail me, I am unlikely to write back.

For work these days, I've been working doing menial labor for an inventory company, doing occasional modeling (I got to be an extra in the upcoming movie Sophomore, about which my excitement is completely unjustified), and doing some web site development.

My life has included many unusual experiences: I am involved in the Rochester Kink Society, I have undergone a change of gender, and I have worked in the sex industry as a professional dominatrix. I was involved in the pre-internet days of bulletin board systems, having developed one of my own from scratch in 1985. And for the record, yes, we did use it for porn and erotica even back then. I feel my unusual breadth of experience is a result of my intelligence: whereas the average do not object to the same drudgery day after day, I seek out new and different experiences; Seinfeld ad nauseum doesn't cut it.

Image: Christie and Perette at an RKS liquid latex workshop.
I'm blessed with numerous caring people, though unfortunately many of them aren't in Rochester anymore. We've done many odd things over the years, resulting in weird written stuff and several audio/video productions including a Doctor Who spoof and some skit comedy. The videos feature Jan, a friend since childhood; Kage, my college roommate that runs uktv.com; Mike, who is into comparative religion; Jayce, one of the few left in Rochester; Sue, one of my girlfriends; and many other interesting people I've known over the years.

Image: Amanda and Perette at a diner.