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Cesca Janece Waterfield, Editor, Art Director



Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Hello!

One night at a gentleman's club in Richmond, Virginia, a dancer I'd been talking to took the stage. Midway through her performance she surprised the audience with some magic tricks.

Her tricks were impressive and inspired me to go ahead and pitch a story idea that I had already conceptualized in my mind: Create a main-stream media feature that humanizes people working in the adult entertainment industry, particularly women.

Over the next couple weeks, I approached some editors with the idea. I proposed a column featuring a different local adult entertainment industry worker each week with attention paid to her life off the stage. I suggested that accompanying photos could reflect provocative interests as well as the more conservative ones that thrive within us all. I thought they might dismiss the idea as tame. Instead, several editors met it with enthusiasm.

Why not? Even students at major American universities regarded by many as extremely traditionalist have developed their own high-quality porn publications, including Boston University, Harvard, Vassar, and Yale. And I was proposing a human interest feature that only implicitly addressed sex.

Ultimately, however, no one in Eve in Hand's geographical region wanted to go forward with a short column for what they expressed as fear regarding distribution and ad revenue. One person said, "This city is not ready."

I find something disingenuous about a culture that easily accepts a full page ad splashed with the image of a beautiful, nearly nude stripper to sell a product or promote an event, but that finds it forbidding to see her humanized within its pages. What is threatening about learning that a woman working in the adult entertainment industry is also a mother, a magician, or a gardener?

So I conceived of the idea for Eve in Hand, an online magazine that strives to present authenticity, and to represent and provide something for us all; multi-genders, straight, gay, and bi. In this and forthcoming editions of Eve in Hand, every effort has been made to introduce viewers to the models.

I originally envisioned the focus to be on the local region. As the months passed, it was clear that such a scope was unrealistic. Although there were many people in Eve in Hand's geographical area that supported its early efforts, it wasn't until reaching out to other major cities that submissions started pouring in. This edition features work from all over the nation and Europe, including Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Providence, New York City/Brooklyn, Miami, Austin, and many more.

I hope you find something that surprises you, makes you think and laugh. I hope you get super turned on. I hope you find something that sends you running to purchase work from our Contributors. Please support these people who provide our art and entertainment. I want to emphasize that every single Contributor here shared their talent, skills, and spirit without compensation, because they believe in our Mission Statement and they work to promote their careers independently.

I hope you see yourself here. Above all, have fun.

Charles O'Donovan, Web Wrangler



Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Congratulations!!! You have arrived at the new web publication Eve in Hand. This has been a project that has taken just about a year to see in the form that you are viewing. This project started as a local webzine that me and Cesca envisioned as a way to utilize the talent that we had around us. But just as what usually happens in most scenes, people's intentions were good but had very poor follow through. Cesca then decided to reach out to the rest of the world with our concept and it was received incredibly well by everyone. What started out as a local zine has now become a national publication that has some incredible talent displayed. I am so happy to be able to present you with this first issue of Eve in Hand.

I am proud to be able to meet our goal of launching on Thanksgiving day. A day we celebrate a coming together and celebration of getting along with our fellow people. We want everyone to be able to approach this magazine with open arms. I hope you are able to enjoy this as much as I have putting it together for all of you!!!