i have seen sean working hard on this project and know that it has been a huge frustration for him. my only grievance over the dvd is that i was lied to and told things like, 'the dvd sucks because you guys are a bunch of vapid idiots' and 'an ass sex video wouldn't have paid you as much'.
This leads me to the constant verbal abuse and threats that sean dishes out to models, or anyone who gets close enough to experience his personality. i have heard him call everyone in the office "fucking morons and idiots" on numerous occasions. i have heard him call models, "sluts", "whores", "junkies", "stupid", etc...this list is longer that i care to write. in fact the burlesque tour girls had an on-going joke about this, and actually wrote and taped a piece of paper that read "YOU SUCK! - from sean" on our costume bin. sometimes ya gotta make light of the ugly stuff. i have watched girls (my friends) cry themselves to sleep at night (on numerous occasions) due to his verbals insults and downright mean behavior. i have also heard sean laugh about it later...amused at his own demeaning antics.

now, this is not to say that sean is all evil...he has a very intelligent and charming side. one that i got along with very well with for some time. in fact, if you're on his good side, he's full of perks and favors. he has given me free banners ads, free clothing that often gets sent into the office for sampling purposes, bought me food, let me drive the company car around, and let's not forget i lived in his house for 2 months...where i kept things tidy, ran the occasional errand, and gave him and a couple of the girls private yoga lessons. it was great for a little while, until he started having random outbursts at me and calling me names. in fact i'll share just one experience:

about a month ago, sg received a box of sample shirts from a company that is supposed to start making sg merch. usually sean has whatever girls are around try on stuff and everyone sort of decides what they like and don't like. i think he was dissatisfied with the samples for whatever reason, which put him in a bad mood. the rest of us were trying stuff on and commenting on it. i made a comment on a print that i didn't like...saying that the shirt was rad, but would be better with a different print. suddenly sean snaps at me and says "why don't you just shut the fuck up lady, no one asked you!" then he went on to say 'that i was too old to understand the demographic and that i had no idea what i was talking about *insert sneering voice*'. mind you, this is in front of three other people, 2 models and a staff member. i just stared at him in silence, got up and left. after taking a walk, i came back and confronted him. i told him that telling me to 'shut the fuck up' and insulting me, hurt my feelings and was honestly one of the meanest things i had heard spat at me in quite some time. it was mostly in the way he said it. he took no responsibility what-so-ever. he told me that he was "just joking" and that he thought 'we were good enough friends to be able to talk to each other like that' and 'he was sorry if i misunderstood him'. totally played it off like nothing. i reminded him that my friends and i do not talk to one another like that. ever.

this is just one of a zillion incidents that represent his condescending, rude and disrespectful antics. between some of the girls, we could write a book. i'm dead serious.

Nexi: they havent just lost 30 models

nexi: they lost 30 models this month
LAist: Do models sign contracts with SG?
nexi: yes
nexi: its standard contract.
LAist: what would be the ideal situation for models at SG?
LAist: What could change there to make it better?
nexi: I think they need to fairly represent themselves, i'm not advocating hating them, i'm advocating choice
nexi: educated choice
nexi: if you only knew how fast on there people on their own journals get kicked off for speaking out about what's going on
nexi: and their entries changed
nexi: they dont really advocate free speech or any leftist agenda
nexi: its all a front
nexi: take away the female owned left wing and you're left with a republican owned racist male operated alt porn site.. that's been Mistreating Women in a Cool Alternative Way Since 2001!

Sean Suhl specializes in helping companies with digital strategies on the web and in wireless markets. Suhl specializes in site usability analysis, on-line branding strategies, and community and content site builds. Suhl is founder and board member of the Los Angeles Wireless Media Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to adopting industry wide standards and discussing emerging wireless media markets.
Suhl currently consults for numerous media and consumer products companies, specializing in internet content, media design, and site usability and architecture. Previously, Suhl has consulted with or created solutions for The Aspen Comedy Festival, Nike, Dark Horse Comics, The Emmys, IXL, Static, Warner Bros Music, South Park, Marilyn Manson, HBO and MTV.

Suhl has been featured in Wired Magazine, The Industry Standard, USA Today, The Red Herring, The Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek, Zone and other publications. Hollywood Insider called Suhl a content and technology visionary and Los Angeles Magazine called Suhl a "web whiz kid."

Suhl is a frequent and popular speaker at media and content conferences, he has most recently spoken at South by Southwest on Human Interface Design in the web, The Web Show 2000 on delivering content via emerging Internet devices such as cell phones and PDA's, The Mal|Content Media Panel, North By Northwest on Site Usability, and on E-mediatainment's Super Panel.