I am answering for myself and Amethyst...we her and I met in 2004 we happened to meet a couple the same night at the swinger party who was on SC, Madijane, her and her hubby talked to us about it and Amethyst actually shot a set with her that never went on the site.
Several months later she asked me to shoot a few custom videos with her, that was a lot of fun. After that I kept talking to Amethyst about it, trying to convince her that it would be fun.
Then in 2008 we met Charisma through a swinger's site...she didn't have a photographer so I offered to help her out by taking her pictures. Amethyst watched as we shot some sets and thought it looked easier than she had originally anticipates...that was then end of August, her site was live by the end of October. It only took that long because back then sites took about 4-6 wks to go live. Then Amethyst and Charisma convinced me to have my own Gent site, so I went live in December 2008.
We have definitely had a lot of fun over the last 3.75 years