I'm going to miss you so much, Victoria! Your presence here has been a blessing and we've been lucky to have you. I hope we see you around the forums and I'm kind of really nosy to find out where you'll be next.

Hugs and love and some tears,

P

I'm definitely going to miss working with you! It's been an amazing and great time . I'm glad we'll still see you around on the forums and doing reviews.

Victoria you sap, you know you love the attention

I will miss you so much, you were so sweet to me when I FB msg'd you with a problem I was having, as much personal as site related. You have been so wonderful and encouraging, not only with me but with all of us. You have spoiled me (at times ) by allowing me my ridiculousness, and shown me love on many occasions.

Don't think for a minute that I will not check in with you from time to time, because I will, and that is a promise (or a threat... but more of a promise )

The most touching moments I have had on this site, were with two other contributors. One was while discussing the same issue I msg'd you over with Dwtim, who consoled me while I cried, and would not leave until I had stopped. He even forced the glitteriest picture of a teddy bear that you could ever imagine on me in an effort to cheer me up.

The second was while discussing somebody else's experience with them, I was so heartbroken over what they had dealt with, that I would have given anything to be able to have climbed through my monitor and given them a hug, made them some food, and just sat and talked with them until they felt better. I have felt the same since, with a few different people. I'm sure I will again.

If it were not for the support and appreciation that people are so willing to give here, I would not have stuck around this long. I would have become disinterested, and left. How could anybody be bored here though? I can understand, even after only being here for less than a year, how difficult it must be for you to leave. I also understand why you have to, and I know you will be happy so I am happy for you.

Dear Victoria,

I don't want to single out any one staff or community member because there are just too many that have touched me (cut the wise cracks, I'm trying to be serious here!). In the few months that I have been a member of the community, I have discovered what an amazing place EF is and how it continues to grow and improve. And most of all, this community has given me a safe and supportive environment to explore my own sexuality and creativity. A few months ago, I never would have guessed how much I enjoy making videos. I have made what I consider to be good friends among both the staff and community members. So many have helped me that I couldn't possibly list them all. Above all, I hope you are so very proud of this wonderful community that you have helped to build. I for one am forever grateful.

I certainly hope we continue to have your presence here on the forums and am excited for your new challenge. All my best.

Kindred

I am new, but so far everyone has been so helpful and welcoming. I will miss you but I am glad to hear you will stick around as a member and I wish you well with your next venture.

There are so many fabulous staffers I can't name just a few, they all work hard to make everything better for us and I am very thankful for that.

Best of luck with your new endeavors Victoria!

You'll be sorely missed.

Is the irony lost on everyone but me that this will be Friday the 13th????

Best of luck in all your future endeavors!

There are a LOT of things I could say here, all great things about the site/community/other staffers...but I'll just save time and a text wall with

THANK YOU!

Thanks V, and good luck!

I am fairly new here and have not had much contact with you, but I'm sure that you have been working very hard at a lot of things I enjoy about Eden everyday.I love all the staff here, and you are no exception. I wish you well. I'm also very curious about what your future endeavors will be. We will all miss you!

Yeah, V, it's Friday... care to tell us where your future endeavors are taking you?

Victoria, you will be missed! You really took this community into amazing directions, it changed so much in the past three years (OMG, has it been three years?) Best of luck in your future endeavors, although if you are staying in industry (and I have a guess as to where you're going) I'm thinking our paths will continue to cross.

There are so many kind words and wonderful memories in this thread - I want to respond to them all!

Helping put Eden on the map, so to speak, makes me incredibly proud. Seeing how much this community has grown and how much the website has improved is a big deal to me. We weathered some crazy times, found ways to make things better for everyone, and became a better company in the process. How awesome for just a few years!

It has warmed my heart to see so many people helping each other and to see people come out of their shells and blossom here - not just the community, but much of the staff too! I'd even say...that those things actually sustained me in this job. Having a sense of purpose is really important! Feeling respected and appreciated is essential. And I can say, in that regard, the community and my team have been AMAZING!!!!!!! I wasn't overstating it when I said I have learned a lot from you. I have. My perspective on so many things have changed, my communication style has changed, my reactions have changed, my vision for what is possible in the adult online space has changed - all for the better!

I will pop back onto this thread again, I am sure I just wanted to tell you all just how heavy my heart is today. And how much love I am feeling!

(Group hug?)

I like this hug (and the meetup can just be you, me, V, and GWF... to keep it at the four sets of boobies... granted four much LARGER sets of boobies...):

Sad that you are leaving, but glad that I had a chance to get going around here before you left. Hope to see you around a lot.

Victoria, you really actually will be missed sorely by me. This sounds stupid, but please know that I felt an actual drop in my stomach when I read the thread. While things are always in flux and people do and should change and evolve - and I love that about the world - you have been a constant at Eden and it feels like you take a big hunk of this community with you as you leave.

But, I know that's not true specifically BECAUSE of the awesomeness that you did as an administrator/marketin g director. What you did was make more people feel welcome so that they could become strong presences in this community. So that there would be more like yourself to come after you and welcome others in. In two years I've seen newbies become experts who became teachers who became staff and so on infinitely. You were a giant part of this process of turning EF into a place that is kept in motion by and for customers, as well as its staff. The best part about EF is how much overlap there is in that. How many reviewers/customers become staff. And how many strictly staff members actually have their heart in the adult industry - an industry that for a long time has suffered the reputation of being heartless (and not entirely without justification).

And maybe that's one big, HUGE thing you have brought. A face to an anonymous internet world that too often associates shame and fear with sexuality. And color and levity (pink hair!!! and smiles!!!) to an industry that is too often kept shrouded, obscured, dark and humorless. You've helped make the whole business just a little more human, and a little less self-loathing. Edenfantasys' community has helped so many people learn the invaluable lesson; sex doesn't have to be dirty or wrong or bad...unless that's what you're into! To me, you and Gary together have been a poster couple of normality lent to the industry. Proof that you can work at a sex toy distribution company and also be a loving parent and partner, and actually be really silly and funny as well as thoughtful and serious when need be. You brought heart, but you also brought a challenge, y'know? Like "Reconcile THIS pink hair and adorable smiley-ness with your stigmas about the sex industry! Dare ya!" Pretty awesome, when you think about it. Thank you, really. For lending your face and humanity, and for complicating the picture of sexuality in the public consciousness in a positive way. Complicating the simplistic attitudes of embrace sex = embrace awfulness and misery.

So as you're going it feels like there MUST be a huge absence that follows. However, what's beautiful about you leaving is that you are leaving a legacy that has the capacity to sustain itself and the community. And you're giving the people you've helped welcome and nurture the opportunity to continue to do the work you've outlined in the past three years.

I know this sounds really emotional, but I don't think I've ever been well known around these parts (or any parts, really) for being level-headed and impartial. This is from the heart, because while I've never met you, I know you're a real person on the other end of the line. And? I have the distinct impression that person is pretty great, and that she and her family are going to continue to enjoy great things because of her.

Well damn, I am late on everything. I will miss you. But if I look around, your fingerprints are all over Eden. Love it. Glad we were graced with your company for as long as we did. You were always kind and nice to me, even when I was just downright annoying, that means your either one heck of a person, or a damn fine professional. I think... I know it is both, you are both.

Thank you for all the opportunities. I hope you find your next job as enjoyable, if not more enjoyable. Think of me when you are flying miles above the earth, jet setting the way you do!