Who would have guessed that the editor of these sex-positive magazines was not having fabulous sex all the time. Well, it happened in some fabulous locations with some fabulous people. It just wasn’t fabulous in that one way.

Do you think the Internet has been good or bad for feminism? It really is both. It’s a place where women get harassed more than ever before — but then it’s also a place where I could have this woman, Brianna Wu, write a story about her GamerGate harassment and then create a lot of awareness about the issue. Over all I would say good, but certainly a lot of bad in the getting there.

Sassy had such a webby voice — it was ahead of its time. Now your writers are still pouring their hearts out, but they’re making less than their counterparts did 20 years ago, and they’re being attacked so much more. Do you feel bad for them? I definitely do. I don’t see any of them getting inured to it. They have to turn out so much material, and that also causes them to burn out so much more quickly. There’s some that I’ve worked with since the very beginning of the site, a little over three years, but that’s not the norm. Many of them will burn out after six months, a year, two years, whatever. They just want to get out of it.

Do you feel that being an editor is a little less fun because of the potential for public shaming on social media? I talk to my editors and writers a lot about how easy it is to get caught up in thinking about what the comments are going to be. Writing that cautiously, at least for what we do, it really doesn’t work. You have to keep putting yourself out there and taking chances. You can let readers guide what you do, but not what you don’t do.

How have readers responded to news about the sale? Rather than band together, a lot of readers took the opportunity to tell me everything that was wrong with the site. I wanted to have the funeral now and hear all the great things now — not that the site is dying, but you know, come on!