Faith's early work is cute and sexy, she always appeared to be the 'girl next door' - an understated, curvaceous, huge breasted, incredibly pretty youngster with more than a hint of vulnerability.
However, in the light of Faith changing her mind about stripping off for the cameras, and declaring herself happy as a function of that, I now wonder about some of those pics - there are sets in which her expression hints at all sorts of emotions, from worried, to confused, to teasing, back to unsure... There could be many reasons: Faith capitalising on her own special appeal; the best body shots may have just been the ones that also caught 'inbetween' facial expressions; perhaps the photographer, support, studio, post-shoot editing, whatever, could have been 'better.'
Then she changed. Whether through working-out, or diet, or simply growing more into her own body and becoming a woman, she lost weight, and curves... and people complained.
I understand the sentiment behind some of those complaints, but they were insensitively expressed. There seemed to be a 'Faith 1' and a 'Faith 2', and fans of Faith 1 felt a kind of loss, like Faith 1 had been killed by Faith 2, and it was as if they wanted to give a little pay back. That wasn't really fair, though, and I think, if anyone had enjoyed a lot of Faith's early work (and especially if they never paid for it) then those... exertions... perhaps should be appreciated, rather than cast aside with scathing comments when they came (!) to an end.
Then Faith said there would be no more explicit shots, nor even topless, and she wouldn't confirm whether her new 'projects' were even to do with, or related to, the glamour industry.
People complained again.
Faith said she's happier now. Fans have said she looks happier in her more recent work, the non nude stuff.
Through all of this, I have only seen one ligitimate complaint: Faith's website is still taking membership payments, but is no longer being regularly updated; plus, both the inbedwithfaith.com website, and the inbedwithfaith.org website are advertising videos (which she no longer makes), and feature topless shots in the promotional material. This is arguably illegal, and Faith should sort it out. That is the only legitimate complaint on this entire thread.
Note, though, that only two people complained about the website. Those two individuals, however, were responsible for the majority of the anti-Faith flaming that took place (one of them has since been banned). The ire of these guys was directed rather specifically at the Freeones member 'inbedwithfaith' (who most of us believe to be the real Faith. Certainly, 'inbedwithfaith' knows Faith's history with a casual intimacy which suggests it is her).
Which means that everyone else either supported Faith anyway, didn't care enough to get involved, or didn't like her changes/decisions but simply moved on to pastures new. Most of us were on-side, and didn't flame her.
I don't believe Faith left Freeones becasue two people flamed her, I believe she would have left anyway - increasingly, she would reiterate in her posts that she was only here to set the record straight, and as a consequence of her overall move away from porn, I believe her relationship with Freeones reached a natural conclusion.
She has explained to us, as have webmasters, that she is not in control of the hundreds of images of her flying around the internet. Much of the work, she isn't proud of, and she's very focused on moving on.
In many respects, her 'fans' are not helping with this.
I think it would be a true test of Faith's followers if you could ask her if she wanted this discussion thread closed down, to be replaced with one that features only links to non-nude work, and if that was her desire, to then lobby the moderators to make it so.
She shared herself with the world, seemingly more out of naivety than natural desire, and we enjoyed her. Be grateful, and supportive.
