SURPRISE, AZ –As reported earlier, after less than a month’s employment, webmaster/now adult performer Geoff Mena, aka Chef Jeff, is no longer a tennis center recreation specialist for the city of Surprise AZ’s community and recreation services department.In addition to services for adults, the city offers team tennis lessons, classes, and programs for children aged 5 – 18. Given that he never received a reprimand or poor performance evaluation, Mena found the reason for his removal baffling. As he explains, the “official reason for my dismissal was that the city didn’t have a reason to fire me.”

According to Mena, he discussed his work history within the adult industry with his soon-to-be supervisor, with whom he has a “13 year personal history.” The supervisor, a former Wimbledon champion who had made the hiring recommendation in the first place, assured him that he felt the information was “irrelevant” to his position at the tennis center.

Unfortunately, not long afterwards, the city received an anonymous letter from someone claiming to be an outraged parent who had uncovered his past via Google and considered it anything but irrelevant. After expressing concern for the safety of his wife and daughters in Mena’s presence, the unknown writer informed the city that he would not bring his family to the Surprise tennis courts while Mena remained employed there. On the next business day after the letter was received, the man with 12 years of tennis experience who was selected from 150 applicants was handed his walking papers.

Post-firing employee chatter has made him think that a moralistic co-worker may have actually authored the poison pen letter.

Mena says that while he agrees that parents have a right to hold and express opinions about those who come into contact with their children, as well as decide whether to allow such contact, these particular objections are off base for a number of reasons, among them the fact that his job “did not have me working directly with children and teenagers.” As he describes it, his job with the city of Surprise “was not as a tennis instructor. My job was administrative, to direct the adult leagues and programs, as well as to greet patrons and encourage participation in all of the events, tournaments, leagues, and other activities at the tennis center. I only taught a few lessons during the time I was there because the city had yet to hire the full-time tennis instructors.”

All of that aside, the man known as Chef Jeff to others in the adult industry asks the question of many when he wonders why his involvement in a legal industry aimed at adults should make him “unsuitable to teach children.” As he points out, “I’m also a gun owner; does that make me unsuitable to teach tennis to children, too?” Joining many before him who have sought to do as the mainstream claims it wants and take a supposedly legit job, Mena objects to the fact that the accusations “demonize me. I feel like a criminal, but I am not. I love kids and I love to teach tennis to kids. But my duties and job description did not include teaching tennis to children or teens.”

Perhaps equally ironic is the fact that his previous work within the adult industry rarely brought him into contact with the performers. Instead, he has generally worked in a webmaster, sales and marketing, or music and visual production capacity, including hosting and co-hosting a variety of Web radio shows. Even with that, he observes that “My work in the adult entertainment industry represents less than half of my portfolio.”

According to Mena, even a member of the city council with whom he played tennis frequently “agreed that my past association with the adult entertainment industry was not a problem.” Yet a single, anonymous letter was all it took to see his aspirations to work outside of it come to an end – and representatives for the city have repeatedly declined comment on the issue, recommending that queries be directed to the city attorneys, who Mena reports have also refused to provide answers or information.

“No one can say why,” Mena opines, “because this was clearly discriminatory and prejudiced.”

Further adding to the irony of this situation is the fact that Mena was fired one day after his 30th birthday and on a day that Americans have come to equate with the eternal fight for freedom, September 11th. After professing a great respect for America’s Armed Forces, Mena expresses special regret that the author of the anonymous letter identified itself as having been a former Marine. “They must not value the freedoms that they served to defend,” Mena concludes, “and have only shamed themselves by not having the courage to sign their name to the letter. The only word I can find to describe the author of the letter is ‘cowardly.’ It disgraces the Corps because I don’t think the Marines are cowards; they are heroes that we should all be proud of.”

Having lost his position at the tennis facility, Mena currently shoots content for IBangPornStars.com and performs POV scenes with industry notables such as Candy Manson and Trina Michaels on the site, which he describes as “a real look at the lifestyle I have chosen to live. It’s a non-scripted, reality content site. I spend every weekend with a different porn star and document the whole thing! It’s met with rave reviews and will surely convert for anyone that sends traffic. ”

The need to return has prompted a renewed respect for the adult industry.

“I shifted my career and thus, the source of my income, completely. Thank goodness I didn’t sell all of my computer and content production equipment. I was able to start back in the Web business again, right away. I have a new project with MayorsMoney.com launching soon. It’s very exciting. This situation has caused me to think a great deal about the direction of my life. As a result, I am taking the plunge and am working as not only the producer of the new project, but also as the male talent.”

For all its faults, as Mena asks and concludes, “Where else but American can this happen? I cherish the freedoms that we have.”