Pornstar interviews - Professional adult actors answer some very nosy questions...
We spoke to two female adult porn actors: Tanya Tate and Samantha Bentley, and porn director, CEO & Founder of Joybear Pictures, Justin Ribeiro dos Santos for a little bit of insight into the realities of an industry that is often misunderstood.
Does working in porn mean you can't enjoy porn or sex yourself?
Tanya: "If you work in a restaurant you still enjoy good food. As a porn star, I can appreciate both gentle sex and hard, fast, animalistic sex; it depends on the mood. For me, I still enjoy normal, regular sex when I am off camera. It's more intimate, and there's something about not having a room full of crew watching you that makes it more special."
Samantha: "For a long time (over a year) I didn't have sex off cameras, so for me to do it I really need to feel something for someone that entices and excites me. I want intimacy and closeness. If I just want an orgasm I can make that happen at work. It has only been very recently that I have been open to having sex off camera again.
"But I find that now I'm more insecure in the bedroom off camera because I am incredibly self-aware. I spend every day learning which angles are good, what side my head needs to be on for lighting and so on and so forth, that I have forgotten how to have real sex! Yup, porn stars get insecure too."
Justin: "I need to be particularly careful not to over expose myself to pornographic content. Naturally we view quite a lot of explicit material, and I don't ever want it to interfere with my personal life."
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Do you have to come for real? Has your come face ever been "prettied up"?
Tanya: "I know what I like and what turns me on, so I can direct my partner to pleasure me. Sometimes it's hard not to screw your face up when you're coming and you have to remember the camera is there capturing it all. Some directors will ask you to come on demand, that can sometimes be tricky, but you just have to put yourself in the moment and let go."
Justin: "Good question. I refer to this as the 'monkey face'. I think one of the most amazing things porn stars do is specifically to have an orgasm. Whether real or fake (but especially if real) I think a performer is at their most vulnerable when climaxing and I don't think it's right to interfere with that. Fortunately we have never had such a terribly off-putting 'come face' that we've had to ask the model if we can re-shoot it. This is one of the reasons I would never go in front of the camera as I have a sneaky feeling I would be the one to buck that trend (ooh ooh)."
Samantha: "My face is never pretty, I constantly look like I'm crying. I like my movies to be real so all my orgasms are real and any reactions I have are real. I cannot stand girls that moan the entire way through their scenes, even when they aren't being touched. I know I look ridiculous when I have sex so I don't try and pretty it up, that's my face, don't like it? Don't watch it…"
How often do female actors wax? Doesn't it get irritated?
Samantha: "Yes. It does. I no longer wax nor shave. I grew it out and went for the retro bush about a year ago. At first it was strange going from completely Hollywood, but I actually love it. Surprisingly, it gets me a lot of work, and a lot of guys like it; it's becoming a porn trend at the moment.
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"It's so much more comfortable; shaving/waxing would leave me with stubble and friction burn and little red bumps. Ladies [and people with vaginas], love your downstairs and let it grow, if someone can't appreciate that adults have hair down there, they do not deserve to be near you in the first place.
"Obviously, doing this job means maintaining my appearance at all times, but I see girls shaving every day, waxing, lasering, having their butt holes bleached, spending hours on a sun bed."
We spoke to two female adult porn actors: Tanya Tate and Samantha Bentley, and porn director, CEO & Founder of Joybear Pictures, Justin Ribeiro dos Santos for a little bit of insight into the realities of an industry that is often misunderstood.
Does working in porn mean you can't enjoy porn or sex yourself?
Tanya: "If you work in a restaurant you still enjoy good food. As a porn star, I can appreciate both gentle sex and hard, fast, animalistic sex; it depends on the mood. For me, I still enjoy normal, regular sex when I am off camera. It's more intimate, and there's something about not having a room full of crew watching you that makes it more special."
Samantha: "For a long time (over a year) I didn't have sex off cameras, so for me to do it I really need to feel something for someone that entices and excites me. I want intimacy and closeness. If I just want an orgasm I can make that happen at work. It has only been very recently that I have been open to having sex off camera again.
"But I find that now I'm more insecure in the bedroom off camera because I am incredibly self-aware. I spend every day learning which angles are good, what side my head needs to be on for lighting and so on and so forth, that I have forgotten how to have real sex! Yup, porn stars get insecure too."
Justin: "I need to be particularly careful not to over expose myself to pornographic content. Naturally we view quite a lot of explicit material, and I don't ever want it to interfere with my personal life."
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Do you have to come for real? Has your come face ever been "prettied up"?
Tanya: "I know what I like and what turns me on, so I can direct my partner to pleasure me. Sometimes it's hard not to screw your face up when you're coming and you have to remember the camera is there capturing it all. Some directors will ask you to come on demand, that can sometimes be tricky, but you just have to put yourself in the moment and let go."
Justin: "Good question. I refer to this as the 'monkey face'. I think one of the most amazing things porn stars do is specifically to have an orgasm. Whether real or fake (but especially if real) I think a performer is at their most vulnerable when climaxing and I don't think it's right to interfere with that. Fortunately we have never had such a terribly off-putting 'come face' that we've had to ask the model if we can re-shoot it. This is one of the reasons I would never go in front of the camera as I have a sneaky feeling I would be the one to buck that trend (ooh ooh)."
Samantha: "My face is never pretty, I constantly look like I'm crying. I like my movies to be real so all my orgasms are real and any reactions I have are real. I cannot stand girls that moan the entire way through their scenes, even when they aren't being touched. I know I look ridiculous when I have sex so I don't try and pretty it up, that's my face, don't like it? Don't watch it…"
How often do female actors wax? Doesn't it get irritated?
Samantha: "Yes. It does. I no longer wax nor shave. I grew it out and went for the retro bush about a year ago. At first it was strange going from completely Hollywood, but I actually love it. Surprisingly, it gets me a lot of work, and a lot of guys like it; it's becoming a porn trend at the moment.
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"It's so much more comfortable; shaving/waxing would leave me with stubble and friction burn and little red bumps. Ladies [and people with vaginas], love your downstairs and let it grow, if someone can't appreciate that adults have hair down there, they do not deserve to be near you in the first place.
"Obviously, doing this job means maintaining my appearance at all times, but I see girls shaving every day, waxing, lasering, having their butt holes bleached, spending hours on a sun bed."