Taking the 2nd spot in our Q&A’s of adult star is the ‘Cleopatra of Porn’ Ms. Aryanna Starr. Hailing from the West Indies and bringing her Jamaican talents to the United States. I spoke with Aryanna for July Sex Features. Read below to find how our session went down.
Let’s start by finding out how you got into porn?
It was just something I wanted to do, I am a very sexual person and the girls I watched on the videos just seem bored and I figured I could bring life back into sex and video.
When was your first sexual experience?
When I was in college at 18 with a Kappa, I just wanted to get rid of it, there was no relationship or no falling in love.
Besides your on screen work, what other projects are you involved in?
Well, I have my hands in directing for my own projects at the moment like Face-Off which is in conjunction with Nyomi Banxxx and then after that, it will be The Sweetest Chocolate.
At one point in the industry, there was racial differences due to the demand of what viewers wanted to see. White female performers didn’t perform with Black male performers because there wasn’t a huge demand. Has there been a change since?
To a point, there will always be a racial issue in porn, because we just so happen to have viewers who wants to see what they are accustomed to or believe deep down. It use to be and still is to a point where new girls get told to not work with black guys by their agent because it will hurt their career. Nowadays some of the top female white girls love working with black men and don’t give the companies too much of an option anymore to shoot it if they want them in their movie. But now its switched, although there are interracial couples out there in the sense of black women dating white men, that side of the equation still isn’t acceptable. You will always see white women with black men because companies believe now its an acceptable market and it pays, but black women with white men isn’t all the way acceptable yet as far as numbers being sold in DVDs. It sucks but its the truth of this industry.
What’s are some of the biggest misconceptions about the adult industry?
There are many but the main one would be that all the porn women are whores. Now, what a girl or guy does in there spare time is what they do as an individual, but there are a small percentage like myself who don’t escort or come from a single parent background or the ghetto. All stipulations of what people assume. I have a degree, my parents are still together I was raised in a 4 bedroom house, medium class neighborhood, and I love God. This is just a road I wanted to take, my choice.
Apart from people you’ve been with on film, who’s the one person you would like to have sex with?
Wow, um I would have to say although it’s impossible, President Obama, he is sexy for an older man… (lmao) then it could be Hilary Clinton, only because she seems uptight. I think she needs a couple orgasms in her life… (lmao).
Are you single? If so, is it difficult dating a guy or gal outside of the adult film industry?
No, I am not single at the moment. I’ve been in a happy relationship for two and a half years with an adult male performer, who is currently the CEO of Silverback Entertainment Inc. All relationships are difficult, it wouldn’t matter if it was in the industry or not, its just something you have to work at like everything else if you want it to succeed. Honestly, if I wasn’t with him I wouldn’t date anybody outside of the industry. Not a lot of men or women are secure enough to handle my job, so why even place somebody in that situation.
Deep down, everyone wishes they could do porn, even it just for one moment but in the back of their head they worry about what their parents will think of their child. Do your parents know about your occupation? if so, how did they take it?
My parents don’t know and I wouldn’t tell them. I am 30 years old and my parents are in the age range from 62 to 71. Certain things I choose not to tell them, they just know I pay my bills and that I am healthy. I know it would break their heart if they knew because every parent wants their child to be the best that they can be no matter the occupation. My parents freaked when I told them I was exotic dancing and they finally excepted it 2 yrs ago. I couldn’t place that hurt on my parents face again. This isn’t something I will do for the rest of my life but when it comes time for me to tell them I want then to see the positive outcome of the life I’ve built for myself and my family.
How do you prepare mentally and physically for a movie?
I just take deep breaths and become a different person. Everybody always says they wish they could become a different person for a day and I get to do that every time I shoot a movie. By day, I am that classy wifey type, a true lady. On film, I am what every man wants with his wife or girlfriend, that freak in the sheets. Physically, I just make sure I am clean and good for that man or woman and mentally it doesn’t take a lot if that person is attractive, if not then I have to go into another place (lmao).
The adult film industry is suffering due to the growing number of online sites that showing movies for free. What efforts are you using and doing to keep your cash flow coming in? and how are you fighting against these sites?
You can’t fight against these sites honestly, but you can create your own site that these sites don’t have and make money from that. I’ve built a name for myself so for all my fans who do want to know about me and what I am doing and my next movie, they are gonna want to find out instead of keep seeing the same scenes that are already out. So I give them a site to log onto to see just me or a new release to buy that has just me. Porn will never die and everybody loves sex, some more extreme than others but still sex all the same. As long as I stay true to me and my fans love me for that then I won’t fail in this drowning market.
Favorite position? Lying down doggy-style
Is there a barrier for sex when it comes to filming and for personal satisfaction, i.e. are there things you won’t do on film but will do when the cameras off or vice versa?
Of course. Right now I don’t do anal on film but in my private life I might test the waters (lol). On film I do the spitting on the man’s privates and such just to bring the visuals to the camera. I’m not doing all that off camera (lol) you get the norm.
What were you doing before porn?
Finishing my Associates degree in medical assisting and starting my first year in pre-nursing, while working as an exotic dancer and modeling here and there.
Colleagues of yours such as Katie Morgan and Sasha Grey have been featured in mainstream movies, do you have any plans to make it on the big(ger) screen?
Well I’ve already done mainstream when I was little from Be-Be’s kids to A Different World and some other projects. If the opportunity presents itself again then I would love to do more mainstream.
Define success? Being Content with yourself and where you are in life.
