“People just want to dominate me,” says Ela Darling. “What the fuck?”

“Some women are comfortable being sexy right out of the gate, sexy and naked in person,” Michael Charles says. “And they can be a dream to work with. But it’s a skill to bring that look or emotion out with your camera, so that it translates to a webpage or a magazine.”

If Aiden Starr is past 21 and still showing up in “Barely Legal” movies, does that mean all those milves don’t have offspring waiting at home?

“I’m really into aftercare in any kinky situation,” says January Seraph. “I just did something horrific to you—let me give you a hug.”

“These people are my family,” Hartley says. “And I really feel supported. I like seeing them without having to have a benefit, of course.”

“I feel bad for the guys who got into the business in the 70′s and 80′s and 90′s and were rolling in money but they didn’t adapt,” Ivan says. “They’re the guys suffering now.”

I knew I was dealing with serious Trekkies when Giles, the British Patrick Stewart lookalike whose business card features the actor dressed as both Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Xavier from “X-Men,” used the word “canonical.”

“So,” I said, thinking too hard, “did you porn-name yourself after Nice in France and no one figured out how to pronounce it?”

Sage’s origin story is similar in theme, if not the particulars, to that of a lot of people. She got spanked in public and a switch flipped.

This may be the most vivid allegory of the porn industry by a parody yet; a movie about prostitution interpreted by people who have sex for money but who do not consider themselves prostitutes.

“Save Me from Myself” is a little like “The Devil in Miss Jones,” in which Miss Jones finds herself in Hell having not really enjoyed the life that got her there.

“I was always dirty in the head,” Allie Haze said, “but I never acted on it. [Porn] is liberating in that it frees your mind about other things, too.”

Lily Labeau is the type of person you’d like no matter how many clothes she has on

I have worked in the adult industry long enough to respect the double standards on which it is built, and some of these require a great deal of finesse to negotiate.

As I am Bogue Chitto Despicable, I found it intriguing to speak with the Minnesota Nice Zoe Voss

India Summer on how she knows a blowjob is about to be successful: “Vessels start to expand, things tighten in strange places…”

If I could distill stripper smell—I would have another useless skill. But it would be worth it.

Sunny Lane has met thousands of porn consumers, and her archsexpot manner must work; she was trailed by very eager fans everywhere she went.

“When I’m in a club, dancing,” Chanel Preston says, “I really have to try to see it from (the customer’s) side.”

One reason I’m glad the world has Phoenix Marie is that she’s all about the casual customer service; she doesn’t up the wattage artificially, nor does she make you do all the work. She just wants you to calm down and let her grind her ass into your crotch.