“I liked the name ‘Ivy Green,'” says the 19-year-old from Phoenix. “but it was kind of common and boring. I like the name ‘Demi’ because I’m half a lot of things. Half Desire, Half Evil. Half God.”
I met Demi last October when I was working with AVN on the nominations for this year’s AVN Awards (more on that later). Now and then AVN hosts a Getting To Know You afternoon for newcomers to the adult business whereat I interviewed Green and the Spanish performer Betty Foxxx. Green’s interview recently appeared in AVN’s “Fresh Faces” section.
Years ago, Fresh Faces was known as Fresh Off the Bus. That title was a nod to the Porn Valley of eld, where future starlets really did disembark at the North Hollywood Greyhound Station to be met by people like the late Bill Margold, or Ed Powers, or even John Holmes, and spirited away to exotic locales like Van Nuys, Chatsworth, or Glendale for what can only be described as grooming.
That these young women had the agency to make their own decisions, had the desire and curiosity to enter a business that, before the 1988 Freeman Decision effectively decriminalized adult video production in California, was illegal, and had the bravado to jump into what was then a murky and undefined pool, is indisputable. What is also true is that the adult business is full of social fine print, unintended consequences, and thrilling danger proportional to money, community, and attention that is best exemplified, I guess, by an early-middle-age John Holmes picking up an 18-year-old at the Magnolia Blvd. bus station in his Datsun.
Four years ago, when I was 19, I didn’t have Green’s confidence.
“I’m a dirty slut on camera because that’s basically me off camera,” she says in our first interview, having also mentioned that anyone back home who found out she was in porn wouldn’t be too surprised.
I expected to see Green at the AVN Show, the way I bumped into Betty Foxxx several times, but I didn’t. Then I found out that she changed her name.
Porn name changes are not uncommon. Katsumi became Katsuni. Natalia Cruze became Sophia Santi. Dakota Skye became Kota Sky for a minute and I, of course, had to change my name from Ronnie James Dio.
But the newly-minted Demi Desire just got bored. She changed her name a few days before the AVN article came out. I ask her what she’s been doing since we met in October.
“Not too much,” she says. “But I did give my first rim job.”
This is absolutely newsworthy and, because I am a hard-hitting journalist, ask: “How was it? Were you apprehensive?”
“I was a bit nervous but it was definitely something I’ve been wanting to try,” she says. “Since I’m usually the one on the receiving side, It was fun.”
Myself, I like the name Ivy Green the way I like the name Alina Lopez or Manuel Ferrara—just a solid name that doesn’t hit you over the head that it’s a pseudonym. But I trust that Demi Desire (and I will call her Demi Desire from now on, or until she changes her name to Ronnie James Dio), who looks like the Girl Next Door (especially in Phoenix) who can show you, your dad, or your older sister a thing or two, can pull it off.
Demi Desire’s Twitter handle is @DemiDesireXXX, and she’s splitting her time between Arizona and L.A.
“My home base is Phoenix still,” she says. “I’m hoping to move to LA sometime in the near future, (but I) just know I’ll miss my family a lot.”
Leaving home is a big deal, however old you are.
“Definitely starting a new chapter in life,” she says, “deciding to do something I want to do. That being porn.”
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: My Unfortunate ‘Fresh Off the Bus’ from 2003 with Nautica Binx
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