Which Porn Stars Like To Be Spanked?
I was thinking the other day about this photo of Golden Age porn queen Serena, who is shown getting and enjoying a very public whipping at a 1980s party. She was a kinky little thing who got spanked (or spanked somebody) in just about every movie she made where a spanking could be wedged into the so-called plot; there seems little doubt she was quite seriously into it. They called her “The Queen of Kink” for a reason!
But, you know, a lot of porn stars have gotten spanked over the years. In general, their smacked ass on screen is not diagnostic of what they truly like. One of the enduring mysteries of porn is whether the actress you’re watching writhe with pleasure is really into what she’s doing, or whether she’s, you know, acting. Unless you actually know her in really life and can, like, ask her, you’re unlikely to ever find out.
Another example: we’ll probably never know if Catherine Robbe-Grillet enjoyed all the lascivious crawling and groveling under the whip that she did in her infamous Radley Metzger enslavement epic The Punishment Of Anne. Her chops as an actress make it impossible even to guess. And she worked in an era when candid interviews were not much of a thing; every statement was calculated for its public relations impact. This is just one of the many ways in which everything changed when the internet was invented!
Younger readers may not know that when the web was new, webcams were very different than today; they were more voyeuristic and less interactive. Instead of asking and paying a cams performer to perform for you specifically or for a small group of fans in a virtual room, cameras were left on 24/7 (or close to it) and performers (who were usually already porn stars before they became camgirls) made sure to do lots of sexy stuff in full view of the cameras. But the best of them also lived their lives in front of those cameras, which meant that the kinky ones sometimes gave quite a show! If you wanted to know about the intimate lives of your favorite porn performers, you just subscribed to her pornstar webcam and watched until her real-life boyfriend came over. You wouldn’t think those ladies would be so open about their lives, but they often were!
For the true pre-internet golden age stars, though, we’re left with reviewing their body of work (over and over, heh!) and speculating. Luckily, there are more that a few cases where a pure love of kink shines through. Vanessa Del Rio is probably the best example of this: she made hundreds of porn movies, but BDSM was clearly a part of the work that she enjoyed.
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