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INTERVIEW | |By Mark Kernes
Down Under was, for want of a better word, adversarial. Back in the 1990s, when few
adult producers were shipping their videotapes Down Under, only a couple
It wasn’t too long ago that the U.S. adult industry’s relationship with Australia
of the country’s six states—the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital
Territory—allowed sexually explicit material to be sold at all, and that had to
be by mail order, and even in those, piracy was rife.
But times change, and now shops in all states sell XXX product (they refer to
it as “X18+”), even though it remains illegal, and there are few busts to stem
the availability. Then, in 2000, the internet saw the launch of AbbyWinters.
com, a paysite featuring girl/girl and solo action mainly from Australian beauties
and newbies, that’s since expanded into DVD production and widened its talent
pool—and moved its base of operations to the Netherlands, in part because of
increasing censorship from Australia’s conservative federal government.
And then came Angela White.
“The first company I worked with was The Score Group, because obviously
I have these big natural breasts and they specialize in that, so I did some solo
sets for them,” White recalled. Then she spent the next eight years doing solo
and girl/girl scenes and movies for both Score Group and Abby Winters, even as
she was completing her degree and honors in gender studies at the University of
Melbourne—and then, she decided, it was time—time to leave girl/girl behind,
and time to start shooting content on her own.
So she went for it—all the way to Los Angeles, what with Australian laws
regarding shooting and distributing XXX material “a bit gray,” she said.
“If you want to produce a lot of content like I do through DVD production for
my website, there’s just not the talent base in Australia,” she explained. “That’s
not even getting into the fact that there’s not even location services that you can
use. We don’t have as big a mainstream film industry there either, and we have
a very high minimum wage as well. Obviously, people come to adult for so many
different reasons. I’m in it because I love sex, but others are in it for the money
or other reasons, but they come into adult, and the money really isn’t worth it
because, first of all, there’s not much work, and also because when you come into
adult there’s a stigma associated with it, so there needs to be a reason that would
overcome the stigma, I guess.”
& Dirty Angela White loves porn … as she shows her newest DVDs
White’s bisexual, though she’d prefer to describe herself as “sapiosexual”—
”I’m attracted to intellect. I love intelligent people. I love people I can have an
intelligent conversation with, but if we have to put me in a little box, I guess I’d
say I’m bisexual, yeah; I can go with that.”—so one of the things that stopped
her from performing hetero sex on camera for so long was a worry that producers
would stop offering her girl/girl work.
“Before I was shooting for myself, one of the reasons I didn’t do boy/girl
straight-away was I was like, ‘Once I do boy/girl, are companies going to book
me for girl/girl?’” she said. “I was worried about that, and at that point, I didn’t
have my own website, so now, I make my own destiny. I’m like, ‘Who do I want
to shoot with? I want to have you all to myself; I want to have you with another
guy’—now I get to have that freedom.”
Following the move to produce in the United States came her distribution deal
with Girlfriends Films, which began in October of last year. “I’m so grateful that
Moose took me on with Girlfriends Films,” she added, “because before, I was
releasing my content on AngelaWhite.com, but now I’m reaching a far bigger
audience with my DVD releases and I’m really happy with how it’s been going, so
thank you, Girlfriends Films.”
After attending the Adult Entertainment Expo and AVN Awards for several
years, 2015 was the first year she worked a booth, and of course, it was Girlfriends
Films’—and she also did a stint at Fleshlight’s.
“I was quite excited to become the first Australian Fleshlight girl—mine came
out in October of last year—so that was exciting, and then obviously being part
of the Fleshlight team is so much fun; they’re great people to be involved with;
they really treat you as part of the family,” White said. “Sales are great, and it’s
another way that I can offer my fans to become intimate with me, to get closer to
me, and because I do webcam shows through my website, my fans are able to use
the Fleshlight to imagine that they’re fucking me. When I have time, when I’m not
producing or editing, I log on to see my fans, and it’s another way for me to have
fun with them as well, because if we do cam-to-cam, then I can actually see them
fucking my Fleshlight and I can talk to them and ask them how it feels and tell
them how to use it.”
But White is especially excited about her distribution deal with Girlfriends
Films, which she credits with really getting her work into the public eye—and
she’s got one title that just came out in July and another coming August 10.
“Angela Loves Men showcases four of my favorite one-on-one sessions with male
talent. One of them is my scene with Ramon Nomar, which was the first time
I squirted, ever, on or off camera, so that’s really intense. I think he’s amazing;
a completely underrated talent. He always brings a lot of passion to set, always
brings his A game, so I’m really on Team Ramon. The other scenes, one is with
Danny Mountain. It’s very erotic; he very much worships me head to toe, which I
enjoyed. Then there’s the scene with Manuel Ferrara, which is really intense.
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