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WHO’S WHO
FRESH FACES
Lyra Louvel: Pain and Gain
Hometown: Southern California | Age: 22 | Height: 5-foot-7 | Weight: 115 pounds | Hair: Blonde | Eyes: Green
At AVN’s periodic meet-and-greet nights for new
talent, it’s not uncommon to interview a performer
with just a few titles to her credit. But when Lyra
Louvel talked to us this summer, she hadn’t even shot
her first scene.
That’s not to say she was the naïve girl next door. Long-
legged, lean and confident, Louvel was already a pro in another
sexual arena: For the past year she has been working as a
domme out of her own dungeon in downtown L.A. So our
conversation was not what one would expect from a SoCal girl
who “grew up super religious.”
When did she take a turn for the kinky?
“People always told me, ‘You know you’re going to end up a
porn star,’ and I’m like, middle finger up, ‘You’re wrong.’ But
they’d see traits in me. ‘You’re so expressive. You embody your
own sexuality.’ So they were actually complimenting me.”
The first time she saw porn was right after her parents
brought home a computer. “My sister pulled it up,” Louvel
recalled. “Actually, it was gay porn. It was these two guys going
at it in a truck. And they were covering each other with cum. At
first I thought, ewwww, but later …”
After that, she refined her tastes. “I’m only 22, but I watched
a lot of Kink.com that was, sadly, stolen.”
After a year working as a pro domme, however, Louvel said
she is ready for something new. “I’m done femdom porn—
which is just ass licking, pussy licking, feet, ball busting—
things like that. Glenn King, I shot for him, and Femdom
Empire. And other dommes’ websites.”
In porn, she said, as opposed to the strict BDSM world,
“Everyone’s so lax and cool and nice.” Porn also offers her
more latitude in expressing her own sexuality, since in a lot of
pro domme work, she noted, there is little sexual interaction
with slaves. But it depends on a slave’s background: “Did you
grow up on Kink.com or did you grow up on OWK [Old World
Kingdom]? An OWK slave never wants to touch you in a sexual
way. … Some dommes don’t even show their bodies.”
Louvel is more flexible. “I’m a bisexual switch—I like to have
my cake and eat it too. … It opens it all up to girls and guys,
hitting and being hit. I don’t like doing something to someone
else that I haven’t experienced myself.”
Not surprisingly, Louvel has taken note of some performers
who seem to share her mindset, notably Aiden Starr, Gigi
Allens and Skin Diamond. And she’d like to follow in their
footsteps, doing standard boy/girl and girl/girl scenes as well as
femdom.
“I want to do it all. I think that’s maybe why some people
haven’t approached me because they think I only want to be
a dominatrix in porn. I’m a human being. I have vagina-dick
sex all the time. That’s the mistake about dommes. They think
we’re constantly butt-fucking dudes—like the only time we
have sex is with a strap-on.”
But she does enjoy the trappings of her profession. “Your
wardrobe is your arsenal,” she said, noting that she especially
lusts after Syren latex and a U.K. brand called House of
Harlot—though the latter is currently out of her price range.
But who knows what treasures a few porn shoots could bring
into her reach? “I’m fucking for latex and leather,” Louvel
joked. “That’s gonna be my thing.”
Book Lyra Louvel through ATMLA.com.
—Sharan Street
Haley Banks: Bound and Determined
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia | Age: 19 | Height: 5-foot-2 | Weight: 108 pounds | Eyes: Brown | Hair: Brunette
she’d been in the adult business for all of three
When we first spoke to Haley Banks in late July,
weeks, but already had five or six scenes under
her belt and was ready for more—like the boy/
girl/girl scene she had booked for early the
following month. It’d be a real treat, she said, because although
she’s had sex with women in her private life, this would be her
first on-camera muff-diving.
“Before I got into porn, I did camming for a little while, but
that just wasn’t really my thing, so I wanted something more
face-to-face and a little more fast-paced, so I decided to choose
this as a career path,” she said. “I had quit my job—I was
working at a smoke shop—and so I was home a lot. So once I
left my job, I still wanted to be working, but I didn’t want to
be doing food service or everything that I had been doing, so I
started camming, and that kind of opened me up to more stuff,
and then this is where it landed me.”
But considering that she told us that her favorite scene that
she’s like to do involves a “bondage insane asylum,” we figure
she’ll be expanding her horizons beyond boy/girl or even boy/
girl/girl in the near future.
“My goal is to eventually, later on in my career, be doing
things for Kink,” Banks admitted. “I think BDSM is just more
than sex, in a sense; it opens up mental boundaries that you’ve
before, so to me, BDSM is more than some people may perceive
it as, so my dream sex scene would be to do a bondage insane
asylum thing, which I don’t know; I always thought it would be
cool to be in a straitjacket or something.”
Also on the (possibly far) horizon: Anal, which she’s done in
her personal life, “but for now, I’m holding off on my anal card.”
Speaking of her personal life, Banks is quite the
outdoorswoman.
“I definitely like hiking,” she said. “Where I’m from, there’s
not a lot of mountains, so in California, it’s kind of cool because
I’m around all the mountains. … At home, we have a bunch
of waterfalls, so I like to hike to the waterfalls and things like
that—and go skinny-dipping.”
Banks recently got her GED and would like to go to
community college, though she doesn’t yet have a major in
mind. She’d also like to travel, possibly with the boyfriend who
accompanied her to California—and she’ll probably have the
time for it, considering that the words she lives by are, “I will
never quit, even after death.” In fact, that’s tattooed on her hip.
“I believe in some sort of afterlife, but I don’t believe we’re
all going to be damned for anything that we’ve done,” she
explained. “I think there’s a bigger lesson.”
Banks is signed with ATMLA.com, and her Twitter handle is
@haleybanksxxx.
had. You get to experience things that you haven’t experienced
—Mark Kernes
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