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“Joey uses social media now in Brazil a lot. I think he
still goes out at night to find TS talent in clubs or on the
street. Going out on the street in Brazil was the primary
way he found talent when he started. Now that is not
the case. To me the Brazilian talent looks better than
ever. Social media—and social acceptance—has been the
reason for this.”
For Jay Sin, Evil’s other major TS shooter (Transsexual
Playground series), “TS talent is and was always a pain to
book because there is no agent for them so you got to
ask around if you want to shoot a certain model. There
are more ways to contact everyone now with social
media.
“There is a lot more TS talent available it seems
these days, with a lot of T-girls with blogs and sites—it
seems most professional T-girls got their own site or are
getting more work from the many TS sites out there.
Also, being labeled a porn star is attractive for T-girls
making a name for themselves. And for the many that
escort and travel, the ones who’ve been seen can keep
busy due to the exposure.”
Sin says he gets a lot of contact info from these escort
sites. “I just look around and see who is coming to town.
I get a lot of TS talent and male talent that want to be in
my TS movies contacting me directly also. I work with
TS talent from all around the world and I treat them all
with respect and regard them as females.”
Rodney Moore uses both ads and referrals to
recruit for his long-running Shemale Strokers solo line.
“Sometimes I find them online from ads they have
placed, but just as in straight porn, most girls who escort
don’t want to do adult video. There is the added issue
that many trans escorts don’t want there to be a visual
record of how they were before they fully transitioned.”
Moore started Shemale Strokers (distributed by
Exquisite) in 2002. Then, he says, “the genre was not
that popular.” He found that TS sites (“there were only
two, I believe”) were just showing photos. “I saw an
opportunity to grab an audience not only wanting trans
solos, but also to be able to watch the videos online.”
When he brought the first “Shemale” videos to
his then distributor, Odyssey Group Video, he was
dumbfounded to learn they planned to sell them to their
gay market. “I told them that would be a mistake. … Ask
any transgirl who their admirers are and they will tell
you straight men.”
How times have changed. Moore is “happy and excited
to see that the genre has become so popular. Of all the
niches I cover—BBWS, hairy girls, foot fetish, my own
Rodney stuff—my ShemaleStrokers.com site has the
most fans.”
Moore now rues using the name Sammy Mancini
as director because of what he perceived as a “huge
unfortunate stigma against trans performers. … Had
I to do it all over I would not have used a different
name, because much of the stigma has fortunately
disappeared.”
TS Spotlight Opposite page, Foxxy in Deep Inside Foxxy, a star showcase
directed by Nica Noelle for TransSensual/Mile High. This page from top, the
cast of The Tranny Bunch (Devil’s Film); director Rodney Moore with Holly
Parker and Kelly Klaymour at the TEA Show, where he sponsored an award;
and Nat, one of the performers in Jay Sin’s TS Playground 22 (Evil Angel).
And he doesn’t shy away from the sensitive subject of
terminology. “Words that were very popular and totally
acceptable back then— ‘shemale’ and ‘tranny’—have
now become politically incorrect. Many, though not all,
trans performers find these words offensive.” Online he
now uses only transgirls and transwomen, “except of
course for the site [name] itself, which is a brand that
can’t be changed.”
Steve Volponi began shooting transgirls for Digital
Playground’s Virtual Sex early in the millennium and
started his America’s Next Top Tranny line in 2006. During
that period trans talent was stellar. “Gia Darling, Vicky
Richter, Vanity, Carmen Cruz, really high end. Actually
there weren’t that many around at that time, but the
ones that were around were very popular.”
He has shot dozens of trans vids for Devil’s Film and
his own, all-trans line Goodfellas. “We have several lines
that I think are target lines that girls would like to be on
the covers of.”
Transsexual Prostitutes, Transsexual Cheerleaders and
Transsexual Babysitters are a few of the company’s
“staples.” Occasionally there’s an outlier like Transsexual
Glory Hole Surprise, which he calls “kind of a fun thing.”
His parody The Tranny Bunch was named Best Transsexual
Movie at the 2016 AVN Awards Show.
“Every once in a while we also try to put in a
Transsexual Gang Bangers—two scenes, one girl and four
guys in each, and one girl against the other. [Most
recently Jessica Fox vs. Khloe Hart.] Hot stuff. I get a lot
of girls bugging me to be in that movie. They all want to
do a gangbang. It’s pretty crazy.”
Would the stars he worked with 15 years ago have
gone in for that sort of thing? He laughs. “No, not a lot
of them. This new generation of girls is … they’re just
ready to rock. It’s such a better time for them now. With
Caitlyn Jenner coming out, it’s really mainstreaming
almost. Be in the genre, be a girl, be one of the
performers—they’re really making their way to the
forefront of this business.”
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