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INTERVIEW | |By Sharan Street
Kendra’s WHO’S WHO
Photo credit: Jeff Koga (@kogafoto)
to have an army. And it just so happens that’s
When you’re out to conquer new lands, it helps
what Kendra Lust has at her disposal—427K
Twitter followers strong and counting.
Perhaps that explains how this pretty brunette
Midwesterner came to take over so much territory in the
adult industry this past year.
Let’s review. In January 2015 she started off strong at the
AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, signing with ArchAngel
Productions and shooting several titles, including True
Lust (nominated for Best Star Showcase in the 2016 AVN
Awards). A directing gig with Zero Tolerance also came
along, as well as a toy deal with Evolved Novelties to serve
as the exclusive model for the Perfect Stroke masturbator.
Then there was Society 15, her talent agency, launched with
a festive industry party in November. And to top it off, Lust
ended the year by shooting for her own company, aptly
named Lust Army Productions.
Lust invited AVN on set during her first weekend of
shooting. With her impeccable curves covered only by a
few strategically placed black strips of fabric, heart-shaped
pasties, a mesh thong and pointy, thigh-high boots, Lust
looked ready to take charge of her role as a dom. She talked
with ace cinematographer Alex Ladd about the setup for the
sex scene, in which she would perform with Reena Sky.
“Her boyfriend wants to try anal so she comes to me
and hires me as a professional dom,” Lust explained. The
bedroom in which they’re shooting is filled with color:
yellow walls and lots of red and black accents, including
chandeliers and bondage toys.
Tall, tanned and lean, Sky was decked out in a hot pink
club dress that showed plenty of skin. Lust undressed her
for the pretty-girl shots. “We’re gonna show off the ass,”
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Army How one Midwestern girl invaded the adult industry
Lust said, slipping off Sky’s thong. Throughout
various poses, Lust was careful to keep Sky lower
than her at all times, to emphasize her dominance.
Along the way, Lust got naked herself, eliciting an
endearing purr of pleasure from Sky.
In one of the last poses, Sky dangled off the edge
of the bed, her ass high in the air. “I like this,”
Lust murmered. “If I had a penis I would piledrive
you.”
There was no penis, but there were plenty of
toys. Consulting with Sky, she selected the bigger
dildo—“Just go for it—see what happens,” Sky
said—but it turned out a smaller one was called
for. After sliding a medium-sized blue dong inside
Sky’s pucker, thanks to some lube, Lust surveyed
her work and laughed. “Like I’m some anal pro.
I’ve done one scene,” she said, referencing her anal
debut in Greg Lansky’s Miss Tushy (an AVN Award
nominee for Best Anal Sex Scene).
With the pretty-girl shots out of the way, it was
time for lunch. There to help keep things running
smoothly with the shoot were Lust’s compatriots
from Society 15, Randy Quintana and Rita Ruiz,
and her husband, traveling with her from their
home in Michigan. She sat down for a bit to talk
about her new ventures—and also about how she
ended up here in Porn Valley.
Elaborating on the shoot for Lust Army
Productions, Lust explained that she has a
relationship with ArchAngel for releasing her
movies. “They’ve agreed to let me distribute one
movie a month. So it will be ArchAngel presents
Lust Army Productions, and it will be distributed
by Girlfriends Films.”
The debut title will be called First Lust. “It’s
an all-girl movie with performers making their
anal debut with toys,” Lust explained, with each
scene involving a first girl/girl anal for one of
the performers. “I have Reena Skye … And then
Veruca James, she’ll be doing it with Lyra Louvel.”
Other performers in the movie are Jada Stevens
and Nina Elle, and Kenzie Taylor with Anikka
Albrite.
Asked what she hopes to bring to her own
productions, Lust said, “Just coming from a
woman’s perspective, I don’t think there’s enough
passion and real-life sex. I like some of the
amateur stuff because it’s more realistic to me.
Girls aren’t always done up—sometimes when
we have sex it’s spontaneous. It’s not this ideal,
beautiful location; it’s just in the confines of our
bedroom.”
Lust also talked about her work for Zero
Tolerance. “I’m directing one movie maybe every
two months; they give me discretion to do what I
want to do.” Her next project will be titled Visions
of Lust. “I’ll be in one scene but it’ll kind of be my
fantasies and some of the stars in the industry who
I think would be hot together: boy/girl, girl/girl/
girl, boy/boy/girl—kind of mixing it up. … It’s be
a little bit of a story line, at least a couple of pages
to establish what’s going on in the scene.”
Toy deals, directing gigs, a talent agency—how
did all of this start? As many performers do these
days, Lust began with webcamming.
“I was a nurse working midnights. I needed
another way to make money, and I knew going
back to school wasn’t feasible. … I’d been doing
it for about three months and I thought, ‘This is
really fun.’ It felt so wrong but so right. … And
then somebody in one of my chat rooms said,
‘Have you ever thought about doing porn?’ and
I said, ‘I’ve thought about it since age 18.’ So I
submitted photos to a lot of directors, I tried to
reach them through Twitter, and finally they gave
me a chance. I was pretty relentless. … I just
thought, I have to do this. I need a chance. I need
to try. If you don’t try, you don’t know.”
For Lust, it was a chance worth taking. Entering
the business at age 33, she said, “I had already
established a career. I was more confident.”
But to develop fully as a porn star didn’t happen
overnight. “It took me about three years into
the industry to really, really feel confident. And
even in my photos I can see a difference now. I
stand a little taller.” Lust always felt comfortable
performing, she recalled, “but I never knew how
to own it in front of a camera with posing. … One
of the photographers said, ‘Kendra I just wish you
would own it. You’re beautiful. Just own it.’ …
And I thought, you know what, he’s right. I’m just
going to own it. And just work with what I have.
I’m not trying to be 20 or do the teen thing. I’m
owning being a developed, strong, sexy woman,
and it feels good. It feels really good. It only took
me thirty-something years to get there.”
And now that she’s arrived, she finds it’s a
good place. “I’m just grateful,” she said softly.
“People I think give porn a bad rap but it’s a great
avenue to make money and express your sexuality
… be in charge of your own career. It’s given me
opportunities—for myself and my family—that I
would have never had. … I’ve done a lot for my
family and I feel good about that.”
And she hopes to help other performers, too.
“Each girl is different; each one has a different
plan. Some girls just want to be in for a year and
shoot a ton and maybe be gone—save a ton of
money. Other girls want longevity. So I think it
depends on the girls’ personal goals. However, I
feel that if we can guide or maybe direct them … I
don’t know if it’s my nursing background, but I’m
a mother hen. That’s just part of who I am and I
can’t change that. It’s good and bad. If I can help
make girls successful and stars, how cool would
that be? I’d be proud of that.”