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WE’VE GOT ISSUES | The Mother Lode
| By Sharan Street
Listening to adult’s many voices of experience
My Stepdaughter’s Ass (Kevin Moore/Evil Angel), Mommy Takes a Squirt (Girlsway/
magazine. Flip through these pages and you’re bound to learn something.
Voices of experience—that’s the through line in this month’s issue of AVN
Girlfriends) and I Came Inside My Sister (Digital Sin).
Take, for example, femdom director Glenn King’s detailed how-to on the
This growth in popularity was reflected at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
hoop-jumping involved in L.A.’s film permit process. Or there is Stewart
in January. Director Kevin Moore moderated a panel titled “Now Trending: What’s
Tongue’s article titled “The Mobile Mandate,” which picks the brains of experts
Hot, What’s Ahead” and perhaps the hottest topic was taboo family relations.
from such companies as BitterStrawberry, Affil4You and Brokerbabe. Many other
Participating in the panel were performer/producer Ashley Fires, Gamma Films
industry folk are heard from as well in AVN’s reports from the recent Phoenix
Head of Production Bree Mills, performer/director Dana Vespoli and Forbidden
Forum and the International Lingerie Show.
Fruits Films co-owner Jay West.
And there is this month’s quote-driven cover story, which focuses on adult
West, whose company focuses on faux-cest themes, pointed out that taboo
stars who are mining porn’s “mother lode”: the MILF/cougar genre. On the cover
themes go back to Shakespeare, and in adult have ranged from the serious to the
is a portrait of Kendra Lust, AVN’s 2016 MILF Performer of the Year, shot by
“OMG my dick fell into my stepmother.”
mainstream photographer Volker Fleck. Inside, Lust and other performers talk
Vespoli said she prefers “more transgressive stuff, psychosexual blurring of
about their experiences in adult. Some got into porn early and stayed, while others
gender lines and dom/sub lines,” but to boost sales she “jumped on the incest
entered the business in their 30s and even 40s. But what they have to say about
train, and one of my best-selling movies is My Evil Stepmom Fucked My Ass.”
building a career will be relevant to performers of all ages.
With her all-girl studio Girlsway, Mills said, its most popular series involves
Putting together this issue afforded the opportunity to think about the current
mothers and daughters, but “Half of our ‘mommy’ scenes aren’t mommies, they’re
offerings in the MILF genre, and it was easy to see the “faux-cest” trend covered
just crazy chicks trying to create their own ‘perfect families.’”
in AVN’s May 2014 issue has continued unabated. And it’s not just mothers who
West commented on another up-and-coming trend. “Blacked.com has had
are getting in on the action, but also dads, sisters, brothers, uncles and aunts.
incredible success, and everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. ... You have to
And increasingly, more studios are taking the plunge. Popular series like Mother-
spot where that demand is not being met, where supply is not meeting demand.”
Daughter Exchange Club (Girlfriends Films), It’s OK! She’s My Step Mother (Devil’s
A look at back pages of this issue shows the bandwagon is filling up, with more
Film) and Fuck My Mom & Me (Lethal Hardcore) have been joined by new spins
IR titles rising up the charts. But faux-cest continues strong. And for fans who
on the genre, such as Daddy & Me (Hard X/O.L. Entertainment), I Blackmailed
want it all? Offer them Interracial Stepdaughter Cuckold (Toni Ribas/Evil Angel).
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