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INTERVIEW | |By Sharan Street
Book of Love
For her next educational, Jessica Drake turns to the Kama Sutra
Drake explained that during the
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to me as well,” Drake said. “I had seen her on
Twitter. I do a lot of casting to try to find people
that maybe aren’t so well known in the industry,
you know, and I start by choosing women and
then I start asking them who have you always
wanted to work with or who do you have really
great chemistry with.”
Other cast members are Damon Dice, Chanell
Heart, Ryan McLane and Jay Taylor.
“All of my couples were really on purpose,
which makes for a more passionate, intimate
day. They’re with me all day long, so we do the
interviews and the demonstrations and then
we do stills,” Drake explained. “This is the
only educational I’ve ever shot where during
the demonstrations no one wanted to leave the
room. Everybody was watching everybody else; I
had a pile of naked people in the corner petting
each other—everybody was so into it.”
As with all her Wicked Sex projects, Drake
came to the shoot well prepared. “I felt especially
motivated by Kama Sutra. So I started doing my
research just like I do before I write. It was just
such a cool thing and I was so fascinated by it,”
she said. “I incorporated a breathing exercise in
Kama Sutra that hypnotized the entire crew. It
was awesome. I finished doing it and I looked
around the room ... they were nodding off and
everyone in the room was breathing in sync.”
demonstrations she would show the performers
pictures of the Kama Sutra positions and then
read her narration out loud so they could act
out what she was describing. “The positions,
some of them, are very complicated,” she said.
To heighten the sensuality of the scenes, she
“had candles going everywhere and essential oils
everywhere, and I think doing all that stuff put
everyone in the mood. ... I got some great stuff.”
Wicked’s Brad Armstrong pitched in the
project too, she pointed out. “Brad built my set
for the demonstrations, and it’s gorgeous. Most
of the demonstrations happen on the floor so he
made a harem-style set that is very low to the
ground. It was really cool. And then we talked
about incorporating all the senses into sex and
foreplay, and I had trays of food and chocolate
and glasses of fake sparkling champagne. ... It
was good. Everybody loved it. It felt decadent.
That whole time we were up in the room doing
the demonstrations really didn’t feel like work!”
The final product, Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked
Sex: Kama Sutra, will street September 14. “I’m
just so excited to bring it out,” the director said.
“I have my favorites in the line—like BDSM, Plus
Size, Anal Play for Men and Female Masturbation are
probably my favorites. I think this is one of the
strongest ones in the line.”
makes for a more passionate, intimate day.
Erotic Guides Above, Chanell Heart is one half of a couple studying the Kama Sutra
”All of my couples were really on purpose, which
They’re with me all day long.
under Jessica Drake’s instruction. Below, Mickey Mod with Kali Karinena.
—Jessica Drake
covered a wide array of topics in her Guide to
Wicked Pictures contract star Jessica Drake has
Wicked Sex series of educational DVDs, from such
basics as foreplay, strip tease and oral pleasure
to edgier topics like BDSM and anal play for men. For her next
installment she’s tackled a subject with historical resonance and
multicultural depth: the Kama Sutra, the Hindu text devoted to
the pleasures of the flesh, written sometime between 400 BCE
and 200 CE.
“I don’t want to say my absolute favorite because it’s hard
to choose a favorite,” Drake said, but she is nonetheless
exceedingly pleased with this addition in the Wicked Sex line,
especially in regard to the demonstrations. “I would say it’s so,
so strong. I did a modern positions of the Kama Sutra—it was
awesome.”
For one thing, she was particularly satisfied with the
performers. “I got Mickey Mod,” Drake crowed. “I wanted to
work with him for a really long time but he doesn’t live in L.A.
He’s busy and he travels and I was really fortunate.”
Performing with Mod is Kali Karinena. “She was fairly new
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