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S
ure, porn stars get to have sex for a living, but that doesn’t
mean they can’t find true love just like anyone else in the world
who is celebrating Valentine’s Day this month.
In fact dozens of porn couples enjoy thriving intimate
relationships with fellow talent, navigating their work and home
life with skill, grace and constant communication.
So this month AVN reached out to several of the adult
industry’s high-profile performing couples who agreed to
answer a few questions about how they keep their own
romances going strong while also leading a fast-paced porn
lifestyle.
The eight couples we interviewed: Kayden Kross & Manuel
Ferrara; Savana Styles & Lexington Steele; Kissa Sins & Johnny
Sins; Francesca Lé & Mark Wood; Joanna Angel & Small Hands;
Asa Akira & Toni Ribas; Jessica Drake & Brad Armstrong; and
Anikka Albrite & Mick Blue.
‘BEST PART IS MUTUALLY UNDERSTANDING AND
RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE EMOTIONAL
SUPPORT NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN A LOVE INTEREST
WHEN BOTH PARTNERS HAVE SEX WITH OTHERS
FOR A LIVING.’
— LEXINGTON STEELE, WHO IS MARRIED TO SAVANA STYLES
How long have you been a couple?
Brad Armstrong & Jessica Drake
(pictured above, left): Almost 13 years.
Mick Blue & Anikka Albrite (pictured
on opposite page, left): We have been a couple
since AEE 2013.
Kayden Kross & Manuel Ferrara (opposite
page, bottom): It will be five years in April.
Lexington Steele & Savana Styles
(above, right): Savana and I have been together
two years, married one year.
Toni Ribas & Asa Akira: Asa and I first
met on a Mason set for Elegant Angel’s Insatiable
movie. I’ve had my eyes on her for a while
since I discovered her online and it was instant
attraction fireworks and magic.
We hooked up a few times but I was still
going back and forth to Europe; finally on
Valentine’s Day 2012 she worked for and with
me on a shoot and we’ve been together ever
since.
Johnny Sins: We have been together for
almost four years now!
Kissa Sins: Yup, four years ago I was trying
to have a one-night stand and we’ve been
inseparable ever since!
Joanna Angel & Small Hands (opposite
page, left): About four-and-a-half years and still
going strong!
Francesca Lé (above, center): We’ve been
married for over 15 years. We only dated for two
months before we got married. The minister
was looking down at his beeper the whole time
barely paying attention to us.
Mark Wood (above, center): We got married
in Vegas at Little Chapel downtown. We were
having dinner one night and Francesca got me
drunk and said let’s go to Vegas and get married.
It sounded like a good idea at the time.
What’s the best part of being in a relation-
ship with another adult performer?
Brad Armstrong: Understanding of your
work/career. They get that it’s a job like any
other job. Every morning when you leave for
or come back from a day at the office it’s not a
jealous argument about what you’ve been doing.
Mick Blue: The part of being in a
relationship with another adult performer is that
we can share our life and our job together and
we also have the possibility to take and spend
free time together as we would like to plan when
ever and how long we want. We understand
each other’s jobs and are here for each other to
support our careers.
Kayden Kross: They get it. There are no
illusions about what it’s like on set, or that sex
on camera is identical to sex off camera.
Manuel Ferrara: The fact that we can
collaborate on projects.
Lexington Steele: Best part is mutually
understanding and respecting the nature of the
emotional support necessary to maintain a love
interest when both partners have sex with others
for a living. The ability to separate Sex and Love
is essential.
Savana Styles: This job is not conventional;
this includes having sex with other individuals.
So, to be in relationship with another adult
movie performer avoids all the battles
connected to the jealousy. And also permit more
comprehension from the other partner.
Toni Ribas: Probably the best unique thing
is the mutual understanding and openness about
sex and the bond you have as a couple when you
can look past any jealousy.
Kissa Sins: It’s amazing working together!
Especially for Sins Life because we get to choose
girls we’ve been perving on and hire them to
fuck us and it’s great! One of our favorite things
to do is look at each other while we’re both
licking the same pussy and say “I love you!”
Sharing vagina is probably our favorite thing to
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