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“It was one of the coolest things ever—the fact that they were able to come to Naples and we shot there with local people.”
“But while I was learning more about that world, I was like no, I want to do porn,” she says. “It sounds way more interesting and fun and unexplored and there’s not many people that will have the same mentality that I have around sex, which is still true nowadays more than a decade later. So yeah, here I am.”
She tells AVN she got into watching hentai, a genre of Japanese manga and anime characterized by sexualized characters and explicit imagery, when she was a teenager.
“Because I remember in the beginning I was kind of turned off by seeing people having sex, so I started with cartoons,” Valentina explains. “And then slowly I switched into porn.
“And I don’t know, to me it was just fascinating. And I come from south Italy. So people here are mostly hypocrite more than conservative. Because that’s how Catholics are. So I was raised Catholic, my mom wanted me basically a virgin at the altar—that type of culture. The ideal woman is the Virgin Mary. She give birth, but stay virgin.
“So I come from that culture and I never understood all the irrationality around sex. I was like I’m a woman, why am I treated different from a man? At least in Italian culture if you have a lot of sex with different women you’re cool and you’re a stallion. But if you’re a woman, you’re a slut, you’re a whore.
“And there’s so many irrational ideas about sex. So I feel like I wanted to know more. Also I had and still have a good sex drive. But I couldn’t find anyone as open-minded as me. There’s just so many reasons that I put together. I was like OK, I want to do porn.”
Nappi adds, “I’m not the type of person that cares about what others think. Like for some people I know they take it hard. For them it’s hard to read comments. And I don’t know, I just don’t care.”
Once Valentina decided to go for it with porn she adopted an all or nothing attitude.
“I knew it was either become a big star or I will be fucked for life, especially in Italy,” she says matter of factly. “So that was my goal.
“I don’t know if Spiegler still has my email but I emailed him and said I want to be a big star like Bobbi Starr and all the other girls you have. I was a fan of Belladonna, I was a fan of Sasha Grey at the time.
“Belladonna is probably one of my favorite performers, ever. So yeah I was watching those girls on Evil Angel and I wanted to be like them.”
Nappi already has over 80 credits for Evil Angel alone, not to mention multiple credits for every major studio in adult in the past decade.
And Mark Spiegler, the veteran talent agent who has represented eight of the past 11 winners of the Female Performer of the Year award, has booked almost all of them.
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