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“I just want the girls to be successful and I want them to want it as much as I want
it.”
Ariel Demure went back to back in the Best Trans Acting Performance category,
basking in AVN glory for her lead in Transpirella, which was based on the comic
book character Vampirella and also her first feature role.
“And I just wanted to make my porn dad, Jim [Powers], proud,” Demure said. “I’m
very fortunate in that I have a porn dad and I have a porn mom. Brittany Andrews
has taught me the business, Jim Powers has taught me to perform.”
The South Florida native now is in her sixth year in adult said that Powers had her
specifically in mind for Transpirella.
“And he trusted me to bring everything that I have to the character, so I was able
to let go and just get the fucking piss fucked out of me, literally. I peed a little on
camera, but it was in a good way. It was amazing,” Ariel added.
“So this movie means the world to me because my dad actually really enjoyed the
non-sex stuff that I sent and edited for him, too. We grew up watching vampires.
We love vampires in my family for some reason. We love Jesus, but we also think
vampires are pretty cool. And he was really authentically proud of me.”
Another popular winner was the incomparable Lexi Luna, the former elementary
school teacher from Indianapolis who has become known as “The Gentleman’s
Porn Star.”
The December 2025 AVN magazine cover girl who became a brand ambassador
for Adult Time in 2024 enjoyed a breakout year as an actress en route to winning
the MILF Performer of the Year award. The accomplishment comes over nine years
since she started her adult career in Florida, where she joined the FetLife community
and learned how to play with discretion at the Woodshed in Orlando.
“It’s amazing to be here,” Lexi said backstage. “I just feel like I’ve done more in
those nine years than I ever could have in any other job and career and I just am so
proud of myself. Because I did it my way. I didn’t do anything that I didn’t feel was
right for me. And that’s really the best gift, is being able to say that I’ve stayed true to
myself the whole time.”
With more than 800 pre-nominations, the Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene award was
without question one of the hardest categories to conquer.
So perhaps it came as no surprise that a familiar duo emerged victorious as Chanel
Camryn, the 2024 AVN Best New Starlet, and the 2025 Favorite Male Porn Star
Milan Ponjevic teamed to win AVN gold for their riveting performance in a pairing
titled “Midnight Movie” from the DVD If It Feels Good 5 from Vixen Media Group’s
Deeper imprint.
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