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-Kelly-
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Posted - Jul 13 2003 : 8:34PM
Hey, how's it going,

In the film "Boogie Nights," Mark Wahlberg's character Dirk Diggler supposedly epitimozes a road too often travelled by adult film stars. He goes from nothing to being on top of his own world to ruining it all with drugs and resorting to escorting for drug money. In the end, he gets right and is welcomed back into the industry with open arms. I've heard and read that called basically the typical path of a pornstar, give or take a variable or two (i.e. drugs.) Yet I remember reading an interview with a then fresh-faced young star named Taylor St. Claire in which she said the movie was bad for the industry as that was not how things were at all. Yet I have heard Taylor referred to as a typical pornstar. So, who's right?

I know she is dancing at Eros Station and also moonlighting as a dominatrix through www.puredomination.com and www.meanbitches.com. But the thought that this woman won best actress last year for "Fashionistas" and was part of the biggest adult film of last year and then can just suddenly vanish like that with no real official announcement of any type of retirement is a bit disconcerning. It's a Debra Winger-esque disappearing act, but this seems to happen all the time in porn. There are the Jewel De'Nyles and Nina Hartleys who are in it for the long haul because they love what they do. But looking at the big returns of Juli Ashton, Amber Lee, and Marilyn Chambers in the past leaves me always suspecting that when a girl retires from porn there is a very good chance that she'll be back again in a year or so.

So, is this the typical path of a pornstar, if you would consider girls like Jewel and Nina exceptions? Make it big, get burnt out, escort or dance for a while, and then make a big comeback? I know some might respond, "yeah, this is the way it is. you're just noticing?" I'm just curious to hear what Jewel and the actual porn people might think of this. And if I'm wrong, feel free to shoot me down.


Kelly

"He who forgets will be destined to remember..."

Edited by - tscfan317 on Aug 3 2003

picman
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Posted - Jul 13 2003 : 9:13PM
Porn is like sports. A woman's time in the spotlight is relatively short before the new hot bodies push her out of the business. After a couple of years, and having worked for all the studios and been in all the series what are the options. She can fade back into suburbia and become a wife and mother. She can cash in on her notoriety and feature dance and/or escort. If one of the latter choices is made, there is no reason to announce a retirement. It's in her best interests to occasionally appear in new productions to maintain name recognition. I think you can consider Taylor semi retired. I think we'll be seeing her again (I hope).
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Posted - Jul 13 2003 : 11:44PM
Taylor has been escorting for at least 2-3 years, as far as I can tell from the Internet ads. I gather she is not a typical porn star, in that she doesn't necessarily work that much -- at least in the gonzo realm, as she did for a few years, particularly going the distance with Extreme, of all places. She totally rocks, and seems very intelligent and money/survival conscious. I'd love to see her break over to mainstream, and if I had $1,500 for an hour of her time, I would spend it.
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Posted - Jul 14 2003 : 12:28AM
I would think lotta pornstars work as escorts SOME time, depends on what you have to put on the table ..THAT said i think taylor st.claire has one of the most beautiful faces ever to hit the porno circuit..shes stunningly beautiful!!that pussyman's has ruined lotta her good scenes where she turns in all gorgeous and stuff and next thing i know is pussyman with his "gay" glasses is gonna pound her!!..very stressful!!

I love to see taylor perform but ya you are right abt her being conscious about everything, once i saw an interview where she told everything about her childhood she sounded like "watch where you step", i cud be wrong but thats the impression i got.

but i will buy her pick her dvd any day, any time

-Kelly-
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Posted - Jul 14 2003 : 3:57AM
Hey, how's it going,

"next thing i know is pussyman with his "gay" glasses is gonna pound her!!..very stressful!!"

Actually, Pussyman has only done 2 full on sex scenes with penetration and everything with her. Considering just how many freakin' Pussyman movies she's been in that's a very fortunate ratio. I started a thread a long time ago about how disturbing it was to see Pussyman throwing himself back into the scenes and obviously not being able to perform anymore. But it got 2 responses and no one cared. That's a different topic.

"Taylor has been escorting for at least 2-3 years, as far as I can tell from the Internet ads."

A lot of those internet ads pull bait-and-switch antics so I wouldn't go stictly off of those. That's all I'll say.

Okay. Taylor was a beauty queen of some sort from the midwest who came out to California and did some nude modeling. She eventually got into porn as a girl/girl only performer. Then she worked with her fiance. They broke up and she went all crazy in the gonzo world. Once that happened her star rose and she was nominated for Performer of the Year two years in a row. Then, she is suddenly gone from film to dance and maybe escort. This is what I mean in saying...is this the typical pornstar?

Thanks Picman by the way. Your take on the situation actually completely helped me understand the recourse or a pornstar.

Kelly


"My pain is self-chosen
Or at least I believe it to be" -Layne Staley


Edited by - tscfan317 on 8/3/2003 10:46:22 PM

 
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Posted - Jul 14 2003 : 10:12PM
To paraphrase critic Bill Caits, "the only porn stars who officially have retired are dead."

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Posted - Aug 4 2003 : 1:34PM
As far as girls leaving suddenly with no trace, I'd say that's fairly common. Because of how the non-porn world treats porn girls, it's very hard to leave any ties to porn if a girl thinks that she's going to be leaving for good.

But if you look at the ratio of girls who leave the business every year compared with the amount of comebacks each year, I wouldn't say that burning out and then coming back is as typical as just simply leaving.
But I agree that there have been a decent amount of comebacks over the years.

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