Faith Leon

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6/6/06

It takes me an hour, but Tuesday evening I finally work up the courage to ask Faith Leon for an interview.

She's from a small town in North Carolina, which has shunned her since it found out she does porn.

In the industry for two years, she's done over 100 scenes. "I usually come out here for two weeks at a time and do two-three scenes a day. I moved here last year."

Luke: "What group did you hang out with in highschool?"

Faith: "I had friends in all the little cliques. I was the chick who had all the guys."

Luke: "Were you a cheerleader?"

Faith: "No, I was a sports player (soccer and basketball). Me and my sister (two years older) took number one in basketball North Carolina. I'm 5'11. I played forward. My sister is 5'10. She's an English teacher."

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Faith: "A veterinarian. I'm an animal freak.

"After highschool, I went to college for about a year -- North Carolina State. Taking 18 hours and working fulltime. I couldn't take it. I needed more money. So of course, blah blah blah. I am going to go back to school but I have to gain residency in California."

Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about being in this industry?"

Faith: "I like the freedom. You feel pretty. You get dressed up and made up.

"It's overwhelming sometimes. Mentally, you've got to cool off. My fiance Marcus Leon (30yo) works in the industry too. We have to separate it from our lives."

Earlier, I heard Faith say her fantasy was to see two guys have sex.

Luke: "Would you lose respect for your fiance if he allowed another man to plough him up the rear?"

Faith: "I wouldn't lose respect, but I wouldn't want to see it because I know he wouldn't like it.

"We'll be together two years in November. We're getting married in November.

"When I met him, we had both just started but we didn't tell each other. Come on. If you weren't in the industry and I came up to you on the industry and said, 'I f--- guys for a living, do you want to go out?' Would you want to go out with me anyways?"

I shake my head.

Faith: "Exactly. I told him two weeks later. He said, 'Ohmigod. I do the same thing.'"

Luke: "What are the joys and sorrows of dating someone in the industry?"

Faith: "It sucks because I don't like seeing him with other girls. I don't watch his scenes. I like to know who he's working with for my own mentality's sake, my defence mechanism.

"Good things? The money. We own a house in Chatsworth that's paid for.

"I do want kids. I don't want to wait ten years to have them.

"We're trying to get the website thing going. We're planning to build up north (in a small town). I love the snow and the mountains. We're going to move up there. The standard of living is a lot less. Hopefully we won't have to do this. He does photography. I'll do a little small business. I've researched the town and I know what kind of business they need."

Luke: "Have you had to pay any prices for being in this industry?"

Faith: "Yes. The whole town (about 25,000) I grew up in knows what I do for a living. They've blackballed me. When my ten year reunion comes, I've got these pictures to show. 'Hey, I'm looking gorgeous. I've got a husband on my arm. I'm 21 and I own a $600,000 house.' I don't see any of those people my age doing that."

Luke: "Did some people stop being friends with you?"

Faith: "They completely cut me off. They found something on the internet, a huge company on the internet. It was one of my first scenes. It was absolutely horrible. I looked hideous. Of course that's what they found. Word spread like no other.

"My [born-again Christian] friend calls me up: 'I can't believe you do this.' You f--- other people. So...

"It's Bible-belt country. My brother (three years older) stopped talking to me. My dad for a while. We kinda told them that I'm out of the business. They don't go looking for porn. They're church-going people."

Luke: "Why are you such a rebel?"

Faith: "I've always been. I'm a loner. I do what I've got to do. It's for better causes. That's my excuse.

"I talk to my sister about my scenes. 'Yeah, I had to do this!' She's like, 'What?' She teaches highschool English. She thinks it's great. 'My little baby sister does that.'

"I'm still shy, reserved. If you see me on set, I'm not approaching people. You might think I'm a bitch because I won't come up and talk to you because I'm scared of talking to you. But if you talk to me, I'll talk to you."

Faith has no southern accent. "My family is from Michigan so I wasn't raised southern. My family doesn't. You won't catch me saying 'Y'all.'"

Luke: "What do you love and hate about Los Angeles?"

Faith: "I hate LA! Too many people! There are cars everywhere! Coming to work today, I sat on the exit ramp for 20 minutes."

Luke: "Do you get recognized?"

Faith: "No, because I don't wear make-up."

She finds many porn fans creepy and when her husband gets recognized in public, she doesn't like it. "Eww, that means they masturbate to our movies."

With her husband, Faith moved into this "cute neighborhood in Chatsworth. It's safe. You can go jogging at night. I thought the neighbors would bring pies but nobody did anything. There were no welcome baskets. I was disappointed."

Luke: "On the other hand, it's good that they don't know you because they won't know what you do."

Faith: "We're very private. They think that my husband is a photographer and that I'm a model."

Most of the girls are stoned. They alternate bowl breaks with cigarette breaks. Some of them have been waiting around since 11 a.m.

7:40 p.m. Charlie Lain yells out: "There's no 'I' in 'team.'"

I overhear AVN's Peter Warren say to DCypher: "Ron Jeremy was at my house last night. It was so weird."

James DiGiorgio writes me: "While checking out your latest 'photographic verite' images from DCypher's set, I became impressed with Duke, DCypher's PA, cuz he's wearing an "Archaeological Institute of America" baseball cap. In one of the images, he seems to be joyously preparing for a "dig" in Ava Rose's ass. It's makes me proud to see people in porn combining smut and academic research."

Whatever happened to Sin City contract girl Gina Austin? I guess she didn't want to do porn anymore and just left.

I ask the Dalai Porn Llama of Sin City who replies: "I really don't have a clue. I didn't ask this time figuring either religion, drugs, embarrassment, parental intervention, just plain tired of sucking cock on video, better offer, suitcase pimp's influence, roommate's influence, herpes, chlamydia, or all or some of the preceding."

A friend writes: "I saw her being interviewed on video at AVN.com, and she had a deer in the headlights look on her face. She hadn't done a lot of sex. She'd stripped briefly in Ohio."

I arrive at Porn Star Karaoke at 9:10 p.m. It's almost empty.

Sponsor Jason Sechrest rolls up at 9:20. He promises the crowd to make PSK more gay.

I hang out until 11 p.m. but I don't see any porn stars beyond Lisa Sparxxx.

A friend tells me that Tyra Banxxx is doing really well for herself. "She was tricked by Tyra Banks on her TV show to say that she was leaving porn, but she never had any intention of leaving porn. She's on the boxcover of America's Next Whore. It's a feature for Hustler directed by Roy Karch. It was shot on film."

Luke: "She can be proud of that. The boxcover no less. America's top whore. Wow."

Friend: "It's been a long time since there's been a black contract girl. Since Heather Hunter."

Luke: "She's like the next Rosa Parks. She'll be a role model for black youth all over the world. This will revolutionize the black underclass. Give them hope."

If you work hard in America, you can go straight to the top of a porn boxcover. Shot on film no less.

"She's like Stand and Deliver. It's like she's teaching calculus to inner-city kids."

Friend: "She's a great performer. Did you see her on Monster Loads? She was teaching other women how to ----."

Roy walks up.

Roy: "It's called America's Next Top Porn Model and it's from Sex Z Pictures. The broadcast rights will go to the Hustler channel."

Friend: "See!"

Luke: "Was she good?"

Roy: "She was very good. She's a nice girl. She took special time with this one for us because of the situation with the original Tyra and the Tyra Banks show. We shot some of the scenes in the same location where the original Tyra Banks show was taped. It's quite the parody. We're just finishing the editing. It should be out in the fall."

Friend: "I just saw the boxcover for it. It looks great."

Roy says I've carved out a niche for myself as the reluctant porn journalist.

Friend: "He's in wikipedia!"

I hear Lisa Ann (and Amy Reid) says she gets $2,000 per scene and won't do anal.

Da Burglar writes on XPT: "Dude, they (porn whores) are already "dead" inside, that's why they smoke, drink, do drugs and play Russian roulette with the HIV/STD Revolver. Cancer schmancer."

2/22/07

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Faith Leon Video interview

Faith Leon audio interview. Part Two.

"I'm moving to Colorado next month."

Luke: "What's changed since you got married?"

Faith: "You get more benefits, such as on taxes. I wanted the ring on my finger."

"I hate L.A."

"You've got to take this industry with a grain of salt. We're not talking about changing lives."

"I'm not a good actress. I'm pretty much the same person in real life as I am on set."

"I like modeling. I like doing the pretty stuff."

"I don't like my butt. It's the one feature [of her body] that I don't like."

"I'm a normal person to have sex with. I'm your typical female."