The Rise of the Porn Star Fan
Opinion/Editorial by Mariah Milano
In the 1970’s when porn became a legitimate commercialized product the porn fan was born. Marilyn Chambers and Linda Lovelace and Bambi Woods, Seka and Little Oral Annie and many others become the first "Porn Stars". Suddenly there were annual awards and fan clubs were started. PO Boxes were rented all over the valley by Cal Vista and Legend for fans to send in fan mail to the stars.
By the time that porn went to video, a new group came into the spotlight, younger and looking much more like actual movie stars than smut stars. Girls like Barbara Dare and Amber and Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon and Tracy Adams and I can’t leave out Traci Lords lit up the screen of televisions all over the US on those giant VCR’s. Stars like Ron Jeremy and John Holmes and Harry Reems and Peter North and Randy West were in nearly every title and the porn business was booming. Jim South was the only agency in town, and even with the law putting him in jail for pimping, the business thrived.
The Mafia owned the porn business and the movies had plots and bigger budgets than a lot of the stuff we see today. The spoof was born and by the 90’s every major Hollywood film had a spoof in porn. I saw Johnny Depp say he was disappointed that he wasn’t asked to make a cameo in Edward Penishands.
The valley was pumping out shit loads of VHS tapes and more and more girls were venturing into the world of smut because it had become seemingly glamorous. The cocaine flowed and there was very little difference between Hollywood and the Valley from what I’m told. Bill Margold told me that at porn parties mainstream celebs would be showing up and porn stars were regulars at Hollywood parties. Remember Charlie Sheen dated Ginger Lynn for a while?
The porn star fan had an actual personality to put with the films. The smut magazines were doing feature articles on the stars and Penthouse started putting porn stars in their magazine. People got to know about their lives and when buying or renting movies they would base their choices on the cast and favorite stars. I remember going into Vivid once to pickup a check and there were mail boxes for Christy Canyon and Hyapatia Lee and Ona Zee and Ginger Lynn who had retired years earlier. Those boxes were overflowing! They are still very popular on the tube sites to this day!
Now with the Internet and porn stars appearing at all of the conventions and Twitter and Facebook and Myspace fans actually get to know their favorite stars. They see them talk about farting and see twitpics of their food and see them talking shit to other girls (I’m guilty of that one!)
Now it’s an everyday thing to be recognized in public. I went to a baseball game recently and had Yankees players recognize me! lol I have been approached on Mother’s Day while at dinner with my mom and been asked for an autograph and photo. While in Barcelona in February I walked out of the hotel to get into a taxi in the pouring rain and there was a guy waiting all day for me to leave. He had recognized the hotel from a photo I posted on my Twitter and spent his day waiting to get a photo with me. I was really freaked out and now months later find it even more crazy.
I could write pages of all the crazy situations where fans have approached me but I can say that not one has ever been disrespectful to me. They have all been very sweet and almost every one extremely shy. I had a guy at the Atlanta airport help me in the Blackberry store and he gave me a portable charger and a new case and car charger for free and when he handed me the bag his hand was shaking so bad it made me think he was having a seizure. He said he gave me everything because there was no way he could have pushed the buttons on the register!
I have mixed feelings about the porn fan. I love most of my fans. I have been treated better than I would have ever expected and I couldn’t be more thankful. But there are some who are just overboard with constant emails and sex offers and strange gifts and one guys sent personalized photos of himself taken at Sears wearing a Lynard Skynard concert shirt holding an "I Love Mariah" sign! lol I’m serious! I even had a guy tattoo my photo on his leg!
I don’t go to the conventions here in the US mainly because I think that the interaction with fans is just strange and uncomfortable and honestly I think that a lot of that has to do with ego. Obviously I don’t need any more of that! 🙂 I am attending Sexpo in Australia this year and am very excited about it! I had a great experience at the Erotic Expo in New Zealand last year. Don’t get me wrong, when I meet a fan when I’m out I’m fine with it if they are respectful but when there are thousands of them all at once for 8 hours a day it is just overwhelming I also don’t escort and 99% of the porn stars who attend shows are there to escort. It’s another fact of the new wave of access fans have to their favorite stars. They can see a girl in a video that they like and actually meet her and fuck her! In all honesty I know most of the girls in this business and I would estimate the disappointment level at around 70%. Up close and personal without photoshop and under fluorescent lighting can be cruelty at it’s
finest. I carry photos in my car everywhere these days because it just happens too often and I would rather sign a photo that I like than pose for a photo I might hate. 🙂
So to all the fans out there you are what makes our careers or breaks our careers. I thank all of my fans for being so great for all these years. I was gone from the business from 2000 until 2007 and still had so many fans it was insane. Even with a woman’s body and big fake boobs. I still get emails from people who didn’t know I was the same person.
I am not complaining about my fans, I am just a shy person when it comes to being recognized as a porn star. I can be naked in front of strangers anywhere, but when I have to speak and be sweet and pretend my day isn’t shitty or whatever I’m not nearly as bold. I have been fortunate so far 🙂
I hope that everyone is looking forward to another summer and have plans for things that will enhance your lives. If you ever see me anywhere I hope that you say hello even if you aren’t a fan. Give me the chance to prove myself in person, rather than the bitch ranting on the internet! I’m really not the bitch I may seem to be, and if anyone reading this knows me they’ll back me up, unless they are someone I don’t like and then who gives a fuck about them
anyway, right? 🙂
xoxo
Mariah
PS..I’m on the cover of the June Club Confidential and am the featured porn star in next month’s Hustler which is my seventh time! so get your copies and I’ll sign them! Just ask me nicely! 🙂
Hey Mariah, it’s been a while since either of us have had an article up so welcome back. I’ve noticed that usually we independently come out with articles at the same time. Kind of cosmic (and I know it’s nothing to do with Cindi, because I usually do them on a whim), but I must be getting slack (although some of my comments could be articles).
Of course the Yankees recognize you. Aren’t you going out with some of them? lol. Btw, hey where’s my baseball, dammit? Maybe you should’ve got me Tampa bay signatures, after all!… I definitely want to see the Yankees and Dodgers play each other this season…
You say porn was legit in the 70s, yet it was still illegal to shoot. It wasn’t officially legal to make porn until 1988. I think that’s part of what made them porn “stars”. They were outlaws and heros at the same time, who introduced something the masses had been waiting for and risked going to jail to do it. They had to be carpooled to secret shooting rendevous (I participated in a documentary interviewing Christy Canyon and she talked about this), and of course there were certainly a lot less of them in those days than today.
Now, on a clear night, even with a telescope, you still can not count as many stars in the sky, as you can porn stars on Earth.
Also, Jim South wasn’t the only agent. Reb’s Pretty Girl International was the first porn agency and the one who rep’d scumbag John Holmes.
You say you saw Johnny Depp say he wished he made a cameo in Edward Penishands? Where did you see him say this, in person?
The factory and fast-food like element of porn certainly has taken much of the personality out of it… Now it’s replaced personality with DPs, double anals, 5 guy creampies, and boo-kahkis!
Congrats on your Club cover, etc…!
Mariah, saw you in recent shoot and looked like you had a flare up with some acne, hope its cleared up. shit happens.
Jeremy…I have a ball I got signed for you by Josh Hamilton and no I’m not going out with any of the Yankees! I have a few friends who are on the team that I have hung out with but I have never had sex or even kissed any of them other than on the cheek. Seriously, we’re cool hanging out is all.
Jim wasn’t the only agency, but he was the biggest. When the 2257 law came into effect I had to go into his office and make a few copies of ID’s for shoots I had done and went through boxes of id’s dating back to the late 70s. It was wild to see the driver’s license of Peter North and Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson from their first meeting there on Van Nuys Blvd. Very nostalgic!
I have been waiting to get a few more signatures on the ball but AJ hasn’t gotten them for me yet. He’s on my shit list so he’ll come around 🙂
And yes pornfan, I had started taking new medication that caused all of the stuff under the skin to come to the surface and it was horrible my skin was so dry and broken out I almost canceled. I have struggled with skin issues since I was 14. I spend more on dermatologists annually than most do on rent. I have finally gotten it under control lately thank God! but it’s been a burden my entire adult life and it sucks!
Hope you enjoy the commentary 🙂
Well then it’s no wonder that you went to the Yankees game and players recognized you.
That dude with the tattoo of you on his leg has to keep shaving it, otherwise your face is gonna have some 5 o’clock shadow and then a beard, lol.
Zit happens. I believe the best way to control it is through diet. Do you notice that after eating certain things you break out? I would avoid those foods, and fast food, too.
Hey Mariah; Very good article!! were getting ready out here in california for a very poor shooting season and all the agents and producers are scrambling for girls for “cheap” due to the fact girls are leaving the industry for better paying work and Mainstream work. Tiffany just landed a MAINSTREAM movie gig with$$$$ money. Stick around Mariah , we need you!!!
I inherited from my mom my brother has the same skin issues but for some reason my mom won’t admit she had bad skin when she was young lol
Last year I spent almost $20,000 on HGH and a hormone program. The HGH is the shit but the hormones were never balanced properly for my system. I was taking estrogen testosterone and progesterone creams along with daily HGH injections under a doctor program. My PMS almost went away entirely but my skin wasn’t any better and got a little worse. I was really aggressive and horny as fuck! lol I was generally in a better mood than usual and my body was tighter than it had ever been. That testosterone is no joke but I couldn’t get the balance and at $340 a week I called it quit after a year. I still do the HGH every day and will never stop that. I have never slept better or had more energy in my life. It’s the most expensive part of the program but also the most worth while. If you have an extra $275 a week I highly recommend it but once you start don’t stop or you wasted it. 🙂
But, I found out I have food allergies and if I even look at a french fry I start to break out. It fucking sucks! I am on an anti-biotic and topical cream that has been awesome and as of today no break outs since last month. I still get the PMS pimples around the mouth which I am told is hormonal and cannot be avoided.
The player who knew I was a porn star was Robinson Cano. he kept looking at me with this, “I think I know you” look then he said “oh damn! I know who you are!” I called him a pervert 🙂 and told him to stay off the porn sites! 🙂
mariah, i don’t know if you check freeones much, but give yourself a pat on the back, they have you ranked at 42 or 47 all time list, not to shabby. also, you have some nice fat pussy lips, ever consider wearing some clit jewelry? also, noticed you do some light bondage, i could see you as a great domme. have you ever contacted the guy that runs “mean bitches”?
Great read, Mariah.
Yes, Reb’s Pretty Girl also had nikki dial, jerry butler, tracey adams (of the best ever),zana, and of course, Jeremy Steele. Jeremy even advertised himself as having an “enormous cum shot” or something like that. I thought it was a good resume booster.
Mariah, Im curious about HGH. Im going to turn 40 pretty soon. Ive been going to the gym consistently since I was sixteen. I hear HGH will help slow muscle loss that occurs with aging. I read an interview with a popular male adult actor who was in his mid 40’s. This guy had size and was ripped. He said HGH helped with muscle and even smoothed his face. Sleep and energy are two things I have been lacking since I started working graveyard shifts. How safe is HGH? Where can I get some info?
Mariah, have you ever been to an adult convention in New York? I’ve heard girls say that the fans in NY can be very forward and grabby.
That is so cool you saw those ID’s of some of the greats in the biz. World Modeling is a historic landmark and should never be torn down. I live in the area and find myself driving down Van Nuys Blvd. a few times a week. Sometimes I see Jim and Jim Jr. walking down the street, probaly after eating at Hamburger Hamlet
Interesting, Mariah. Now when I see Cano bat I’ll be thinking of that. Damn. How about them Devil Rays manhandling the Yankees. I missed the game, just back from San Diego. Maybe you should get all them Tampa Bay players to sign a ball.
Yankees payroll in 2010: top at 206+ mil
Rays 21st in payroll (out of 30 teams) at 71+ mil
http://baseball.about.com/od/newsrumors/a/2010baseballteampayrolls.htm
They spanked the yanks. damn. I guess next year King George will buy half the team.
That’s alot of money to spend on acne. Do you think the GH gives you bigger pussy lips?
I think the governator messed around with that hormone stuff. That’s why so many women say he molested them. All his antics never stopped him from getting elected, however.
hahaha Jeremy 🙂
I wasn’t spending it just on acne really, but to get my hormonal balance in order. I wasn’t doing high levels of the hormones like a body builder, but smaller natural levels to get my body to where it’s supposed to be. I did get results within a few weeks with more strength and definitely more endurance. I could get on the treadmill or bike and go forever without getting close to tired.
Goatlord lol great name btw 🙂 HGH has made enormous differences in my life. Clearer thinking and great sleep are the main things. I definitely feel a difference in my body and mind since I started on it in February of 2009. It does really help with slowing down the aging process. If you saw my doctor and his girlfriend you wouldn’t believe their ages. She is almost 60 and has some lines in her face but her eyes are clear and she has a 6 pack with really defined arms and legs and shoulders. She does workout but I challenge you to find me any 60 year old woman in any gym who works out, eats right without hormonal treatments and has the body of a 30 year old. if you find any there will be very few. look at Jennifer Aniston who is over 40 and looks better than she ever has. the one who is the most significant to me is Jennifer Beals who is almost 50 and looks amazing. I have seen her in person and she has better skin than any girl over 20 I have EVER seen. She is half black, but still. 🙂 Suzanne Summers is another one…she is over the top but she beat breast cancer using nothing but hormonal replacement without surgery.
HGH has been known to regrow hair, thicken hair (my hair grows so fast and thicker than it ever has!) and my eye site is better today than it was a year ago. I was almost wearing glasses or contacts all the time and now I rarely need them at all. it’s worth the money if you can afford it. I couldn’t imagine living without it! basically, it reignited your pituitary gland that slows down and stops around 30 and turns your body back to the levels it was at 22 which is supposedly your physical peak.
here is a great clinic http://www.cenegenics.com/?uid=PT1_GS1_CEN_TM_TM and by the way, that guy is for real! I met him at the clinic in Palm Beach last year. he’s on testosterone and hgh and he works out and eats well, but come on,,,70 years old with that body?
good luck! 🙂
Forgot to mention, Mariah, A.J. was the one who got knocked last night. Tell him you’ll autograph HIS ball(s) if he gets it back together!
Doesn’t GH make your dick shrink? A long time ago a performer told me I should take GH and I said, no thanks.
Almost missed your comment goatlord.
Well to prove your point, here’s a review of me in James Avalon’s Blue Dahlia, in Misty Rain’s first ever DP (I was handpicked by her along with her bf):
“Jeremy Steele, for those who are impressed by such things, almost blew Misty’s wig off in the cumshot. I believe he could beat Peter North in a spunk monkey spank-off in all three categories, volume, velocity and distance”
http://www.adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=3692/blue-dahlia.htm
Here’s a photo of me busting a big nut on Kimberly Kane in Cash Markman’s “Key to Sex”
http://www.vicelist.com/viceblog/Kimberly-Kane-in-Key-To-Sex-Scene-1.html
And here’s even some love:
http://www.brazzersforum.com/showthread.php?p=110788
Thanks for the love, y’all.
Don’t forget my motto: Huge cumshot, Reasonable rates!
Check me out at ocmodeling.com
HGH has nothing to do with testosterone it’s 100% pituitary gland testosterone shrinks balls if you use too high of a dose but if you use the right dose, it makes you horny as fuck and gives morning wood like when you were 17! 🙂 I have a few friends who have been using it for years and aren’t big muscular guys…they just wanted to get back their sex drive and their energy. it really works and it’s not much money at all. a few hundred a month if that. they even have it in a cream now instead of injections that you just apply to your upper inner thigh daily. but it does give you swamp balls by the end of the day! 🙂
yes, AJ got rocked but he was due. he’s been solid so far this year. I just text him asking what happened and he hasn’t replied yet! 🙂
The Yanks are getting rocked too. Maybe you messed them up Mariah. They might be spending too time looking you up on the net and losing some of their precious potency for the field. They got spanked again by the Rays. Since The Devil Rays got rid of the Devil and are just the Rays, they’ve seen the sun and the glory… Tell A.J. and Robin to stop watching porn. :>P The team needs them or they’ll be fighting to hold the wild card lead.
jeremy, the only chick that i recognize from the site is jordan blue. they have you at 5’6. you are a short dude. ha.ha. what’s “oc” stand for? “orange county modeling”.
that’s right pornfan, actually i’m a very tall midget… i just got back hanging out at the zoo with giraffes and after admiring their long necks, went home and measured my dick, then realizing when i add height to length that i’m quite tall… and then i reminisced about the time someone asked my height online, and suprised by the seemingly sudden surge of interest, then realized and said, “sorry, that was a typo, i didn’t mean 6’5″, i meant 5’6”.. i assume ‘o.c.’ means orange county, but am not sure, all i know is they’re located in the l.a. valley along with most of the industry… maybe it’s an o.c.- feel thing?
Jeremy is not tall. I am 5’4 and his a little bit taller than me, say 5’7 at best.
this is for Mr Jeremy Steele
checkout the personal pic on the right side lol
http://mariahxxx.net/tgp194/mariahmilano.php
he is still one of my favorite people. just hung out with him last night in Orlando too bad no one gave him a shot to pitch last year. he really misses it
That’s awesome, Mariah. Did you just run into him or does he have your number? I was bummed when they traded him for Roger Clemens, the former Yankee nemesis, the year after he tossed a perfect game.
It’s still a mindfuck to me that Clemens ever pitched for the Yanks, let alone won two rings. There’s no humanity left in baseball. Well, at least Wells had a pretty good run. I was at old Yankee stadium once and yelled out “Boomer!” and he turned around looking for who yelled at him.
This sucks. I just got a “No Fault” eviction notice from the Housing Department. I’ve lived here since 1997 but the owner’s son wants to move and taking the rental off the market so I’m being paid a lump sum to move out within 60 days.
I actually have his number. When he’s in town her we hang out for dinner or whatever. his girlfriend is awesome and we go shopping. Dave drives a big truck and asked me to drive it and follow them so he could take his motorcycle home and I drove right over their mailbox with it at their house in San Diego lol
That sucks about your apartment. At least they’re being cool about giving you some relocation money, plus living in the same place too long isn’t good for you! 🙂 Just tell yourself that over and over…
Ouch! That was probably the last time he let you do that! lol
Yeah, for my sanity it’s good I’m moving. The landlord is a piece of shit, and so are the nieghbors, living 2 adults, 3 kids and 2 dogs in a 1 bedroom, yelling and barking. These people are crazy all living together. If they can’t afford a house for a bunch of kids they shouldn’t have them! There living rooms are their fucking bedrooms! It’s just got worse and worse over the years. While Hollywood has become fancier, this area has got more 3rd world.
A lot of money was put into fixing up the place, particularly the room I was sub-renting so that’s a big loss for me. This place is huge too and I’ll never find anything remotely close to this size for this rate. I gotta get rid of a LOT of shit after being here 13 years.
Btw, a wild and crazy day in baseball yesterday. A-rod smashes the pitch into the pitchers head, Angel’s player smashes a grand slam game winner and then breaks his leg at home plate celebrating with team who fell on him, and Phillies pitcher pitches a perfect game 3 weeks after another pitcher threw one. Wild stanley cup game, too.
Hey Mariah, for the occasional flare up have you tried taking two capsules of the Indian spice Turmeric everyday? It has anti-inflammatory properties (curcumin) that generally reduces pimples. Also drink a lot of water.
Also, around any time where you feel stressed or feel a lot of tension in your face, use an oil based DEEP cleanser (like Noxzema), topped off with a GENTLE (all natural, no salicylic acid–like St. Ives’ Fresh Skin) cleanser, and finished with a 2% salicylic acid hydrator (Neutrogena), possibly adding sunscreen if needed.
IMO, abstaining from certain foods has a limited effect on reducing acne since the cause of acne is mostly hormonal. Even if you stopped eating french fries, its likely you would still have a bout with acne (something would get you stressed out and there ya go).