Silvia Saint.
A surprising number of people join porn sites for charitable reasons. Not me, the only connection between katyusha movies and the disadvantaged I can think of is a all-disability gang-bang DVD I once saw called ‘Quad Bikes’, others see adult website memberships as a way of offering financial support and encouragement to performers they like.
Aside from the most obvious member benefit, seeing someone attractive naked, performer websites offer fans a chance to communicate, and possibly become friends with, people comically out of their league. Being able to discuss Japan’s interest rates with someone who once gargled cum is worth $19.95 to a lot of people and though I’ve never known a performer to date a fan they met online stranger things have happened. Probably.
The problem is, many performer sites are counterfeit and have nothing to do with the people they supposedly represent. Even today, many performers start their career without a domain name, or in one of porn’s classic career limiting maneuvers, allow a boyfriend to build their site and lose it when they breakup. Then when they do go online they’re forced to operate under some permutation of their own name. It’s how we got ‘ClubJenna’ and ‘KylaColeSite’. Meanwhile someone gets to make money more easily using their real name.
Silvia Saint’s a perfect example (have you seen her?), a well known performer who has only just won back rights to her name. I’m not familiar with Silvia’s story (breasts yes, story no) but if you’ve been sending love letters to silvia@silviasaint.com you’re sticky email has probably been read by a guy who owns Star Wars on laserdisc and has his own theory on the genesis of the ‘Lost’ universe. He might dig you.
Detecting fake sites based on appearances alone is like trying to spot terrorists based on their beard length (did you see what I did there? Just keeping it relevant). A well kept diary filled with candid shots and personal notes can be copied, and content itself is easy to buy if you know where to go. Committed fraudsters often respond to messages ‘in character’, so emails are replied to and normally they’ll put a big ‘Official site’ banner up for people who believe what they read and are busy spending the lottery winnings someone emailed them about.
The simplest way to avoid mistakenly supporting a domain name squatter is to ask around. Most performers have fan forums and the semi-stable stalkers who run them can always tell you where a performer actually resides. Yahoo! Groups and Google are a good place to start. Most forums are free to join and, in cases where fake sites exist, are typically frequented by performers working to put the record straight.
Unfortunately performer sites aren’t always better than the imposters set up in their stead. If it’s content you want you’ll often do as well at a megasite which covers a range of performers as you will investing your money somewhere officially sanctioned. Just be aware you won’t be talking to the person you think you are, or doing your bit to help keep them in cars, clear heels and coke. They don’t do this for fun you know.
PS. Silvia Saint was long in love with Mr. Marcus who entered the industry by walking around a trade-show as a fan and asking for work. Maybe it does happen…
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