Believe it or not but the porn on the Internet is as old as the Internet itself. Pornographers are responsible for many early innovations in internet marketing (such as subscriptions and pop up ads) and female entrepreneurs were among the most successful in the adult business.

Danni Ashe

One of these women, a stripper named Danni Ashe learned HTML on vacation and in July 1995 launched her own fan site Danni.com (also known as Danni’s Hard Drive) charging $15 a month for access. Hours later after her site was launched the volume of traffic it received had overloaded the servers causing the system shutdown.

Before long, Ashe was making $2.5 million a year and reportedly using more bandwidth than all of Central America.

 
Danielle Ashe (real name Leah Manzari) was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the United States on January 16, 1968. Her naturally large 32FF tits contributed to her popularity as an adult performer. Fun fact: Ashe is the only woman in the world who appeared on the cover of both the Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine and earned the status of “the most downloaded woman on the Internet”.

By 2001, Danni’s website was estimated to be worth US$30 million. By 2003, she had 50 full-time employees, a studio in Los Angeles and Arena magazine ranked her fourth among the “50 Most Powerful People in Porn” list. Ashe was making a million dollars a year and also acting as an industry advocate: she testified before a government panel regarding “Marketing Adult Materials Online” In March 2000, and in 2004, Ashe was featured as herself on the HBO documentary,

Danni’s Hard Drive was sold in 2004 and then again in 2006 to Penthouse Media Group Inc for $3 million.

Daily Mail lawsuit:
In September 2013, Ashe filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper Daily Mail Online seeking US$3 million in damages. Daily Mail used her image to illustrate an article about an HIV-positive female performer. In January 2017 the parties had settled out of court.

Another great and hilarious episode from Wood Rocket where they ask real pornstars if their siblings, parents, aunts or uncles have ever stumbled across their porn online.

Starring Charlotte Sartre, Lance Hart, Cindy Starfall, Kira Noir, Tabitha Stevens, Demi Sutra, Maya Sinstress, Avery Black, Penny Poison, Lily Lane, Isabel Moon, Kitty Jaguar, Charlotte Cross, Kate Kennedy, Tiffany Watson, Lotus Lain, Rocky Emerson, Cleo Clementine, Lola Fae, Elena Koshka, Gorgeous Aphro, Jenna Creed.

Porno Bootcamp: VICE went to Vancouver, Canada to see the training ground for amateur porn actors run by busty tattooed ex-pornstar Samantha Mack. This is not your traditional reality porn casting, Sam designed casting process specifically to test male talents under pressure! Video got over 22 million of views already, it’s actually entertaining and better than Netflix

This unusual advert starring fake “porn actors” Cassandra Woodhouse and Paris Theodosiou is aimed at promoting online safety for minors (children under 18yo).
The pair of naked porn stars called Sue and Derek turn up at a mother’s front door to tell her that her son has been watching them online and warn her that he might not know how relationships actually work in real life: in adult movies, people don’t talk about consent and “just get straight to it”.

An American pornographic actress and former Hollywood actress Maitland Ward in her interview to the Daily Beast tells that the porn industry might be uniquely prepared to maintain movie production during Coronavirus pandemic:
“The adult industry is inherently good at taking precautions and relying on health screening — of course, it’s primarily STD screenings demanded by law every 14 days, but nevertheless, we deal with things like cutting the risk of potential outbreaks or infections as a way of life, so, as an industry, we may be better equipped to take swift action and alert performers of outbreaks.”

Australian pornstar and movie director Angela White, aka the Meryl Streep of Porn (she won the porn Oscar for Female Performer of the Year three times in a row), is concerned about fellow pornactors losing their only source of income.
“While we are monitoring public health departments, we do not believe that a mandatory production hold is warranted at this time. We are wary of cutting off performers’ ability to generate income by prematurely restricting their ability to work while the risk is low—especially with the potential for a longer and larger business shutdown looming… We are asking that performers and producers who continue to shoot be incredibly vigilant and take common-sense precautions, including educating performers and crew about prevention, limiting the size of sets, and discontinuing air travel whenever possible.”

Berlin-based Spanish feminist pornstar Paulita Pappel says that porn career was her calling: “You have amazing sex, then you get food, then you are being paid very well. Why would I not want to do this?” Paulita considers herself to be a second wave feminist who sees sex work as an empowering and wonderful tool to change the world of patriarchal exploitation. Also, Paulita runs a website, which features work produced by female film students and female photographers.

Source: DailyMail