Frank was a guy that I had known for almost 10 years. He and his partner of over 15 years had worked in the adult film business, and he had been telling me that I would probably do well in the industry because there were few if any naturally busty Asians in porn. He’d been telling me this for a while, and every time he had brought it up, I had refused, namely because I was pursuing another career at the time and frankly thought that porn talent were, well, not my cup of tea. Although I enjoy watching it, and have since I was much younger, I never thought that it would be a career that I would consider, much less become a part of.

With the breakup and my decision to enter an emotional sabbatical, the timing seemed right. However, it meant a decision to abandon the career that I had worked in for the past 10 years, abandon my training and schooling and everything else that had lead me up to that point where I made the decision to enter adult entertainment. It seemed almost like a mid-life crisis – something you do when you have nowhere else to turn.

Now, my understanding of the adult industry was very limited at the time. You hear things – the drugs, the STDs, the immoral behaviour, the downward spiral of so many other porn actors and actresses. Deciding to enter that field was something that barely-legal girls did, after dropping out of school and not making ends meet as a stripper or an escort. Throughout the course of the past year, not only did I learn that this business can be fairly lucrative but can be strangely rewarding – given if you stick within certain parameters and guidelines that you set for yourself, and never deviate from.

Part of my luck came from being a BBW – a “Big Beautiful Woman” – as well as well past what is considered “prime” age for adult talent. Fortunately, I look much younger than my driver’s license says I am, and being Asian in a niche usually dominated by African-American, Caucasian, and Latina, talent, allowed me a unique opportunity to participate in an industry from a more educated and street-smart perspective than most of the girls entering this line of work.

After the first year of being “talent” only, I have made the decision to produce my own content, my own site, my own production company. Private XXX Studios (not to be confused with Private.Com, a much larger
company) controls at the moment an online production studio (PrivateXXXStudios.Com), my own website (KellyShibari.net), as well as several VOD (Video On Demand) accounts, Clip and Image sale accounts, and a DVD production company. I am also in the process of starting an online XXX studio whose main content is not BBW, which was the niche I thought I fit into, but rather, mixed-race female talent.

This career shift has come with its own set of unique problems. I had graduated college in the mid-90’s, before computer graphics and HTML programming, online editing and photoshop, had been taught in the schools. CAD had just been introduced. My foray into producing my own content and starting up my own adult company meant that I would have to teach myself all of these programs, familiarize myself with not only the software (Photoshop, FinalCutPro, iMovie, etc) but also the hardware (lighting, camera, set design, contracts, legal documentation, etc) of the business.

The fortunate part of learning all of this is that I can now share my journey. I hope that by following along, you too can learn how to produce your own content, take advantage of all of the online and offline opportunities available to you, and do so in a safe, business-like manner. This is the ONLY method in which to be successful in an industry that is more often than not filled with dangerous opportunities and pitfalls.

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