What I learned talking to 🌽⭐️ Sophia Locke
Sophia Locke talks about returning to adult entertainment, building community as a cam model, TikTok, strange fan requests, consent, step mom content, and singing
Back when I covered Porn Valley full-time, one of my colleagues had this idea for a recurring column. Each month, he wanted to profile a performer who had left the industry to find out what life was like after porn.
“People love to read ‘where are they now’ stuff,” he used to say.
Sadly, the column never got off the ground. Looking back, I blame inertia, the relentless onslaught of porn news, and the fact that writing about a retired performer is of little value for a trade publication audience. Also, our editorial team put the fun in dysfunction, so new initiatives weren’t really our jam.
But a related genre of story—the return to the industry—was typical for us. Unlike “where are they now” stories, a story about a performer returning to porn was of interest to a trade publication audience. If you’re a pornographer, this is news you can use, after all.
Those stories always included the same professional details: a recap of the performer’s previous time in adult, the name of the perform…
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