Australian porn star reveals surprising fact about the industry

No matter what your stance on pornography may be, you likely have a vivid idea in your head about how it is created.

No matter what your stance on pornography may be, you likely have a vivid idea in your head about how it is created.

One image may be a flirty free-for-all where there are no rules, or miserable, bland sets where performers have no choice but to follow orders.

But the reality will shock you, according to the Australian queen of the sex scene Angela White.

In reality, the pornography industry – outside of filming a scene – is filled with incredibly corporate compliance checks that Jim from accounting can relate to.

“A lot of people still think it’s a shady industry, when in reality it is very corporate – there is so much compliance,” she told news.com.au.

“There is so much paperwork.”

The paperwork Ms White refers to includes 2257s — which makes performers verify their ages and name to prevent child exploitation. Before each scene, each performer must show identification to prove they are of age on video.

Angela White is an Australian porn star. Picture: Instagram

Then there is a boundary checklist that includes every sex act you can imagine, which performers go through together with a model liaison.

“We go through and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ask for clarification,” she said, adding that this exercise can take anywhere between 15 and 30 minutes.

She said that even if you’ve performed with someone countless times it was still vital to have the checklist done each time as boundaries can change day to day.

With STIs on the rise in Australia, White emphasised it wasn’t the role of pornography to encourage the use of protection or testing.

She said: “For me, it’s not education, it’s entertainment. And you don’t watch Fast and Furious to learn how to drive.”

But she did give insight into how strict testing schedule, revealing performers can’t be in a scene unless they have a clean 14-day test.

“So for me, because I work so much, I’m testing every 12 days – and that is a full sweep of STIs such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV and trichomoniasis. We’re doing throat swabs, vaginal swabs and anal swabs.”

She recently celebrated her birthday. Picture: Instagram

White also said that her job was incredibly physical, and so keeping up a healthy diet and exercising regularly are incredibly important.

“It‘s not like regular at home sex, we’re constantly changing positions and we hold them for around five minutes,” she said.

Ms White recently told news.com.au she has been in the porn industry since she turned 18 but it wasn’t a spur of the moment decision. In fact, she had been thinking about it – and doing her research – since she was just 14.

“When I developed, I was highly sexual and excited to explore my sexuality,” she told news.com.au.

“But I did so in an environment [where I was] sl*t shamed for expressing and exploring my sexuality – no matter how I did it. If I slept with men I was a sl*t, and if I slept with women I was a lesbian, which I was labelled in a derogatory way. I felt very ostracised for something that was core to who I am.”

She revealed some behind-the-scenes of the industry. Picture: Instagram

Pornography was the first place where she saw women like her celebrated, and one of the first places she saw women with bodies like her own being seen as sexy. Up until then, she had only ever seen men being celebrated for being open sexually.

“This was back before plus size modelling was really a thing. Back then, if there was a curvy woman on television she was the butt of every joke. It was like seeing my body in a magazine surrounded by glitz and glamour,” she said.

“It was so cool to be able to see that, and be like ‘wow I can accept my body for how it is and explore my sexuality’.”

Ms White had four years from this moment to think about whether joining the industry was something she really wanted to do.

She joined the industry at 18 but said if she could have some of the conversations with her loved ones over again, she would change some things.

“If I had to do it all over again, I would do [the conversations with my loved ones] differently,” Ms White revealed.

Ms White has won 69 awards. Picture: Instagram

“I think I was just excited and so adamant that this is what I wanted to do with my life that I just told people it’s what I was doing. There was no moment for comments, questions or concerns.”

She said she wished she’d taken more time to explain to her loved ones how much research she’d done and how she’d considered all the implications, particularly for her mum.

Ms White revealed her mum was worried because there was less resources to know what the industry was like as there wasn’t podcasts and social media wasn’t huge, but she’d had done all the research that was available to her.

Since those conversations, Ms White has cemented herself as one of the most well-known women in pornography.

She recently won five AVN Awards, the Oscars of the industry, taking her to being the most awarded female performer ever at 69 wins.

She says she owes her success to her passion, saying her attempt to create a genuine connection with everyone in a scene resonates through to viewers and keeps her fans going.