Her pseudonym is Adele Haze. Dolores Haze was, of course, the "real" name of Vladimir Nabokov's fictional Lolita. Adele Haze describes herself as a "spanking model," meaning she plays victims in BDSM movies and, according to her cheerfully raunchy blog, is proud that the punishment she endures on camera is neither faked nor minimized. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled across her at AdeleHaze.com, but it was refreshing that her blog is completely free in an Internet area where every provincial pro-dom thinks she should charge $29.99 for a subscription including a lame photo gallery and maybe a video clip. You pay nothing for Haze's pictures and innocently kinky one-liners like "I have a certain weakness for pictures of girls tied up while still dressed."
She also, at times, goes deeper and describes her emotional ambiguities as she makes a living baring her bottom to the cane. "I waited for the strokes to fall. I wanted it; I didn't want it; I willed him to hurry up; I wished he had several paragraphs of lines; I was scared; I was elated."
A link from Haze's website took me to NikiFlynn.com, the site of Niki Flynn, essentially a darker and more gothic version of Haze. She calls herself a "professional victim" and says she is proud to have worked in the hardcore-kink studios of Lupus Pictures, the notorious "werewolves of Eastern Europe" who have an extreme niche in BDSM movies with their institutional settings - imaginary and highly fetishized prisons and reformatories - and all-too-painfully-real action. Flynn talks about her work with Lupus as if it was a badge of honor. "I'm notorious for putting my darkest fantasies on film, and I'm best known for the intense, edgy movies I've made with Lupus Pictures. In fact, I'm the only Western girl to have shot with the mysterious ‘Werewolves from the East.'"
Like Haze, Flynn uses her extensive (and also non-subscription) blog as a defiant confessional. "Am I really a masochist if I don't like pain? I honestly don't enjoy being spanked or caned at all. Not while it's happening. What I enjoy is the afterglow, the tingling and the exhilaration of having suffered and survived."
In the same free-blog loop, we find The Dominatrix Next Door (DominatrixNextDoor.com/Blog), who has "dabbled in sex work for about three years now, mainly as a fetish model and as a pro-dom, working as Mistress Alena at a private dungeon in midtown Manhattan." Again, as with Flynn and Haze, the confessional element is strong. "I am a worthwhile person. I am looking (someday) for a committed partnership ... worthwhile people looking for commitment must also talk about their sex lives on the Internet, do porn and have wild sex. This leaves me little incentive to reform." At times, though, the confessional turns into graphic, very literate accounts that retain a core of humor about the sexual encounters being described. At the end of one, she wryly comments, "I may have to either have more sex or start writing fiction."
Obviously, these women are following in the footsteps of Belle de Jour, who parlayed her blog "Diary of a London Call Girl" into a book deal, national newspaper column and British TV series, and they're taking cues from Madame Matisse, the photogenic Seattle pro-dom whose blog, tabloid column and recent podcasts have made her a Web celeb.
Niki Flynn already has a book out - Dances with Werewolves (Memoirs of a Spanking Model) - but I think something more significant is going on. We have porn performers using blogs as means of self-promotion. They are making themselves characters and, maybe, eventually, celebrities rather than just fodder for the lenses of Kink and Lupus. They have seen what the Suicide Girls have achieved and are taking it one stage further by becoming unashamed hardcore alternative divas, an approach the seems more likely to succeed than Jenna Jameson-style attempts to crash the mainstream media. This could be yet another symptom of a developing alt-porn ethic in which performers control their own images and careers, and another sign that the times and dynamics really are a' changing.
Mick Farren blogs at Doc40.blogspot.com.
This story first appeared in the February 2008 issue of AVN Online magazine. To subscribe to AVN Online, go to https://www.avnmedianetwork.com/subscriptions/
