Kim's Pleasure Chambers: Understated Website for a Wild Entertainer

Being an adult entertainer, with more than a few rather wild stage performances at adult clubs and enthusiasm which shows even when she talks gently, doesn't stop Kim Chambers from believing in understatement.

And that 's the approach she took when constructing and presenting Kim's Pleasure Chambers, www.kimchambers.com, now on the World Wide Web. The site lacks the explosive garishness of many adult Websites, but even in its almost unassuming appearance the enthusiasm of its owner/creator/star is evident.

"We wanted to keep it understated, we did it that way deliberately," she says of the site she constructed with her husband. She agrees that too many adult Websites make assaults on the eyes rather than calm invitations, so to say.

The site is done tastefully in both the members' and non-members areas. The members' area features live imagery shot at home, accented by the same striving for understatement, as well as members' updates on her plans and activities, entries from the "Diary of a Porn Princess" column she wrote for Gents magazine (she returns in the December issue with a new column, "Kim's Sexcapades"), a daily message, and movie sneak peeks, among other features. The non-members preview is not exactly barren, featuring news updates on Chambers' activities and appearances, selected photographs, and even porn event coverage.

Chambers also includes a bio page on which she tells her story without getting either mawkish, self-aggrandizing, or self-pitying. There is a hint of sorrow in her telling of how she has drifted from her troubled family (though she says she stays in touch by telephone), but she has spared herself and her site's viewers most traces of any anger or bitterness.

The result is that Chambers, in fact, comes across as a very likeable woman who does not allow her survival to become her license to trample or conquer. She says she prefers to deal with people as a person and, indeed, learned somewhat the hard way that it is better to let someone know her as a person first before revealing how she earns her keep. "I finally figured it out," Chambers says. "When I was early in this business, I would tell people right off what I did and they would kind of change their reaction, they wouldn't really try to get to know me. Now, it goes the opposite. I let them get to know me first and, then, after awhile, I tell them I'm in the adult business."

She usually tries to let people know her for a short while first, but sometimes the approach has potentially ticklish results - such as the time she appeared on The Jenny Jones Show. "These friends I'd made saw me on the show and then they said to me, 'Why didn't you tell us sooner?' And it turned out it didn't really matter to them, because they'd got to know me, but they were saying it wouldn't have mattered. I guess you never know. But it is safer to let them get to know you first. Then you know whether or not they like you."

The 25-year-old actress/dancer/entertainer left home at 15, after her troubled family (she says her father's success actually led from a normal early childhood to nearly her entire family's addiction to crack cocaine) fell apart. She was placed into the Turn Off drug rehabilitation school in Palm Springs, leaving after a year and a half to finish high school by working "any job I could find" to pay her way around after school. It was moving to Colorado with a girlfriend who'd become a young mother that led to Chambers beginning her adult entertainment career, after she'd been told about exotic dancing.

She says she enjoys the business, even the hardcore side of it, and not only because of the travel opportunities it presented her. And she enjoys living her life as someone who tries to find and face the truth, no matter what it entails.

In addition to the new Website, Chambers has just completed three new videos. Voyeur 14, with John Leslie (Evil Angel), and 25 Girl Gang Bang, Part 1 (with Jill Kelly; Perfect Pink) have been released, while Succubus (also with Kelly; Astral Ocean Video) is due around Halloween.