She beckons you suggestively, the come-hither look on her home page accompanied by Flash animation and a disarmingly simple line of text: "It's time for a little mayhem."
Meet Monica Mayhem, a fetching young Australian from Brisbane, Queensland, whose nicely alliterative name implies fast and furious sex, the very sort she loves. Now in only her second year in porn, she's launched her official pay site, www.monicamayhem.com, which opened for business in February.
Mayhem says this hive of entrepreneurial activity fulfills a longtime dream, an ambition rooted deeply in her own unusual resume: She was previously a bank executive and a stock trader. "I worked my way up, from when I was 16," the 24-year-old natural blond recalls. "I started off with an Australian bank, Westpac, and from there, I went to Lloyds Bank. Then they got taken over by ABN-AMRO and I went to Commonwealth Bank. And then I went to London and lived there for eight months. I worked in the financial markets there, for Salomon Smith Barney."
Bored with brokering, she began dancing at the Spearmint Rhino in London. "One night after work, we were all getting drunk and I met one of the owners, who was American, and I dared him to fly me back to the States with him. Four hours later, we were on the plane to Texas - I'd gotten a free trip to America! So I left everything behind and came over. Totally spontaneous.
"That was December 2000," she recalls. "I had no money. Nothing at all. So I danced for one night at the Spearmint Rhino in City of Industry [Calif.] and made a lot of money there. After that, I kind of got hooked up with a photographer, Hank Londoner. He shot me for everyone and anyone - Swank and Leg World and elsewhere - and then he sent me to an agent, who talked me into doing videos."
Now based in Los Angeles, Mayhem served her porn apprenticeship in the likes of The Blowjob Adventures of Dr. Fellatio #35 (Elegant Angel), Peter North's North Pole #21 (New Sensations), Fast Times at Deep Crack High #3, The Oral Adventures of Craven Moorehead #6, and Hot Bods & Tail Pipe #19 (all from Celestial), before landing more prestigious parts in four VCA titles: The New Girls, The Stalker, Portrait of a Woman, and Hysteria.
"I think Hysteria is my best film to date," she says, giggling. "It's about aliens possessing me and I'm just going crazy, masturbating and having sex. I'd love to get a contract with a company like VCA. I just want something stable, so I don't have to be working my butt off every day and I can focus on my Website."
She initially conceptualized the site on her own. "I built and designed the prototype myself," she says. "I know how to design and did it all in Dreamweaver, but it's been redesigned a lot since then. I now have a host; I send them the content and they update it and they also do my billing. I did a lot of layouts for this, so there's me in single-girl, girl-girl, boy-girl, fetish, behind-the-scenes, and streaming video. Down the line, I'd like to do some live shows, too."
The host is Pop Sex, Inc., the Internet division of the gonzo company Shane's World (www.shanesworld.com). Mayhem's site was built in tandem with Pop Sex's three other new sites: the blatantly strokable Pornological.com, the humorous HornyPickle.com, and the official online home of Alana Evans, www.alanaevans.com.
"We plan to update Monica's site at least twice a week," says Jennie, president of Pop Sex, Inc. "It was important to us as a company that the girls we work with have to want to put some effort into their Websites, and not just sit back and presume the money would simply roll in.
"Monica is very diligent and we're pleased to have her working with us."
"I'd like to eventually get it to that Danni's Hard Drive stage," quips Mayhem, who has appeared on Danni Ashe's site (www.danni.com) several times. "I've always been into the whole Internet thing. My dad's into it and I know how to work with computers. I guess I just have a knack for it. It's my special thing." Her site, she adds, reflects her enthusiasm for her profession: "Porn, to me, is an easy way to make money that's fun at the same time."
And, she hopes, the most fun with this new venture will come from her online store. "Yes, I'm selling certain clothes I've worn on shoots, my videos, my signed magazines and signed pictures, and also my used underwear," she says, laughing. "Totally! I wear them and get someone to photograph me and then we put up the picture and they can choose which one they want. I'm actually wearing them in the picture and that's what they'll get."
Most of the time, though, "I only wear it once. It's not like I've worn them a million times. I know guys want to smell them, so they won't mind if I've worn them a million times but, I mean, it's on for long enough - I don't think it's all that kinky!" Not compared to the time when a banking colleague offered to procure some other clothes of hers, anyway. "He asked me if he could buy my sweaty gym clothes. I thought he was joking, but he was serious."
One thing she knows her fans will want is a peek into her off-camera sex life, so she's planned an online diary. "Lately, I've had a boob job," she reveals. "I used to be a 34B and you can see how small they are, in my earlier videos. These new breasts are all I ever wanted since I stopped growing. I've wanted breast implants since I was 16. I'm a big-breast kind of person, and I like big breasts on girls."
She even divulges a little trade secret: "I don't get any pleasure from penetration. That doesn't do anything for me. I'm not like most girls who say they love doggie style because they can feel it deeper. I can't climax vaginally, and that's been my biggest trouble. Even clitorially, it's very, very hard. I orgasm only from oral sex, masturbation, or vibrators."
So is she the proverbial porn star, an expert at faking orgasms? "When I'm being penetrated by a guy on-camera, I find it very easy to fake," she discloses. "I get pleasure with whatever's on the outside, like skin contact. Nothing internal. I guess it's all part of the acting. But I've never faked it in real life. Ever. Why would you deny yourself the real thing?"
