This article originally ran in the November 2015 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition.
Hometown: Southern California | Age: 22 | Height: 5-foot-7 | Weight: 115 pounds | Hair: Blonde | Eyes: Green
At AVN’s periodic meet-and-greet nights for new talent, it’s not uncommon to interview a performer with just a few titles to her credit. But when Lyra Louvel talked to us this summer, she hadn’t even shot her first scene.
That’s not to say she was the naïve girl next door. Long-legged, lean and confident, Louvel was already a pro in another sexual arena: For the past year she has been working as a domme out of her own dungeon in downtown L.A. So our conversation was not what one would expect from a SoCal girl who “grew up super religious.”
When did she take a turn for the kinky?
“People always told me, ‘You know you’re going to end up a porn star,’ and I’m like, middle finger up, ‘You’re wrong.’ But they’d see traits in me. ‘You’re so expressive. You embody your own sexuality.’ So they were actually complimenting me.”
The first time she saw porn was right after her parents brought home a computer. “My sister pulled it up,” Louvel recalled. “Actually, it was gay porn. It was these two guys going at it in a truck. And they were covering each other with cum. At first I thought, ewwww, but later …”
After that, she refined her tastes. “I’m only 22, but I watched a lot of Kink.com that was, sadly, stolen.”
After a year working as a pro domme, however, Louvel said she is ready for something new. “I’m done femdom porn—which is just ass licking, pussy licking, feet, ball busting—things like that. Glenn King, I shot for him, and Femdom Empire. And other dommes’ websites.”
In porn, she said, as opposed to the strict BDSM world, “Everyone’s so lax and cool and nice.” Porn also offers her more latitude in expressing her own sexuality, since in a lot of pro domme work, she noted, there is little sexual interaction with slaves. But it depends on a slave’s background: “Did you grow up on Kink.com or did you grow up on OWK [Old World Kingdom]? An OWK slave never wants to touch you in a sexual way. … Some dommes don’t even show their bodies.”
Louvel is more flexible. “I’m a bisexual switch—I like to have my cake and eat it too. … It opens it all up to girls and guys, hitting and being hit. I don’t like doing something to someone else that I haven’t experienced myself.”
Not surprisingly, Louvel has taken note of some performers who seem to share her mindset, notably Aiden Starr, Gigi Allens and Skin Diamond. And she’d like to follow in their footsteps, doing standard boy/girl and girl/girl scenes as well as femdom.
“I want to do it all. I think that’s maybe why some people haven’t approached me because they think I only want to be a dominatrix in porn. I’m a human being. I have vagina-dick sex all the time. That’s the mistake about dommes. They think we’re constantly butt-fucking dudes—like the only time we have sex is with a strap-on.”
But she does enjoy the trappings of her profession. “Your wardrobe is your arsenal,” she said, noting that she especially lusts after Syren latex and a U.K. brand called House of Harlot—though the latter is currently out of her price range. But who knows what treasures a few porn shoots could bring into her reach? “I’m fucking for latex and leather,” Louvel joked. “That’s gonna be my thing.”
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