The 2008 stock market debacle may have been bad news for most American workers, but it apparently did wonders for the MILF genre in porn. That’s one conclusion you could draw from MiLF Passion, which profiles mature hotties who talk about how they got into porn. Almost unilaterally they started after getting laid off when, as one says, “the economy became crappy.”

Nina Elle, a 34-year-old “beach girl” from Southern California, didn’t have enough work as a dental hygienist, so she took a tip from Lisa Ling’s show on the Oprah Winfrey Network (!) and got into webcamming. Soon fans were asking, “When are you going to shoot porn?” Now Elle says she’s almost too busy to cam. In the scene with Bruce Venture that follows her interview, Elle proves that she really does like sucking dick, but she takes a pounding like a pro as well.

With her long blonde hair, big boobs and pretty face, Holly Heart is a quintessential “Orange County girl” who talks a lot about what she likes in the sack. After she strips down for action, John Strong proves that he was listening.

Alana Luv, age 31, hails from New York. She used to be an accountant, but when the economy headed south, so did she—all the way to Vegas. She worked at the Bunny Ranch for three years until she decided to shoot movies. “The only difference is that it’s on camera, so I might as well try out porn.” Her biggest complaint about legal hooking: “It’s a whole waiting game and I don’t have the patience for it.” Luv gives good interview, talking about her favorite scene, her first sexual experience (disappointing) and her first orgasm (which was only six years ago).

Nikki Daniels came to L.A. from Chicago via Miami; the 32-year-old former nurse also got laid off. Long and lanky, she wears a red mini dress that’s open to the waist, giving access to her shapely natural boobs. She enjoys porn and says she likes to look at big butts and blondes with big tits, “because it’s the opposite of me.” Articulate and relaxed, she talks about having orgasms: “You have to trick my clit. I’ve been told I’m like a Rubik’s cube … but once you get it, it’s all good from there.” Her scene with Will Powers is shot in a room flooded with light, and her tanned, lanky body looks terrific. He pops on her face and she murmurs, “I love your cock”—it’s the kind of generous love-making that pleases devotees of the MILF genre.

Unlike many titles marketed in the MILF genre, the focus here is not on cougar-cub fantasies. Though these performers aren’t very advanced in years, they’re not giggling college students either. These women have a lot to say, and they know what they like—and what their male partners will like too. And some viewers will definitely enjoy the change of pace.