This feature appears in the February issue of AVN magazine. Click here for the digital edition.
LOS ANGELES—Veteran performer Alison Rey hit her ten-year mark in August 2024. “I’ve been wanting to come to a Talent Day forever but I was always on a set or something. I finally made it!” she says with a grin. “Back when I was new, I didn’t live in L.A., so I never got to do a Talent Day.”
She started performing when she was a college student in another state: “I was dating this guy, we were on a swingers website, we were trying to find couples close to our age. We found a couple, we were getting to know them—as one does—and I asked, ‘What do you do for a living?’
“‘I’ll tell you, but don’t freak out... I do porn.’
“I was like, ‘Cool. Tell me about it.’ She was a student like I was, she’d come out to L.A., shoot for a week, make all her money, go home, and focus on her studies for three weeks. Sounded great. She helped me get an agent, come out to L.A. I shot my first five scenes, loved it.
“Never stopped.”
Rey says it took her a long time to get over the body-shame hangups drilled into her in Catholic school: “I had a hard time wanting to explore my sexuality, and it’s really been in the last two-three years that I’ve begun to come out of my shell. Be okay with who I am as a person and get to love myself. I’ve entered into my Slut Era, that’s what I’m calling it. I’m finally comfortable enough to say ‘Yeah, I do like these things.’”
The “Slut Era” (“I’m a big Swiftie. She’s such an amazing performer. She’s all about her ‘eras’: This is my Slut Era.”) comes with some advantages: “Because of the name that I do have, and the relationships I have built with different directors over the years, I can go to them and say, ‘Hey, I really want to do this thing’ and work with them to make projects where I’m getting to do what I want, not just going to a shoot and doing what they want. Doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. And it’s really cool.”
One of the things she has explored is taking charge in her sex scenes. “I was always the virgin, the nerdy girl. I never got to be the aggressor. And I think that’s where I thrive, it feels a lot more natural. Being this hesitant, reluctant virgin character didn’t really lend itself to embracing my sexuality. It was something that was happening to me. Now, being the aggressor, I get to be like, ‘Yeah. This is what I want. I desire this person.’ That desire that I have inside of me gets to come out. That’s been wonderful.
“I did a scene for MeanBitches.com. It was in an office, but dominant. I’m more into psychological dominance than the whips-and-chains. I did one scene with Kimmy Kim for Kink, Casey Calvert was directing, but I found out during that scene that I don’t like hurting women. So we made it more psychological.”
Rey says her favorite scenes are the more recent ones. “The ones during my Slut Era. These scenes are more aligned with who I am today. I have plenty of ‘favorite scenes’ that were fun to work on, but when I look at them, it’s like that is a different person. I have a history. Hundreds of scenes.”
In her spare time, she does arts and crafts: “I love a project. If I have an idea for something I want and I can’t buy it, I will figure out how to make it. I do everything from jewelry to bedazzling my bong. I bedazzled a microphone to match Taylor Swift’s microphone from her Midnight Era just for going to karaoke. I upholstered a diamond-tufted headboard for my bed. I make stickers and iron-on patches. I make adult pacifiers to go to raves. Painting. So many arts-and-crafty things.”
Photography by @kogafoto
