It’s easy to assign porn names—which are often wildly flamboyant and unapologetically cheesy—to fictional identities, people who don’t exist off the screen.
But at Buzzfeed, porn star and Rumpus contributor Conner Habib (né Andre Khalil) writes about how living in the age of the internet is making it more difficult for porn stars to successfully compartmentalize their private and public lives.
Since the ubiquity of online porn has laden porn stars with what Habib refers to as a “permanence of visibility,” porn stars are finding it more and more difficult to shed their screen names and live ordinary public lives. “There is no ‘after’ porn,” he explains.
(Check out this previous Rumpus post for vaguely related reading—porn star James Deen talks about the differences between the mainstream film industry and the adult entertainment industry.)
