Source: Adult Industry News
By: Rich Moreland
Dani Daniels on BDSM and Mixed Race Porn
On a recent Girlfriends Films set, I sat down with Dani Daniels, an industry veteran who has been pleasing her fans since 2011. Her scene was coming up and she had a few minutes to give me.
We covered a variety of topics. Here is a sampling.
“I got into the industry to shoot girl-girl. Just vaginal, I don’t do anal or anything crazy,” Dani says.
Confessing that she’s “pretty vanilla,” Dani also loves BDSM. San Francisco’s Kink.com is a personal favorite, commenting that the company has “done a lot for me on a mental level.”
How does the bondage fetish figure into the Dani Daniels sexual equation?
“I don’t think BDSM is different at all [from other kinds of sexuality]. I think that people are into different things.”
The twenty-seven year old declares that the bondage scene “is completely normal to me. It’s in my everyday sex life. It’s a power play. I love to be a submissive with men and to be a domme with women. I get to explore a lot of that.”
Today’s shoot with Girlfriends verifies what Dani likes. It’s the latest episode of the Women Seeking Women series and the sultry babe gets to have her way with Vanessa Veracruz’s shy, introverted sexuality.
“Kink.com has actually gotten me over a lot of fears which is great. They do a lot of fear play,” Dani says. But the native Midwesterner hastily adds she doesn’t have masochistic tendencies despite bondage’s place on her sexual table.
“There’re so many ways to get off, I just feel like BDSM is one of them.”
Dani compliments fetish director James Mogul, using “brilliant” to describe his creativity.
“He’s a great problem solver. If you want to get from point A to B and you don’t know how, he’ll find a way.”
As for Kink.com in general, “It’s like a big family up there [in San Francisco].”
Does she shoot IR porn?
“I do,” Dani’s states firmly, “but I hate that word. I think it’s disgusting, but yes.”
Oops, touched a nerve here. I’ve not heard a response like that before, so I probe a bit.
“I work with all performers of all colors and all races,” Dani begins. “IR is media created. I did a movie last year called Day Laborer. One of the rules I had was IR was not mentioned in the entire movie. There wasn’t any racist comments, no BBD or any of that stuff. I thought that was a beautiful thing.”
Sounds good to me, but does Dani believe identifying actors by ethnicity or color is racist?
“I do” is her blunt reply. “I don’t think that [working with] African-American performers should be [labeled] interracial.”
“Everyone has a different flavor and different persons they want to work with” she says, commenting that scenes with black performers are the only ones that are singled out as a genre.
To support her point, Dani cites two examples which avoid the IR tag. The first is “a white woman” who shoots with “someone that’s Spanish.” The second is a black woman and a white man.
Both scenes are considered “totally normal,” she says, another way of saying they dodge the interracial descriptor.
Dani Daniels sums up what she sees in porn. “There’s this shaming of African-American performers. It’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s not the 1950s. It’s not taboo.”
Of course, sometimes taboo can be alluring and exotic. In other words, as the late Candida Royalle once said to me, “Taboo is delicious.”
Makes sense. When her fans think of Dani Daniels in all her shoots, I’m certain the word delicious steps right up.
For a look at the former Penthouse Pet of the Month’s initial adventure into men of color, check out Blacked.com‘s Dani Daniels Deeper.
