The First Time I Starred in a Porn Film

Akilah Ivy
5 min readSep 12, 2021

I’ll always remember the day of my very first porn shoot, every single detail of it. Think of it as the day you decide to jump off the edge of a cliff. You know there’s no turning back, and soon you’ll be swimming in completely new waters.

You don’t know if the water below is rocky, how deep it goes, how warm, or how cold. All you know is that you are going to jump. So everything you do to prepare for that unforgiving leap would be a vivid memory, wouldn’t it?

The night before, I couldn’t sleep much. I remember staying up as late as I could with my roommates talking on the outdoor patio. At the time, I lived in a model house in Miami with four other girls and our agent Riley.

It was called a model house since we were all in the porn industry and living together. Living with them played a huge role in my growth as a performer during my first months in the industry. On that fateful night before I made my big cliff dive, they were the comfort and support I could have only wished for.

“Go get ’em girl!” they screamed to me on the way out of the door that morning. Riley even drove me to the shoot himself. In the car, we blasted rap music, drowning out any nervous jitters I may have had. Before I knew it, we were parking and he was taking my suitcase out of the trunk. In the rearview mirror, I could see…

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Akilah Ivy
Akilah Ivy

Written by Akilah Ivy

Traveling nomad & cosmic oracle. Art curator & alchemist. Sharing my experiences in enlightenment and liberation through storytelling & personal accounts.