Dana Vespoli

What are your measurements?
34a, 24, 35.

And your shoe size?
7 and a half.

And your height?
Five foot seven.

How old are you?
Do I have to tell you how old I am?

Not really. What nationality are you?
I’m half Thai, and then mostly Irish.

Were you born here in America?
I was born here, yes.

Do you speak Thai?
I don’t.

Have you ever been to Thailand?
I have.

What’s your favorite place to go?
In the world?

Yes. Both, in Thailand and in the world. Thailand first.
Well I was really young and living in Bangkok.

That sounds like the opening line of a bad bar joke. Any ribald tales to follow that up?
Nothing exciting. I was just a little girl. So, I just did my little girl thing.

What’s your favorite place to go in the world?
I would have to say Paris.

When you go to Paris, where do you like to go?
I was there, I haven’t been back in a really long time. I just like big cities. I am really urban. I was staying in San Clouis, which is a suburb of Paris, and I had a French boyfriend and we just hung out and did stuff locally. We didn’t really go anywhere special. Although, Versailles is a great place.

All right, now for the more prosaic, more traditional porn interview questions. You should have known they were coming along sooner or later.
I should have known, yes.

How did you get into adult entertainment?
I was a big fan of porn from the time I was twelve years old.

You were raised in America, after a short stint in Bangkok?
Right. Raised on cable television.

What city were you raised in?
Portland Oregon, and then northern California. I like it up there. It is beautiful.

How do you get access to porn when you are twelve?
Certain cable channel which no longer exists would start showing old Cabellero movies…

All those really bad, old, Cabellero movies…
Well I was twelve and horny so anything looked pretty good to me.

Where were you when I was twelve? I was always looking for horny, young, girls locked in their parents bedrooms watching porn.
See that’s the thing. If there would have been more like-minded kids my age I might have been able to experiment a little earlier.

So you were watching Sharon Mitchell on Cabellero video?
Yes, and Ron Jeremy. I did mainstream work for a while.

How old were you then?
I was fourteen.

So you started right away?
Pretty quickly, yeah. Then I moved to L.A. and I started doing mainstream stuff right away.

Did you find that in mainstream there was an element of sleaze?
I was kept pretty safe. In L.A., when I was older, I would see little, weird deals going on, between people, a real subtle thing. It was cold. People in L.A. are cold.

What was the first porn movie that you ever saw?
That was, oh my God, it was a take off on the movie HEAVEN COULD WAIT . I think it was either TOUCH OF HEAVEN or HEAVEN’S TOUCH . It had Ron Jeremy in it. I loved that movie so much.

Why is it that everybody’s first porn movie had Ron Jeremy in it?
Because he was in everything. That was the first one. I am partial to HOT DREAMS with Sharon Mitchell. That is my favorite.

Is there anybody that you have seen in these movies that you like that you are hoping to work with or that you have got to work with?
T.T. Boy was my favorite.

Now, have you worked with him?
Yes I have. [She smiles and blushes slightly.]

So you have fulfilled the dream?
Yes I did.

What was that like?
Great.

You didn’t think he was too rough?
Absolutely not. I think I surprised him with my enthusiasm to work with him.

He may be hands down the greatest American performer of all time.
He is amazing. Peter North. He was great. Ginger Lynn. I obviously met Sharon Mitchell at AIM. So, yeah!

Did you gush when you met Sharon?
I tried to play it cool. She was busy. She said hi. I was kind of embarrassed.

We call her Mitch. Since you are here now you can call her that.
Mitch.

What was the first movie that you did when you came in?
Ed Powers.

Who did you work with?
The first thing I did was this movie series called COCKLESS . I can’t remember her name, the girl that I worked with. It was a girl that I don’t think is doing anything right now.

Did you work with Ed after that?
I did. For my first boy girl.

Did he pay you lots of money?
He paid me very handsomely.

How did you get with your current agent, Direct Models . How did you find them?
Well I was doing production work for Playboy television. I kept meeting people. Someone finally said, you should do it. You should just do it because you are a freak.

Not to mention the fact that you are exceptionally beautiful?
Thank you. You know the business well enough to know what you are doing and I got over the whole judgment thing, because, that was the only thing that scared me. You reach a point and you say, fuck what people think. So,…

It is a little easier as you get older. You aren’t as concerned that someone might call you a slut or something. It means less, the aspersions.
Right. Exactly. You become worried about making money and having a good time. So I went to Jim South first. I walked in there. Eventually I worked with Ben English and I watched how he was. He is a good troubleshooter. The people at Direct are good troubleshooters. They know that there is a problem with young girls getting to set on time and having their tests, being responsible. They make sure that they get there, that they have their tests, you know, somebody who is smart about that and can get me in to see people that I really want to meet, I thought, I want to be a part of that.

So your decision to get into adult isn’t based on any dark secret from your childhood of being held down by the entire family and raped under the Christmas tree?
No.

You don’t have a big, traumatic, sexual history?
I do not.

The Religious Right would say that all of you are drugged out, mentally ill women who choose willing to make porn, and that your decision is either based on sexual trauma or drug addiction. What do you have to say to that?
You know what I have to say to that is that there are plenty of women who have been sexually abused who are lawyers or doctors or teachers, it’s just, I think it’s a coincidence plenty of times. But yeah, you watch 20 / 20 or Diane Sawyer and these people and they don’t want, because they are afraid of people who are sexual and in control of themselves, they don’t want to hear those stories which run counter to their own diminutive stereotyping. They want to see the world in a particular way. I have a high sex drive. I’m just a horny girl.

When did you lose your virginity?
Sixteen.

So you made it from twelve to sixteen? Those must have been four hard years for you.
I tried. When I was twelve I tried and I couldn’t do it. I waited.

What do you do on film?
I do boy girl, girl girl, boy boy girl, and recently anal.

Do you do internal?
Pops? No.

Have you ever done a gangbang?
No.

Would you sleep with a midget on film?
If he was sexy.

A sexy midget?
Yeah.

Do you do interracial?
Yes.

Do you do pop shots on the face?
Yes.

Do you like the taste of cum?
If the guy is clean and healthy.

When you are fucking a guy in your personal life, where is the best place for that guy to come?
On my ass, on my stomach, on my face, inside if I’m involved.

What do you look for in a guy?
Someone who is intelligent, funny, horny, has a good sense of humor.

Bald? Is that on the list?
It doesn’t matter.

My bald readership wants to know. I swear it has nothing to do with me.
[laughter]

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done sexually?
That’s tough. I peed in a guy’s mouth and he drank it.

Really? Was it hot?
Yeah. I was just curious about it?

Are you into bondage?
A little bit.

Are you the submissive or the dominant?
Both.

So you are a switch?
Yes. I love being a sub.

So you like being tied up?
Tied up, that’s tough. I get claustrophobic and weird, but I like being pushed.

Is it a verbal submission or whips or domination?
Just domination. It can be spanking. It can be whips. It can be degradation, humiliation…all that.

Have you ever dated women in your personal life?
Yes.

Do you still?
I haven’t in a long time. I went to a women’s college. I spent a lot of time in the Bay area.

What is your degree in?
Comparative Literature.

What was the last book that you read?
Let me try to remember now. I think it was a book on squirting. I want to learn how.

Who is your favorite author?
I have several. My all time favorite author, there are two, one is THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemmingway and TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf.

Those are pretty good books. I’m not a huge fan of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE but when it comes to Papa Hemmingway, there isn’t much that he did that I didn’t like, despite what Vonnegurt says about him in TIME QUAKE . Although I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that the main character in that lost his penis in the war and that the title is a metaphor for that.
Yeah. That is a clever pun.

I want to be Hemmingway one day.
No you don’t.

I want to be drunk all the time.
And suicidal and brilliant?

Well I am already suicidal so if I could have the brilliance as well, why not?
Sure. I guess.

We are way off the topic. What do you want to do with your career?
Eventually I would like to get into the directing producing side of things. I studied film also in school.

Who were your influences in film?
Huge influences, Catherine Breillat, she is genius.

Name a movie that she did?
She did ROMANCE . She did REAL YOUNG GIRL. She is a huge influence on me.

Who else?
I’m a huge Woody Allen fan. ANNIE HALL. HUSBANDS AND WIVES . I quote from that movie all the time.

I didn’t like MIGHTY APHRODITE.
Understandable.

What do I ask you? Stop distracting me from the hard hitting porn Q and A. Do you like being fucked in the ass? Is it better, for you, than vaginal sex?
It’s not better it’s just different. I don’t mind your questions. It’s a different sensation.

Have you ever been DP’d?
I haven’t but that is something that I actually, I will end up doing. My whole thing is I like to do stuff that I like.

What are you good at in bed?
I’m good at going down on women.

I really like going down on women too. Let’s call Justine over and have a pussy eating contest and she can decide who is the winner.
I think she will be the winner.

Do you like big cock or little cock?
You know I am not a size queen but there is such a thing as too small. Manuel Ferrara is huge, but more than that, he is thick. I like that.

What do you fantasize about? What gets you off, and don’t say bald guys?
I’m really voyeuristic and I used to have fantasies about watching people have sex. I used to have a fantasy that I would come home and my boyfriend would be fucking one of my best friends and I would be hiding and watching, like angry, but turned on, because there is that fine line, between jealousy and being turned on, between anger and being turned on. I fantasize about people on set now.

Have you ever had a multiple orgasm?
No.

Do you believe they exist?
I think so.

Or do you believe that it is simply a marketing tool?
That is a really good question. I would like to believe they exist. At same point I hope to be driven to that point of multiple orgasm.

Do you play with toys in your personal life?
Uh huh. The lame stuff. Just a vibrator.

How many times have you cum in one day?
I jerked off twelve or thirteen times in one day.

But you didn’t have a multiple orgasm?
No. Especially towards the end. I think they were sort of dying out. I was bored one day.

What was involved with that? Visuals or toys or what?
It was just me and my hand. I was in college. It was like a Sunday and I had nothing to do.

Do you have a website that people can reach you at?
I’m working on it. It’s going to be danavespoli.com when it is done though.

Who is going to host it for you?
I don’t know. Do you know anybody?