Madeline, 37, has had a variety of non-porn careers but recently starred in a short film called Gone with her fiancé for Angie Rowntree's "female friendly" porn company, Sssh.com. Sssh features real couples instead of professional porn performers, and Madeline now hopes to take her porn career to the next level.

I run my own business and I'm an entertainer, not in the adult industry — nothing kinky. I have done nude modeling since my early 20s here and there. I always fantasized about doing more adult stuff, but I never dared until recently. I used to be scared. But my career is fine and I'm an adult — I can do what I want.

My fiancé, Gee, is a business professional who does [porn] production and photography as a hobby. That's how I met him. He lives two very separate lives: one vanilla, one kink. He runs a website called KinkyGigs.com which connects fetish models with producers and photographers. I ended up doing a shoot with him and we fell in love. We're extremely happy with our lifestyle.

I've really only worked with my fiancé. Angie [Rowntree] had been looking for a couple for this ["real couples" porn] project for a while, and we heard about it through another job. It became something I really wanted to do. It was fun, I could make some money, I could explore different sides of myself. It was personally liberating. I've always watched porn and thought it was great. It's something to be proud of. It's different, and that's a good fit for us because we're a little different for this industry. My fiancé is on the same page as me.

Madeline and her fiancé, Gee. Angie Rowntree

[The acting was] pretty natural. I don't know how to not be natural. I think I had to make more noises on set. With him, it's super easy because we know we have chemistry. Angie's direction was, "Look natural and really into each other, and like you really want it."

But it is pretty tough to perform — for both sexes — with people watching you. If the camera's in your face or at an unusual angle, it's hard to ignore that, but you want to do a good job and try to be in the moment. [The dungeon scene we shot] was the most surprising. I don't have too much experience in a dungeon and neither does Gee. We're not lifestyle [BDSM] like that. We had to really try to get into that in a different way. It wasn't shocking but having your hands tied up is different — you have to just let go and let it happen. We were mostly just looking at the toys, we didn't use too many. We did use ice and that was fun!

My fiancé and I are in a really supportive relationship, and we're so connected and so communicative that he's on board with [me shooting porn with another man.] We actually did a shoot where we swapped partners. I always think of Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman in Meet the Fockers. I always want to be like that couple. And I think we kind of are.

My parents have always known about the nude modeling and they're fine with that. But I don't really talk about [porn] too much with them. I feel like if they did know, they'd be fine with it. I'm an adult, I'm fully functioning, and I'm pretty free-spirited and independent. They know I'm really safe and I've never made any really crazy decisions, so I don't think they would be like, "Oh my gosh, our baby!"

My friends have told me I should do porn for a while. [Laughs.] I just thought, Oh, people always say that stuff. I'm going to see where it takes me right now. I'd like to get an agent. I picked one guy and I decided to sign with him, but then he quit the industry. I was like, "Is this a sign?" I'm older, so my starting point is different from a lot of people, and also I'm just so new. I didn't even know about AVN [the Adult Video News awards] or anything until recently. But I'm not going to quit. I really like making cool movies and sexy art.

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