Bathroom Interview: Joanna Angel

In twenty years I think people will look at Joanna Angel the same way they look at Ron Jeremy now. She's already well on her way to icon status in the porn industry. She's undoubtably one of the smartest women in the business. She's ridden the alt-porn wave and carved out her own little niche within the niche. Her website, BurningAngel.com, is not just a porn site, it's a community where tattooed models write blogs and get naked. Her latest DVD with VCA, Joanna Angel's Guide to Humping, premeires tonight at Theo and Michael T's Rated X. I caught Joanna in the bathroom at Tristan Taormino's DVD release party way back in February. Maybe I sat on this interview a little too long...

What first drew you to work with Tristan Taormino?
I think she’s the most amazing woman to walk the earth. I used to stalk her, kind of. I used to read her books and go see her speak. I tried to interview her for my [college] paper. I’d never really had, like, an idol and I just thought she was amazing. Two years later she came up to me at AVN and was like, “You’re Joanna. You’ve been doing an amazing job.”

What is feminist porn to you?
You know, it’s hard, because I really don’t think it means anything. I think that a feminist…is a feminist. And someone who’s not a feminist is not a feminist. I think it has a lot more to do with the porn you make than the porn you watch.

When are we going to see Joanna Angel strap on a dildo and fuck a guy?
I don’t know! As much as I love being in control and being the leader of a movement, when it comes to sex I’m submissive. I like to be roughed up, whether it’s a guy or a girl. It’s almost an empowering feeling for me when someone can just throw me around and call me a whore and just fuckin’ beat the shit out of me. And to be honest, the desire to fuck a guy with a strap-on…it doesn’t really turn me on. I’d like to put another girl doing it to a guy in one of my movies.

What’s happening with BurningBoys.com?
Oh god! It’s an idea we had a long time ago, and we want to launch it. But it’s very hard because Burning Angel is a small company where me and one other person have to do everything. When it’s at the point that Burning Angel runs by itself, we can take on another project. I don’t want to do Burning Boys unless we really do it right and we can throw all our energy into it.

What is the perfect porno soundtrack for you?
Well, in Joanna’s Angels Rancid was on the soundtrack and so was Death By Stereo. I really want to get Turbo Negro to sing in one of my movies because all their songs are about, like, fucking and having fun and giving head and going to parties and being crazy. And that’s what my porn is all about.

Do you have trouble getting bands to lend their songs to pornos?
No, because I grew up in the music scene. The people I grew up with in the music scene, they really care about me, they really support me, and they’re really into other people who are being creative. I don’t think they’d give music to most other porn that’s being made, but they’ll give music to me.

Last question: What is Joanna Angel drinkin’ tonight?
A Kamikaze. It’s always Kamikazes. If you see Joanna Angel out on the town, you buy her a Kamikaze. She will be your best friend.