December 29, 2023December 29, 2023 by dallas

Podcast: Ivy Maddox Interview

At first, all Ivy Maddox really wanted to do was tick “gangbang” off her sexual bucket list. A porn shoot seemed the safest, easiest way to conquer the logistical hurdles of such an adventure, but once she stepped in front of the camera, she found she loved being onscreen. As she herself puts it, she hasn’t looked back since. Porn’s self-described “punk paramour” joins the Adult Empire podcast to discuss her already rich and varied career as snowboarder turned sex queen.

She covers her “punk paramour” nickname, the quirks of British English versus American English, her journey into porn, her first scenes (including a gangbang), rewatching her own work, her kinky watercolor painting, snowboarding, her near-fatal accident, porn genres she’d like to shoot, bukkake versus blowbang, stars she’d like to work with (including Emma Magnolia), Britain’s attitude toward porn, her Goldilocks porn story idea, penis size, the “unglamorous” side of porn, vaping, unusual custom requests, sex and food, the loneliness of sex work, sex worker rights, working with Proxy Paige, morning person versus night person, the three things she can’t live without, favorite foods, guilty pleasures, and favorite travel spots.

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On her background and how she got into porn:

So I was a cheerleader at university. And I really enjoyed that. And then I started stripping on the side, which these days would have been such a big deal. Like, in the past five years, stripping and sex work and OnlyFans has become a little bit more like cool, #aesthetic — all of the clear heels are coming into fashion. You can see stripper outfits on — I don’t know your sites for America — but like the shopping sites for everyone.

And so the footballers came in one night, and they saw me there and they went back to the cheerleaders and told them. Word got around that I was working at the club. So the cheerleaders kicked me off the cheer squad, which was sad. But I kept the outfit and I made it into a little stripping outfit. So that was like my little act of rebellion, I guess. And then I decided I wanted to do ski season; I wanted to go snowboarding. And so I was traveling around the world chasing winters. And during the ski seasons. And that was super fun. And I was stripping on the weekend.

So I was traveling, I was doing snowboarding chasing winter, stripping at the weekend. And yeah, that was awesome. And then I broke my neck. So I ended up going on a trip with some girls that I wish I was filming because I got quite good. I was sponsored by a brand and we were being paid to go and snowboard around and film and promote this in France.

Anyways, so I broke my neck in The Avalanche, which is a nightclub called Avalanche, not an actual avalanche. So I went drinking after a really good day of filming and climbed up a pole still my ski outfit. And I just like slipped because it’s ski trousers and I fell and broke my neck. So then I was in rehab for a while and I came back to London because I was like, oh, I need some time out. And then it was COVID. I started kind of online and then I wanted to go into porn. And because I just before COVID had been like in the kink scene in London, I’ve found that because I’ve always been like, very sexually sex positive and like sexually a slut, let’s say.

Her first porn gangbang:

So I always wanted to have a gangbang. And then I also wanted to do porn, and it was really hard to organize a gangbang. So I was like, Well, if I can do it on screen, then that takes out some of the organizing. I happened to meet someone who knew an agent and knew someone in Prague and yeah, they flew me out. And in one week, I did pretty much the most hardcore you can do in porn. And then, yeah, it just carried on. I didn’t think I was going to carry on. When I did it, I feel I was just going to be like, oh, pick that off my bucket list. But it was awesome. I loved it. I did take a year out after my first my first week, not because I didn’t want to go back. I wanted to go back. But it was like COVID round two. And I wasn’t allowed to leave the country. So I was again gagging for another gangbang. I was like, I want more guys time. But yeah, I managed to go back out. And then I haven’t looked back since.

On the “snowboarding” accident that changed her life:

I lied about that for years. I didn’t tell anyone. I used to tell people I did it in the park while snowboarding because I was so embarrassed. But it’s kind of important that I do tell speak the truth, because it was one of the reasons that I decided to come sober because it was whilst I was intoxicated.

I easily could have died. I was very, very lucky. I broke my neck in three places. You know, I think, you know, I was very lucky. And also my recovery was pretty quick in comparison to what it could have been. Because I really took it seriously. I was like, fuck, I need to rest. And I don’t like resting. So it was really difficult.

And also because I was on a lot of pain medication. And I kind of got depressed so you think that made me have fire in my belly. But it took a long time after the incident after the accident because I went through this stage of like, Oh, I’m depressed. I was drinking a lot. I was dependent on this pain medication. And I didn’t have a goal in my life anymore. I couldn’t snowboard as well as I used to because I took so much time off. And I was really upset. I couldn’t ride with my friends anymore because they progressed to a different level and they were in different competitions, and I was kind of like starting from the beginning. And it was really, really disheartening.

And that’s the adjustment from going through like for a competitive snowboarder to just not accepting that I wasn’t as good as I used to be. That was I took that really hard. But you know, once I got sober, because I knew that I wanted to, I didn’t want to do porn, if I was in, I wanted to be a sound mind and not depressed because we do things like that we might regret when we’re intoxicated. And our inhibitions go out the window, and we’re more easily manipulated. And so yeah, I’m glad that it happened, because I’m really happy where I am now. But at the time it took I was in a right old hole.

Porn genres she’d like to shoot:

I’ve had multiple guys, like within the gangbang. But I haven’t done like a specific bukkake. I think that would be really fun. I’d also love to work in more cosplay and stuff. I haven’t done anything like that. And there’s I think people like I haven’t worked with, the people that I want to work with. So it doesn’t matter to me about the level. I think, if anything, it makes it easier because I can do any level these people want me to do. And it’s just like, yeah, who I want to work with.

The porn Goldilocks scene idea:

I had an idea of something that I’d really like to do. I wanted to do like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I thought that’d be really good. Like, “This one’s too big. This was too small. This one’s just right.” Just like loads of fairy tales. I thought that would be really cool. Because I love how you could make it really camp as well. And like over the top, Little Red Riding Hood. Even though they’re children’s stories, like Brothers Grimm, they’ve got like a dark undertone to them.

On penis sizes:

Not a size queen. I do love a big dick. However, not an everyday big dick. I’m poly, so I have multiple partners. So like, there’s people that have bigger sizes, and people have smaller size, but also they’re attached to nice people. So that helps. I don’t care what size as long as it’s attached to someone who’s like really nice to me, doesn’t have an ego. That’s my number one turnoff. And how it is clean as well. So as takes care of themselves, like hygienically. But yeah, I’m a kind of a kind of seem to go for smaller. And then suddenly, I’ll have a big one. And then I have so many different dicks in my life at the moment. So I have like, for whatever mood I feel like, if I know that I’ve got work next week, and I don’t want to be like, a bit sore. And I’ll go see one guy if I want to, if I feel like oh, you know I haven’t got anything on for the next couple of days. I can deal with not walking, and then I’ll go see him.

On working with Proxy Paige:

Oh, she’s awesome. So she’s actually the person that got me into porn. So I had a friend that knew Proxy, and so I had a chat with Proxy said, “Oh, can I do porn?” And she knew Giorgio Grande, which was the first person that I came and worked with in Prague. And so Proxy kind of like was holding my hands get helping me get into porn, and now I’m really good friends with her. And I’ve like stayed at her house bunch of times. We always go for dinner when I come into town. And yeah, I love working with her. Her energy is amazing. She talks behind the camera. She’s a right little pervert. And also she’s just a legend in her own right. But yeah, she’s very much like me, I think. Her energy is really good. And she’s just horny, horny as fuck.

Full interview transcript

AI transcript by Otter.ai

The “punk paramour”

Dallas 0:50
You’ve been described as the punk paramour. So I wonder if you could elaborate a little bit on that particular identity.

Ivy Maddox 1:12
Okay, so, “paramour” is like an illicit lover. And I also because, I don’t know, I guess I was very sexually promiscuous. And I like an alliteration. And I like punk. I feel like my attitude is punk. I feel like that’s more of like a state of mind than like, particularly local, anything like that. But yeah, like, I’m going to be like this again next weekend. It’s good, like punk. But I like all kinds of music. But yeah, I think that’s where it came from. And also, I liked the band, Paramore. So they spell it wrong. But they spell it right for them.

Music preferences

Dallas 1:56
Nice. That was my next question, whether there was kind of a musical element to the name and whether you were a fan of punk music as well. It sounds like you are.

Ivy Maddox 2:06
Yeah, I like all types of music. I’ve recently like fallen in love back in love with drum and bass. And I went to a festival with my friend Jewelz Blu. She’s quite popular in America. And we like actually met at a drum and bass gig with Kat Knight, who is our mutual friend. And we went out and then she was like, “Oh my God, I’ve got to go to UK festival. Will you come with me?” That was my LA [accent] impersonation. “And let’s go to this festival.” And then I introduced her — so it was mainly drum and bass that we went to. And then I was like, right, you should come to this stage because I think you’ll really enjoy it. And it was DJ EZ, which probably doesn’t mean much, but it’s like he’s an old school garage DJ and he plays like all the classics from like, when you’re a teenager like [sings] “I’ll bring you flowers.” Anyways, she’s dancing. She’s like, “Oh my god I love UK garage [pronounced guh-rodge].” And I’m like, “It’s [pronounced like] garage [garridge]”.

UK English vs. American English / accents

Dallas 3:08
That’s funny though, because what’s the old joke — the United States and England are separated by a common language or whatever the the gag is. Those words with a divergence in pronunciation. Are there any other words like that, that kind of catch your ear? The differing pronunciations in British English versus American English?

Ivy Maddox 3:30
I always catch myself saying route [rout]. And I’ve not been to America. It’s just from, I don’t know from hanging out with Americans. And I catch myself saying route [rout] and router [rhymes with shouter]. What am I doing?

Dallas 3:46
Right, right, because router [rooter] really is a more logical pronunciation, when you think about it. I feel like the British English does have the more logical sensible pronunciations most of the time. It’s just more phonetic.

Ivy Maddox 4:00
Maybe. I just an accent sponge. So whether someone be American or Scottish or Irish or white, or like from Birmingham, I can’t help it. Liverpool is the worst — like scousers — because I just copy what they say. And I don’t even realize I’m doing it. And I’m not taking the piss. I’m not making fun of their accent. I’m just like a little parrot. I just don’t think. It’s fun in my head. I’m like, oh, no, I’m not using my inside voice. I’m actually doing it out loud. And they think I’m making fun of them. But I’m not. It’s like a compliment.

Dallas 4:39
So you mean you’re saying when you hear someone with a different or interesting accent, you kind of like start to absorb a little bit of it and you start repeating it almost subconsciously?

Ivy Maddox 4:49
100%! If I spend more than two weeks in a European country, with Europeans speaking not English mother tongue, I will come back and my English will be broken. So I will come back and I will be speaking to my friends as if I’m speaking to a Czech taxi driver who speaks very broken English. And they were like, “Why do you sound like you forgot how to talk?” In London, we will speak very, very fast. And so I have to really rein it back. And like, be more conscious of how other people are taking it and not use more diction and you know, not just mumble and be quiet.

Dallas 5:32
So does that mean that you’re a pretty good mimic? Like if I said, “Oh, do a little bit of a such and such accent!” Is that something that that you can do? Or is it just in specific contexts where it comes out?

Ivy Maddox 5:45
I don’t know. I guess I could mimic but please don’t ask me to do an accent right now. Because I’m not very good at them. I didn’t say I was good at it. I said, I just enjoyed it.

Dallas 5:58
Right. And you talked about a little bit — there is a wonderful variety of accents, even just in England, at least as I understand it. As you mentioned, the Birmingham accent, which is another. People in the United States always say Birming-ham, don’t they? They get that wrong.

Ivy Maddox 6:14
And Jewelz kept saying Maaanchester. It’s Manchester. I can do her accent because she just gets everything wrong. So I always copy her and I take the piss out of jokes. It’s funny. So like, when we were in Manchester, she was like, “I need to find someone that’s got a Manchester accent. Everyone here isn’t from Manchester.” And I was like, “I’ll find someone for you.” And I found someone like that from Manchester, “Go and speak to them.” And she’s like, “Oh my God.” And I was like, “You ask her how she says Manchester.” And then they’d be like, It’s Manchester, not Maaanchester.” So yeah, it was quite fun. Everyone was kind of — because she was like, probably there weren’t very many Americans at this festival. It was in Manchester outside of London, it wasn’t so huge. It wasn’t like Glastonbury or anything like that. It was a small festival. And so she was probably like, you know, one of the few Americans.

Dallas 7:08
Right, right. Well, it’s certainly a fascinating topic, accents and the whole thing, but I guess we’ll we’ll bring it back to porn here.

Ivy Maddox

And talk about my bumhole.

Entry into porn

Dallas

Right, right. So so let’s take it back to the to the beginning, because the story of how you got into porn is very interesting. So I wondered if you just could sort of recap your journey into the adult industry for the listeners who may not know that story.

Ivy Maddox 7:36
Okay, so I was a cheerleader at university. And I really enjoyed that. And then I started stripping on the side, which these days would have been such a big deal. Like, in the past five years, stripping and sex work and OnlyFans has become a little bit more like cool, #aesthetic — all of the clear heels are coming into fashion. You can see stripper outfits on — I don’t know your sites for America — but like the shopping sites for everyone.

And so the American footballers came in one night, and they saw me there and they went back to the cheerleaders and told them. Word got around that I was working at the club. So the cheerleaders kicked me off the cheer squad, which was sad. But I kept the outfit and I made it into a little stripping outfit. So that was like my little act of rebellion, I guess. And then I decided I wanted to do ski season; I wanted to go snowboarding. And so I was traveling around the world chasing winters. And during the ski seasons. And that was super fun. And I was stripping on the weekend.

Gangbang

Dallas 11:17
Wow. So that first gangbang Did you just ease right into it? Did it feel natural right away? Or was there any sense of awkwardness at all at that, at that first go round.

Ivy Maddox 11:29
The only awkward thing was that I didn’t know what positions to get into. Because they don’t really tell you. They kind of just like say just stay loose, just stay floppy. And the guy’s like, put you into these positions, because I didn’t know the name of any of the positions. Like I know doggie obviously, missionary and I know, you know, cowgirl. But in a gangbang situation, especially when we’re doing like double anal, these positions, they’re very specific. And also the camera needs to see and everything. So I’m thinking I’m getting the position. They’re like, no, no, relax, relax. And then I’m like, oh, what’s happening. But that was like part of the adrenaline and the fun, I guess, literally being manhandled and put into these positions. And like not really having any kind of — it was all like new brand new. It was amazing. I loved it.

Dallas 12:20
So it sounds like from what you were saying, doing that scene was as much as anything part of your own desire to explore things sexually and do it in a way that was safe. And you sort of to get around some of the practical issues of organizing such a thing. So did you go back and watch the scene? Was that part of the whole thing, to sort of re-experience it? Have you watched it? Is that something that you do?

Ivy Maddox 12:42
I got them. I had to buy them actually. I bought them. And I watched them. And I watched them a lot. And I would always show people. Like look what I did. I was so proud of it. I still am really proud of it. It was like a crazy, crazy week. And yeah, I would 100% do it again. I mean, like I would do that experience as it was again.

Dallas 13:06
So gosh, so you had to buy your own scenes. You didn’t even get access to it gratis, then.

Ivy Maddox 13:12
To be honest, I I didn’t ask. I wanted them immediately. And I didn’t want to wait. And I was like, as soon as they came out, I bought it. Because I didn’t I didn’t want to be like, Oh, she’s going to have this and then wait a couple days. I needed to see it right then.

Dallas 13:30
And you you said you showed it to other people kind of presenting some work that you were proud of? What were the reactions you got from people you showed it to you? Were they pretty impressed as well.

Ivy Maddox 13:39
Yeah, my mom thought it was great. She loved it.

Dallas 13:44
Well, you had me going there.

Family / porn watercolor

Ivy Maddox 13:45
No, so my friends that were in the kink scene and like, at the sex parties that was going to like that kind of group of friends. They were like, really? They thought it was really cool. And then I’m going to show you something. So my mum does know what I do. She’s like, I guess, proud of me. I mean, I bought my own house last year, so she’s happy that I’m happy. She has seen my picture that I got a watercolor commissioned of a picture from my first gangbang because I wanted to like embody it and it’s huge. I’m just going to quickly go and get it to show you.

Dallas 14:30
Yes, please do. We want to see it! sounds awesome.

[Maddox displays her watercolor on camera]

Dallas 14:42
Oh, wow, impressive. Yeah, it’s a little bit of reflection, but I can see it. Yeah, yeah!

Ivy Maddox 14:53
It’s all the dicks. And then there’s me, my boobs, my vagina.

Dallas 14:57
Amazing. So that has a place of honor in your place there — I assume centrally located. Good conversation piece, I should think.

Ivy Maddox 15:09
It’s literally as you come into my living room. It’s smack in the face. So yeah. Anyone that comes to my house have a lovely surprise.

Dallas 15:21
So you said there was a commission that you had made.

Ivy Maddox 15:26
I did a couple of life drawing. I was a model for some life drawing online during COVID. And there was someone who did a picture of me and I was like, oh my god, I love it. Do you do commissions? And she was like, Yeah, I do. And the picture I bought is quite like explicit she’s like, that’s totally fine. Anyway, skip forward, she now does OnlyFans and is really successful. But at the time, when I met her, she was just an artist and a really an incredible artist. Then now she’s, she’s doing OnlyFans, and she’s fucking smashing it. So go her.

Snowboarding

Dallas 16:04
Nice, there you go. There you go. Your influences extending into many spheres there, it sounds like, Just stepping back a little bit — you were talking about how you traveled the world, snowboarding and then stripping night. So the physicality of snowboarding and that whole athlete side of you, has that influenced your performance style at all?

Ivy Maddox 16:32
I guess the only thing I can think of is like, I’m quite an active performer. And I have really high energy. I also always want to push further and do something that I haven’t done before or do something more crazy than last time. And that’s very similar to how I used to snowboard like, I would go up the mountain with my pals. And we would play a game. I’m very competitive with myself. And we would like play games around the parks. I used to ride slopestyle. So we would go on like the rails and the kickers. And we would try and do something better than the last time or than the other people. So I guess, yeah, in the way that I set goals for myself. And I’m always trying to push on and push harder. I guess it’s similar, similar vibe.

Dallas 17:22
And you were talking, of course, about how you broke your neck. Describe that whole story.

The “snowboarding” accident

Ivy Maddox 17:27
I lied about that for years. I didn’t tell anyone. I used to tell people I did it in the park while snowboarding because I was so embarrassed. But it’s kind of important that I do tell speak the truth, because it was one of the reasons that I decided to come sober because it was whilst I was intoxicated. Sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt you.

Dallas
No, no, I was just just trying to get at that sort of thing about about how that, about how that kind of incident can impact a person’s life. I mean, I’ve heard other people have described experiences like that, like very traumatic injuries, that it completely changed their perspective on things. And it can give them a new lease on life. And they were more liable to take risks, like career risks, or go for things. So it sounds like in your career on camera, you’re really going for it. And I just wondered if that was partially because of that whole incident that you describe where you had a brush with, in might be dramatic to say brush with death, but almost in a way, or something very extreme anyway.

Ivy Maddox 18:25
Yeah, I mean, I easily could have died. I was very, very lucky. I broke my neck in three places. You know, I think, you know, I was very lucky. And also my recovery was pretty quick in comparison to what it could have been. Because I really took it seriously. I was like, fuck, I need to rest. And I don’t like resting. So it was really difficult.

So I think finding porn and finding something where there’s a tangible ladder where I can see progression. That was really important for me, because there was a while where I was a bit like, I don’t know what to do, like I could carry on traveling and stripping but I feel like the reason I was doing that was because I loved it because I was doing snowboarding. And I can’t do that as well as I used to. And I still go snowboarding for fun. I love snowboarding still, but I don’t put that pressure on myself anymore. And that’s the adjustment from going through like for a competitive snowboarder to just not accepting that I wasn’t as good as I used to be. That was I took that really hard. But you know, once I got sober, because I knew that I wanted to, I didn’t want to do porn, if I was in, I wanted to be a sound mind and not depressed because we do things like that we might regret when we’re intoxicated. And our inhibitions go out the window, and we’re more easily manipulated. And so yeah, I’m glad that it happened, because I’m really happy where I am now. But at the time it took I was in a right old hole.

Sexual bucket list

Dallas 20:51
So when you start with a scene, you know, like a gang bang? Where do you go from there? Like, what are your What are things that are still left on that bucket list of years of dramatic, big sexual acts that you’d like to try but haven’t tried as yet?

Ivy Maddox 21:06
Oh, okay, so I did it in the wrong order. I did put it in the wrong order, let’s say. And most people would start off with things more tame like solo girl, girl, girl and boy girl band, you know, after a year or two, and maybe maybe they’ll do a No, I did anal was my first thing. Because I didn’t realize I was going to do it as a career. It was kind of like bucket list maybe. And so what I really liked doing now is when I get something that’s like more soft and less and more acting involved, like I find that like, really exciting because I haven’t done as much of that. I’m really confident in doing like the more hardcore stuff. And there are loads of things. There are loads of companies that I want to work with. So that’s kind of like my bucket list now rather than like actual sexual acts, because there isn’t anything I haven’t done that I want to do. I didn’t I said that right. It wasn’t anything. Yeah. Apart from maybe the cocky but you know, yeah, Pikachu, maybe would be cool. I’ve done pretty much everything that I want to do. I think like sexually even like, in my personal life as well. Yeah, I’m pretty. I’m pretty sly. And I know, I know how to ask for what I want. And you know, I have very slotty friends as well. So is there something I want to do? Someone’s going to help me out?

Genres she’d like to try: bukkake and more

Dallas 22:29
So bukkake, is something that you want to do, but haven’t done yet? Did I understand you correctly?

Ivy Maddox 22:34
Yeah, I mean, I’ve had multiple guys, like within the gangbang. But I haven’t done like a specific bukkake. I think that would be really fun. I’d also love to work in more cosplay and stuff. I haven’t done anything like that. And there’s I think people I haven’t worked with, the people that I want to work with. So it doesn’t matter to me about the level. I think, if anything, it makes it easier because I can do any level these people want me to do. And it’s just like, yeah, who I want to work with.

Dallas 23:09
Right, right. Absolutely. So bukkake, of course, just in case people don’t know what that is. Aa bunch of men ejaculate on a woman’s face sort of in a row kind of a thing. It’s kind of like I guess a Japanese thing. But there’s the related genre blowbang, which I guess there is a slight distinction between the two. But have you done a blowbang scene?

Ivy Maddox 23:34
I see that.

Dallas 23:36
So that’s on your list there too, I guess. Yeah.

Ivy Maddox 23:39
Although bukkake seems like less effort.

Dallas 23:44
Well, you’re right, you’re right, because I guess a blowbang is a bunch of blow jobs in a row. It’s like a gangbang with a blowjob emphasis. Whereas you said as you said, because bukkake is just the lady’s there and the guys going in a row.

Ivy Maddox 23:59
I love watching guys wank. So like, it’s like a roomful of guys wanking and looking at me, like that would be really, really hot. And I would probably want to go and help them out. But if there was even this, like, kind of like denial, like I’m not allowed to kind of thing like, that’d be really hot. Like, you’re not here to do anything apart from the cum bucket. Like you’re, you’re just going to be like completely used. That’s what you’re here for. I think I would be angry that I wouldn’t be allowed to suck because I also love doing that.

Dallas 24:29
Right. So there would be some challenges, then, to that, some psychological challenges.

Ivy Maddox 24:33
Yeah, exactly. That would be fun.

Performers she’d like to work with

Dallas 24:37
So you were talking about those lots of people that you want to work with. I’m sure it’s a huge, huge list, but who are some people near the top of that list of people you’d really really love to work with?

Ivy Maddox 24:49
I really like Emma Magnolia. I met her at the German Fetish Ball. She’s just like an amazing person and really fit. I really would love to work with like Johnny Sins and, say, Keiran Lee. I think he might be like coming back to England. So that might be on the cards. I’ve got like a trip coming up in the winter. That’s like a content collab trip that a bunch of us creators are going to go to so I am excited to work with them. Also, some performers that are up for personal awards, like European performers as well. So that’d be really fun. I’m not going to name names, just in case people drop out. But I’m really excited for that, because that would be like, you know, hopefully we’re doing an orgy because on our last trip, last year, we all had a big orgy. And that was that was that was like Scarlett Jones, Kat and I. it was really cool.

Dallas 25:56
Nice. This was an it was an orgy for a shoot, or was this just a spontaneous night?

Ivy Maddox 26:01
Wait, so we, we booked, we booked a villa and we stayed for like, a week. And we were just like doing content like collab. So we have another one of them in October, and a bunch of Americans are coming over. And then there’s like, European performers, I actually think that the majority of people I’ve never worked with, haven’t met, so I’m really excited for that. Like top tier people.

Attitude toward porn in the U.K.

Dallas 26:34
There you go. There you go. So in general, what, what is the cultural attitude in the UK toward toward pornography?

Ivy Maddox 26:48
I guess it’s split. Like, I mean, I don’t hang around with people that are judgmental. I surround my self with like, people who are sex positive themselves, and, you know, people that are accepting of what I do. I know that there are people that are down on it. For whatever reason, like religious. So, you know, I’ve just been brought up differently to me. I think it’s pretty very — I know how in America, you have like, is it like the North and the South? Or you have like the left liberals and people like that, not to get into politics. I think we don’t have it as extreme here. But there are certainly people within extreme groups like feminist groups who think that porn or sex work is trafficking. And so they will, they don’t think that they are using that as a political strategy to kind of get people on their side and shut down or shut down sex work and make it like criminalized, and, and these people aren’t really caring about the people that are in industry? They’re just, they’re just using it to fuel their agenda, which I don’t agree with. That’s a trick question

Dallas 28:13
It definitely is, yes, I’m asking you to to sum up a whole culture!

The politics of public nudity

Ivy Maddox 28:17
I’m sure there are twats, but I don’t hang out with them. I don’t do anything in public. I’m very, very passionate about consent. And the same with like, you know, even just being nude in public. I use this as an example, my friend said, Hey, do you want to go on this naked bike ride in London? And I said, No, because even though like I don’t see my naked body as like sexual just being naked, if I’m riding a bike, there might be like, a Muslim lady who is like, completely horrified and it really upsets her. There might be like someone who just it really traumatizes them and I don’t want to be the person to do that to someone else.

Dallas 29:11
A naked bike ride — is that just what it sounds like? Like riding a bike naked through through London? Is that what you said?

Ivy Maddox 29:16
They have it across the world. I’ve never done it because I don’t agree with — I sound like such a prude saying I don’t agree with it. Like I get it. I get that it’s meant to be like liberating and I do get it. But just me personally, it doesn’t sit right with me.

Dallas 29:30
Right. Right. So would you be facing arrest if you got caught for such a thing in London? I mean, I don’t know what the regulations are there, but I assume public nudity of that sort could potentially get you in trouble.

Ivy Maddox 29:44
I think that view is like what are they going to do, arrest everyone?

Dallas 29:48
Okay, so it’s like an en masse sort of thing. Gotcha.

Ivy Maddox 29:51
Flashmob literally flashing mob Ah, very good. And it’s not sexual. It’s literally just nice people riding a bike? And it’s like peace, love unity. Right? My opinion is it still breaks breaches like consent of someone who that might be like an seeing a naked person might be incredibly traumatizing for them.

Dallas 30:16
Right, right, particularly, as you say, in London, which is such a vast international city with people from all corners of the globe, as you say, all sorts of different cultures,

Ivy Maddox 30:25
There’s actually there are people that aren’t even meant to show their hair, you know what I mean, so.

The porn Goldilocks ideas

Dallas 30:31
Exactly, exactly. Right. So naked body to them is going to be a shocking thing. You were saying earlier how you’d like to delve into more acting roles and things like that. Is there any particular mainstream series or franchise or movie that you think, Gosh, I would love to play that role in a porn take- off or spoof or piss-take or however we want to put it?

Ivy Maddox 31:02
Oh, okay. So you’re asking me, not in porn, who I would like to work with. But if I could think if there’s like a movie, or a film that is in in hasn’t been spoofed, oh, I had an idea of something that I’d really like to do. I wanted to do like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I thought that’d be really good. Like, “This one’s too big. This was too small. This one’s just right.” Just like loads of fairy tales. I thought that would be really cool. Because I love how you could make it really camp as well. And like over the top, Little Red Riding Hood. Even though they’re children’s stories, like Brothers Grimm, they’ve got like a dark undertone to them. So I think that would be cool. I’m going to answer a question you didn’t ask me. But if I was wanting to be in someone’s movie, I really liked Digital Playground. I think they do like some really cool spoofs. They do really, really cool stuff. And I really liked their directors as well. I think the UK Digital Playground brand is really fun. And I’d love to work for them.

Dallas 32:17
Right, they do a lot of great, great spoofs. So they’ve done some of the most famous adult movies of all time, if you go back into their history, like Pirates. The original Pirates spoof, I believe is a Digital Playground property. So you mentioned Goldilocks and the Three Bears. So would that be a scenario where like, just traits like three dick sizes, and one of them’s just right, that the kind of thing?

Ivy Maddox 32:38
I hadn’t been prepared for this interview. So that was just off the top of my head because I had an idea of doing it as like, like, Goldilocks and the Three Butt Plugs or something like that. So I was going to do it as like a little solo clip. But yeah, I think that something along the lines of that would be really fun with like, guys involved, I think, yeah.

Penis size

Dallas 33:03
There you go. I think you’re onto something with that. Somebody needs to use to put that into their budget and reach out to you and get on that. So speaking of dick size, is there such a thing as a right size? Is there too small? Is there too big? What’s your take on that eternal debate?

Ivy Maddox 33:22
Not a size queen. I do love a big dick. However, not an everyday big dick. I’m poly, so I have multiple partners. So like, there’s people that have bigger sizes, and people have smaller size, but also they’re attached to nice people. So that helps. I don’t care what size as long as it’s attached to someone who’s like really nice to me, doesn’t have an ego. That’s my number one turnoff. And how it is clean as well. So as takes care of themselves, like hygienically. But yeah, I’m a kind of a kind of seem to go for smaller. And then suddenly, I’ll have a big one. And then I have so many different dicks in my life at the moment. So I have like, for whatever mood I feel like, if I know that I’ve got work next week, and I don’t want to be like, a bit sore. And I’ll go see one guy if I want to, if I feel like oh, you know I haven’t got anything on for the next couple of days. I can deal with not walking, and then I’ll go see him.

Dallas 34:34
So you’ve got the whole the whole catalog of possibilities.

Ivy Maddox 34:37
I’ve got I’ve got a dick catalog.

Pornstars and STI testing

Dallas 34:42
That’s awesome. That’s awesome. So in general, I think people tend to think of porn as kind of this almost fantasy life or the you know, it’s sex all the time, all these kinds of things — these these concepts that people have, but I know there’s like a practical, and maybe one might even say, unglamorous side to the industry. So what are some of the less glamorous and sort of practical aspects of being a successful star in the industry?

Ivy Maddox 35:10
Okay, so really, really, really trying to not say poo, but there’s a lot of anal. Okay, so we get tested a lot. And getting an infection is like just part of the job. It crops up every now and then. At the moment, I know, like a bunch of people in the UK that have got an STI. And it kind of it’s really scary, because in the UK, people are still using 28-Day tests, because we get a free test every month on the NHS. And people are using that excuse, there’s that. That is the standard. However, those people have never like worked in studio porn, because actually, the standard is every 14 days. In Europe, they get a pay for a test twice a month, it’s around 150. In America, they get paid. They get tested twice a month. It’s a lot more expensive. However, the rates are law in America, I believe. So it’s the people in the UK, actually think about it, it’s the same price as Europe, because it for one test is double. However, you get one free. It infuriates me that people are still only working on a 30-day test because the window is so wide. And it’s like people are getting infected. These are so easily avoided. And if there’s a month long, and you’ve done shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. You got to have all these people and all these people have stopped working. If it’s only two weeks, and you’ve done like half the amount. And then only those people got stopped working. It’s just like really selfish. And it makes me really annoyed. And this is the kind of thing that the fans don’t see and they don’t hear about is like the stress of like, every time we go to that test, like potentially, all of that work that we’ve we’ve got booked up, we might have to cancel. And that’s happened to like four of my pals, recently, or like former colleagues. So yeah, that’s not very glamorous, but it needs to be done. And quite frankly, I think something needs to be put in place. Like there needs to be a kind of standard that people adhere to in the UK that is like people make an agreement. Because there are people that fake tests as well. And it’s just like it’s so horrible. I’m sorry, this is really boring. But it’s it’s really annoying because of like what’s going on in the background at the moment. And you might see like, girls or guys going to do shoots and then like oh, this never this never came out or like they were meant to go there but I never I never did and it’s like you don’t see why.

Smoking

I just say vape because I feel like a bit of a loser. It’s like one of the Nicorette spray thing. And everyone’s like oh, what is that. I quit smoking like two years ago. And they give you this free, in NHS, like they give you the patches and stuff but I ended up like going off the patch on fifth. And I’m so addicted to it. If I am running out on it, because you can only get them at pharmacy, if I’m running out of it and I’m like do to go out and the pharmacy’s shut, I won’t go out because I’ll be like I’ll be like so jittery here. Yeah, I’m super addicted to nicotine. It’s so strong as well. I think if I went back to smoking, I’d be on like Marlboro red or something

Dallas 38:47
it’s kind of funny how that goes, isn’t it?

Ivy Maddox 38:51
Well, I don’t want to quit because I really liked when this. I just don’t want to I don’t want to have like the the smoke and like even vaping is really bad for you. I don’t want to vape. I don’t like vaping. Only on content I’ll vape but then you don’t see off camera with me.

Dallas 39:09
So when you vape for content you mean is it part of some scenario that someone requests?

Ivy Maddox 39:15
Yeah, like I haven’t been asked to do smoking content. I probably would but I just don’t like the smell anymore. I do most things for money. And then vaping, yeah, like vape blowjob like people, a lot of people who like smoke, like a blowjob withwith smoke coming out. I think it’s I think it’s sexy. I’m just not a very good vaper because it makes you cough.

Unusual custom requests

Dallas 39:41
You’re right! Exhaling smoke, it is kind of cinematic isn’t it? You think of old black and white movies where some, you know, some movie star’s puffing away and you know, using the smoke as the accent certain points or what have you. Speaking of requests and things like that, it seems like you’re very open minded. But has there been any time that someone has made a request of you and you were just like, totally astonished at how outlandish it was?

Ivy Maddox 40:07
Is this in, in professional porn or in like, customs, the OnlyFans and stuff?

Dallas 40:15
Oh, well, I was thinking more along those kinds of lines of custom. But in professional too, I guess either or whichever one comes to mind, I guess.

Ivy Maddox 40:24
Customs are always funny because you’ll either get someone that kind of like, trust me and has a general idea and just lets me kind of like creatively go with it. And then you’ll get the person who likes exactly what they want. And they’ll send like a script. they’ll send like what you wear. I like both of these. I think they’re both fine. As long as I have everything with the script, I don’t mind. It’s just like when you’re reading the script, sometimes it’s just like, wow, okay, cool. This person really is like, very specific. Nice. I don’t have a problem with that. As long as like, you know, I don’t do race play. I don’t do like, age play under the consent like with children and stuff like that. I’ll do “daddy” and things like that. But I mean, I think that’s more of like a dominance and submissive type play rather than like, age and taboo. And in studio porn, I got asked to do, like Roman showers, where you drink loads of milk, and then you like, throw up to me, kinda like facial abuse, right? Where you vomit everywhere. And you vomit this liquid? I just, I’m not sure I have to think about it. Because it didn’t immediately like makes me go, oh, yeah, I want to do that. So like, I had to think about it. And I was like, not this time, but maybe in the future, because I have watched videos of it, and it looks really cool. But I’m just not sure if I would enjoy it. But then, I don’t know until I do it. And I’ve got this kind of like itching. Like, try it. Because you don’t know if you like it. What if I’m being filmed? And I don’t like it. So I might try it in my real life. Like, oh, not real milk. I don’t I don’t drink milk. But like oat milk or something like that. They just need it to be like a milky liquid. And then they want to see it. Also, like I don’t want to do it in my own house.

Dallas 42:18
Just sounds pretty messy. Yes.

Ivy Maddox 42:20
I’m not really into like, paying with food in general. Like I just don’t really like wasting food and I don’t really like being like sticky and getting it all in my head and stuff. Like I like pee. But I think just like, that’s not as messy. Which is weird. Like to say that right? Like that he is not as gross as playing with food. I didn’t I

Dallas 42:44
I mean, there’s a logic there to that, though, I think, for what you’re saying. Because pee, you know, it’s easy to wash off. I mean, just step into the shower. Whereas if you’re wallowing in a pumpkin pie or a turkey or something with stuffing, that’s a big mess. You’re going to have to scrub. So I think I get where you’re coming from on that one. Yeah, yeah.

Ivy Maddox 43:16
Would you do like to do pee or food?

Dallas 43:19
Oh, gosh. I don’t know. I think I think I’d be too intimidated. I’d probably be too intimidated for either. I think I’m pretty vanilla. Pretty vanilla. Yeah. Which is strange. I’m hosting a porn podcast and I’m vanilla. That might seem odd. Figure that one out.

Ivy Maddox 43:37
A lot already. Like kinky little dude.
The loneliness of sex work
Dallas 43:41
No, very vanilla. Sorry. Sorry. It’s lame. I know. I should I should watch more of the product and learn things. So you said something very interesting in an interview you did with a I think an online magazine at one point you said I think sex work can be lonely at times. What did you mean by that?

Ivy Maddox 44:02
I mean that like you are either working with people and it’s really intense. And they’re working and then you’re all on your own and you’re like editing or you’re in a hotel room or you’re like recovering or you’re chatting to fans on OnlyFans and it can be quite isolating. You’re working for yourself and yeah, so I guess that’s pretty self explanatory. Like you’re on your own quite a lot. So I think finding community is really important. I’m a big advocate for community and there’s loads of groups in London that we like meet up and we either like work together as in you know, we’ll bring our laptops and do work shadowing each other so that we like get more done, or we meet up for like picnics in the summer. Actually last week, I went to a meet up by Swarm, which is sex work advocacy resistance movement. Yeah. And they got a private tour and talk. There’s a graveyard in London Bridge, which is it’s nicknamed as like prostitutes graveyard. So we went there, and we had an amazing talk. It’s not just sex workers that have been laid there. It’s like, kind of outcasts, people that weren’t allowed to be laid to rest in a blessed church graveyard, so this was an unblessed piece of land, and it’s managed to stand the test of time, and it’s still there. It’s now like a garden.

Dallas 45:49
Yeah, and I think you’ve touched on this a little bit already, I know that the rights of sex workers is a very important issue for you. So could you tell us what lit that fire for you? And you know, what are the some of some of the most important aspects of that fight for you?
Sex worker rights
Ivy Maddox 46:04
Yes. So when I was stripping, I always felt like, there was a very hierarchical structure. And it was also everyone was kind of fighting against each other. So the waitresses wanted to keep the customers on the floor, because they were getting tipped off and getting making money off drinks, the girls that were making money off of the card machines, because they would like add a tip on the card machine, and they always wanted to get the guys to like, get into the VIP rooms, and we wanted to get into the VIP rooms. But then there were security guards that wanted to take them inside. And outside of it. And the DJ wanted to keep them outside of it as well, because he was getting tips that everyone was kind of like working against each other. And all of the girls were also working against each other. And it was a very, once again, lonely environment to be working in, because, you know, the girls are your colleagues. But and you know, you’re friendly with them. But essentially, they’re your competitors at the same time. So I was always like, had in the back of my mind, like, what if we were unionized. We should unionize so that we can, you know, we don’t have to get, we don’t have to pay as high of house fee, because we have to pay to be at work. Like when we come in for the night, we have to pay like 100 pounds, and we can get fined for anything. Just if the if the manager comes down, started walking around, decides that he wants some cash in his pocket, isn’t there like you’re chewing gum, get your phone away. But not all of these kinds of things. You have to pay to go out for a cigarette in some clubs, if you smoke, just like everything really. And it just felt like really like, a struggle. So it was always in the back of my mind can we unionize. And then I found that the sex workers union, and I started getting really involved in in that and we were unionizing places that are legal, like strip clubs. And we’re also campaigning for decriminalization or full service sex work and people that work in Brussels. So yeah, I was on the committee for a complete, like, for a while. And then now I’m like, on the advisory board for that, and I’m still like, got one foot in one foot out,. I don’t have time to be fully in the mix. But I’m still like supporting and shouting and getting involved as much as I can.

Dallas 48:22
Right. Now, I know you’ve worked a number of times with Director Proxy Paige. What’s she like to collaborate with.

Ivy Maddox 48:29
Oh, she’s awesome. So she’s actually the person that got me into porn. So she I had a friend that new proxy, and and so I had a chat with proxy said, Oh, can I can I be porn and she knew Georgia Grande, which was the first person that I came and worked with in Prague. And so your proxy kind of like was holding my hands get helping me get into porn, and I would now since like, I’m really good friends with her. And I’ve like stayed at house bunch of times. We always go for dinner when I come into town. And yeah, like I love working with her. Her energy is amazing. Like, she like talks behind the camera. She’s like a right little pervert. And also she’s just a legend in her own right. But yeah, she’s very much like me, I think like, gives her energy is like really good. And she’s just like, corny. horniest but

Dallas 49:22
Right, right. And you’re right. She is very much her energy is very much a presence in her movies, even when she’s not like visibly on the camera. There’s there’s a field that’s a

Ivy Maddox 49:31
Proxy Paige movie.
Morning person?
Dallas 49:33
Exactly. Exactly. Well, I know we’re running a little short on time here, but I did want to give you a couple of not quite lightning round questions, but like sort of fun light-hearted ones that encourage you know, shorter answers, but you can, you know, say whatever pops into your mind basically. So the first one of these is, are you a morning person or a night person, night person?
Ivy Maddox
I’m not a morning person.
Dallas
Very good. What do you have to do? Do you have to do any tricks to like get yourself out of bed on those early calls or anything like that?

Ivy Maddox 50:07
Don’t schedule early calls.
Can’t live without
Dallas 50:10
Perfect solution, perfect solution. So what are three things that you can’t live without?

Ivy Maddox 50:19
Coffee, my thing [gestures], and dick.
Favorite food
Dallas 50:23
And dick, there you go. Perfect. Good list. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Ivy Maddox 50:36
Yeah, so hard because I love food. love going to restaurants. Really hard. Probably tomatoes. A lot. I have a lot of tomatoes. And I love growing tomatoes as well. I grow tomatoes. And I feel like they can be savory or sweet.
Guilty pleasure
Dallas 50:59
Good choice. They’re versatile. You’re right. What’s your biggest guilty pleasure?

Ivy Maddox 51:04
Probably, I really try to not watch Love Island every year. Every time it’s on — it’s like, I don’t know if you have it in America. It’s absolute trash TV. But yeah, I managed to not watch it for a month this year. And then I was in a hotel, not my house. And it was the only thing that was on when I was like watching the TV and I got addicted to it immediately. But then I managed to stop when I got back. So yeah, either like yeah, trash TV like The Kardashians. I hate myself! I love The Kardashians.

Dallas 51:44
The way you were describing Love Island, is that a reality TV show set on an island? What’s the premise of it? Love Island was the name of it.

Ivy Maddox 51:51
Yeah, Love Island. It’s so crap. It’s basically like loads of people that want a pretty little thing contract, which is like a fast fashion contract. Or loads of Instagram followers going to this like villa. And they’re trying to find love. And then they like get voted out or you have to do tasks and things. It’s kind of like Big Brother with young hot Instagram models. And they don’t have a personality. And I hate that I watch it.
Travel spots
Dallas 52:21
Those things are designed to be addictive. They’re like junk food. They’re hard to resist. Where do you hope to travel in the near future?

Ivy Maddox 52:32
Oh, I really want to go to Thailand. I want to take some time off this Christmas and go to Thailand. I went to Bali last year. And I didn’t really love it, and I said I would never go back to the tropics. However, I feel like I went with the wrong kind of like person. And I also got a stomach parasite whilst I was there. So I feel like yeah, I feel like I have like a good group of people that want to go to Thailand, and they’ve all been before and you know, I’ll just I won’t have to plan anything. I can just like go and I want to go and explore not the tourist stuff and like get some amazing pictures and amazing food and yeah, just like swimming in the sea.
Sex slang
Dallas 53:11
There you go. There you go. Perfect spot. And then the last question from this list actually is returning to a theme we visited I think at the beginning of the interview, is there any naughty British slang term that you know is it really prevalent or used in America that you know of that you think should catch on in American English? What I’m asking is, what is your favorite naughty British slang term?

Ivy Maddox 53:37
Okay, so I watched a film called The Football Factory the other day. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. It’s with Danny Dyer. It’s really old. It’s like early 2000s. Or real old, maybe more is anyways, they’ve got a load of catchphrases in that and I had a collab the day after I watched it. And I wanted to see how many phrases I could get in and I managed to get in a couple. And like I said that one of them is like, “I can’t fucking wait to see your fanny.” But that I just think it was really funny. And then there’s another one that’s like “You’re a muggy little sight.”. And then there’s another one was like, “You’re a right sort, isn’t ya?” So and yeah, it’s very like East London. But no one noticed I got it in.
Upcoming projects
Dallas 54:20
Very good. Very good. I’m not even sure I understood all those words, I must admit. But, before we wrap up here, I did want to give you a chance to talk about any other awesome things you have coming up or going on that you might want to tell fans about or any, you know, awards that you’d like to win or nominations that you have, and also where people can find you on the web and follow you and see all your latest upcoming projects, social media, things like that.

Ivy Maddox 54:51
I am on all of your social media, but you can find me on www.ivymaddox.vip. And that’s where all of my social links are such links and things that are coming up. I’ve just been nominated for three XBIZ awards in Europe, which I’m super excited about, totally did not expect. I went last year, and it was like such a great experience and like to be nominated this year is super cool, I think. So I’ve been nominated for Female Performer of the Year, which is like, mind blowing. I’m so humbled I’m up against so many amazing performers and colleagues, that are my friends as well. And best gonzo sex scene, which is a scene that I filmed ages ago. It was one of my first ones I did with Proxy, but it just like got held back for so long. So I’ve got different hair on it. And I’m like, wow, I forgot this season existed. So that was probably out of the blue. And then there’s the my scene with Kink, which has been nominated for Best Lesbian Sex Scene, which was really, really cool because I was a dominatrix vibe, and and it was with Maria Black, who is an awesome performer. And we genuinely have a great connection. And we were actually staying with each other in Budapest at the time. And we just kind of got the call really last minute. And we were like, Yeah, fuck it. Let’s do it. And it was like so, so, so, so fun, because it was a storyline in that I got to improv. And I feel like I really worked hard on that scene. We both really worked hard on that scene. So it’s really nice that it’s getting recognized and also for alternative girls covered in tattoos to be up for an award. That’s pretty cool in itself.

Dallas 56:56
Definitely, definitely.

Ivy Maddox 56:59
Yeah, I’m honoring the fans as well. So all of my links as I said, are @www.ivymadox.vip, and Maddox is a double D.

Dallas 57:13
And of course people can also go to AdultEmpire.com they can type in your name Ivy Maddox and they can find all sorts — they can find the Proxy Paige movies that we were talking about. I think we’ve even got some of your virtual reality content on there.
Virtual reality and closing
Ivy Maddox 57:28
I love virtual reality. That was so fun. It’s so difficult because you’re doing all the work because the guy is literally just lying there. And but yeah, you really have to like work hard and and kind of get really into it. There’s no space for kind of like just going. There’s no space for being passive. It’s a very active role.

Dallas 57:50
So it sounds like it’s perfectly suited for you, then.

Ivy Maddox 57:55
The first time I watched myself in virtual reality, I should have got my friend to film it because I was just like screaming.

Dallas 58:08
That must have been surreal. So you were you were watching your own scene the full virtual reality. And so you were in essence, you were being the guy having sex with yourself. Yeah. That is very surreal. That is interesting.

Ivy Maddox 58:23
You watch the trailer, but it was enough for me.

Dallas 58:27
Right, right. That’s going to fold time and space fabric in on itself or something strange is going to happen. Yeah. Well, either way, Ivy Maddox, This has been great. We really appreciate you coming on to the Adult Empire podcast and giving us your time. Thank you so much.

Ivy Maddox 58:43
Thank you so much. Bye.

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