Anals and Demons

At 26, Joanna Angel (not her real name) is already a veteran in the porn business. She's the proprietor and star of Burning Angel Productions, the site she founded in 2002 while studying at Rutgers University. "At first, I wasn't going to be on the website, but then I was like, 'Well, maybe it will be easier for us to find girls if I did it myself so I don't look like such a scumbag,'" she explains during the standard-issue, "How did you get started in porn?" portion of our conversation. It's that degree of candor, as well as the gumption to start a porn site out of one's dorm room, that is projected from Angel's personality into her work. Deemed "alt-porn," Burning Angel features Joanna and a horde of similarly tattooed models, spanning the gamut from "hipsters to goth girls," as she puts it.