Riley Reid Talks About Porn Stardom, Anal Sex & 'Being Riley'

LOS ANGELES—Greg Lansky seems to have a knack for cajoling beautiful women into trying something they’ve never done before. For his projects at Blacked.com and Tushy.com, the adult director routinely gets dibs on notable IR and anal debuts. And those firsts have fueled plenty of traffic to the sites, and racked up impressive sales on his DVDs, distributed by Jules Jordan Video. This month Lansky bagged another first-timer, and it was such a big deal that AVN simply had to find out more. On August 17, Tushy.com gave a longed-for gift to fans of adult star Riley Reid: the first anal scene ever by this top-tier star. And today (August 31), the second scene is live on Tushy.com. How had she managed to evade anal for so long? What could she tell us about the scene, which is being released as part of a movie titled Being Riley? And what’s next for this petite, all-natural star? Reid showed up for the interview looking like the college girl next door, wearing an olive green knit crop top and black leggings with sturdy black lace-up boots. One of the most popular performers in the business, she interacts closely with her fans on social media, so it was a given that she’d been urged to pop her anal cherry. “I always had people asking, but I never paid any mind to it.” For Reid, what she does on camera is what she loves to do off camera. And anal sex simply was “something that I didn’t love to do.” But after being in the business since 2011, Reid was ready to try. “It was porn that has allowed my sexuality to become that much more,” Reid explained. “I’ve become more open-minded and more free with my body.” The quest for sexual freedom is one that looms large in Being Riley. The script, co-written by Lansky and Oriana Small (aka Ashley Blue), follows the adventures of a small-town girl who abandons a stifling fiancé, moves to L.A. to find an old friend, and then gets a crash course in human sexuality from Sarah (Aidra Fox), a friend who had already moved away from their small hometown. “You hear me in the monologue,” Reid said. “I’m facing a lot of judgment from my peers and feeling oppressed in my current living situation, so I just leave and I contact Aidra. And basically she opens the door wide.” Reid added, “It starts off with Aidra telling me about her anal experiences.” And that leads into the first of five sex scenes: a girl/girl pairing between them. “In our girl/girl scene [Aidra] asked me to put fingers in her ass. Because I don’t have anal experience, even doing the girl/girl … I said, ‘I don’t know how this works!’ I didn’t want to hurt Aidra because I don’t know what I’m doing.” As a lead-up to the big event—a boy/girl anal interlude with Mick Blue—Reid tried practicing with a boyfriend of average dimensions: “not a porno penis at all.” So when it came time to take on Mick Blue, it was a bigger deal—literally. “Definitely the first scene was more than I anticipated,” she said. Portraying that sense of inexperience was important to her. “That’s what I wanted. I didn’t want to be this secret anal expert, holding out for whatever reason. I wanted it to be a journey for me.” Mick Blue, she said, “was probably the best person that I could do it with,” because she’s such close friends with his wife, Anikka Albrite. “I was at their wedding; I was one of their bridesmaids. To have him be the first person was almost strange because we’re on such a personal level, but it was so much more comforting.” Reid said that she had been intending to save her first anal scene as an exclusive for her own site, but when a company approached her agent, Mark Spiegler, about doing an anal scene, word got out—even though she turned it down. Lansky heard about it and told her, “Oh, no. If you’re doing it for anybody, you’re doing it for me.” And from Reid’s point of view, it was a good fit. “Every scene that I’ve shot with him, I have total chemistry with the other person. … I personally feel we bring out the best in each other.” And speaking of scenes, there are three others in Being Riley. Reid and Fox do a three-way with Manuel Ferrara, and Reid pairs up with Rob Piper (it’s not her first IR scene; she won an AVN Award for that one: Jules Jordan’s Mandingo Massacre 6.) Finally, there’s another big flourish for the end—and another first. The tiny performer gets impaled by Erik Everhard and James Deen in her first d.p. “Some people have asked me if I’m doing anal to help my career to continue. I only did it because—why not? I feel ready.” Getting to that point took time, though. “I never, ever thought I would do it,” Reid recalled. “Growing up, I have an older sister—we’re 14 months apart, we’re really close, and we would talk about our sexual experiences together. I remember she traumatized me with her first anal experience story.” Reid elaborated on what she means by feeling ready. “Being in the industry and having my body explored consistently by other people just made it to a point to where now I was craving it.” It was, she says—personifying her body parts—like her ass was saying, “Come and pay some attention to me.” “When I first started, in the first two years, if you were licking my asshole, my pussy would be pulsing for attention. And my ass didn’t even care. … It was never something that aroused me.” But in scene after scene, as her nether regions kept “getting played with and stimulated,” that ass reasserted itself. “It’s come to a point where she’s touched all the time, so now when she’s not getting touched, she’s pulsing for attention. It’s so crazy that my body can go through such a change.” That’s not to say Reid was repressed before she got into the business. “Sexually, I was always a really horny person. … It’s just that my ass didn’t crave the attention. I already really liked sex. When I seriously think about it, I feel like because I do porn I can live a normal live and think about other things, not sex. … Because I’m so sexually stimulated, it’s like, OK, I can focus on other things. I can pay attention to the weather. I don’t have to look at this person and think about them naked. It’s crazy when I find out about these thirtysomething-year-old women who have sex maybe once a year or something, and I can’t ever envision being that person. It’s amazing to me. We’re so different as individuals.” So, will Riley Reid do anal again? “In the future, maybe,” she said, but at present she wants the focus to go to these scenes on Tushy. “Now that I’ve finally got that out of the bag, everyone can chill and I can just be free.” Being Riley episodes will be released weekly on Tushy.com. The entire movie will be distributed on DVD by Jules Jordan Video in September. This article appears in the September 2015 issue of AVN magazine.