

Kendall Karson grew up in Sacramento under strict Baptist rules, the sort of girl who modeled for catalogs before anyone suggested she try porn. A photographer friend planted the idea. She was only having sex once a month with the boyfriend she had kept for three years, so the offer felt like an open door. Porn promised the things she had always wanted to do—every position, every kink—inside rules that kept her safe. She liked the thought of getting paid to explore the parts of herself she had kept quiet for so long.

Kendall Karson grew up in Sacramento under strict Baptist rules, the sort of girl who modeled for catalogs before anyone suggested she try porn. A photographer friend planted the idea. She was only having sex once a month with the boyfriend she had kept for three years, so the offer felt like an open door. Porn promised the things she had always wanted to do—every position, every kink—inside rules that kept her safe. She liked the thought of getting paid to explore the parts of herself she had kept quiet for so long.