- Could you see me working in the sex industry?
- No. - Probably,
if I never would have gotten married then
I'd probably been a pimp or something.
(sighs)
- A pimp? (orchestral music)
- Hi, I am Blaine from Cut I'm gonna be directing today.
- I'm Max. - My name is Joanne.
- This is my mom. - I am the Riley Daniels.
- And I'm her mom. - Well,
I'm Marley and these are my parents.
- What is your profession? - I'm a Pro Dominatrix.
- I titled myself an Erotic Entertainer, fetish clips mostly.
- I do porn with guys, yeah. (chuckles)
- Let's get into it ask your daughter this.
- How did I react when you told me what you do for a living?
- I think you guys were like a little skeptical about it.
- I did not like it. - I'm a really a 60's guy.
Very open-minded but great fan
of Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt.
So lets go. - Oh my God.
- I want him to do more for his life, but it's his life so.
- It was a little scary at first,
but a woman's body is a woman's body.
You get to choose what you do with it.
And if that means you're gonna make money
off of your body, especially for men, more power to you.
- What does the family think about what I do?
- My husband really doesn't know.
I'm sure he would not be happy with it.
But his sister knows, she feels like I do
that we wish he would change his line of work.
- Her brothers have a issue with it.
It is always about the safety issue.
- Yeah. - Who's the most,
like supportive in the family and is like, hell yeah?
- Probably my stepdad's ex wife.
(laughing)
- Wants to see the sex dungeon,
she wants to check out all the new stuff,
she loves... - I love it.
- Do you ever lie to people about
my career choice, what do you say?
- I'll try to direct them, I don't like the term sex work.
Because sex work just sounds I guess a little promiscuous.
I say that you just, you might do a little counseling.
- Which I do, It's not completely a lie.
Sex workers can be seen as therapists.
You might have a client that came to you and they might
have went through something in their childhood.
And the way they're dealing with it is
wanting to be into a certain thing.
So in a way you're kind of helping
them through their troubles too.
- Joanne, can you ask your son this?
- Did I screw you up in any way?
Go ahead tell the truth. - No,
you didn't screw me up, well you adopted me.
So you kind of came in and did the most beneficial thing.
You know, anyone could ask at that age you know.
- Oh, did I screw you up in any way?
- I would say a lot of other people might say
you screwed me up but I've always looked at it as
we've always had probably a weird relationship.
But a relationship that's enabled me
to always have someone in my corner.
- I think there's this idea that people
that get into the industry have to have had
some kind of messed up background, right?
- I can definitely say there's no truth to that.
This work for me did not ever come
from a place of trauma, it literally came from
a place of discovery, coming across it,
reading up on it, doing the education on it.
- Could you see me working in the sex industry?
- I mean, literally in a second, you're so upset
that you didn't know this existed back when you were my age.
- Right, in fact, I should have been paid
for all the years I was whoring around.
- That's true, what a missed opportunity.
- I mean, the money I missed out on.
- I could see him helping me with like,
my marketing and business cards, other than that, no.
- If I never would have gotten married
then I'd probably be a pimp or something.
(sighs)
- A pimp, wow. (laughing)
- How much money do you make?
- A couple of grand a month. - Three grand.
- I think I'm gonna drink on that one myself.
(laughing)
- How many people have you slept with?
(laughing) - Couple hundred maybe.
(smacks lips)
- How many people have you slept with?
- I'm going to drink on that one.
How many people have you slept with?
Y'all can drink if y'all want.
(laughing)
- I counted five. - Did you?
(laughing)
- That's it, one of those is including you though.
- How many people have you slept with?
- Probably in the high sixties.
How many people have you slept with, can you count or not?
- More than that. (laughs)
- Do you have any sex advice for me?
- A lot, be careful of who you have sex with
make sure they don't have any diseases.
You know my other son has AIDS
so I'm very gun-shy of promiscuous sex.
- What do you do to make her feel safer about what you do?
- I just try to get tested and you fail you don't work.
You have to make sure you're on top of your safety.
- Ask you daughter this. - Have you ever had a stalker?
- I had someone that got my phone number
and told me they were gonna come get me.
I live at home so if someone wanted to do
something my mom would murder them.
- We have lots of guns. - Have you ever had a stalker?
- Yes, we went on like on one date
and I didn't think they were that cool.
And they just cannot get the hint
they kept texting me messaging me.
I had to block them on the phone.
They like got in touch with my friends
and we were like trying to talk to me through my friends.
Eventually the person just fell off.
How do you guys feel knowing that?
- It just heightens my anxiety a little bit.
- Constantly worried about you.
- Constantly. - Do you think,
my job is dangerous mom, do you worry about me?
- Yes, all the time, I worry about diseases
and getting into the wrong people
can take advantage of you and hurt you.
- She thinks I'm gonna get trafficked or something.
- That's my big worry with him because he is little
(indistinct) and he's very naive, he's trustworthy.
- Does your job affect your dating life?
- Well, I'm very single, so, not everyone is comfortable
with my job and that's totally understandable.
I would never make someone be comfortable with my job.
- When I would tell like guys on dates
that I was a dominatrix they would
either say, "Oh, you're never doing that to me".
Or either it would just turn into
an education session during the date.
They wanted to know everything about it.
And like on a date, I don't want to do that.
But now I'm like a little bit more
careful about who I tell what I do.
- Do you think I should stop doing what I do?
- Definitely yes, to me you're giving yourself away
when you're worth more than that.
- When do you think you'll stop doing this?
- Eventually I'll want to end performing.
Eventually I would love to open my own studio.
- Definitely after a while, I definitely won't
be seeing clients, I definitely won't be
eighty something years old whipping someone.
But I definitely wanna keep my hands in the community.
- Are you proud of me? - More and more every day.
And I think she's an excellent business woman
and she's using what God gave her to do this.
And there are not a lot of people out
there that can say the same thing.
- Are you proud of me? - I am.
- Yes, I'm very proud of you the way
you handle it and how educated you are.
- You are just a great human, you don't only
think about yourself, you think of others.
- I'm proud of you that you're growing up to be
a self independent man and you take care of yourself
and I can depend on you for help.
And I didn't raise murderers or thieves.
So (laughing) I think that's a, that's a good thing, right?
- I guess that was it. - That was so fun.
- Very good it was very informative.
- I don't think we've ever had this conversation
on this level of like understanding.
I think it was a good conversation.
- Would you two play this game?
- Yes, we definitely would, we could do it on cam.
- We would do that. - I'm always down.