Stoya On Porn Stage Names

This is compelling rumination on the nature of stage names in adult entertainment by Stoya. I think she nailed it with the idea that stage names to protect anonymity worked in the 70s, but can’t really work in our new age of information. However, this isn’t to say that people shouldn’t have the bloody decency to respect performers rights to their own names, or their chosen names. Personally, I wish I’d chosen a pseudonym long ago—and I just write about sex.