Ela Darling: The Origin Story of a Librarian Pornstar | Sex Dork

Ela Darling might be the only pornstar with a Ted Talk. She was a real librarian — with a master’s degree — when she went into porn and co-created virtual reality sex camming. Watch our interview, or scroll down for the best bits in our abbreviated edit.

Ela Darling: I have the Dewey Decimal number for Harry Potter on my back.

Origin Story: How She Got Into Porn

Ela Darling: I had some shitty asshole threaten to leak nude photos of me when I was still a librarian. And it’s like, ‘OK, well, how about I just do a nude photo shoot, anyway?’ I’m a librarian. They’re not gonna fucking care. Librarians are freedom fighters…