How the Ultimate Hot Librarian is Turning Fantasies into (Virtual) Reality

Ela Darling is a feminist. She’s also an ex-librarian with two degrees, a successful entrepreneur, and a VR porn star. It’s one hell of a package.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that female porn stars aren’t supposed to be role models. They’re either victims, whores or freaks, and they should definitely bow under the crushing weight of constant guilt and shame at what they do for a living.

Well, screw that — literally — says pornographer Ela Darling, co-founder of VRTube. If you’re looking for the usual story of abuse and deprivation leading a promising young woman astray into the clutches of an exploitative industry, you’re fresh out of luck. Following a happy childhood surrounded by a close-knit supportive family, Ela graduated with a Master’s degree at 21 and landed a stable job as a Associate Director and Head of Reference at a Massachusetts library. She was happy until she got hit by a serious case of existential ennui, which gave her an itch to see what else was out there. Quite a lot, as it turns out:

I thought to myself: “Do I want the rest of my life to start at 22?” I had a lot more free time working this full time job than I did in college, when I was…