From the About to Lose Your Job File: At Exxxotica Miami - Portrait of a South Florida porn star Leena Sky; She says She's a Psychology Professor
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from www.sun-sentinel.com - The seventh annual Exxxotica convention will jam the Miami Beach Convention Center Friday through Sunday with more than 8,000 sex-industry performers and their fans. South Florida resident Leena Sky is a little of both, but not at all what you may expect from a porn actress.
On Monday night, Leena, who asked to be identified only by her professional name, completed her fifth hardcore film since taking her tentative first steps into adult entertainment a few months ago with live webcam performances from her Coral Springs home. Her resume comes with references to Naked.com, Bang Bros., and the Cheetah strip club in Pompano Beach.
When she is not making porn or stripping, she has another life as a 33-year-old mother of two preschoolers who earns a living as a psychology professor at a Broward County college, as well as instructing students via two other online university programs. Leena, who has worked as a licensed mental-health counselor, has three college degrees, including an undergraduate diploma from Clemson University and a master’s and a doctorate in education from the online Argosy University.
So that’s Dr. Porn Star to you, buddy.
Articulate, insightful and funny, Leena is well aware of “the dichotomy” she presents.
“I have two sides to myself. There is a very conservative side that led me to become an educated person with a career, and there’s the other side that wants to be different,” she says, comparing it to the “dark passenger” on Showtime’s “Dexter.” “I’ve always been fascinated by the sex industry. And I’m very good at it.”
Raised on the affluent Main Line in suburban Philadelphia by an accomplished psychologist mother after her parents’ divorce, Leena says a confluence of factors caused her to make the leap into the sex industry. They included a divorce, the stress of single motherhood and the realization that 10 years of college study, for which she still has about $125,000 in outstanding loans, may not yield the kind of rewards she had hoped for.
“I could not stop crying,” she says in describing her “moment of crisis.”
A similarly curious friend got Leena involved with the webcam (“let me make it clear: I only do it when my children are out of the house”), which led her to research film work.
Monday’s filming, which took place in New Jersey, was the most hardcore so far, she says.
“It was the most-intense experience of my life, and I rocked it,” Leena says. “I’m not completely in love with every aspect, but after that, I feel like I can do anything.”
Her three best girlfriends know about her porn career, but no one else, she says. Her mother tells her to renew her therapist’s license, which would get her a job paying as much as $200 an hour. Leena made $1,100 for about two hours’ work Monday night.
As a mental-health professional, Leena says she is keenly aware of the societal dangers of porn and its harmful influence on relationships in the Internet age. But likening it to drugs and alcohol, she believes the obsession is the problem, and not the source.
“It can be addictive and devastating, but is it something that can be used in moderation? I think so,” she says, acknowledging she may someday pursue a career counseling sex addicts.
Leena is attending her first Exxxotica as a networking effort, getting her name out there as a candidate for Ms. Exxxotica. Already an “older” performer at 33, she acknowledges her time in the industry may be short and success fleeting (hence her reluctance to identify herself).
“But if I died tomorrow, at least I’d know that I lived a life that was authentic and real,” she says.
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