Porn Valley- I meet KSEX peejay Annie Cruz on the set of Defiance Films’ Jade’s Asian Letters. Cruz the weekend before had participated in some gangbang during the Gay Erotic Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. And we talked about that as well.

I ask Cruz about her Monday night KSEX show which she shares with Daphne Rosen. www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10756

“That show is really going well,” says Cruz. “My co-host is Daphne Rosen and we’ve been friends for almost a year now. We met on a set with my husband, and we’ve been inseparable for the longest time. We now have our own show together, talking about sex and behind the scenes of what it’s like in our industry.

The show is very fan interactive. We like to include our fans in our show and it’s been going strong since the beginning. We’ve been doing our show since February or March.” Cruz and Rosen, despite their hectic porn schedules, manage to go live every week. But sometimes it happens where Cruz might have to do a show alone, or Rosen. Though it’s rare when the two are not together.

Cruz and husband Jack Lawrence www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=10760 went to the Gay Erotic Expo a couple of weeks ago.

“It was for him, actually,” says Cruz. “He wanted to meet his fans. He has a large gay following. I guess the one thing gay guys love is straight men. And there happened to be straight guys at the convention. They were the highlight of the show. They were from www.straightcollegemen.com. They’re straight men doing not so straight things. But they don’t go all the way, though- what their website is, is straight men jerking off for the camera. They do solo stuff and the farthest I’ve seen them do is kiss another guy.

“Sure enough,” says Cruz. “I showed up and they saw me and they’re like, what’s up? Long story shoot, I ended up going back to their hotel room with them at night and ended up getting D.P.’d and gang banged by six of them- a total of nine guys including Jack. Jack never d.p.’d me before.

“We pretty much fucked all night from ten o’clock until six in the morning,” Cruz continues. “I put them to bed really good.”

Cruz was born and raised in Stockton and moved to San Francisco.

“I’m in love with that city [San Francisco],” she says. “I miss it a lot.” Cruz went to a Christian school her entire life and then a Catholic college. “I was very shy growing up,” she says. “I was the nerd. I was a geek in high school. I was in all the clubs. I was a drama club nerd and nobody pretty much gave me the time of day because I was such a geek. In high school I only had sex with two people. Then I went to college and made up for it by fucking like over 50 people.”

By that contradiction, Cruz explains that she’s always been very sexual although shy growing up.

“I always had this sexual desire,” she said. “I was six years old when I first masturbated. And I used to watch a lot of porn when I was younger- that was my little secretive-type thing. But I went to Christian school being taught that this is wrong. But I always had this fascination with women and I was told, oh, this is wrong. But when I went to college and got exposed to that kind of stuff, I kind of let go and went with it. There I was having sex with all these people.”

At the age of six I ask Cruz exactly what type of itch did she have to scratch.

“I honestly don’t know,” she replies. “I don’t remember exactly how it started but I remember going down there and touching myself realizing all this feels really, really good. And then there are those old school televisions where you have to turn the knob. I always remembered that every time I turned to Channel 10, every time past 10 o’clock at night there’d be scrambled porn. I would sit there and just get so turned on. I don’t know what it was, I just started touching myself. Then I’d get off.”

I tell Cruz if she’s see the movie White Noise, it’s actually the dead trying to contact her and not scrambled porn.Cruz then goes on to give account of her college days.

“It was the first week of school,” she remembers. “My roommate and I hung out with these other two guys. They were like juniors. We went over to their dorm to watch movies. I was sitting on the floor because I didn’t know the guy well enough to sit on the bed with him. Long story short, I got on the bed with him and we started fucking. After that I realized this feels really good- I could use more of this. The next thing I know I’m begging all these other people. I couldn’t get enough of it. Actually, my mom truly thought I had a sex problem and it took over my life in college.”

Cruz swears she has a sit down with her mother about this.

“I was being discreet but I switched roommates three times,” Cruz observes. “The college I went to said you’re not allowed to switch roommates. Once you have that roommate you stick with that roommate and you’re not supposed to change. What happened was my roommates had problems with my sex problems then by changing roommates it got back to my mother that your daughter has a problem and you need to do something about it. I developed a very bad reputation. It’s not like I’m not very smart. I’m a very smart girl. I graduated in the top 5% of my graduating high school class. I got three scholarships to go to this college but it consumed my life so bad to the point where I started skipping classes to have sex. I’d call people, hey, you want to come over and just have sex.”

Cruz would pick the study lounge at her college as one of her favorite trysting places.

“Everybody would go there to study, to talk on the phone, to do their homework, what not,” says Cruz. “There’s no lock on that door. Me and this one guy went in there. We had sex on the table. We were in there like 15-20 minutes. Nobody came in. That was pretty wild. And I also had sex- or at least tried to- in front of a convent in the patio in a hammock. That was pretty wild. The nuns there don’t like me very much. There was that and I fucked outside the dormitory building against a tree late at night. Then there was the park close to my college in the basketball court. I had so many wild places.”

Cruz thinks it was just her sexuality bottled up inside her.

“I was raised oh this is wrong, you can’t do that, you can’t do this,” she says. “I think I finally let go and realized, wow, fuck all this other stuff. I think I realized that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing. There’s nothing wrong with sex. There’s nothing wrong with desiring women. There’s nothing wrong with desiring all this other stuff.”

According to Cruz, there are so many things that turn her own sexually, that her head spins trying to think of them all. “From lesbian sex to gay porn,” she laughs. “I’m pretty fucking twisted. I love seeing two guys getting it on. My ultimate fantasy is to be with two gay men- that would be really hot. What am I not turned on by? I’m an easily turned on person.”

I ask Cruz if she gets turned on by hubby Jack Lawrence’s male escort stories.

“He’s told me a lot of stories where I’m just like, wow,” says Cruz. “Hot stuff, crazy stuff.”

Cruz gets into this story about the time she and Lawrence were dating and he’s going to pick her up from her shoot. They went to get a bite to eat.

“This was when we were first starting to see each other,” relates Cruz. “We went to get food. I had done a scene with Lee Stone previous to that and I could have sworn I washed all the cum off me, but I guess I had a little left over underneath my chin. I’m sitting there across from Jack and Jack’s looking at me and he’s like, Annie, is that Lee Stone on your chin? I’m, like, oh my God. I went to the bathroom and checked myself out. This was embarrassing so I wiped myself off. It just became a joke. The next time Jack saw Lee Stone he was, like, I saw you the other day at this restaurant. Lee is like what are you talking about. Jack says I saw you on Annie’s chin. It was pretty funny.”

Cruz gets recognized in public now and then.

“That’s kind of weird because this whole thing is still surreal to me being in this business,” she says. “I got recognized by a cop which was one interesting moment. We were on Hollywood Blvd., and this police officer was in a pursuit that ended on Hollywood Blvd right in front of the Chinese Mann Theater. Jack and I went over to see what was going on, and the first thing the cop said to me was, oh my God I saw you in such and such movie. I’m like holy shit. he’s, like, you’re Annie Cruz. So we start chatting and I give him my business card. Later on he e-mailed me- ‘that’s really unprofessional of me. I was just so star struck that the first thing I wanted to say was I know you.’ It was kind of cool that I got recognized by a cop.

“There’s other instances where that are quite interesting,” Cruz continues. “Before me and Jack got married, I would get recognized. But now because people know about me and Jack, I get a lot of people recognizing me and Jack together. I’ll get e-mails, I saw you and Jack at the mall, whatever. It’s kind of cool.”

Cruz, of course, has heard the comments that she and Lawrence aren’t going to last.

“I can understand why,” she says. “A lot of porn marriages haven’t lasted or don’t last or tend to not last. But we’ve been getting a lot of people saying they’re giving it four months. We’ve made it seven months strong going on eight. The thing that people don’t realize is that he and I have an understanding of this industry. I think the reason why a lot of couples don’t last is because they can’t handle the business. Jack and I have got the swinger mentality although we don’t swing like we used to when we first started dating. We have that mentality. There’s no jealousy issues. I don’t get jealous. He doesn’t get jealous. We love each other to death, to pieces. I can’t see myself without him and he can’t see himself without me. it’s perfect.”

Asked how she got into the business, Cruz says it’s a funny story.

“A friend of mine had asked me, hey, have you considered modeling?” Cruz relates. ” I’m such a tomboy I said, hey, that’s not my cup of tea. I’m not really interested in that. So he sent me to this website. I didn’t know it was a porn website. In fact I thought it was nude models posing for the camera. It kind of intrigued me a little bit because I’m open minded, sexually. And I’m an exhibitionist. I figured this would be kind of cool to take some nude photos. I contacted the webmaster and sent him some sample shots of me. He liked it. We ended up meeting. I show up on the set and I had no idea that there was video involved. It was a g/g scene.

“First we did one set of photo,” Cruz goes on to say. “Simulated sex, then the director said we’re going to go to the bedroom and shoot the video. I’m thinking there’s video involved? I’m not nervous. I’m not upset. I didn’t know this was porn-porn. I’m going with the flow, I’m doing the scene with the girl. I knocked it out. It was fun because I do love women. It’s not the first time I’m with a woman. After that I ended up doing some more for this producer. This was in 2003. He took me to AVN, 2004. I ended up making all these contacts. I was brand new- nobody knew who the fuck I was. Then I ended up coming down to Los Angeles, March of 2004. That’s how I ended up down here.”

Cruz tells women that they shouldn’t do porn if they’re going to regret it later in life. “And only do it if you truly, truly love sex,” she adds. “I’ve seen way too many girls who were way too young who get into the business and they leave so much pain and so much anger. It’s sad. I know for a fact that I’m not going to regret this because I love what I do. My whole family knows what I do. There’s nothing to hide. I’m not worried about having kids and having them find out. Oh my gosh, my mom did porn. I’m never having kids by the way. In fact I’m getting my tubes tied on my 21st birthday [November 6]. That’s my birthday present.”

The fact that Cruz became a porn star probably comes as no surprise to her mother who got the strong inkling in college.

“She knew that I had such a huge problem,” says Cruz. “When she first found out she was, of course, I can’t believe you’re doing this and she didn’t talk to me for a month. I think it’s a Filipino thing because my grandmother was the first person to come up to me and tell me we raised you to never judge anyone so we’re not going to start now. I still love you. We all still love you. We’re not happy with your decision, but you know what? We still love you. You’re still our girl. You’re not any different than you were before you started doing this.

“My mom finally got over it and now they’re so comfortable with it, I almost feel like they’re too comfortable with it. It’s nice because I see so many girls in this business, I don’t want my mom to find out. But that’s another thing. If you come into this business thinking your parents are going to find out, it’s fucking bullshit because that’s exactly how my family found out. They ended up finding up because it takes one person to see you- guess where I saw your daughter? But I’m glad that they know. I’m glad that I don’t have to hide anything from them. Because I don’t like lying. That’s one thing I don’t like doing- lying. Much less to my mother or my father, and I’m glad I can be open about it with them.”

Cruz, as you’d probably imagine, would like to produce her own movies. “I’d like to show what my little head has to offer, and Jack and I are hoping to be producing soon. I don’t plan on leaving this business too soon. I plan on staying with this business for a long time. I know as a performer I can’t perform forever. Hopefully, when I work behind the cameras, I’ll be getting somewhere.”