The Fanzine: How'd you get started with your blog? You also have (or had) a presence on Gods Girls and other social networking sites. How important have these sorts of places been to your career?

Stoya: Social networking sites and blogging on the alt communities I modeled for probably helped my career alot. People I knew through those websites have sent me jobs, recommended me to photographers they knew, given me a heads up about pirating of my work, come out to see me gogo. They keep me company on AIM while I'm waiting for planes at airports or hanging around when a shoot is running late.

The Fanzine: You make a number of smart-ass, wry comments in your blog and those aforementioned sites, definitely putting forth a strong personality. Do you do any other writing?

Stoya: Do I? I'm missing that filter most people have between their brains and their mouths. I'm really like that in real life. No, I don't do any other writing. I wouldn't really be opposed to it, but there's so much other stuff to do that I haven't thought about it.

The Fanzine: Outside of your hardcore porn work, I read somewhere that you make clothing. True? If so, what kind of stuff?

Stoya: Yes! I got really into rubber last year, but I make all kinds of things. Before I started doing hardcore, I always needed new stuff to shoot in, and why go out and buy something that isn't quite right when I can get fabric and make it exactly how I want. The next thing I really want to make is a corset, I have the fabric but haven't found a local source for the spiral steel boning yet.

The Fanzine: Also, you went to art school? Where? And
what was your focus?

Stoya: I didn't have a focus. That's probably why I dropped out. I did a semester at DCAD, a summer program at UArts in Philly, was ready to do the fall semester there and realized I had no idea what I wanted to learn. I much prefer tracking down talented people and convincing them they really want to let me do all the bitch work in return for them teaching me a couple of techniques.

The Fanzine: As far as music, what's this "bad cover of 'Enter Sandman'" you've mentioned?

Stoya: Haha. When I was working with razordolls they used to have me interview bands. It wasn't my favorite job, and there are videos somewhere of me slapping band dudes for acting like idiots. One time we missed an interview and had to sit through the show, and the opening band was soooo horrible, and their third song was the worst cover of "Enter Sandman" I had ever heard. "Stuff that isn't a bad cover of Enter Sandman" has been my answer to the music question ever since.