My name is Ryden and I've been creating my own adult content since 2012. My time in this industry has been amazing, with plenty more ups than downs, and I truly believe that making the choice to create pornographic videos opened my world up and helped me embrace who I truly am.

During my youth & teenage years, I was really different. I was always incredibly hyperactive and emotional, and my interests greatly differed from those of my peers. As you can imagine, people were pretty awful to me, and I had to really learn how to stand up for myself. I never felt encouraged to be myself, so I never even invested in getting to know myself and what I might be interested in. I tried to be whatever people wanted me to be, but it never really worked.

Before porn, I'd already found social media to be an incredible outlet to express myself, and posting nudes came naturally. At the time, I was starting to really experience sexual empowerment within myself as a grown woman and I loved the body I was so blessed to have. The more I posted, the more people enjoyed it and asked for more. Just posting photos became selling sets, and that brought so much joy into my life. I wanted more and more.

With all of this happiness and newfound drive, I also experienced incredible backlash from both strangers and those I knew intimately. I'd been outed at a very early point in my career (really like WEEKS into it) and not everyone was incredibly understanding. I'm very lucky to have built a thick skin through all the years of dealing with the repercussions of being different because that made it much easier to cope with negativity over the years. Still, when it came time to consider finally doing videos, I was apprehensive. I knew the backlash I could receive would be multiple times worse than what I'd already experienced. Every sex worker has that point somewhere along the line, with a similar choice that weighs the passion for the work against the possible negative response. For me, the passion still greatly outweighed the consequences.

I started making videos in 2013, and my love for it flourished to the point in which I was shooting a vast amount more videos than photosets for the first time ever in 2014. Since then creating videos has continued to be my full-time job. Putting in the work to produce better content makes the job harder, more time consuming, but altogether worth it. Creating something visually stimulating brings me so much joy. Porn went from being something I was unsure of, to something I finally could identify myself with. I found my passion for the creation of video concepts, the work that goes into making the videos, the acts themselves, and watching myself constantly improve on something I absolutely loved doing.

In addition to finding my career of choice (or at least the industry I wanna stay in for a damn long time), making porn exposed me to the creative encouragement that I had never come to know in my life growing up. There were many things that I found myself mildly interested in as a teenager that I never invested time into because I had been made to feel like I was too dull to create anything important. To be a sex worker, though, requires a great amount of creativity and skill in many areas. Knowing I could work creatively and write, I became inspired to write short horror stories, something I've wanted to do since I was very young. I've since written a few dozen stories and I hope to compile them into a book someday.

Altogether, creating porn has stimulated my growth as a person. It has altered the way I see myself, the way I treat others, and the way I live my life as a whole. Working hard at this over the years has given me a deeper appreciation of myself, and has introduced me to a world of creativity and happiness that I could never have imagined 6 years ago.

Ryden Armani