Please introduce yourself to Cam101! What’s your name, where are you from, what sites do you work on, and what are your pronouns?

Hi, my name is Laura Ropes, I use she/her pronouns, I’m from Spain, I’m a performer, and I mostly work on porn productions for producers, or producing my own content for my pages such as Onlyfans.

What inspired you to enter the adult industry and how has your experience been so far?

I’ve always felt a deep connection to all things erotic and sexual, but I was always too scared to start. Eventually, I got to a point where I left an old job I had, and I found myself having a lot of free time, so I decided to contact every agency and producer I could find, and eventually, one answered back.

She taught me most of what I know about the industry, and I shot my first scene for her.

From then on, I’ve had a few chances at performing more, and, seeing as that wasn’t something that was offered to me that often, I started producing my own content.

I have a philosophy to always try and get my content to be of the highest quality possible, as I want to create something I’d be happy to watch myself

Sometimes though, things are hard, especially mentally, since I might invest a lot of time and effort on a video, but I might not find it paying off.

What does Pride mean to you as an LGBTQ+ adult content creator? How do you plan on celebrating this Pride month?

Living in an area where Pride is not very visible, I find myself living it more as an internal celebration.

Pride to me, means taking care of myself, feeling free to express how I feel and who I am. I’ll give myself all the things I can, that I usually don’t, and take my time to relax.

As far as being visible goes, I try to do that all the time, be it pride month or not, no from an external perspective, it really doesn’t change much from my daily life.

How do you balance your work with your personal life and relationships, and what boundaries do you set for yourself?

Honestly to me the hardest part is balancing this with my day job, since I currently don’t earn enough to do this full time.

I guess the most difficult part is the contrast I feel, since I am very passionate about adult work, and it makes me happier than I’ve ever been, but the other job is something that barely pays my bills, even though I am supposedly a professional.

I am looking forward to making adult my full time job to be able to explore my talents to their fullest.

As far as personal relationships and family, I can’t say everyone is supportive of my job, but I am very very open about what I do.

I’m glad I can say I’m not in any closet at the moment, and I can openly talk about what I do and who I am with the people I love, even though not all of them view it as a job.

I do set some boundaries in the form of disconnecting from social media and clients whenever I am with certain people to be able to focus my mind on them instead pof worrying about anything else.

What are some of the misconceptions people have about your work, especially as an LGBTQ+ performer?

Everyone I meet has the usual view of sex work and the adult industry in general that society has mythified so much.

They think it’s a shady business, everything is unregulated, not that I’m forced into this job or got into it because I couldn’t work well anywhere else.

I’m also assumed, mostly by fans, to be completely straight, even if I perform with other women, and that I’m an extremely sexual and accessible person, that will do anything they ask just because I do porn.

This couldn’t be further from the truth and my reality, since I’ve found amazing people in this industry, way more open about most things than the average person, also a well-regulated one in terms of health and professional treatment.

I obviously wasn’t forced into it, and I am someone with a degree that’s worked well in other areas, so that’s also an incorrect assumption that I think a lot of sex workers also share.

And, even if I appear more oversexual and normative when I’m in scene, I am a Bisexual woman who leans very very much towards other women, and who has quite a low sex drive to be honest.

How do you feel about the role of adult content creation in the LGBTQ+ community, and how do you see it evolving in the future?

I feel it’s very much essential. People, even if they don’t want to say it in public, watch porn, a lot of it, and especially for someone who’s questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity, it’s especially important for them to find content that reflects more than just a straight, cis, male point of view.

I think making porn and adult content that reflects a variety of identities would make a lot of people more aware of possibilities.

In my personal situation, growing up in a rural area, I had no reference of anyone who was openly LGBTQ+ until I was about 17 or 18. I’m pretty sure if I had known that the possibility existed, and I’d found porn that represented wlw relationships from a wlw point of view and not a male gaze one, I’d have realized way sooner and I wouldn’t have lost so much time being someone I was not.

How do you think the adult industry (including Lovense and Cam101) can become more inclusive and supportive of LGBTQ+ performers?

I think it’s a matter of educating the people in the industry as well as the general public on these matters.

While lately there’s an increase of LGBTQ+ content being sold, I get that it isn’t the most profitable content out there as of now, since the market is very much catered towards a certain profile of people.

That, I think, is mostly because porn and everything sexual is very much still taboo, and most people outside that profile do still think it’s not for them, or that they wouldn’t find what they’d want to watch.

I think we should strive to make porn something that’s just another film genre. You wouldn’t stop watching Hollywood movies just because most of them aren’t catered to sell to you, because you know some of them are, and I think de-tabooing porn would be a huge step towards people doing their own research to find the companies and creators that are making porn for people like them.

I also think there’s still a ways to go in some parts of the industry, as some people still operate in a very old-fashioned, and even transphobic ot homophobic view.

I can sadly say I’ve heard someone working on a set say that “if a trans girl still has a dick I’ll use male pronouns”, and that, made me fucking cringe to be honest, and while it isn’t my situation and doesn’t affect me directly, how am I supposed to feel safe around that person in a setting where you express yourself in such a vulnerable way?. Safe to say I don’t plan on working with that person again.

But, thankfully, I see a lot of progress being made towards a better future, companies like Lovense are creating toys that don’t feel catered specifically towards anyone, but rather to everyone, and a lot of porn sites and producers are striving to make content that isn’t the usual, and while I see it doesn’t get the exposure it deserves, and sadly gets a lot of censorship, I’m proud to be human if there are other humans like that.

What advice would you give to someone considering entering this industry?

Think about it, a lot. Seriously, a LOT. This is an amazing industry, but it also comes with a lot of stress, worrying, and stigma. I’d say the best advice would be to think why you’d like to enter the industry, and if the answer is anything other than because it makes you happy and it’s your passion, I wouldn’t go in.

You might think it’ll be a gold mine and it’ll make you rich, but chances are, you’re gonna be working lots of hours, and sometimes, you won’t make a return.

There’s a thousand reasons to get into the industry, and none of them are wrong, but I’d say the best one is if you really really want to do it, because it makes you happy, because you feel accomplished, and free.

You can always try to see how you feel, but I’ve met people that have left very early on because they expected something that wasn’t there, and they weren’t actually passionate about the work.

But I can also say I’ve met a lot of people that do have passion for this, and they make this industry amazing.

What are some of your dreams or goals for the future, both in your personal life and your career?

In terms of my personal life, I want to get to a point where I can leave my day job and focus on adult work completely.

And as far as my career goes, I want to perform more and more, shoot a lot more, as much as I can for as long as I can.

And eventually, I do want to start directing and producing films, because I know that I want to make the porn I’d like to see, and even if I’m getting closer and closer every day to that, I want to do bigger, better things, and show the world the ideas I have in my mind.

I also plan on, I don't know how, providing sexual education to people, especially teenagers, since it’s something that’s, as of now, horribly managed, at least where I live, and I’d love to teach them what I wish I’d been taught then, because it doesn’t make sense for a teacher or a cop with 0 experience outside of cis-straight sex to teach all the sex-ed they’ll get in years.

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