Obsession

At the nexus between ebony porn and the origins of popular rap music you'll find Obsession. A gorgeous black beauty with a tight 34B-23-33 body and the honor of being known as the originator of 'spitting porn' for the way she often spewed saliva as she sucked cock for lucky costars in her hardcore videos. Obsession was born in Portland Oregon in 1976 and moved with her parents to California in 1988. She is a mixed race mulatto, her father is a black man and her mother is a white woman who presumably really enjoyed interracial sex.

In a published interview Obsession recounts the way in which she got into the porn business right from the start "I began doing hardcore stills in 1994, you know, hardcore. Taking a dick inside me. My first photo layout was with Tony Eveready. That's where it all started. After that Photo shoot I did a few other photo shoots and I got more comfortable but it wasn't really for me so I stopped." Obsession was always in total control of her xxx career and frequently chose to stop or restart her work as a pornstar whenever something better came along or she became bored with mainstream opportunities at the time.

"In early 1995 I decided to try it again. I sign up with an agency this time and they sent me on a photo shoot... After the shoot the photographer asked me if I would shoot a video for him. At first I said no, but eventually I agreed and I showed up and I was to meet the guy I was to do the movie with. When I arrived the guy was already there. He was tall dark with curly hair. It was Mr. Marcus. My first scene was hot and it was anal. Mr. Marcus and I did the scene and it was amazing. Everything went smoothly. The sex was good but the anal open my mind up to new sensations. From there my career in the business began. I really did a lot of movies in 1996 and it was great. I love sex and it opened my eyes to it. I took a break in 1997 and enjoyed some of the stuff I did and signed for some Adult Movie Companies at the 1st Los Angeles Erotica Convention. I also attended my first FOXE Awards Show and was on stage with other black female talent. This is where I had the most fun and met everyone who watched some of my stuff. With your love and support it made me want to do XXX more."

Among the first pornstars to truly understand the power of self-promotion, Obsession was referred to by some in the industry as 'the black Jenna Jameson' because she continually found new and exciting ways to reach the public in a positive way. These were the days before Twitter and Social Networking, so a pornstar had to do a lot more leg-work to get noticed and touring adult industry shows or feature dancing at local clubs were some of the best ways to bring in new fans.

"1998 took a wild turn for me in the porn industry. I did my first photo layout for Players magazine and Black Legs. I started to get wilder and did a scene for Rodney Moore. It was a blowjob scene where I drooled in a bowl while I gave him a blowjob then he came in the bowl. Then I dumped the bowl of spit and cum into my mouth and spit all over his dick. I know I am sick wit it but that scene was very different for me and fun. The reputation for my Nasty Blow Jobs was born around that time. In 1999, my manager started to try and cross me over into mainstream TV. Music Videos were a new challenge."

The rap game was booming at the time and sexy rap music videos were developing their own loyal fanbase. Getting in on the action and turning on a whole new wave of mainstream fans to her porn productions was easy thanks to important appearances in videos for Dr. Dre "Still Dre and Fuck you"; Q-Tip "Vibrant Thang"; comedian Chris Rock "No Sex In Champagne Room" and several others. That same year Obsession began broadcasting for Playboy and her ethic porn reputation grew to include a large segment of the predominantly white porn audience as well.

By 2000 her xxx hardcore career and mainstream cross-over viability were fully established. That brought even more impressive opportunities like her project with Snoop Dogg who decided to create how own XXX flick produced entirely by the D O Double-G. Obsession went on to open her own official pornsite in 2001 but subsequently closed it and started to take a role behind the scenes instead eventually.

Her impact is still felt throughout the adult industry because of the way Obsession helped to mentor newer pornstars in the ebony niche. When Lacey Duvalle was 18 she answered an ad for a modeling photo shoot it took her two days to make up her mind about appearing naked on film and she has said in interviews that one of the things that convinced her porn was a good possibility for her as a career is the supportive attitude and caring attitude of Obsession while she was part of the Ed Powers production company.

The 2003 AVN Award nominee for Female Performer of the Year and 2004 AVN Award nominee for Best Sex Scene Coupling - Obsession never got enough recognition from the expert porn press. Though truthfully, black pornstars were often underrepresented during that era of xxx entertainment.

Obsession has several tattoos and body piercings, including one above her right breast that once said 'Bensley' but has since been covered up by tribal scrollwork. Her 282 titles rank among the most by any top level black pornstar in xxx history and her contributions to the art of sex as well as hip-Hop culture are too numerous to count. Still a fan favorite almost a decade since her last known porn performance, Obsession is a girl who looks as good right now fucking on film as she did the day the videos were produced!