Behind the Scenes 232: Valentine and Rion Rhodes

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Valentine:  Hey, you!

Rion Rhodes:  Hey!

[Valentine caresses and kisses Rion’s leg. Fade to Interview.]

Rion Rhodes:  How did you enjoy the shoot today, Valentine?

[Both laugh]

Valentine:  Well, Rion, I had a lot of fun. It’s really lovely shooting with you!

Rion Rhodes:  Thanks!

Valentine:  How did you enjoy the shoot?

Rion Rhodes:  I had a good time.

Valentine:  Yeah?

Rion Rhodes:  Yeah, yeah!

Valentine:  Your first time, right?

Rion Rhodes:  My first time here, yeah!

[Fade to Shoot. Rion Rhodes is on all fours on bed, naked, wearing a strap-on in a leather harness, with a gag in her mouth. Rion Rhodes begins to stroke the strap-on as Valentine lowers herself behind Rion Rhodes and goes down on her. Fade to Interview]

Rion Rhodes:  Was there anything that was challenging to you about shooting today?

Valentine:  Besides fiddling with the strap-on—

Rion Rhodes:  Right.

Valentine:  —that was pretty much it. I think everything else just—it flowed really well.

Rion Rhodes:  Yeah.

Valentine:  It was really nice.

Rion Rhodes:  I felt similarly. Trying to get things on and off of my body is always a challenge, especially under pressure. Other than that, I felt pretty comfortable.

Valentine:  Good.

[Fade to Shoot. Rion Rhodes is flat on her back, wearing a strap-on. Valentine kneels between her legs, also wearing a strap-on. Valentine gets a bottle of lubricant and opens it.]

Rion Rhodes:  I’m going to feel it with this plug. Keep an eye on it, if you can.

Valentine:  Make sure it doesn’t pop out?

Rion Rhodes:  Make sure it doesn’t flop all over—

Valentine:  Oh god! [Giggles]

[Valentine puts lube on her own strap-on.]

Valentine:  I’m nervous! [Giggles]

Rion Rhodes:  It’s okay! It’s okay.

[Fade to Interview.]

Valentine:  What are your safe sex practices, and why?

Rion Rhodes:  Well, it depends on who my partner is at the time. I have pretty rigorous testing practices, and I expect my partners to have the same. In my normal day-to-day life, I get tested about every three months for all the things, and have those conversations and see that paperwork with my partners as well. I have a couple of fluid-bonded partners in my life right now, and we’ve got some pretty strict formats that we carry for adding new people to that circle. Yeah, lots of trust, lots of trying to keep people safe and use barriers when we can, or with any new people. Yeah. What about you?

Valentine:  I also have a couple of fluid-bonded partners.

Rion Rhodes:  Just a couple?

Valentine:  Just a couple!

[They both laugh.]

Valentine:  And I do get tested pretty frequently, and know my status. And anything outside of my status is a little worrisome, so I try to keep that in check. Having conversations open, and just being really comfortable and open and inviting.

Rion Rhodes:  I think something that’s been really huge for me is remembering and reminding lovers and new people that there are a lot of fun kinds of sex that you can have that are lower risk, and that disclosing status, or not wanting to enter that realm in order to keep my partners safe doesn’t mean that I can’t have a fun, sexy time with somebody—

Valentine:  Exactly.

Rion Rhodes:  —but keeping something to kissing and hands with gloves and whatever can still be a really great, fun time, but also keeps my partners safe.

Valentine:  Yeah, yeah, exactly. When having group sex, I generally don’t fluid bond with people unless I’m super comfortable with them, or they’ve fluid-bonded with someone I am not yet, but know or and am comfortable. So yeah, just open conversations and getting tested and using barriers accordingly.

[Fade to Shoot. Valentine is on all fours, with Rion Rhodes behind her, bent over and kissing Valentine on the neck.]

Valentine:  [Moaning.] Fuck! [Panting]

[Valentine and Rion Rhodes roll onto their right sides.]

Valentine:  Thank you!

[Valentine lays for a while panting, then rolls onto her back.]

Valentine:  Hey!

[They kiss. Fade to Interview.]

Rion Rhodes:  Why do you keep doing porn?

Valentine:  I mean, the perks of the job are pretty sweet!

[Both laugh.]

Valentine:  I keep doing porn because it just feels really good. It feels natural. It feels nice to be able to pick my partners. It feels like—I’m an exhibitionist. It feels good to see someone like myself represented in the porn world, and to have people enjoy watching it. I don’t know. It’s different every time, and that’s really fun. I actually felt less anxiety this time. It was nice to come back, and I don’t know. It just feels really good. This was your first time, so how did you feel? Well, not first time—

Rion Rhodes: It’s not my first time.

Valentine:  Yeah, but like first time actually—

Rion Rhodes:  Yeah, I’m newer to it than you are.

Valentine:  Yeah!

Rion Rhodes:  I like making porn because it feels like—I mean, I think feeling natural, that speaks to me a little bit. It feels like I’m making some sort of statement about, this is the kind of sex that I like to have, and this is the kind of sex that the people that I identify with like to have, and showing something to the world that feels so natural and warm and wonderful to me, that we don’t—that we have so much censorship about, and so much, sort of, closed doors and taboo about in the media, like making a statement by putting it out there and being vulnerable in that way feels really good.

Valentine:  Yeah.

Rion Rhodes:  That’s something that I really like to contribute to the world!

Valentine:  I’m glad that you decided to contribute to this shoot! [Laughs.]

[Fade to Credits.]