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Everything Sounds Sexier in French, even in the erotic entertainment industry.
Let's say Bertha is getting a job at a Bikini Bar as one of the performers. Bertha isn't a massively sexy-sounding name. Amber, on the other hand...
Another reason this trope may be played is that they don't want to be haunted by Bleached Underpants if when they get out of the industry. The Internet usually finds a way to make this futile, however.
Examples:
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Anime And Manga
- In some hentai titles, the Seiyuu tend to use fake names, like for Urotsukidouji — the voice actors used names like Randy Woodcock, Rosy Palmer, and Rick Ballsey.
Comics
- In Reed Waller's furry animal comic, a young woman named Susan becomes a stripper. Since there are already several dancers named Susan/Sue/Suzie, she takes a map, closes her eyes, points with her finger at random ... and becomes Omaha The Cat Dancer.
Film
- Some Bond girls are among the most famous examples.
- Played with in Zack and Miri Make a Porno:
Zack: What's your name?
Lester: Lester... Lester the Molester Cockenschtuff.
Zack: Wow. That's a great porn name.
Lester: I get to pick a porn name?... Then I want to be called... Pete Jones.
- In Boogie Nights, protagonist Eddie Adams adopts the porn name Dirk Diggler.
- Apparently, in Orgazmo, all you need to be a porn actor is to be called Sancho. Which is kinda true...
Literature
- The book Strip Tease has the obvious fake name Urbana Sprawl, but also reveals at the end that Erin was the only one using her real name.
- Terry Pratchett parodied the hell out of this, of course, in Thud!, with one of the co-workers of Nobby's girlfriend Tawneee, called Brocolee (she started out calling herself Candee, but changed after learning that broccoli was better for you).
- In The Dresden Files novel Blood Rites, Harry is hired as supernatural security for a porn studio. One of the actors is trying to come up with a good Porn Name, so Harry suggests "Gowan Commando". The guy likes it.
Live Action TV
Video Games
- Fallout 2 allowed the player to make porn movies to make extra cash. Players could choose from a variety of porn names, such as Jack Shooter and The Polish Hammer.
Webcomics
Western Animation
- While Quagmire is staying with the Griffins on Family Guy, a phone call reveals that his porn name is Long Rod Von Hugendong. Originally, it was supposed to be "Long Rod Von Hungenschlong,", but the FOX censors thought that was too risque. Not the greatest of changes, but hey, pick your battles.
- While not an exact fit, this is used in The Boondocks for the prostitute "Cristal" (Like the Champagne), managed by a pimp named "A Pimp Named Slickback". Yes, you have to say the whole thing, like A Tribe Called Quest.
Real Life
- Glamour model Katie Price used the name "Jordan" during her Page 3 days.
- Burlesque artist Dita von Teese's real name is Heather Sweet.
- 'Heather Sweet' sounds more like a porn name than her porn name.
- Thanks to Ginger Lynn, Amber Lynn and Porsche Lynn in the 1980s (and their dozens of imitators since), any woman's first name + "Lynn" = "porn starlet".
- Ginger Lynn's real name is Ginger Lynn Allen — and it was her feud with Amber Lynn for "stealing" her name which turned on the Streisand Effect and created the endless succession of Starlet Lynns.
- The common joke is that your porn name is [Name of First Pet] [Name of First Street you lived on].
- Or [Name of favourite sweet] + [Name of first street you lived on].
- Or even [Your last name] + [Name of first street you lived on].
- But what if the first street you lived on was a numbered street that wasn't 69th?
- Some security companies have warned of websites using this idea in an attempt to gain access to your email account by making your porn star name relate to common security questions.
- Other real life examples:
- Retired pornstar Long Dong Silver. 'Nuff said.
- Peter North.
- Letha Weapons.
- There is/was a porn actress who went by the name Cindy Crawford. It happens to be her real name.
- A famous character-inspired: Kylee Reese. The Terminator jokes just write themselves ("Come on me if you want to live").
- British porn director Ben Dover.
- Most sex industry workers (strippers, porn stars, and escorts) take a sexy-sounding porn name both as a way of being easily-remembered and also as a way of deterring stalkers. This can sometimes lead to issues where a name that can be phonetically spelled multiple ways results in numerous very similar aliases. One of the best examples is Lanny Barbie, a French-Canadian star whose alternate spellings included Lanni Barbie, Lanny Barby, and Lanni Barby.
- Actress Nikki Cox was once asked by an interviewer what her porn name would be. She said it would probably be the same but that she'd probably add an extra x or two to her last name.
- This is in fact common in any sort of name that can be spelled with an X; most sex workers with such a name will often be known by the normal spelling and the "triple x" spelling.
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