Ashley Sinclair is Raising the Production Bar for Niche Fetish Content

“I’m a family person,” Sinclair shared with YNOT. “I have kids. When I’m not working, my life pretty much revolves around their needs and exposing them to things that will make them well-rounded and educated adults one day.”

“Working” – the scope of which takes second stage to mothering, but make no mistake: Ashley Sinclair works.

Starting out on cam in 2010 – “There weren’t as many as there are now, and webcamming wasn’t as over-saturated with [models]. It was a very good income for a teen who was going to school and was basically homeless months before,” she explained – Sinclair also did some local and regional modeling.

“One of the photographers who was a fan of foot fetish knew I could use the extra income and pointed me in the direction of Taylor Raz, who was then one of the major fetish clip producers back then,” Sinclair told us. “I shot for her and made some extra money and learned so much about the freedom of being an independent producer. [Raz] is probably one of the biggest influences in why I am mostly exclusive to my own sites now.”

We recently corresponded with Ashley Sinclair, who told us about her desire to impact niche content via elevated aesthetics and production value, her goals for the future — and why she’s really glad she gets to do all this from home.

YNOT: How did you move from cam and modeling to Ashley4K.com et al?

Ashley Sinclair: After shooting with [Raz] and a few other fetish producers in the Tampa area, I started shooting occasionally for the big porn sites that are staples in the adult industry. It was fun, but I don’t really like traveling to go do all that. Additionally, my experience with some agents, talent, producers, etc — not necessarily during a shoot always — just left me feeling like there has to be a better way to do this. There is so much odd, weird, unprofessional BS that happens in the adult industry, and I just don’t want to be a part of all that.

I virtually stopped shooting for any big company or camming on “big company” sites and did everything in-house. I had gained thousands and thousands of fans, and I was very inspired and driven to do things my way and on my terms without even having to leave my house.

So you’ve moved from a conventional performer career to an exclusive producer with your own brands?

The times I shot again after that for sites like Brazzers, Babes, Naughty America, Nubiles, etc, I told them upfront that I was going to exploit every ounce of brand association I could to drive traffic to my sites and that was the sole reason I was shooting for them again. I told them they should do the same because they would own a piece of the very small library of content not owned by me. I like owning the rights to all my stuff so the value of those things I don’t own are pretty high.

To make a long story short, I didn’t make a move from shooting for the big companies to shooting for myself. That was my plan all along and shooting for others was simply a part of me exploiting opportunities for my own brand and business.