August 03, 2022 |
Fresh Faces: River Lynn |
A version of this feature appears in the August issue of AVN magazine. Click here for the digital edition. LOS ANGELES â The first day of school is only a few weeks away, and River Lynn has her wardrobe all picked out. On what could be a blistering weekday afternoon in August, the 5-foot-7 blonde says sheâll stroll through campus at a âbig SEC college in Alabamaâ wearing a short mini skirt, a pair of sunglasses and a black t-shirt that reads âI Heart Slutty Women." âPorn clothes,â Lynn says with a laugh. âJust so everyone knows who theyâre dealing with.â Indeed, almost every adult industry newcomer is cast as a college girl at some point early in their career. But for Lynn, the role is especially fitting. She actually is a college girl. And weâre not just talking online courses here. After spending the summer shooting in Los Angeles, Lynn will return this month to her native Alabama for the start of her senior year. Lynn, 21, will attend in-person classes each morning and head to the library in the afternoon to study. At night sheâll barhop and attend fraternity parties with friends. Perhaps more than anything, Lynn is excited for Saturdays in the fall, when sheâll cheer from the stands at her schoolâs 105,000-seat football stadium. âJust like any normal college student,â Lynn says. Even though she is anything but. While most people on her campus probably have no idea that Lynn is a porn star, she hardly feels the need to keep it a secret. âThe fraternity guys definitely know,â Lynn says. âAnd some of the sorority girls who know are jealous and donât like it. They look down on it. But my close circle of friends loves what Iâm doing. They support me, and thatâs all that matters.â Lynnâs hectic class schedule prevents her from shooting much studio content during the school year, but she takes cross-country trips to Los Angeles to work during the winter holidays and Spring Break. Lynn is slated to graduate in May of 2023 with a degree in Communications and Entrepreneurship. She intends to work in the adult industry full-time after she receives her diploma. Lynn, who says sheâs shot about 70 studio scenes in the past year, is represented by Foxxx Modeling. âThis is a great fit for me,â Lynn says. âThis is who I am. Iâm a sexual person. I like meeting new people and having sex with them. I like going to fancy set houses and doing cool, different videos, or videos that I laugh at because theyâre so corny. âThis doesnât feel like work to me. Itâs such an interesting job. I donât think I could have another one.â Becoming a porn star was hardly something Lynn envisioned while growing up in Gulf Shores, Alabama, a beach town of about 13,000 on the stateâs Gulf Coast. Instead of participating in athletics or other extracurricular activities, Lynn says she and her high school friends worked at various seafood restaurants and surf shops and then spent their free time on the beachâdrinking and partying while maintaining their yearlong suntans. Shortly after she enrolled in college in the fall of 2019, Lynnâs boyfriend began working in the adult industry. Hurt and upset, Lynn told him the only way sheâd be OK with his career choice was if he shot content with herâand no one else. Lynnâs boyfriend agreed to the ultimatum and, just like that, a star was born. âIâd always been a sexual person and was always very confident in my body,â Lynn says. âBut living in Alabama made things difficult. I was in the Bible Belt. People get shamed. You couldnât always be open about how you feel.â Now with a willing and uninhibited partner, Lynn was unleashed. She launched an OnlyFans account and also posted her videos on Pornhub. Even though her face was blurred out, the content Lynn filmed with her boyfriend became wildly popular on the site, with several scenes tallying more than 1 million views. â(The Pornhub numbers) gave me so much confidence,â Lynn says. âI thought, âWhatever youâre doing, youâre doing it right.â I was hooked. Eventually my boyfriend and I broke up. I took a few months off and missed it. I was like, âI love doing this. Iâm not going to stop.ââ Lynn began posting content again, and what happened next was almost textbook. She was discovered by her eventual agent, flew to Los Angeles and began shooting studio porn in late June of 2021. By the time summer ended, Lynn had shot 13 scenes, with the most memorable being a boy-boy-girl romp for Black Ambushed with Isiah Maxwell and the late Jake Adams. After receiving a blowjob from Lynn in the living area, Adams guided her into the bedroom, where she was surprised to find Maxwell. âI didnât know who all the big porn people were at that point,â Lynn says, âso I didnât know Isiah. I just remember him being in there all propped up. He looked amazing. I loved having the freedom to do exactly what Iâd want to do in that situation, which is walk up and suck his dick.â Lynn laughs. âThat was such an amazing day,â she says. âIt was my second scene ever.â Shortly after she returned to campus last fall, word about Lynnâs part-time career began to spread. Fraternities began asking her to make appearances at their parties. A few times she passed out autographed copies of a Hustler magazine that featured her on the cover. Classmates expressed their support and peppered her with questions about the industry, and it was never difficult to find a guy to cut the grass outside the place she shares with her roommates. âAnd if the guy was hot,â Lynn says, âhe could, you know ⦠stay and hang out a while.â Truth be told, Lynn is enjoying the adult industry so much that, if her circumstances were different, sheâd probably drop out of school altogether. Especially considering her father stopped paying her tuition in March after discovering she was involved in sex work. Lynn, though, is just one year away from graduating. âIâm too close to the finish line to stop now,â Lynn says. âIf I donât do it now, I never will. Iâve got to push through it. âPlus, I donât want to miss out on my senior year. I love going to the football gamesâespecially the big rivalry games at home the atmosphere is insane. Iâm also extremely close with my roommates and I wasnât ready to leave them. We always go to the bars on weekends. Iâm always going to be going out. With this being my last year, I want to go out and make it count and experience everything for the last time.â As hectic as her shooting schedule was this summer in Los Angeles, Lynn also took a few classes online. In July she discovered her newfound fame could prove beneficial when it came to math homework, as her Twitter plea for assistance with logarithms was answered immediately. âIt was amazing how quick and eager people were help,â Lynn says. âIt makes me feel like a mini-superstar. I love that everyone on my Twitter is super-supportive of everything I post. Whether Iâm having a bad day or a good day, theyâre very supportive. They always have my back, which I love.â The majority of Lynnâs focus this summer, however, was on producing content. Chris Cane of Foxxx Modeling estimates that Lynn shot more than 30 scenes in June and July. She worked for studios such as Team Skeet, Cherry Pimps, Naughty America, Reality Kings and Hustler. Lynnâs proudest moment, though, came at the end of July, when Hall of Fame director James Avalon cast her alongside veteran Kenzie Taylor in a girl-girl scene for Adult Time. âIt felt like a dream, like I had made it to the big league,â Lynn says. âEveryone on set was so professional, so nice. Kenzie and I talked a lot before the scene and she gave me so much great advice about how to be a good performer. Itâs something Iâll always appreciate.â Working for an elite studio such as Adult Time was a bucket list item for Lynn, who also hopes to shoot for Vixen, Brazzers, Pure Taboo and others. Considering the ever-increasing demand for her services, Lynn may indeed get that chance when she returns to Porn Valley next summer. âSheâs very reliable, very responsible,â Cane says. âShe shows up to her scenes on time. Iâve never had anyone call me to ask me, âIs she coming? is she here?â Sheâs already already there. Sheâs a very pretty girl. She has an all-natural look. Iâm trying to remember whether anyone has anything negative about her, and nobody has. Everybody loves River.â That includes veteran performer Donnie Rock, who went one-on-one with Lynn for PornDude Casting and has also directed a handful of her scenes for Team Skeet. âShe genuinely wants to graduate college,â Rock says. âSheâs driven. Sheâs motivated. I respect that. I like motivation and motivated people.â Rock says the fact that Lynn is indeed a true college student gives her an extra appeal. âThere are definitely some angles to work with there,â he says. âA lot of these girls say theyâre in college and I donât believe them. With River, the storyline is real. She goes to the frat parties. She goes to the bars, just like I did when I was in college, so I can relate to her. She has fun. She tries to hook up with people. Iâm going to take someone home tonight. Sheâs slutty. Thatâs why sheâs perfect for this industry. With her itâs about the sex first, the money second.â As she continues to evolve as a performer, Lynn is also discovering more and more about her sexuality. Before porn, Lynn had mostly been submissive in her sexual experiences, but now sheâs learning that she occasionally likes to dom. Sheâs also realized that sheâs bisexualâthe scene with Taylor was her first girl-girl trystâand is considering doing anal, as well. The thought of a bondage scene for Kink also intrigues Lynn. No matter what happens, though, Lynn vows to maintain her youthful, spunky, upbeat personalityâboth in front of the camera and away from it. She knows it can take her a long way in the adult industry. And in life. âEven though I donât have much of an accent, I think people notice my southern qualities,â Lynn says. ââYes maâam, no maâamâ ⦠basic stuff like that. If you forget your wallet, Iâll pay for your dinner and you can get me back another time. Iâm always trying to help and make the best of a situation. If someone is having an attitude. Iâm the person who says, âLetâs calm down and talk about it.â âI just want everyone to be happy.â Photography by Michael Kim/@archangelfoto
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