AMA - Steven Grooby (Ask Me Anything)

[GroobySteven]

Following on this answer, i'm curious how similar or different porn shoot productions are to shooting say a high end commercial or a music video. Is there much overlap between the different production worlds, do you find some of the crew you hire dip between the categories or is it if you're in the porn industry you stick exclusively to that lane? Asking as someone who works in commercial productions

No overlap as far as I've ever seen.
We don't even hire crews - we have freelance producers and they usually only work with one trusted assistant. The dynamics to be on a porn set and the amount of things to be aware of with consent, safety, etc. are quite different.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'd rather take a girl who is pretty with bags of energy and wants to do a great shoot, over a girl who looks like a supermarket but is just going through the motions.

Any particular chain? I guess that was supposed to be "supermodel."

[GroobySteven]

Any particular chain? I guess that was supposed to be "supermodel."

LOL.
Yes.

Athought we've featured some Walmart level before.

[kmersh]

Steven, thank you for responding to my last question, your answer was very interesting and informative.

I have a somewhat follow up question and to be clear I more than understand if you choose not to answer the question.

I have known and know two transgender woman, one is more of the traditional story and one has a very unusual story.

The first transgender woman that I ever met lived across the hall from me in the very first place I paid for myself after graduating college. We became friendly over time and to this day, we keep in touch. She is very much the traditional story, parents could not accept her, she moved out, started to transition, turned to prostitution to make money, then porn, but she was never truly happy.

Now she is mostly doing cam work, onlyfans, escorting and the money is better, but she is still very unhappy and I am afraid she will never find happiness. When I visit her or talk on the phone I can tell that she is just not fulfilled in life. I often worry that one day she will commit suicide, though to be clear she has never ever mentioned anything to give me any concern.

The second transgender woman that I know is my current wife, she is very unusual, came from a very wealthy caring supportive family. Went to college and law school, after graduating law school, she came out to her parents and started to transition with both their emotional and financial support.

She is now a partner in a mid-size law firm making very good money, living her best life.
It is in my opinion her loving supportive family and their financial means which has spared my wife much of the pain of the previous woman that I wrote about.

Which is a very long preamble to my question, in your years of experience are the actresses whom you film happy or is it merely a way to survive?

[bigm25]

Hahaha sorry the foot guys are such a pain. I think Grooby does a great job across many of the sites to feature feet and ass. Was just wondering if you had looked into it and you have. By compilation I mean for instance taking 3 videos of 1 of your models, for instance top rated Daisy Taylor and editing them down into 1 Compilation video of the model. I have seen onlyfans girls do this and just wondering if you looked into it. Also congratulations on your new VOD site. That looks excellent and a great idea.
I couldn't get behind the tgirl tops but was intrigued and enjoyed some of the sets, just not my thing. Sorry to hear the loud recommenders didn't stay on board.
Cheers and Happy Father's Day to you Steven

[GroobySteven]

Hahaha sorry the foot guys are such a pain. I think Grooby does a great job across many of the sites to feature feet and ass. Was just wondering if you had looked into it and you have. By compilation I mean for instance taking 3 videos of 1 of your models, for instance top rated Daisy Taylor and editing them down into 1 Compilation video of the model. I have seen onlyfans girls do this and just wondering if you looked into it. Also congratulations on your new VOD site. That looks excellent and a great idea.
I couldn't get behind the tgirl tops but was intrigued and enjoyed some of the sets, just not my thing. Sorry to hear the loud recommenders didn't stay on board.
Cheers and Happy Father's Day to you Steven

If you mean a video of just Daisy Taylor from across the sites, we release them in our TS Superstar series (see them on GroobyVOD), where we take good solo and hardcore scenes into a DVD compilation. If you mean just feet scenes, then no, not yet. It's been talked about but it's a bunch of extra work we just don't have the time vs reward for right now. We're expecting AI will be able to help with this.

[GroobySteven]

Steven, thank you for responding to my last question, your answer was very interesting and informative.

I have a somewhat follow up question and to be clear I more than understand if you choose not to answer the question.

I have known and know two transgender woman, one is more of the traditional story and one has a very unusual story.

The first transgender woman that I ever met lived across the hall from me in the very first place I paid for myself after graduating college. We became friendly over time and to this day, we keep in touch. She is very much the traditional story, parents could not accept her, she moved out, started to transition, turned to prostitution to make money, then porn, but she was never truly happy.

Now she is mostly doing cam work, onlyfans, escorting and the money is better, but she is still very unhappy and I am afraid she will never find happiness. When I visit her or talk on the phone I can tell that she is just not fulfilled in life. I often worry that one day she will commit suicide, though to be clear she has never ever mentioned anything to give me any concern.

The second transgender woman that I know is my current wife, she is very unusual, came from a very wealthy caring supportive family. Went to college and law school, after graduating law school, she came out to her parents and started to transition with both their emotional and financial support.

She is now a partner in a mid-size law firm making very good money, living her best life.
It is in my opinion her loving supportive family and their financial means which has spared my wife much of the pain of the previous woman that I wrote about.

Which is a very long preamble to my question, in your years of experience are the actresses whom you film happy or is it merely a way to survive?

I've known girls from every walk of life. From wealthy and priviliged to those who have far less, and the one factor in girls who seem to be happier and have better mental health, is the acceptance of family and being brought up by at least one supportive and loving parent, and that can cross any boundaries.

To answer your question - most models want to film - it doesn't matter if it's countries like Thailand or Brazil where the girls are mainly sex workers. Of course, they want the income - but also being photographed (and seeing how great you can look) is also empowering and they enjoy being in front of a camera.

The vast majority of Western models we work with are happy to film. It's something they want to do. It empowers them, and also validates them. As counter-intuitive as it may sound, we won't work with models who appear unhappy or not really wanting to do the shoots, or just for the money. We reject applications of potential models coming to us, because they 'need the money'. As much as I sympathise with them, it usually creates awful content, and apart from a short-lasting cash injection to that model, doesn't really help them long term, especially if they come to regret the shoot. We tend to find more Black models who are solely just needing the money, and this isn't really a surprise (I've talked on this before with the lack of opportunities).

I think it's fairly easy to tell from our shoots, which girls are happy and enjoying the being the center of attention - and enjoy working in this industry.

I think it's pretty easy from our shoots to

[bigm25]

Steven, you are our fearless leader, and with the state of boycotts of products like Bud Light, suicide rates of trans people, and murders, is there any message you can say to trans fans and trans models? Is there anything we can do?
It seems in some ways the best of times, because their is acceptance and publicity and recognition in more places and trans are in movies and tv shows and the news, and the worst of times with boycotts, new laws in strict states and outright violence. Do you encourage us to go to city council meetings or write our politicians?

[kmersh]

Steven, once again thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer our questions.

Over the years, I have had a question of appropriateness and I never have know the proper answer and you of all people should hopefully be able to shed some light on the subject.

Circa 2018, I was sitting in the gate area of an airport and noticed a young lady walk into the gate area, I recognized her as a one of my favorite transgender porn actresses and I started to look for a piece of paper to get her autograph and then I stopped and started to think twice about my decision.

I began to think to myself that she is there in her every day life, travelling on her real name and not her stage name and may or may not want to talk with a fan of her movies, furthermore I would not want to out her as transgender, so I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and just decided to smile to myself and go about what I was doing prior to noticing her which was reading a magazine.

Maybe 10 minutes later a very awkward sort of man walked into the gate area and sat down directly across from said transgender porn actresses and after scanning the room he looked straight at her, then pulled out his phone, did something, looked at her again and then at his phone again.

He then got up from his seat and walked over to saying very loudly saying hi using her stage name and then loudly enough for the entire gate area to hear him how much he loved her films and how is such a fan, now folks are staring at him (and her) and he continues loudly how he never imagined that he would get to meet her in real life and how excited he is and how she is just as pretty in real life as she is on film.

She had a look of pure dread on her face and probably embarrassment as well as he just goes on and on, with her finally saying maybe you could keep it down a little and then having to say much louder to keep his voice down.

He asks for a selfie and she does oblige him, then the Gate Agent announces boarding and she says, it is time to board pointing at his bags, he maybe gets the message, but regardless he does walk back to his bags still waving at her and just overall being awkward.

As I was sitting in First Class I boarded and do no know what happened after that point, I did not see him nor her again for the remainder of the flight and I presume that there were no further incidents as we deplaned normally upon arrival.

Is it appropriate for fans to meet girls in public going about their everyday normal lives or it is more appropriate for us to see them, but give them their privacy and not make contact with them?

I honestly can see arguments for either answer, but I figure that in your years of experience you probably have a good idea what the appropriate action is or is not.

[christianxxx]

this guy kmersh is my favorite fictional creative writer on this board. he puts time and effort and energy into making up these fantasy stories and scenarios and I am HERE for them all