Archives 2020

Howdy Y’all! Well a while back I had teased that I would be launching SubmissiveX.com. Well Today, we have gone live. I’m doing a soft launch which means I am only promoting on spaces where super fans can see the announcement. In the next few weeks, I will start promoting on other websites and sending out pressers ( press releases). The sites is going to be Streaming only. If there is one thing I have learned from COVID it’s that most people have become accustomed to streaming services. I think porn has fallen behind in tech and it’s really kinda done us all a disservice. So I know I can hear you groaning about streaming but that’s how it’s going to be. You can still purchase videos if you like but you will need to purchase each scene individually. This may help cut back on piracy even but that isn’t my intent for doing stream only. I am going with what is current for the times and I see other sites doing the same soon so I just wanna be ahead of the curve. I’m sorry to keep this brief. I don’t have too much other news. COVID has made me job 4Xs as hard as ever what with booking cancellations or tests not coming back in time and travel restrictions. It’s been a doozy. I have to get ready for a few weeks of production in Las Vegas. Thank you for your support.

2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. I suppose there is something uniting about COVID-19. It’s a global pandemic that has affected nearly every single country. There has been sympathy with everyone when shipping has been delayed or if New content hasn’t been created because everyone in the world understands that things have been changed due to COVID-19. Before, all creatures of earth had only a few things they could all relate to. We all see the same sun and moon ( although at different times). When I was a kid growing up, I would look up at the moon and think “there’s a kid out there who has things worse than I do looking up at this same moon right now and we are connected right now”. I have no idea if that was true, or if anyone was looking up at that moon at that same exact time looking for a soul to connect with, but it was a truth I made up in my head to help me cope with things as a young child. With COVID, I can watch the news and see so many people being affected by this Virus and I become sympathetic to everyone because we are ALL going through this. I wasn’t destroyed by COVID but some businesses have been. Every day that goes by, I’m reminded of an industry that has been decimated by this Pandemic. Artists all any kind who perform for crowds, concerts, people who work at conventions, People who do sports….the reach of this is sooooo huge. It’s hard not to be sad in some way.

One positive thing that COVID has done, is it has forced me to slow down. All my school/classes were cancelled for a while. All my training was forced to stop due to gym closures. Here is CA, gyms and salons are still closed. The gyms were open for about 2.5 weeks and then got closed down again. Since about 5 hours of my day was spent training, I found myself with some extra time on my hands. I decided to use this time to grow and learn. I been studying herbalism and survival skills. This has become something I am very passionate about. I can see myself retiring and living a very minimalistic life. I try to follow the ideas of Stoicsm. I don’t want to be hedonistic, I don’t want to chase luxury, I just want a life where I appreciate what I have without having stress over finances. What currently makes me happy is learning how to live off of what the earth provides.

Another thing that has filled up my time has been working on building the submissivex.com site. I guess I should give a little background on how subX started. I was producing for kink for a while. I was getting a lot of cancellations which cost me a lot of money. I have to pay kill fees, locations still need to be paid even if models don’t show. Crew still gets paid even if we don’t shoot…hey they showed up to do their job I gotta pay them something ( kill fee). The cancellations were killing my profit margins. I told myself that if I could just create a shoot last minute when there is a cancellation, I could sell it on my clipstores and at least break even. So it worked like this: I would have 2 models booked for a shoot. I would have my crew booked as well and every once in a while I would have a location booked. I had to file for film permits, insurance for the location……I would buy craft services ( food for people to eat while they are on set) I had expense whether the shoot happens or not, I have costs. If one of the 2 female models no-showed or couldn’t shoot, rather than cancel the shoot if I couldn’t find a replacement model day of, I would just turn the shoot into a lesbian domination shoot where the model who did show up would dominate me. This saved me a TON of money in cancellations but it also started doing really really really well on my clip stores, on my pornhub profiles and on the sites I was able to get licensing agreements on. So Submissive X actually started being a major bread winner for my business. Now that Submissive X is in the black regularly and now that I have time to work on a stand alone site, I have turned that into my next project. So submissive X will now have a home. I’m going to make it streaming ( I know I can hear some of you grumbling already but cheer up we will allow downloads) The difference with Subx and my evolved sites is that the evolved fights give you the ability to download everything once you are a member. Subx you will only be able to download if you pay for the download otherwise you will still have access to stream anything on the site.

I’m not sure I want to be in front of the camera too much longer. COVID made me realize I hate wearing makeup or dolling up. If I could wear pajamas all day, I would. I also don’t like trying to promote myself. I hate trying to hype my work. I am much much better at hyping OTHER people’s work. I LOVE promoting companies and models that I like. I can sell the hell out of anyone else. ….I am very timid when it comes to promoting myself but I am a genius when it comes to marketing and promoting other people/companies. I have kept up with marketing since I took classes in college. Things change with marketing but principals stay the same. There are so many new platforms and ad buying networks and it is a lot of work to keep up with all of it.

I learned many years ago when I tore my ACL, that I would not be able to stay in front of the camera for ever. I knew that I would need to develop skills so that if anything happened to my industry, I could bounce back. I didn’t want a “BACKUP plan” I wanted a ” multiple streams of income” plan. I have set myself up pretty well for that. With that said. Submissive X will be going live soon. I do not know how long I will maintain it. But I’m happy it will be up soon. Please enjoy.

I wanted to make a post to keep those of you who follow me up to date. I appreciate your support. I understand many of you get bored and you’ve been reaching out to make small talk, which I appreciate. It’s always nice to hear from all of you. For me, I’d prefer if you told me more about yourself rather than reach out to me to try to get me to talk about myself. I don’t like talking about myself too me. If you follow me on my social media accounts, I’m not a huge “extrovert”. I know that sounds ironic because I have no problem flashing my junk to everyone on camera. But there is a huge difference between interacting with a camera and then having to interact on social media.

I run a small business which has been stalled at the moment, like most small businesses due to covid-19. But unlike most small business, my business is not entitled to any bail out or relief as the relief package specifically excludes anyone who shoots anything considered sexy…sorry instagram models or anybody who has posted skin on the internet.

If you are a business owner, I’m sure you understand how fun it is right now to try to hustle to keep your workers with food in their mouths while you cover your overhead for your business and health. I’m very blessed to have been able to save up and plan however many of the costar and models and crew are not so lucky. It’s painful to know many people are struggling and the relief packages can not or will not help them. Even if some of you can get loans for your business right now I recommend you read the fine print on your deferral. Many banks are expecting a big lump some at the end of the term of your loan. For example, Let say your bank gives you a defferal for 3 months on your building you pay $1000/month on and it is April 1st today. May-June-July 1st, you will ow $3000 lump sum on top of the next lease amount of $1000. If you call your bank, you may be able to set up a payment plan so try to call them NOW!!! You will be put on hold for about 3 hours but trust me, YOU NEED TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN WHTA YOUR EXACT SITUATION IS.

I have been spending my days researching information to pass on to my fellow kinksters. I have been researching ways to keep my business open. I Have been working very very hard, day and night to be creative on ways to keep income coming in so I can keep my doors open. So you will not find me doing webcams or private chats. The short term income from that creates an opportunity cost for me both short term and long term. I chose to work smarter, not harder. Also I want to leave those things open to the models who always do that; where that is their bread and butter. The market is saturated right now with models doing work out videos or webcamming, I do not wish to be in that market. I didn’t do cam shows before and i’m not going to start. My time is much better spent creating content and helping others.

right now porn is not shooting. We are on a voluntary moratorium. The FSC has recommend that models only shoot with their partners or room mates at their own home…..this is a good recommendation. I may be able to shoot in the future if I am able to book couples for my mixed wrestling match. But I will gauge what the CDC and WHO recommend and my professors at my data analytics school are recommending from the stats we are getting in. So that’s what I’m doing. Yes I’m keeping very very busy. Thank you for your support. If you find any helpful information about relief, please email me ariel@ariel-x.com so I can research it and send to others who may need it. Cheers. Be safe.

I’ve been quiet on my blog lately but that had nothing to do with SARS-COV-2 virus or to COVID-19 illness. I’m running a business full time. Based off the emails I get from casual fans, it appears most people think porn is just something people do as a hobby or fun. While our jobs are fun, they are indeed jobs, folx. I produce videos for websites that update weekly. I am in charge of booking models, booking accommodations and flights, editing, marketing…….you know….work…like everyone else who has a job. I am the master of my own destiny. Everyone in porn must manage their schedule; it’s work. If you do dog walking or hair styling or anything at all, you know you can’t just dilly dally and expect to make money. You most likely have to work with many people’s schedules on top of your own schedule. Just the simple act of coordinating schedules is a lot of work. Porn is work, people. We are entertainers. We need to package our product and sell it. We also need to pay people for their services. Models do not work for free. Tech companies don’t host our sites for free, domains are not free, hosting isn’t free, record keeping isn’t free, ….nothing is free just because we shoot porn. So yes, I keep busy just with porn. it’s not just a hobby.

I had some real dumb luck this year so far and the end of 2019. I was in Spain just before the sentencing dropped which led to a major riot in Barcelona and I narrowly missed all the flight cancelations and demonstrations by an hour. I missed most of the strikes in France when I went there as well. To top it all off, I’m healthy, I have a good immune and respiratory system, I avoided most illness in 2019. I returned home from my Europe Trip and stock piled on footage for evolvedfights.com and evolvedfightlez.com because I had PTSD from years past where our industry would be put on hold for moratoriums and no one could shoot. I told myself, I have to have 2 months of footage. Just like I have at least 2 months of income saved up for emergencies. I prepared from something but I can not claim I thought it would be anything remotely like this. While I mentioned I am healthy and not as risk, I understand how serious it is to be considerate of those who are not. I need to do my part to NOT contribute to the spread of this problem while hospitals are over worked and unable to attend to the masses coming to them. I am not going to be shooting content with models until I get the green light from the city I run business in.

Back in 2009 I tore my ACL. This life changing experience made me realize that I can not depend on a job that requires me to be physically on set shooting all the time. If something happens to my health and I can not be present which causes a huge loss of income, I need to be ready. So I saved and saved and saved. I worked my ass off to move slowly into production. I became my own boss, I invested into myself. Thankfully I had the foresight to prepare for emergencies. I do not think I have done enough though with this global situation. I don’t think anyone has. I’m very blessed to have been in a position where I could save up. I want to thank each and every on of you for supporting me. I will continue to keep updating the sites with the content we have shot. I will continue to post so you can get a peep of how I’m doing.

I do have elderly family members I need to tend to ( pickup supplies for and monitor their health) so I’m not available to chat and be your bestest friend right now. But I want to invite you to email me ariel@ariel-x.com if you need a virtual hug or just a conversation. I understand things are very stressful. It’s very very important that you manage your stress level to keep you immune system healthy. I will post about a potential form of skype chat I will be setting up in the near future. Stay tune and be safe

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I gotta admit that a lot has happened since my last entry. If I’m being honest, blogging is not helpful to me in any manner. This site doesn’t get a ton of traffic, I am not allowed to market it with any mainstream marketing tools due to the adult content. And if you haven’t noticed, This site is free and has no ads. So I don’t make money off of this blog while it does cost me to host, and pay for the domain. So this blog is mainly for die hard fans who wish to hear about what’s going on in my head. So while I appreciate the die hard fans, something you folx need to accept, is the fact that I’m too busy or too tired to get on here to blog. Which means I’ll be too busy when you write me an email requesting my undivided attention while you detail your fantasy about me… It may be a surprise to many of you but porn personalities like having time off from their jobs and we do have lives outside what you see on camera.. Bizzare! I know. I think the world gets angry at adult performers when we express who we wish to be compensated for the work with do online. Somehow the general population of people feel entitled to adult performers attention. It’s comes down you people NOT truly respecting adult work which can be categorized as sex work as real work. The human brain associates ” that’s not real work” with….” well then they should give me sex for free” or sexy pictures for free or sexy conversation for free. I’ll be the first one to tell you, any time there is value seen in something, you should expect to pay for it. If you value speaking with someone about your fantasies, you should compensate the person who is providing the value. Just like you would compensate a therapist for their session with you, or your doctor for the check up, or your lawyer or accountant for their services. Because you Go to ALL of those people because you can’t do the job yourself. You go to a professional to provide you something of Value. If you can find a person in Tinder or Grinder to do your taxes for free….great….you can also find a person on Tinder or Grinder to fulfill you fantasy for free. But do not approach a person who does something for their profession about doing their said job for you for free. If they wish to offer their services for free, great, take them up on it.

I’ll get off my soap box on lecturing people about demanding my time and energy now. 2019 was a roller coaster of a year for me. I had many great successes coupled with a few major tragedies. In 2019, I was nominated for best actress for my role in Sweetheart videos in Girls of Wrestling . I didn’t win but it was really nice to be recognized by the industry. Because I was nominated, I made it a point to attend AEE and the AVN award show. I had not attending the AVN convention since 2006. It was nice to see how the industry has evolved. Fans seem WAY more open about expressing their support for porn! So Thank you everyone for realizing people’s opinions of you for liking porn doesn’t matter because most everyone is a closet porn fan anyway.

EvolvedFights.com had it’s 1 year anniversary last year which is exciting for me. The site is getting more and more popular so that’s nice. It’s great to know I can stay in business another year! Thank you for your support on the project. We will have many new porn stars come on board and I keep hearing from the performers who we do get to be on the site, that they all feel motivated to take up grappling classes and pursue a martial art. This was my mission when starting the site(s). I want to create a fun, safe, sexy arena where people can explore the excitement of competitive sex. Naked wrestling or erotic wrestling is one of the most enjoyable things I have ever done in my life and it’s been HUGE for me to share my passion with the world. I’ve been seeing people on twitter share my trailers and express how they never knew anything like evolved fights existed and how they never thought it would be something they enjoyed but they are truly entertained by our content. I am blessed. Thank you again everyone.

My family had a few tragedies this year. A Close family member passed away in October. In March my Nephew was in a motorcycle accident which has left him paralyzed. A good friend of mine took her life. It’s been rough. I do not want to go into any details on these things. It’s of no consequence to you readers but I just wanted to share the downs I’ve had in hopes you realize adult stars have lives outside of what you see on social media. Sometimes we get depressed too. So if we are quiet, be polite, be kind…everyone goes through something. In general it’s best just to be polite because you never know what someone is dealing with on the side.