When is a porn star not a porn star? If you ask the folks behind leading virtual porn site VR Bangers, they’d give you one of two answers. In two new scenes rendered in the studios typically excellent VR videos, we find two very different adult performers making a case for the real sex with real women in the real world, albeit virtually. Confused?
“Better Than a Porn Star?” is the question posed by Jasmine Grey when she walks in on you, her boyfriend, mid VR-porn viewing. Angry that you seem to prefer a VR professional instead of her IRL pussy, she insists you prove her wrong. Jasmine Grey as your pleading, demanding girlfriend? While that’s a real-life fantasy I’m sure many of us share, it’s not quite the convergence of the real and the virtual VR Bangers seem to think it is. Ms. Grey is now a definite porn pro, as this excellent encounter proves. There is another VR Bangers encounter with a more direct connection to “the real world” in that you can only barely call its main performer a porn star.
Most who know the name or face of Maitland Ward will recall her as a late but welcome addition to the cast of 90s ABC sitcom Boy Meets World or as a fan-favorite cosplayer. After marrying a real estate developer and leaving acting for more online-focused self-promotion, and after appearing nude on Instagram and Snapchat, Maitland started making her first forays into the world of porn. Already using a professional name – she was born Ashley Maitland Welkos in 1977 – Ward retained it and, with around a year of increasingly explicit independent and social media releases, makes her mainstream B/G debut in glorious Virtual Reality for the one and only VR Bangers.
The transition of “regular” actors into the world of porn tend to be the result of stolen or “leaked” sex tapes, or are simple cash-grab attempts at capitalizing on a fading career in the mainstream; neither tend to last. However, this former mainstream star – listed by her agency, Society 15, as “Maitland Ward”, and by VR Bangers as “Maitland Ward Baxter” (her husband’s surname) – seems quite committed to her new career. If you have any doubts, take a scroll through her Twitter feed. If that doesn’t look like the social media account of a bona fide adult entertainment professional, I don’t know what does.