Almost hidden behind a small array of soft-core erotic videos on her table is a stack of business cards. She's quick to offer one to each visitor to her table; and she traps your hand with the firm grip of an investment banker.

If you ever need to explain how you know who Aria Giovanni is, you can say you read about her here, on a nice clean site like Badmouth -- rather than at whatever sordid den of adult novelties and fetish pornography you orignially found her picture.

After some amateur work originally intended merely to help fund college, the San Diego girl managed to end up on the cover � and smack in the center � of the November 2000 issue of Penthouse magazine. Since then, she's worked with a number of well-regarded photographers, from queen of glam smut Suze Randall to brilliant fetish realist Steve Diet Goedde. She's done a series of soft-core videos with Andrew Blake, the kind that feature no sex, generally no men, and are more a centerfold in motion than the crude in-and-out imagery that runs through your dirty little mind when you read the words �porn video.�

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