Syren talks about her fascination with the porn industry and her ultimate sexual fantasy. By Jeffrey Grossnickle

I was admiring the fireplace which is completely made of mud brick and contemplating on the inconceivability of finally making this interview happen here, thousands of miles away from Los Angeles, when the raven haired Syren comes walking into the lobby of the Mudbrick restaurant, one of Waiheke’s most picturesque restaurant vineyards. The restaurant is nestled into the hillside, boasts a spectacular view of rolling vineyards that descend to the countryside and to the gulf of Hauraki, out to the distant city of Auckland.

She is wearing a pair of furry New Zealand ugg boots, a mini-skirt and an apple green bikini top. “I’ve always wanted one of these (referring to her boots). I bought this at City Square, a few hours before I hopped on the Harley.” She was a guest star at the Erotica Expo held at Palmerston North, which was launched by a topless Harley Davidson bike ride around the City Square. “This was the first time they’d brought erotica away from Auckland into a provincial town, and we had a huge turnout! It was the most fun convention I’d ever attended. It is amazing to see how the show just keeps growing every year!”

I watch her as she lifts her wineglass, lays back on the lounge chair and surveys the view of the vineyard set against the backdrop of scattered islands in the sea. “It is so peaceful here. New Zealand is one of the most beautiful countries I’d ever visited. I want to retire here.”

She has the glow of a person who has journeyed through some very interesting terrain. One wouldn’t expect less for a name like hers.

“It is a mythological character. The sirens are mermaids that lured sailors with their seductive singing. I like that metaphor. There is something playful and dangerous about them. They are mysteriously sexy. I like the image of a siren sitting on a rock by the sea, with the full moon in the background.

They are solitary, they are wild, insatiably sexual, and yet, there is a sadness about them.”

It is a name that suits her now as I observe the way she moves, sultry but with alert eyes, a sexual independence and confidence that can only be acquired with experience and insight. I ask her about what she thinks when people say the porn industry is degrading to women.

“Degrading to women... That is such an easy phrase to throw out there. I find that statement to be superficial and unexamined. It is the only industry I know of, where by standards you find women earn substantially more than men. As a female porn star, I make the choice of who I want to work with, what sexual fantasies I want to play, which directors I want to work with. I went into it because I had sexual passion, and that needed expression, I wanted to explore that. The lure of the adult industry to me was not the quick money I could make out of it, it was the sexy people that belonged to it, and the possibilities for growth. For the first time in my life, I was experiencing myself in many different sexual roles, in an environment that was free of sexual angst. It is a small family, and we protect each other. For me, it was more of a sexual playground. So that is why I say when people say the porn industry is degrading to women, that is a statement that is alien to me. My experience of the adult industry has been empowering as a woman. I am not saying that for a woman to be sexually empowered she should become a porn star. But I am for individuality and the freedom to explore our adult sexuality without repression. Sexual repression in a society, and especially in the privacy of our bedrooms is a sad thing.”

Talk about sexual fantasies without repression, she is one of the most recognizable names in the porn industry known to put her own sexual fantasies on screen. She is indeed the sex siren, a chameleonic one at that. I have seen her in “Les Vampyres” , where she played the AVN award winning role of Veronica ,the insatiable Vampire, across Penthouse pet Ava Vincent. The scene won them the award for Bes All Girl Sex Scene. Then as Madam fetish in James Avalon’s science fiction version of “Taboo 2001”. Both dominant and dark characters. In mainstream late night cable movies such as Voyeur and Sinful deeds, she transforms into this typical girl next door, exudes a strength in vulnerability . She has been named the Crossover star. How does she feel about that?

“It's opened a lot of doors for me. I met Robert Lombard several years ago and we've developed a wonderful professional relationship, he's opened that door for me. And that exposure has attracted fans from all over the world. I am thrilled to get all these emails from South America to Eastern Europe! A crossover star. I like that term—Crossover. It’s like a feat. I like to think of it in another level. Like a definition of my life. I like to think that I am constantly in that space, crossing over, breaking down barriers and then doing another crossing over. It is a conquest.”

She looks out into the scenery as if contemplating on what she had just uttered. I have never thought of her as anything but a Syren, with no affiliations to a past, or to anyone in particular. Tell me about your relationship with Evan Stone?

“ I met Evan many years ago, I was just starting in the industry. But we were both very silly and immature, it didn't work out for us then. Two years ago, we were both attending the Erotica for signings and dancing. It was like no time has passed between us, we were back together, there was like that feeling that things were meant
to be. But don't know, I am not the kind of person that completely trusts
anything, it could be fate, but I am more realistic than that. We have a lot of fun,
he challenges me and comes up with the most brilliant ideas by accident.
I love his spontaneity and his imagination. At a deeper level, he is romantic and sentimental. I like that. But more realistically, I think that we are just really, really best friends and we do our best to look out for each other.

And after all the years of being a pornstar, has she any sexual fantasies left
to fulfill?

“Actually, I have never been with two men. I’d like to live out that fantasy.
I’d like to be outdoors, in nature, like the beach, or the woods, and have sex
with two men at the same time.”

I asked her if she thinks she would ever make this happen?

“I am shooting a series of movies when I get home. In one of them, I get to play a vampire hunter, which is kind of making a full circle with Les Vampyres where I played the vampire. So now I will hunt myself! It is so cool! It is that kind of wildness that I love about my life. But referring back to your question, I might be able to request for a boy-boy-girl scene if the story permits it. I am excited to see how that chemistry will play out on camera.”

“’The biggest lesson I have in all this is to have no fear. Life is too short to be afraid. If there is fear in something, then it is something that I have to look into. If people say don’t look, then I definitely have to see what is going on. I am a rebel like that. For a long time I was afraid of my own power as a woman. I was conditioned to diminish myself because I was born female, not to make any waves, to cater, to blend in. I tried to be all that tradition wanted me to be and I couldn’t do it. I did not have it inside me. You feel that with a certain kind of bugging restlessness. Somehow you know there is a lie. But when you find yourself in an environment that supports individuality and free expression, free expression of sexuality in particular, then something liberating happens. You have that mental permission to be who you are, or who you might become. You stop being afraid of your own power. That is how I operate in my life. I want to find power in femininity, beauty, the freedom to think for myself and express myself as a sexual being.”

It is sundown, it is that magic hour, and I can see her eyes glisten a bit with the reflection of the sun in her eyes. She is beautiful in a compelling way. I sit back to take in the vision as well as the thought that soon she is going to be my elusive Syren.