Princess Donna, aka Donna Dolore, is a San Francisco, California based pornographic actress, director and BDSM educator. Currently she is the director of the websites Public Disgrace, Wired Pussy, and Bound Gang Bangs, all three produced by Kink.com. Virtually all of her performances and directorial projects have been within the genre of BDSM pornography.
While going to school in New York, Princess Donna began working as a stripper according to her own statements on Kink.com's website "Beyond Kink." She says she later took her name "Donna" from another stripper she knew. She also started rigging and performing for New York BDSM pornography producer Insex. In 2004, she was then hired by Kink.com to take over directorship of Wired Pussy, a pornographic website focusing on electrical stimulation of female submissives by female dominants. In addition to directing, she serves as the principal dominant on the site, though other female dominants make guest appearances. In 2008 it was reported that she had directed and appeared in about 300 scenes for Wired Pussy.[1]
In 2008, Princess Donna developed a new site, PublicDisgrace.com, which focused on the fetish of public humiliation of female submissives, and also featured male-female intercourse.[2] Though Princess Donna primarily serves in the dominant role in her performances and usually performs with women, she considers herself a switch and identifies her sexual identity as "queer," according to a 2008 interview in the Village Voice. She said: "My sexuality lies outside the dominant culture of vanilla heteronormativity. I'm everything but straight. I like girls, I like boys, I like transgender boys and girls." Some of her first performances were as a submissive for Insex.com, but she had not performed male/female intercourse on until 2008: "The Training of O was the first site that combined enough serious BDSM with boy/girl sex to make me curious about trying it…I'm a very kinky person, so I wanted to try my hand at a new kind of kinky sex on camera." [3]
Princess Donna is also a regular "character" on the reality-based serial pornographic website The Crash Pad Series, and appears in "Graphic Sexual Horror," a documentary about Insex. With Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna was the subject of Brian Lilla's 2007 independent film A Tale of Two Bondage Models, which appeared at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.[4]
Prior to entering the adult industry, she attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts as a double major in Photography and Gender and Sexuality Studies.[3] She has expressed a feminist perspective on her work: "I grew up in a Silence of the Lambs culture, a culture where rape and killing women are very common themes for movies and TV shows. Society isn't afraid of sex and violence; they are afraid of women owning their own bodies and controlling their own sexuality—which is what happens in BDSM." [1]