00:00Let's talk about your beginnings of Lauren Phillips.
00:03What were you doing before you got into the industry?
00:07I was kind of, seems so long ago now.
00:10I was a professional dancer.
00:12So I was trained to dance ever since I was younger.
00:15Like what kind of dance are we talking about?
00:17Oh, God.
00:18When I went to, my main one was modern dance, which is now kind of considered contemporary.
00:25As I am, I do not like to form to society very well.
00:30So modern dance, that's what it was created for.
00:33So back in the day, you know, ballerinas didn't want to be like, wanted to rebel.
00:38And they took their shoes off, turned in and, you know, throwing yourself to the floor.
00:43So I was a modern dancer.
00:45I was part of two modern companies.
00:47I also taught dance.
00:49I was nationally certified to teach modern tap, ballet, jazz, and point.
01:00And I also was a backup dancer for a Tina Turner impersonator for about six years.
01:05Oh, my God.
01:05That's fun.
01:06And we went all, we toured all like the East Coast.
01:09The farthest we went for the West Coast was New Mexico.
01:12We went there twice.
01:13And it just, as I was, you know, surviving with my arts, right?
01:18Because you don't get paid a lot as a professional dancer.
01:21I was, I worked at a preschool for a while.
01:25Which you also don't get paid a lot at either.
01:28I was also a nanny for four kids.
01:32I was in my 20s.
01:33So I was trying to figure out what, I was a massage therapist at one point.
01:35Yeah.
01:35I just kind of was trying to figure out what I wanted.
01:39And once I was a nanny, I was working 50 hours a week.
01:46Were you like a living nanny?
01:48No, that's another, I wasn't.
01:50But they, the wife who was like the breadwinner was a neurosurgeon of the spine.
01:56Oh.
01:57Yes.
01:57And the dad was, I don't even know.
02:02The dad was crazy.
02:04Deadbeat, basically.
02:06And I hope he hears this too.
02:10And when they needed me to stay longer or come in early, I did.
02:16And that was just how it was.
02:18So I kept track of my times.
02:20They would, you know, pay me.
02:21And then I, but it was just so much.
02:24And I was a lead dancer with Tina.
02:26And just one day I was like, I started losing the love of my art.
02:32Because I was working so much.
02:35Even, I work a lot now.
02:36But this was like bouncing from job to job to job to job.
02:40And I talked to one of my dancer friends who I actually, we were so close in age.
02:44When I was a dance teacher, I taught her.
02:46And then she's, I got her the job at, for Tina.
02:50And she was like, Lauren, you'd be great as an adult star.
02:53And I was like, I never thought about it.
02:57What is that?
02:58That's kind of random.
02:58Where did that come from?
02:59Well, I always, I've always been sexual.
03:01Okay.
03:01So I like to give a, I don't know.
03:04I feel like society judges so much.
03:08It's just always, this is how it's supposed to be.
03:11This is what you're supposed to do.
03:12This is, well, and I never liked that.
03:15And I wanted to, as I started growing up and finding out who I am, I wanted people to have a space where they didn't feel judged.
03:23It's like a safe space.
03:24I want to be people's safe space.
03:26I want, and that's kind of how it was.
03:28I, people knew it was very sexual, obviously in appropriate times.
03:32Uh, and if they had, uh, if they wanted to talk about it and stuff like that, they could.
03:39And it just always has been like that, you know?
03:41So she just knew.
03:44And it's funny, I still talk to her to this day.
03:46Like she knows that she's started this.
03:48She was the one that planted the seed.
03:49And I just, after that, I Googled.
03:51And that was how I did.
03:52And yeah, I went, I had to know if I could be intimate in front of people.
03:57That was the only thing I never did.
03:59So I went, uh, I found out about the swinging community and I was like, and there, I went to a swingers club in Atlantic City called Roleplay Lounge.
04:07And I was like, if I can be with somebody in front of people, then I know I can do it.
04:14And I went there.
04:15So you went to a swingers community, but you were not with somebody.
04:19So you went as the unicorn.
04:20I was the unicorn.
04:20Right.
04:21Okay.
04:21So the, for those of you who don't know, the unicorn is like a single person who goes to like a swingers club.
04:25And it pretty much generally is always only a woman, right?
04:29It's a single female.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Because single females going to a club is, is usually unheard of.
04:34Right.
04:36But single males is unheard of.
04:37It's pretty.
04:38Well, aren't they, aren't they generally like not allowed?
04:41They have nights.
04:43Where single guys can go?
04:44Where single guys are allowed.
04:46I just don't go on those nights because they flock to you.
04:49Oh, I'm sure.
04:49And it's just like.
04:51I'm sure.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Okay.
04:53Yeah.
04:54It's just, yeah.
04:54And, um, but I went there and they treat me so great.
04:58I'm sure they did.
04:59So nice.
05:00Even the club itself.
05:01I don't think they're open anymore since the pandemic, but they were so nice.
05:05They kept an eye on me.
05:06They told me about the rules.
05:08They explained everything to me.
05:10They kept, they checked in on me and they ended up, um, I ended up being with three couples that night.
05:17And I was like, oh, I can do this.
05:19And if people don't know, like in the swinging like club, it's a group of people that watch.
05:25It's not just a few, it's a group.
05:28And I was like, oh, I can do this.
05:30And January 1st, 2013, I had a New Year's Eve supper with my folks.
05:37Cause, um, a German tradition is that you're supposed to have pork and sauerkraut for the
05:41new year, packed up my car and, uh, drove all the way to, uh, Florida, 16 hours by myself.
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