NATALIE ROOT OF FANSUTOPIA.COM: To me, I think the funniest request (just because I’m a woman) is not them saying that they want dirty underwear or used dildos or custom videos.
The most disturbing thing to me is when they want a woman to wear something for so many days, because I put it into my head, thinking:
“I would not wear a sweaty panty for days at a time.”
So I am just instantly cringing.
The girls, most of the time, they’ll do anything else, but having to wear something for so many days is like the most disturbing thing.
For instance, one request was a guy wanted the woman to piss on it but then he wanted her to continue wearing the panties for days.
So it just seems like not the most comfortable thing.
I mean, as a woman, you can go camping and wear a panty for a day or two.
But when you’re sweating and doing things, because they want all that aroma and juices in there, it’s a lot.
Only a select few of my talent will wear things for a very long time, especially sweaty gym clothes.
Sometimes they want them to wear them multiple days in a row. So imagine wearing sweaty leggings for like three days in a row.
SEX DORK: I wonder if the fans just want that smell to linger as long as possible.
NATALIE ROOT: Of course, and that’s why we vacuum seal our items.
So the second we receive the items, we vacuum seal to help give whatever aroma is left on that item once we receive it from the talent, to make it more of a special experience for them.
So if they get it and they don’t want to open it right away, and they want to wait for the right time, they’ll be able to do that.
SEX DORK: What are the different aromas that they’re looking for, in addition to pussy juice?
NATALIE ROOT: Sweaty gym clothes, they want it to stink like you’re going to gag.
They want it hardcore sweat, that’s bigger than the pussy juice right now. That and a really stinky foot, is a big thing. They like it when the girls go hiking in it or running. They really just want it to be really strong, and sometimes it’s so strong, I’m almost like, “I can’t believe women could smell like this.”
SEX DORK: I dated a sex worker who sold her own things, so she would wear socks five days in a row.
NATALIE ROOT: It’s a hard thing to do that as a woman, especially when you’re so used to changing outfits or if you’re doing different scenes and you’re running around day by day, it’s very hard to wear the same item so often.
SEX DORK: So you don’t get any requests for butt stuff other than butt plugs? Like butt sweat?
NATALIE ROOT: No, but also I feel like: How would you collect that?
Siri Dahl does sell vials of her actual sweat, but she’s an avid bodybuilder. She weight lifts a lot. So she actually can produce the sweat in the vile.
But most of the people, I think it would be very hard just capturing a woman’s cum in a vial. It’s very difficult because it’s so different than men’s, the thickness of it.
SEX DORK: You could get creamier stuff.
NATALIE ROOT: Yes, but imagine trying to scoop it in a vile, because I’ve gone through this with a lot of them already. It’s a little difficult, but we have sold it. Customers are happy.
SEX DORK: I’ve scooped that stuff but not fetishistically. Do they want other people’s cum?
NATALIE ROOT: 100%. So one of them right now does OnlyFans. He’s not mainstream porn. But he and his girlfriend are both on my website, so they do a lot of videos together.
They like to buy his boxers, or they want his cum on it, or they want him to piss on it, or they want something he’s worked out in.
So that’s on the man’s side.
SEX DORK: What is the price range for all this?
NATALIE ROOT: Men-wse, his name is Tomas Skoloudik. So he’s about like $40 and up.
Stars set their own pricing. So of course the bigger the talent, the more fans want their stuff. They’re in control of their own pricing, so some talent is going to be cheaper than others, depending on how the buyers react to their stuff.
We do try to keep everything as affordable as possible.
SEX DORK: I went on Fans Utopia and I saw that you can get a butt plug for a thousand dollars?
NATALIE ROOT: No, no, no. It’s about $100 for it.
See, the thing about my site is that I want everything to be very affordable for the talent. For the buyers, it’s important they can afford everything. We want them to have their fans constantly coming back.
I never want to make like how some of these auctions charge so much money you can’t obtain it. What’s the fun in that?
I think everybody should be able to own something from their favorite porn star. But butt plugs are a very popular thing.
SEX DORK: Now when I looked at the most popular thing, it was like a thong.
NATALIE ROOT: Yeah, it’s because certain stars are very specific about what items that they will sell.
Not everyone’s willing to sell their fluids or their hair or retainers or whatever.
So some are very minimum about just panties, or bra and panties, or socks, or stuff like that.
So that’s why panties are quite a hot seller. But so is the bra-panty combo, though.
So you get the best of both worlds.
SEX DORK: I feel like this is a pretty affordable collection.
NATALIE ROOT: Of course. I like doing my best, because I believe business-wise, if you have something priced so high, it’s not always going to sell as quick.
If you make something affordable, people are going to keep coming back wanting to buy it.
And I feel that’s just the best way to run my business and make it like that, because I have a lot of repeat buyers, and I’m glad that they trust me to get this merchandise, and that they keep coming back.
SEX DORK: Yeah I feel like there is a definitely like a service there, because there are poor people in sex work who will sell their own stuff. But I guess the advantage of going through you is … what?
NATALIE ROOT: So the bigger the star gets, the harder it is for them to be able to sell their own items.
For instance, I was just on the floor right now, talking to someone who’s going to be signing up. And she said, the biggest thing is that she has all this stuff sitting around. She wants to get rid of it and she doesn’t have the time to be able to pack it, to figure a way to process payments, to ship it.
And also to be able to keep herself safe of having that middle person.
So you know, her addresses and things are not on those items, and that’s mostly why people sign up with me.
Whether they’re already big in the industry right now and they know that it’s very difficult for them, or whether they’re new and they feel that they want to start off on the right foot of having someone else already handle it for them, they don’t have to worry and they can focus more on growing their brand.
SEX DORK: What do you think the sleeper item is that you have that you think people are sleeping on. That they need to get. That they’re overlooking.
NATALIE ROOT: I would say some of the vintage DVDs that some of these girls have, because they don’t make those anymore, and especially if you’re obsessed with Nikki Benz or Kenzie Taylor.
They’re great pieces to have, in the collection, if you’re already buying other memorabilia from them.
SEX DORK: What’s it like to work with porn stars?
NATALIE ROOT: I think it’s amazing. I will say compared to another business that I had — with the customer service, and the type of talent that it is — they’re just so friendly and so eager to want to take different risks. And see what products sell.
It makes it fun every day to go to work.
And I also love being able to watch them grow as a brand, and that’s so neat when you see different people from all over the world buying their stuff, and you know they’re seeing my website and getting it.
But also it’s because, you know, they’re growing and rising as a star.
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