born 7 March 1970

Andy Blankenbuehler, Cincinnati, Ohio, choreographer

Betty Escobar, Guayaquil, Ecuador, accounting clerk

Emma Davies, birthplace unspecified, English actress

Gilberto Hernandez, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, TV actor

Idalis Hunter, Long Beach, California, porn star

Lisa Matheson, Detroit, Michgan, documentary team member

Michelle Raven, Saratoga Springs, New York, porn star

Pierre Mazard, birthplace unspecified, French focus puller

Robert Wrosek, Dzierzoniów, Poland, TV actor

In much the way that the provisional phrase “It goes without saying”, when used, does not, I take it as a given that all birthplaces attributed to pornography participants are apocryphal.

I’m not saying every single one is always fake: just that, like the names they call themselves, one should be unwilling to accept them as real unless the porn star in question produces his or her birth certificate. And the life where a series of porn stars are showing their birth certificates to me on a regular basis does not happen to be the life that I am living at the moment.

Still, there is as much or more beauty in invention than in nature. So Today’s Winner is Michelle Raven, because Saratoga Springs, New York, is about the most lyrical Porn Star Birthplace I can possibly conceive of.