In situations like this, rather than speculating and/or pretending to know why someone got in the industry or to know why someone is doing what they're doing, I've always felt the best course of action has been to either take the time to do a little research in the hopes of figuring out the answers to said questions or to just keep my mouth shut because nobody likes an ignorant cunt.
I sure as hell don't like ignorant cunts which is precisely the reason why I don't want to be an ignorant cunt. I honestly don't know how people like Scott McD can live with themselves. It's hard to put oneself in the shoes of another, but I'd like to think that if I were Scott McD, that I would have killed myself a long time ago.
Anyway, here's how Savanna got her start in the industry. I went to the launch party for her wine, met her, and can concur that she comes across as being much more intelligent than most of the idiots here in this thread.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/fa...=1&oref=slogin
Ms. Oliveros said she happened into her pornography career. She grew up in upstate New York, one of five daughters, and came to the city at 17 to pursue a career in ballet. That didn't happen, she said, "because I wasn't good enough," so she took a job dancing at the strip club Scores "to make killer money." From there it was a short distance to making her first porn movie, which came about when she wrote a letter to Rocco Siffredi, a European porn star, asking if she could work with him.
"I figured I could go to Europe, get this fantasy out of the way, and no one would ever hear about it," she said. Instead the movie was nominated for best foreign movie at the Adult Video News film awards, and pretty soon Ms. Oliveros was invited to be a guest on "The Howard Stern Show."