In late March, I drive to the edge of the San Fernando Valley, porn capital of the world, to meet Stormy. Different media outlets have presented Stormy as a slutty, giggling cartoon, a shrewd business professional, or a real-life Buffy the vampire slayer ready to plunge her stake into the country’s most divisive leader in recent memory.

Stormy requested I interview her at the horse ranch of photographer Keith Munyan and his life partner J. D. Barrale. Munyan makes a living photographing porn stars’ pictorials and actresses’ head shots. In his dining room, his stills of Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and Victoria Justice hang like the pop culture equivalent of presidential portraits.

Munyan met Stormy when he was shooting the DVD cover of one of her earliest porn films. A Baton Rouge native, Stormy recognized his... Read More