YNOT EUROPE – Yasmine, the former muse of Marc Dorcel, in an interview with the magazine Les Inrockuptibles spoke with bitterness about her years in porn — particularly the past three, during which she represented Marc Dorcel in France and abroad.

Denigrating her relationship with the company that gave her all the visibility of a European porn star, Yasmine complained about lack of control over her privacy as well as what she called squalid on-set conditions.

“There was also too much pressure,” she told the magazine. “We find ourselves on permanent display, even in personal life. They forbade me to go out without makeup, controlled my associates from a distance, always knew where I was. Today, I equate it to slavery: I had no right to privacy. I was totally dependent upon the company, bound hand and foot. I was exploited.”

In an interview that often became bogged down in venomous remarks against her former employer, Yasmine also spat venom on the press for making use of droit de seigneur with actresses and promising them the moon. [Ed. note: Droit de seigneur refers to the alleged legal right of a feudal lord to deflower the virgin daughters of his serfs.]

“Most journalists who work for [the media] exert blackmail on girls,” she told the magazine, saying she was forced to sleep with reporters in order to get good press coverage for Dorcel.

Yasmine responded to questions from Philippe Vecchi with gloom, and without trying to do harm, the journalist set her on a slippery slope and watched her slide.

“The actresses – actors too – are making the companies rich, and they are and the ones who earn the least money,” Yasmine said. “Only producers and those at the top collect some money. They have very nice houses while the X girls struggle…. We [performers] have media recognition, public adulation, but not the essentials [of life]. Making pornographic movies is a particular kind of glory that ‘feeds’ the soul but brings nothing financially.”

Reaction inside the adult industry was immediate, including a public and none-too-sympathetic response from international porn star Katsuni, who took her sister-performer to task.

In a reply on the website Inrocks, Katsuni denied the allegations and blamed Yasmine’s attitude on depression resulting from a bad career choice.

“I do not support the slander and bad faith [from Yasmine],” Katsuni wrote. “Knowing Yasmine a little, I blame delusional depression and, I fear, lack of lucidity; however, the damage is done because the words were spoken publicly and once again dirty our industry. It is unfortunate and shocking.”

Katsuni knows the life of a porn star well — some might say better than anyone else. She is glossy and professional from her toes to her fingertips. Although she was never a Dorecel Girl, she filmed a great many scenes for one French company with which she has maintained a long-term relationship.

“I do not own the truth, but as I have traveled the world of porn for more than 10 years, I dare say I can now speak knowingly,” she wrote on the website. “I wish to Yasmine to recover. She is a lovely young woman with a very nice potential, but is now alone and being exploited. It is as if someone is aware.”

Why would Yasmine wish to hide behind the image of fallen star that she constructed?

“Overnight, I went out of the light,” she told Vecchi. “I am nothing, but I keep hearing on the internet or on the street, ‘I love your movies.'”

According to Katsuni, Yasmine makes up her own “truth.”

Marc Dorcel does not want to perpetuate what the company calls the “sensationalism and voyeurism” surrounding Yasmine’s remarks, and so did not respond to the magazine’s request for a response.

For a medium that is supposed to give pleasure, pornography generates some controversy everyone could do without.

Photo of Yasmine © Marc Dorcel