Stoya

At 38 years old, Stoya has this physical status:

Stoya began posing for adult pictures for a friend, which eventually led her to modelling and working for alt-erotic websites. She chose her stage name based on a shortened version of her grandmother's Serbian maiden name and trademarked the name in 2009.

Stoya was featured in two DVD productions for Razordolls, and she made a non-sex, cameo appearance in two Vivid Alt titles before being contacted by Digital Playground with a proposition to perform in a hardcore lesbian scene with Sophia Santi. The scene in question never happened, but, in August 2007, she met with several Digital Playground representatives and was asked if she would star in a pornographic movie with male talent. After careful consideration, Stoya agreed.

In October 2007, Digital Playground signed her to an exclusive, three-year contract. Stoya is regarded as the company's first alt porn contract girl. The first scene that she shot for them was for Stoya Video Nasty (promoted on the DVD box as the first film featuring her engaging in heterosexual intercourse), but her first movie released by the company was Jack's POV 9.

In 2009, Stoya appeared in her first mainstream crossover project as Kamikazi Shegun 5000 in the award-winning 48 Hour Film Project "The Kingpin of Pain".

Even though Stoya was under exclusive contract with Digital Playground, Evil Angel director John Stagliano received "special permission" in 2013 to cast her in the sequel for the adult film series Voracious. As of 2014, she left Digital Playground and is now focusing her career on directing. She financed and directed her first film in February 2014. On March 4, 2014, Stoya and Kayden Kross created the pay-per-scene pornographic website TRENCHCOATx. In addition to running the site, Stoya performed in and also directed some of the films.

Stoya appears as a main cast member in the 2016 mainstream lesbian fantasy series Dagger Kiss.

In February 2018, Stoya starred in the Serbian sci-fi film A.I. Rising (also known as Ederlezi Rising) in the role of the android, Nimani, on a space mission with a cosmonaut played by Slovenian actor Sebastian Cavazza. The two become romantically entwined when the cosmonaut starts to believe there might be something human inside his android companion.

In 2018, Stoya launched the website zerospaces.com with her business partner, comedian Mitcz Marzoni. Zerospaces describes itself as a "sexually explicit media project" with videos, photosets and articles pertaining to sex and sexuality. Though Stoya indicated in February 2020 that the platform would move to a monthly release schedule in April of that year, by July, only one 2020 issue of Zerospaces had been released.

In 2012, Stoya appeared in Amanda Palmer's music video for "Do It With a Rockstar". She has acted in two of Dean Haspiel's Off Broadway plays: Harakiri Kane (Die! Die, Again!) and The Last Bar at the End of the World.

Stoya writes regular columns for Slate,Vice and The Verge, along with a sex-advice column for Refinery29. She has published pieces in The New York Times, New Statesman, Esquire, The Guardian, Nylon, Playboy, and XCritic, as well as an article in Porn Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal. She published her first book in 2018, entitled Philosophy, Pussycats, and Porn, a collection of personal and critical essays.

Beginning with her June 29, 2021 Slate "How to Do It" column — which she had previously written as Stoya — she began using "Jessica Stoya" as her byline there.

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• 2008 Eroticline Award – Best U.S. Newcomer
• 2009 AVN Award – Best New Starlet
• 2009 AVN Award – Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene – Cheerleaders
• 2009 XBIZ Award – New Starlet of the Year
• 2009 XRCO Award – New Starlet
• 2012 AVN Award – Hottest Sex Scene (Fan Award) – Babysitters 2
• 2014 XBIZ Award – Best Scene – Feature Movie – Code of Honor
• 2018 FEST Beograd – Best Actress "Ederlezi Rising"
• 2019 XBIZ Award – Best Actress – All-Girl Release Talk Derby to Me