Biography

The register is adult film in the boy/girl format, which has a grammar as fixed as any other genre. A few lines establish who is in the room, the clothes come off in a set order, and then the sex runs for most of the running time, explicit and unsimulated, the camera close and cutting rarely. What the format asks of a performer is stamina and composure: to hold a position while lights are moved, to keep a rhythm through a reset, to stay in the scene when the director wants the same beat from another angle.

The page is built from three things: the billing, the photograph and the listing. It sets out the name, the single spelling, the field, the star section the name sits in, and the address of the profile. It describes the photograph, because the photograph is part of the record and is arranged with intent. The practical warning is about search: Reif is a common German word and a common surname, so results for it alone are mostly noise. The full pair, in that order, is the reliable route, and the slug is shorter still.