Chicago — Adult film star Alison Rey proudly announces her 2025 XMA award nomination from XBIZ in the category of Best Sex Scene – Featurette, for her outstanding work in Arousal from women-led erotica brand, afterglow.
A special a Valentine’s Day 2025 release directed by Anna Lee, Arousal explores the passionate and complex journey of a couple’s love in a committed relationship. The scenario finds Ryan and her partner (Will Pounder) working to keep things spicy as they navigate the ups and downs of intimacy in a LTR while working from home.
“The saying ‘do what you love’ has never felt more true than with this nomination for Best Sex Scene – Featurette, for my part in Arousal,” Jessica Ryan said. “I absolutely adore Will Pounder—an incredible actor, performer, and one of my favorite people in the industry. Working with him felt like getting paid to have fun with a friend.”
“I had been following both afterglow and Anna Lee for a while, knowing their reputation for exceptional work,” Ryan continued. “When the opportunity to collaborate on this featurette came along, it was an immediate ‘hell yes!’ Rarely do I get to explore such emotional depth in a scene, and Anna Lee’s direction brought out the full spectrum of the human experience after an intense day of production. Pair that with Andy Zane’s talent behind the camera and our shared sardonic humor, and I was in absolute bliss.”
“What truly elevated the scene was connecting with Kimberly Anne to discuss her writing—a rare privilege for me unless it’s with the director or my co-performer. This experience was something special, and I’m so grateful to have been a part of it.”
Thank you XBIZ for this nomination, Anna Lee, afterglow, Kimberly Anne, Andy Zane, and Will Pounder. A special thank you to HoneyHouse PR for encouraging me out of my introverted ways.
Check out Ryan’s XMA-nominated performance in Arousal here.
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ABOUT JESSICA RYAN:
Raised on comic books, the fear of teenage pregnancy etched into her psyche — along with the paradoxical promise of fortune and home ownership via crippling student debt —Jessica Ryan migrated to California in search of the American Dream, and sex with partners who knew what they were doing.
The elegant embodiment of the “Millennial Glamour Girl”, with bright blue eyes, a killer figure, an obvious love of sex, and a sultry, throaty dialogue delivery evoking silver screen Femmes Fatales, she exploded onto the porn scene in 2012 and quickly found herself in high demand.
Ryan took a three-year break from filming to finish her bachelors in Kinesiology to get into physical therapy, but had poor timing, in the form of a break up and the COVID pandemic. Missing the sexual expression of performing on camera, she returned to the World of X with clear-eyed career focus in 2021, and earned AVN nominations for Mainstream Venture of the Year (2022), MILF Performer of the Year (2023), and an XBIZ nom for MILF Performer of the Year (2022).
She also launched her feature dancing career in March 2024 under the auspices The Lee Network, the leading provider of adult star feature entertainers to clubs across the U.S.
Ryan was nominated for MILF of the Year in the 2024 XRCO Awards, her second straight nomination in the category, and was named XBIZ Featured Creator in June 2024. She was named HUSTLER Honey in October 2024.
She recently discussed the 2024 election cycle with Mashable, and is presently nominated in the category of Best Sex Scene – Featurette in XBIZ’s 20205 XMAs.
Jessica Ryan resides in Los Angeles.