Along with the likes of Dita Von Teese and Masuimi Max, American fetish model and actress, Emily Marilyn is trailblazing down the highway opened half a century ago by the timeless talent of Bettie Page.

The American brunette sports the kind of curves that make latex so very, very popular; her hourglass figure has filled out some of the hottest fetish fashion creations on the planet and her dark beauty has seen her grace the pages of the world’s most esteemed alternative press.

In Australia to host Spank’s Doctors and Nurses Party, Emily sat down with RedHotPie to have a chat about her life as a international fetish queen.

(RHP) So we get the impression you really enjoy your work

(Emily) Oh I’m completely obsessed with anything related to fetish or bondage or sado-masochism, so it’s been amazing that I’ve been able to make a career out of my obsession.

Well let’s go back and talk about that obsession, how did you discover the world of fetish?

I discovered bondage from watching television, especially Wonder Woman, whenever I would see someone getting tied up or getting caught in that lasso you know

And do you have a lasso of truth yourself?

Well you know what, I’ve been submissive for a long time, and even as a kid I dreamt of being bound up with her lasso and her dominating me with those red boots. By the time I started going to middle school and high school I was really getting into latex, I’m not sure where that started but when I realised that you could actually wear latex, wow! I mean before I had just been in love with the yellow rubber kitchen gloves that you use to wash dishes, so when I realised you could wear rubber I went crazy! I remember begging my mother to buy me a rubber dress, and she did… She just did it to please her daughter or whatever, but for me it was a complete sexual sensation to put that rubber dress on.

And what sort of community were you growing up in? Did you stand out donning those kind of fashions?

Completely! I was voted weirdest out of my high school class, because I dressed in the knee high boots, the bondage belts, I wore rubber to school, I was just living my fantasy. I graduated high school in the mid nineties, before I’d ever got online or anything, so I had no idea this was going to be a career for me or that I’d be running my own website and turning my kinks into my career. It’s actually quite fascinating that I’ve been able to do that

So you were trailblazing of your own accord

Absolutely, and because I graduated in ’96, you couldn’t just sit at a computer and Google “fetish” you know, you actually had to go out and find people and seek it out, now it’s so easy, you just type in whatever you want.

The kids are just so spoiled today aren’t they!

(laughs)

And after school I understand you moved to Japan for a few years?

Yeah, I lived in Japan from 1996 to 2000. I initially went there for a modelling contract but somehow I got diverted and was working in a gentlemen’s dance club for a good four years, possibly the most amazing years of my life so far.

I would imagine the fetish world would be a colourful one in Japan

Oh yeah, I was going to these sex clubs and the kinky bars they have in the red light districts and these bondage bars and it was just lots of fun.

What’s the scene like in a Japanese sex club?

Well because I was blonde during this time, there’d be all these couples in these strange apartment type situations and everyone would be completely fascinated by me and the colour of my hair. Even the colour of me genitalia because they’re all purple I suppose and I’m more pink (laughs). So that would always attract a crowd, a circle of people just staring at me.

And how did you enter the modelling side of the fetish world?

Well when I was 17 years old I met this man, I was standing in front of this strip club in Hollywood called Crazy Girls, I wasn’t even old enough to get in, I just wanted to go to Crazy Girls. So I met this guy called John Stevens and he was an agent for adult models. So we got talking and I told him that I was really into bondage and fetish and he was the guy, once I turned 18, it was him who got me into doing videos, and from there I met all these people, all these different companies and I just started shooting stuff.

And did you start off in photography or film or both?

Kind of both, I remember doing a lot of bondage videos, I’ve worked under numerous stage names. I mean this was before Google when I was 18, so I didn’t know this was going to become a career, so I just figured I’d do it and no one would know (laughs).

And do you have any photographers or directors whom you particularly enjoy working with?

There’s a photographer in Paris called Christophe Mourthe who I’ve worked with extensively. Working with him I’ve landed more magazine and book and calendar covers than anyone. I’ve done over thirty covers and at least half of them are photos that Christophe shot.

And reading a few of those magazine spreads I understand you’ve got a passion for music as well

I am completely addicted to psychobilly, there’s just something about it that drives me wild. Necromantics, The Meteors, Demented Are Go, bands like that. I go to a lot of the European festivals and this is where I love wearing rubber, I love dressing up in my over the top bizarre latex creations and going to the psychobilly shows. Not many girls dress like myself and I’ve made a name in this scene because I show up in these outfits and people love it. I go to the festivals all over Europe, I just came back from one in Spain that happens every year. I go to a lot in Germany; I love it. Psychobilly is like a combination of rock, metal and punk but they use a stand up bass

Yeah the double bass…

Yeah it’s just so sexy, the sound of it, Oh my god, I’m really into it.

So your jet-setting about, doing your job, are you in a relationship, how does that side of things work for you?

Yes, I have a boyfriend and he’s the most amazing thing in my life

He must be a very patient man

He is a patient man let me tell you, it’s crazy, we’ve been together for four years and I got to tell ya, I’m not the easiest woman to date. I’m weird, I’m kinky, I’ve got my photos all over the internet, I’ve got hundreds of videos out there and I’m a really kinky person. When I met him he was very vanilla, very straight, finally I’ve brought this side out, this side of him that he never even knew he had.

So you’ve been a girlfriend slash coach

(Laughs) Yes, he is actually my business partner, he now shoots all the content for my website, and he does all my bondage rigging for videos and everything. I mean I travel a lot but when I back home in L.A we’re working together all the time.

So you spend so much time on the edge of kink and fetish in your professional life, how do you push the boundaries when it comes to your own sex life at home?

Yeah well you know, I kind of went beyond the boundaries a few times (laughs) so to be honest in my personal life I’ve taken a few steps back and I’m more enjoying having a true connection and just sex all the time with my boyfriend Eric, I mean we get kinky of course but I’ve really found someone I can connect with. With my bondage work in front of the camera, I’m still pushing myself right out there. I really think this is the best time of my life, I mean my business is doing well, I’m travelling, I’m producing a lot of my own content. That was something that was very important to me; Eric and I are producing together, because all these years I’ve worked for other companies who own the rights to all my images and videos. Now I’m producing my own content so that I own the copyrights to everything which is very important.