Reply #13: seriously though, Nina Hartley is a socialist and activist [View All]

[Minstrel Boy]

The thinking woman's porn star speaks out

'I love my big butt. My butt bought me my Chevy!" Nina Hartley announces this with a raw enthusiasm that makes you throw your head back and laugh. And before you catch your breath, she bounds ahead to talk about a great meditation book she's reading, the dangers of Zionist policy in the Middle East, and some fascinating details she just learned about sex education in the 1930s.

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Hartley grew up in Berkeley, the daughter of atheist Jewish hippies who became Buddhists when she was young. She is a registered nurse and a socialist, with an enormous vocabulary and an enthusiasm for ideas that makes her bounce in chair like an eight-year-old. She is bisexual and had been in a three-person marriage for 16 years — long enough that she refers to both her husband and her "wife" without hesitation.

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Hartley sees herself as a mentor, and has made an information video for would-be porn actresses. (Says trade-paper writer Kerns, "She'd like to be the whole world's mother.") Revolution against capitalism is her ultimate social prescription — but, in the meantime, she wants sex work destigmatized. "I would love there to be only women in the movies who love what they do, but I'd like that to be true of every job. Lots of people hate their jobs."

http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_99/gandm-990424.html

And, er, not work safe:

http://www.nina.com/