Marie Louise Hartman born March 11, , known professionally as Nina Hartley , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area , [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and as a teenager self-identified as a feminist , influenced by the slogan " my body, my rules ". Hartley sought a career in pornography as a way to make a living by having sex, [ 5 ] later telling Las Vegas Weekly , "Porn gave me easy access to women without having to date them or have a relationship.
In , during her sophomore year of nursing school, Hartley started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema and then the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina , [ 5 ] [ 23 ] where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. He asked, 'Why sex? Why not the violin? Macy 's character's serially unfaithful wife who is murdered. Hartley has appeared in several documentary films: she was interviewed in The Naked Feminist [ 32 ] [ 33 ] was featured in After Porn Ends , and appears in Sticky: A Self Love Story , [ 34 ] in which she discusses masturbation with regards to education, the forced resignation of Joycelyn Elders , and her opinions on the blackballing of comedian Paul Reubens after his arrest for masturbating in a public theater.
Las Vegas Weekly has described Hartley as an "outspoken feminist, sex educator and advocate for sexual freedom" and "a guiding force for a generation of feminist porn stars". Hartley has also been involved in socialist activism [ 39 ] and has also been affiliated with the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee APAC , a labor union founded in for pornographic film actors. Hartley was elected to the board of the Free Speech Coalition in , [ 40 ] and is a long-time board member of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation founded in The book includes sections on sex toys , swinging , threesomes , dominance and submission , and erotic spanking.
Hartley is a self-described bisexual , swinger, and exhibitionist. Following her divorce in , [ 22 ] Hartley married Ira Levine, known professionally as Ernest Greene, [ 44 ] a director of bondage films and editor of Hustler's Taboo magazine, with whom she had had a secret relationship in the s. Hartley has received eight Adult Video News Awards , [ 2 ] including:.
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