nina hartley

• Nina Hartley was born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959, in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, Nina attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate school of nursing and graduated in 1985. Her career in the adult-entertainment industry began while she was in her sophomore year of nursing school, when she started work as a stripper at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, Her adult-film debut came in Educating Nina (1984), which was produced and directed by veteran porn star Juliet Anderson, better known as "Aunt Peg". In 1997 Nina appeared in Boogie Nights (1997) playing William H. Macy's serially unfaithful wife.

  
  

  Marie Louise Hartman

  March 11, 1959 (age 65),Berkeley, California, U.S.

  Education:Berkeley High School
  San Francisco State University (BSN)Spouses

  MotherBlanche HartmanRelativesMarge Frantz (aunt)
  Joseph Gelders (grandfather)
  Emma Gelders Sterne (great aunt)Websitenina.com

  Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. By 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom" and by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world".

  Early life and education

  
  

  Hartley was born on March 11, 1959,in Berkeley, California, to a Lutheran father, Louis Hartman, and a Jewish mother, Blanche Hartman (née Gelders),Her grandfather was a University of Alabama physics professor who was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) party member in the 1930s. Hartley's parents were members of the CPUSAwho converted to Buddhism when she was young.Her father was blacklisted in 1957 for his communist beliefs.

  Hartley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and as a teenager self-identified as a feminist, influenced by the slogan "my body, my rules".] After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.She was a registered nurseuntil her license expired in 1986.

  Adult film career

  Hartley sought a career in pornography as a way to make a living by having sex,later telling Las Vegas Weekly, "Porn gave me easy access to women without having to date them or have a relationship.She writes that part of her reason for choosing sex work was to be able to indulge her exhibitionistic and voyeuristic streak.She has said she chose her life's work when she saw the 1976 erotic film The Autobiography of a Flea alone at a theater in San Francisco.

  In 1982, 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. She told an interviewer that she chose the name "Nina" because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during the time she was a dancer in San Francisco, and "Hartley" because it was close to her own last name, and she "wanted a name that sounded like that of a real person."

  Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina (1984), where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson.For many years, she toured the United States and Canada as a stripper and made personal appearances at sex shops. In 2013 she described her father's reaction upon learning about her occupation:

  He asked, 'Why sex? Why not the violin?' I know now that I'm sexual the way that Mozart was musical [...] a life of public sexuality has, from my very first time on stage, been as natural to me as breathing."

  In the 1980s and early 1990s, Hartley starred in several of the Debbie Does Dallas film series spin-offs such as Debbie Duz Dishes (1986) and Debbie Does Wall Street (1991). In 1992, she directed her first movie, Nina Hartley's Book of Love.She also produced and starred in a series of sex education videos for Adam & Eve. In 1994, she began her line of instructional videos marketed under the Nina Hartley's Guide brand.

  Mainstream media appearances

  Hartley acted in the 1996 Canadian film Bubbles Galore[31] and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In the 1997 film Boogie Nights, she played William H. Macy's character's serially unfaithful wife who is murdered. She later remarked, "The only movie I ever died in for having sex was a mainstream movie."

  Hartley has appeared in several documentary films: she was interviewed in The Naked Feminist (2003) was featured in After Porn Ends (2012), and appears in Sticky: A (Self) Love Story (2016), 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.

  Activism

  
  

  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". She has described herself both as a "classical liberal feminist" and a democratic socialist. Hartley began engaging in feminist activism in the 1980s. She has said:

  Based on my experience as a woman and a sexual being, and my understanding that I had the right to decide for myself what to do with my life – that’s what I understood to be feminist, to give everybody choices – I didn’t choose to be a mother but I chose this [porn] because it suits me.[38]

  Hartley has also been involved in socialist activism and has also been affiliated with the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC), a labor union founded in 2014 for pornographic film actors.

  Hartley was elected to the board of the Free Speech Coalition in 1995,] and is a long-time board member of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation (founded in 2003).] She has made frequent appearances at academic conferences, workshops, and in the media to promote sex positivity. She has given lectures at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of California.

  Writing

  In 2006, Hartley co-authored Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex with her husband Ira Levine. The book includes sections on sex toys, swinging, threesomes, dominance and submission, and erotic spanking.] Library Journal called the book a "well-written guide" that is "strong on both safe sex and a permissive approach", saying Hartley "handles the material frankly, accurately, and with sensitivity".

  Personal life

  
  

  Hartley is a self-described bisexual, swinger, and exhibitionist.She married her first husband, a former Students for a Democratic Society leader, in a three-way marriage with a second woman in 1986. She describes the relationship as a "very unhappy marriage" to "someone who was not a good candidate for mating with a sex worker".Following her divorce in 2003,Hartley married Ira Levine, known professionally as Ernest Greene,] a director of bondage films and editor of Hustler's Taboo magazine, with whom she had had a secret relationship in the 1980s.They are openly polyamorous.As of 2014, the couple lives in Los Angeles.

  Nina Hartley was born Marie Louise Hartman on March 11, 1959, in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, Nina attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate school of nursing and graduated in 1985. Her career in the adult-entertainment industry began while she was in her sophomore year of nursing school, when she started work as a stripper at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, Her adult-film debut came in Educating Nina (1984), which was produced and directed by veteran porn star Juliet Anderson, better known as "Aunt Peg". In 1997 Nina appeared in Boogie Nights (1997) playing William H. Macy's serially unfaithful wife.