Nina Hartley

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Nina Hartley
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Hartley at the AVN Awards, 2013
Born
Marie Louise Hartman [1] [2] [3]

(1959-03-11) March 11, 1959 (age 64) [4]
Other names
  • Nina Hartman
  • Nina Hartwell
Education Berkeley High School
San Francisco State University (BSN)
Spouses
unnamed
(m. 1986;div. 2003)
Ira Levine
(m. 2003)
Parent
Relatives Marge Frantz (aunt)
Joseph Gelders (grandfather)
Emma Gelders Sterne (great aunt)
Website nina.com

Marie Louise Hartman (born March 11, 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, [1] [2] [3] is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator. [5] [6] By 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand adult films. [7] She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom", [8] and by CNBC as "a legend in the adult world". [9]

Contents

Early life and education

Hartley was born on March 11, 1959, [4] in Berkeley, California, [5] to a Lutheran father, Louis Hartman, and a Jewish mother, Blanche Hartman (née Gelders), [10] [ time needed ] Her grandfather was a University of Alabama physics professor who was a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) party member in the 1930s. [11] Hartley's parents were members of the CPUSA [10] [ time needed ] who converted to Buddhism when she was young. [12] Her father was blacklisted in 1957 for his communist beliefs. [13]

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". [5] [16] [8] 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, [14] [17] receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. [1] She was a registered nurse [18] [12] until her license expired in 1986. [19]

Adult film career

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." [8] She writes that part of her reason for choosing sex work was to be able to indulge her exhibitionistic and voyeuristic streak. [20] 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. [21] [10] [ time needed ] In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema and then the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. [22] [15] 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." [15]

Her pornographic film debut was in Educating Nina (1984), [5] [23] where she was cast and directed by fellow performer Juliet Anderson. [22] [24] [25] For many years, she toured the United States and Canada as a stripper and made personal appearances at sex shops. [26] [27] 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." [16]

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). [26] In 1992, she directed her first movie, Nina Hartley's Book of Love. [28] She also produced and starred in a series of sex education videos for Adam & Eve. [29] In 1994, she began her line of instructional videos marketed under the Nina Hartley's Guide brand. [27] Hartley played the part of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 satirical pornographic film Who's Nailin' Paylin? , [13] with Lisa Ann in the role of Sarah Palin. [30] As of 2015, Hartley was still actively performing, [22] and by 2017 she had appeared in more than one thousand pornographic films. [7] She has been described by news outlets as "one of the best-known actresses in the industry" [24] and "a legend in the adult world". [9]

Mainstream media appearances

Hartley acted in the 1996 Canadian film Bubbles Galore [31] and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show . [9] In the 1997 film Boogie Nights , she played William H. Macy's character's serially unfaithful wife who is murdered. [14] [27] She later remarked, "The only movie I ever died in for having sex was a mainstream movie." [14]

Hartley has appeared in several documentary films: she was interviewed in The Naked Feminist (2003) [32] [33] was featured in After Porn Ends (2012), and appears in Sticky: A (Self) Love Story (2016), [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.[ citation needed ]

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". [5] [8] Describing herself as a "classical liberal feminist", [35] [36] Hartley began engaging in feminist activism in the 1980s. [37] Regarding her understanding of feminism, 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 [39] and has long been affiliated with the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC), a labor union founded in 2014 for pornographic film actors. [13] Politically, Hartley describes herself as a democratic socialist, saying, "There are some things the federal government is essential for and some things best left to local government." [13]

Hartley was elected to the board of the Free Speech Coalition in 1995, [40] and is a long-time board member of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation (founded in 2003). [41] She has made frequent appearances at academic conferences, workshops, and in the media to promote sex positivity. [42] She has given lectures at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of California. [3] [41]

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. [14] 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". [14]

Personal life

Hartley is a self-described bisexual, swinger, and exhibitionist. [8] [43] For two decades until the early 2000s, she was involved in a three-way relationship with her first husbanda former Students for a Democratic Society leaderand a woman. [44] She married her male partner in 1986, a marriage she says was regrettable; their divorce was finalized in 2003. [22] The same year, Hartley married Ira Levine, a director of porn films under the name Ernest Greene. [45] They are openly polyamorous. [46]

Publications

Awards

AVN Awards

Hartley has received eight Adult Video News Awards, [2] including:

AVN
CategoryVideo/Film
1986 Best Couples Sex Scene - FilmTen Little Maidens
1987 Best Actress - Video Debbie Duz Dishes [47]
1989 Best Supporting Actress - Film Portrait of an Affair [48]
1989 Best Couples Sex Scene - FilmAmanda By Night II [47]
1989 Best Couples Sex Scene - VideoSensual Escape [48]
1991 Best Supporting Actress - VideoThe Last X-Rated Movie [49]
2000 Best Group Sex Scene - VideoUltimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women [50]
2005 Best Specialty Tape - BDSM Nina Hartley's Private Sessions 13 [51]
2005 Best Specialty Tape Spanking for Nina Hartley's Guide to Spanking [51]
2009 Best Non-Sex PerformanceNot Bewitched XXX [52]
AVN Hall of Fame [53]

XRCO Awards

Hartley has won a number of XRCO Awards:

XRCO Awards
YearCategoryVideo/Film
1986Best Couple Sex SceneBall Busters [54]
1987Best Couple Sex ScenePeeping Tom [54]
1987Torrid Triad SceneEvery Woman Has a Fantasy 2 [54]
1989Female Performer of the Year [54]
1990Best Supporting ActressMy Bare Lady [54]
1990Best Girl-Girl SceneSorority Pink [54]
1996 Hall of Fame [55]
2000Best Group SceneUltimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women [56]

Other awards

Misc. Awards
YearOrganizationCategory
1988 Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award [57]
1990 FOXE Female Fan Favorite [58]
1991FOXEFemale Fan Favorite [58]
1992FOXEFemale Fan Favorite [58]
1994Legends of EroticaHall of Fame [59]
1996 Hot d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award [60]
2005 AEBN VOD Award Lifetime Achievement Award [61]
2006 Ninfa PublicLifetime Career Award [62]
2014 Exxxotica Fan Choice Awards Fanny Lifetime Achievement Award [63]
2019 XBIZ Award Best Non-Sex Acting Performance (Future Darkly: Artifamily) [64]
2020XBIZ AwardBest Non-Sex Acting Performance (Girls of Wrestling) [65]

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