Candida Royalle
- This article is about a deceased porn star
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Candida Royalle (born Candice on October 15, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography and a former pornographic actress. She is a member of the XRCO and the AVN Hall of Fame.
Biographical Information
Initially trained in music, dance, and art in New York, with studies at the High School of Art and Design, Parson's School of Design and the City University of New York [1] she eventually entered a career as a porn star, acting in over 200 movies.
In 1980 she founded Femme Productions, with the goal of making erotica based on female desire. Her productions are aimed more to women and couples than to the standard pornographic audience of men, and they have been praised by therapists for portraying in general a more realistic and emotional picture of sex. Her company has been very successful, producing a series of products known to have a more artistic touch, lacking some aspects of common porn, like a focus on male ejaculation. She described her approach to film-making in an interview in Wendy McElroy 1995 book XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography. [2]
In 1989, she signed the Post Porn Modernist Manifesto.
Royalle is also a member of American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and founding board-member of Feminists for Free Expression. She recently made her mission of women's sexual empowerment multi-cultural by executive producing the independent film Afrodite Superstar directed by African American director, Venus Hottentot, a breakthrough film nominated for seven AVN Awards in 2007. Royalle is credited with also directing the explicit sex scenes, one of which features her Natural Contours products.
Royalle is also a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and a founding board-member of Feminists for Free Expression. She recently made her mission of women's sexual empowerment multi-cultural by executive producing the independent film Afrodite Superstar, directed by African American director Venus Hottentot, a breakthrough film nominated for seven AVN Awards in 2007. Royalle is credited with also directing the explicit sex scenes, one of which features her Natural Contours products.
Royalle is one of twenty-five women of the golden era of adult films featured in the 2012 book by author Jill C. Nelson titled: Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 published by BearManor Media.
In May 2006, Royalle announced that she was engaged to be married. [3]
References
- ↑ Sexy Spreads: Candida Royale date=2003-08-26 publisher=Eros NY
- ↑ Wendy McElroy. XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography, 1995. Chapter 7.
- ↑ Candida Royalle by Abby Ehmann publisher=Eros NY
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