I'm a new here and this is my first post ever so I have no idea if this topic has been discussed earlier. I've reviewed some older topics and found many of them very interesting so I'd also like to thank everybody here (especially those working in the industry) for their opinions.
However, I'd like to know which pornstars have got a higher education and what's their degree. That'd be very interesting to know and in a way it turns me on..
No, I'm not the same G.E.. I don't even know who you're talking about. I chose my nick according to a rapper whose music I used to listen when I was younger. I thought it sounded cool with z.
Actually I knew that thing about Lex and I've also read somewhere that Daniella Rush studies medicines but any others?
Many of the stars are so young that they may not have got the degree yet but I'd like to know if they are studying at the university or something.
Nothing turns me on more than an intelligent and beautiful lady..
I've heard many times that Nina Hartley is the smartest woman in porn.
Yes. Lex-Steele I heard was a straight A student at Syracuse and was working in the World Trade Center from 93-98 as a stock broker before he got into porn.
Tiffany Millions (from a few years back) had some kind of business degree, right? She appeared on the Dennis Prager tv show as like an embassador of porn, and spoke candidly and intelligently.
Ron Jeremy, lest we forget, is qualified to be a special education teacher (???)
Lots of the younger girls have claimed to work in this or that career, but if you were a CPA or a personnel manager would you quit and go into porn? I don't know, maybe some would. But isn't it also likely that these careers weren't "working out" for them. (fired?) So I take their claims with a block of salt.
Booksmarts is icing on the cake but I would be more turned on by anyone who has strong street smarts, wisdom and common sense. Booksmarts is a very sexy form of intelligence, but it does jack for most people who have made it in the real world.
I had the feeling that the dick stud was a pretty bright fellow. He goes against the whole stereotype of a sexual beast having jack for brains. This attitude stronger towards women.
Nina Hartley seems pretty knowledgeable (for someone who is not a sex therapist) about sexual science. I would not be suprised if she knowledgeable of more areas.
One of the smartest women in porn inside and outside the business is Tera Patrick and Asia Carea(if you think mensan adequately measures intelligent people). Tera I think has a degree in microbiology and appears to have street smarts as well as books smarts. I am 95% certain.
Erick Sermon aka The Green Eyed BanditFirst time I saw Daniella was in Up & Cummers (forgot which one). She did mention something about going to Med school. I don't know if she finished everything up though.
I think book smarts and street smarts are ultimately interchangeable and fluid after a point, and someone who can take theory and turn it into practice and real results for life has the best of both worlds, no doubt. The amount of people who have done this on a grand scale are relatively rare because of the segmented nature of today's world -- i.e. rappers thinking it would diminish their "street cred" to get a degree or even sit down and read philosophy or some such thing.
Obviously, compartmentalization takes place with porn stars, like the often false analogy "X is a porn star, therefore X must be dumb".
I like Lexington Steele because he's so much more than what you might expect him to be. Is he a nice human being too, for those of you who know him :D?
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mefisto66 Deactivated User
Buenos Aires, Argentina 154 Posts 2/03
Posted - May 21 2004 : 4:45PM
I think that Katja Kassin is university studient, If i remember well, she said that she study political sciences and literature.
Luissa Rosso is 21, from Germany and studying economics (sth like MBA). She came into the californian porn business just this year, and she was in the news because she almost shot a flick with Darren James in March. But she suddenly became ill and had a surgery that day, and so Lara Roxx took her role and got infected during a double anal scene.
I don't know if she will continue to study at UCLA or back in Germany. But here's a long Report about her and the business (in german).
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DenverDon Benevolent
Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02
Posted - May 22 2004 : 12:28AM
There are a lot of well educated ladies in porn, and many with degrees.
As mentioned by someone earlier, Asia Carrera is Mensa.
Daniela Rush is a med student, and continuing her education.
I tried to read the 'Der Spiegel' article that AndyS had a link to above. It looks really interesting, and from what I could make out, there are interviews with Rob Spallone, Henri Pachard and Jim South the talent agent.
Maybe I'm translating the part about Luissa going to UCLA wrong, but this is what the Google language translater came up with:
In German: Luissa Rosso wollte in den drei Monaten, die sie mit dem Touristenvisum in Amerika sein konnte, 30 000 Dollar verdienen. Sie wollte kein Star werden, nur ein bisschen wohlhabend. Und sie redete sich ein, dass sie mit dem Geld später vielleicht an einer der schönen Universitäten in Los Angeles studieren könnte. Das war der Plan.
In English: Luissa Rosso wanted to earn 30,000 dollars in three months, while she was in America on a tourist visa. She didn't want to become a star, just a little bit wealthy. And she thought that perhaps she could use the money later at one of the nice universities in Los Angeles. That was the plan.
It sounds like she wanted to go to college in Los Angeles in the future, though she would need a student visa for that anyway; she wouldn't be allowed to enroll with just a tourist visa, not since 9/11.
I got the impression that the Lex man was fairly intelligent after reading his interview. Unfortunately society views anyone that demonstrates high sexual and athletic prowess, or brawn as being of low intelligence.
Lex Man and TEra Patrick shatter the myth into pieces.
That's why I actively seek porn stars with amazing sexual prowess and high intelligence. HOpefully my instincts are right about ms. Teanna Kai.
Calli Cox graduated from Eastern Illinois University and DID teach grade school. She was the one of the BEST things to ever to come out of Illinois.
Asia is smart according to the MENSA test.
I know she went to the Univeristy of Illinois for a bit, so she is another great alumni of the Land of Lincoln. Sydnee Steele was a finance executive before she got into the game.
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I guess Lex got tired of the unemployment numbers coming in and fucking him, so he decided to move to California and decide when the fucking commences.
I have a B.S. in Economics, and a Master's in Public Administration; I'm also a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command & General Staff College at Ft leavemworth, and I was on the Staff & Faculty at West Point for four years.
Gee, I guess I've got to take a look at Google's translator again, could hardly have translated it better...
A few paragraphs above the article describes that she had already studied in Germany. Translated [by me ;-) :
"Her story goes like this: One year ago she was a first-year student of business administration in the city of Jena [famous for Zeiss optics] and had small jobs as a waitress. She had a small car, an apartment and a boyfriend, who was chef in a hotel. Then she read an ad in a local newspaper looking for young women for erotic photoshoots. She answered it. [...] She moved into this new world, her boyfriend stayed behind in the old world. She played small roles in some german porn movies, a girl with changing names, she got aquainted with the manager of a large german sex film studio. She lived with him, helped with the management, played in a movie on the Maldives and in another one in a french countryside castle, all was much more exciting than her small home town. At the last "Venus" erotic fair in Berlin she met a young man, who told her that in the US she could make much more money. He gave her the address of Jim South, the biggest model agent of the US porn business. Early this year she flew to LA and called herself Luissa Rosso. [...]"
The article begins with a quite unpoetic description of Rob Spallone shooting a cheap&dirty movie with her, the technical crew consisting only of Henry Pachard: "He lazily moves around the bed with the camera, like a family father shooting a christmas celebration. His name is as false as his hair color. 40 years ago his movies had a budget of 40,000, today it's 800$."
After telling Luissa's story: "She sometimes had abdominal pain, but she thought it was because of the american actors, who were rougher than the germans. Also, she worked more than ever before, she made 3 to 4 scenes per week."
"'In the night before the shooting my pain became worse. In the morning I couldn't stand it any more, I called Marc Anthony and cancelled. I went to a clinic and they found a cyst in my uterus, they operated me immediately. When I woke up, I drove right back to my apartement. It had already cost me 3000$, another night would have been 1000$. I was totally down, and then the doctor said I couldn't have sex for 3 weeks. He didn't know what this meant for me, he thought I was just a german student. I thought, well, my american adventure is over. Today I have to say: I was really lucky.'"
Then follows a portrait of the AIM (Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation). "Has she ever felt guilty towards Lara Roxx? 'Of course I'm sorry for her, she got talked into this double anal scene because she was inexperienced. I wouldn't have done that. I think so, at least'"
"Lara Roxx tumbled erratically for some days through LA after hearing her test result. Then she went back to Montreal and gives interviews. She says she had an unhappy childhood, her parents arguing all the time. Luissa also says her parents got divorced. Her mother lost her mind, her father moved away, she has nothing to hold on to anymore. There are many bad-stepmother stories, which may all have some truth to them, maybe not. But they fit the picture anyway."
"Spallone says, 'I can make any movie for 10 000$. I have to, every nerd can make a porn movie today. The margin is very low of course, a DVD with only women will be in the stores for 10$ and for a month. We also sell the movies through the internet, tear the scenes apart, recombine them again. You can't imagine what perverted crap I've come up with. My dear Henry over there still has some old ambitions - sometimes he tries to include a small plot into the scene. But this is no damn 'Gone with the wind', I'm producing porn.'"
Then Jim South is portrayed, who took Lara Roxx out of his files when she didn't show up at her first shooting. But Luissa did everything, and "German girls are reliable", he smiles. Luissa has got the 30000$ she came for, but she continues for now and has a foot in the door of the big businnes. Although she can't sit calmly during the interview because of yesterday's 5-hour anal scene. In the LA Times Lara Roxx said that she has no money left, she's completely broke. The porn industry dropped her.
There's something about the phrase "kalifornischen San Fernando Valley" from the 'Der Spiegel' article that has a funny ring to it. Sounds higher class than "California's San Fernando Valley".
The exact translation of "im kalifornischen San Fernando Valley" would be "in the californian San Fernando Valley". But that doesn't work in English, right?
I have an honour degree in art with an emphasis in fucking you under the table. Honestly, people bragging about higher education tend to bore the hell out of me. imho really clever people are pitiful anyhow as they often grew lonely.
TJ Hart has three degrees from U of CO (psychology, sociology, art) and swam on the US swim team. Claudia Adkins has a medical degree. I thought Asia Carrera was an accomplished musician or something and studied at Julliard. Or she studied Japanese and worked there as an interpreter. I think she ran away from home around 17 then came back later. Was she raised as an orphan? Veronica Hart studied acting in London and was going to become a dramatic actor but took a different path. Leanni Lei is in school I read in an interview.