Special Guest Blogger: Marilyn Chambers

While the more mainstream actors and actresses are getting their backs slapped, i was another type of actress who also get slapped onto her back. Or up against a wall. Or on the bonnet of a car. Actually, almost anywhere because i was an Adult Movie actress, ranked No. 6 on the list of Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time and one of Playboy's Top 100 Sex Stars of the 20th Century.
I was still in High School when i landed some modeling assignments and got offered a small role in the film The Owl and the Pussycat which got me noticed by Proctor & Gamble who made me the 'Ivory Soap girl' posing in posters as a mother holding a baby under the tag line '100%' and i had dreams of launching an acting career.
I moved to San Francisco and waited for the offers to roll in but the only thing rolling was the rat poo in my flat so i took a job as a topless dancer in a seedy club but i did answer an advert for what was billed as a major motion picture called 'Behind the Green Door'.
It sounded good, the story of a wealthy San Francisco socialite who is taken to a club and loved as she's never been loved before, several times and in many positions including on a swing and in a harness as it was a porn movie.
As i was out of work, i said i would think about it and then they offered a hefty salary, 10% of the film's gross and every actor would be tested for VD so i thought it might be fun and it launched me on a career of hard core porn.
The film features me having sex with an African American actor which was a first for feature-length hardcore in the U.S., both the porn industry and the public were shocked by the then taboo image of a white woman having sex with a black man.
At one point i was almost cast in the mainstream film Hardcore, opposite George C. Scott, but the casting director took one look at me and said i wouldn't make a realistic Porn Queen.
I really thought that it would be a great way for a young actress to cut her teeth in the world of movies and it almost was, i thought i was definitely going to lose some teeth making Insatiable with John Holmes, that guy was seriously hung.
As no other films were forthcoming i was taking life with a grain of salt. And a line of Cocaine. And a shot of tequila as i had developed an expensive alcohol and cocaine addiction, i kept making porn films and they were all best sellers but the emergence of AIDS scared me off so i went back to the theater and a sex act.
I got busted a few times and charged with committing a lewd act in a public place which seems a bit strange seeing as it was a sex act, what did they think i did? Magic tricks?
After bowing out of porn, i tried to make a comeback with small mainstream roles and also mounted a very unsuccessful bid for vice-president of the U.S. on the Personal Choice Party ticket in 2004 and received a total of 946 votes but undeterred i ran again in the 2008 election.
I died a year later from an aneurysm related to heart disease and some of Hollywood turned up to say goodbye so right up to the end i was surrounded by some of the biggest knobs around.