Candida Royalle, feminist pornographic filmmaker, dies at 64

[RandySF]

Candida Royalle, a feminist pornographic filmmaker and pioneer of the sex-positive movement, reportedly died from ovarian cancer at her home in Mattituck on Sept. 7.....

Born in Brooklyn as Candice Marion Vadala, Ms. Royalle starred in pornography until 1984, when she launched Femme Productions with the intention of producing “adult films from a woman’s perspective,” her friend Annie Sprinkle wrote in a public Facebook post.

In doing so, Ms. Royalle helped launch the couples’ erotica market.........

In 2004, Ms. Royalle wrote “How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do.” She was also an animal rights activist and prolific public speaker, lecturing everywhere from the Smithsonian Institute to the World Congress on Sexology.

A founding member of Feminists for Free Expression, a nonprofit group dedicated to defending women’s rights and freedom of expression, Ms. Royalle received a doctorate in human sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 2014.


http://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2015/09/62132/candida-royalle-feminist-pornographic-filmmaker-dies-in-mattituck-at-64/

[jakeXT]

1. I believe I listened to an interview not long ago

http://traffic.libsyn.com/therialtoreport/35_Rialto_Report_035_-_Candida_Royalle__Femme_Feminism_and_a_Female_Icon.mp3

Maybe I was surprised because in some respects you couldn’t meet a more unexpected, even accidental, person in adult film. For a start she’s lived many lives – from her difficult upbringing in Brooklyn, political activism in college, a flower child in San Francisco, artist, singer in theaters and clubs… and then the adult film career. She’s a determined, deep thinker who has strong, complex feelings about the industry she’s been part of for so long.

But she’s bold and fearless too. Whenever faced with a fork in the road – Candida has a knack for choosing the direction that will challenge and grow her the most.

In 1984 she launched her groundbreaking production company Femme Productions with the goal of making erotic films that reflected women’s emotional and social lives. Detractors accused her of removing the danger from sex. But is there anything more subversive than getting housewives and working women to rush out and embrace films that showed explicit sex for the first time? She was now a producer, director, business women and spokesperson for the films she made.

http://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/04/20/candida-royalle-femme-feminism-and-a-female-icon-podcast-35/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. There's a name out of the past.....

One of the main characters from the Sexual Revolution.

Prior to that period women thought there was something wrong with them for having "those feelings".

I blame the hair driers....