Sharon Mitchell

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Sharon Mitchell (born January 18, 1956) is the Director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which she set up in 1998. She used to be an erotic actress, with a career spanning over two decades.

Adult film career

An only adopted child raised Catholic and briefly married at age 17, she was an Off-Broadway actress and dancer who toured with the Martha Graham company, before becoming an adult actress in the mid 1970s.

During her career in hardcore pornography, she appeared in over 2000 movies and directed 38. She made many appearances as a bondage model in underground magazines and, in the 1990s, made the transition from sex films to bondage and S&M videos, nearly always playing the role of a tough dominatrix.

During her heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, she was distinguished by her lean, wiry physique and androgynous appearance — angular facial features with mascara and rouge and short teased hair, which was sometimes worn in a butch mullet style — as well as her vigorous cunnilingus technique. She is a member of the AVN Awards Hall of Fame [cite web |url=http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php |title=Hall of Fame |accessdate=2007-07-19] , Legends of Eroticacite news|title=Legends of Erotica | url =http://www.ainews.com/story/12687/| accessdate = 2007-12-30 ] and XRCO Hall of Famecite news|title=XRCO Hall of Fame | url =http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm| accessdate = 2007-12-30 ] .

As an erotic performer, Miss Mitchell was a soft butch lesbian. She also performed sex scenes with men (often as part of a bisexual threesome with another female performer), but this was usually in her early career. She contracted herpes, chlamydia and trichomoniasis during her career.cite web|url=http://www.courttv.com/talk/chat_transcripts/2001/0723mitchell.html|title = Sharon Mitchell Chat at Court TV Online|accessdate = 2007-11-14|date = 2001-07-30|publisher = courttv.com]

During her adult work, Mitchell was addicted to heroin for about two decades, a habit which she eventually overcame. She contracted hepatitis from needle use.cite web|url=http://www.courttv.com/talk/chat_transcripts/2001/0723mitchell.html|title = Sharon Mitchell Chat at Court TV Online|accessdate = 2007-11-14|date = 2001-07-30|publisher = courttv.com] She subsequently referred to her 16-year addiction to heroin as her "blackout years".cite web|url=http://www.adultdvdtalk.com/chat/sharon_mitchell.asp|title = Sharon Mitchell Chat at Adult DVD Talk|accessdate = 2007-02-26|date = 2000-08-23|publisher = adultdvdtalk.com]

On March 30, 1996, she was attacked and raped by a stalker who almost killed her. After that incident, she left the sex industry.cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C05EEDF123CF933A25756C0A9629C8B63|title =Voice of Health in a Pornographic World|accessdate=2007-02-26|author=Nick Madigan|date=2004-05-10|publisher=New York Times [] ]

Awards

*1982 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Blue Jeans (Tied with Lisa De Leeuw)cite news | title=rame awards list | url =http://www.rame.net/library/lists/best.html | accessdate = 2007-12-30 | language = ]
*1983 CAFA Best Actress for Sexcapadescite news | title=rame awards list | url =http://www.rame.net/library/lists/best.html | accessdate = 2007-12-30 | language = ]
*1983 CAFA Best Supporting Actress for Night Hungercite news | title=rame awards list | url =http://www.rame.net/library/lists/best.html | accessdate = 2007-12-30 | language = ]
*1984 AVN Best Actress - Film for Sexcapades [cite web |url=http://www.avnawards.com/pastwinners.php |title=AVN Awards Past Winners |accessdate=2007-07-19 |pages=1984]

Partial Filmography.

* "Joy"(1977)
* "Debbie Does Dallas : The Next Generation " (1997)

Partial list of magazine appearances

* 1990: "Tight Ropes" 2/04 (House of Milan|HOM)
* 1991: "Motorcycle Mistress Mamas" #1 (Lyndon Distributors Limited|LDL)
* 1991: "Special Request" #2 (HOM)
* 1992: "Boss Bitch in Bondage" #1 (LDL)
* 1992: "The Taming of June Bauer" #1" (LDL)
* 1994: "Punished (bondage magazine)|Punished" 3/10 (HOM)
* 1995: "Tied & Tickled" 2/009

ex worker health work

After the end of her adult career, Mitchell obtained a Ph.D. degree in human sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. In 1998 she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, an organization which provides information and STD testing to workers in adult entertainment.

References

External links

* [http://www.aim-med.org/ Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/10PORN.html Voice of Health in a Pornographic World] , The New York Times
* [http://www.sexherald.com/sex-industry-interviews/more_than_a_clinical_sexpert-_an_interview_with_sharon_mitchell,_ph.d..html Interview] with SexHerald.com
* [http://www.lukeisback.com/stars/stars/stars/female/sharon_mitchell.html Biography at LukeIsBack.com]