Annabel Chong

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Annabel Chong (2000)

Annabel Chong (real name Grace Quek , born May 22, 1972 in Singapore ) is a former porn actress who lives in the USA . She achieved fame with the porn film The World's Biggest Gang Bang , in which she had sex with around 70 men 251 times in front of the camera within ten hours, which was marketed as the "world record in gangbang ". Her life story became the subject of the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story in 1999 and served as a template for a play and a novel.

Life

Grace Quek was born in Singapore to a piano teacher and a school teacher. After completing her school education at college she studied on a scholarship at King's College London law . She continued her studies here until the age of 21 and then moved to the United States after being a victim of mass rape. In the United States, she studied in the basic study successfully at the University of Southern California (USC) photography, art and gender studies and made an outstanding degree. She also worked as a porn actress in order to finance her studies. After completing her studies, she continued her education with a graduate degree in gender studies.

Quek saw her work as an actress as an attempt to challenge the viewer's preconceived notions and assumptions about female sexuality. For example, she understood the depiction of a gangbang as an allegory to Messalina , wife of the Roman emperor Claudius . Messalina's reputation among Roman historians was not good because of her dissolute sexual life, even if she had other sides. Chong emphasizes this duplicity, which forbids women from the ability to express their sexuality openly, which is often granted to men as a matter of course.

Career as a porn actress

Quek responded to an advertisement in the LA Weekly newspaper calling for photo shoots and a subsequent interview with director John T. Bone . Bone quickly recognized Quek's propensity for extreme sexual acts and engaged her in a number of films.

The World's Biggest Gang Bang was realized in January 1995 and filmed by Bone. Quek's motivation to take part in this film was based, among other things, on her desire to question the gender role . Quek never received the $ 10,000 she had been promised for the gangbang and which was supposed to cover her university tuition fees, but subsequently became a popular talk show guest, including on the Jerry Springer Show . For her portrayal she received a "dubious achievement award" from Esquire magazine . In the 1996 sequel World's Biggest Gang Bang 2 , in which Quek also participated, Jasmin St. Claire's record was surpassed with 300 men. Quek shot several films as a porn actress and largely withdrew from the industry after 2000. After a few more films from the BDSM genre, she finally ended her career as a porn actress and has been working as a web designer ever since .

reception

Her life was the subject of the 1999 documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story by Gough Lewis . The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival , where it was nominated for the festival's grand prize. In particular, their conception of sexuality was perceived as degrading on the one hand, and interpreted by others as combative feminism . Writer Chuck Palahniuk took up her role in The World's Biggest Gang Bang in his novel Snuff . The fictional protagonist described in it tries to beat the record set by Quek with 600 men. In 2007, Ng Yi-Sheng wrote the play 251 , which is also based on the life story of Annabel Chong and premiered in Singapore under the direction of Loretta Chen.

Web links

Commons : Annabel Chong  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d David Chew: The meaning of 251. In: Today Online, March 29, 2007 (English).
  2. ^ Lawrence van Gelder: Movie Review - Sex: the Annabel Chong Story - FILM REVIEW; Champ (Briefly) of the Sexual Olympics. In: NY Times - Movies, February 11, 2000.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the Jerry Springer Show with Annabel Chong. Video on YouTube .
  4. ↑ Paul Clinton: Sex sobers in controversial Sundance documentary. In: CNN.com - Movies, February 10, 1999.
  5. ↑ Tom Brook: Shockumentary hits cinemas. In: BBC News, February 12, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Chong, Annabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quek, Grace (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American porn actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore