Sharon Mitchell

Sharon Mitchell, 2006

Sharon Mitchell (born January 18, 1956 ) is an American sexologist , health scientist and former porn actress and founder of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which closed in 2011 .

Life

As an orphan , she was adopted into a Catholic home and grew up in Monmouth County, New York. She married at the age of 17. In New York, she later performed as a dancer and actress in small theaters before starting her career as a porn actress in the mid-1970s. In 1975 it changed its name in homage to Martha Mitchell .

She has appeared in over 200 films during her twenty-plus year career as an actress in the porn industry, and has directed the production of 38 of these films. She started working as a bondage model at an early age and in the early 1990s she specialized in porn films of the BDSM genre . In these films she often played the role of a dominatrix . Mitchell engaged in sex with both male and female actors in pornographic films.

Mitchell's work-related experiences with health problems were critical to her later life. During her 16-year heroin addiction, she contracted hepatitis while exchanging syringe needles . As part of her work, she contracted the sexually transmitted diseases herpes , chlamydia and trichomoniasis .

Sharon Mitchell at a Free Speech Coalition event (2000)

On March 30, 1996, she was ambushed by a stalker, detained for several days, raped, and almost murdered. He not only raped her, but physically abused her severely, including biting off her nipple. Despite her injuries, she overpowered her tormentor and escaped. She herself says: "That was the wake-up call from the universe, the moment of clarity" ( This was a wake-up call from the universe, the moment of clarity . ). She changed her life, successfully completed her withdrawal, completed a degree in sexology ( human sexuality ) and received her Ph.D. 22 months after being raped by the stalker, she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) in 1998, which until it was shut down in 2011 regularly educated porn actors about sexually transmitted diseases and carried out appropriate tests. AIM had to close in early 2011.

Mitchell received the AVN Award for Best Actress in 1984 for her role in Sexcapades . She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, the XRCO Hall of Fame and in 1994 the list of Legends of Erotica for her work as an actress . She was also honored with the CAFA award three times : 1982 - Best Supporting Actress for Blue Jeans, 1983 - Best Actress for Sexcapades and 1983 - Best Supporting Actress for Night Hunger . In 2001 she was awarded the Hot d'Or d'Honneur .

In 2004, Sharon Mitchell was portrayed as one of 30 well-known porn stars by American photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in his book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits and his HBO documentary Thinking XXX . In 2008 she appeared in the documentary 9to5 - Days in Porn by Jens Hoffmann .

Filmography (selection)

• 1977: Schpritz
• 1980: Maniac
• 1982: Wanda Whips Wall Street
• 1987: Firestorm
• 1998: WADD - The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

Awards

• 1982: CAFA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Blue Jeans (shared with Lisa De Leeuw )
• 1983: CAFA Award for Best Actress in Sexcapades
• 1983: CAFA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Night Hunger
• 1984: AVN Award for Best Actress Film in Sexcapades
• 1988: Induction into the XRCO Hall of Fame
• 1994: Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame
• Induction into the AVN Hall of Fame
• 2001: Hot d'Or d'honneur (honorary award)
• 2008: XBIZ Award for Lifetime Achievement Industry Contribution

Web links

Commons : Sharon Mitchell  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Sharon Mitchell at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sharon Mitchell at the Internet Adult Film Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Nick Madigan: Voice of Health in a Pornographic World . In: The New York Times, May 10, 2004 (accessed July 9, 2009)
2. ↑ courttv.com. of July 30, 2001 ( Memento of February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Sara Stevens: Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation ( en ) STDAware. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
4. ↑ XRCO Hall of Fame - Overview (accessed July 10, 2009)
5. ↑ Legends of Erotica Class of 2008 (accessed July 10, 2009)
6. ↑ Award overview (accessed on July 10, 2009)
7. ↑ Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: XXX: Portrait of 30 porn stars. (Original title: XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits. ) Heyne Hardcore, Munich 2004; Pp. 102-103, 176-177. ISBN 978-3-453-67515-5 .
8. ↑ Thinking XXX. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .