Nina Hartley Is The Smartest Woman In Porn

September, 1998

and, as Chip Rowe found out, that's saying a mouthfulNina Hartley began her career as a sex performer in 1983, dancing nude once a week at the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco while she went to school. In 1984, while pursuing a nursing degree at San Francisco State University, she appeared in the first of more than 400 triple-X films. (She graduated magna cum laude from SFSU in 1985.) Today, at 37, Hartley continues to star in adult movies and commands as much as $10,000 a week to dance at gen...

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