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Aja (porn star)
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Aja is an American exotic dancer
, pornographic actress and adult film director.
Aja starred in director John Leslie's Adult Video News
' Best Video of the Year award-winning Mad Love (1988) in a scene described as "notably [...] surreal" by author and Ohio University
Telecommunications graduate studies director Joseph W. Slade. AVN later declared the film one of the 500 best of all time, also describing Aja's scene as "strange"; she starred in two others among their 500 best, Alex deRenzy's Ghostess with the Mostess and Paul Thomas' The Naked Stranger, all in her first year as a performer, winning AVN's "Best New Starlet" in 1989.
In 1990, she starred in director Sharon Kane
's Stairway to Paradise, a film which was the subject of a study by University of California, Los Angeles
professor of psychiatry and human sexual relations specialist Robert Stoller
. In casting the film, writer Jim Holliday
"wanted Aja in the worst way and Sharon agreed. Aja is very box-officeable."
On September 16, 1992 she was one of four porn stars participating in the Porn-AM Golf Tournament in Denver, Colorado
organized by J.R. Wolfe as a benefit for the Adult Film and Video Association of America
's recently-formed Free Speech Legal Defense Fund
.
In 1994, Carnal Comics
published a comic book
rendition of her biography and how she became a porn star, which was reprinted three times.
Exotic dancer
The terms exotic dancer and exotic dance can have different meanings in different parts of the world and depending on context. In the erotic sense, "exotic dance" is a often used to refer to practitioners of striptease...
, pornographic actress and adult film director.
Aja starred in director John Leslie's Adult Video News
AVN (magazine)
Adult Video News is an American trade journal that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to pornographic films what Billboard is to records...
' Best Video of the Year award-winning Mad Love (1988) in a scene described as "notably [...] surreal" by author and Ohio University
Ohio University
Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...
Telecommunications graduate studies director Joseph W. Slade. AVN later declared the film one of the 500 best of all time, also describing Aja's scene as "strange"; she starred in two others among their 500 best, Alex deRenzy's Ghostess with the Mostess and Paul Thomas' The Naked Stranger, all in her first year as a performer, winning AVN's "Best New Starlet" in 1989.
In 1990, she starred in director Sharon Kane
Sharon Kane
Sharon Kane is an American bondage model and pornographic actress. She has appeared in many adult magazines and pornographic movies, in both dominant and submissive roles.She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame....
's Stairway to Paradise, a film which was the subject of a study by University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
professor of psychiatry and human sexual relations specialist Robert Stoller
Robert Stoller
Robert Jesse Stoller , was an American psychoanalyst.-Life and works:Stoller graduated with an M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco in 1948, and proceeded to join the psychiatry faculty at UCLA following his initial medical practice.Stoller was a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA...
. In casting the film, writer Jim Holliday
Jim Holliday
Jim Holliday was an American pornographic film director, critic, and historian.He was a founder and the honorary historian of the X-Rated Critics Organization....
"wanted Aja in the worst way and Sharon agreed. Aja is very box-officeable."
On September 16, 1992 she was one of four porn stars participating in the Porn-AM Golf Tournament in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
organized by J.R. Wolfe as a benefit for the Adult Film and Video Association of America
Adult Film Association of America
The Adult Film Association of America, the AFAA, was the first American association of pornographic film producers. It fought against censorship laws, attempted to defend the industry against prosecution for obscenity, and held an annual adult film awards ceremony.It was founded in 1969 in Kansas...
's recently-formed Free Speech Legal Defense Fund
Free Speech Coalition
The Free Speech Coalition is a non-profit trade association of the pornography and adult entertainment industry in the United States...
.
In 1994, Carnal Comics
Carnal Comics
Carnal Comics is an adults-only comic book imprint which has so-far been published by three companies: Revolutionary Comics , Re-Visionary Press and Opus Graphics...
published a comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
rendition of her biography and how she became a porn star, which was reprinted three times.