Show Notes
When you think of adult video vixens in the 1980s, you may think of Ginger Lynn, Christy Canyon, or Traci Lords. But they weren’t the only fan favorites on the scene.
Take Tina Marie: she was like a Robert Crumb goddess come to life. She started out in men’s magazines and sex loops in the early 1980s, and quickly moved on to starring roles in feature films before stepping behind the camera to produce and direct adult movies with her husband Mark Carriere.
It wasn’t the professional path Tina imagined for herself growing up as the daughter of a fundamentalist Samoan minister in New Zealand and Trinidad. And while it was a career that introduced Tina to many things she prizes to this day, it was a job that came at an existential price: how do you reconcile the idea of yourself that you grew up with – the dutiful daughter, the spiritual sister, the good girl – with the adult industry powerhouse you became?
In this first part of her story, Tina Marie talks about growing up as a preacher’s daughter, finding and starting to question her identity, getting her start in porn, and the wild party scene that wrapped around the adult industry.
This podcast is 64 minutes long.
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Tina Marie
Laurie Smith with Tina Marie
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