Candice Vadala

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Candida Royalle
Candida Royalle at the 2013 CineKink awards
Royalle at the 2013 CineKink awards
Born Candice Marion Vadala
October 15, 1950
New York City, New York U.S.
Died September 7, 2015(2015-09-07) (aged 64)
Mattituck, New York, U.S.
Other names Candace Chambers, Candice Ball, Candice Chambers, Candida Royalle
Height 5'3"
Website
candidaroyalle.org

Candida Royalle (born Candice Marion Vadala; October 15, 1950 – September 7, 2015) was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame.[1][2]

Early life and education

Royalle was born Candice Marion Vadala in New York City on October 15, 1950.[3] Initially trained in music, dance and art in New York City, she studied at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design and the City University of New York.[4]

Career

After graduating from Parsons School of Design, she began performing with the avant-garde theater group The Cockettes and in 1975 played Divine's daughter in the play The Heartbreak of Psoriasis.[5][6][7]

In 1975, she began her career as a pornographic performer,[8] appearing in about 25 movies before retiring in 1980 with Blue Magic, which she also wrote.[9]

In 1984, Royalle founded Femme Productions, with the goal of making erotica based on female desire, as well as pornographic films aimed at helping couple therapy. Her productions are aimed more to women and couples than to the standard pornographic audience of men, and have been praised by counselors and therapists for depicting healthy and realistic sexual activity.[10]

Royalle stated that she tried to avoid "misogynous predictability", and depiction of sex in "…as grotesque and graphic [a way] as possible." She also criticized the male-centredness of the typical pornographic film, in which scenes end when the male actor ejaculates. Royalle's films are not "goal oriented" towards a final "cum shot"; instead, her films depict sexual activity within the broader context of women's emotional and social lives.[11] In 1989, she signed the Post Porn Modernist Manifesto.[12]

Royalle wrote regular columns for adult magazines High Society and Cheri.[13] She was also a public speaker, giving lectures at Smithsonian Institution, the World Congress on Sexology, and numerous universities and professional conferences.[14]

In 2004, she authored the book How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do.[14]

A five-track EP titled Candida Cosmica, a collaboration between Royalle and Patrick Cowley from the mid-1970s, was released in October 2016 by Dark Entries Records.[15]

Affiliations

Royalle was a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists,[16] and a founding board member of Feminists for Free Expression.[17]

Personal life and death

In the 1980s, Royalle was married to producer Per Sjostedt.[18] In May 2006, she announced that she was engaged to be married.[19] She died in Mattituck, New York[14] on September 7, 2015, aged 64, from ovarian cancer.[4][20]

In media

In 2019, Candice, a documentary about Royalle's life and finding out what happened to her mother who left her as a child, was screened at various documentary film festivals.[21][22][23] It was directed by Sheona McDonald and distributed by Mbur Indie Film Distribution.[24]

References

  1. "XRCO Hall of Fame". http://www.dirtybob.com/xrco/hall.htm. 
  2. "AVN Hall of Fame". Adult Video News. http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php. 
  3. Robets, Sam (September 11, 2015). "Candida Royalle, Who Made Erotic Films for Women, Dies at 64". https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/movies/candida-royalle-maker-of-x-rated-films-dies-at-64.html. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Vanmetre, Elizabeth (September 7, 2015). "Former porn star turned director Candida Royalle dies at age 64". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/candida-royalle-dies-age-64-article-1.2351467. 
  5. Stanley, John (February 21, 1988). "Film Maker Gives Erotica A Woman's Point of View". San Francisco Examiner. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29981663/. 
  6. Alilunas, Peter (2016) (in en). Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video. Univ of California Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780520291706. https://books.google.com/books?id=jpUkDQAAQBAJ&q=candida+royalle+cockettes&pg=PA132. Retrieved March 27, 2019. 
  7. Eichelbaum, Stanley (June 20, 1975). "A musical comedy that's sheer agony". San Francisco Examiner. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29981342/. 
  8. "Candida Royalle iafd bio". http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=Royalle/gender=female. 
  9. "Candida Royalle". http://candidaroyalle.com/blog/faqs/. 
  10. "Discourses of Desire: Liberals, Feminists, and the Politics of Pornography in the 1980s -- Cameron 2 (4): 784 -- American Literary History". alh.oxfordjournals.org. http://alh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/2/4/784. 
  11. illy Bragge, "Girls on top", The Age, June 16, 2004.
  12. "15 Worst Pick Up Lines You've Ever Heard In Hindi - Enjoy The Rainny Romance". May 2019. https://www.bgsraw.in/2019/05/15-worst-pick-up-lines-youve-ever-heardin-hindi-translate-enjoy-the-rainny-romance.html. 
  13. Lyon, Jason. "New York Stories: The Adult Industry's Past … and Present". Adult Video News. http://business.avn.com/articles/video/New-York-Stories-The-Adult-Industry-s-Past-and-Present-597244.html. 
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Kernes, Mark. "Famed Actress/Director Candida Royalle Passes". Adult Video News. http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Famed-Actress-Director-Candida-Royalle-Passes-606042.html. 
  15. Lefebvre, Sam (August 5, 2016). "Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/arts/music/patrick-cowley-disco-reissues.html. 
  16. Zeiss Stange, Mary; Oyster, Carol K.; Sloan, Jane E. (2013). The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE Publications. p. 291. ISBN 9781452270685. https://books.google.com/books?id=PTMTBwAAQBAJ&q=American+Association+of+Sex+Educators%2C+Counselors+and+Therapists+Candida+Royalle&pg=PA291. 
  17. Denfeld, Rene (2009). The New Victorians. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9780446565233. https://books.google.com/books?id=g0xZenCvYcoC&q=Feminists+for+Free+Expression+Candida+Royalle&pg=PT98. 
  18. Williams, Linda (1989). Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "frenzy of the Visible". University of California Press. pp. 246–247. ISBN 0520066529. https://archive.org/details/hardcore00will. Retrieved February 28, 2016. "Per Sjostedt candida." 
  19. Abby Ehmann (May 16, 2006). "Candida Royalle". Eros NY. http://www.eros-ny.com/articles/2006-05-16/candida_royalle0516/. 
  20. Celona, Larry (September 7, 2015). "Orphaned ex-porn star dies of cancer". https://nypost.com/2015/09/07/orphaned-ex-porn-star-dies-of-cancer. 
  21. Gee, Dana (April 26, 2019). "Godmother of feminist porn is focus of new doc Candice | Vancouver Sun" (in en). Vancouver Sun. https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/movies/godmother-of-feminist-porn-is-focus-of-new-doc-candice. 
  22. Shepherd, Jeremy (May 3, 2019). "Doc examines life of adult film star turned feminist icon". North Shore News. https://www.nsnews.com/entertainment/film/doc-examines-life-of-adult-film-star-turned-feminist-icon-1.23810935. 
  23. Lamble, David. "What's up, DocFest?" (in en). The Bay Area Reporter (The Bay Area Reporter). https://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/movies//276509. 
  24. "Mbur Indie Film Distribution". https://www.mbur.com/candice-candida-royalle-documentary. 

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