English
That's 'Slut' with a capital 'S'
Could history get more oral? By Dian Hanson and Vanessa del Rio
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Even now, when there are no film sets to get to, no photo shoots waiting, Vanessa del Rio wakes up early. She says she's afraid of missing something - a sliver of life, some passing pleasure. Vanessa proudly admits pleasure rules her life, from music and massage to food, dancing, drink, recreational nudism and recreational sex - especially recreational sex. The 10-dollar word for her is ebullient, meaning "full of cheerful excitement or enthusiasm." She's always laughing, at herself and the absurdity of the world and her place in it. She laughs telling jaw-dropping stories about her career as an erotic pioneer. She laughs about gunfights and obscenity busts and finding herself on the floor of a burlesque stage before 500 screaming fans with a busted knee and no way to get up. She can even laugh about growing up lonely and the chances of a slut aging gracefully, because at 54 she's alive and thriving, and still eager for each new day. Profoundly female, Vanessa is not girlish. There's something bullish in her ebullience, a strapping and robust athleticism.Within this physical frame her consuming sexuality feels as natural as perspiration after a hard workout. Her body is more Neolithically lush than in youth: breasts heavier, thighs thicker, buttocks rounder. Her skin is still the same smooth caramel, her thick mane still blue-black, her lips as outrageous as ever. Vanessa proudly possesses the world's most carnal mouth; even in baby pictures her lips seem slightly obscene. Never a parsimonious virgin's pucker for Vanessa, no lipless spinster's slit. That glorious orifice was always generous to a fault, cut wide and deep to accommodate her legendary appetite for all things oral. And I mean all; what comes out is just as astonishing as what's gone in.
In casual conversation she'll say, "Did I mention one of my fantasies is going into a prison and attacking the prisoners, just sucking the testosterone out of them like a queen bee with her drones?" followed by her huge hearty laugh. Or "Did I tell you about the time I was supposed to be a bridesmaid at my friend's Valentine's Day wedding, when she was marrying a man who was in prison for rape, but I couldn't do it because I was in prison too?" Then she'll segue into some technical problem with her highly successful website. I yell,"Don't say those things unless the tape recorder's on!" and she just laughs and says, "Oh, that's nothing. I've got better stuff than that."
I've learned not to argue. Controlling her is out of the question. Vanessa is ever uncensored, with all topics given the same conversational weight.When you read later in this book why she was the one to perform the most outrageous acts in '70s sex films, consider that the conversation occurred in a crowded restaurant, with Vanessa's voice at its usual booming pitch. Sure, there's some exhibitionism in play when one says "ass eating" in public, but with Vanessa it's mostly that irrepressible ebullience. And why shouldn't she be cheerfully enthusiastic? Vanessa has beaten the system. She rose out of poverty, took life on her own terms, never apologized, never expressed regret, only briefly renounced her hedonistic lifestyle, and by staying true to the path she created has become a celebrated cultural icon.
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Even now, when there are no film sets to get to, no photo shoots waiting, Vanessa del Rio wakes up early. She says she's afraid of missing something - a sliver of life, some passing pleasure. Vanessa proudly admits pleasure rules her life, from music and massage to food, dancing, drink, recreational nudism and recreational sex - especially recreational sex. The 10-dollar word for her is ebullient, meaning "full of cheerful excitement or enthusiasm." She's always laughing, at herself and the absurdity of the world and her place in it. She laughs telling jaw-dropping stories about her career as an erotic pioneer. She laughs about gunfights and obscenity busts and finding herself on the floor of a burlesque stage before 500 screaming fans with a busted knee and no way to get up. She can even laugh about growing up lonely and the chances of a slut aging gracefully, because at 54 she's alive and thriving, and still eager for each new day. Profoundly female, Vanessa is not girlish. There's something bullish in her ebullience, a strapping and robust athleticism.Within this physical frame her consuming sexuality feels as natural as perspiration after a hard workout. Her body is more Neolithically lush than in youth: breasts heavier, thighs thicker, buttocks rounder. Her skin is still the same smooth caramel, her thick mane still blue-black, her lips as outrageous as ever. Vanessa proudly possesses the world's most carnal mouth; even in baby pictures her lips seem slightly obscene. Never a parsimonious virgin's pucker for Vanessa, no lipless spinster's slit. That glorious orifice was always generous to a fault, cut wide and deep to accommodate her legendary appetite for all things oral. And I mean all; what comes out is just as astonishing as what's gone in.
In casual conversation she'll say, "Did I mention one of my fantasies is going into a prison and attacking the prisoners, just sucking the testosterone out of them like a queen bee with her drones?" followed by her huge hearty laugh. Or "Did I tell you about the time I was supposed to be a bridesmaid at my friend's Valentine's Day wedding, when she was marrying a man who was in prison for rape, but I couldn't do it because I was in prison too?" Then she'll segue into some technical problem with her highly successful website. I yell,"Don't say those things unless the tape recorder's on!" and she just laughs and says, "Oh, that's nothing. I've got better stuff than that."
I've learned not to argue. Controlling her is out of the question. Vanessa is ever uncensored, with all topics given the same conversational weight.When you read later in this book why she was the one to perform the most outrageous acts in '70s sex films, consider that the conversation occurred in a crowded restaurant, with Vanessa's voice at its usual booming pitch. Sure, there's some exhibitionism in play when one says "ass eating" in public, but with Vanessa it's mostly that irrepressible ebullience. And why shouldn't she be cheerfully enthusiastic? Vanessa has beaten the system. She rose out of poverty, took life on her own terms, never apologized, never expressed regret, only briefly renounced her hedonistic lifestyle, and by staying true to the path she created has become a celebrated cultural icon.
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Vanessa del Rio - Art Edition
Hardcover + Box + DVD 11.8 x 11.8 in., 396 pages
$ 1500.00
$ 1500.00
Fifty years of slightly slutty behavior. Limited to 200 numbered copies, each signed by Vanessa del Rio, accompanied by a signed and numbered Robert Crumb lithography.
The signed and numbered Robert Crumb lithography that comes with the Collector's Edition.
Still from Babylon Pink, 1979, courtesy of Cecil Howard and Command Video, (c) 1981 CCC