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Kaitlyn Ashley "is a dishwater blonde who has super-hooters," writes AFW's Jeremy Stone, "a nasty gleam in her eye and the kind of give it up attitude that should be mandatory for porn queens. Kaitlyn gives sloppy blowjobs with relish, takes a thick dick in her s---ter with a wicked smile on her face... Kaitlyn has a meaty labia... about a quarter pound of cunt lips, fat and juicy with a fetching shade of pink."

Porn's best actress, Kaitlyn appears in over 200 features, frequently with her husband Jay Ashley. She stars in Sodomania 6, Anal Rampage 2, Tales From the Clit, Buttslammers 6, Oral Obsession, The Starlet, and Shame.

"Shame is about women getting in touch with their power," Kaitlyn told AVN. "Shame is part Indian, part white and is torn between both cultures. At first my character, the pioneer woman, is a real Scarlet O'Hara; I rely on men for everything. Then I'm kidnapped by the Cavalry who are trying to start a war with the Indians. Shame busts me out of jail and teaches me assertiveness. It's a wonderful story, very spiritual."

Ashley stands 5'5", weighs 110 pounds and measures 34D-24-35. She displays on screen a vulnerable quality similar to that of actress Melanie Griffith. In her early work, Kaitlyn's hands tremble. "Is she porno's answer to Katherine Hepburn?" asks critic Roy Frumkes. "Whatever the cause, it's a rare instance where the dream factory falters for a few moments and we get a glimpse of a real person out there, and in this case, may find ourselves worrying about her."

Ashley displays her natural breasts in the laser disc Capitol Desires. In the release Sex Alert, made a year later according to the copyright, the size of her tits triple.

"I've always thought myself fat. My biggest way to lose weight was to starve myself. The first place I lose weight is my boobs. They began to look like empty wallets. I was losing work, because my boobs weren't as perky... So, in December of 1993, I got them enhanced. And that's when my career took off."

After Jay returned from eight months duty as a marine in Somalia, the couple moved to California in April, 1993. Jay wanted to enter porn and Kaitlyn said she'd try it. They tried it (Beach Bum Amateurs 32) and they liked it.

"The only problem I had was making noise," says Kaitlyn. "I don't usually make noise when I f--- at home."

Born on June 29, 1971, and raised in the party town of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kaitlyn has 50 boxcovers to her credit. She prefers big budget films and her favorite girl to work with is Debi Diamond.

"Debi is like a mother or a sister...always looking out for me. During a scene, she's wild.

"When I came into this business I was fortunate to have Nina Hartley on my side. Nina sat John and I down and told us, "This is what you have to look out for..."

"She didn't tell us what to do, but she gave us a lot of advice on what to look out for. If anybody wants to get into this business, it's fine if you can have sex without putting your emotions into it."

Kaitlyn wants to be a veterinarian. Her house is a zoo with a rottweiler, a border collie, a Pomeranian, a cat and a snake and different stray animals.

Ashley made her first feature for Paul Thomas, American Blonde where she does Janine with a strap-on.

Buttslammers 6 was Kaitlyn's first time with Bruce Seven. "He's easy to work for. He likes to see women have fun. He doesn't have a script. He lets the girls do what they want to do.

"If you're in a bondage film for him, and anything hurts, you let him know. He doesn't make girls do anything that they don't want to do."

Kaitlyn's ambition is to be as popular and successful as Ginger Lynn.

"Ashley's a f--- machine who screws like some trailer-park tornado slut. Too bad she's as ugly as a moose. Her boobs were malformed when they were small and are even more ridiculous blown up to D-cup size. The doctor making her nipples point south proves he must be a Hippocratic oaf.

"But she does f--- hard and reminds me of the chick every high school guy likes to screw in the backseat of his Nova at the end of a Saturday night if he's already struck out with the A-list babes." (HEVG 11/94 p.23)

David Clark explained porn archetypes in an article for AFW. "The Bleach-Blonde Uberskunk includes Kaitlyn Ashley, Debi Diamond, Tiffany Lords, Rebecca Wild and Tianna Taylor. These women go blonde figuring its more sexy and glamorous. TBBU earns the sobriquet "uberskunk" for their willingness to f--- their way through an army of Troglodytes for $5000 and a box cover. They usually embrace the far ends of the fitness scale - the result of heavy partying in their salad days followed by rabid devotion to exercise once they clean up.... Whether or not they really are on drugs, you'd think they were by the proof of their tenuous grasp on simple problems of logic and perception - things like their particular place on the food chain, where they left their boyfriend's car keys, the length of the average porn actress's career…"

Neither lesbian nor thesbian scenes frighten Kaitlyn. "I do emotional recall. I associate myself with a situation that might have happened ten or fifteen years ago. I do that, and I'm right there... I took four years of drama in high school.

"My husband Jay has always picked my wardrobe. He picks my CES dresses and every outfit I've ever worn."

The Ashleys owned a pet Rotweiler named Dahmer, as in Jeffrey. "The first day we brought him home, little fluffball, my husband was playing with him, and he took a chunk out of his finger. It's effective when strangers come up to you and start hassling you. All I have to say is "Dahmer.' He's protective of me. If I take him out for a walk and somebody approaches me, he's down by my side just looking at the person. And if they motion toward me, he'll start growling."

In VCA's Superstars Sex Challenge directed by Paul Norman, Kaitlyn competed with Tammi Ann in a porn version of the TV show American Gladiators. As a penalty for a foul against Tammi while they ran through an obstacle course, Ashley got thrown in the penalty box for three minutes with Ron Jeremy. "I wasn't allowed to do anything to him, but he could do anything to me. And I was pushing him away and everything. (Laughs) He's a nice guy. I like him. Besides, anyone who can suck his own dick is a real pro." (The X Factory)

Jay Ashley took over Zane's Cherry Poppers series from Max Hardcore, beginning with volume 12. He copies the Hardcore attitude, but his heart is not in it. The "whore, slut, bitch" rantings are a pale imitation and at one stage the cameraman says, "Talk it up," when Jay gets almost romantic with Paisley Hunter. The blackmail "Put out or I'll tell your parents" is also missing although there is one quasi-rape sequence. "Feminists and women will still hate the series and the blue noses will consider it kiddie porn - the girls are still in their little dresses and sucking lollipops," notes Pat Riley.

Pat ranks Cherry Poppers 13 as one of the best videos of 1995. "A return to some of the great themes of yesteryear with overtones of underage sex, gorgeous females and an exceedingly dominant but not brutal male [Jay Ashley].

"If you like 'em [women] big, gross, fat, aged, siliconized, slutty, like the majority of porn stars, look elsewhere. If you want a plot - spoilt yuppie trying to decide if he wants a divorce - keep looking [try Paul Thomas]...

"...Casey asks Jay about puppies (maybe he's her father and has promised to buy her a puppy)... He unbuttons her white blouse... They screw with a [Paul] Little-imitation downward press (give it up, Jay, be your own guy). Jay trolls the streets and comes across this vision: blonde with hair in pony tails, petite body, short red plaid-pleated skirt and matching halter top... He tells her she shouldn't be wandering the streets and takes her inside to call her parents. She asks to use the bathroom and Jay peeks (just like you and I would) but she doesn't mind so he joins her and finds out she's not wearing any underwear. This leads to a screw on the bathroom vanity including an anal ending in the usual facial..."

Jay Ashley appears in every scene of Cherry Poppers 14. "Too much mechanical copying of the Paul Little technique: stick your fingers up the girl's asshole and push so that they almost come through the back wall of her vagina. The problem is that Zane Entertainment have mixed up...being brutal with the girl and the idea of underage sex." (X-Rated Videotape Guide 6, p. 148)

Jay did a gay scene early in his career that earns the frequent barbs of HEVG columnist Sid Deuce.

Kaitlyn was ready to sign a contract with VCA Pictures when Jay's drug problems caused the company to withdraw the offer.

"I'm Italian and German, and have the temper of both," says Kaitlyn. "I had this big wicker shelf set with all my figurines on it. I took it, picked it up and threw it across the room."

Kaitlyn and Jay separated for several months in 1995-1996 but eventually reunited. Those parts of Kaitlyn that Jay couldn't satisfy were soothed for a time by fellow performer Sindee Coxx.

In mid 1997, Kaitlyn divorced Jay and got a new boyfriend, a DJ she met while stripping in a club. He does one sex scene with her in The Private Diary of Tori Welles.

In late 1997, Ashley moved to the East Coast for a break that may turn into permanent retirement from porn.