Merle Michaels' boyfriend encouraged her to get into porn. "One day he brought home a copy of Screw - I'd never seen it before. We sat and read the classifieds, and I laughed at them. He said, "Now here's a job for you."

It was an ad for nude modeling.

Merle worked for filmmaker Carter Stevens who sold Merle's nude pictures to a mens magazine. Then he offered her work in a loop. (Genesis 8/91)

"What's a loop?" Merle asked. She found out it was film of a sex scene without the encumbrance of dialogue and plot. Merle did about two-dozen loops before moving on to porn features.

Games People Play is her favorite flick with its emotional and erotic scenes with Jack Wrangler and Kelly Nichols. Merle Michaels also appears in Fascination, Young, Wild and Wonderful and Afternoon Delights.

Merle never led a film. "I don't have big enough tits."

Her biggest change in personal sex life from working porn came in her fantasies. She used to dream about group sex. While doing porn, she dreams about individual relationships.

"It's become personal and thrilling to have a man come inside of me. It's just so private and I feel it in such a localized way that it gives me chills through my whole body.

"I love watching men and women come." (Genesis 8/91)

Merle says she orgasmed in a scene with two construction workers in Afternoon Delights. "I loved being stuffed with men...that feeling in so many parts of my body at one time.

"I recognize the importance of my sexuality, but I also recognize the importance of intellect, and the part of my nature that is perceptive. There's also a nurturing part of me - I'll make a terrific mom. I don't think that the business will have demanded memorably, or in any way made me unfit to be a mother. I'll be a great wife, and when that time comes, I'll sacrifice the porno part of me, but I'll never sacrifice the sexuality.

"I decided that the day I get up in the morning of a shoot and think, "I don't want to do this," or the day I say "Can I have a toke of your joint?" just so I can do a scene...that's the day when I'll stop." (Genesis 8/91)

Between films, Merle worked towards her college degree in journalism.

Merle's first sex occurred with her little girlfriend Michelle.

"My mom said, "Now, no boys. Boys are bad. Don't do anything with boys."