Samantha Fox quit porn in 1984. She was Chuck Vincent's favorite until 1979 when he traded her in for Veronica Hart. Despite quality performances in over 100 features, Fox never made it to the X-rated Critics Organization's Hall of Fame because of her criticism of the industry.

Her real name is Stasia Micula.

Her first sexual experience came in the Holy Land at age nine. She'd climbed in the hills with a ten-year old boy.

"I lured him into a cave, grabbed him, and started kissing him passionately all over. I made him show me his bottom and his genitals."

Stasia first made a guy come at age 14. "We were riding bikes and it was night, so we parked along the street and went into the bushes. I was notorious in my neighborhood for being found in the local hedges. I gave him a hand job and he came all over my sweater.

"When I was 15, the people I baby-sat for had Playboy and I was fascinated by the beautiful women. I remember feeling hot; I used to get wet between my legs just seeing the pictures."

Micula lost her virginity at 16. "I had been to the drive-in with this guy many times; we had kissed passionately, and he had felt me up over my clothes, under my clothes, and had finger-f---ed me. We were ready to go all the way and it was wonderful. I remember that it took us about two hours just to get our clothes off."

"She found boys irresistable," says a male friend of Micula. "She took me to a park in her hometown of Yonkers, New York, and we sat on a four-foot brick wall which on one side was a dirt path and the other side overgrown weeds. She told me that in her teens she used to f--- anyone who asked her. She believed that none of her lovers would gossip about her. When she got a reputation in her youth as an easy lay, she had no more reputation to uphold and continued f---ing indiscriminately until she figured out she could support herself by selling her body."

Stasia Micula studied art at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County. "Then she wound up in the city and the story of modeling nude leading to sucking cock on screen is the way she told it to me. She said she was motivated to become famous as a slut so that all the boys who banged her behind that wall would one day come looking for some famous pussy. She'd then rebuke them, thus spurning the boys who set her on this lurid path.

"Stasia was a keen part of the New York Studio 54 scene of the mid-late '70s. Her husband was a dentist who had easy access to drugsand they lived a licentious lifestyle. He had no objections to her sauntering into the legendary Pete's Tavern on New York's lower East Side and letting her lust hang out. She'd regularly bring tricks back to their apartment and f--- their brains out."

Before starting in porno movies, Stasia says she was a bored housewife, dabbling in drugs, playing with herself and the guy next door every day.

"My husband suggested that I get into nude pictures. About three months later, I walked into this office and the guy said, "I want to use you for the lead in my movie."

Samantha asked her husband if she could do the porno flick and he asked her how much money she'd make. Samantha said she hoped to make a lot of money, and he told her to go for it.

The couple eventually divorced.

"I thought that X-rated films were one big orgy.

"In my first film, I was a 25-year old eager beaver, so I volunteered to do the fluffing.

"Fluffing is an expression used in the industry to describe girls hired solely to get guys hard and keep them up. If the actress had too much sex that day, or too many guys in one scene, girls known as fluffers come in and keep the guys titillated and warm.

"They give them nice blowjobs. It's like being a sultan. The man sits back and says, "This is what I like. First lick the tip of the cock and kiss it gently, then take your tongue and lick it up and down in smooth long strokes. When you get to the bottom, tickle around and breathe on my balls slowly and sensuously; hum a little to give it vibrations.""

Samantha started in porn in 1977. Her favorite film was her first - Here Cums the Bride. "I f---ed and sucked everything on the set. The crew loved me."

Another Samantha favorite is Her Name Was Lisa. "It paralleled my life. At the time I was a drug addict. I had to play an addict that goes from bad to worse. It happens to a lot of hookers. I liked it because the acting was juicy. I got to die, lie in a coffin for six hours. The sex was super-hot. The producer had the good sense to hire a man that was hot, and I got to be with Vanessa Del Rio...my hottest lesbian scene."

Samantha's first lesbian experience came while hooking, before she did any X-rated films. "Some of my clients asked if they could have two girls at once. So I got another girl to come over and we ended up doing twosomes all the time. We got paid more for it, men liked it, and we liked each other."

Life in the sex business means life on the edge and it eventually cut too close for Samantha's liking.

"Once, I was sent on a call to an airport motel where I was supposed to meet a guy in the bar called Tom. I was supposed to know who he was by where he was sitting and what he was drinking, but the wasn't there.

"I went to the phone booth and I called my madam and told her I didn't see the guy. She told me to sit quietly.

"All of a sudden the phone in the booth rang. I picked it up and someone said, "Is Samantha there?"

"I said, "Yes," and the guy says, "This is Tom. I am in the lobby but I can see you from where I am. I want you to go to the lobby, sign your name in and there will be a key waiting for you. Then I want you to go to the room on the key, undress and take a shower. You must not have any perfume on."

"So I did all this and I felt like an asshole. I did it because my madam said it was safe and I was supposed to get a lot of money from this guy.

"The phone rang and the guy said, "I want you to lie on the bed completely nude. Is your perfume off?" I said "Yes."

"I want you to lie face down and turn off all the lights," he said. So I did.

"I was nervous. I made sure to bring a couple of drinks to the room, and though, and they were helping me along... I went over to the bed and I laid down."

"The door opens; he said "Don't look, keep your head down in the pillow. Then he said, "I smell perfume." I said, "That's on my clothes. I can't get that off." So he made me shower again. He told me not to look at him, so I didn't. When I came out, the lights were on and this man was face-down on the bed and there were ropes and stuff. He said to me, "Tie me up." So I did. Then he said, "See the whips on the side of the bed? I want you to start whipping me." I was doing it lightly and he said, "No, I want you to make big welts on me, and I want you to untie one hand." I had his feet and hands tied together. He said, "I want you to untie my right hand so I can jerk off."

"I hit him a few times and he was hard, so he jerked off with his right hand, then he said to me, "All right, now untie me." As soon as I untied him, he pounced on me, tied me up, took out a knife and came at me. His left hand had the knife, his right hand was jerking himself off, and I was freaked."

As he slit Samantha's left breast with the knife, he ejaculated.

"My heart pounded. But he made just a scratch. But how much did I know that was going to happen? The second he saw the blood, he came, and I remember going, "Ooh," and bending down with my tongue.

"The blood is delicious," I said. "I love blood, I love blood." And then he smacked me across the face and said, "That's enough, I came. Now you can shower again." And he says, "I'll pay you extra. I didn't intend on stabbing you." He gave me a lot of money, and as he left he said, "Do not leave the room or call anyone for ten minutes."

"It didn't make me give up hooking; it made me give up that madam and open my own business. I told her she sucked for putting me through such things. What if he went one step further?"

Samantha's favorite sex position is missionary because she like to kiss. "I also like to touch a person all over while I'm getting f---ed, and I like them to touch me. I'm old-fashioned. I like the good humping position and I think men probably like that best."

"Samantha got into X-rated films with gusto," says a friend of hers. "She loved getting boffed by well-hung studs and it gave her a much needed purpose that was missing from her life. As an alcoholic, her life was often devoid of discipline and structure, but being on the set required her to concentrate. Her performances demonstrated her relish for acting and sharing her many sides with the audience. From ball buster to comic coquette, Sam's characters came from the inside. A sexual firecracker off screen, she oozed craven cocklust on it.

"Sam and I had a nine month dalliance in 1991. She was seeing me surreptitiously as she lived with Bobby Astyr at the time. The origin of our relationship was a doting cold call by me, confessing to be a great admirer. After a frosty opening, she warmed to me and even agreed to meet for dinner in New York.

"The evening was one of the most memorable of my life. She was sophisticated, charming and affectionate. Although she had embraced Christianity with fervor, she was willing to discuss her X-rated career with a sly sense of humor. When I suggested to her that at the time, the big-budget porno film held promise as a new form of artistic expression she dismissed the notion saying, 'Kelly (Nichols) and Jane (Veronica Hart) both thought this way. I knew it was smut all along.'

"She had a mercurial personality. At times I felt that love in its purest form was being with her when all was right between us. Yet, she was prone to the most egregious mood swings imaginable. I once made the error of leaving a message on her machine with the unfortunate phrase, "I had some time to kill so I thought I'd give you a call." Later that evening she called me at my job and screeched, "I don't need to get messages from you liek the one you left today. Find someone else to kill your time with."

"And so it was for most of my time with her. We never made love. The most we did was kiss and pet lightly. I was in no rush, because I was in it for the long haul... The seminal erotic moment of the relationship came about three weeks before she broke us off. Over the telephone, she inquired about the size and shape of my member over the telephone. Until then our romance was more ethereal. On this occassion she determined to pursue her dirty thoughts and I obliged every one of them.

"We were interrupted before climax by Bobby Astyr's arrival, but she later confessed to me that she came five times and was "quivering so much that I felt as though I were walking around with an electric prong up my ass."

"When I was last with her [early '90s], Stasia was working toward a degree in physical therapy from Hunter College. She was devoted to getting this degree despite her frustration with math. She made her living by teaching aerobics to elderly ladies in posh Fifth Avenue apartments."

In 1997, Sam still lived on the East Side with Bobby Astyr, born around 1940. Together for 20 years, they claim they're relationship has always been monogamous.

Astyr pursues martial arts, massage and carpentry. "Doing X-rated movies wasn't some kind of apocalyptic experience," he says. "It was an adolescent fantasy come true. I miss it. It was great while it lasted."

SWANK magazine: "As a rule, hookers don't pose and posers don't hook. With porn films, a girl loses her privacy, something important to a hooker. And in hooking, you lose your star status and selectivity, which is vital to being a sex star.

"Siobhan Hunter worked for Cache, the exclusive escort agency owned by Sidney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower madam."

SWANK is wrong. At least half of porn girls yesterday, today and tomorrow have, do, and will trade sex for money. Most of them don't think of themselves as hookers, but female performers commonly do tricks with favorite johns. Most female performers dance and many, if not most, dancers turn tricks. Anyway, the definition of prostitute is one who trades sex for payment. Effectively, by this Oxford American Dictionary definition, all X-rated performers are prostitutes.