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Two leading sex performers of the Golden Age, Vanessa Del Rio and Annette Haven provide a sharp contrast. The better looking of the two, Annette played ice princesses while Vanessa played sluts.

Born 3/31/52 in Harlem, Vanessa Del Rio AKA Anna Maria Sanchez began doing loops in the early '70s. The Puerto Rican appeared on the big screen in 1974's Cherry Hustlers while her first big role came in Midnight Desires where she sucks down two cocks at once.

Vanessa would do anything. For a magazine shoot, she sucked milk out of a cow's udders. She starred in several loops with Luis Short-Studd, a dwarf, and "set projectors all over America a flame when she let the little fellow slip his fist up her elasticated bunghole." (Adam 5/80)

"I'm hotter in real life because the camera isn't going and there aren't any lights. When sex is personal, it's got to be hotter."

Anna Maria Sanchez attended Roman Catholic day schools. "One of my chores was to wash, starch and iron he nuns' and priests' vestments. But as a student, I would rather have fun than study. I busted loose in high school. I missed two days in eight years of Catholic school, but on the first day of high school, I was approached by the resident whore. "Wanna cut class?" she asked. That was the beginning of the end."

Sanchez lost her virginity at age 14. "My boyfriend was 18 and a virgin like me. We went to this porno movie house. The manager didn't care how old we were as long as we paid our two bucks. The theater showed triple features, but back then the type of f---ing they did was with their underwear on, and usually they were under the covers, not hardcore like today. But it was hot for the times.

"We sat in the balcony and my boyfriend pulled his cock out of his pants and wrapped my hand around it and taught me to jerk him off. We did this a few times, and finally we went back to his place when his parents weren't home and f---ed our brains out. From that time on, it was f---, f---, f--- whenever and wherever I could." (Adam 5/80)

A free spirit, Vanessa spent two years traveling around with a guy in his VW bus. "We were outlaws. I worked as a barmaid and a go-go dancer, and that opened me up. Then a friend of mine called me up and asked me if I wanted to go to Sweden on short notice. He said I'd make f--- films at fifty dollars per film and three films a day.

"I was so excited and I needed money. I didn't know anything about acting but I sure knew how to f---. Before I knew it, I was in the movies and I went nuts. I f---ed everyone on the set, including the cameraman."

In other interviews, Vanessa doesn't sound nearly as enthusiastic about her time in porn, saying that she only did it because her family needed the money. Generally speaking, porn queens, like the rest of us, say what people want to hear.

"I remember there was one small company, that used to do loops and were known for wearing out the actors. He would just keep shooting. I saw this girl, just her face, and it was, 'Can we just get out of here?' And it was funny because the camera was behind her so they couldn't see her face and the guy is f---ing her from behind and I was looking on because I was behind the scenes. She had the most disgusted look on her face, and the camera couldn't see. She had her chin on her hand, almost strumming her fingers, and she looked totally disgusted. 'All right already.' And the guy's just going at it. And sometimes what happens is that if you do that for too long, the guy can't come. He has a hard-on, but he can't come, because it's so much stop and start that it almost gets stuck on hard-on and the producer would take full advantage of that that and just shoot from every conceivable angle to get the all this footage.

"The guys have the harder job. A woman can fake it. She puts on high heels and stockings and she can prance around fake being sexy just by looking sexy. With a guy, he has to show that he's turned on. These guys are sex machines. The last time I did sex movies, 1986, I noticed that the guys balls were smaller than I remembered. That's because they use them so much." (Mentertainment interview by Sophie)

AFW: "As though driven by the demons of a pre-Columbian time, she attacks each sex scene in a frenzy of lust that bares her teeth and flares her nostrils. Love and goodness pour from her like rain, as she washes over her lover with the expansive generosity of the gods.

"With the body of a warrior queen, fine tuned in the gymnasiums and weight rooms of Manhattan, Vanessa brings extraordinary power to the screen. Unleashed before the camera, she explodes with the fury of a tropical storm, drenching her bedmates with primal energy.

"Every part of her is built for sex. With her thundering thighs locked around a man's pelvis he is powerless to escape. Her lips are legend. Big as beefsteaks and hungry as a forty-niner, they could suck cum from a bowling pin. These are lips that love cock - the bigger the better." (AFW 3/87)

In Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio, she demonstrates sex toys on Liz Randall. "Butt to butt and bucking hard, they are beautiful. For a finale, the Big V on the Big Five. Juggling all those cocks and bringing them to a spectacular climax, she orchestrates the spurting salvos of cum like so many hoses on a harbor fireboat."(AFW 3/87)

In 1986, Vanessa did her last film, Dr. Lust. Shortly afterward, she was arrested, convicted and jailed for drug possession. Her time in confinement allowed her to rethink her values, and turn her life around. She decided to quit porn. Settling down in Brooklyn, she struggled to write a book about her life (yet unfinished) and began to work out her muscles seriously. For several months, she flirted with competing in body building contests but eventually decided against it.

Vanessa appeared in an episode of NYPD Blue in February, 1996, playing a retired porn queen harassed by a fan. Del Rio still strips in clubs, poses for magazines and internet sex sites, and signs autographs at porn conventions and sex shops. "The stores are particularly fun. You stand there and a big crowd of guys come and they are just standing there in front of you just staring at you. This would be weird for some people, being the center of attention in fluorescent light in a store, as opposed to on a stage, where you are performing and the bright lights are only on you. There are no lights going off, there are no costumes, you're not performing… You just stand there. So, my sense of humor has developed in these situations. What else are you going to do? They're staring at you, you're staring at them and somebody should say something to break the ice. Few of these guys are jerks. They're generally intimidated, like little boys." (Mentertainment)

3/28/01

Vanessa Del Rio writes: Hi Luke I have been getting e-mail regarding escorting! I DO NOT do Escorting! I don't know where you got that from>>>PLEASE remove escorting statement

I run my own site and will be doing Cam Appearances soon, this you can put on your site! You can keep my link and I will link back to you! But PLEASE no false advertising! Thanks Hon! Lusty Kisses! Con Fuego y Passione! Vanessa aka "Nasty Nessa!"