Taboo

Juliet Anderson

Juliet Anderson is an AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame Actress. She was Born in Los Angeles "before smog and freeways" to loving parents. Her father was a renowned jazz trumpet player. Her mother was an aspiring actress. At the age of 22, Juliet moved with her boyfriend to Hayama, Japan where she became fluent in Japanese while studying Asian Art history at Jochi University in Tokyo. She then went on to dabble in any number of careers (fashion model, photo journalist, radio producer, researcher, english teacher) while she traveled throughout Europe. She lived for short stints in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Finland. She also taught English for a while in Mexico City.

In 1978, She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, initially planning on making documentary films. But as fate would have it, she was discovered at age 39 by the famous maker of X-rated films, Alex DeRenzy. She went on to become one of the most famous actresses in the Golden era of adult films. She appeared in over 70 films, loops and videos, the most notable of which was her character Aunt Peg, a unique persona exemplifying the lusty, intelligent, self-assured older woman who genuinely loves sex. She also worked behind the camera, wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers, appeared on radio and TV, had her own mail order business, a casting agency and a fantasy phone-sex service. She also developed a stage show which combined sex and comedy in theaters all across the country. In 1984, she produced and directed Nina Hartley in her very first video titled Educating Nina (1984). It was a huge undertaking with a strong story, talented actors and superb production values but due to politics within the adult film industry, the title was not released. Devastated by the betrayal, she quit the adult entertainment industry alltogether that same year.

After leaving the industry, Juliet ran a bed and breakfast for a while before returning to the San Francisco area where she contributed on a couple of books on sexuality and established her as a massage therapist. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1996 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999. She was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Free Speech Coalition in 2001 and an honorary Doctor of the Arts by The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She is a relationship counselor, massage therapist and practioner of Tender Loving Touch, a method for achieving full body, non-genital orgasms.

* AVN Awards Hall of Fame
* XRCO Hall of Fame (inducted 1999)

Dorothy LeMay

Legendary adult film actress, Dorothy LeMay is possibly best remembered for her role as Sherry McBride in the classics, "Taboo" and "Taboo II." LeMay also stared in the 1981 adult thriller "Night Dreams" which also featured her first and only, interracial scene. Dorothy was also inducted in the AVN hall of fame.

LeMay got her start in the adult entertainment industry while she was working at the University of California, in 1976. There was an advertisement in the paper that said "Make $300 a day," that caught her eye and soon she was staring in her first film, "Formal Faucet." Unfortunately Dorothy didn't like the film at all and almost quit the business after seeing it, since her voice had been dubbed over and she felt that the plot "didn't make sense." Thankfully her next film was a greater success and LeMay continued her work in the business for many years.

Mike Ranger

Mike Ranger also sometimes known as Michael Stuart, Michael Ranger, Mike Fairmont, Mike Strong, Mike Stepp, Mark Ranger, Mike Carlson, Mike Wrangler, Chuck Fabrae, Mike Stapp, Mike Stephan, Mike Steph and Mike Fairmon; is an adult film performer who got his start in the adult entertainment industry in 1974. Mike Ranger began his career as an adult film star in 1974 by appearing in low-budget films and short loops but didn't really hit big until 1980. Mike gave his best performances that year in movies like 'Ultraflesh,' 'Seduction of Seka,' 'Insatiable,' 'Taxi Girls' and the infamous 'Taboo.'

Awards

* 2010 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee - Film Pioneers

Kay Parker

Kay Taylor Parker (born August 28, 1944, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is a New Age author and former pornographic actress, best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the Taboo series. She is a member of the XRCO and the Adult Video News Halls of Fame.

Kay Parker was reportedly introduced to the adult film industry during the late-1970s by actor John Leslie who suggested Parker to take part in one of Leslie's upcoming films at that time.

Upon hearing that it was a pornographic movie, Parker reportedly declined the offer. But eventually she got eased into the industry by only playing bit parts in non-sexual roles, until porn director Anthony Spinelli talked her into doing her first sex scene in the 1977 film, Sex World.

Parker's first on screen sex partner was porn actor Joey Silvera. And according to various interviews Parker gave during her active years within the industry, she revealed that Joey Silvera and she got a bit carried away during their sex scene, which ultimately got so vigorous and so out of hand that Parker actually got a chipped tooth as a result. Her chipped tooth is clearly visible in subsequent films in which she starred.

Shortly after the release of Spinelli's Sex World, Parker quickly became a sensation in the adult film industry. Parker became one of the most popular starlets at that time, and one of the most requested to work with by the male porn actors of the day. Her favorites included John Leslie, Paul Thomas, Herschel Savage, Mike Ranger, Joey Silvera, and Randy West.

She appeared in adult films during the late-1970s, and throughout most of the 1980s. Many of her devoted fans also greatly admire her for her acting talent, for being a more mature pornographic actress (she was in her 30s by the time she participated in hardcore sex scenes), as well for having large, natural 38DD breasts with big, pink nipples and a significant amount of dark pubic hair.

Her work basically consisted of vaginal and oral sex, dress up, lesbian encounters, and use of vibrators.

Her most famous role was that of the incestuous mother Barbara Scott in the 1980 porn film Taboo and the first two of its sequels. (Her "appearance" in the third consists entirely of stock footage; in the ninth, hers is a "non-sex" role.) In the original Taboo, Parker has sex with porn actor Mike Ranger, who plays the role of her son Paul Scott. In Taboo 2, Parker has sex with Kevin James, a young actor who portrays Gregory "Junior McBride Jr., Paul's best friend. In Taboo 3, Parker has sex with her younger son James Scott (Jerry Butler), whom she has mistaken for Paul, her older son. Also in these videos there are other examples of sex between characters portraying brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters, and mothers and sons.

The series of Taboo films developed very devoted fans, especially those who like incest fantasies. Many male fans admired Parker as a "mother" they could fantasize about. Parker has even taken on a type of cult-like persona as many of her fans talk about her and their fantasies in chat rooms.

She revealed during her commentary for the DVD Taboo: Special Edition that there was definitely a mutual attraction between herself and Ranger despite a 10-12 year age gap between them. She also hinted that she and Mike enjoyed many off screen sex romps after the filming for Taboo ended as well.

Parker played herself in the 2005 independent film Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star- a mockumentary about a fictional legendary Asian porn actor which included some interviews with known adult film actresses from the 70s in which they talk about their "memories" of the star.

Parker now works as a New Age metaphysical counselor and lecturer. In 2001, she wrote a book titled Taboo: Sacred, Don't Touch, in which she wrote about her early childhood, her career in the adult industry, and her experiences with the metaphysical.