Nina Hartley

About

Marie Louise Hartman (born 1959), known professionally as Nina Hartley, is an American pornographic film actress and sex educator.
By 2017 she had appeared in more than 1,000 adult films.
She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an “outspoken feminist” and “advocate for sexual freedom”, and by CNBC as “a legend in the adult world”.

== Early life and education ==
Hartley was born in Berkeley, California, in March 1959, the youngest of four children of a Lutheran father, Louis Hartman, and a Jewish mother, Blanche Hartman (née Gelders).
Her grandfather, Joseph Gelders, was a University of Alabama physics professor, a prominent labor and civil rights activist, and a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member in the 1930s.
Hartley’s parents converted to Buddhism when she was young.
Her mother supported the family as a biochemist after her father, San Francisco radio announcer Louis Hartman, was blacklisted in 1957 for his communist beliefs.
As a teenager, Hartley self-identified as a feminist, influenced by the slogan “my body, my rules”.
After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University’s undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude…