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 Snow at the XRCO Awards in Hollywood, California, April 2011 |
Aurora Snow is an American retired pornographic actress,[1] director, and columnist.[2][3]
Snow was raised by a single mother and was the oldest of three siblings.[4]
Snow entered the pornographic entertainment industry when she was 18 years old,[3][5] planning to work in porn for only a year.[6][5] One of her first professionally made and distributed movies was More Dirty Debutantes 152, produced by Ed Powers.[3]
Snow was a contract performer and director for Sin City between May 2003 and May 2005.[7][8][9] She made her directorial debut for the company with the film Assploitations.[3][10] Snow hosted Private Calls on Playboy TV.[5]
In July 2010, she reported on the obscenity case against John Stagliano for Adult Video News.[11][12]
Despite not using condoms during most of her scenes, she came out as one of the few performers in favor of the 2012 Measure B vote in Los Angeles, mandating the use of condoms for all pornographic movie scenes.[13] Snow left the pornographic film industry after ten years in 2011 and moved from Los Angeles to Macon, Missouri.[4]
Snow appeared in the 2002 feature film The Rules of Attraction as Masked Naked Girl at Party.
Snow appeared in a cameo in the Judd Apatow film Superbad.[14] On January 6, 2010, Snow appeared in an episode of 1000 Ways to Die titled "Death On Arrival" to discuss edible underwear during the "Way to Die #444: Deadliest Munch" segment of the episode.[15]
On March 12, 2013, Snow appeared on The Young Turks to discuss racism in pornography and the reasons why some Caucasian pornographic actresses refuse to do interracial sex scenes.[16]
Snow has been a contributor for The Daily Beast[3] and Glammonitor, writing articles about the porn industry and women's issues.[17][18]
On March 6, 2014, Snow spoke at Harvard Law School[3] on the topic of "Sex, Drugs, and Rolling Dice: The Regulation of Vice."[19] On March 19, 2015, Snow spoke at the University of South Carolina School of Law on "Vice, Porn and American Culture."[20]
In September 2013, Snow wrote an article for The Daily Beast titled "A Porn Star's Letter to Her Unborn Son" in which she announced she was pregnant with her first child and stated how she would explain her choice to work in the porn industry to her son once he is older.[21] The letter quickly went viral on the Internet.[22][23][24] She gave birth to her son in December 2013.[25] Her father stated that he was proud upon finding out about her occupation.[26]
