Ginger Lynn Allen Biography - Ginger Lynn Allen Information
STAGE NAME: Ginger Lynn
REAL NAME: Ginger Lynn Allen
AWARDS: XRCO 1984 Starlet of the Year, FOXE 92 All-Time Fan Favorite, AVN 1985 Best New Starlet
BIRTHDATE: 12/14/62
BUST: 34B
WAIST: 24
HIPS: 34
HEIGHT: 5'4"
BIRTH SIGN: Sagittarius
DRESS SIZE: 5
SHOE: 6 ½
STOCKING: Small
WEIGHT: 110
NATURAL HAIR COLOR: Auburn
FAVORITE PANTY STYLE: G-String
FAVORITE THINGS: Family, Friends, Children and Animals
FAVORITE FLOWER: Sunflower
FAVORITE COLOR: Pink
FAVORITE MUSIC: A little of everything, Melissa Etheridge
FAVORITE FOODS: Pizza, Artichokes and Chocolate
QUALITIES LIKED IN A MAN: Honesty, Sense of Humor, Health Consciousness, Creativity and Intelligence
QUALITIES LIKED IN A WOMAN: Honesty, Sense of Humor, Health Consciousness, Creativity and Intelligence
Born 12/14/62, Ginger Lynn Allen moved to Los Angeles from Illinois in 1983. She managed a record store. "I had a normal life, a boyfriend, and a decent job, but I wasn't making enough money, so I answered this ad which I'd looked at for months." It sought attractive female models for work that paid between $150 and $2500 a day. I'd always thought Playboy and Penthouse were neat; they were always around the house because my father read them. They didn't seem wrong. I thought the girls were all pretty and that boys liked these kind of girls. I never imagined I could be one of them. But in the day after I'd been to the agency, I did some test shoots for Penthouse, which were accepted, and I shot for the next 17 days straight for different magazines."
Ten years earlier it might have stopped there, but by the '80s, the magazine and porno industries overlap. X-rated films advertise the centerfold status of their leading ladies and sex mags like High Society advertise the best videos of their models. As good as $150 a day was, after three months, Ginger wanted to make more money.
"In the beginning you don't want to do any of it. But you get pulled in. Your first photographers are nice good looking men like Ron Vogel. You feel this isn't what I thought. Penthouse is nice, but I don't know if I want to do that magazine Hustler. Hustler was probably the second or third magazine that came to me. I said ok. They took me to a leather store and they bought ropes and spikes and things to pinch. I went home and broke down in tears and called my agent and said "I can't do this.” But the more shoots you go on ... the money keeps coming and you get pulled into it. Things you thought were bad at the beginning seem less bad. I did a layout with another girl, a simulation. Then I did one with a boy. People asked me to do hardcore stills, so I asked my boyfriend what he thought. He said "Let's do it together." So we did."
The 5'3" blonde soon split from her boyfriend because he couldn't handle her new direction. Ginger considered doing porn videos and talked to some female performers.
"They tell you there are cute guys and you have a script and you're an actress and you make $1000 a day. I figured I'd do it. I got offered a lot of money to go to Hawaii for 14 days. It was hard the first night. I told my leading man I can't do this. But he was a good actor and good with people and he made it easy."
The man was Jerry Butler. Ginger and Jerry worked in several movies together over the next ten days. Jerry remembers seeing Ginger for the first time. "Boarding the plane to do Surrender in Paradise in Hawaii, I noticed a pretty blonde wearing little red shoes. One look at Ginger Lynn and I told myself, "This is the girl you're going to be with for the rest of your life." She had done only one film before this, a short loop for Suze Randall. Ginger, nervous and shy, sat on her hands through the flight."
Jerry and Ginger had sex at their hotel and became close. Ginger worried before the shoot for she'd never acted before. She had particular problems with a rape scene in A Little Bit of Hanky Panky. The script called for Jerry to chase Ginger on a motorcycle. Ginger couldn't muster the proper emotion so Jerry played an acting trick on her.
According to Ginger, the most important person in her life was her grandfather, who'd recently died. So Jerry told Ginger that old people should be left to die. She became angry, and then Jerry gave her the script and said, "Do the scene that way. Ginger and I made love after that. She screamed louder than any girl I've ever been with and she came three times in fifteen minutes. It was pure heaven. I didn't even wash until the next day because I wanted to feel her on me."
Later that night, Jerry, Ginger and Ron Jeremy went to the beach. Ron had his eye on Ginger. Jerry swam out to sea and when he turned around he saw Ginger giving Ron a blowjob. Though he later joined them for a threesome, Jerry felt hurt and ignored Ginger for several days. They later made up and talked about moving in together even though they had only known each other for six days.
Jerry left the islands early to work on Taboo 3. A few days later, he bought a small pre-engagement ring, wrapped it in a seven-foot box and then drove to the airport to pick Ginger up. She wasn't on the plane and that was the end of their romantic story.
During her stay in the islands, Ginger made A Little Bit of Hanky Panky. "Filmed in Maui, this is one of the first appearances for both Stacy Donovan and Ginger Lynn. Jamie Gillis and Ron Jeremy partake of R&R with the girls. While camping on a seemingly deserted island, Ron stumbles across a private retreat which specializes in sex games. From that point on, all hell breaks loose." (AVN)
"In some of her pictures, she delegates sexual missions to others, generally saving herself for a tour de force finale. In Gentlemen the star is everywhere. Her character juggles husband lovers with the skill of a circus performer. Wait till you see her demonstrate Zen Sex and the Art of Motorcycle Making It." (AFW 3/87)
Ginger coaxes a burnt-out porn actor into a personal best effort. What follows is as close to a love scene as any in any X-rated picture, ending with the girl crying, "Don't pull out!" Though you don't see the spurts, the spasms say it all.
The World According to Ginger. "Early on, she appears with Francois Papillon in a Garden of Eden sketch, offering him her ripe 'apple' while wearing nothing but flowered wreaths, her long blonde tresses falling softly all the way to her twitching ass. They fuck gloriously, two perfect bodies in an ecstatic exhibition that you might call 'gymnastic,' if it didn't look so effortless. Finally, she turns her face up to his climax for the radiant finish to a fabulous fuck."
The Pleasure Hunt II. "The leading lady displays impressive power when she's pumping, and tremendous appeal when she has something in her mouth other than dialogue. The final scene pits her against a super stud (Peter North)... Ginger could snap his dick off with a pinch of her pussy. She rides the stud like a rodeo champ, and cums three times. The sex in this movie will make you gasp."
Club Ginger. "Ginger and her girls have promised the five finalists in the "My Favorite Fantasy" contest a chance to act out their erotic scenario, and the sex seldom fails to sock it to you. Ginger is unstoppable, though she usurps only a modest portion of screen time, allowing the other vixens in this frothy fuckfest to strut and preen and show us what they're made of: one part sugar, nine parts spice, all of it nasty, all of it nice."
Other good Ginger Lynn flicks include L'Amour, A Coming of Angels, Dance Fever, Trashy Lady, Some Kind of Woman. She had sex on camera with a black man once - Tony Elay - in Undressed Rehearsal.
The Ginger series was the most successful line of shot on video productions of the 1980s. Scotty Fox made the first three editions, Bruce Seven the next eight and Henri Pachard the final two. Henri's Blame It On Ginger is the best of the series according to Holliday. Bruce directed several hot editions - The Ginger Effect, Gentlemen Prefer Ginger, Project: Ginger and The Poonies. Raven Touchstone wrote all 13 videos emphasizing feminine stories.
"It's exciting in the beginning," says Ginger about working in porn. "A crew, a director, a camera, a script. They're paying you all this money and everyone's nice to you. If you want M&Ms, they go buy you M&Ms. Before you go on camera, your heat beats fast. I'm an exhibitionist."
During the blonde's first nine months in pornos, she made 45 sexvids.
Ginger says she's not a prostitute. "A prostitute takes money from the man she's having sex with. She's there to turn him on. I don't care if I turn on the person I work with. I'm turning on my audience. I'm selling the same thing as any actress - a performance. I am not a porno star. Porn is animals and children. I'm an erotic film actress. I'm there for a good purpose, not for sick people."
Ginger fools herself. Pornography is not defined by the use of animals and children. According to the Oxford American Dictionary, pornography "is writings, pictures or films etc. that are intended to stimulate erotic feelings by description or portrayal of sexual activity."
Are performers prostitutes? According to the above dictionary, a prostitute is a person who engages in sex for payment. So yes, porn performers are prostitutes, though legally they are not prostitutes but rather actors. But in reality, few performers if any could make it in mainstream acting. Overwhelmingly they have no sense of the acting craft. Ginger Lynn doesn't. As far as being a porno star, the word "star" is used cheaply in Porn Valley. A female who takes her clothes off and has sex in front of the camera a couple of dozen times, and lands on several boxcovers becomes a "star."
Was Ginger's work "for a good purpose?" By the tone of her comments, she has her doubts. And finally, the matter of sickness. Ginger seems to regard bestiality and pedarasty as sick. Many persons regard Ginger as sick for having performed sex on camera. Many homosexuals regard incest as sick while many persons regard homosexuals as sick. In America today, the word "sick" is frequently used for what someone doesn't like, notes Dennis Prager. Many persons I know dislike pornography, and therefore call it "sick."
There's no inherent reason that murderers, rapists, pedarasts, necrophiliacs, homosexuals, porn performers or any other unpopular group are psychologically sick. Rather, certain of the above activites such as murder and rape are evil. Other activities, from a religious perspective, are unholy to varying degrees. Holy means Godlike, and according to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, we should not act like animals but rather like God. Animal-like behavior such as promiscuous sex is unholy. Performing or viewing pornography is also unholy for it taints the image of the divine in the model, the photographer and the consumer.
Ginger Lynn claims that women who enter porn rarely come from stable homes.
"My parents divorced when I was 13. I had a lousy childhood. Every girl in the business I know has been beaten or sexually abused. The reason they get into this is they want to be needed, to be loved."
Were most porn stars abused as children? I expected to find that but in my interviews with over 100 performers, I found that at least half said that they had normal upbringings without sexual or physical abuse.
As for the theory that females do porn for love - try hiring one with a promise of love but no money. Men may do porn out of love - love for sex. Women do porn for the money. The love Ginger and other women believe they receive from performing is more lust than love. And it's accompanied by large amounts of hate and disgust from both those within and without the industry. Some women enjoy performing sex but many don't. Porn focuses on male orgasms, not female ones because they're more difficult to see.
Ginger : "I always thought I was ugly when I was little. My mother told me I was a stringy-haired witch... bad, evil and going to hell. I enjoy it [performing]. I get excited. But I enjoy the exhibitionism more than the sex."
Ginger says she was disowned by her parents when they first found out about her X-rated work. "I freaked out for three months. It's the same path most girls go through. If you start doing well, your parents find out."
Ginger and her parents later reconciled. Most pornographers say that while their parents may accept them, they rarely approve. I've yet to encounter one performer who had a good relationship with his parents before entering the biz that then changed to bad.
Ginger says it's hard for a porn actress to find lasting love. "No man wants his lady with someone else. And if she finds a man, she may discover that her feelings about sex have changed. If a man finds out what you do, he's going to expect something. And after working, the last thing you want to do on a date is to go bed."
Porn gives many women validation of their desirability and some Hollywood glamour, thus attracting many females with low self-esteem. If they already felt good about themselves, they'd less need the questionable validation porn gives, such as limousine rides to movie premiers, fan letters, autograph seekers, and film crews catering to their every whim. Happiness and inner peace do not come from receiving letters from lonely men in prison eager to buy your soiled panties.
"They might come in and crank out a dozen films and get burned out," says porn veteran Kay Parker. "There's a certain percentage who get into drugs. There are women in the industry who come in for psychological reasons. They'll fuck their little hearts out for a dozen or so films, then you'll see them no more because they've cracked inside. I would never advise any girl to get into the business," says Ginger Lynn. "It changes your whole life. Even if you're a good person it doesn't matter because everyone out there is thinking, "God, you're a porno star.""
In early 1985, Ginger fell in love with one of the nice photographers who gets girls started in the biz. But he didn't want his own lover appearing in porn.
"Everytime I shoot, it's hard on the relationship. All these things come up - his friends say, "Oh Ginger Lynn, I hear she can come 400 times a day!" or "I stayed in a motel and I saw the future mother of your children on cable in my room.""
And many men feel contempt for the women who inspire their fantasies. Pornographers are hated by about a third of the persons with whom I bring up the subject. By working in porn, Ginger says she's hurt nobody, except possibly herself.
"If I had to do it again, I wouldn't. My choice of men has narrowed down to one because of what I've done. It's made my life difficult. I'm going to have to tell my kids. No matter where I go, there will be people who recognize me. If I get a job as a real estate agent, there's going to be Joe Shmo sitting next tome who's watched all my films. Only the strong survive, and I've learned to be strong. I've learned from my mistakes. This has been a mistake I made a lot of money at. Once I get out of the business, I'll be happier."
Ginger Lynn left the porno business in 1986 but didn't get any happier. She was high on cocaine for much of 1985-88. Many persons in porn believe the industry is the source of their miseries, but when they leave it, they find that life is tough all over.
Ginger entered mainstream entertainment after leaving porn, featuring in about 20 B movies and numerous exercise videos such as 1993's Ginger Lynn Allen's Superbody.
"Though her days as a porn princess have long been over, Ginger Lynn Allen, looking more fit and trim than ever, still has the capacity to make dicks rise with the mere mention of her name. This exercise video has the diminutive doll going through a 45-minute routine that works all parts of the body - particularly your prostate. Sure, it has its intended benefits, but the people who made this also know how to turn on couch potatoes yanking it at home. Ginger is dressed in a skimpy leotard that seemingly is folded into her crack, exposing her finely-toned ass. Since this focuses on low-impact aerobics and yoga, that means there's loads of hip-rolling and leg-spreading angle, with plenty of leering close-ups of her erogenous zones. Although she has two workout partners, the focus is almost solely on Ginger, and a large portion of the exercises are shot in slow-motion, so there's plenty of opportunity to work up a solid stroke. Backed with a beguiling music score, this excursion in erotic exercise makes you realize how much you missing seeing this legend in action." (HEVG)
In 1994, Ginger Lynn Allen's Lingerie Gallery made it to number six on the Billboard sales charts.
"She was sweet like the girl next door, but she did everything the girl next door won't do," says Ginger's agent Charles Clay.
Twenty seven months after beginning her porn career which included 69 sexvids, Ginger Lynn quit in January, 1986, after making Blame It On Ginger and Ginger and Spice. "I didn't feel good about it. I started doing a lot of drugs, stopped answering my phone, and would go to the mall and spend $10,000."
She then enrolled in acting class and got her first break from an ex-porno director making the action flick Wild Man. "I'm horrible in it, but that led to Vice Academy 1, 2, 3, which put me into the direct-to-video arena and brought me a whole new group of B-movie fans. I got my SAG card doing Skin Deep. Director Blake Edwards picked me out of a whole group of extras. He said he and his wife Julie Andrews enjoyed my work. Imagine! Mary Poppins liked my work!"
Ginger appeared in the straight-to-video flicks Bound & Gagged: A Love Story and Buried Alive as well as mainstream pics Young Guns II and Whore, and the interactive film for CD ROM - Wing Commander III.
Ginger hopes to move past the hooker and stripper parts she's usually offered, to "Meg Ryan-type" roles. "I hope people at least give me a chance. The difference between me and most people is that all my closet doors are open. I don't pull any punches. I did it. I liked it. So what?"