New York, NY — Adult industry legend Candida Royalle has been busy proving that quality equals longevity — even in a field where tomorrow’s hits become yesterday’s old news as fast as you can say, “what was the name of that movie again?”
In the same week that TIME OUT NEW YORK listed Royalle’s mixed ethnic couples hit, AfroDite Superstar as one of the “best New York City Porn Films” of all time (www.newyork.timeout.com/articles/sex-dating/76645/best-new-york-city-porn-films), calling it “tasteful and femme-friendly,” Royalle was also noted on CNN.com in an article reprinted from Oprah.com for creating “erotic videos made expressly for women.” (www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/07/24/o.women.watching.porn/index.html.)
The article, “Are More Women OK with Watching Porn?” was first published in Oprah’s magazine, “O,” July 2007.
“To have Oprah acknowledge that women are not only watching but enjoying porn shows how far we’ve come since I started Femme Productions® in 1984,” exclaims Royalle. “Back then, the notion of women-friendly porn wasn’t even a concept for most people!”
Considered the ‘pioneer’ of woman-friendly couples’ porn, Royalle is continuing her legacy by launching the careers of other women looking to explore erotica from a woman’s point of view. This fall, Royalle and Adam & Eve Pictures, who distribute Royalle’s Femme line, will release Feeling It! , directed by European filmmaker Petra Joy, whose features have won several awards and nominations in Europe and Canada. This will mark the debut of Petra Joy’s work in the US market.
Royalle’s Natural Contours® intimate massagers also received major accolades in the July issue of REDBOOK Magazine. In a feature called “Our best sex advice EVER – tried and tested,” the Natural Contours LIBERTÉ™ (a “multitalented massager”) received a “Red-sizzlin’-hot” rating by the couples who tried it out. (Her: “-my orgasm was insane.” Him: “..the stimulation was fun for me too!” )
(For the entire piece go to: www.redbookmag.com/love-sex/positions-toys-techniques/slrt-minty-delight-clone)
Candida Royalle helped create and launch the groundbreaking line of Natural Contours® intimate massagers, with the backing and exclusive distribution by parent company, PHE, Inc. Working with Dutch industrial designers, Groet Design, to create massagers that are tasteful, stylish and ergonomically correct, they released their first three models in 1999. Since then, their original design elements have been both lauded and imitated by many who followed close behind.
Is it any wonder Playboy.com named Royalle one of “America’s Sexiest CEOs”? ( page two at www.playboy.com/articles/playboys-sexiest-ceos-list/index.html)