KSEX is no longer around. And, sadly, neither is Marilyn Chambers who passed away at her Canyon Country home over the weekend from causes yet undetermined. About six years ago Chambers visited KSEX and was a guest of Don Hollywood and Brooke Hunter who held down a show on Monday nights. Here’s how that went:

Hunter, who was also in the shoot, referred to a scene that Chambers had done with Jamie Gillis in a feature called Edge Play in which Gillis cut Chambers’ top off.

“This was a real life scalpel- no movie prop or anything,” recalls Chambers. “He cut off my very nice bra and he got real close to the nipple. And he’s, like, don’t worry. But it was fun and a long day.”

Hunter recalled how she met Chambers, it was raining, with Marilyn coming up to her saying hi and asking Hunter if she looked good.

“I said no,” laughed Hunter. “It was the cutest thing.”

Hollywood was curious why Chambers even considered adult when she had a mainstream career going.

Chambers remembered doing The Owl and The Pussycat and the fact that she was 17 at the time.

“I had really long blond hair and I played Robert Klein’s girlfriend,” said Chambers. “I was in it for less than two minutes, didn’t say a word. I got my SAG card. That was my introduction. I remember going to New York and eating a lot of ketchup soup. I was still in high school.

Before that, Chambers talked about how she did the infamous Ivory Soap box with the baby.

“Those were the hippie days. But looking around me, nothing’s changed.”

Asked if she still kept some of those Ivory Soap boxes, Chambers said she had.

“But to sum up the career move why I went to do The Green Door, I was living in Manhattan and not making a lot of money. Like I said, it was the hippie days: drug, sex and rock n’ roll, I said I’ve got to move to San Francisco. Columbia Pictures had sent me and Roz Kelly there to promote the film. I guess Barbra didn’t want to go there, so they sent us there. First we went to San Francisco then to Los Angeles. I fell in love with San Francisco. In my small mind I thought it was the capitol of the world. I moved there immediately.”

Through a San Francisco Chronicle ad, Chambers met The Mitchell Brothers who advertised the fact that they were casting for a major motion picture. Chambers notes that the Emilio Estevez-Charlie Sheen movie Rated X also goes into the history of that.

“At that point in the history of our society, nudity was cool; topless was cool,” Chambers went on to say.

“I didn’t think I was making a big mistake. I felt I could use it as a stepping stone to further my mainstream career.”

Chambers realized that wasn’t going to happen “probably the first day of shooting.”

“Johnny Keyes walked out from behind the green door in his tights with his crotch cut out. I went no! What are my parents going to say? Essentially every girl’s nightmare. I thought there goes my career down the tubes, not realizing whether the Mitchell Brothers could shoot a film or not. Which was kind of debatable. It was pretty intense.”

“They kept saying it was going to be a really big film and the first of its type, which it was,” continued Chambers.

“But the other thing that threw me for a loop is when they said you’re not saying anything. You’re not going to utter one word. So my acting classes were flashing through my mind about being a mime.”

Chambers said she was ambivalent about her porn role to say the least.

“But it worked out and it was exciting.”

Chambers said she wasn’t so interested in reading the script as making her character, Gloria, an object of her method acting.

“I didn’t really want to know what was going to happen so when it did, I could be surprised. It took quite a long time to shoot.”

Asked how long, Chambers said there were a lot of false starts, and, to begin with, there was no film in the camera.

“The lights were not working- it was always something. Then we got the film back and it was totally dark. We were going to fire Artie Mitchell and make Jim Mitchell the director.”

In the final analysis, Chambers remembers it taking 6 weeks to shoot at a cost of $50,000.

“It was shot on 16mm and blown up to 35mm. It looked really grainy. It’s like looking at people and watching what you’re not supposed to watch.”

Of all her films, Chambers said her favorite was Insatiable.

“It was at a time in my life- I think I was 28- I was looking good and feeling great. I was healthy, happy. I really felt sexy in that movie. This particular film was right on. I was really horny, it was really great, fun and I got to drive a Ferrari.”

Chambers recalls one scene that was cut out where she took a fist up her ass, to the elbow.

“It was mind over matter,” she said. “Chuck Traynor taught me how to do that stuff.”

Chambers recalled how she also had her pussy pierced in 1973, that she went to Xavier Hollander’s doctor for the procedure and that he gave her novocaine.

Getting back to Insatiable, Chambers said that the pool table scene became amous but that she really got ripped up because of the slate.

“When we shot the scene the guy who was the male leader [Chambers couldn’t remember who it was] got carried away,” continued Chambers.

“Back in those days you had to be really careful. But that was the big turn on, having the submissive little girl. And when he grabbed me and held me down, he was making me do things. He actually grabbed my head and knocked it against the pool table. Instead of the director stopping it, he let it go and got a really great scene, I think. People constantly tell me all the time about that.”

Hollywood wondered if being in the adult business changed Chambers from a sexual standpoint.

“Oh God, yes,” she replied.

“When I did Behind the Green Door I was 19. I grew up in Westport [Connecticut] which wasn’t a slow town by any means. It was 50 miles from new York City. Paul Newman lived in the town. It was a pretty cool place.

“But I got to say doing the films I did which were very few and far between, really contributed to my learning about sex. Not that I was a virgin but I wasn’t a promiscuous teenager. So I really didn’t know about sucking cock, and anal sex was, huh? I don’t think so.”

Chambers said she also liked the aspect that you could experiment, have fun and get paid for it.

“You get to do these crazy, far out sexy things. I did learn a lot and I was fortunate to have Chuck Traynor as my trainer, as my manager. Chuck taught me a lot. He was married to Linda Lovelace and he taught Linda how to deep throat. He also taught me. He taught me the anal sex-thing and how to do a lot of stuff that I was very eager to learn but didn’t have a clue how to do it.”

Still and all, Chambers said when she did Still Insatiable for VCA Pictures, and it was said they were ready for the DP, she thought they meant the director of photography. Until she was informed otherwise.

“I’m not stupid, but I didn’t know,” laughed Chambers.

Chambers also recalled that in the old days it was considered a major feat to deep throat John Holmes.

“Or if you did anal with him- that was the end of the movie. That would be, wow, the grand finale.”

Chambers said she truly enjoyed performing.

“What you were seeing was the real thing. I could always tell watching a girl and know exactly what she was thinking by looking at her face; and it wasn’t about what she was doing.”

Chambers definitely credits the business for her sexuality and laughed because her current vibrator was on its last legs.

Chambers was asked if she still could differentiate her on and off screen personas.

As a young girl, Chambers recalled that she worked a lot and wasn’t home that often.

“I was Marilyn Chambers 24 hours, seven days a week. I never took a break from that,” she explained.

“But now I’m retired and don’t live that life. I can go to the supermarket and not get recognized. I have a daughter who thinks it’s totally gross and is so embarrassed. So I keep all my memorabilia put on that shelf in the closet so she doesn’t see it.”

Chambers mentions that the rest of her family was “totally mortified” as well by her career.

Chambers also brought up the fact that she had done a number of R-rated projects for Showtime under the Private Screenings label.

“We were sitting around watching TV- my daughter said you’re on TV! You’re famous. I told her she wouldn’t be able to watch this one. I think I had three different films on that night.”

Hunter wondered if there would ever be a point that Chambers’ daughter would be accepting of her career.

Chambers said her only worry is that someone would try to exploit her daughter because of the name.

“There’s no freakin’ way she’s going to do this,” Chambers insisted, primarily because of the rejection factor. But Chambers said she didn’t have to go through that because she had been a pioneer in the industry.

“Not to sound bitter or anything, there’s a lot of people making a lot of money off these films and there’s a lot of people not making money who should be. I was fortunate enough to make good money.”

Chambers recalls having a company she was partners in being sold out from under her and having to spend a lot of time in court over that.

Chambers also thought that the only reason for being in the business is to be a star. In her career Chambers did a limited amount of films and thinks overexposure is detrimental to the career.

On the other hand, Chambers was always told that the anus is a muscle and the more you use it, it becomes pliable and tight.

“Contrary to popular belief.”

Chambers said she also got burnt out on “highway robbery” in the adult industry.

“I had my own company and it got ripped outright from under me.”

Chamber recalled the time when she approached Russ Hampshire then the owner of VCA about directing. She was told there were too many people doing the same thing and they weren’t making any money.

Asked if there was a movie she’d like to make, Chambers said her mind was no longer in the gutter to even consider such a prospect but remembered when Traynor would have her doing crazy stuff.

“He proved that word of mouth was the best advertising. When we lived in Vegas and I was doing a straight show at the Union Plaza hotel, we’d go home and stop at 7-Eleven. There’d be three guys in there and we would go in the back room and do all kinds of weird shit. I didn’t know those guys and they didn’t know me but when that was over that guy would tell this guy and I’d become famous. Chuck always said give them what they don’t expect. Don’t come off like a slut but Grace Kelly’s better.”

Chambers also brought up the fact how she worked with John Holmes and then he later died of AIDS.

“People were just so in the dark about diseases. Thank God for Sharon Mitchell.”

At the time of the interview, Chambers also said she was no longer interested in performing on screen.

“Older women are okay…there’s an allure to that but I’m sick and tired of tucking my tummy in.”

Chambers also mentioned how she had been approached by HBO about doing her life story.

“But they weren’t paying a lot of money.”

Chambers also said, for real, that she had given thoughts to opening a geriatric home for porn stars.

Lamenting the loss of Traynor, Chambers mentioned that it was very weird that Linda Lovelace would die on Chambers’ birthday. Lovelace had also been married to Traynor and Chambers could recall listening to Lovelace screaming at him over the phone.

“She just left him- she was going to be a big movie star and a big Vegas act opening for Sammy Davis. She needed Chuck to tell her what to say and how to act. She didn’t really have talent which isn’t for me to say, but it was obvious. I don’t like to speak poorly of the dead but when she trashed Chuck in her book, that really hurt him a lot. He was really affected and offended by it as I was.”

“If you talk to anyone who was on the set of Deep Throat, Linda didn’t need a lot of prompting. She was a little hooker. She dug it.”

For her part, Chambers said she was glad to have had Traynor guide her through her career.

“He was a person who knew what Joe Blow in the audience wanted to see. I didn’t know. I had no clue. And whatever I thought, I was totally off base.”

Chambers also said she was all for keeping this stage of her life to herself.

“My personal life has been on TV, the radio and magazines. I don’t regret that, but now that I’m not in the industry anymore my personal life is private.”