Aurora Snow

Aurora Snow is a retired American pornographic actress,<ref name="Snow 2017a">Template:Cite news</ref> director, and columnist.<ref name="Snow 2013b">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Street 2016"/>

Early life

Snow was raised by a single mother and was the oldest of three siblings.<ref name="Walther 2014">Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Adult films

Snow entered the pornographic entertainment industry when she was 18 years old,<ref name="Street 2016">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Snow 2010a">Template:Cite news</ref> planning to work in porn for only a year.<ref name="Snow 2021">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Snow 2010a"/> One of her first professionally made and distributed movies was More Dirty Debutantes 152, produced by Ed Powers.<ref name="Street 2016"/>

Snow was a contract performer and director for Sin City between May 2003 and May 2005.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> She made her directorial debut for the company with the film Assploitations.<ref name="Street 2016"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Snow hosted Private Calls on Playboy TV.Template:R

In July 2010, she reported on the obscenity case against John Stagliano for Adult Video News.<ref name="Snow 2010b">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Snow 2010c">Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name="Snow 2012">Template:Cite news</ref> Snow left the pornographic film industry after ten years in 2011 and moved from Los Angeles to Macon, Missouri.<ref name="Walther 2014"/>

Mainstream media appearances

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Snow has been a contributor for The Daily Beast<ref name="Street 2016"/> and Glammonitor, writing articles about the porn industry and women's issues.<ref name="Aurora Snow">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On March 6, 2014, Snow spoke at Harvard Law School<ref name="Street 2016"/> on the topic of "Sex, Drugs, and Rolling Dice: The Regulation of Vice."<ref name="Dickson 2014">Template:Cite web</ref> On March 19, 2015, Snow spoke at the University of South Carolina School of Law on "Vice, Porn and American Culture."<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>Template:Independent source inline

Personal life

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The letter quickly went viral on the Internet.<ref name="Berry 2013">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Williams 2013">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Soto 2013">Template:Cite web</ref> She gave birth to her son in December 2013.<ref name="Snow 2013a">Template:Cite web</ref> Her father stated that he was proud upon finding out about her occupation.<ref name="Snow 2017b">Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

• 2002 XRCO Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene (Up Your Ass 18) with Mr. Marcus & Lexington Steele<ref name="Nelson 2002">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2002 XRCO Award – Best Group Sex Scene (Gangbang Auditions 7)<ref name="Nelson 2002"/>
• 2002 XRCO Award – Cream Dream<ref name="Nelson 2002"/>
• 2003 XRCO Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene (Trained Teens) with Gauge & Jules Jordan<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• 2003 AVN Award – Female Performer of the Year<ref name="Snow 2017a"/><ref name="Street 2016"/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee<ref name="Street 2016"/>

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