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Interview [published October 2000]
Annabel Chong: Life Thru A Lens
Robin Askew meets the star of Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
“Oh my god – this couple just turned around and gave
me a dirty look!” Annabel Chong giggles like a schoolgirl.
“It’s like, no sex please we’re British.” Perhaps unwisely,
she’d stepped outside her film company’s noisy
office to do this interview in the street over her mobile
phone, and had spent 20 minutes chatting chirpily about
blow-jobs and erections. Strange that she should be so
easily embarrassed, mind. Ms Chong’s claim to fame is
that back in 1995 she set a new world record by having
sex with 251 men in ten hours, the whole event being
recorded on film and subsequently edited down to a
brisk four hours to become a bestselling hardcore porn
vid. Also on hand was a documentary crew making Sex:
The Annabel Chong Story, which was the hottest ticket
at the last year’s Sundance festival of independent film.
She has always insisted the big gang-bang was a
feminist statement, turning the tables on men to reduce
them to a succession of cocks of varying degrees of
tumescence. There’s a debate to be had about whether
pornography degrades women, and whether the appropriate
response is to degrade men right back again.
But it’s a monumentally boring one. Everyone knows
BUY Annabel Chong films online from and
where they stand and if you really want it rehashed once
again, leave Spike right now and turn to The Guardian
women’s page, where they’re certain to oblige. Opportunities
to interview porn icons, especially those as
articulate and forthright as Annabel Chong, are few and
far between, so I decided to seek answers to the questions
people really want asked. After polling a handful
of mates of both sexes, who may or may not be more
sleazy than the average Spike reader (you decide), I
found these boiled down to variations on four themes.
Let’s get them out of the way before we go any further.
So Annabel, did you come? “Sporadically, I did. But
it’s very much like running a marathon. You go through
stretches where it’s just incredibly boring, incredibly
awful. And you get to certain stretches where you’re
just running on air. That was where I really got into
it and enjoyed it. I’ve always enjoyed extreme sexual
situations, and this was certainly one of them. There
are some people – they may not be Tom Cruise, let’s
say – but they’re very comfortable with their bodies
and their own sexuality. I find that ultimately more attractive
than a stud who’s just neurotic about what he
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