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Paradoxically Pure: The Life of Marilyn Chambers

Brought up in a proper Connecticut middle class home, she scandalized her family by doing hard-core sex films. Yet Chambers wanted everyone to know that what she did was acting.

Marilyn Chambers in September 1979 at London, where she was to be appearing on stage at the Raymond Revuebar in 'Sex Confessions.'
Marilyn Chambers in September 1979 at London, where she was to be appearing on stage at the Raymond Revuebar in 'Sex Confessions.' Gary Weaser/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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