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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Margaret Anderson
Author
24-Nov-1886 18-Oct-1973 Founder of the Little Review
Nobuyoshi Araki
Photographer
25-May-1940   Tokyo Lucky Hole
J. G. Ballard
Author
18-Nov-1930 19-Apr-2009 Empire of the Sun, Crash
Annie Besant
Activist
1-Oct-1847 20-Sep-1933 Theosophist & Social Activist
Jello Biafra
Singer
17-Jun-1958   Dead Kennedys
Charles Bradlaugh
Activist
26-Sep-1833 30-Jan-1891 Atheistic Iconoclast
Lenny Bruce
Comic
13-Oct-1925 3-Aug-1966 Multiply obscene comic
Seymore Butts
Pornstar
18-Mar-1964   Family Business
Luther Campbell
Rapper
22-Dec-1960   2 Live Crew, Luke Records founder
George Carlin
Comic
12-May-1937 22-Jun-2008 Seven Dirty Words
Cicciolina
Pornstar
26-Nov-1951   Italian pornstar elected to parliament
John Cleland
Novelist
24-Sep-1709 23-Jan-1789 Fanny Hill
David Allan Coe
Country Musician
6-Sep-1939   Take This Job and Shove It
Edmund Curll
Publisher
1683 11-Dec-1747 Notorious London bookseller
Mike Diana
Artist
5-Jun-1969   Boiled Angel
Joel Dorius
Educator
4-Jan-1919 14-Feb-2006 Professor fired for gay porn arrest
Larry Flynt
Business
1-Nov-1942   Publisher of HUSTLER
Richard Gere
Actor
31-Aug-1949   American Gigolo
Al Goldstein
Business
10-Jan-1936   Founder of Screw magazine
Stuart Gordon
Film Director
11-Aug-1947   Re-Animator
Max Hardcore
Pornstar
10-Aug-1956   Extremist pornographist
Robert Harrison
Publisher
14-Apr-1904 17-Feb-1978 Publisher of tabloid Confidential
Hugh Hefner
Publisher
9-Apr-1926   Founder, Playboy magazine
Abbie Hoffman
Activist
30-Nov-1936 12-Apr-1989 Steal This Book
Janis Joplin
Singer
19-Jan-1943 4-Oct-1970 Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart)
Charles Knowlton
Doctor
10-May-1800 20-Feb-1850 Early advocate of birth control
Luka Magnotta
Criminal Defendant
24-Jul-1982   Allegedly dismembered a Chinese student
Marilyn Manson
Singer
5-Jan-1969   Goth shock rocker
Guy de Maupassant
Author
5-Aug-1850 6-Jul-1893 French short story writer
Russ Meyer
Film Director
21-Mar-1922 18-Sep-2004 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Artie Mitchell
Film Director
12-Dec-1945 27-Feb-1991 Pornographer; shot and killed by brother Jim
Jim Mitchell
Film Director
30-Nov-1943 12-Jul-2007 Pornographer; shot and killed brother Artie
Chesty Morgan
Pornstar
1928   Double Agent 73, Deadly Weapons
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Director
5-Mar-1922 2-Nov-1975 Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom
Moana Pozzi
Pornstar
27-Apr-1961 15-Sep-1994 Backdoor Summer 2
Basil Rathbone
Actor
13-Jun-1892 21-Jul-1967 Played original Sherlock Holmes
Pauline Réage
Author
23-Sep-1907 27-Apr-1998 Histoire d'O
Harry Reems
Pornstar
27-Aug-1947 19-Mar-2013 Deep Throat
Ivan Reitman
Film Director
27-Oct-1946   Ghost Busters
Paul Reubens
Actor
27-Aug-1952   Pee-wee Herman
Margaret Sanger
Activist
14-Sep-1879 6-Sep-1966 Birth control advocate
Egon Schiele
Painter
12-Jun-1890 31-Oct-1918 Painted many nudes
Shilpa Shetty
Actor
8-Jun-1975   Bollywood star
Michelle Shocked
Musician
24-Feb-1962   Short Sharp Shocked
Sir Philip Sidney
Author
30-Nov-1554 17-Oct-1586 The Defence of Poesie
Peter Sotos
Author
c. 1960   Transgressive author, Pure
John Stagliano
Pornstar
29-Nov-1950   Adventures of Buttman
Blaze Starr
Performance Artist
1-Jan-1932   Stripper
Steve-O
Daredevil
13-Jun-1974   Jackass
Jock Sturges
Photographer
1947   Art photographer charged with obscenity
Mae West
Actor
17-Aug-1893 22-Nov-1980 Go up and see her sometime
Wendy O. Williams
Singer
28-May-1949 6-Apr-1998 Singer for The Plasmatics
John Wilmot
Poet
1-Apr-1647 26-Jul-1680 Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
Victoria Woodhull
Activist
23-Sep-1838 9-Jun-1927 First woman candidate for US President


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