Amber Lynn
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Satiny blonde XXX goddess Amber Lynn was not always a buff and burnished superstar of the skin screen. When the slim and wholly sexualized fireballer made her Vixens in Heat (1983) debut, she was cute, unsophisticated, and voracious. Video was just taking over from film as the medium of choice for adult-film marketeers, and Amber entered hardcore skinema when the industry was on the cusp of a major upheaval. Her personal reinvention coincided with a revolution in the way people viewed sexually explicit material, and she was not alone. A whole new pantheon of superstars spontaneously erupted along with the home-viewing bonanza triggered by the advent of the VCR. Along with Amber, Ginger Lynn, Christy Canyon, and Traci Lords became bedroom names in almost every American household that had a TV and a tape deck. Amber’s star arc outsoared and outlasted them all. Her strutting high-caliber glamour became a template for dozens of Vivid Video franchise girls, and the blonde bombshell has accumulated more than 350 credits to her name. She’s appeared in a few R-rated projects, and you can see her fine figure in the movies Evils of the Night (1985), and 52 Pick-Up (1986). But her XXX films are where she’s really made a name for herself, and she is a member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame. Mr. Skin would also like to note she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Free Speech Coalition, and has also been involved in the Youth AIDS Foundation of Los Angeles since 1992. Pornographic and philanthropic—quite the heady combination.