Anna Cirani is a teacher in Italy. She's also "Madameweb", an internet porn star. (No offense to Cirani, but the porn star name I came up with playing those porn star name games was waaaay better. Just call me Bootsy Santa Ynez.) The Italian press just calls her the "porno-prof". Anyhow, school authorities recently decided that her two jobs were not compatible, and suspended her. She says, "My behavior at school has always been professional and irreproachable...I am a normal woman, with my family and my work as a teacher. I am (also) looking for transgression and sex." Now there's a sentiment I can get behind! She used to teach Italian lit at a secondary school, but when students covered the toilets with naked photos of her from the internet, she was transferred and taught evening classes to foreign adult students.
Okay, I don't think she should have been suspended for her film career. When I wrote about a teacher who had barely-even-risque pics of herself on the internet, some people mentioned it was unprofessional of her and that she ought to be a role model. But I'm sticking to my guns: in the classroom, role model, okay. Outside the class? None of my business. Look, there's lots of stuff I don't want my kid exposed to yet--drinking, smoking, politics--but that doesn't mean I think teachers shouldn't engage in these things on their own time, and even publicly. And I'm very pro porn, so you know, more power to Madameweb. I hope no more kid students of hers would be in a position to view her work (and it's not really on her if they are) so if she's a good teacher, moonlight all you want.
