Marc Stevens was an American

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 erotic performer. He is sometimes credited as Mark '10½' Stevens or Mark Stevens.

Stevens was a pioneering sex industry figure during the 1970s in New York City

New York City

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. He appeared in over 80 pornographic movies, and also led an erotic dance troupe and performed in live sex shows. While he predominantly appeared in heterosexual films and loops, he was bisexual and made a number of gay

Gay

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 movies as well. He was a close associate of leading sex industry figures such as Jason & Tina Russell

Tina Russell

Tina Russell , was the stage name of a pioneering adult film actress active in New York between about 1970 and 1975. She also performed in some of the earliest "live sex shows" to appear in New York in the early-1970s .Tina Russell was born Linda Marie Mintzer in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to...

, Annie Sprinkle

Annie Sprinkle

Annie M. Sprinkle is an American former prostitute, stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer and sex film producer...

, who was also his neighbour for a time, Sharon Mitchell

Sharon Mitchell

Sharon Mitchell is a former erotic actress, with a pornography career spanning over two decades.- Adult film career :...

, Jamie Gillis

Jamie Gillis

Jamie Gillis was an American pornographic actor, director and member of the AVN Hall of Fame....

, Georgina Spelvin

Georgina Spelvin

Georgina Spelvin is the stage name of Michelle Graham, a former American pornographic actress who is best known for her appearance in the classic film The Devil in Miss Jones.-Early life:...

 and Gloria Leonard

Gloria Leonard

Gloria Leonard is an American former pornographic actress who later became the publisher of High Society magazine.-Early life and career:...

.

Tall and lean with a well-defined musculature, he had the nickname "10½" because of the supposed size of his circumcised penis

Penis

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. He was famously photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe

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.

Stevens died of AIDS

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 in 1989, aged 46.

Despite his prominence in the 1970s, and the fact he produced two memoirs (long out of print and allegedly ghost-written by his mother) one of which was named "10½!," Stevens has attracted relatively little attention since.

Notable films featuring Marc Stevens include:
The Devil in Miss Jones

The Devil in Miss Jones

The Devil in Miss Jones is a pornographic film, written, directed and produced by Gerard Damiano and starring Georgina Spelvin. It is widely regarded as a classic adult film, released during the Golden Age of Porn. Damiano made the film after his 1972 success with Deep Throat...

,
All about Gloria Leonard, and
Michael, Angelo and David.

Stevens was posthumously inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame

XRCO Hall of Fame

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on April 30, 2008.

External links

• Marc Stevens at the Adult Film Database Note: Adult content.