More than a Clinical Sexpert: An Interview with Sharon Mitchell, Ph.D.

Dr. Sharon Mitchell

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SexHerald: I understand you recently had your boobs done. Why did you decide to have your breasts augmented now at age 50 instead of, say, at 25?

Dr. Sharon Mitchell: Number one being I’ve always liked my breasts. I’ve always liked the way my body looked. I didn’t have any real reason to get them done before. The fact is, they just started going a little bit south and I’m vain—just like anyone else. When I look in the mirror, I still want to see that 25-year-old porn star. I know that’s not possible. However, I’m really in great shape and I work out and I eat well. I just thought, ‘You know; now it’ll probably be a good time to get a boob job. It makes sense.’ Give them a little lift and definition this time in my life; it’s a good thing.

SH: How far up did you go?

Dr. Mitchell: I went up two cups. I was a 34B and now I’m a 34D.

SH: So, you started off as an off-Broadway actress and traveled with the Martha Graham company. Why did you decide to be a part of adult entertainment?

Dr. Mitchell: I was also working in television and movies. I was in the movie Cruisin’, I was in The Deer Hunter, I had some commercial work as well; I was working on a soap opera at the time. And my agent, she booked porn movies on the side. It was a really great way to make extra money back then. There was no video back then. You literally had to walk into a movie theater.

Excuse me, my macaw is screaming in the background. [laughs] I’m not torturing anyone. I have a very large macaw, Boo, who gets very jealous when I’m on the phone.

SH: Is that the only pet you have?

Dr. Mitchell: No, actually. I have Boo, I’ve got a kitty cat, I’ve got two Bouvier des Flandres dogs and two raccoons that I feed that are wild that come see me every day, six squirrels and a flock of wild birds that I feed, along with having birds.

SH: Wow. Why do you have so many “pets?”

Dr. Mitchell: I always feed the animals around home where I live. I think it’s a good practice to be Zen. You know, just to sort of make harmony in the neighborhood with the wild animals. So every morning I feed the wild animals, at night I feed the opossums and the raccoons.

SH: Going back to the previous topic, go into detail on why you joined adult entertainment.

Dr. Mitchell: It was a good way to make extra money. It was a great way to say ‘fuck you’ to the Catholic Church and my parents at the same time. I always liked my body. I was sexually open from a very young age. I started having sex with my girlfriend and boyfriend at a very young age.

Back then it was a lot different, though. These were actual productions where they kept 2-3 weeks to shoot, they shot on film, you had to wait a year for your movie to come out, you’d go to the premiere; it was very, very glamorous.