# Sylvia Kristel stormed into erotica **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121 "2012-10-18T13:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/1 "2012-10-18T13:31:17Z")
And now shuffled off this mortal coil at the relatively young age of 60 > **[Sylvia Kristel, star of Emmanuelle, dies](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19990457)** > > Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel who starred in the 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle, dies aged 60. Fueled the majority of my fantasies as a teen. Who doesn’t count the Emanuelle series as the starting point for mainstream erotica? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/2 "2012-10-18T13:51:14Z")
Ah, Sylvia. One of the most beautiful women of her era, with or without her clothes on. Also a surprisingly good actress for her genre. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/3 "2012-10-18T13:58:51Z")
Another memory of my youth passes. I’ll have to go home and tug one out in her honor. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/4 "2012-10-18T14:09:08Z")
I think I saw the first Emanuelle as a callow youth of 16. I thought her film character had such an understated confidence and self assuredness that she was well beyond my dreams. Funny that she is only 6 years older than me. Yes an exceptional actress for her genre Also as horny as feck ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/5 "2012-10-18T14:11:05Z")
Oh yeah. RIP Ms Kristel… What a stunning woman… and the french only made it… better… Staying up late… for Emanuelle… I pity kids today… it’s so accessible their can’t be the same amount of allure… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/6 "2012-10-18T14:31:52Z")
To show you what a nerd I was (hard to believe, I know)… when I first saw \*\*\*Emmanuelle, \*\*\*I found myself distracted constantly. I SHOULD have been focusing on the girls, but I kept thinking things like, “Hey- isn’t that King Crimson’s “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Part 2?” Who thought THAT was erotic music???” ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/7 "2012-10-18T15:26:35Z")
Sad that she died at such a young age. From the morning onwards it has been the opening segment on the news here in Holland, including segments from Emmanuele: about 30 seconds of full frontal nudity; for some reason I couldn’t help but think about nipplegate when I saw that. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/8 "2012-10-18T20:42:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > To show you what a nerd I was (hard to believe, I know)… when I first saw \*\*\*Emmanuelle, \*\*\*I found myself distracted constantly. I SHOULD have been focusing on the girls, but I kept thinking things like, “Hey- isn’t that King Crimson’s “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Part 2?” Who thought THAT was erotic music???” Mmm, Robert Fripp. Robert Fripp. They don’t call him Mister Sex for nothing. In fact, they don’t call him Mister Sex. This is one of those news stories that makes you feel old. I was much too young to experience _Emmanuelle_ in the cinema - it was released before I was born - but it had a long life on VHS and is now presumably out on Blu-Ray. Dunno what modern audiences make of it. Did people actually watch it in mainstream cinemas? Kristel was a strange sex symbol. She was pretty in a tomboyish way and in another world she might have gone on to have the same kind of career as Jenny Agutter (for example). I don’t think my generation had anything comparable. Pamela Anderson is not the same. Jane March didn’t have staying power. Blimey, Brigitte Bardot is 78. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/9 "2012-10-18T20:55:13Z")
Sylvia Kristel was Dutch. Also, when [she was young she](http://media.nu.nl/m/m1nx1m2a01l2_std320.jpg) [lookedlike](http://www.vrouwonline.nl/img/article/ANP_ENTX_Web_14409891.jpg) the actress who plays [Dawn in Buffy](http://www.btvsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/buffy-dawn.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/10 "2012-10-18T20:57:44Z")
She’s blowing angels, now. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/11 "2012-10-18T20:57:54Z")
The favorite boobies of my youth. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/12 "2012-10-18T20:58:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > She’s blowing angels, now. Bravo ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/13 "2012-10-18T21:19:34Z")
She pioneered mainstream porn, a genre which still struggles. Thanks for trying Sylvia. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/14 "2012-10-18T21:52:24Z")
Never saw any of the Emmanuelle films but I must’ve spanked it a dozen times watching her in _ **Private Lessons** _ on HBO in the early 80s! Wasn’t there some controversy over that movie (cause the boy in it was clearly under 18, poor bastard!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/15 "2012-10-18T22:04:37Z")
She made plenty of other people stiff. Now it’s her turn. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/16 "2012-10-18T23:23:30Z")
16 years old at the drive in watching Emmanuelle, what could have been better? ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/17 "2012-10-19T02:44:17Z")
ahhhh, Emmanuel. I remember a scene about a young lady flashing back about a library lesbian experience. It was a big hit at the university showing… ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-kristel-stormed-into-erotica/638121/18 "2012-10-19T14:34:18Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Never saw any of the Emmanuelle films but I must’ve spanked it a dozen times watching her in _ **Private Lessons** _ on HBO in the early 80s! Wasn’t there some controversy over that movie (cause the boy in it was clearly under 18, poor bastard!) 😃 Saw that on cable a while back. Epic tits.