1. Anna Span was born and raised in Kent, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of finance director Clive Thompson.
17 Facts About Anna Span
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Anna Span is a graduate of film from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
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Anna Span's films are female-friendly based on her ideas first outlined in her 1997 dissertation 'Towards a New Pornography'.
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Anna Span later graduated with an MA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London, and studied for a PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, titled 'Rethinking Misogyny: How Men Experience Women to have Power in Dating Relationships'.
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Anna Span had her first film aired in 1999 on UK porn channel Television X and has made over 250 scenes to date.
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Anna Span wanted to present a sympathetic image of the Young offender.
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Anna Span's film Be My Toy Boy was nominated for best Film at the 2009 ETO Awards.
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Anna Span won the Palm Phwoar, Services to the Industry award in 2013.
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Anna Span's father appeared in the documentary, expressing a negative view of pornography but a very supportive view of his daughter.
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Anna Span identifies as bisexual and has said, 'I'm bi and looking at two women together turns me on.
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Anna Span has given talks about pornography and feminism in various countries, for example at universities or film festivals and has debated on pornography with Germaine Greer and Gail Dines.
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In 2011, Span was invited alongside Jessi Fischer and Johnny Anglais to debate against Gail Dines, Richard Woolfson and Shelley Lubben at the University of Cambridge.
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Anna Span has been a peer reviewer for the academic journals Gender Studies, Men and Masculinities and Porn Studies.
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Anna Span has been an active member of Feminists Against Censorship since the late 1990s.
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Anna Span has appeared on various TV programmes and press such as Newsnight, The Today Programme, PM, and Woman's Hour, defending the porn industry.
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In 2014, Anna Span moved to California with her husband Tim Arrowsmith.
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Anna Span was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.