 danni ashe (born january 16, 1968) is the pseudonym of an american nude model and former erotic dancer, who is the founder and former ceo of danni's hard drive, a pioneering adult web site. ashe started her adult internet site in 1995. she has been an industry advocate and testified before a government panel. currently she is retired from modeling and has become an arizona based photographer. ==career== ===early years=== ashe began working as a stripper in seattle. never finishing high school, she started stripping at the age of seventeen using a fake id."the brains behind the boobs", wired news, 1999-01-28; gabriel spitzer, "danni ashe on making it in the web porn biz", media life magazine, 2001-03-16; both retrieved 2008-07-12. in an interview, ashe once explained her career choice: "i guess i'm an exhibitionist. but that's not quite true. part of the reason is that i developed huge breasts at an early age and breasts are a very sexualized thing. at an early age i was getting a lot of sexualized attention. eventually, i just felt that stripping kind of put all that stuff out on the table."bruce kirland, "sex does sell at cannes", jam!, 2001-05-19, retrieved 2008-07-12. after about five years of working in seattle clubs, ashe moved to los angeles and began modeling for men's magazines and soft-core pornographic videos.spitzer, "danni ashe on making it in the web porn biz". she eventually worked as an exotic dancer in various strip clubs throughout the united states as a featured performer. this resulted in an incident in a technically non-nude club in jacksonville, florida. in interviews,ainews, "an innerview of danni ashe", 2000-01-24, retrieved 2008-07-12. ashe has alleged that the clubâs owner and its manager persuaded her to perform a topless dance, and encourage
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