in Maya Gallus's 1997 documentary film Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality. Royalle wrote regular columns for adult magazines High Society and Cheri. She was also a public speaker, giving lectures at Smithsonian Institution, the World Congress on Sexology, and numerous universities and professional conferences. In 2004, she authored the book How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do. A five-track EP titled Candida Cosmica, a collaboration between Royalle and Patrick Cowley from the mid-1970s, was released in October 2016 by Dark Entries Records. Affiliations Royalle was a member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and a founding board member of Feminists for Free Expression. Personal life and death In the 1980s, Royalle was married to producer Per Sjöstedt; they separated in 1988. In May 2006, she announced that she was engaged to be married. She died in Mattituck, New York on September 7, 2015, aged 64, from ovarian cancer. In media In 2019, Candice, a documentary about Royalle's life and finding out what happened to her mother who left her as a child, was screened at various documentary film festivals. It was directed by Sheona McDonald and distributed by Mbur Indie Film Distribution. Filmography During her acting career (1975–1980), Royalle performed in 25 traditional male-centred porn films, including Ball Game (1980) by Ann Perry, Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls, Hot Racquettes, Delicious, Fascination by Chuck Vincent, and finally Blue Magic (1980), which Royalle also wrote and her then-new husband Per Sjöstedt produced. By 2013, Royalle had (jointly) written or directed 18 feminist porn films with Femme Productions since 1984, including: Femme (1984) Urban Heat (1984) Three Daughters (1986) Christine's Secret (1986) A Taste of Ambrosia (1987) Rites of Passion (1987) Sensual Escape (1988) Revelations (1993) My Surrender (1996) The Gift (1997) The Bridal Shower (1997) One Size Fits All (1998) Eyes of Desire (1998) Eyes of Desire 2 (1999) Afrodite Superstar (2006) Under the Covers (2007) References External links Candida Royalle's Website Papers of Candida Royalle, 1920-2017. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. 1950 births 2015 deaths American pornographic film actresses American feminists American women writers Women pornographic film directors Feminist pornography Sex-positive feminists Businesspeople from New York City Pornographic film actors from New York (state) Deaths from ovarian cancer Parsons School of Design alumni City University of New York alumni Deaths from cancer in New York (state) High School of Art and Design