School secretary outed as porn star by pupil strips off again...
despite promising to give up her seedy double life

By Daily Mail Reporter

A porn star school secretary who promised to give up her seedy secret double life has stripped off again after being sacked from her day job.

Julie Gagnon, who goes by the stage name Samantha Ardente, made headlines around the world after being outed by a 14-year-old pupil from her school who recognised her in a porn film.

The young mother was finally sacked from her job at Etchemins High School near Quebec City last week after news of her starring role in the film Serial Abusers 2 reached school management.



Double life: A pupil discovered school secretary Julie Gagnon was moonlighting as a porn star with the stage name of Samantha Ardente

Miss Gagnon, who has starred in five adult movies, had agreed to stop making them in a desperate bid to keep her job, but the school board claimed her film career 'was not compatible' with her position.

Despite being hopeful of regaining her school job after launching legal action against her sacking, Miss Gagnon has bared all in a five-page spread in the erotic magazine Summum.

In the May edition of the French-language lads' mag, the former secretary disrobes in a series of provocative poses and explains how she imposed ‘no restrictions’ in her film scenes.

She describes how she entertained three men at the same time and tells the publication she would have continued to make porn films had her secret life not be discovered.

Miss Gagnon, who has starred in five adult movies, had agreed to stop making them in a desperate bid to keep her job, but the school board claimed her film career 'was not compatible' with her position.

Despite being hopeful of regaining her school job after launching legal action against her sacking, Miss Gagnon has bared all in a five-page spread in the erotic magazine Summum.

In the May edition of the French-language lads' mag, the former secretary disrobes in a series of provocative poses and explains how she imposed ‘no restrictions’ in her film scenes.

She describes how she entertained three men at the same time and tells the publication she would have continued to make porn films had her secret life not be discovered.





Racy: Young mother Miss Gagnon has since stripped again for erotic magazine Summum

She said: ‘You'll think I’m naive, but yes I sincerely believed that nobody would make the connection between Julie and Samantha.

‘I just wanted to do turn a few (porn films), just enough to replenish my bank account’.



Exposed: A schoolboy set up a Facebook page with this picture of Miss Gagnon after he saw her in a porn film

Miss Gagnon now plans to launch a range of sex products under the ‘Samantha’ brand name.

She claims most of the movies were filmed in ‘chalets and hotel suites’ and she didn’t meet her film partners ‘until arriving on set’.

The magazine’s editor claims Miss Gagnon had originally rebuffed offers to strip off but changed her mind soon after finding herself out of work, and even provided her own private photos.

Editor Alain Rochette told QMI agency: ‘She said yes immediately.'

Miss Gagnon, who continues to fight her sacking, claims the young pupil who discovered her secret second life demanded sex in return for keeping quiet.

The Canadian boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was suspended from school in March for creating a fake Facebook page in her name with a racy profile picture of Miss Gagnon in her underwear, after she allegedly refused the boy's request for an autograph.

But the secretary claimed this week that the boy - whose mother is a teacher - asked her to perform a sex act on him in a trade for his silence.

Miss Gagnon’s lawyer, Franco Schiro, claims his client became alarmed when the pupil inquired about her young daughter.



Starring role: A scene from one of Miss Gagnon's porn films. She said she imposed 'no restrictions' on her movie appearances



Seedy: The porn film continues. Miss Gagnon said she has also 'entertained' three men at once in a movie

According to Mr Schiro, in an online conversation the pupil 'basically asked her for oral sex in order to stop what was going to be happening to the daughter of my client'.

Miss Gagnon said she tried to start a police investigation, but was told by officers it wasn’t a criminal matter.

The owner of Pegas Productions, which makes the porn films Miss Gagnon has starred in, has condemned her sacking.

Nicolas Lafleur said: ‘She (Miss Gagnon) was very nervous. She didn’t want to lose her job and I don’t think she told everyone, so it wasn’t easy for her.'



Burgeoning career: Julie Gagnon said she now plans to launch a range of sex products under the Samantha Ardente name

Mr Lafleur's website had so much traffic in March it had to restrict access to paying members and he was concerned about students from the school getting into the site.
The Des Navigateurs School Board in Quebec claimed last week they were left with little choice but to sack Miss Gagnon.

Board chairman Leopold Castonguay said: ‘We believe the actions that led to this incident are inappropriate, unacceptable and incompatible with not only our mission but also with the values we wish to convey to our young students.'

Etchemins High School has 1,400 students. Miss Gagnon worked at the school for the past two years.
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Manipulating morals: scientists target drugs that improve behaviour


Researchers say morality treatments could be used instead of prison and might even help humanity tackle global issues

Amelia Hill

Existing drugs such as Prozac are already known to affect moral behaviour, but scientists predict that advances may allow more sophisticated manipulations. Photograph: Scott Camazine/Alamy

A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries - these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state, society should be preparing for the consequences, according to a book that reviews scientific developments in the field.

Drugs such as Prozac that alter a patient's mental state already have an impact on moral behaviour, but scientists predict that future medical advances may allow much more sophisticated manipulations.

The field is in its infancy, but "it's very far from being science fiction", said Dr Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner.

"Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a big debate," he said. "There is already a growing body of research you can describe in these terms. Studies show that certain drugs affect the ways people respond to moral dilemmas by increasing their sense of empathy, group affiliation and by reducing aggression."

Researchers have become very interested in developing biomedical technologies capable of intervening in the biological processes that affect moral behaviour and moral thinking, according to Dr Tom Douglas, a Wellcome Trust research fellow at Oxford University's Uehiro Centre. "It is a very hot area of scientific study right now."

He is co-author of Enhancing Human Capacities, published on Monday, which includes a chapter on moral enhancement.

Drugs that affect our moral thinking and behaviour already exist, but we tend not to think of them in that way. [Prozac] lowers aggression and bitterness against environment and so could be said to make people more agreeable. Or Oxytocin, the so-called love hormone ... increases feelings of social bonding and empathy while reducing anxiety," he said.

"Scientists will develop more of these drugs and create new ways of taking drugs we already know about. We can already, for example, take prescribed doses of Oxytocin as a nasal spray," he said.

But would pharmacologically-induced altruism, for example, amount to genuine moral behaviour? Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner, said: "We can change people's emotional responses but quite whether that improves their moral behaviour is not something science can answer."

He also admitted that it was unlikely people would "rush to take a pill that would make them morally better.

"Becoming more trusting, nicer, less aggressive and less violent can make you more vulnerable to exploitation," he said. "On the other hand, it could improve your relationships or help your career."

Kahane does not advocate putting morality drugs in the water supply, but he suggests that if administered widely they might help humanity to tackle global issues.

"Relating to the plight of people on other side of the world or of future generations is not in our nature," he said. "This new body of drugs could make possible feelings of global affiliation and of abstract empathy for future generations."

Ruud ter Meulen, chair in ethics in medicine and director of the centre for ethics in medicine at the University of Bristol, warned that while some drugs can improve moral behaviour, other drugs - and sometimes the same ones - can have the opposite effect.

"While Oxytocin makes you more likely to trust and co-operate with others in your social group, it reduces empathy for those outside the group," Meulen said.

The use of deep brain stimulation, used to help those with Parkinson's disease, has had unintended consequences, leading to cases where patients begin stealing from shops and even becoming sexually aggressive, he added.

"Basic moral behaviour is to be helpful to others, feel responsible to others, have a sense of solidarity and sense of justice," he said. "I'm not sure that drugs can ever achieve this. But there's no question that they can make us more likeable, more social, less aggressive, more open attitude to other people," he said.

Meulen also suggested that moral-enhancement drugs might be used in the criminal justice system. "These drugs will be more effective in prevention and cure than prison," he said.

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Papá, el pobre, es artista

Poetas, novelistas y creadores revelan la relación de sus hijos con su oficio

Luis Alemany Madrid
9/03/2011
Foto - Charles Chaplin y Jackie Coogan en 'The kid' (1921).

Se murió Josefina Aldecoa esta semana y las crónicas de los periódicos hiceron recuento de todos los intelectuales que llevaron a sus hijos a su colegio, el Estilo de la calle Serrano de Madrid: los Marsillach, los Giralt Torrente, los Casariego, los Azcona, los Saura, los Barnatán, los Medem... Y, ahora, tres días después llega san José, el día del padre y cualquiera piensa "que bonito debe de ser tener un padre escritor, artista, cineasta". O, incluso, "qué bonito sería poder dedicarse uno a escribir novelas, ensayos, obras de teatro... y dar un ejemplo noble a los críos".

Bueno, pues de eso nada. "¿Las niñas? Bueno... A mis hijas no les ha impresionado mucho el hecho de que yo sea poeta. El otro día la pequeña decía que ella ya sabía que los poetas son pobres, que tienen que tener otros trabajos, que no tienen reconocimiento y que se frustran porque la sociedad los considera un poco idiotas. En realidad, es gracioso porque piensan lo mismo que pensaba mi padre, que mejor me hubiera dedicado al Derecho, que me hubiese hecho abogado o ingeniero".

Al habla, Raúl Rivero, poeta y periodista cubano, padre de tres hijas de treinta y tantos, ventitantos y diecitantos. "Es curioso, porque lo del periodismo sí que me ha servido para que mis hijas me tuvieran un poco más de consideración. Lo de que viajara y tuviera anécdotas, eso sí que les gustaba".


Antonio Orejudo: "Siento curiosidad por saber qué pasará cuando mis hijos lean mis libros"


Antonio Orejudo, padre de una parejita, contaba algo parecido hace unas semanas al hilo de la presentación de 'Un momento de descanso' (Tusquets). "El niño todavía es pequeño. Pero la chica, que ya tiene de edad de empezar a interesarse por estas cosas... La verdad es que a la chica le da bastante igual que yo sea escritor. Si acaso, lo de verme en algún periódico le da consuelo de esas burlas que todos los Orejudo hemos tenido que soportar en el colegio, todas las bromitas con el apellido. Y bueno, creo que últimamente, alguna amiga le ha comentado algo del tipo 'Vi a tu padre en la tele' y eso le debió de gustar...".

"Supongo", continúa Orejudo, "que llegará un momento en que mis hijos lean mis libros. La verdad es que siento mucha curiosidad por saber qué ocurrirá en ese momento".

Ese es un punto interesante. Andrés Trapiello, por ejemplo, ha confesado en alguna ocasión que sus hijos (ya veinteañeros) leen sus diarios, que, en general, les gustan y que alguna vez se enfurruñan con algún retrato, con alguna escena que les sonroja o en la que no se ven favorecidos.

"En mi caso, cada hija ha sido distinta", explica Rivero. " La mayor, por lo que sé, no ha leído ni un verso mío. Bueno, uno que escribí cuando nació estoy seguro que lo conoce. Decía 'Entra. El mundo es feliz' y yo lo escribí cuando todavía estaba cerca de la Revolución, del Gobierno cubano. Luego,pasaron los años, todo en Cuba se estropeó y sé que, una vez, a ella, en una fiesta, alguien le dijo 'Mira qué cosas escribía tu padre'. No se lo dijeron como un reproche, era más bien una broma, pero a mí me dejó hundido".

El poeta Carlos Marzal ha tenido más suerte: a su cría (nueve años; tiene otro hijo más pequeño) sí que le hace ilusión tener un padre poeta. "En parte, es porque la hemos llevado a un colegio en el que la literatura es religión. Hacen todos los años un carnaval literario en el que siempre participo... En general, lo que escribo no está dirigido a los niños, pero tengo algún poema sobre los hijos que he leído en el colegio". Y la joven Marzal, claro, hinchada como una gallinita.

¿Escribir sobre la paternidad? "El tema del descubrimiento está bastante bien, tengo algunos poemas que escribí cuando fui padre que salvaría", contesta Raúl Rivero. "Están los temas del asombro, el milagro, el temor, la expulsión del paraíso", añade Marzal, que tampoco se siente incómodo con los versos que escribió para/sobre sus hijos.

"El riesgo es que todo sea demasiado sentimental, que el amor sea mucho más grande que el poema", explica Rivero. "Es cuestión de escribir sobre los hijos, no sobre tus hijos. Que el poema sea bueno, que no sea un capricho dedicado a la intimidad familiar", continúa Marzal.

El artista mallorquín Bernardí Roig explicó ese riesgo hace un par de años en los prolegómenos de una entrevista con EL MUNDO. "Intenté hacer cosas cuando nacieron mis hijos bajo el efecto ese de ver nacer a una criatura, pero no me gustaron, eran demasiado sentimentales. Da pena, pero, al final, me ha dado más motivos para trabajar la relación con mi padre que la relación con mis hijos". Feliz día del padre para los abuelos, también.

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