School teacher admits to life in porn

Rome -- An Italian schoolteacher has revealed her secret after-hours life as Internet porn star Madameweb.

Anna Ciriani, who teaches Italian in the northeastern town of Pordenone, said her work as a teacher is impeccably professional, complete with modest clothing and a serious attitude, The Independent reported Thursday.

However, as Madameweb, Ciriani is the star of a number of hardcore videos that are spread over more than a dozen Web sites.

Although her identity was well known before she publicly admitted to her double life on her blog, public criticism had been sparse until she traveled last month to Germany for the 11th Venus-Berlin international pornography fair.

News of her performance at the fair -- and the subsequent creation of YouTube videos that depict her walking the streets and riding a bus in the nude -- have drawn fire from some colleagues.

"Each of us, outside work and in our private life, is free to do what he or she wants, free to take whoever one wants to bed," a male coworker of Ciriani's, who identifies himself only as Fabio, wrote on his blog. "What perplexes me is that Madameweb has a job in which, unfortunately, the private life matters -- a lot. It matters for the families, it matters for the school."

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