Madison Young

Who is Madison Young?

Madison Young, born Tina Butcher, is an American pornographic actress, director, published writer, sexual educator and founder of Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space that serves the LGBTQ and Kink communities.

Madison Young has been featured for her work in feminist pornography as well as a queer activist by such magazines as Bitch Magazine, Curve Magazine, on the cover of the sex worker activist magazine Spread. In the past three years, Young has been seen on television programs on the Independent Film Channel, the History Channel, MTV’s Logo, and in documentary feature films. MSNBC journalist Brian Alexander devoted a chapter of his 2008 book America Unzipped to her work and art, and French film director Virginie Despentes features Young in her forthcoming documentary, Mutantes.

Young has been a cover girl and/or feature subject for such popular and diversely oriented magazines as Hustler, Taboo and On Our Backs, and been featured in print and radio internationally. She has received awards for her bondage and suspension work and has been called "an auteur to be reckoned with" by AVN.