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Carmen Electra: Sex, Politics and Celebrity Golf

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MONTREAL — Carmen Electra was part of a mob scene in Montreal late Saturday night at the Opera Nightclub after the two-time Playboy cover girl was jetted in to introduce the nights events.

“I’m just a girl from Cincinnati, Ohio, who had big dreams and managed to get here,” she told the media, shortly before heading onstage. Born Tara Leigh Patrick (her stage name was supplied by none other than the artist currently known as Prince), Electra is also busy promoting her latest video release, another entry in her hugely popular Aerobics Stripteaseseries.

But don’t let the sexy persona fool you: Electra has something to state about culture and politics. She concedes the American psyche has a split personality when it comes to marriage and sex. Americans clearly have a healthy libido, while also retaining a seriously puritanical streak. Thus the same culture that gave birth to the likes of Britney Spears, Madonna, and Electra can also be consumed by sexual scandals involving conservative senators and gay sex.

“At the end of the day, we all have wants and desires and fantasies. Some may be deeper than others. When you’re in entertainment you have more freedom to express yourself. Political people are a bit different - they often have to be a certain way, and if they’re not in reality, it’s more shocking.”

For the record, Electra has not yet decided which presidential candidate she will endorse in 2008, but says she is “extremely excited” by the prospect that America may well have its first female president.

Electra says she is not personally feeling the crunch felt by many in the Los Angeles film milieu, given the current writers’ strike. She was part of the reality-TV phenomenon, with her 2004 series ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave, documenting her marriage to guitarist Dave Navarro. The marriage ended shortly after the show did, with Electra filing for divorce earlier this year.

“I still think marriage can be amazing. It’s a moment in your life when you’re celebrating your love with someone. I’m definitely not against marriage now. I’ll definitely get married again. As a girl, I always saw myself having a big, Brady Bunch family. But getting married in Vegas? No.”

Electra found herself in the midst of a tabloid-media frenzy last year when she confessed that she had a “girl crush” on lesbian rocker Joan Jett. “I guess any time you say something to the press you can’t be surprised,” she says now. “I stopped telling my crushes to reporters because it takes on a world of its own.”

As for the Joan Jett revelation titillating her gay fan base, Electra says “I love all my fans and I’m grateful for them. I performed at the Dinah Shore [celebrity golf tournament] two years in a row, and I was honoured. Keep rockin’, girls!” It was there, she says, that it became clear she had a legion of lesbian fans. “And yes, I support same-sex marriage.”

Electra does not feel that the nature of her celebrity holds her back and stated, “I feel like you can walk in the door and people just won’t expect as much from you. When you put an image out there of a sex symbol, people just see that image. So anything you give them outside that image is a plus. I’m grateful, really. I love doing what I do. I love the spotlight and I love the cameras.”