[2] She was born and raised in Kent, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of finance director Clive Thompson.

[4] She had her first film aired in 1999 on UK porn channel Television X and has made over 250 scenes to date.

[citation needed] British Conservative Party Leader David Cameron had taken a tough line on youth offenders but in July 2006 gave a sympathetic speech that was dubbed by the News of the World as 'Hug a Hoodie'.

In 2011, Span was invited alongside Jessi Fischer and Johnny Anglais to debate against Gail Dines, Richard Woolfson and Shelley Lubben at the University of Cambridge.

'[13] She has had one manual and two academic works published: Erotic Home Video (now known as Shoot Your Own Adult Home Movies) in 2003; My Pornographic Development, A chapter on my aesthetic philosophy, published in the book Pornographic Art & The Aesthetics of Pornography available through Palgrave Macmillan in 2013 and her PhD Thesis rewritten as a book, Rethinking Misogyny: Men’s Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships in 2015, available through Routledge.

Arrowsmith was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Gravesham in Kent for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

[15] Conservative Adam Holloway held on to the seat by a considerable margin; Arrowsmith increased the Liberal Democrat vote share by nearly one third compared to the previous Lib Dem election results and by more than the regional average, but remained in third place behind Labour.

[16] She explained her reasons for moving into politics in The Observer, which included: women's right to sexual expression and consumption, freedom of speech, and helping young people.

[17] Then Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg said, "It's not exactly my cup of tea what she's been doing before she has put herself forward in parliament but I also think it's really important that people like her who really care a lot about her local area are encouraged to come into politics.