Mariah

Maria Pauliina Kekkonen a.k.a. Mariah Sensuel (born 15 December 1976 in Helsinki) is a Finnish erotic actress. She worked as a stripper for about six months before becoming an erotic actress in 1996. Kekkonen has also worked as a reporter on the Finnish Aluetelevisio television channel's clone of Naked News concept.

In November 2007 along with partner Olha Venäläinen, a former ballet dancer, Kekkonen introduced pole dancing to Helsinki at their studio "Rock The Pole". According to the University of Tampere article, various dance types, jazz, flamenco and ballet, are taught on the pole with students ranging from 16 to 50. The focus is on gymnastics and not eroticism. By December classes were full and a series of children's classes were planned for the spring of 2008. She also received credit as a pole dance instructor for a modern dance group work Freak-a-Zo! which had its world premiere in Helsinki in September 2007.