I realize I may be late to the party here, but Sasha Grey is the future! The 20 year-old starlet has been in the porn industry for a couple years now, and I'm adding her to my list of women who get it.
The girl owns her own name, promotes industry self-advocation, associates herself with bedrocks like Belladonna and Nina Hartley, and clearly offers a lot of talent on top of it all.
Excerpt from an interview she did with the Citrus Report:
I've been pushing Sasha Grey as an idea not just a person. There are for sure larger things to come. I don't want to spoil the surprise, I'll just say sooner than you think. I own my name as a corporate entity, which seems like a no duh issue, but you'd be surprised how many girls don't own shit.
Yes, my girl! That's the right idea--your youth and beauty will fade, but your BRAND will last forever.
She is opinionated and feisty:
I'm really fucking tired of "gonzo" porn with little dumb thematic teases. I mean c'mon, does anybody really believe for one second that I'm a "bad little school girl" or that this is my "first time" having anal sex, the pizza guy, or just stupid shit like that.
Love it. Despite a potentially ill-advised appearance on the Tyra Banks show, during which her skyrocketing career was reduced to an after-school job (see segment and Sasha's response)--as an aside, aren't we over Tyra yet?--she seems to be on track for major success. Best of luck to her. I'll be watching her career closely!
Porn with a BRAIN? How subversive is that? Scares most men silly.
Posted by: greg.hoyos | May 14, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Yes, we are over Tyra. She gets more tactless and rude with each passing season on Top Model.
Yes, Sasha Grey is awesome. She made a big splash upon her debut, she is quite popular over at AdultDVDTalk.com and really does offer a lot more than your standard performer, in terms of emotional, intellectual and physical content. Go Sasha!
Posted by: Brian | May 17, 2008 at 02:33 PM
Sasha Grey always says that she never got abused as a young, but People in Sacramento know that she got more or less raped and abused when she was 17 by her former boyfriend. He was 8 years older, he was abusive and he forced her to do a lot of perversions like SM, anal, wet sex and similar. He warped her mind and caused mental illness and sex addiction. Without him, she would for sure never have become a pornstar, but remained a normal person.
Posted by: Linda | August 18, 2008 at 05:23 AM
Linda, that still makes a bold assumption, that any sort of sexual abuse will simply hardwire a person to get into porn and that just isn't true. You take away Sasha's agency to do what she wants for her reasons and simply turn her into victim who couldn't help but enter the industry due to abuse. And there are plenty of normal, non-abused women (and men!) in porn, just as there are women and men who have been sexually abused who occupy other industries such as teaching, accounting and medicine. And I just fail to see your logic in that equation of sexual abuse must equal a sex addiction afterwards. That is total complete BS...
Posted by: Brian | August 18, 2008 at 07:31 PM
Brian, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Posted by: Rebecca R | August 19, 2008 at 03:47 AM
And how nice of her to connect implied "personal abnormality" to porn performance and being a victim of sexual assault. Also, what "People", as you wrote with a capital 'P', "know" Sasha has this past?
Posted by: Aspasia | November 12, 2008 at 11:29 PM
i have to agree, that though rape = sexual addiction is not a correct assumption, in this specific case, i see a correlation, IF those statements are true, i can easily see a connection, espescially with the type of porn she makes (either forcibly taking control of a person, or being forcibly taken control of) and her being quoted as saying that she enjoys dirty talk during sex "the mor psychological the better", not to say of course that i dotn enjoy every screaming, crying cum soaked, deepthroating, anal gaping, face slapping second of it, it's fuckign great....maybe im fucked in the head?
Posted by: anonymontonamous | November 25, 2008 at 06:37 AM