Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

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In her glory period as a porn actress, she was very much focused on the moment, and the book comments on the need to stay stoned or in some sort of high. Also I appreciated that this is a memoir not a ‘my porn hell’ as she is certainly no victim and she is not regretful of her choices. I feel like she blamed her boyfriend, fellow porn actor and fellow drug addict Trent for a lot of the porn she did. Oriana Small has pushed herself to the outermost extremes of what the body and mind are capable ofâ "all before turning thirty years oldâ "and now she's made it an authentic read for the rest of us to marvel at, elevating the depravity and denial inherent in the pornographic arts to a singular literary experience.

Even if you surveyed the employees before venturing into the back room and determined them all (thankfully) to resemble Randy Spears, you will proceed to the front inevitably to encounter a clerk who's the spitting image of your mom, right down to embroidered holiday sweatshirt.

At the heart of the problem is that the story does not develop, the characters do not grow, the experience stop giving insight into anything. But given the billions in revenue earned by the porn industry every year, its patrons obviously extend beyond those branded as "perverts" and "deviants. Publisher's blurb] Wraps feature original art by the author, unique to this edition and hand-numbered. All of those tits and twats accosting you from every side begin to resemble faces—sneering at you, heckling you.

It's not going to be used as a literature text any time, but for an educational glimpse into the porn industry coupled with a potent "hitting rock bottom" autobiographical tale, I recommend it. She's a product of drug addicted parents and she went on to become a binge eating bulimic at twelve and a drug abuser soon after. I remembered simpler days when Tyler and I were so broke that we lived off of frozen edamame and ice cream.Small, aka Ashley Blue, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, . This isn't one of those books where we follow the wide-eyed porn ingenue from her first on-camera blowjob to her pained realization that her career in porn was a mistake. A sad look at the low self esteem of these 'stars' and the need to be completely off their heads on drugs to go through with what they do on camera. I didn’t know how I could ever face my aunts, uncles, cousins, and sister afterward, or if my actions would force them to stop loving me.

By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Not particularly good writing, no emotional connection or insight but worth a read if you're interested in the facts of the life of a hardcore porn actress. Recommended to the sort of people who enjoy both dirty movies and feminist theory and to readers interested in exploring the furthest reaches of human sexuality.It turns me on, irritates me, horrifies me, educates me, and confirms my predispositions all at once. She doesn't regret porn, but she does come to regret when she allowed herself to bullied by the ego and self-interest of men (both in relationships and in the business). She admits that not everyone will agree that what she did was exactly respectable, but she knows that she did it well: it's amazing the amount of sheer effort that Oriana put into what was supposed to be a quick, money-making lark. When they started doing Chrystal Meth I lost the last remaining interest in hearing more about the author’s life.

Small loves the exploration and performance that porn offers, but here in the 21 st century, the world of porn doesn’t seem a whole lot safer for women than it did when it was underground and run by the Mob—the men in Girlvert range from exploitative to monstrous. this girl has had a crazy life, most of her life she has been taken advantage of but seems to be happy now, I'm glad she was the narrator, help's to tell the story the way she wants it told, more emotionally. Nevertheless "Girlvert" is a journey into the heart of the valley (San Fernando Valley to be exact), the headquarters that is everything Porn. You get a taste of her bawdy, sometimes wounding humor, and the book keeps a good balance between details that raincoat-sporting porn fans will appreciate and explanations of the basic elements of the industry that non-fans will find educational.I did enjoy this book a lot, I didn’t expect the world or adult entertainment to be quite so brutal, but maybe I was naive.