Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

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I knew that she'd been to art school, and it showed: she had the ability to turn the genre on itself, to make the (male) viewer feel that he there was a certain sort of honesty to what she was doing on camera but that he was sort of a creep for watching her do it. But she has a good heart, or the book gives her one, and you often find yourself with your head in your hands thinking, just say No!

Only in porn would a person’s wretched habit of shoving her hand all the way down her throat be considered a talent. I loved it—it was exhilarating, I could feel a rush in my entire body, a rush of fluids out of the stomach, mouth, eyes, and nose all at once.I'm going to level with you and admit that I knew exactly who Ashley Blue was before this one was even published. But overall, the writing and storytelling were solid and engaging (again, in a train-wreckish sort of way). She offers a peek into an industry and lifestyle that the mainstream publicly decries as aberrant and sick. I was suspended on my first day of high school for smoking, then again for wearing too short a miniskirt. I was shocked and did not „enjoy“ reading Girlvert but I thought it was very interesting and I learned quite a lot.

I suppose I purchased this book out of morbid curiosity rather than a sincere interest in her life and decisions that the author made. And in some cases they won't be uncomfortable with them because they're genuinely uncomfortable with them; they'll be uncomfortable because they sense that they should be. 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. She often speak poorly of prostitutes and a few pages later proclaims pornography as an art form, but there is never reasoning or justification, just blank assertions. I really enjoyed the pacing, the thoroughness of Oriana Small's stories and the intelligent way this woman's life is portrayed.Not for the faint of heart, but for anyone whose heart has fainted, or been stilled, by sweetness or porno, by choking, or ass herpes. She lives and works with her husband, photographer Dave Naz, and her cat and dog in the Hollywood Hills.

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). The significance of the fist becomes apparent only about mid-way through the book *spoiler* (it relates to bulemia. 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. Porn is chock-full of sexism, racism, and classism that the audience of primarily men are getting off on. 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.Performers and actors of the female persuasion starring in modern pornography exhibit more bravery and gamut more emotions than many display within an entire lifetime. I thought that‘s quite weird since she should know best how bad it is to be confronted by prejudices and contempt. There seems to be little account (unsurprisingly) of sensuous enjoyment, rather the achievement of enduring the acts, and a sense of having disempowered legions of men into climax. Pale pink wraps featuring art by the author, black ink lettering, glossy photo section bound in; handmade Japanese paper DJ; lucite slipcase.