Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

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Couples tend to bring all of their relationship problems into the sex scene and feelings always get hurt. It's shocking, it's crude, it's disgusting, and you start to wonder how anyone could demean themselves in such ways. And porn is an interesting medium because there is something else being played out besides the erotica or the erotic impulse.

She portrays porn as an industry full of abusive sleazeballs and druggie degenerates, but she's also quick to point out when someone she met while working went out of their way to treat her kindly or respectfully. Readers (or viewers) will have to make up their own minds there, but it's good to see that Oriana had come through it all in a pretty good place when she wrote "Girlvert. 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.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! We hear about filthy porn sets; malodorous bodily secretions; uninhibited drug use; dysfunctional relationships, mercenary porn stars, drug dealers, and producers; insanely reckless behavior and an enormous amount of dangerous, degrading sex, some of which, it must be said, the author seems to have rather enjoyed. 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. 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.

Handmade Japanese paper DJ by designer Ted Nava (each sheet of which contains at least a strand of Small's pubic hair!

I used to work on Sherman Way in Reseda in the 80's and I would see many of the sex club workers, porn actors and actresses as well as all the other by-products of that field and era.

Although I believe pornography has become much more acceptable as a fact of life, I still believe porn stars themselves are largely regarded as disposable, dubious characters who merely fulfill a (necessary?

But you never feel as if any of it has touched her, even when she talks about the two loves of her life. But given the billions in revenue earned by the porn industry every year, its patrons obviously extend beyond those branded as "perverts" and "deviants.