Read an interesting article at thestar.com and interview with Sasha Grey. A porn star who has over 150 movies under her belt, some of them extreme, and is now crossing over into mainstream movie making. She recently starred in a movie about a high-priced call girl that was interviewed about her work.
The 21 year old appeared on the Tyra Banks show who grilled her on how she could be a woman in porn. Yet Sasha Grey seems to be poised and ready to take on the questions, pointing out that its a business, and she seems to treat it that way.
I don’t know if I could have ever acted in a porn movie. For one thing, I didn’t have the body. I’m short and curvy, not leggy, and sex with a stranger doesn’t really turn me on.
But, having said that, I definitely would have gotten into being a web cam girl if the internet had been around when I was in my 20s, and made a lot of money doing so. To me, that would have been a safe way to flirt and be sexy while making a lot of money. (I know web cam girls that are making 6 figure incomes…wish I was).
I just don’t get some peoples take that think women who end up in porn were abused, unhappy, or have some grave emotional hang-ups that need years of therapy after doing hardcore movies. Most women I’ve met that are in the industry are about the exact opposite of that. They realize they can make money with their assets (their bodies) and treat it like any other buisness. Many when they get older expand out into either producing their own films or developing their own movie label, like Sasha Grey is.
The only drawback I can think of being in this industry is my mind is constantly in the gutter. I take almost everything I see or hear and filter it through this porn lens in my head. For instance, a friend of mine abbreviated black jack as BJ on her facebook blog, and I had to really think what the heck BJ could be in a casino…other than blowjob. It makes for some embarrassing moments when I’m talking to someone who doesn’t know I do porn, and they say something I take the wrong way, and I have to try and figure out what they are saying, in a non-adult context and not laugh out loud at them. But if that is the worst of my hang-ups, I can live with that.
