Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

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XRCO Awards Mainstream Visibility, Longevity". XBiz.com. June 3, 2005. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. OS/AB My story takes you through the exciting, seedy, druggy, hardcore side of porn. There is nothing left to wonder about the life of a young porno girl after you read this. There is no glamour in this book, so you are completely informed. There is a lot of value to that. Many people have asked me about what it’s “really” like. I think because they have not gotten all the good, gross, grimy details that we all know are there. My book is the one that fulfills the honesty, respecting what makes porn lives fascinating in the first place.

OS/AB I am all about this book. I will be traveling to promote Girlvert. Recording the audio version right now, so Girlvert will be a book on tape! Then I’m planning to do some podcasts of my own. Writing another book. Will be putting together a graphic novel. And continuously making, showing and selling artwork. The anniversary edition of the book contains the same story which is there in the original version of the book. The anniversary edition was published on June 11 2019 by HighBridge Publisher, an unabridged version of the book in the English language. But times have indeed changed. I wouldn't go so far as to say pornography (in its more vanilla varieties) is mainstream, but it's the dirty secret we all share, with a conspiratorial wink. Naturally, this is the perfect time for a porn memoir like Girlvert by Oriana Small (porn name: Ashley Blue), which doesn't sugarcoat the workaday life of hardcore porn stars and yet somehow, at the same time, manages to create an endearing, sympathetic portrait of the protagonist.

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W! You made a very strong case in your book for the freedom of expression in pornography, as regarded an obscenity case brought against JM Productions. What’s been your take on your friend Max Hardcore’s incarceration, Ira Isaac’s impending trial, and so on? What’s the deal? Is the government trying to shut down porn, or just put on a good show to the moral majority?

Pike-Johnson, Heidi (April 4, 2003). "Evil Angel's The Fashionistas Big Winner At XRCOs Thursday Night". Adult Video News . Retrieved September 28, 2014.Ashley Blue is an American radio personality, writer, and former pornographic actress. She was born on 8 July, 1981 in California, United States. She is 39 years old. Dive into the chapters to know more and discover the life of Oriana Small and how she earned her name ‘Ashley Blue.’ Girlvert: A Porno Memoir (Anniversary Edition)

The author has specialized in hardcore pornography which sounds painful and degrading. She states in her book that it is not fantasy but rather rape or violence. She signifies porn as an art that is not easy to perform. Small specialize in doing all the hard-core porn performances and her approach to doing these scenes are interesting in that she is always rebelling something out of her past. Her family life was messed up and that is totally not out of the norm, but she had to do something to make a mark on this world. And at that time it was her talent to do porn. And porn is an interesting medium because there is something else being played out besides the erotica or the erotic impulse. The power shift between the partners being filmed or directed. A lot of it is just to produce a product to sell, but there is also an art to it as well. But one can watch these films as a weird fantasy land, where one acts out their sexual/violent impulses – or is it a world that is designed by the producers/actors/director – or how much imput does it come from its viewers/audience? There is a mechanical aspect of porn that leaves me numb, but then again, may be the numb part is an aesthetic of some sort. The most interesting aspect is something that I observe quite often. It is entitlement among those that other people are entitled against. Ignorant people look down at porn actresses. This is wrong. But Ashley Blue, a hardcore porn actress herself, looks down and degrades prostitutes numerous times in this book. She views them as barely human at all. I thought that‘s quite weird since she should know best how bad it is to be confronted by prejudices and contempt. OS/AB I am doing a book signing Aug. 18th at Booksmith in SF. I will have more details on my blog soon. W! I was intrigued that, in the book, most of the way through, you talked about morality and perversion in surprisingly traditional ways and placed yourself squarely into the perverted camp, claiming little in the way of moral rectitude. But doesn’t part of you feel that maybe it’s the rest of the world that’s screwed up morally? You’ve created a life for yourself based on your sexual performances and “perversion.” Do you think maybe it’s the ones wearing the morality police t-shirts that should be considered immoral for calling you the pervert and the degenerate, but still wanting to see the things you do badly enough to sponsor your career through their consumer dollars?Oriana Small is a big talent as a writer. And one of great charm as well. And it is unusual (for me) to find great charm in the world of Porn. Nevertheless "Girlvert" is a journey into the heart of the valley (San Fernando Valley to be exact), the headquarters that is everything Porn. Oriana Small has provided a glimpse to the readers of how brutal this industry is and has given a feminist perspective. She is not guilty of working in this industry. She simply exposes herself, which is appreciable. She has beautifully mentioned the curtain work, which is not shown on the screen.

And therein lies the greater problem. I think the narrator does not have enough self reflection to make this story worth more than the sum of its parts. It occasionally dips into the past, psychological reasoning, ethical dilemmas, or philosophical quandaries about pornography, however, too often these come as asides or rhetorical questions asked in the dark. Oriana has a lot of trauma to deal with as well as a lot of joy, but all I got out of it was an endless stream of drugs and disappointment. Additionally, the character portrays herself very passively throughout, asserting most of the decisions were made by men in her life. While this may be accurate, it takes a way both personal responsibility, but more so, an active protagonist. I have read a great deal on torture, and even people who spend years of their life dominated by others finds ways to perceive themselves as actors in their own lives. Some things Oriana told us made me cringe and wince and just feel depressed. I feel like she blamed her boyfriend, fellow porn actor and fellow drug addict Trent for a lot of the porn she did. She was very easy to manilipulate. She doesn't seem to like women and always called them, herself included, sluts and whores. In 2011, she published a memoir of her career in the adult entertainment industry, titled Girlvert: A Porno Memoir. [2] Career [ edit ]

For her "Girvert" film series, she sees herself as more as a performance artist. Small has no regrets for the life she had lived (and still does in a sense by working with her talented porn director/photographer Dave Naz) because she sees it as an unique life experience. This is not a book of woe, but more of a personal journey into an unique and very specialized world. Porn, in general is boring, but when you have a character you care about or find interesting, or at times the way it's shot, it is something else above the average viewing of bodies mixing together.