Coming out like a porn star

310 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 2015

ISBN:: 978-0-9905571-6-6

(1 review)

"This one-of-a-kind book shares intimate personal stories of porn performers "coming out" to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. The contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. They include Joanna Angel, Annie Sprinkle, Betty Blac, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle, Conner Habib, Dale Cooper, Christopher Zeischegg, Cindy Gallop, Drew DeVeaux, Erika Lust, Gala Vanting, Casey Calvert, Lorelei Lee, Stoya, Ignacio Rivera AKA Papi; Coxxx, and many others. Jiz Lee is a genderqueer performer who, fascinated by the radical potential of sex, love, and art, has worked in over two hundred projects within indie, queer, and mainstream adult genres, written on gender and porn in The Feminist Porn Book, and taught queer sex workshops. "--

"This one-of-a-kind book presents the stories of porn performers "coming out" -- or the decision not to come out -- to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. Notably, the contributors represent a wide range …

"This one-of-a-kind book shares intimate personal stories of porn performers "coming out" to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. The contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. They include Joanna Angel, Annie Sprinkle, Betty Blac, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle, Conner Habib, Dale Cooper, Christopher Zeischegg, Cindy Gallop, Drew DeVeaux, Erika Lust, Gala Vanting, Casey Calvert, Lorelei Lee, Stoya, Ignacio Rivera AKA Papi; Coxxx, and many others. Jiz Lee is a genderqueer performer who, fascinated by the radical potential of sex, love, and art, has worked in over two hundred projects within indie, queer, and mainstream adult genres, written on gender and porn in The Feminist Porn Book, and taught queer sex workshops. "--

"This one-of-a-kind book presents the stories of porn performers "coming out" -- or the decision not to come out -- to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. Notably, the contributors represent a wide range of races, ethnicities, and genders. Contributors include Tina Horn, Papi Coxxx, Chelsea Poe, Chris Lowrance, Anon, Zahra Stardust, Jaffe Ryder, Ms Naughty, Nikki Silver, and Oriana"--

1 edition

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras reviewed Coming out like a porn star by Jiz Lee

Review of 'Coming out like a porn star' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This one is a bit of a mixed bag, probably like all essay collections. Some texts are just great, some a bit dull. I think the biggest problem is the sheer number of texts and their ordering.

As the texts are alphabetically sorted by author, you will get very similar stories again and again, making you wonder "didn't I read this one already?". I think using less different texts and somehow ordering them in a larger narrative would have tremendously improved the whole book.

More like 3.5 stars I'd say, but as it's an important book I'm more than happy to round up to 4. Especially as lots of trans and queer performers are featured, giving their perspectives.

Oh, and did you know what great students Lynn Margulis had, now I know! www.buzzfeed.com/connerhabib/wanna-be-a-porn-star-youll-need-a-good-name#.xt9WXn0V6

Subjects

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography
Sex oriented businesses
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Pornography
Pornographic film industry
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women