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# Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy Kindle Edition

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    Interesting and diverse essays on the intersection of sex work and mainstream culture/people
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2016*

It's not just about "coming out", especially as- not like- a porn star. These essays cover a lot more ground, mostly about how people engaged in sex work- very marginalized and/or stigmatized by mainstream society- deal with the intersection of their work and their other relationships, all the way from being very forthcoming about it to everyone, and to ways to keep one's porn and legal identities separate- and the problems with both approaches.Not that it's mostly a book about problems! Some essays are, and some focus much more on the positive effects sex work has had for many of the participants. Since the mainstream story about sex work tends to be condescending- the workers must be trafficked, or drug addicts, or broken abuse survivors- it's especially important to hear the voices of sex workers happy and comfortable in their work.(I will mention, though, that if this is the ONLY book one reads about the modern porn industry, one will likely have an overly rosy view thereof. While I don't think anyone was lying, I do know- from knowing workers myself- that this sunny view is not all there is, particularly as one gets into more "mainstream" porn rather than the queer and alternative porn that many of the essayists make.)I read this because I have a personal friendship with one of the essayists, and have admired the work of several others in attempting to bring to our culture a saner view of sex and sexuality.

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    Coming Out Like a Porn Star brings the human heart and soul into the light
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018*

(As I was reading I “tweeted “ Jiz Lee, “about halfway thru Coming Out Like a Porn Star...you owe me tissues and Visine! So far, I've laughed and cried, sometimes both at once, I've been angry and confused, and just about every other emotion. I believe Sex Workers are special but did not realize just how much!”)...This book is about being human.  It’s about strength and courage, painful honesty that will break your heart and make you laugh, all at the same time.  The contributors have put their very personal, private selves in the spotlight, to show how much they are willing to risk to be true to their hearts. Porn Stars, just like everyone, are found at all levels of education, talent, creativity.  They can be happy, cranky friendly, withdrawn, talented and not talented, highly educated or not, have good days and bad days.  They are our children siblings, parents, the boy down the street, the girl next door.  They are us, sometimes whole and complete, broken and flawed, or just holding the pieces together.  They are our fantasies, what we wish we had the courage to emulate.  Their art is what our insecurity makes fun of. We pretend to look away, denounce our curiosity, and still we sneak peaks, fantasize.  We watch porn in the darkness of our bedrooms, stare at them in the shadows of the streetlight. Their art is what our insecurities make fun of.”  “We refuse to acknowledge our own prurience.  This book will show you the heart of the Sex Worker, the price they pay to be true to themselves.  They are laid out open and vulnerable, and we can either love and nurture, encourage and appreciate and allow them to continue creating such precious art, or we can do nothing and that's what we will get in return.  Doing nothing has never provided anything of value.  Please read this book and share the knowledge you gain from it.My heartfelt appreciation to Jiz Lee for putting this special book together and to all the contributors who saw the need to open up and hopefully educate.  We all desire to be appreciated and validated. All of you have earned both.  You have my unyielding support and eternal admiration!

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    A great book for two-handed reading!
  

*by P***T on Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2017*

If you're looking for something to get off to, you'd be better served by looking elsewhere. This is a very well-compiled and written set of essays about what it's like to work in a reviled yet heavily-patronized sector of the entertainment industry. The book is short on titillation and long on revelation - what it's like to not only work in the adult-entertainment sector, but what effects doing it has on friendships, family relationships and one's own self-image.Never before have workers in the erotic entertainment business sounded more vulnerable, more assertive, more human than in this collection of writings by mostly female porn actors and directors. (There are even some major players here, like Annie Sprinkle, Candida Royalle and Nina Hartley). Their stories may shock you, but that's because of how their lives and careers are, not because they're relying on shock to hold your attention.While I haven't finished the book yet (why hurry?), it's refreshing to hear these people describe their lives, on and mostly off-camera, and to know that no, these people are not airheads at all (some in fact hold advanced degrees).

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