Girlvert: A Porno Memoir

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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. But Ashley Blue does make it clear that she was high on drugs and booze for a long period of time and that she was not fair to everybody around her either.

One major thing to dislike, though, was the constant hating on prostitutes and their assumed motivations for working in the sex industry. She lives and works with her husband, photographer Dave Naz, and her cat and dog in the Hollywood Hills.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I found some parts of the book troubling, not so much because they were disturbing but because they were ignored or celebrated. Given both the cover art and the subject matter, my expectations weren't high, but Oriana Small (a/k/a Ashley Blue) sure exceeded them. 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?

Sure, the war years instilled a sense of noble sacrifice in the 'Greatest Generation,' but DPs are free. My feeling is so did she, that she hasn't gotten far enough to be able to reflect on her motivations, hopes, dreams, fears. And as with the most honest soldier’s memoir, you look forward to finishing it even as you can’t put it down—you hit the halfway point of this 310-page book, and you’ve already read chapters entitled “Double Anal,” “Pissmop,” “Gonorrhea,” “Choked Out,” “Anal Fisting,” “Ass Herpes,” and you think, There’s more?I admire and appreciate anyone who is willing to expose themselves by writing a book about their most personal experiences. The bad experiences seem to be from producers who exploit the author for their personal gratification. Her story of her mother and stepfathers (her birth father deserted them before her teen years) seeming disregard for her behavior conflicts with this paragraph, However, as gut-wrenching as the idea of my family’s reaction to pornography was, it wasn’t as powerful as the allure.