I‘m talking about the thieves, whores, prisoners, con artists or all kinds of people who have coke for dinner. Also I appreciated that this is a memoir not a ‘my porn hell’ as she is certainly no victim and she is not regretful of her choices. Getting into the porn industry almost on a whim, and encouraged by her boyfriend, it provided fast and relatively easy money which they needed to fuel their cocaine habit which in turn was fueled by the industry's need for her to be always up and willing. 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.

She doesn't seem to care about herself at all and several times said that she just wants people (porn actors/producers/friends) to 'love' her. Sure, the war years instilled a sense of noble sacrifice in the 'Greatest Generation,' but DPs are free. Plus, with chapter titles such as "Spring Chicken", "Tyler's Blue Pill and Ashley's Little Brown Predicament", "Judge Mathis", "A NIGHT WITH MAX HARDCORE", and my personal favorite, "Pissmop", you're going to get something out of this. She does in fact mature and arrive at very honest and very real conclusions about her life thus far. The drugs alone she and he friends and bf took were enough to kill your average elephant, never mind a human, I suspect.One thing's for sure: it's certainly graduated from its niche status as the pastime of oily, pervy Buddy Hackett types to become a load-bearing column in the temple of our zeitgeist. But the author says at least her boyfriend is into it and so an improvement on the "suitcase pimps" who lug around their porn actress girlfriends suitcases of clothes and shoes to shoots but angrily smoke or stare at the floor while the shoot is going on.

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. She often speak poorly of prostitutes and a few pages later proclaims pornography as an art form, but there is never reasoning or justification, just blank assertions. I have always found the adult industry interesting and I'm sure I'd work in the field if I lived in that area. There are emotions, but they are screened in a layer of cocaine, which is fair because it was a huge part of the author's existence. I mean the catalogue of abuse when she's first getting into porn, being egged on by her abusive controlling boyfriend (who she loved and would do anything for, including essentilaly being raped) is really hard to read.It's shocking, it's crude, it's disgusting, and you start to wonder how anyone could demean themselves in such ways. All this story is read in a monotone that is extremely boring and monotonous to listen to in one sitting. Nevertheless "Girlvert" is a journey into the heart of the valley (San Fernando Valley to be exact), the headquarters that is everything Porn. You get a taste of her bawdy, sometimes wounding humor, and the book keeps a good balance between details that raincoat-sporting porn fans will appreciate and explanations of the basic elements of the industry that non-fans will find educational.

By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Her lifestyle becomes bizarre in the sense that she couldn't fully see the big picture, but the details were being focused - but only for that moment or two.In straightforward anecdotes that make punk provocateur GG Allin look like the melon-smashing comedian Gallagher, Small recounts a career of bodily fluids, superhuman sex, and degradations too numerous to name. Hardcore seems committed to the lifestyle, even on his days off rollin' around town with meth - using skanks wearing schoolgirl outfits. Oriana Small has pushed herself to the outermost extremes of what the body and mind are capable ofâ "all before turning thirty years oldâ "and now she's made it an authentic read for the rest of us to marvel at, elevating the depravity and denial inherent in the pornographic arts to a singular literary experience.