Jiz Lee - Coming out like a porn star: essays on pornography, protection, and privacy

PRAISE FOR COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR

We all have secrets, alter egos, and live double lives. Coming Out Like a Porn Star is an incredibly rich and moving narrative of an experience we can all relate to. We can learn something from all of the authors.Belle Knox, Duke Porn Star

This revealing, moving, and often surprising collection lets you go deep inside the lives of generations of porn stars and explicit performers. Its an absolute must-read for anyone interested in sex industry politics, sex-positive culture, and porn studies and for anyone whose friend, lover, or family member has taken their pants off in front of a camera. One after the other, these memoirs add up to a powerful, if ironic, conclusion: Porn stigma is the biggest problem many adult performers face, and it is at least as likely to come from our feminist moms as from prudish conservatives. Once youve heard the clear, articulate voices of these porn stars, youll never look at a sex movie, or the people who make it happen, the same way again.Carol Queen, PhD Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture

A one-of-a-kind collection with perspectives from a terrific mix of adult entertainment professionals, Coming Out Like a Porn Star is a timely, insightful read that will change perceptions about an industry so often misunderstood.Dan Miller, XBIZ

Jiz Lee has spearheaded a compelling and heartfelt collectionone that engages wider societys fascination with porn performers in order to humanize, edify, and enlighten.Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, Author of Exposure: A Sociologist Explores Sex, Society, and Adult Entertainment

Intimates the fascinating story of adult performers whove come out.Jayme Waxman, Playgirl Magazine June 2015

Frank and decidedly humorous, this collection takes the stereotypical narrative of what it means to be a porn star and puts it out of its misery. Without a doubt, this is the most honest, diverse, and innately human take on the art form we call porn Ive ever read. Stories like these have the power to change minds, shatter conventions, and completely reframe the entire genre of porn.Jerome Stuart Nichols, sex & wellness coach, creator of LTASEX.com

Coming out is never a straightforward process. Lees collection of essays offers a nuanced, heartfelt, and incredibly honest look at what it means to come to terms with a highly public, incredibly sexual identity within the bounds of ones private life.Lux Alptraum, former editor/publisher, Fleshbot.com

Finallya collection of essays bold enough to embraceand expressthe complexities and contradictions of performing sex. With uncompromising thought and lucid prose, Lee and fellow contributors rewrite the public record.Nichi Hodgson, author of Bound To You

A manifesto, a reclamation by Lee of the role of porn as a positive artistic form.Rachel Kramer Bussel, Salon.com

Coming Out Like a Porn Star fundamentally changes the cultural conversation about porn performers. Never before have adult performers been given the space to talk about coming to terms with what theyre doing with their bodies, their careers, and their lives. It is in this space that we find out theyre neither victim nor villain; instead we encounter people whose inner strength and thoughtful, well-articulated sense of self can teach us a thing or two about how we can better relate to our loved ones, ourselves, and society at large.Violet Blue, journalist and author of The Smart Girls Guide to Privacy

COMING OUT
LIKE A PORN STAR

ESSAYS ON PORNOGRAPHY,
PROTECTION, AND PRIVACY

Edited by Jiz Lee

Foreword by Dr. Mireille Miller-Young

ThreeL Media | Berkeley

Published by

ThreeL Media | Stone Bridge Press

P. O. Box 8208, Berkeley, CA 94707

www.threelmedia.com

2015 Jiz Lee

Cover design by Jamee Baier. Illustration based on photography credited to:

Courtney Trouble, Jiz Lee, Karma Pervs.

Book design and layout by Linda Ronan.

Copy Edited by Lauren Manoy.

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No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher.

Republishing permissions: Some stories in this collection were previously published and are reprinted with permission. Liabilities and My Mother by Ashley Blue appeared in GIRLVERT (Rare Birds Press). Jesse Jackmans Hi Mom, Im a Porn Star originally appeared in Huffington Post. Jackmans essay Job Security originally appeared on his blog at JessieJackmanXX.com. How They React by Zak Sabbath appeared in We Did Porn (Tin House Books).