![]() At first, she tells me, it was all terribly exciting. This made her a superstar in a world where many of her peers seemed interchangeable. ![]() She wanted to challenge this, to be less passive, more dominant, and surprise both her co-stars and the viewer. "I wanted to explore my interests in a safe way, but I also wanted to bring something new to porn, to change what I saw on screen."įor her, porn was all too formulaic, too predictable. "I didn't know where I could go to meet people with similar interests," she says. Her then-boyfriend, however, wasn't, and friends thought her a freak for talking about it. As a teenager, she had become increasingly interested in BDSM. So I looked into porn, and went into that." I didn't want to be a slave to that pattern, just another zombie. "I saw all these people older than me who had graduated, had degrees, but couldn't get jobs, and were in debt already. She says she was good at school, and wanted initially to go into business, until she grew disillusioned. "This isn't the 1970s I was always in control." ![]() She is a strong individual, and during her three years in the industry, during which she became famous for doing everything up to and including toilet-licking (a niche market), she says she never once felt the victim. Images of her online confirm that she is anything but predictable porn fare: handsome rather than beautiful, and distinctly un-pneumatic. She has a strong, smoky voice and an ironic, detached manner. She elects to keep her Skype video off, so I do likewise, meaning that I put on my second-best shirt for nothing. ![]() When I speak to Grey, via Skype, she is at her rented Paris apartment, where she is working through last-minute edits on the book and DJing in nightclubs around the city. If the book sells well, the subsequent parodies will all but write themselves. And that, in essence, is my sexual theory of life, the universe and everything." "I'm not so sure about that… The big bang created a universal body made up of solar systems – giant wombs, incubators for the planets, which are cosmic eggs waiting to be fertilised with the seed of life, which is: come. "You'd think an educated woman might have more profound things to spend her time thinking about than the most satisfying way to articulate ejaculate," she writes at one point. It will be published in 20 territories around the world, and Hollywood has already snapped up the film rights. It revolves around a woman's introduction to a highly secretive sex k club. The American has reinvented herself as a novelist, and her first book, The Juliette Society, is at least theoretically Fifty Shades' heir in that it, too, explores the mostly unspoken world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sado-masochism). Into this breach now steps the latest hopeful, Sasha Grey, a 25-year- old former porn superstar whose direct-to-DVD movies include I Wanna Bang Your Sister and Buttman's Stretch Class 2. Blame EL James if you like, but ever since Fifty Shades of Grey shifted 40 million copies around the world last year, thus making it abundantly clear that a great many of us like our bedroom habits to involve a lot more than slap and tickle, publishers have desperately sought a successor, another sex-riddled bestseller to tempt us into illicit blushes.
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