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Sasha Grey Opens Up
By Drew GrantNovember 25th, 2009, 5:27 pmComments (13)
Sasha Grey, that agent provocateur who bends sexual boundaries on a daily basis with her multiple roles as a porn star, director, commercially-viable actress and all around smart lady, recently gave an in-depth interview to Dazed Digital about her relationship to the escort character she played in this year's art house hit, The Girlfriend Experience. Grey being Grey, there's a layer of cognitive distance between the questions and the lady's philosophical replies, but that just makes it all the sexier. Choice quotes, after the jump.
Grey On Cultural Repression:
Well, I just think it’s 2009 and we’re still so afraid to talk about sex. I think ignorance breeds fear and vice versa and the less you know the more negative things can happen, such as teenage pregnancy or the skyrocketing rate of STDs in young adults. It is about sexual freedom but it's about more than that, it’s about communication and talking and learning. I think people are so afraid to do that; people are afraid of the truth – we’d rather hide inside a bubble.
On The Girlfriend's Experience not-so-optimistic portrayal of dating and relationships:
I don’t think it’s a breakdown, I think it’s actually a good thing, because maybe people are learning how to grow and be individuals – for a long time it was come home from work, pregnant, babies, marriage. In that instance, you end up hating the person you are married to because you share no similarities, you have no emotional connection, and you never did. That’s because for one person it was based on family and another it was based on circumstance.
Grey on her age (21) and accomplishments:
Yeah, over the past few years my learning curve has been huge and sometimes people say, ‘Don’t you just want to be a normal 21-year-old and go party and have fun?’ No, I mean why do you think great artists of our time have always said youth is wasted on the young? I don’t want to be an old a person in regret and think I should have done this but I was off being lazy. There are enough mistakes we make as human beings anyway, so let the mistakes be real mistakes not chosen mistakes.
(Via Jezebel)
Related: Sasha Grey Is In Another Non-Porn Movie
Commentarium (13 Comments)
What a fucking bore
Says you JMH.
a pornstar with a brain, quite the oxymoron
I don't find hr likable at all. Whenever I read her in an interview, she comes across as completely pompous, psudo intellectual, and devoid of anything significant to say. I would find her much more likable if she were remotely self effacing. I think people find her "sexy" because she's a porn star who speaks in full sentences. That's more demeaning than anything.
^Here here sara, spot on
here here!
That she's a pornstar that can speak in full sentences is precisely why I think that she's sexy.
Wait a second. You people read a blog about sex and you think that makes you intellectuals, I'm sure, but this girl takes a dick up the ass in front of a camera and suddenly she's brainless? What exactly is so demeaning about her people finding her sexy? Was what she said wrong? Yes or no?
I would venture to say that she was actually spot on on all her comments. I don't understand why people have such disdain for porn stars. Who cares if she gets paid to take it up the ass? She's not hiding anything. It's not a secret. Not like the many straight and narrow girls out there who claim to marry for love, but marry for money and a type of lifestyle. Or the girls who claim to be all sweet and virtuous and religious, but are quick to suck the bosses dick or cheat on their sweet, loving boyfriends.
I don't know any of you, and I doubt any of you will care or agree with what I've just said, but I couldn't help but vent my frustrations after reading such ignorant, close-minded comments. Sara, what exactly does a person have to say in order for you to consider what they say significant.
One should consider the whole picture when it comes to Sasha Grey. I don't know about you ladies, but I watch porn, and I've watched it for years, and while am not particularly a fan of Sasha's sex style or techniques, I will say that I find it refreshing that a mainstream porn star mirrors more similarly the girls in amateur porn. She doesn't have implants, she has a little pooch of a belly, and she has more hair down there than most female porn stars. Not to mention that when she dresses for events, albeit mainstream red carpet movie premiere or the AVN Awards red carpet, she's dressed as close to a "regular" girl as it comes for that industry. She's not overly sexed up like some of her costars.
I'm very disappointed, not by the disappreciation for her, but that fact that's it's strong enough for you to actually waste your time and energy voice your opinion on it. That's like me going on a message board for "Everybody Loves Raymond" to bitch about what a God-awful show it is. I don't like the show, so you know what I do, I don't watch it. I don't even talk or think about it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sasha practiced more safe sex in her personal life, and read more, than the average American her age does. Let me restate that, I would venture to say she is part of the percentage of Americans who practice safe-sex and reads more than just Us and People magazines.
And by all means, go ahead and blast me.
melysa
Right on, melysa. I once saw her interviewed re her favorite movies. It was the first time I'd heard/seen her speak or interviewed so I didn't know what to expect. I know film and that girl is one VERY smart dame! I like her look and her belief in herself. I would be proud to be seen with her, would bring her home to meet mom and I couldn't say that about 99% of other people, male or female, in her business. Count me a fan.
melysa aka sasha grey
I agree with melysa. I don't understand the Sasha Grey criticism, especially on this site. I also don't see why Grey is supposed to be modest, silent, or even stupid just because she's a porn star.
I think Blake might have it right. LOL.
I, too, think it's faulty and a very broad judgment to imply that porn stars are all stupid. What does anyone know about any porn star other than the fantasies they jizz all over us? One thing is for certain, whatever anyone wishes to say about Sasha Grey, she certainly presents her point clearly and intelligently, and that cannot be denied simply because she has sex in front of a camera. Having sex in front of a camera makes her more uninhibited than most, perhaps, but whoever said that was a bad thing, either? I think the viciousness so many of us direct towards porn stars when we're not jerking off to them is OUR shit, not theirs. Sasha is certainly bold, or she couldn't have achieved what she's achieved at such a young age. Any declaration of personal freedom and destruction of socially-designed barriers, in my opinion, is a positive thing and a step in the right direction. Sex is sex is sex, on a camera, off a camera, ad infinitum. People do it dressed like stuffed animals, people do it wearing diapers, people even line up to get pissed on. Sure ,it's not my cup of tea, but if someone else wants to do it, why stop them? Who are they hurting? And furthermore, who am I to imply that he or she shouldn't have the right to an opinion and have a voice for having such preferences? Everyone has a right to express himself or herself. Just because you would rather see her breasts than hear the words that come out of her mouth (which happen to be intelligent and genuinely augment her sexiness) doesn't mean she should have to shut up. It means you need to re-think your take on expression.
Now you say something