A review by curgoth
Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy by Jiz Lee
3.0
A collection of essays from adult performers on coming out about their sex work. The experiences run the full range of joyous, tragic, explosive and touchingly mild.
There's a certain amount of bias in who was included - there's a lot of Queer performers. This isn't surprising, since editor Jiz Lee works in that community.
All in all, it's a good read, and the sheer volume and width of experiences says a lot about how we as a culture view sex and sex work. Lee does a great job ordering the essays so the reader doesn't get weighed down by a long barrage of sadness - there's a lot of tonal shift from essay to essay.
One thing that does cast a bit of a shadow on the book, though, is that the closing essay is by someone who's since been outed as an abusive POS, which is unfortunate.
There's a certain amount of bias in who was included - there's a lot of Queer performers. This isn't surprising, since editor Jiz Lee works in that community.
All in all, it's a good read, and the sheer volume and width of experiences says a lot about how we as a culture view sex and sex work. Lee does a great job ordering the essays so the reader doesn't get weighed down by a long barrage of sadness - there's a lot of tonal shift from essay to essay.
One thing that does cast a bit of a shadow on the book, though, is that the closing essay is by someone who's since been outed as an abusive POS, which is unfortunate.