Hey Ma, I Wanna be a Pornstar

This is inspired by a radio show topic I heard on my way to work recently. The issue was a strip club wanted to donate $20,000 to a local public school. BTW this was the Kane Morning Show. One of the hosts was hardcore against it. She felt not only were the parents wrong for not stepping up and finding some other way to get the money, but the strip club was also wrong for offering the money. Schools should uphold the highest moral code, and to get their funding from a strip club sets a bad idea for students. The others felt that if the school needed the money why shouldn't they get it.It does not matter where the money comes from. From the title you may have guessed this blog is not about a strip club giving money to a school, which honestly, I do have mixed feelings about, but about the thoughts this morning show inspired.

When I was about 13-14 years old I wanted to be a pornstar. Now if you are a dude reading this you did not even blink twice when reading this, as a girl you are probably still wondering what word "pornstar" is supposed to be. Young males in their puberty years always seriously consider the idea of being a pornstar. Why not? Get paid to get laid everyday, and you're a celebrity. What's even better is your a celebrity that won't be constantly hounded by fans because they would then be admitting to the amount of porn they watch. I never knew if females felt the same way, but I kind of doubted it. Amongst all the roundtables for what do you want to be when you grow up most boys thought pornstar and said doctor, I figured most girls thought doctors and said doctors. Speaking of females wanting to be pornstars, right on cue comes the illustrious Sasha Grey.

Sasha Grey, which by the way is her stage name, is 22 years old and has been in well over 200 adult films. She started her career the second she turned 18. In interviews she says I always wanted to do porn. As a teenager she was fascinated by it, and wanted to make a career out of it. She was never raped, abused and actually had a quite comfortable upbringing. It's just what she wanted to do. I applaud you Sasha Grey because you pursued what I and many of my peers did not pursue. You saved money moved to L.A. got an agent and got to work doing what we love you for. Sorry, that was a long tangent, but well-deserved. By the way, the Girlfriend Experience by Steven Soderbergh is a great movie to me, but then again I love this girl (it is not a porno). She got in the industry, she broke records by becoming the youngest recipient of several AVN Adult movie awards, and represents herself in the industry. She is noted for how well-spoken and intellectual she is, and for me this is key. She has used her adult film career to enter into some mainstream movies slated for release this year, and used her pull in the industry to represent other girls entering the adult film industry, and let's not forget she is only 22.

Sex is sex, and it is a natural thing. Should the school receive money from a strip club? Hey if they really need it why not, it's not drug money. If you want to be a pornstar when you get older then go for it, be smart about it and excel at what you have chosen as your career. If you want to give back some of your earnings to those less fortunate, and they don't want it, well there is an old saying: "Beggars can't be choosers". As for me, I have long abandoned my dreams of becoming an adult film star, but that does not mean I do not take every "scene" I am in with professionalism and charisma as if the cameras were rolling. Ha, until next time...