The legacy of Sasha Grey
A young woman’s cunt and her arsehole are lovely things. There is no more reason for her to be ashamed to show them to the world than her elbows. The idea that a woman should be mortified that people she knew or even strangers would see her cunt or her arsehole or see her fucking someone is ridiculous. It was dumb in 1822. It is beyond absurd two centuries later. Why so many mothers continue to burden their daughters with this psychologically damaging bullshit from infancy is beyond me. It is done, I suppose, in the name of decency. Decency is vastly underrated in the realm of interpersonal relations: we could all be nicer to one another. In the realm of sex, and as a limit on what women and girls should themselves choose to do, it is pure fucking bullshit.
It has taken until the last decade, however, to start seriously undermining that bullshit. And the person who did the most to move matters in that direction was Sasha Grey. Sasha was the most significant actress in porn of her generation and one of a small handful of the most significant porn actresses of all time.
Finding power through transgression
Let’s look at the following fabulous scene. Each of the girls filmed here knew that their fathers and brothers and everyone who was at school with them would see this. Honey Hayes knew her cunt and her arsehole were being filmed in close up and everyone she knew would see it. Nadia Noja knew that her schoolteachers would see her repeatedly tonguing Honey’s arsehole and deepthroating Mike Adriano’s mushroom head cock. They knew that anyone with a cellphone could watch it. And they knew that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people would. Because young girls now know that everyone watches porn. Everyone. These girls wanted the people they knew to see them doing these transgressive things. This is something entirely new. And it has only happened recently. It’s an amazing change. It’s women taking complete charge of their sexuality and people’s perception of them. And turning the very idea of shame on its head. It’s fantastic. And it’s catching on like wildfire. Do I think these girls are bad people who should be looked down on? Hell, no. They should be celebrated. Are they whores? Yes, they sell their sex for money. I don’t see anything wrong with that at all. Professional athletes sell their physical prowess. I see absolutely no difference between what they do and what porn actors do except that I appreciate what porn actors do and I do not give a flying fuck what athletes do. Do these girls behave like complete sluts? Fuck yeah. And it’s fucking wonderful! God bless sluts everywhere!
We largely have Sasha to thank for this massive change in the way young women see their sexuality and the concept of sluttiness. She is the one who led the path to women completely embracing filth and owning it on their own terms. Sasha was never passive before the camera in the way that the women who had gone before her had mostly been.
A superstar whore and a sexual gladiator
In this next video, Sasha repeatedly declares that she wants to be “a superstar fucking whore”. She says it whilst a man in his late fifties inserts his cock in her arsehole. She was 19 at the time.
Sasha was a self-described sexual gladiator. She was the first to use the analogy in public media I believe, comparing porn actors who assumed risk of disease and physical injury for viewers’ voyeuristic pleasure to men in the ancient world who fought to the death for the entertainment of the masses. One of the most intelligent and well-read women ever to fuck on camera for cash, she was very brave, very ambitious (she came closer to making a successful transition to mainstream non-porn acting than anyone else), and very beautiful. When young girls got ready access to porn in private via their smartphones, many of them decided that when they grew up, they wanted to be Sasha Grey. But even sluttier. I can fully understand why: in 2010 there were no women who demonstrated more sexual power than Sasha. And, when she was getting gangbanged by 10 men, she had their full, focused and undivided attention. Those things must be very attractive a young girl who feels she has little power of her own and receives too little attention. And, as we all know, there are no teenage girls who think they receive enough attention.
Sasha did more to bring 18 year old girls into the industry than anyone else. Before her, women in porn were mostly older and had tried other things first. Sasha was the youngest woman ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award (2008, when she was 20). The previous year she had gone on national television in the US and defended porn as a legitimate career choice for women. No civilian took her seriously. In May 2009, Rolling Stone magazine devoted a 6-page article to her entitled 'The Dirtiest Girl in the World'. In it, Sasha would declare that she was liberating women "one gangbang at a time". I am sure most readers thought she was joking. She was not.
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The New York Times wrote in 2009 that her output was “distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it". Certainly, Sasha put her body on the line. She went where few U.S. porn actress as young, as beautiful, and as popular as her had ever gone before. Sure, Max Hardcore had filmed girls do the same things and worse - but those scenes did not reach the mainstream. Sasha was the mainstream. Between 2007 and 2010 she was easily the most popular actress in porn. And she used her position to change the way that women acted in porn and what they did. Watch her get facefucked below. This is one of the key scenes in her career that made her a star. Girls had been facefucked before. But most people had never seen anything like this. There are a number of things to note here. First, the intensity of the facefucking. In most scenes, the guy is just riding the girl's tongue for most of the scene. Here, from the very beginning, he shoves it as far down her throat as it will go. The means that he also cuts off her ability to breathe entirely because her nose is buried in his stomach. Sasha takes it, repeatedly, for absurdly long periods of time. Secondly, Sasha stares right at the viewer. She spits at the viewer, again and again. Thirdly, we never see the face of the guy. He's just a cock. She directs him to "Fuck my face, you fiend" and "Fuck me in the ass like a faggot". Who wrote those lines? I have no doubt whatsoever that it was Sasha. I have never heard similar lines in any other porn film. This is not really a sex act between Sasha and the anonymous male actor. It is a sex act between Sasha and the viewer. And Sasha is dominating the viewer. Lastly, for most of the time the frame is closely on her face. This is also a film about Sasha personally challenging her boundaries. The drama is in her face and not in what is being done to it. It is 100% about her and she is 100% in control of what she is doing and how far she will go. That was entirely new. The director tells her, with barely disguised awe, that she is a filthy slut. Sasha smiles and nods. There can be no insult to an actress in being told that she has successfully conveyed precisely that which she chose to project.
Sasha’s daughters
And here is Sasha's legacy. Women are now able to revel in and celebrate their sluttiness by choice. They have made it their power. Obviously, that is a great thing for women. It is also a fantastic thing for porn lovers. An example is English porn actress Baby Kxtten. Her latest scenes have her double-anally penetrated, drinking piss, and prolapsing her rectum. She is 22. If Baby wants to do scenes like that, I will jerk off to them! Those videos are not on xHamster but you can watch one of the best here: <a href="https://pornez.net/video509587/legalporno-analvids-22-03-05-baby-kitten-480p/">https://pornez.net/video509587/legalporno-analvids-22-03-05-baby-kitten-480p/</a>. I think you will like what you see. You can, however, see this scene here, where Baby gets fucked very nicely by two men of her father’s age.
And you can see this great scene here on xHamster too: Lana Rhoades, the woman IMDb says was the second most popular porn star in the world in 2021 and whose Instagram account has 12 million followers, repeatedly taking double-anal, being choked, and facefucked. She barks at the male actors: "Fucking shove it in me!" Sasha Grey did not made this possible on her own. But she did make it inevitable.
And there is this. The interview is acting as well, of course. And an even better performance than the sex itself. It’s fiction. But still, there is a context to this. The fiction only works because it is almost true. “What made you decide today that you want to have sex with all these guys?”, asks the interviewer. 19 year-old Liz Jordan spreads her hands, shrugs and smiles. She will then be gangbanged by several men whom she has barely met. This is a fantastic scene. The sex is heavy and there is a lot of sweat, spit, and semen. You really need to watch it and process what it means that a pretty, 19-year old will go into an act like this willingly, that she will smile all the way through it, and that she will accept that everyone she knows will see her doing this. All of these things were quite unthinkable less than 20 years ago.
As you watch, however, spare a thought for a moment for the boy in her high school class who had a crush on her, would have asked her to the prom if he thought for a second she would say yes (but knew she would say no), who still thinks about her and who then finds this scene. That boy will be devastated. Much like Liz’s father will have been. One of the interesting but sad things about girls who make the decision to go into porn is that they typically break with the people who loved them up to that point. And they hurt those people. Perhaps, for some of them anyway, that is the point. This is not unprecedented - when Bob Dylan left home in 1959, he severed ties and never looked back.
Postscript: A comment from a reader prompted this additional note. It’s worth noting that Grey only worked in the porn industry for two years (2009-2011). Despite that, she remains one of its most popular and important figures. And she has built a successful career out of being Sasha Grey (her real name is Marina Hantzis) without having to continue to make porn. Since then she has taken a college degree (from the prestigious University of Southern California), appeared in numerous mainstream films and on television, established a successful career as a DJ, and written a trilogy of erotic novels. She blogs and sells merchandise via her own website sashagrey.com. Amongst the items she sells are t-shirts bearing the words “I have what I gave” and - around a photograph of her open-mouthed and apparently in the throes of orgasm - “God bless Sasha Grey”. Of course, none of us have a clue who Marina Hantzis really is and we will almost certainly never know. An interesting question is this: have any of Marina’s lovers ever met Sasha Grey?
It has taken until the last decade, however, to start seriously undermining that bullshit. And the person who did the most to move matters in that direction was Sasha Grey. Sasha was the most significant actress in porn of her generation and one of a small handful of the most significant porn actresses of all time.
Finding power through transgression
Let’s look at the following fabulous scene. Each of the girls filmed here knew that their fathers and brothers and everyone who was at school with them would see this. Honey Hayes knew her cunt and her arsehole were being filmed in close up and everyone she knew would see it. Nadia Noja knew that her schoolteachers would see her repeatedly tonguing Honey’s arsehole and deepthroating Mike Adriano’s mushroom head cock. They knew that anyone with a cellphone could watch it. And they knew that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people would. Because young girls now know that everyone watches porn. Everyone. These girls wanted the people they knew to see them doing these transgressive things. This is something entirely new. And it has only happened recently. It’s an amazing change. It’s women taking complete charge of their sexuality and people’s perception of them. And turning the very idea of shame on its head. It’s fantastic. And it’s catching on like wildfire. Do I think these girls are bad people who should be looked down on? Hell, no. They should be celebrated. Are they whores? Yes, they sell their sex for money. I don’t see anything wrong with that at all. Professional athletes sell their physical prowess. I see absolutely no difference between what they do and what porn actors do except that I appreciate what porn actors do and I do not give a flying fuck what athletes do. Do these girls behave like complete sluts? Fuck yeah. And it’s fucking wonderful! God bless sluts everywhere!
We largely have Sasha to thank for this massive change in the way young women see their sexuality and the concept of sluttiness. She is the one who led the path to women completely embracing filth and owning it on their own terms. Sasha was never passive before the camera in the way that the women who had gone before her had mostly been.
A superstar whore and a sexual gladiator
In this next video, Sasha repeatedly declares that she wants to be “a superstar fucking whore”. She says it whilst a man in his late fifties inserts his cock in her arsehole. She was 19 at the time.
Sasha was a self-described sexual gladiator. She was the first to use the analogy in public media I believe, comparing porn actors who assumed risk of disease and physical injury for viewers’ voyeuristic pleasure to men in the ancient world who fought to the death for the entertainment of the masses. One of the most intelligent and well-read women ever to fuck on camera for cash, she was very brave, very ambitious (she came closer to making a successful transition to mainstream non-porn acting than anyone else), and very beautiful. When young girls got ready access to porn in private via their smartphones, many of them decided that when they grew up, they wanted to be Sasha Grey. But even sluttier. I can fully understand why: in 2010 there were no women who demonstrated more sexual power than Sasha. And, when she was getting gangbanged by 10 men, she had their full, focused and undivided attention. Those things must be very attractive a young girl who feels she has little power of her own and receives too little attention. And, as we all know, there are no teenage girls who think they receive enough attention.
Sasha did more to bring 18 year old girls into the industry than anyone else. Before her, women in porn were mostly older and had tried other things first. Sasha was the youngest woman ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award (2008, when she was 20). The previous year she had gone on national television in the US and defended porn as a legitimate career choice for women. No civilian took her seriously. In May 2009, Rolling Stone magazine devoted a 6-page article to her entitled 'The Dirtiest Girl in the World'. In it, Sasha would declare that she was liberating women "one gangbang at a time". I am sure most readers thought she was joking. She was not.
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The New York Times wrote in 2009 that her output was “distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it". Certainly, Sasha put her body on the line. She went where few U.S. porn actress as young, as beautiful, and as popular as her had ever gone before. Sure, Max Hardcore had filmed girls do the same things and worse - but those scenes did not reach the mainstream. Sasha was the mainstream. Between 2007 and 2010 she was easily the most popular actress in porn. And she used her position to change the way that women acted in porn and what they did. Watch her get facefucked below. This is one of the key scenes in her career that made her a star. Girls had been facefucked before. But most people had never seen anything like this. There are a number of things to note here. First, the intensity of the facefucking. In most scenes, the guy is just riding the girl's tongue for most of the scene. Here, from the very beginning, he shoves it as far down her throat as it will go. The means that he also cuts off her ability to breathe entirely because her nose is buried in his stomach. Sasha takes it, repeatedly, for absurdly long periods of time. Secondly, Sasha stares right at the viewer. She spits at the viewer, again and again. Thirdly, we never see the face of the guy. He's just a cock. She directs him to "Fuck my face, you fiend" and "Fuck me in the ass like a faggot". Who wrote those lines? I have no doubt whatsoever that it was Sasha. I have never heard similar lines in any other porn film. This is not really a sex act between Sasha and the anonymous male actor. It is a sex act between Sasha and the viewer. And Sasha is dominating the viewer. Lastly, for most of the time the frame is closely on her face. This is also a film about Sasha personally challenging her boundaries. The drama is in her face and not in what is being done to it. It is 100% about her and she is 100% in control of what she is doing and how far she will go. That was entirely new. The director tells her, with barely disguised awe, that she is a filthy slut. Sasha smiles and nods. There can be no insult to an actress in being told that she has successfully conveyed precisely that which she chose to project.
Sasha’s daughters
And here is Sasha's legacy. Women are now able to revel in and celebrate their sluttiness by choice. They have made it their power. Obviously, that is a great thing for women. It is also a fantastic thing for porn lovers. An example is English porn actress Baby Kxtten. Her latest scenes have her double-anally penetrated, drinking piss, and prolapsing her rectum. She is 22. If Baby wants to do scenes like that, I will jerk off to them! Those videos are not on xHamster but you can watch one of the best here: <a href="https://pornez.net/video509587/legalporno-analvids-22-03-05-baby-kitten-480p/">https://pornez.net/video509587/legalporno-analvids-22-03-05-baby-kitten-480p/</a>. I think you will like what you see. You can, however, see this scene here, where Baby gets fucked very nicely by two men of her father’s age.
And you can see this great scene here on xHamster too: Lana Rhoades, the woman IMDb says was the second most popular porn star in the world in 2021 and whose Instagram account has 12 million followers, repeatedly taking double-anal, being choked, and facefucked. She barks at the male actors: "Fucking shove it in me!" Sasha Grey did not made this possible on her own. But she did make it inevitable.
And there is this. The interview is acting as well, of course. And an even better performance than the sex itself. It’s fiction. But still, there is a context to this. The fiction only works because it is almost true. “What made you decide today that you want to have sex with all these guys?”, asks the interviewer. 19 year-old Liz Jordan spreads her hands, shrugs and smiles. She will then be gangbanged by several men whom she has barely met. This is a fantastic scene. The sex is heavy and there is a lot of sweat, spit, and semen. You really need to watch it and process what it means that a pretty, 19-year old will go into an act like this willingly, that she will smile all the way through it, and that she will accept that everyone she knows will see her doing this. All of these things were quite unthinkable less than 20 years ago.
As you watch, however, spare a thought for a moment for the boy in her high school class who had a crush on her, would have asked her to the prom if he thought for a second she would say yes (but knew she would say no), who still thinks about her and who then finds this scene. That boy will be devastated. Much like Liz’s father will have been. One of the interesting but sad things about girls who make the decision to go into porn is that they typically break with the people who loved them up to that point. And they hurt those people. Perhaps, for some of them anyway, that is the point. This is not unprecedented - when Bob Dylan left home in 1959, he severed ties and never looked back.
Postscript: A comment from a reader prompted this additional note. It’s worth noting that Grey only worked in the porn industry for two years (2009-2011). Despite that, she remains one of its most popular and important figures. And she has built a successful career out of being Sasha Grey (her real name is Marina Hantzis) without having to continue to make porn. Since then she has taken a college degree (from the prestigious University of Southern California), appeared in numerous mainstream films and on television, established a successful career as a DJ, and written a trilogy of erotic novels. She blogs and sells merchandise via her own website sashagrey.com. Amongst the items she sells are t-shirts bearing the words “I have what I gave” and - around a photograph of her open-mouthed and apparently in the throes of orgasm - “God bless Sasha Grey”. Of course, none of us have a clue who Marina Hantzis really is and we will almost certainly never know. An interesting question is this: have any of Marina’s lovers ever met Sasha Grey?
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