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Mike Tyson Repents The Dirtiest Girl in Porn BOB DYLAN'S AMERICA EXCLUSIVE Inside Obama's War Council EFTA00728972 EFTA00728973 •••••••••••••• Sashes Grey, porn's biggest star, reads Nietzsrhe, likes it rot rob and says she's lihc'rutirrq women.one gonybong at a time MI Vanessa Gr•igoriadis Photographs bg i/If) Wenner 4011%001 ST(OO. NI AV 14. 4009 • 53 EFTA00728974  SEISM'S STORY Grey in New YOrk in April EFTA00728975  bar spine, Grey's naked body is exqui- Once upon a time porn was a schmuck's site and natural, with taut skin free of paradise where VIIS tapes sold for $75 blemishes and tattoos (she resembles Kate and rubber sex toys manufactured for Beckinsale in physique, and her affect is five cents sold for MN apres Internet, a a similar mix of languor and brutal hau- five-hour adult DVD compilation costs 45 teur). As far as I'm concerned, Suicide Girl cents when bought in bulk at wholesale types with black hair and tattoos am the prices, and no one believes A VAY's estimate new blondes with boll-on tits:she drawls. that the business is worth $13 billion. Now. "Those women look the same, and theyre porn is easier to access than at any point in idiots: She pulls a pair of frilly underwear human history. The psychological charge from her suitcase - 'Is that the type of of demented sex has lost its power, and N AN OVERCAST thing you put around a rack of lambT asks stars like Jentta Jameson are harder to Sunday in Los Angeles. Sasha Grey ar- Cohen - then reconsiders the choice, slip- identify in the swarm of endlessly click- rives at a set for the film The Fuck Ank- ping on a black G-string. The porno theme able talent. Grey is the first performer le promptly at 9 a.m. 'this is not leer real of the day is "twckties? Grey holds a green to emerge with a chance to rise above a name, though it's a subtle one for a porn tie to the daylight before settling on black. broken system - and redress some of the star, a mash-up of Sascha Konietzko. a "You feel like you can rub one out with stigma of her business. founder of the German industrial band this?" says Cohen. Grey moved to Studio City at is, after KMFDM. and the Kinsey scale of sexual- "That could happen,' says Grey, nod- saving $7,000 and writing herself a mis- ity, which identifies sexual orientation as ding. could feel that? sion statement: 'Most of the XXX I see is shades of gray. The shoot location is unex- As cliche as it is to note the arid thou- boring, and does not arouse nw physical- pected as well, a brick warehouse in down- sand-mile stare of sex workers, there is b; or visually: it read. 1 am determined town LA.. far from the porn epicenter in something about Grey that is hard to reach, and ready to be a commodity that fulfills the San Fernando Valley. In her dressing like talking to a woman behind glass. When everyone's fantasies.' Yet hanging out with room. Grey unpacks a suitcase of make- she perches on a wooden chair in the cen- her is less like being with a businesswom- up. lingerie and dozens of barrettes, then ter of the warehouse. training her eyes on an than an elderly anarchist, or a person applies a thick coat ofeyeliner in a mirror. a fresnel light above her and beginning to whose life is defined by setting herself "No one in porn knows how to do makeup masturbate, the glass shatters. The crew apart from the mainstream (though her right: she says. flicking the brush across watches silently, transfixed. We stand 20 practical side does come out in her absti- her eye. "The only thing they know how to feet away. but it feels like two. She works nence from drugs or heavy drinking, as do is make my face orange. I'd rather do it herself mechanically transferring her tin- well as her choice of vehicle, a gray Saab myself. I'd rather have it be my fault? Grey. who is known for exploring the outer edges of pornography, is shooting a solo scene today. It is her first bit for Grey Art• a new production company fbunded "I AM A PERVERT," SAYS GREY with director Oren Cohen. a 31;year-old `IFI,V1 WORKING OUTANY IV TM SUL C.41O411 third-generation porn purveyor. - This is my company, a new chapter. a positive step up for me: she says 'I wanted to start it ISSUES THROUGHPORN ITS right." In fact, deliberate, symbolic action is the defining characteristic ofGrey, who, ANGER ATSOCIETYFOR NOT at 21, has managed a risque ingenue's hat trick: She's the adult industry's reigning princess of porn, celebrated as the Adult BEING OPENABOUTSEX" Video News Female Performer of the Year in 200$: a se to rock stars, featured in gees to her mouth every 30 seconds or so, sedan). She refuses to make small talk. videos for the Smashing Pumpkins and then chokes herself with the tie before disdains common courtesies like smiling the Roots( and, most impressively, a po- erupting in a minutes-long close-eyed or- when she walks into a room and is deeply tential crossover sensation. making her gasm, at which everyone finally exhales mistrustful of the media. citing Godarrfs film debut as the high-class-escort star of and claps. In her ecstasy, she is a vision of famous line -Every edit is a lie.' Steven Sodierherglis The Girlfriend Expe- a terrifying goddess fueled by her own bliss Grey declines to put a price on her fees. S rience this month. energy, a half-woman, half-machine Kali hut at one point in my presence she con- in the adult business, you're forced to springing forth to wreak destruction on siders booking a boy-girl scene for five grow up and work for yourself. or some- the safe, timid sex habits of our world. Der grand. A trained actress who took Meth- body else will work you and ycout be done: performances are calibrated todestahilize, od lessons through her teens, Grey is deft she says. before stepping out ofa black cot- and they succeed at that goal. If Grey had with put-downs, and she has a knack for ton dress. —thew are maybe four people been masturbating someone else this way. dissing the conventional in conversation: in the industry that I hang out with. Ix.- it woukl have been violent, but because it She says that she wants to go on Howard cause they're interesting people and not is self-imposed, it seems OK. Stern with the Palestinian flag wrapped coked up. I'm not calling anyone up to say, around her breasts, because she believes 'Hey, let's get a mani-pedi together' I do ENTERTAINMENT he's a closet racist; she thinks Oprah is g my own nails: businesses are thoroughly stingy and doesn't give enough money to At Mc feet six and 110 pounds, with transformed by cultural charity, because as much as she gives. she straight black hair that shoots to her him- shifts, the recession and has many millions more. '1low that Sasha the digital age, there may is intimidating. powerful and introspec- Contributing editor VA N assn be only one way for performers to survive: tive: says Dave Navarro, who directed all Won tains profiled litylor Swift in Get a lot smarter, exclusivity their vi- her in his adult film Broken and is now co- BS 107:3. She fires in Los Angeles. sion and pursue multiple revenue streams. managing her career. 'When you're near ROLLING STONE. MAY 14. 2009 • 55 EFTA00728976  SASHA GREY her. you don't know what she's thinking. but you really want to know.' In the future, Grey might fight many battles against society. but now she is in pursuit ofone: the liberation of female sex- uality."' want to tell nung women that sex is OK," she says. "Ws OK to he a shit. You don't have to be ashamed. People think that young women can't understand sex. that there will be consequences for our actions. but we can be as analytical as anyone: Grey envisions herself as a performance- art Camille Paglia exploding the catego- rizations of second-wave feminists and fe- male pop icons like Tra Banks, who claims that women in porn are largely victims of sexual abuse. Tina Fey has weighed in too. on Playboy models: "These women aren't doing it for the money: she said on 'Week- end Update: They'retkiing it because they were molested by a family friend: As far as sexual abuse is concerned, Grey insists she has never suffered at anyone's hand. 1 am a pervert: she says. if I am working out any issues through porn, its al WANT TO IELL YOUNG anger at society for not being open about sex:On camera. she is vulgar and aggres- WOMEN THATSEX IS OK ITS sive, yelling at co-stars to "go deeper" and "harder"(she is famous for asking a co-star to punch her in the stomach during her OK TO BEA SLUT. YOUDON'T debut scene in porn). Grey derides softcorc porn as good only for a "Valium house- HAVE TO BE ASHAMED." wife:She can lick off her taboos quickly - simulated rape scenes, ejaculation inside or a hipsters fashion sense, he was raised in their downstairs bathroom, but Grey her vagina, fingers from male co-stars, by a showgirl mom and is steady, sweet storms in., have to pee. and I don't want breast-slapping. fecal play, animals and and gentle. They began dating around to go upstairs," she explains brusquely. children - which means that everything the time Grey started to shoot porn, at In the living mom, we check out their else is pretty much acceptable. She claims Hi. in her first 'committed relationship. Chinese dulcimer. perched in a corner: to have genuine orgasms at least three- and deeply emotional one: she says. They Grey, who plays guitar, has formed an ex- quarters of the time on set. "A lot of girls have an "open relationship," though they perimental noise band named aTelecine in porn fake it, but I never caught Sasha don't take advantage of the benefit often (they have sold out a limited release of300 doing that: says Randy Spears, a male (off-set, Grey has slept with six men, and seven-inch El's). The couple, who are also performer. 'When she says harsh stuff on about 60 on camera). 'We've learned a lot in the market fora vintage Moog, are fans camera. she means it, because she is trying about ourselves as a couple, and you learn ofindustrial music who attended Coachel- to kill us. At that moment, that's what it is a lot about yourself as a man: says Cinna- la only to hear Throbbing Gristle. going to take for her to get off." mon ofGrey's occupation. "Even as libend Suddenly. Grey bursts out of the bath- These days. Grey lives in a spotless mod- as I am. I'm still a guy. You go from a nor- room and cuts Cinnamon off. She juts her ern home in Hollywood with her fiance. mal sexual relationship, which means, 'I chin forward and bellows. "You're like Ian Cinnamon, a 34-year-old filmmak- get turned on. I approach yout we go for the wife!" er who is half-black and says he is -95 per- it' to having rules. 'I have to work tomor- cent heterosexual' (that's his real name. row; which means, 'l don't want to be sore: ITH HER VIER AI. PHA too). Ayear's worth ofDwellmay,wines are I don't get jealous of the sex. honestly. I get attitude. Grey can some- arranged by date in their bathroom, and a frustrated because of the time it takes: times be hard to take. poster of Godard's La Chinoise. a present After Cinnamon cooks a light dinner of At one point she burbles from Soderbergh, hangs in the living mom. green salad and barbecued chicken, Cr" about a text she has There are no trashy novels on their book- boils a pot of water for loose-leaf tea. tin" t Wed from a celebrity who has just shelves, which are so rigorously esoteric as shows off a prototype of her new website. %smelled one of her videos: "He says he's to he ridiculous, a monastic undergradu- "People rip you off, and this way I'm re- all about me now, and is peeling cum off ate's library of Nietzsche and Brecht, and sponsible for my updates. so I don't have his stomach!' She doesn't believe in God for lighter fare, the inscrutable Philosophy to rely on anyone else,-she says. She clicks and isn't afraid of death. She seems to ofAndy Warhol. A large collection of vinyl through fetish photos of herself. like one have obliterated her feminine self in favor and DVDs is set behind a black curtain, where she is wearing a strap-on and look- of a masculine one, with values of only split between art-house box sets and Grey's ing sarcastically at the camera, and then bravery, achievement and plundering. porn videos, with titles like Blow Me ill, a series of icons linking to interviews with Sometimes, she seems as calculated as Apprrataxs no and Meet the Puckers e7 her favorite filmmakers and artists, but any actress. "Sasha pointedly decided to If we are judged by the quality of those the links don't work, and the perfectionist have an extreme presence to achieve entree we take as partners. the evidence of Cin- in her becomes ruffled. Cinnamon begins to I lollywood:says Nick Jamekt executive namon does much to recommend Grey: to give a tour of the house. pointing out a producer ofthe new Mikel)eson documen- An Indio filmmaker without many credits framed Terry Richardson photo of them tary. who met with her last year about a 36' Roo ING STUB r. M 14.2009 EFTA00728977  T'S HARD TO EXAGGERATE the anger of 21-year-old Ameri- can girls at our culture's double standards: Be sexy. but not too sexy: assertive, but not demand- ing: and the rest of the garbage that allows men to steal power. It's passible that part of Grey's enjoyment of her lifestyle is a revenge on that system, a renunciation of skewed gender relations meant to make girls weak. To her, the world of -normal" sex is unsophisticated, and she often tells Hardcore Princess stories of being mistreated by those who feel guilty because they have not embraced Grey is the most shocking, business-savvy her path. Even with her star turn in the porn star working today. (1) With fiance Soderbergh movie, she hasn't been able Cinnamon in 2006. the year she shot her first to land a good I lollywood agent, because movie with Rocco Siffredi (2). Grey grew up they're worried their clients wouldn't want near Sacramento (3). but at IS she left for to be on a list with a porn star. With mega- L.A. She's appeared in more than ISO scenes. corporations running Hollywood. Grey's best shot at stardom may be the interna- role in another movie. "My impression of would joke about anal sex, and I would tional art-trash crowd, to he trotted out her attitude is that porn, while part of her think about how it was really done, not in at Cannes as a mascot for a new Gaspar pastiche. is ultimately a gateway to her a joking way; she says."' asked my mom if Noe movie. "Grey Goose was supposed to mainstream ideas and acting career? sheerer thought about it. even a finger. and sponsor our party at the Tribeca Festival. Grey grew up in North Highlands, a she would just say it was gross and laugh? and when they found out Sasha is an adult rough area outside Sacramento, the thinl Grey had her first boyfriend in eighth star, they no longer sponsored it.' says of four siblings. Her father, a Greek-Amer- grade• but she didn't lose her virginity Soderbergh. "Porn is beyond mainstream ican mechanic, left the family when she until she was 16, when she ran into an old now, to the point where everyone on TV was five, and they an: no longer in touch. friend. -We hungout at my house, watched looks like they're in porn, but there's still "He told my sister recently to tell me he movies and got a little drunk, and I was an attitude that pore is wrong? loved me, and hoped that 'she accomplish- like. tees do it:" she says. "I was the ag- A few weeks ago. Grey had dinner at es everything that she says she is,'• says gressive one. My girlfriends said that it Pace, an Italian restaurant in Laurel Can- Grey. "Basically, he was saying• 'I hope she didn't feel good the first time, but I liked win. She was tired from a day of lilming doesn't fuck up:" Her mother enmlled in it a lot' Her brother told her not to believe This Ain't Star nek XXX. in which she college, worked to support the family and that guys who wanted sex were also inter- plays a Vulcan ravished by Captain Kirk. married a man with whom Grey does not ested in love. so she didn't get attached. There was a bruise on her arm from having get along ("They had a traditional Mom- She hated high school, skipped prom to blood drawn for an obligatory syphilis test cooks-dinner relationship, and it disgust- see a Miranda July movie and refused to She's caught gonorrhea twice and chla- ed me: she says). A popular tomboy who take the SATs. furious that she'd go into mydia once - "Like getting the common mostly kept to herself, she never played debt if she wanted to attend college. Soon. cold: she says - and she requires partners with Barbies as a kid. preferring to listen she latched on to someone interesting: to be checked for diseases two days before to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, then the 27-year-old cook at the steakhouse. a scene. 'When you're in the industry, and Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as an ad- 'I told him my fantasies, and he said he your body is what you sell, (catching some- olescent, followed by Skinny Puppy and wanted to explore them too," she says. She thinglmakes you feel like shit:she says. "I Nine Inch Nails. "I had a girl come up to me began watching gonzo porn on the Inter- have a good enough reputation that I can and say,'' was always afraid von were going net. then started with choking and worked demand tests from performers now? to beat me up:and I'd never spoken to her: up to anal sex. Everything that he did to Grey's frankness is appealing, and says Grey. She laughs. "Ifs funny how you her she insisted that she get a chance to though she says it a bit too loudly, she has can make an impression on someone with- do to hint too. Inc convinced that she is not a victim. She out saying anything? "It was very healthy,' she says, then may be just another determined starlet. As Freud taught, children have sexual pauses. "At IS. I was so into the harder exploiting her perversity in the pursuit of fantasies that they later repress. but Grey side of my sexuality, I was like, Tuck kiss- fame. And its not clear that women who q(•Ip. thinks she remembers hen. "From the ing somebody:" shesays. 'I still enjoy that. an• more turned on by foreplay than by the titne I was fourorliNt. I had a lot ofBD/SM but now that he explored it in a deeper type of anatomically unpleasant porn she '1 VYfl4fl fantasies; she says. 'I vividly remember sense, in a business sense and a person- films benefit front her quest for sexual lib- coming down some sort of manhole, but al level, it's good to be able to take a step eration. For the past 40 years. the conun- when I came under there was a big black backward, to say. 'With pain, well, I don't drum of porn and its meaning for violence room. I'm shackled up in there. and I'm like being slapped on my vagina, maybe a against women has been debated in femi- fucking some guy: She told her best friend. little bit hut not like I like being slapped nist circles, with no resolution in sight. As who told Sasha's parents. "They said I on the facer I ask her what sexual acts she heartbreaking as it is to think of sorori- wasn't allowed to dream those things, that wants to perform. and she pauses. 'There ty girls trapped in dorm moms with boy- it was for adults. I felt incredibly guilty is one fantasy I haven't lived out: she friends who expect them to act like Grey, that I couldn't have these thoughts? She says. "I want to have sex on top of a wash- ifs just as sad to think of Grey as a re- also says that spa• and another girlfriend ing machine. But even' place I've lived in pressed office drone who has to live out her performed oral sex on each other around with Ian, the washer has been stacked fantasies in secret on Craigslist over the this age. Later, she had dreams about sex with a dryer, and we can't sit on it. I love weekends. Someone is going to lose here, between men and enjoyed the masochis- the smell of laundry:. I get off on the smell and ifs not Grey. "I'm standing up for my- tic pleasure of skinning her knees. "Kids of laundry? self:she says. Rotel xri STONE. MAT 44. 2009 .57 EFTA00728978