WHAT’S IT LIKE TO COME OUT TO PARENTS, FRIENDS OR THE PTA AND EXPOSE THAT YOU WORK IN THE SEX INDUSTRY? FIND OUT IN THIS SAMPLING OF BRAVE, FUNNY, POIGNANT, POWERFUL STORIES COLLECTED AND EDITED BY PREEMINENT PORN STAR JIZ LEE IN THE NEW ANTHOLOGY COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR.
NOOOOOOOODIE GIRL • Stoya
Stoya is an adult performer, writer and master of avoiding pants. Her writing has been published by The Guardian, The New York Times and The New Inquiry. She maintains a blog at GraphicDescriptions.com and recommends you refrain from Googling her at work.
Murphy’s Law of Inappropriate Behavior states that if you make a habit of taking your clothes off in public, eventually everyone in your family (including members so distant they share less DNA with you than a chimpanzee does with a cuttlefish) will somehow stumble upon documentation of what you’re up to.
My grandmother is a very smart woman, and I’d been dodging the question of what I did for a living for at least three professionally naked years. I really had been meaning to tell her about my job before she found out from the television or a newspaper, but I thought I’d do it when I was ready. “Ready” consistently being defined as any time except for right now.
