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If this means there will be more girls like Sasha Grey in the industry, that's a good thing. If there are more girls who are beautiful, articulate, professional, on time, off drugs, and fuck like champ on camera, then I'm all for it. Despite how pretentious and full of herself everyone seems to think Sasha is, that girl's attitude hasn't changed since the day she entered the industry. I have worked with a lot of big name girls when they were just brand new with no name, and I've seen most of these girls egos blow up beyond control. Sasha is just as polite and well-mannered now as she was at the beginning.

I think that by attacking her for calling herself "The New Breed", you are taking what she said out of context. Sasha means that she represents the porn star anti-stereotype: she's not dumb, she's not on drugs, she was not abused (yes you can call her a liar all you want but for the sake of argument I have decided to believe her), and she wants to push the limits of society's view on female sexuality. It's easy to jump on the anti-Sasha bandwagon because her intelligence and unapologetic self-confidence makes people uncomfortable. Porn stars aren't supposed to be smart, they're not supposed to have self esteem, and they're not supposed to be comfortable with what they do for a living. If someone like Sasha-- someone smart enough and driven enough to be doing something else (i.e. something more socially acceptable than porn), chooses porn, then what does that say about women? Could it possibly suggest that we are not all victims forced into this industry by unhappy circumstance? Could some of us actually truly enjoy having sex on camera? Could it suggest that... (gasp!) women are capable of making their own rational decisions that are driven by personal preference rather than the need for a quick buck to pay their drug dealer or for a lavish lifestyle they could otherwise never achieve?

Now personally I wouldn't call most porn performance art, but I respect Sasha's attempt to intellectualize her work. I think that people underestimate Sasha's importance in changing what people generally think about women in the adult industry. It's actually kind of sad that instead of celebrating a positive figure such as Sasha, that we instead prefer to cannibalize our own. But then again, this is XPT.

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