What Are Porn Stars Reading?

They might make their dollars largely with their bodies, but the brain IS the biggest sex organ, so Shawna Kenney at xojane asked a group of adult performers what they’re reading

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Exxxotica Expo (billed as “the largest event in the USA dedicated to love and sex”) in Atlantic City, New Jersey a couple weeks ago.

Most of the exhibitors were adult performers and companies who produce sex toys, movies, lingerie and all kinds of other accoutrements. I was there giving a seminar on “lust and letters,” talking about erotica and writing in a sea of people who make their living from their bodies and faces. Of course, they’re more than their bodies just as I am more than a disembodied head, so me being the word nerd that I am, I decided to get nosy and ask people in porn: “What have you been reading?” The brain is the biggest sex organ, after all.

Here’s what they said.

Director/performer/screenwriter Stormy Daniels said she was a little embarrassed to reveal she’d been laughing her way through “Shitty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us” on the heels of “Go the F**k to Sleep.” “They’re both funny and relatable,” she said.

Alexis Texas shared she’d just finished “Come Away With Me” (Book One in the “With Me” series by Kristen Proby) and said it was so good she just ordered part two.

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