Pornstar Sasha Grey reads to primary school children.

You two having to sink so low as resurrecting nine year old threads? Wow, you must be so bored.

Whyyyyyy are you digging up 9 year old threads?! It's not great forum etiquette.

Was she doing porn while reading to them? Or dressed as a pornstar while reading to them? Was there anything at all porn related in this?

like something completely normal she is just reading fairy tales/children's book calm down

Have you read the threat Maddy? People have pretty much explained that.

I doubt very much that the topic of her story telling is porn. Why shouldn't she be able to read to children?

We live in perpetual hope!

Perhaps they are hypothetical children...?

Someone bred with you? There's really no accounting for taste, is there.

You are a busy little bee tonight, Suttoxi.

Im wondering how the reaction would be if a male porn actor was doing the same

But male porn performers aren't invited into classrooms, they generally aren't famous, because they don't epitomise their gender's ideals, do they? they aren't powerful.

So it's an interesting question, but perhaps not in the way that you think.

And no, I would not be ok with it unless the students were of an age for a full and frank discussion.

Why would the reaction be different if it was a male porn performer? What is it in the objections that have been discussed on the thread that are specific to her being a woman?

Im wondering how the reaction would be if a male porn actor was doing the same, i think from my POV my issue is if she uses
her porn name and kids google, kids will find a way. But hopefully that wouldn't happen.

While I am not sure of the validity of having 'celebrities' read to kids in the first place (given how many of them are drug-using, tax-dodging, violent-against-women arseholes) I do think there's a lot of slut-shaming on the thread.

It's not about her last though - it's her present, where she markets herself as a "former porn actress". I don't hate her, I just don't think anyone promoting violence against women as sexy should have the ear of my child. I would object to Nick Giriffin because of his racism/ jingoism. I object to Sascha Grey's misogyny and her choice to argue for abh as empowerment. I wouldn't want to present her as a model of success, which I think this sort of activity does.

Profane aggression is funny. Gin is angry and a fighter.

@ gin

Personally, I have better things to do

This is and always will be my absolute hands down favourite style of flounce. "I admit defeat" dressed up as "You're all so dumb!"

Fuckin' see ya mate!

Compassion? Funny.

Yes, seems an odd choice. But you can't be compassionate and absolute at the same time. Grey clearly thinks porn is not vile and nasty. Her opinion. Has she that right? Who are you to deny her that right? Who are you to then deny her contact with children. But...

Yes, still seems an odd choice.

Yet again, FF posts with sense and compassion about a difficult subject and gets leapt upon.

This happened in 2011, when SG was still promoting her career in extremely nasty porn (and there really aren't words big enough to describe how nasty it was either) and telling people how empowerful it was for her and she was in no way coerced or nuffink. She is now, I assume, telling the truth.

It does change things that she isn't part of the local community and that she travelled there and was introduced as a 'celebrity', the children are going to be curious about what kind of celebrity she is, and sadly, when they Google her, they will either come up against parental controls filters we hope or they will be faced with some really vile scenes from her films.

I get what people are saying about how her past shouldn't marr her future, and I agree, but in the case of going into school to read to young children, which will attract publicity for the school, and to be honest, what kind of school really wants that kind of publicity, what kind of school would want to be linked forever with the kind of 'filmed rape' porn she produced?

I think her motives may well have been pure with a touch of publicity hunting but I also think that she would be better to more behind the scenes for a while, until the first things that come up on a search aren't her having her holes ripped apart.

Maybe RTFT?

Goodness me - what was she reading to these children to spark such outrage, 50 shades of grey?!