Pornstar Sasha Grey reads to primary school children.

So alice if your DC came home from school and said their friend's class had a policeman reading and another friend had a firefighter reading and asked what Sasha Grey's job was, what would you tell them?

Nothing sexist about my comments in the least. I'd be equally repelled if it was a male porn star reading to children.

Sasha Grey was in the news yesterday, because of injuncting an abusive boyfriend.

But a 3 year old article seems to have eclipsed that somewhat.

Everyone deserves a second chance.

Erm

I think Branleuse was being sarcastic

.....unclean.... unclean......

Unless she is the mother of a child in the room (she's not) I would not any person who has promoted filmed prostitution (whether a man or a woman) in my child's classroom. As someone I am close to was a "crack whore" I would not want someone who has stated publicly that they think a movie about that situation could be "hilarious" in my children's classroom. Luckily for me, I don't live in a place like Compton so I know that will never happen in my DC's school in a trillion years. I feel sorry for these kids that someone like this is put forward as equivalent role model to a policeman or a fire fighter.

Women in porn are not actors. Actors playing baddies do not actually kill people. When Sasha Grey said "rip open all my holes", that's exactly what happened.

I first came across Sasha Grey as an actress in regular films - unaware of her porn background until reading some reviews of the films in which she has featured...

Good point. We don't know the exact circumstances of how it all came about.

For all we know, she may actually have a child or niece or nephew in the school and they contacted her. We don't actually know that she "self-promoted" at all. If she is acting in regular films now, she may have a different rep in that area.

I just think it's all a bit "pearl-clutching" IMO.

Ok fair point

I just think these children especially are deserving of better than a self promoting ex porn actress or a wannabe Kadashian which there are thousands of in LA

messuru I suspect that Branleuse was being sarcastic... at least, that's how I read it. Obviously I could be wrong...

"ZOMG THAT WOMEN IS TAINTED!! ZOMG DON'T LET THAT CREATURE NEAR MY CHILD, MY CHILD MIGHT CATCH SOMETHING ZOMG DUR DUR"

"Branleuse Wed 15-Oct-14 10:22:32
omg, outrageous. Tainted women allowed near children.

Those children will probably become porn stars now"

Comments like that will achieve nothing other than damage feminism's credibility even further.

Who is saying they are not

becca so true. Even when someone famous has been to the school, my kids don't come home and google their info. They just accept at face value that a nice lady has come to read to them. Not sure my kids would even think whether ANYONE has a dodgy past, tbh. It just doesn't occur to them to wonder about it. Kids are very much in the "now" IMO.

People who work or have worked in the sex industry are human as well believe it or not.

I'm trying to imagine the scenario where a child goes home and is bothered enough to google the name of the nice lady who read to them in their classroom that day.

Teacher: "This is Sasha. She's going to read you all a story."
Child: "I bet she's got a dodgy past. I'll google her when I get home."

Perhaps not, eh?

Great if she does or will do work with older children about the dangers of the sex industry and it not being such a free choice

I said the children deserve better

Why are the children getting an ex porn star now actress/celeb why can they not have a sports person or politician or someone that when they ask who this person is what do they do they have someone that may be aspirational not someone who seeks publicity on the back on their old career

Of course they deserve being read too how have you got from my post they do not

It might be nice if, instead of publicity stunts, the Compton School Board just got off their arses and taught the children to read and write properly. Iirc, something like half of the children in the schools board's area don't graduate.

THIS is the real concern. The Sasha Grey thing is a bit of a weird sideline. They have had really high profile people doing the reading across America thing, it was sparked by the No Child Left Behind Act. Sadly, given that Compton is what it is, they will only ever get Z-listers like ex-nasty porn people.

I'm glad she's spoken about how her much yelled about free choice to go into porn wasn't free at all. Anyone have a link? This article is from a while ago, if she does this again since her epiphany, maybe she could speak to older children about the cognitive dissonance around all aspects of women in the sex industry as well.

They're not being exploited. They're being read to. "They deserve better" ? what nonsense. They deserve people to care about their reading... and that's what they've got.

Not a clue what the "you really think she would go into a school in a nicer part of LA and be reading to school children" is all about. Poor areas can't have people in to do reading??

I bloody hope not ^^

Sasha grey won't be her real name, also I have read that she acts in normal films now.

I doubt she introduced herself to children using her pornstar name.