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In this memoir, Asa Akira recounts her life as a stripper, dominatrix, and one of the most hardworking and extreme porn stars in the business In addition to her over films, she has won many awards for her work This memoir was named after her best-selling series, Asa Akira is Insatiable Doubling as a personal memoir and a commentary on the industry, Akira shares her perspective on sex as a part of our lives and culture In short, Akira s memoir is shameless, passionate, funnyIn terms both jarring and harrowing, women's bodies became the terrain on which the election was fought That the choices, experiences, and consequences of women's sexual lives became fodder for such poorly informed national 'conversations' is evidence of the pressing need for thoughtful, sex-positive scholarship which centers on women's sexual agency The Feminist Porn Book is just such a contribution, and I predict this volume is going to find its way onto the bedside tables of several generations of American women This volume brings together academics, activists, and porn entrepreneurs who have a startling array of interactions with pornography as an experience, a business, and a field of inquiry This text is straightforward and informative in ways that are unfortunately rare in the multi-decade feminist struggle over porn It's also fun and sometimes a bit naughty to read The authors do not assume that the porn industry as it exists is the one essential and only possible incarnation of porn Instead, they assume that when feminists engage, intervene in, produce, and study pornography, they can radically alter its formations and meanings At the core of the book is the question Can porn coexist with the principles of feminism No matter how one ultimately adjudicates this question, The Feminist Porn Book leaves no doubt about the inherent value in the inquiry itself Melissa Harris-Perry, author of Sister Citizen Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Finally the time is right for feminist porn This stunning collection by academics and artists in dialogue accounts for the massive changes in technology, erotics, modes of spectatorship, and embodied identities which impact the world of pornography As this volume