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Porn Star Sasha Grey Defends Reading To Elementary School Kids On The View

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Porn star and notorious reader Sasha Grey appeared Wednesday on The View to defend herself from critics who lambasted the adult film actress for reading to children. “I think there was a lot of sanctimonious media firestorm thrown at me,” Grey exclaimed. “However, I’ve always gone after what I want and I will continue to do that.”

“What if the parents had said, ‘I object’?” moderator Barbara Walters questioned.

“Then I wouldn’t have done it — but there was no notice sent out,” Grey responded.

RELATED: Cue Outrage: Porn Star Sasha Grey Fights For Her Right To Read To First Graders

“That was the issue I had,” panelist Sherri Shepherd noted. “Parents were not informed. My thing was that my son, Jeffrey, is 6-years-old…if he came home and asked ‘who’s Sasha Grey?’ — I would like to let him know, this is a fireman…”

“She’s also an actress, don’t forget,” Whoopi Goldberg reminded Shepherd.

Walters asked why the former porn star had wanted to read to children.

“Reading was very important to me as a kid,” Grey explained. “It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn’t encouraged so much but my parents encouraged that and it has made me part of who I am.”

“My question is it always going to be there as a stigma?” Walters asked.

“I’m just curious about the stigma,” Goldberg interjected. “You haven’t killed anybody, you haven’t raped any children, you haven’t vomited, you know, in church–you know what I mean?”

“Being a porn star is not something you hope that your children will aspire to,” Walters countered. “You could’ve been a teacher.”

“I don’t have any regrets,” Grey said. “This is something I wanted to go after, one of the large reasons was to stop the stigma that people have against the adult film industry…I grew up ashamed of my sexuality and I felt guilty and disgusted at my sexuality and the more I researched and opened my mind, it felt to me like it was a good decision, and I don’t have any regrets.”

“I would like to devote my time contributing to the community in some form,” Grey continued. “Those kids were so happy.”

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  • Rick Patel

    Uhh…wonder if Miss Sasha Grey is holding remedial reading classes for adults?  She hot!

  • Shakes head

    I’m not outraged over this but can’t we get people who aren’t porn stars reading to first graders?

  • SammyC

    I wonder if the parents would be outraged if it was Kim Kardashian or Lindsay Lohan who reading to their kids.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll just bet that she’s the “Apple of her daddy’s eye.”

  • Anonymous

    Not surprised the liberal school that did this didn’t think anything was wrong with it!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NYSO6D5HWL3YY7UNOCLVNQQ2JY jibbajabba

    I would be. At least this chick is a real person. I can understand not wanting to explain who a porn star is to your kids; but it would be harder for me to explain Kardashian or Lohan.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

     You’re just jealous, as am I.

  • LawrenceKildane

    Yeah bring in a good Conservative like G.Gordon Libby…He will teach em good…

  • Rex the Wonder God

    And by “hot”, right on cue you demonstrate your superficiality. 

    Look closer: at least part of the reason she went into porn was because she had issues with her own sexuality. She was not comfortable with it; SHE sure didn’t think she was “hot”. 

    And hot she was not. Hot, in your sense, is simply a distant impression; it has nothing to do with intimacy, indeed the opposite. It appears Ms Grey found that out, and moved on; giving up her body parts as a receptacle of convenience to MEN with their own intimacy problems, MEN who were also ‘not hot’, she learned was not helping her resolve her own issues.

    We all of us, or most of us, come with this equipment, and no requirement for a driver’s license. And may of us struggle with it, for years, for decades, thru our whole lives sometimes. The fact is our bodies are the bodies of animals designed to seek survival. Overlaying all that with ‘hotness’ is really a dumb concept, particularly since a) it’s subjective, b) elusive, c) unpredictable, d) time limited – it could be gone in a heartbeat, with no more blame to ourselves than there was credit to ourselves in the first place, and e) it’s just false.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Don’t see you volunteering. I think she’s one up on you there. And hey  - let someone ELSE do it, you say: exactly you.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Who freaking cares about what parents are thinking on issues on which parents are a big part of the problem. You act as if parents OWN these young people. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Harder for YOU to explain, to OTHERS – not harder for kids to enjoy being read to. This is YOUR problem, not a kids problem.

  • Ben Dover

    People whore themselves in different ways.  Some people whore themselves to Christianity, some to sex.  Both do it for the money.  Almost everyone has had to do things they regret.

    People can change.  Some people actually take the opportunity to change and improve their lives. If no one tells the kids what Ms Grey did in a previous life, they will just think she is the nice lady who read to them.

    I guess the Christian thing to do would be to forgive and forget, but then, not all Christian folk…are forgiving.  For those folks, I would remind them of the “glass house” saying. 

    I would guess most of the people who teach have done things they are not proud of.  That does not necessarily make them bad teachers….

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Typical cheap shot.

    But besides, how exactly would a school be properly doing its duties in ‘thinking’ this was wrong, anyway?

    You set up a double straw man there, and they both fell on top of you.

  • Anonymous

    According to the other story, in their denial (read: lie) that Ms. Grey read to the kids, the school mentioned that several other celebrities had read to kids as part of the Read Across America program.  Which raises a question?  Was she introduced to the class a celebrity of some variety?  Or as simply as a volunteer?  If it’s the former, it seems to me, the school has a lot to answer for. 

  • Anonymous

    I have to admit it could have been much worse…they could have had the radical racist Rev.Wright read to the kids!! Or the admitted terrorist William Ayers read to them!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    Poor, poor Miss Grey.  She’s being unfairly ‘picked on’ and ‘bullied’ – she is the victim !  After all, she’s earned the right to educate your children and be held up as an example of well adjusted success: she’s won awards for best anal sex, and don’t you know – she’s a legitimate mainstream actress now!  She played a whore in some straight to DVD movie, and then on some dumb HBO show she played … a porn star.  She has such range and depth of experience.  Maybe they can give her an Oscar and tenure at UCLA or Columbia?  Let’s get that Penn State coach to read to your kids next time… innocent until proven guilty, afterall.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t listen to the hypocrites sasha…they all watch porn.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    Where did she ever say she was a victim you nit wit?  I’d rather have her reading to my kids than some dumb assed media whore eg:Sarah Palin.  I’d venture to say that Miss Grey has probably got a lot more going on upstairs than Debby Dipshit too.  By the way, her anal scenes were excellent.  GFY

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    Spoken like a porn-addled fool with no moral compass.  I’m glad you could take a break from your furious masturbation session for some ad hominem attacks.  Get back to fapping to Sarah now.

  • Anonymous

    She is a celebrity, she was in a steven soderberg film and is now on entourage….

    Who cares if she did porn? She doesn’t anymore, how exactly do you think you have moral superiority over this woman? It amuses me. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    Maybe … but do you show it to your children?

  • Kid Dynamite

    Herman Cain would do her.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    I”m guessing your bathroom has no lights in it…..I will take care of Sasha when I get home.  

  • Anonymous

    Or Jew-hating crackpot Glenn Beck.

  • Anonymous

    Jeezz…she read children stories…she wasn’t popping ping pong balls out of her junk.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry if I gave the impression of moral superiority.  I’ve got my own baggage.  On the other hand, my baggage is not readily viewed by impressionable children and I don’t make a living off it. I’m not saying that to condemn Ms. Grey.  I hope nothing but the best for her.  The industry she once worked for, on the other hand, can rot in hell.

    You ask, “Who cares if she did porn?”  Imagine someone asking you that about your daughter.  I hope you would care.  I hope it’d break your heart that she allowed her body to be exploited by horny old men.

    It certainly would mine.  So, no, I’d prefer not to have someone who endorses that industry read to my kids. 

  • Anonymous

    In general, I liked your post and understand the basic points you’re trying to convey. Still, I would point out a few things to consider as well…

    >> “Look closer: at least part of the reason she went into porn was because
    she had issues with her own sexuality. She was not comfortable with it;
    SHE sure didn’t think she was “hot”.

    In this instance, you’re taking her words and sort of distorting them. Basically, you’re
    ONLY focusing on THIS snippet in the article (quote): “I grew up ashamed
    of my sexuality and felt guilty and disgusted at my
    sexuality…”

    So, it seems to me that you’re trying to make it sound like she had all these
    deep, dark issues and that’s the ONLY reason she did
    porn (or even stayed with it as a career). In other words, it seems that you’re trying to
    justify your stance by using the old cliched argument: “See? She
    was only in porn because she was mentally troubled.”

    BUT…notice that I clipped the snippet quote in half. That’s because you need to factor in the REST of what she said, where she ALSO clearly states
    (quote): “…and the more I researched and opened my mind, it felt to me

    like it was a good decision, and I don’t have any regrets.”

    In short, note the “don’t have any regrets” part.

    Translation — “I’m totally comfortable with with I did AND with being openly sexual.”

    In fact, if you were to visit Sasha Grey’s web site, on the opening page,
    you’ll find this personal statement from her (quote)…

    “It’s become quite evident that my time as an adult performer has
    expired. Don’t worry, I haven’t found Jesus. One thing is for certain,
    I’m proud to say I have no regrets, and I genuinely feel I accomplished
    everything I could as a performer. I was able to work with the
    industry’s most professional performers and companies, and I’ll always
    cherish the friends and relationships I was able to build. It was simply
    the perfect time for me to move on…while I was on top (pun intended). Life sometimes takes us in a direction we never could have imagined.”

    And finally, you said…

    >> And hot she was not.

    You’re right — wrong verb tense.

    She IS hot !!!

  • Concerned Citizen

    and the moral decay of society continues

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    She made the choice to never say no in front of a camera. That should never, ever be restricted… but to act like there won’t be, and shouldn’t be, life-long consequences to that it in society is ridiculous. We all live with the decisions we make, no exceptions.

    But to actually ground this in reality, I think people would be much more upset if Whoopi Goldberg or Joy Behar read to their kids. I know I would. Sasha Grey may have been a whore in front of the camera (who went way too far for my fuckin’ tastes), but there is a much, MUCH worse stigma attached to being a media whore which I think people consider much more degrading.

  • Anonymous

    “Jeezz”, actually more like jizz, like the jizz she swallowed from ten different guys after they had copulated with her every orifice. Good times. She’s a real role model.

  • Valkyrie101

    Very nice job, Sasha, your awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t this the new Obama “we can’t wait” education initiative?

    He gets his friends in the porn industry to teach, he gets his friends in the hotel industry to make billions in taxpayer money in drug trials, he gets his former ACORN supporters jobs in the flea-ridden OWS Movement, and he gets his wife, The Moocher, to spend money on luxurious shopping sprees.

    Yep, we can’t wait, alright – we can’t wait to march to the polls next November to remove this obnoxious cancer called Obama from our White House end this Reign of Error.

  • Anonymous

    But besides, how exactly would a school be properly doing its duties in ‘thinking’ this was wrong, anyway?”

    Yes, it takes  an abundance of leading scholars and massive due diligence for a school   to determine the appropriateness of having an ex- porn star read to elementary school kids.

    Talk about a straw man.

    BTW, I commend you on being the most pompous, pedantic, arrogant,contrived  and verbose commentators ever to  grace Mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    She has already done your wife.

  • fyonalon

    The school should have informed parents that Sasha was reading.  Then parents would have had an option of not exposing their kids to her.  If Whoopi or Joyce were invited to read at your kid’s school, and the school informed you.  Then you also would have an option to withhold your kids from the class on the grounds that you object to ‘media whores’ reading to your children.  

  • fyonalon

    She seems like a nice girl.  She didn’t say anything offensive or that made me cringe, go eww, or think she was a base person.  I can’t say the same for reading your post.  However, I don’t think she is a bad role model, she is finding her path in life to the best of her ability and good on her for that.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.minard Matthew Minard

    GO SASHA!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    The school should do a lotta things, that’s not the point of my post.

  • fyonalon

    I suppose, the victim is the consumer whose resolve is broken, the potential viewer who has to resist temptation – like John the Baptist did Salome.  Throw her to the dogs like the Jezabel she is.  It sounds like you are trying to evade responsibility for what you are by blaming your urges on people like her.  Poor, poor you.

  • fyonalon

    Nice piece of tongue in cheek.  Or not.  It’s hard to tell these days when the monkeys have taken over the asylum.

  • Anonymous

    OK, I just Bing imaged Ms Grey. I think that she has got her sexuality figured out now. My!!
    My grandchildren would likely not know what she did. I normally would tell them to “go Bing them up” on the computer if they asked who she is. Not this time.
    I’m not the prude but don’t feel the need to ‘splain this one to the young children at this time.
    Goodness though, she is a beautiful young woman. Too bad she has so many miles.
    (come to think of it, my odom has rolled over a few times as well. Just took me many more years to get there).

  • Cain

    The most right wing states watch the most porn. hypocrisy. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure dad knows where to look if the Buick turns up missing.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not suprised you do!

  • Anonymous

    A Drag Queen who is also a prude.
    You are one messed up dude!

  • Anonymous

    “I rather have my children watch  people engaged in lovemaking then engaged trying to kill one another”
    -George Carlin(parapharsed)

  • Anonymous

    Sperman Cain would do a snake If You held it down for him!
    Btw-So wouldn’t Stonepark!

  • Anonymous

    You wood screw a wood pile if you thought there was a snake in it!

  • Anonymous

    Keep wishing all you want.
    It will not help.
    The GOP is a joke.
    .so,Good luck with that!

    Don’t foget to send all your money to your favorite candidate.

  • Frod

    Obnoxious cancer is the worst kind of cancer

  • Ben Dover

    SHHHH! They do it in the privacy of their homes whilst writing checks to the Grinch and Bachmann campaigns……

  • Anonymous

    such a stupid statement.  Just shake my head in your attempts to legitimize your peccadillo.  

  • Anonymous

    Why does she still use her porn star name? Sasha Grey is a porn star name, Marina Ann Hantzis would be the name  a real name of an actor.

  • Norbit

    AND –
    She wallows in films debasing and glorifying violence against women!
    (so I’ve heard!)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ciuba-Abdul/100002542346921 Ciuba Abdul

    Haven’t you learned yet. Sex is dirty and wrong. Nobody should do it unless for procreation under the supervision of an arch bishop.

  • Anonymous

    I really dont get it – she was reading to kids.  What does that have to do with what she used to do within the law.  I would have no problem with it. 

    I mean if an Iraq war vet read to my kids I would not object based on the fact they may have killed men women and children under the color of our flag assuming it was within the bounds of legal war service.  People are upset this woman had sex on video?  We are lost.

  • Anonymous

    You have to love the liberal ladies on The View.  They are angry at Herman Cain for demeaning women and treating them as sex objects….then they invite Sasha Grey on to their show.  Way to go, gals!

  • Anonymous

    Who would you rather have reading to your kids? Sasha Grey or Kim Kardashian? At least Grey admits to being a porn star!

  • Valkyrie101

    Did she turn you on or something, felix? Porn represents naked and unashamed as far as the Judeo/Christian ethic goes. But those Judeo/Christians who are still ashamed, and not naked, are ashamed of Sasha because she is unashamed about having previously been naked and unashamed. (Though she is pictured not naked and unashamed). Now do you understand?

  • Anonymous

    hmm I think you have Herman confused with anthony, barney, and perhaps yourself.

  • Anonymous

    right….your standards are rather low.  You can invite her for Thanksgiving.

  • Anonymous

    Lets find an Arch Bishop!

  • I AM MYSTERION

    Should could have gone there to read WO giving her name. I am sure someone at that school has worked as a stripper call girl, etc…. Just say hi my name is sasha and read to the kids.

  • Anonymous

    She is such a good little liberal Democrat – except now she gives it up the ass rather than getting it. Which is what Democrats do best, when they are not raping you for money or indoctrinating your children.

  • Sasha From Behind

    She could read the tattoo on a grown man’s ballsack, but her reading to children is inappropriate.

  • Anonymous

    Whereas you’re just one ignorant TP asshole, period!

  • Lsmapping

    First what do the parties have to do with this, or the President? There is not a politician that can be trusted.  Second for all those parents that get asked the tuff question “Who is Sasha Grey” the answer is “an actress”.  Not to mention she is a person that does not have to do anything for the community, but she chose to. How many of you have done something for America’s children lately? Ask yourself that then quit complaining and go to your local school and volunteer your time!

  • Anonymous

    Because clearly it’s an either/or.

  • South Park Conservatives

    A hero to Liberals all over the world. Now Sasha can go back to tossing salads.

  • Lousback

    When Sasha was introduced on “The View” I changed channels and will never watch it again.  There has to be a line somewhere we won”t cross, and paying homage to this person should have been one of them.  Why on earth would I care about anything she had to say?  What makes anyone think it matters to me? I think it was obscene to even discuss her, let alone putting her on the show as a celebrity.  I hope they paid her well, I hear her fees are high…

  • Anonymous

    Define : Pornography

  • Anonymous

    Why?

  • Anonymous

    “Why?”…………Think about it.

  • orange

    legally until they are 18 we are responsible for them.

  • Anonymous

    What’s more cringe worthy, that I wrote it or that she did it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    Can’t the poor girl be an EX-porn star?  Jeezuss.

  • Anonymous

    But morally upside-down Murcuhns are outraged.

  • AliveStillKickin

    I hope that response only took 1% of your brain or else  your ears are leaking.

  • AliveStillKickin

    As she read the classic novel,  “Blond Bimbos With Dicks” to the 5 to 7 year olds……she recalled her own childhood when she was indoctrinated into promiscuity  by her liberal, lesbian  gym teacher and longed to return to yesteryear……when her favorite toy was a “Wet Wabbit Vibrator”.
    Even now….she salivates at the very mention of Rachael Maddow or Rosie O’Donnell

  • Anonymous

    Geez! You need to slow down – your diaper is fuuull . . . again!

  • Anonymous

    Soon…watch for it…it’s coming to a middle school near you! 

    The Penn State Poetry Reading Society…

    They’re liberal…they’re loving…they’re looney, and they love poetry (and of course, kids!)…and, yes, some from Penn State belong in the State Penn, but that’s a different story…and it should not bother you…because some are now “ex-Penn ‘Staters.’”

    Face it today, anything…and everything goes! 

  • Anonymous

    Alas, you invoked your rights and freedoms of channel changing. But I’m curious as to why this was the line. I’m sure there are several examples, but the one that quickly comes to mind is Mike Tyson. He was on the View. He’s also a convicted rapist. To me, that’s more disgusting and appalling than this women’s former profession.

  • Fred

    parents should be more concerned with what is being taught in the classes not who is reading to them.  The liberal agenda is being implanted into a generation of children who will all turn into “obamaites” 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E275XXDNIA7MBU2KWU5LXYMH2E Charles

    If a child knows who Sasha Grey is props to to them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3LXDH7HUP3DZEDKKHNDR7P2N3E Dan

    Are you serious, Rex? You sound like a crazy person. Parents get to make certain decisions for their children. That’s how it works. If they want to protect them from certain things, that’s their right.

  • http://twitter.com/GOPSackSuckers Rick Perrier

    This is the dumbest example of selective outrage I’ve ever heard of.  These parents sound like a bunch of sanctimonious, busybody PRUDES.  Was she reading pornography to them?  Unless the kids are watching her movies, they have no reason to know anything about what she does.  Here’s a novel idea, parents: if your kids really are SOOOOO curious to know her occupation and the orientation of her moral compass, you could always just tell them, “She’s just a nice lady who volunteered to read to you.”

    No one is forcing you to review her friggin’ resume with them.  Just another day in the United States of Morality Police.

  • Anonymous

    You are a moral idiot. So all soldiers are  the moral equivalent to porn stars? Really ? What an ass.

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