Money Shot Wild Nights Days and Lonely Nights Inside the Black Porn Industry

Money Shot chronicles the African American porn industry's steady rise to the mainstream. Lawrence Ross, a prominent journalist and lecturer, details a year in the life of porn star Lexington Steele, whose 11-inch penis and $75,000 per-movie-fee made him one of the most famous figures in the porn industry. Beginning and ending with Lexington Steele as the book's narrative thread, Ross conducts hundreds of interviews with college professors, industry insiders, and porn stars themselves, providing an insider's view of the often dangerous and disheartening reality of the black porn industry (including black gay and lesbian porn). His research uncovers a world fraught with sexual and racial politics. He describes an AIDS crisis that threatens the lives and careers of several black porn stars, the racism that implicitly prohibits interracial sex scenes in porn films, the moral implications of black female porn stars working as escorts to wealthy African Americans, and much more. Also explored are the close ties that exist between the porn industry and the corporate and hip-hop worlds, covering Snoop Dogg's adult film and R. Kelly's child pornography scandal. Ross also draws an intriguing parallel between sexualized images of hip-hop artists, such as Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown, and the on-screen behavior of black adult actresses. Money Shot humanizes those who participate in a largely inhumane occupation--it is a cautionary tale for those who think that what they are seeing on the screen is simply sex.Ross, Lawrence C., Jr. is the author of 'Money Shot Wild Nights Days and Lonely Nights Inside the Black Porn Industry', published 2007 under ISBN 9781560259138 and ISBN 1560259132.