American Gangbang
American Gangbang by Sam Benjamin is a reprint memoir published by Gallery Books on April 12, 2014, featuring 320 pages in English. This book presents a thoughtful and humorous exploration of Benjamin’s journey from an Ivy League graduate to a pornographer, as he attempts to infuse sophistication and equality into the world of sexual cinema. His experiences reveal the complexities and contradictions of the adult film industry, highlighting both the allure and the challenges he faces along the way.
Readers will find a vivid account of Benjamin’s three-year immersion in the southern California sex industry, where he navigates the stark realities of a world filled with both ambition and exploitation. Through whip-smart prose, he recounts his rapid rise from obscurity to becoming a porn producer, confronting the darker aspects of his own identity in the process. American Gangbang delves into themes of self-discovery and the intersection of sex and personal growth, offering an unflinching look at the intricacies of a provocative industry.
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A thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinema—only to find that he can’t change porn, but porn can certainly change him.
American Gangbang heralds the arrival of a profound and gifted new voice in narrative nonfiction. In 1999, after four years of studying at Brown University, Sam Benjamin heads to California in a twenty-year-old Volvo, dead set on turning himself into an artist, despite his complete lack of talent. There, stoned, he has an epiphany—he will make progressive porn. And so begins his turbulent journey…
In whip-smart, lyrical prose, Benjamin traces his three-year immersion into the world of Hollywood’s bleak, screen glow–lit doppelganger: the southern California sex industry. His rapid ascent from the dingy storefront rental of a starving artist to the multimillion-dollar Malibu villa of a full-fledged porn producer confronts him with the uncomfortably alluring realities of America’s strangest industry: gun-toting actors, high on terrible, drug-induced potency; giggling actresses battling internal demons in wobbly heels and pink fishnets; the insatiable consumer demands to sink ever lower, more exploitative, nastier. The result is the titillating, dramatic chronicle of a young man who invites the deepest, most troubling parts of himself to rise to the surface in order to get a good look at them—only to find that what he sees makes his world seem suddenly very small.
A provocative, universal coming-of-age story, American Gangbang explores with unflinching honesty the darkly rich junction of sex and self-discovery.
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