The Final Episode

Abstract

In the spring of 2011, the adult film actress Sasha Grey publically announced via Facebook that she had quit the pornography industry. In her typical nonchalant tone, she said she had left the business while being “on top (pun indeed, intended),” and that it had simply been time to move on. She wasted little time on explaining the reasons for her exit, much less on dwelling on memories of the industry. She simply released a short “thank you and goodbye” before moving on to promoting her autobiography Neü Sex (2011). The book contains photographs, interviews, and life philosophies of the five years she spent as a performer, director, and producer of pornography. It appears in the light in which Grey likes to see her own career—as an artist rather than an anonymous sex worker.

I’m determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone’s fantasies.

—Sasha Grey, 9 to 5