Book Review: Asa Does Erotica

Anka Radakovich's review of Asaerotica originally ran in the February 2018 issue of AVN; click here to see the digital edition. What kind of sex do porn stars have in real life? Asa Akira’s new book, Asaerotica, pretty much answers that question. “What do porn stars find erotic?” and “What do porn stars think about in their most intimate moments?” Akira asks at the beginning of her book. “It’s a silly idea,” she writes, “assigning sexual fantasies exclusively to specific groups of people. But when your profession is sex, you get these questions often. As a cis-woman in porn falling somewhere on the scale between straight and bisexual, I have erotic thoughts that might be considered outrageous to some and boring to others.” Boring is not the word I would choose to use as you’ll get all hot and bothered reading this compilation of 22 steamy erotic stories from porn stars including Dana DeArmond, Nina Hartley, Joanna Angel, Jiz Lee and Kayden Kross. So, you ask, what do porn stars find erotic? According to Akira’s own Instagram page where she poses with a boyfriend, she writes, “Matching shirts, long walks on the beach, and pinning me down while jerking off on my face.” Ah, porn romance! Joanna Angel’s ’60% Lesbianism’ In one chapter titled “Pussy With Extra Cheese Please,” Joanna Angel explains, “When someone enters a relationship with someone not in porn, a civilian, there’s a unique set of complications that come along with it. Angel says she “cooked dinners” with her new boyfriend, who was accepting of her “heading to have anal sex in a mansion with a pool somewhere,” which for her is “just another day.” But since she says she is “basically, like 60 percent lesbian,” her boyfriend, who “was incredibly turned on by it,” becomes a lucky guy. “I was a fan of two cocks, three cocks, even four cocks,” she writes, “but I truly did love vagina.” Wow, porn stars know how to party. And the point of this book is the erotica. “Aaron surreptitiously ordered a pizza doing his best not to distract us,” writes Angel. “He quickly hung up and jumped in. Aiden and I took turns sucking his cock. We giggled and laughed and fought over it. … Aaron fucked her from behind and she belted out a strong orgasm while I simultaneously came in her mouth. I wasn’t sure if Aaron was having sex with Aiden and me, or if Aaron and I were having sex with Aiden.” So ‘Wrong,’ But So Hot “People are all unique, from various backgrounds with differing inclinations and motivators,” says Akira. “Why would all of our sexual fantasies be the same?” And so the 22 porn stars relate their stories—like a double penetration scene by Tasha Reign with a father/son team, which seems completely “wrong” and taboo, making it all the more erotic (and porno). “It was clear who was in charge here,” Reign writes, “as Ethan ordered Tristen to lay down. He eased my ass over his dick, fingering it first before spitting on his hand and pushing it in. Once my second favorite hole was filled with Tristen’s throbbing cock, Ethan ravaged me—aggressively shoving himself into my little cubby hole as if he was punishing me for springing all of this on the family trio. As they moved in and out, I couldn’t help but consider if we were disturbing the neighbors, I moaned so loudly. The build-up was so intense that there was no way around the arousal. I came all over both of them as they both creamed themselves inside me, filling me like a Twinkie.” Like father like son. Nina Hartley’s Threesome Plus BDSM One of the more interesting stories in the book, “Husband and Wife,” is by Nina Hartley, who chronicles her sex life with her husband. Although her story is erotic fiction, I am assuming she is talking about her dominant husband, the always interesting Ernest Greene, author of the BDSM novel Master of O, a more realistic Fifty Shades of Grey. “They were Dom/Sub oriented, and loved entertaining other power-exchange loving women, “writes Hartley. “Wife a bisexual, top heavy switch, their playmates had two experienced people working on them simultaneously. They had the whole experience down to a science. They’d mastered the art of pre-date negotiation. The couple’s first move was to strip her naked before kissing her hello. As was their way with Tall Girl, she first was splayed on the dungeon bed with her hands clipped above her head to some loose chains, limiting the use of her arms. Wife lay on top of her, kissing her hungry mouth and grinding her thigh into Tall Girl’s pussy, while Husband soaked up the vision of relative helplessness. Wife put on black gloves before handing her the control valve for the suction machine.” After some foot caning and butt play (“Husband lay on his side and used his right hand in her pussy as Wife rolled onto her stomach and uses her ... fingers in Tall Girl’s butt …) it was time for doggie style, missionary, a strap on, boob spanking, face sitting, and a Magic Wand. These pros have endurance! Then it was orgasm time for everyone. Afterwards, writes Hartley, “They all relaxed on the bed in a happy heap and Wife got up to make dinner.” And they lived happily ever after. One generalization can be made here: When porn stars have sex, there are usually more than two people involved. “In the twenty-two short stories I’ve curated,” says Akira, “you’ll find the simple answer to a complex question: Everything. The stories in this collection are anything but your typical erotic fiction, and I’m proud of that. They’re original, authentic, and often challenge our ideas of what we perceive as ‘normal,’ and sometimes even ‘ethical’—which I find beautiful. Erotic writing is a fun, safe, sexy outlet for us to play out our most unconventional fantasies, and in editing this book, I censored exactly none of them.” Find Asarotica on Amazon.com.