Stoya, Pop Star of Porn

Jeez. An open-minded, down-to-earth porn star.

This is one of the most empty-headed, vacuous and destructive articles I've ever read about the the porn industry. This writer is actually hero worshipping a woman who sells her body for a living. Porn only reinforces the degradation and debasement of women on a global scale because it's so easily accessible now. 

Did you know that young women feel the pressure to either shave their pubic hair or have "landing strips" because of the porn industry? 

Did you know that dozens of porn stars, both men and women, commit suicide? To become a porn star, no matter how "open-minded" you think you are, requires one to shut off their feelings. That porn star James Deen saying that Stoya's "vagina and butthole belong to me?" That's not objectification?

Yeah, Stoya is so cool because she can hang upside naked from a trapeze. Stoya is so freaking wonderful because she turns down scripts! She's fantastic because she hasn't had breast implants! My heart is racing from how amazing she is.

And she's so "pretty?" Please. Beauty is not only external, it comes from the inside. Guaranteed that if she keeps down this path, in less than five years she'll wind up looking torn up, bitter, tough and downtrodden with sixteen needles sticking out of her arm.

At best, porn is a distorted way of sexuality and male and female relationships. I find it frustrating and disappointing that the Voice, which seems to have those who in pain's best interests at heart, would let an article like this even be written. Porn is destructive to women, it infantilizes them, and helps instill a mentality in men about women being used as come buckets. No talking, no relating, nothing. Just enter a room  and bang, there she is, ready for ou to do whatever you want.

And I'm a man. Porn is just about body parts. You might as well watch "Mutual of Omaha" and see a couple of lions humping. It's more realistic.

America is a free country so she can do whatever she wants. But, 99.9% of girls that do the same things she does will end up pregnant, empty, diseased, and regretting these choices. Her extraordinary beauty gives her more opportunity than most will get. Also, her smile on the outside might just be part of her marketing strategy to make us think she is enlightened but come back in another 5 years, follow up and see how she is doing then.

Oh Good God-the puritanical do-good, ever-so-hip, New York "I've seen everything, so I have a birthright to bitch about it" crowd strikes again in the guise of a porn debate.  What fucking hypocrites.  Name me one actual life that porn has destroyed-that's just a right-wing, Bible-thumping fantasy that was created by people too ashamed to cover their own behavior.  So, Stoya makes bank as a porn star? Go on, girl, get it-it's your body-too bad that the haters don't get it, and they never will

Blow-by-blow description of an interviewee's smoking is way overdone. What's interesting is  the irony of Stoya predicting ass wrinkles  while wrecking her own body (and the atmosphere of wherever she may be) 

Revolutionary would be loving her future self instead of throwing away the older woman like the industry itself does.

 I like her,think she's brave, and hope she does well. As far as  being the cover this week, I like it when the Voice puts something nice to look at  on the cover rather than cringe inducing, as it's staring at you all week from the coffee table.  No one will forget Boston.

Pornography harms women.

Pornography is not fantasy. Pornography happens in the real world, to real women; everything you see in pornography happened somewhere to a real woman.

The pornography industry is a multi-billion dollar global industry.

Pornography exists to make money. It is an industry that chews women up and spits them out; it is an industry where exposure to violence, harassment, injury and infection are seen as normal and acceptable.

Pornography doesn’t expand our sexuality – it stunts it.

Mainstream heterosexual pornography dictates a narrow and limited idea of human sexuality. In pornography, male sexuality is predicated on cruelty, coercion and degradation; female sexuality is predicated on submitting to or appearing to enjoy being subjected to cruel, coercive and degrading treatment. Pornography eradicates women’s sexual agency, and makes it harder for women to find out about their own bodies and their own sexuality.

Pornography portrays sexual violence against women as normal, natural and an inevitable part of male sexuality.

Sexual desire does not develop in a vacuum. The prurient attitude we have to sex in this country, combined with a lack of decent sex education, means that many people use pornography as their primary source of information on what sex is supposed to be like. Mainstream heterosexual pornography tells men that the sexual abuse of women is exciting, and that women enjoy being abused. It tells women that in order to do sex properly, they have to put up with and enjoy such abuse.

Pornography reinforces male supremacy, and the idea that men are entitled to sexual access to women’s bodies.

Men define themselves as being whatever is not a woman, in order to be a man it is necessary for there to be a subordinate group of women for men to compare themselves to and feel superior to. In mainstream heterosexual pornography men are always the active agents and women are always the passive objects. No man in pornography ever fails to get what he wants; the women in pornography exist solely to satisfy men’s desires, they have no will or desire of their own except to service men’s needs.

Pornography portrays sex and women as disgusting.

The words used to describe women and women’s bodies in pornography betray the fact that women and sex are seen as dirty and disgusting by the men who use it: ‘bitch’ ‘cunt’ ‘slut’ ‘fuck toy’ ‘fuck hole’ ‘dirty’ ‘filthy’ etc etc.

Pornography promotes misogynistic beauty standards.

In mainstream heterosexual pornography women are interchangeable, it trains women and men to see a natural female body – one with pubic hair, or small breasts, or any fat – as unnatural and disgusting.

Pornography affects you.

Even if you are not a pornography consumer, a significant number of the men you interact with every day will be. It’s difficult to imagine that a man can spend a lot of time viewing and masturbating to degrading images of women without that pornographic ideology having a negative effect on his view of women.

Porn is soul destroying fascist tyranny that turns humans into objects, destroys spirit, and annihilates love. It's quite fitting too that she's a whore bitch for the maggot financial class and serves as their entertainment. get a self esteem you rag instead of trying to set a world record for loads to the face and abortions. 

This article was just PATHETIC. i can't believe queers care so much about some straight chick whore porn actress. isn't there better news to talk about. 

Stoya is in my top 5 all time adult actresses. I was surprised but enlightened to learn who she is , how she lives, and where she lives.

Thanks to her for the eye candy and to the Voice for the story.

Why is this a Voice cover story??? what is this, Complex or something? There is real sh_t going on in this city and you think this is an appropriate cover story. Ugh

I lika to stuffa Stoya!

Wow, you guys, what's your problem with porn stars? It's fine if you're not interested in Stoya, per se--if you don't enjoy her performances or don't find her interesting as a person, but I don't see what her status as a porn performer has to do with anything else about her. This is a character study piece of a person. So what if she sucks cock on camera? How does that make anything else moot? She's also a well-paid and sought-after performance artist and a human being. Why all the hate because of one of her jobs? I'm disappointed in the Voice readers.

Four fucking pages was dedicated to a person whose activities(I suck and fuck for money) can be summed up in one paragraph? After that, whatever personality quirks or eccentricities she might have are moot. And what is it with porn stars and hula hoops? 

Admittedly i lost interest in this article about halfway through. I think Stoya is a beautiful beautiful woman, but I couldnt care less if she likes to wear dead animals and smoke 50 a day. Her on screen persona is that of being free-spirited and playful but as someone else said, she is actually pretty boring to watch.

As much as I absolutely love the writings of Amanda Hess, I always have this problem where I get so involved in the "story" that I forget who the article is supposed to be showcasing. By the end of the article I forgot her name!

I must admit that this article left me feeling sort of sad. It's always hard to see a woman who has a huge chip on her shoulder and has become jaded over the years. Of course, I don't know whether this has to do with being in the porn industry, but I'm sure it played a part.

This seems to have made her a pretentious, stuck up young lady who attempts to come across as this badass sort of rebel, but ends up

And why are porn actors speaking to college students? And about what? How to avoid crossing swords during a DP? Between shithead reality tv stars and mainstream acceptance of porn actors the fucking culture is rotting from the inside out. 

Definitely pretty but I've seen some of her vids but and she doesn't compare to Lily Carter or Remy Lacroix in the I'm a depraved, fucked up slut who needs big fat cocks me in like I need air in my lungs department. Not to say she just lays there but she doesn't have that fucked up chick energy that makes for a good porn performer. 

She is not the prettiest girl in New York.

And also: enough w/ pornstars being paraded around in the MSM as some kind of enlightened 'artistes'. Gimme a break. They fuck on camera for a living. I certainly have nothing against that. Nothing at all. And I enjoy Stoya's work. But it's fucking on camera. It is not high art. And it is not that difficult or world-changing. Lets not treat these people like demi-gods. Its just bizarre.