Her first scene was in "Fashionistas 2," a pornographic extravaganza filmed in
a Woodland Hills house, that catapulted her to stardom.
"All the other girls my agent represented were booked," she said. "It was just
luck."
Performers in the adult industry often start soft and progress their way into
hard-core material. A woman starting out might begin with pictures only, then
solo scenes, same-sex performances and then through a hierarchical progression
of sexual acts.
Grey stepped right into the top tier - group sex.
Within three weeks, she'd contracted gonorrhea, which she says she understood
was a risk she took upon entering the business. She got treated and went back
to work.
Grey quickly gained a reputation as an adventuresome performer willing to do
just about anything on camera. She averages $1,300 for each of the five or six
scenes she films each week.
Well-versed in glam rock and independent film, she comes across as far more
mature than the average 18-year-old. She can rail at length about the
"puritanical society" that ostracizes sexuality in movies in favor of violence.
She seems very conscious of the fact that when you take your clothes off and
have sex on camera, you become a commodity.
And a commodity with limited shelf life. She realizes that as much as she's in
demand right now - directors must endure a two-month wait before they can
enlist her services - she could very easily become overexposed. When you've on
pace tocompleted nearly 200 scenes before your 19th birthday, it's hard to stay
fresh, new and mysterious in an industry that thrives on such qualities.
"It's something I've been actually thinking about a lot lately, since it's
almost a year that I've been in the business," she said. "It definitely helps
that I have outside interests, so I diversify. I'm not just sticking with porn,
whether it's a book or a film or a documentary or all three, which I'm doing
right now."
And she hopes that in her time in the business, however long it lasts, she
leaves a mark. Her brush with an STD influenced her to speak up for better
health care for performers. She hopes to get fans to open up about their
sexuality by watching her explore her own.
At an age when most girls are still hanging out at the mall or working their
first job, she's considering her image and the woman she hopes to become.
"This business really forces you to grow up and mature faster than you normally
would," she said. "It's taught me a lot about myself and a lot about
discipline. ... I've definitely learned to deal with people in the world
because I'm now an adult. That transition happened so quick - high school,
college, porn."
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