Comments on: “9 1/2 Years Behind the Green Door-Book signing at Valencia Store http://magazine.goodvibes.com/2008/04/23/9-12-years-behind-the-green-door-book-signing-at-valencia-store/ Sex Blog and Erotica from Good Vibes Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:38:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Simone Corday http://magazine.goodvibes.com/2008/04/23/9-12-years-behind-the-green-door-book-signing-at-valencia-store/comment-page-1/#comment-13412 Simone Corday Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:35:06 +0000 http://blog.goodvibes.com/2008/04/23/9-12-years-behind-the-green-door-book-signing-at-valencia-store/#comment-13412 Dear Angel, This is a very belated thank you for blogging about my book and for recommending it! I have a keyboarding injury and am very much behind the curve in finding sites that have mentioned it. When I was going over my manuscript prior to getting it published, I knew some of the content was not P.C. I had gotten some advice from a friend years ago not to water down the content, that doing so would "cut the balls off the story." So I let certain remarks and events go into the book that would be offensive. "Oriental" is from a quote by another dancer talking about doing the Kopenhagen--I haven't heard that word much in the last 20 years. But about the statements about the dwarf and Venus during the making of Green Door II, I can only say that porn in the 1980s and even now has its own heirarchy--and as an O'Farrell dancer competing with younger performers, I was very conscious of it. And I was acutely aware that my rival, Missy Manners, was the star, and it was hard to put up with her being cultivated around the O'Farrell during the movie. I knew that Art's coked-up whim wasn't motivated by generosity and felt that I had to be extra vigilent. So, for the book I chose authenticity instead of political correctness. Flawed as I am, I have evolved somewhat in the last 20 years--I no longer wear fur, for example. I don't remember your partner working at Mitchell Brothers, but he could have been starting to work there during the last year or two when I was there--when I was mostly doing Ultra Room shows and no longer dancing in the New York Live, after I had burnt out on sitting in the audience. It was great meeting you and your partner the night of the Valencia St. reading, and I appreciate everyone who has given my book some life and has blogged about it & recommended it. I have had some decent reviews in $pread, SF Magazine, Village Voice, ads in NY Review of Books, and last week had an interview in a Danish newspaper, Politiken. Thanks again for covering my book, and for your honest take on it. Wishing you the best, Simione Corday Dear Angel,

This is a very belated thank you for blogging about my book and for recommending it! I have a keyboarding injury and am very much behind the curve in finding sites that have mentioned it.

When I was going over my manuscript prior to getting it published, I knew some of the content was not P.C. I had gotten some advice from a friend years ago not to water down the content, that doing so would “cut the balls off the story.” So I let certain remarks and events go into the book that would be offensive. “Oriental” is from a quote by another dancer talking about doing the Kopenhagen–I haven’t heard that word much in the last 20 years.

But about the statements about the dwarf and Venus during the making of Green Door II, I can only say that porn in the 1980s and even now has its own heirarchy–and as an O’Farrell dancer competing with younger performers, I was very conscious of it. And I was acutely aware that my rival, Missy Manners, was the star, and it was hard to put up with her being cultivated around the O’Farrell during the movie. I knew that Art’s coked-up whim wasn’t motivated by generosity and felt that I had to be extra vigilent.

So, for the book I chose authenticity instead of political correctness.

Flawed as I am, I have evolved somewhat in the last 20 years–I no longer wear fur, for example.

I don’t remember your partner working at Mitchell Brothers, but he could have been starting to work there during the last year or two when I was there–when I was mostly doing Ultra Room shows and no longer dancing in the New York Live, after I had burnt out on sitting in the audience.

It was great meeting you and your partner the night of the Valencia St. reading, and I appreciate everyone who has given my book some life and has blogged about it & recommended it.

I have had some decent reviews in $pread, SF Magazine, Village Voice, ads in NY Review of Books, and last week had an interview in a Danish newspaper, Politiken.

Thanks again for covering my book, and for your honest take on it.

Wishing you the best,

Simione Corday

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