Lights, Camera, Sex!

By Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon's flamboyant debut into the world of adult video in 1984 rocked the porn industry like never before. Selling millions of copies, her videos quickly established her as the world's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972747001
• ISBN13: 9780972747004
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Canyon Publishing
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lights, camera, sex! By Christy Canyon

This book is fantastic. I have been listening to Christy Canyon on Playboy Radio's night calls for over a year now. My husband used to watch her movies. I love her even more after reading her book. She has been through so much in her life and has come out on top! She is inspirational. I recommend anyone who has seen porn to read this book. I can't wait for the second one to come out. I couldn't put it down. I got my book in a respectable length of time and in great condition. I am very pleased!

The Porn Business Reported by a Winner

Among the jobs you don't want to tell your parents you got is porn star. In a way this was easy for Christy Canyon. At eighteen, she wasn't speaking to her parents anyway, and she had left them to get on her own. Nonetheless, one of the themes that even the most conservative will approve of in _Lights, Camera, Sex! An Autobiography_ is that Christy loved her family, as disrupted and misguided as her parents may have sometimes been, and wanted to be back with them and accepted. It won't be giving anything away to say that she got her wish. After all, among the generous three pages of dedications at the front of the book are loving notes to her mom and dad, and especially to her sister who during some periods had to act as her ambassador to them. Among the other dedications is one to her producer at Vivid Video, the last studio she worked with, thanking her lucky stars that "... you spoon-fed me all those years under contract and never asked me to do anything you knew I wouldn't do anyway." Even when as close as she could get to family was her cast and crew making sex films, Christy found supportive friends, and it seems she remains sweetly grateful. It is impossible to say how representative her experience in porn was. However, it is hard to say she was taken advantage of when she was making deliberate decisions to promote and protect herself, and she was able to get out of many uncomfortable situations and assignments. It might be a little surprising that there is so much self-examination in her book and so much reflection on family matters, but it can't be surprising that she has some good stories to tell, and it isn't at all surprising that she is uninhibited in telling them. One surprise is that she tells the stories in an unexpectedly sophisticated way. She has not told the chronological story of her life. The first pages deal with her first appointment in Hollywood at World Modeling in 1984, but throughout the book, a memory will lurch her back into some experience from her past. On one page, there might be intercalated sentences of memories alternating with events of the moment. She was tricked into going to her first movie shoot, which she thought would be merely the nude still modeling she had been doing. Her agent said it would be a piece of cake: "It's nothing that you haven't done in your personal life. It's one quick sex scene." He even assured her it could be in her favorite position. Canyon was remarkably inexperienced in sexual matters for one who had rebelled against her parents and hit the road, but to help her agent out, she agreed just this one time; the pay for the day's work being $1,500 was one of the advantages. She froze on the first shoot, but eventually got to enjoy doing scenes. She realized that with the few men she had been with in her personal life, she was inhibited: "I never wanted the guy to think I was some sex-crazed maniac" so she had reined herself in. On camera, though, nobody minded "how loud I moaned and

The new voice

Christy Canyon's biography is a stunning achievement because it shows the person behind the pornstar. Brilliant, candid, graphic, hilarious, revealing, and with all of its pain and beauty, Christy lets us in. She welcomes her reader openly and tells us exactly what happened and how she got to where she is. Her life is not unlike any of our own thus making her journey accesible, fun and harrowing all at the same time. This book is not just for the fans, its for everyone. Highly recommended.

CHRISTY EXPOSED!

Anyone who believes that erotic movies should have their own category at the Oscars will enjoy this book. I have only read the first 124 pages, and I'm recommending it. You will recognize all the names of her fellow performers, and learn how the sex film industry works. (In case you didn't already know how it works.) Ms. Canyon also relates a meeting with Max Baer, who played Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies."One negative. The authoress has an annoying habit of employing "flashbacks," apparently in an attempt to show that she is not merely a fantastic sex object. She does not speak well about her father, but maybe, if we talked to him, we would get another side of the story. He may not be happy that his daughter is this type of actress.Another thing. Wanting to sound like an authentic dumb porno girl, Ms. Canyon has cleverly placed misspellings and hilarious punctuation blunders throughout the book. Very effective!It's a good read. It's entertaining, it's informative.I look forward to the next book, Ms. Canyon.

Lights, Camera, Sex

I was very impressed with Christy's story. I can't imagine what is must have been like to be all alone at such a young age. It's apparent she is really the girl next door and a shining example that hard work and perse verance do pay off. Lights, Camera, Sex gave me an entre into a world that I and probably a lot of other folks as well, are curious about. It seems that with HBO's Sex and the City and the E! True Hollywood Stories, that porn is mainstream now. Welcome to the real world, Ms Canyon and congratulations for achieving the American Dream - career, college degree, entrepreneur and author. Can't wait to read your next book.