{"product_id":"american-gangbang-9781476787978","title":"American Gangbang","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinema--only to find that he can't change porn, but porn can certainly change him.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Gangbang\u003c\/i\u003e heralds the arrival of a profound and gifted new voice in narrative nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e In 1999, after four years of studying at Brown University, Sam Benjamin heads to California in a twenty-year-old Volvo, dead set on turning himself into an artist, despite his complete lack of talent. There, stoned, he has an epiphany--he will make progressive porn. And so begins his turbulent journey... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn whip-smart, lyrical prose, Benjamin traces his three-year immersion into the world of Hollywood's bleak, screen glow-lit doppelganger: the southern California sex industry. His rapid ascent from the dingy storefront rental of a starving artist to the multimillion-dollar Malibu villa of a full-fledged porn producer confronts him with the uncomfortably alluring realities of America's strangest industry: gun-toting actors, high on terrible, drug-induced potency; giggling actresses battling internal demons in wobbly heels and pink fishnets; the insatiable consumer demands to sink ever lower, more exploitative, \u003ci\u003enastier\u003c\/i\u003e. The result is the titillating, dramatic chronicle of a young man who invites the deepest, most troubling parts of himself to rise to the surface in order to get a good look at them--only to find that what he sees makes his world seem suddenly very small. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A provocative, universal coming-of-age story, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Gangbang\u003c\/i\u003e explores with unflinching honesty the darkly rich junction of sex and self-discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476787978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Sam Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334267707573,"sku":"9781476787978","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ac993e1f-e4c0-40b0-ba48-c850920e9d53.jpg?v=1636431679","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-gangbang-9781476787978","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}