Synopses & Reviews
Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her #1 bestselling series Asa Akira Is Insatiable”.
In Insatiable, Akira recounts her extraordinary life in chapters that are hilarious, shocking, and touching. In a wry, conversational tone, she talks about her experiences shoplifting and doing drugs while in school, her relationship with other porn stars (she is married to one) and with the industry at large, and her beliefs about women and sexuality. Insatiable is filled with Akiras unusual and often highly amusing anecdotes, including her visit to a New Hampshire sex shop run by a mother and son.
In a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream, Akira is one of very few articulate voices writing from the inside. She something important, controversial, and astonishingly interesting to say about sex and its central role in our culture.
Review
A New York Post Best Book of the YearAkira is the Galileo of womens sexuality, shifting our culture from the Dark Ages of slut-shaming into an enlightened celebration of female desire. Hot, hilarious, and engrossing, this book is a path toward greater freedom for us all: read it and evolve.”Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa
Akira is not only passionate about the porn industry, she is shameless, funny and even endearing.”Susannah Cahalan, New York Post (Best Books of the Year)
An intimate look at her life. Each chapter is filled with brutal honesty and self-deprecating humor. Its touching, inspiring, and flies in the face of a lot of peoples preconceptions about the life of an adult film star. Whats most refreshing is that the high points of the book arent the double-penetration and masturbation sceneseven though that stuff is greatits her strong storytelling, which makes her struggles and triumphs in the adult film industry super relatable.”Vice
"It is common for mainstream porn stars to explain their choice of profession with some variation on I just love sex. . . . When Asa Akira says it, though, I really believe it. . . . And yet, no person can act as the flawless representative for an entire group of people and certainly not while writing a memoir worth reading. Luckily, Akira doesnt try to do that with her book. . . . All of which is to say, her book is a lot like her porn: raw, brutal and always unflinching.”Salon.com
A hypersexual narrative of the authors experiences making adult films . . . Akira acknowledges that her positive experience in pornography is not necessarily representative. . . . [but] is happy to be a porn star. . . . For Akira, the right reason” for her own career has been that she enjoys her job. If that changes, she says, shell leave.”NPR All Things Considered”
In her debut book, Akira finds an inimitable voice from the inside in a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream.”Examiner.com
Relentlessly risqué. . . a lascivious, personalized journey through the pornography industry. . . . and the frequently hilarious, surprisingly humbling anecdotes of a life spent having sex for the camera. . . . Alive with an unconventional affinity for raw human sexuality, this exuberant memoir is effortlessly honest, without coming across as cavalier or catty. [Akiras] passion lies in the rush and the high” of the perfectly filmed sex scene. Open-minded readers will find themselves bombarded by a carnal locomotive of industry insider secrets and amusing observations. . . . Puritans take note: Nothing is left to the imagination in this hypersexual memoir of life as a porn star.”Kirkus Reviews
Akira gives even the most household items . . . an entirely new meaning. Forget all the stuff you thought you knew about porn--truth is, youll never look at Baby Wipes, Q-Tips and Ziploc bags the same way again.”LA Weekly
"In this no-holds-barred memoirwhich at times take on the form of letters, haiku, and diary entriesAkira shares her personal experiences working as a celebrated porn actress. [Akira] gives intriguing insight into the industry, particularly the bits about porn stars private and public lives and her own attempt to maintain a meaningful romantic relationship."Publishers Weekly
Asa Akira is the latest addition in a wave of highly raunchy but fiercely unapologetic female porn stars.”Globe and Mail
Asa Akira is insatiable in every sense of the word. Insatiable is, at turns, laugh-out-loud funny (the book is punctuated with naughty haikus, such as Home from Trader Joes/Was it there for that whole time?/Dried cum on my chin), poignant (she writes imaginary letters to her future unborn child and her mother, with whom she is close but does not discuss her career), and outrageously politically incorrect. . . . But above all else, its a brutally honest look at one womans journey through the adult industry, which Akira says the ultimate culmination of her exhibitionist fantasies.”The Daily Dot
The multitalented porn star Asa Akiras twitter has been shared a ton and now Im fully obsessed with her. . . . shes so freaking hilarious that Id be as into her if she were a comedian and not a porn star, but she wouldnt be making as much money in comedy because of society. . . . funny, but important . . . witty and clever.”Blisstree.com
Asa Akira is on a mission: To improve the sex lives of men and women around the world . . . and if anyone can do it, its probably her.”MaxManGuide.com
In the past couple years Akira has made her stamp on the business as one of the most dynamic sexual performers of all-time as evidenced by her whopping 10 AVN awards at the previous two award ceremonies.”Peace! Magazine (Canada)
About the Author
Asa Akira is a Japanese American adult film actress. She has won numerous accolades for her work, including the coveted "Performer of the Year" award at the industry's AVN Awards, and is one of the best-known and most liked people working in the adult film industry todayand a budding writer.