My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story | 
| Author: Bobby Blake
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 259549
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0786720964
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780786720965
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Product Description
The most successful African American in gay adult film, Bobby Blake has appeared in over one hundred movies. In My Life in Porn, Blake for the first time goes behind the scenes of the sex industry to reveal intimate stories that are sexy, fascinating, and sometimes disturbing. Blake also shares his private spiritual struggle and the quest for love.
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He Does It His Way December 1, 2008
Bobby kind of confuses me. He seems contrary to what the Christian faith really says. He says he led the life that he was supposed to live more or less with God's blessing. I can't quibble with that exactly, as, "only God can judge". However, the things he did and the way he acted at times were completely unChristian in my eyes. Claiming to be a good Christian, he acted hostile, mean, ugly, physically abusive, etc. He didn't seem to act any different than any other person in many instances. Swearing, multiple partners, on and on - I just don't know how he justifies himself.
Other than that, it was a very interesting story. He likes to think that he was a really big star, but let's face it, porn has a very limited audience and no matter how good you try to be or how ethical you try to act, it just about getting your rocks off. Exhibitionism at it's heighth. He just acted as if people threw their coats down in a puddle so he could walk over it. That life is not quite as impressive as he would want us to believe, in my opinion.
 Superficial and Boring! August 2, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I would have thought that the last thing a book about a porn star would be is boring! But this poorly written and badly edited offering is like taking sleeping pills and then going to the opera. There are no revealed secrets, no juicy insider revelations, very little sexual titillation, and absolutely no self examination.
If anything this book is full of self delusion. I found it interesting that throughout the book the author refers to others, in passing, as "Hos" ,and decries "Whorish" behavior. Yet he seems not to appreciate that the "escorting" he depended on so much is simply a nice term for prostitution. He never looks in the mirror to see the true whore reflected back at him. He is totally blind to the obvious anger deep within him that propells him to agressive and sometimes violent sex play. He simply explains this as his trademark "style". He makes all types of strange choices even before he becomes a pornstar; his explantion for all this is silly. The most glaring lapse is his failure to see that the same exhibitionism that led him to stand up as a southern preacher, may have lead him to the hyper-exhibitionism of the porn business.
There are a few things in the book to commend the author; most noticeably his committment to fighting AIDS in the Black community, and his warning to young black gay men to be cautious before rushing into the porn business. While this book did not make for a good bedtime read; I would not, if I had a chance, kick Bobby Blake out of bed.
This book was obviously written to make a quick buck. In this I wish the author well. I wish him well in the new career path he is now following. One day he may actually be able to write a truthful honest memoir. That day is not now.
 Great Book - You Must Read! July 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bobby Blake (Edgar Gaines) is a very interesting person. Of course,
he looks good! However, this book allows the reader to get to know
Edgar Gaines, the person.
I had the opportunity to meet and talk with Edgar very briefly
about ten years ago. I hope I will have the chance to talk with him
in person again someday!
Anyone who has enjoyed watching Bobby Blake movies should also enjoy
this great book!
 Poorly Written and Somewhat Sketchy July 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely adore Bobby Blake's "work," and as a young gay brotha I truly thought that reading about his story would be interesting, thought provoking and well informative. I was immediately taken back by the poor sentence structure of the novel. It is very hard and somewhat insulting to read a book that reads at such a remedial level. While I was not expecting a scholar's voice to come through, I thought that book would atleast read as if someone who completed high school constructed the biographical sketch.
I found some of the events in the book to be unrealistic and sensationalized. I finished the book in one day, hoping that as I continued my reading that it would get better. Extremely dissapointed and do not recommend you to waste your money...even if it is ONLY $10 at the present.
More than just Porn June 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bobby Blake is a very interesting person, and that is revealed in his memoir. Although the memoir is written with British writer John R. Gordon, the voice of Blake is clearly in this work. Despite the stereotyping of porn stars, Blake is very intelligent, insightful and political. After hearing him in interviews, it is obvious that the man is quite articulate. This work is a candid look at his private life as well as his career in porn, and he makes it clear that working in porn was a career, and not the beginning and end of his personality. Blake allows the reader to see the person, or alter ego, of the porn persona, and one will find that interesting, controversial and enlightening. Blake provides a very insightful look at the porn industry, and this is very welcomed from a black person's point-of-view. Much of the literature about pornography is about white porn stars, written from a white point-of-view, which rarely handles any discussion of race. In addition, Blake explains his decisions made personally and professionally. I respect that he doesn't name individuals (unless they are already well known in the porn industry, for instance) because the work is about his life, not theirs. If there is a major message in this memoir, it is that by stereotyping people, and putting them in boxes, you don't realize the full spectrum of those various personalities. He is still a young man, and one might wonder if he decided to write this work too soon. Even so, the work is well timed, and include a wealth of information.
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