Jay Mannion is a professor of Communication Theory at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. He’s long dreamed of being a romance author, having grown up reading his mother’s library of “bodice rippers,” but he’s found his mind tends to bend stories in a way incompatible with traditional category romance. “It’s been a struggle,” he says, “trying to hew to the narrow path of romance novels. Only once I realized what I’m writing isn’t really romance was I able to cut loose.”
His first series, Before She Was a Porn Star, is an erotic coming of age tale about a young man who dates a woman whose desire for sexual experimentation pushes her towards a career in porn.
You know her as Sheri B. The first Iranian-American porn star. Five time winner of the Golden Throat Award. World record holder for the most consecutive sex partners in a single day. Even if you haven’t seen her videos, you know her as the woman the President of the United States paid half a million dollars to for a weekend sex romp.
But Matt knew her before any of that. He met while working a summer job at her parents’ video rental store. Back then she was plain Sherine Behsudi, a studious and serious-minded girl about to start college in the fall.
Or so she appeared.
You know her as Sheri B. The first Iranian-American porn star. Five time winner of the Golden Throat Award. World record holder for the most consecutive sex partners in a single day. Even if you haven’t seen her videos, you know her as the woman the President of the United States paid half a million dollars to for a weekend sex romp.
But Matt knew her before any of that...