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Can a gay porn superstar find true love? The answer lies in this no-holds-barred memoir by adult film legend Aiden Shaw, who Sex and the City immortalized further by naming their Aiden Shaw character after him

Aiden Shaw has been a photographer and a director of pop promos, a model and an actor. He has an international reputation as a star of American-made hardcore films and is probably Britain's best known male sex star. His first novel, Brutal, published in 1996 and reprinted several times as well as translated into German and French, received wide attention in British and U.S. gay media. ( In a series of short, well-constructed, and simply written chapters the author displays quite a talent for pointed insight into the ways we communicate with friends, family, and self," praised Lambda Book Report Gay Scotland noted: Aiden Shaw has until now been saluted as Britain's first hardcore porn film star. With Brutal he demonstrates his ability to write a powerful story. He has not so much stripped bare as stripped to the soul.") His second novel, Boundaries, appeared in 1999 his third, Wasted, in 2001. He is also the author of a 1997 volume of poetry, If Language At the Same Time Shapes and Distorts Our Ideas and Emotions, How Do We Communicate Love? which Mandate praised as a gutsy accomplishment" and about which Time Out observed Aiden Shaw finally proves the pen is mightier than the penis."Founder of the alternative rock band Whatever, Shaw is currently producing an album of his songs sung by Nina Silvert, with individual tracks being remixed by such diverse individuals as Todd Oldman, Chrissie Hynde, Joseph Holtzman (publisher/editor-in-chief of Nest), and Boy George.His Web site is aidenshaw.com.