“SORDID TRUTHS" By Aiden Shaw 2009, Gay Men’s paperback, Alyson Books

Paperback by Aiden Shaw, entitled “SORDID TRUTHS” 2009. Very good condition. Please see pics
 
 
Aiden Brady (also known as Aiden Shaw) is an author, musician, model and former pornographic film actor. 
 
Brady adopted the last name "Shaw" in the early 1990s when he began working in gay pornography, and appeared in over 50 films. He retired from the porn industry in 1999, but in 2004, he starred in another gay porn film with Hot House.
 
In 1991, Shaw collaborated with the New York artist Mark Beard to produce a limited edition publication named Aiden. The book included several portraits of Shaw, with text written by both Beard and Shaw as a form of dialogue.
Shaw published his first novel, Brutal, in 1996. Also in 1996, The Bad Press published a collection of his poems, If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts our Ideas and Emotions, How do we Communicate Love? He wrote two more novels; Boundaries (1997) and Wasted (2001), and an autobiography, My Undoing (2006) in which he openly discusses his life in the sex industry as a porn star and sex worker, his drug use, and his HIV status (Shaw was diagnosed HIV positive in 1997).