Aiden Shaw

British pornographic actor and model

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Aiden Brady
Aiden Brady in 2013
Born	Aiden Brady (1966-02-22) 22 February 1966 (age 58) Harrow, London, England
Other names	Aiden Shaw
Years active	1990–present
Modelling information
Height	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Hair colour	Grey
Eye colour	Blue
Agencies	Sight Management Studio, Barcelona, Spain Why Not Models, Milan, Italy KULT MODELS, Hamburg, Germany Modellink, Göteborg, Sweden Q Model Management, New York City, United States Models1, London, England

Aiden Shaw (born Aiden Brady, 22 February 1966)^[1]^[2] is an English author, model, and former pornographic film actor.^[3]

Early life and modeling

Aiden Brady was born on February 22, 1966, in Harrow, England. He graduated from the University of Brighton.^{[citation needed]}

Shaw was signed to Success Models in Paris and Sight Management Studio in Barcelona.^[4] Shaw was photographed by Giampaolo Sgura for Hercules International magazine.^[5] In 2013, he was the face of Bytom, a Polish fashion company.^[6] In 2014, Shaw walked for Berluti.^[7] He was featured by New Zealand menswear brand Working Style for their Autumn Winter 2014 campaign.^[8] In 2016, Shaw reverted to his birth name as he continued to model for international brands like Massimo Dutti.^[9]

Pornography

Brady adopted the last name "Shaw" in the early 1990s when he began working in gay pornography.^[1]^[10] He retired from the porn industry in 1999, but in 2004, he starred in another gay porn film with Hot House.^[11]^[12]

Writing

In 1991, Shaw collaborated with the New York artist Mark Beard to produce a limited edition publication titled Aiden. The book included several portraits of Shaw, with text written by both Beard and Shaw as a form of dialogue.^[2]

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?^[13] He wrote two more novels: Boundaries (1997) and Wasted (2001), and an autobiography, My Undoing (2006) in which he 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).^[14]^[15]

Published works

Brutal (Millivres Books, 1996) ISBN 1-873741-24-3
If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts Our Ideas and Emotions, How Do We Communicate Love? (The Bad Press, 1996) ISBN 0-9517233-4-0
Boundaries (Brighton: Millivres Prowler Group 1997) ISBN 1-873741-48-0
Wasted (Brighton: Millivres Prowler Group, 2001) ISBN 1-902852-34-6
My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006) ISBN 0-7867-1743-2
Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom (Alyson Books, 2009) ISBN 1-59350-137-4

References

^ ^a ^b Potter, Sarah (24 February 2016). "CoolBoy Of The Week- Aiden Shaw". Bang Talk Magazine. Retrieved 7 October 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Beard, Mark; Brady, Aiden (1992). Aiden. London, England: Feard Press. ASIN B0006P9EYM.
^ "Aiden Shaw article". Gay.net. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
^ "Profile - Aiden Brady". Sight-Management.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ "Aiden Shaw by Giampaolo Sgura For Herculese Universal Magazine". AccidentalBear.com. May 2012. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
^ "Aiden Shaw & Anatol Modzelewski for Bytom". The Fashionisto. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
^ "Berluti Show SS14 – List of Models". Models.com. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
^ "Aiden Shaw and our AW14 Campaign". Working Style. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
^ "Noah Mills, Hao Yun Xiang & Aiden Brady Don Massimo Dutti's Contemporary Tailoring". TheFashionisto.com. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ Ford, Tyrone (11 December 2009). "Aiden Shaw on surviving porn, prostitution". Washington Blade. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
^ "Perfect Fit (2004)". IMDB. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ "Perfect Fit". Hot House. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
^ Shaw, Aiden (1996), If language at the same time shapes and distorts our ideas and emotions, how do we communicate love?, Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry, The Bad Press, OCLC 298124621
^ Josh Sparber (September 2006). "The Porn Identity (interview with Aiden Shaw)". Poz.com. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
^ Sam Page (January 2010). "Coming To Terms (interview with Aiden Shaw)". HIVPLUSMAG.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2012.