A recent Nightline segment alerted parents to Deen's crossover appeal among teenage girls, who, the piece warned, hold for Deen a place in their hearts alongside Timberlake and Bieber.
According to Deen, 10,000 unique visitors peruse his blog every day. Industry plaudits aside, Deen has managed an order of renown far rarer in the world of pornographic film: He is a male performer people actually know by name.
In 2009, when he was 23, the Adult Video News (AVN) Awards, pornography's Oscars, named Deen 'Male Performer of the Year.' (Deen was one of the youngest actors ever to be so decorated.) This on the heels of a similar distinction from the X-Rated Critics Organization, which in 2007 noted the arrival of a major talent with an 'Unsung Swordsman' award. If Deen betrays not a trace of anticipation, aversion, or excitement at the prospect of having sex on-camera today, it is because having sex on-camera is something the 26-year-old does more frequently than most of us use dental floss: 'About 360 days a year' is Deen's offhand tally.ĭeen's professional relentlessness has yielded a host of accolades. It is a clement spring day in greater Los Angeles, and James Deen is driving through the soft green tumescences of the Calabasas hills on his way to a pornographic-movie shoot.
