Aiden Shaw

Aiden Shaw (born 22 February 1966, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom) is a writer and also a pornographic actor, who appears in gay American pornographic movies. He has starred in over fifty porn movies, many directed by Chi Chi LaRue. He has worked for Falcon Studios, Catalina Video, and Studio 2000 and Hothouse. In 1991, he won "Best Newcomer" at the Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards. In 1994, he won "Best Sex Scene" for his scene in Grease Guns. Shaw is HIV+. In 1991 Shaw collaborated with a New York based fine artist Mark Beard to produce a limited edition book named Aiden. Then it wasn't until 1996, that Shaw wrote his semi-autobiographical novel, Brutal. Also, in 1996, The Bad Press released a collection of his poetry, If Language at the Same Time Shapes and Distorts Our Ideas and Emotions, How Do We Communicate Love. This was followed by two novels, Boundaries, and Wasted, and then an a best selling autobiographical account of an eight-year period named My Undoing (Love in the Thick of Pornography, prostitution, Sex and Love). Along side his work in writing and porn, he has produced two albums; Aiden Shaw's Whatever, and Nina Silvert does Aiden Shaw. In 2006 Shaw completed an MA in Creative and LIfe Writing at Goldsmiths University of London.