1. James Deen gained attention due to his relatively slender build, lack of tattoos, and everyman appeal, bucking the stereotypical image of hypermasculine male actors in the pornography industry.
22 Facts About James Deen
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James Deen was born in Los Angeles County, California and raised in Pasadena.
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James Deen's father is a mechanical engineer and his mother is a computer electronic engineer, and one of them worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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James Deen graduated from La Canada High School in 2004.
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James Deen worked at a Starbucks for two years and took classes at Pasadena City College.
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James Deen has a fan following among teenage girls, a demographic typically not associated with the pornographic industry.
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In September 2012, James Deen was a participant in a press conference, along with others opposing Los Angeles County Measure B, an initiative which would require condom usage in the pornographic film industry.
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James Deen is listed as the producer of the Bryn Pryor vehicle.
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James Deen has performed in over 5,000 videos in his pornographic career.
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In February 2013, James Deen was invited to return to his alma mater, Pasadena City College, by professor Hugo Schwyzer to speak to students about his career.
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James Deen was restricted to speaking to the students of Pasadena City College's "Navigating Pornography" class.
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James Deen was featured in a July 2012 GQ multi-page article, chronicling his work and personal life.
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In 2013, James Deen was listed as the only male performer to make the CNBC Dirty Dozen list of the porn industry's popular stars.
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James Deen co-starred with Lindsay Lohan in Paul Schrader's 2013 film The Canyons, written by Bret Easton Ellis.
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In July 2013, James Deen teamed with American pornographic actress Andy San Dimas, adult app store MiKandi and adult industry news source XBIZ, to release the first adult video production recorded with Google Glass.
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In January 2014, James Deen joined the newly formed Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, which provides representation for performers within the adult film industry, protects performers' rights, reviews existing health and safety protocols, and initiates new ones as needed.
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James Deen has served as Treasurer and served as Chairperson of APAC until December 2015, when he stepped down following accusations from fellow performers.
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James Deen received over 4,000 questions over the course of an hour, making Deen's AMA listed by Reddit as the most popular on the site as of the following morning.
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From 2005 to 2011, James Deen dated fellow pornography star Joanna Angel.
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James Deen voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.
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In December 2015, an article in The Daily Beast referred to Deen as the "Bill Cosby of porn", while the feminist site We Hunted the Mammoth wrote that James Deen seemed to be "a perfect example" of a missing stair.
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James Deen later gave an interview to The Daily Beast where he stated he was "baffled" by the accusations and denied or offered counter-explanations for them.