Aiden Shaw


Aiden Brady is an author, musician, model and former pornographic film actor.

Pornography

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.

Writing

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 and Wasted, and an autobiography, My Undoing 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.

Modeling

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

Published works