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

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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

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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]

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]

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]

• 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