Searching for Annabel Chong: Demystifying the Legend of Singapore's Most Famous Pornstar!

By Gerrie Lim

Back in January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong took cultural rebellion to an extreme, on terms that had never been negotiated before. She was filmed having sex with a long receiving line of men, servicing them 251 times over a ten-hour period to set a new world record: The World’s Biggest Gangbang. 

Now bestselling author Gerrie Lim, Annabel’s longtime friend and confidant, revisits those events and reexamines those scenarios to shed new light on her legend, to discover why such an enduring curiosity about her exists, and to learn why she is still regarded in her own native Singapore as something akin to a mythological figure. As Lim writes, she did this gangbang as a gender studies/liberal- progressive/feminist statement to subvert gender stereotypes, but no one got it.” This book, featuring many of the author’s own conversations and correspondences with Annabel over the years, is the first serious inquiry into the fascinating persona of a seldomdiscussed, yet often secretly venerated, Asian celebrity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: May 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781620872833

Reviews for Searching for Annabel Chong

[aerialgrrrl · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I don't why I'm always let down when books about porn stars turn out to be poorly-written, hack-level rubbish. Can't these ladies (and a handful of men) afford better ghost writers? Gerrie Lim makes constant, repetitious mention of the fact that he and Chong are best buddies (and that they are the only Singaporeans in 'the industry'.) Great info, but it only needed to be stated once. Chong's story should be a fascinating read but Lim just recycles the same paragraphs again and again, sometimes literally cutting and pasting. Maybe a judicious editor could have helped but I'm not convinced. At the very least, it's superior to Kendra Wilkinson's 'Sliding Into Home, but that's only because I didn't hope Chong would die before the end (cf Morticia Addam's reading The Cat in The Hat and skipping to the end, sighing "Oh dear. He lives." One day, someone will write a great pornstar bio. Possibly.