Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004
“How To Make Love Like A Porn Star” Review
Salon’s Charles Taylor gives Jenna Jameson’s “How To Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale” a glowing review that’s as much about contemporary attitudes towards porn and sexuality in general as it is about the porn queen herself: “What I’m trying to get at here is the class cluelessness that has always seemed part of the knee-jerk reaction against any type of sex work. Sexism is a part of that, too, a belief that any young woman who ventures into the sex trade will wind up either a victim or a whore. Jameson doesn’t settle these arguments; she complicates them.”
“How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” by Jenna Jameson (review @ Salon; free day pass registration required)
Order: “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star” (Amazon)
See also: “Jenna Jameson Gets Personal” (AVN)
Previously: Jenna Jameson’s Confessions, Sex Books 2004
Update The headline for Steve Almond’s review at Nerve (“All you wanted to know about the porn star of our age … plus 479 other pages”) should give you an idea of their take: “It reads, for the most part, like an ABC Afterschool Special that just happens to include money shots.” (“I, Jenna” @ nerve.com)
