How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

Who would think a porn star to be a sensitive and articulate being? The stigma attached to the porn industry is that all women are nymphomaniac whores and all men are pervy freaks looking for an easy lay. Anyone who understands the industry at all, understands that is not often the case.

Jenna Jameson-whether a person is a fan of pornography or disgusted by the industry, that person probably knows who she is. She is a legend - appearing in more films than any other woman, she is the unofficial first lady of porn. Watch her movies, or picket her profession, but read her memoir. What the reader discovers within is a tragic soul hoping to survive a world which seemed out to get her from day one. Her mother died when she was young, her father was a publicly-hated police officer, and they happened to live in Las Vegas.

Jameson, hoping she had her mother's talent for life on the burlesque stage, tried out for a show. She didn't get the part, but after being deflowered (while unconscious) by her then-boyfriend, and discovering her overwhelming sexuality, Jenna auditioned to be a stripper. She was underage, but managed to make it onto the stage. As a stripper in too-tall heels and skimpy (and no) costumes, she was an out-and-out success. She made a nice living that way until she was introduced to, and fell in love with, Nikki Tyler. Their affair was purely sexual for a while, then degenerated into a threesome with drugs. Jenna wasted away to 80 lbs. before her family saved her life and turned it around.

The book is a stark look at Jenna Jameson's lurid, but unapologetic cast. The reader will be humbled, humiliated, chastened, horrified and finally, understanding. The memoir constantly switches from timeframe to timeframe, cartoons to interviews, which is how the reader stays captivated by this journey to a personal hell and adventure back to peace. Well-worth the time and energy.