How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale | Jenna Jameson, Neil Strauss

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	How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale Jenna Jameson, Neil Strauss HarperEntertainment, 2004 - 592 pages average customer review:based on 241 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not what I was expecting

This was a great book. Very entertaining! I was not sure what to think when I purchased it, I had been hearing about the book for a long time, but didn't really think it was my style. Then I noticed a pattern, everyone that I heard from said the same thing....what a great book it was! So I decided to give it a try and see what it was all about. It is a great book! Very informative and it cleared up a lot of mis conceptions. I hope Ms Jameson writes another book detailing what all has happened in the years since she wrote the book. She has a fascinating life story.

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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

I could not put this book down. It was truley a great story of her life. I have a lot of respect for her now!

What a life

I loved this book so much it was amazing to hear about all of the things Jenna had to put up with to get to where she is today (which is of course the ultimate Porn Star). Her advice for the Men and Woman was also good, especialy the part where she tells Men what NOT to do!!

Love It!!!!

I absolutely LOVED this book!!
Jenna Jameson is not only beautiful, but a great story teller that lures you in, and keeps you captivated throughout this entire book!
I couldn't put this book down, Highly Recommend.

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Totally real and very human: a gripping, beautiful book

You won't find any hot tips on how to make love. You won't find titillating sections about the lives of porn stars. This fascinating book is about something else. It is about and by an extraordinary woman who overcame innumerable and very painful obstacles to achieve stability and happiness in a rather unconventional vocation. Jenna is beautiful, of course. And you better believe it: Jenna is smart, supersmart. But most of all Jenna is strong, tough, incredibly resilient. Very few people could have gone through the trials that she endured and come out intact. She did, and she eventually found peace and love in her chosen life. She chose this life because it fitted her talents, her enormous talent for sex, her love of bodies and physical contact, and also her considerable talent as an entertainer and actress.

The book is extremely well put together. The general plan is very creative. The writing is excellent. And the numerous photos are wonderful, especially the black-and-whites which are less formal, more intimate than the colored ones. There are two juxtaposed full-page photos of Jenna and her mother, both gorgeous, very touching. Quite a few delightful, natural photos of teenager Jenna. Many terrific shots of Jenna's face in various moods. Many photos of her with the various friends mentioned in the text. Many pages of her diary, probably not authentic, but fun nevertheless. I found it hard to put the book down. I reread many parts several times. This book could have been an excellent novel. And yes, she had a co-author, Neil Strauss, who is well-known for his great writing. More power to her: when she needed help she went and got the best. Neil had an essential job to do: in Jenna's words, he "broke down all those walls that had been standing for so long." But she is the one who told him the story, all parts of it, including those that made her look really bad, and there are plenty of them. The story sounds totally real. And very human! It is an extraordinary, most unusual, gripping, beautiful book.

Then there are the boobs. The book is full of boobs, or course. Should I talk about her boobs? The first porn movie I ever saw was Blue Movie, whose making she describes in the book in some detail. This movie is very dated now, but I still think that it is the funniest porn movie ever made, and I still watch it sometimes for that reason. Not that there are many funny porn movies. There are very few; the two genres don't mix well. Anyway, Blue Movie was also my first introduction to Jenna, who has a prominent part in it. I realized immediately that this woman possessed considerable acting talent, an impression that was confirmed after I had watched many of her other movies. Good acting is rare in porn. But those boobs of hers! They were displayed prominently in the first scene and I was horrified. How could this obviously intelligent woman possibly think that her good looks were being improved by these superheavy, formless, viscous, dead weights? Well, I found their story in the book. They are her "Dr. Canada boobs", the result of her first boob job at the age of twenty, which she admits had been a big mistake. Her friend Nikki Tyler's boobs, though much better than Jenna's, were also a mistake; it took me a long time to get used to them. A few years later Jenna had a second boob job, this time by Dr. Garth, who improved things a lot. The truth is, and Jenna knows it, that there was nothing wrong with her original boobs, which you can admire in her many teenage pictures: they were large, natural-looking, perfect.

The title says it, this book is A Cautionary Tale: the porn movie industry is not for every girl! I think that the general public does not need to be told that. They are more likeky to think that this industry is a cesspool of body fluids, rape, and exploitation. Jenna got where she is by making every possible mistake under the sun and learning from them all. But only someone with Jenna's strength can do it that way -- don't try it! Of course there are other ways, but at a minimum one should have a lot of talent. From what I can see, not every man in the industry is a sex-maniac, a liar, and an exploiter of women. There are some very good people also and Jenna mentions quite a few of them. They are there because they enjoy the work and it is a decent (sic!) living. But this is sex after all, and sex attracts a lot of sick crazies. It behooves one to be prudent.

Before I stop, here is an interesting fact about the porn movie industry that Jenna explains very well: the female stars and the male stars receive completely different treatment and have completely different lifestyles. A good female star actually has a lot of power; she decides what she does and what she does not do; she makes only a few movies per year; and she gets paid a lot of money. Most of them stay in the business only a few years, after which they tend to take up a more conventional life, possibly getting married and having children. A good male star works a lot more and is paid a lot less. He does not have a wife or girlfriend on the side because no woman wants a relationship with a man whose job consists in screwing other women all day long. As a result, male stars stay in the business forever. They are highly experienced and their job is to show off the woman and to stay mostly out of the way. They form an elite group whose size is limited by the size of the industry and it is very difficult for a new man to break in.

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