New Review: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:

Porn is considered to be a dirty, dirty thing. At the same time, since sex is important for the continuation of the human race, you would assume that visuals of adults having sex for an adult audience would not be such a monumentally big deal. However, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is religious objection, pornography is shunned, shamed and in some cases burned.
If pornographic material is something to be hidden away and never spoken about, you can imagine what it must be like for the people who participate in the creation of said materials. Most assuredly, it is assumed that those who actively create pornography are the devil incarnate. The men who engage in this behavior are said to be satyrs and should be condemned, and the women need a saving by God's good graces. It is only right and proper for people to be having sex in private, in the dark, in a closet, in a bomb shelter.

Please.

Pornography has been with human civilization for almost as long as there have been people. Many who participate in the adult sex industry are not without feelings or morals per se, but our society is so quick to condemn sex workers of all stripes that we end up dehumanizing them. In turn, porn stars only seek to lower the bar for acceptable, sexual human behavior because it benefits their line of work. And quite frankly, who are they trying to impress anyway?

These factors are what make a story such as porn icon Jenna Jameson’s so compelling. With Neil Strauss, co-author of the Motley Crue and Marilyn Manson biographies, she has shared with the world her tumultuous tale that resembles the bio-psycho-social of many of the clients with whom I have worked in my time as a substance abuse therapist. In Jenna’s own words she tells us about the tragedies she’s experienced in her life.

The rapes.

The deaths.

The drugs.

All of the dysfunctional sorrow her family thrust upon her tiny frame in the most important developmental years of her life are accounted for in this autobiography, “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale.” More