How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale is the autobiography
of adult film star
Jenna Jameson
, published August 17, 2004. It was co-written with Neil Strauss
, a contributor to the New York Times and Rolling Stone
, and published by ReganBooks
, a division of HarperCollins
. It was an instant best-seller, spending six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list
. The autobiography also won the 2004 "Mainstream's Adult Media Favorite" XRCO award
in a tie with Seymore Butts
's Family Business
TV series.
, each preceded by an epigraph from a Shakespearean sonnet
. The narrative is told through a series of first person accounts
, interview
s with her family, diary entries in a font
resembling handwriting, personal photos, movie scripts
, and comic book panels
. It covers her life from her childhood to her beginning in show business as a stripper
, living with her tattoo artist biker
boyfriend, and ends with her receiving the Hot D'Or
award at Cannes
and her second wedding. Jameson tells of multiple rape
s, drug addictions, an unhappy first marriage, and numerous affair
s with men and women.
The book was translated into German
as Pornostar. Die Autobiographie (ISBN 3-453-67504-9) in November 2005, Swedish as Att Älska Som En Porrstjärna - En Sedelärande Berättelse in 2005 and Spanish
as Como Hacer El Amor Igual Que Una Estrella Del Porno (ISBN 8-42-703190-6) in January 2006. Jameson dedicated the book to her mother, Judith Hunt.
play her in a feature film version of the book. A representative for Johansson, however, has stated that Johansson has no interest in such a role.
, mainly in graphic novel
format, and without Jameson's participation. Strauss wrote it from stories he learned of while researching Jameson's book. Like How to Make Love..., How to Make Money... also features different formats, including magazine articles, fake advertisements, and an activity book.
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
of adult film star
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic actress, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn."...
, published August 17, 2004. It was co-written with Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss
Neil Darrow Strauss , also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American and Kittitian author, journalist and ghostwriter...
, a contributor to the New York Times and Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, and published by ReganBooks
ReganBooks
ReganBooks was an American bestselling imprint or division of HarperCollins book publishing house , headed by editor and publisher Judith Regan, started in 1994 and ended in late 2006. During its existence, Regan was called, by LA Weekly, "the world's most successful publisher". The division...
, a division of HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
. It was an instant best-seller, spending six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list
New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication...
. The autobiography also won the 2004 "Mainstream's Adult Media Favorite" XRCO award
XRCO awards
The XRCO Awards are given by the X-Rated Critics Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment. Some of the works and workers are inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame during the awards.The XRCO online archive is missing results prior to 1993...
in a tie with Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts is an American pornographic film director, producer and occasional star who has produced hundreds of films in the "gonzo" genre of pornography .-Life and career:...
's Family Business
Family Business (TV series)
Family Business was an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a reality porn star and video director who uses the stage name "Seymore Butts"...
TV series.
Overview
The nearly 600 page book is divided into Books numbered with Roman numeralsRoman numerals
The numeral system of ancient Rome, or Roman numerals, uses combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values. The numbers 1 to 10 can be expressed in Roman numerals as:...
, each preceded by an epigraph from a Shakespearean sonnet
Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets are 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two of the poems were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144...
. The narrative is told through a series of first person accounts
First-person narrative
First-person point of view is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the...
, interview
Interview
An interview is a conversation between two people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.- Interview as a Method for Qualitative Research:"Definition" -...
s with her family, diary entries in a font
Font
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...
resembling handwriting, personal photos, movie scripts
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
, and comic book panels
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
. It covers her life from her childhood to her beginning in show business as a stripper
Stripper
A stripper is a professional erotic dancer who performs a contemporary form of striptease at strip club establishments, public exhibitions, and private engagements. Unlike in burlesque, the performer in the modern Americanized form of stripping minimizes the interaction of customer and dancer,...
, living with her tattoo artist biker
Motorcycle
A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
boyfriend, and ends with her receiving the Hot D'Or
Hot d'Or
Hot d'Or was an adult film industry Pornographic award, awarded annually from 1992 to 2001 in Cannes, France by the French magazine Hot Vidéo. It has been described as the porn equivalent of the Palme d'Or or the Academy Awards. The analogous American honor is the AVN Award...
award at Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
and her second wedding. Jameson tells of multiple rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
s, drug addictions, an unhappy first marriage, and numerous affair
Affair
Affair may refer to professional, personal, or public business matters or to a particular business or private activity of a temporary duration, as in family affair, a private affair, or a romantic affair.-Political affair:...
s with men and women.
The book was translated into German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
as Pornostar. Die Autobiographie (ISBN 3-453-67504-9) in November 2005, Swedish as Att Älska Som En Porrstjärna - En Sedelärande Berättelse in 2005 and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
as Como Hacer El Amor Igual Que Una Estrella Del Porno (ISBN 8-42-703190-6) in January 2006. Jameson dedicated the book to her mother, Judith Hunt.
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Book I: The World's Fresh Ornament
- Book II: A Liquid Prisoner Pent in Walls of Glass
- Book III: Time's Scythe
- Book IV: An Imperfect Actor on the Stage
- Book V: Trophies of Lovers Gone
- Book VI: The Gentle Closure of My Breast
Film
Jameson has expressed interest in having actress Scarlett JohanssonScarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...
play her in a feature film version of the book. A representative for Johansson, however, has stated that Johansson has no interest in such a role.
Related books
Strauss has written a similarly titled and themed book, How to Make Money Like a Porn StarHow to Make Money Like a Porn Star
How to Make Money Like a Porn Star is the first graphic novel published by ReganBooks/HarperCollins, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss and illustrated by artist Bernard Chang...
, mainly in graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
format, and without Jameson's participation. Strauss wrote it from stories he learned of while researching Jameson's book. Like How to Make Love..., How to Make Money... also features different formats, including magazine articles, fake advertisements, and an activity book.