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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
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| Author | Jenna Jameson with Neil Strauss |
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| Publisher | ReganBooks |
| Publication date | September 1, 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 592 |
| Size and weight | 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches, 2.3 pounds |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-053909-7 |
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.[1] The autobiography also won the 2004 "Mainstream's Adult Media Favorite" XRCO award in a tie with Seymore Butts's Family Business TV series. It was translated into German as Pornostar. Die Autobiographie (ISBN 3-453-67504-9) in November 2005,[2] and Spanish as Como Hacer El Amor Igual Que Una Estrella Del Porno (ISBN 8-42-703190-6) in January 2006.[3] Jameson dedicated this book to Onan.
The nearly 600 page book is divided into Books numbered with Roman numerals, each preceded by an epigraph from a Shakespearean sonnet.[4] The narrative is told through a series of first person accounts, interviews with her family, diary entries in a font resembling handwriting, personal photos, movie scripts, and comic panels.[5] It covers her early career from her beginning in show business, as a stripper, living with her tattoo artist biker boyfriend, and ends with her career flying high, receiving the Hot D'Or award at Cannes, and wedding pictures from her second marriage.[4] Jameson tells of multiple rapes, drug addictions, an unhappy first marriage, and numerous affairs with men and women.[6]
Strauss has written a similarly titled and themed book, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, mainly in graphic novel format, and without Jameson's participation. Strauss wrote it from stories heard while researching Jameson's book.[7] Like How to Make Love..., How to Make Money... also features different formats, including magazine articles, fake advertisements, and an activity book.
- 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
- ^ "The (Porn) Player" by Matthew Miller, Forbes magazine, July 04, 2005
- ^ "Pornostar. Die Autobiographie"
- ^ "Como Hacer El Amor Igual Que Una Estrella Del Porno", Amazon.com
- ^ a b "'How to Make Love Like a Porn Star': Lovers and Other Strangers" New York Times Book Review by Jane and Michael Stern, September 5, 2004
- ^ "Jenna Jameson, best-selling author?" Reuters via MSNBC, October 5, 2004. Internet Archive copy from September 9, 2005: [1]
- ^ "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" by Jenna Jameson Salon magazine book review by Charles Taylor, August 25, 2004
- ^ "How to Make Money Like a Porn Star!", New York Magazine book review by Jada Yuan, October 16, 2006
- "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale" study guide from Bookrags.com