Posted on 09/08/2004 11:17:42 AM PDT by No Surrender Monkey
Sing, Muse, of your meteoric ascent from a seething pit of pure, all-American white trash.
Sing, also, of five-figure fees for one evening's striptease, and of six-figure film contracts for the company you built.
Sing of rape and addiction and suicide, of thieves and junkies and lies, of vodka, Vicodin, and crystal meth.
But most of all, sing of Sex.
The muse invoked here is, of course, porn goddess Jenna Jameson (formerly Massoli), the star of countless adult films, magazines, and strip clubs -- and CEO of ClubJenna Inc., her film production and online licensing company.
"How To Make Love Like A Porn Star" is her latest product, an autobiography in the form of a rant interspersed with detritus from her life's ricochets, including a sample adult film contract, entries from her diary, comics, and the sprawling transcript from a recent family reunion (which reads like a police blotter).
(snip)
Jameson now sits atop a multimedia company which sells hundreds of thousands of copies of films it produces and innumerable downloads of video clips. She manages over a dozen porn stars. Her club appearances earn her up to $25,000 per show.
And yes, she is married (to producer Jay Grdina) and looks forward to retirement and motherhood, now both comfortably within reach.
So sing, Muse, of a messed-up kid from a ditch on the wrong side of the tracks who climbed to the top of a $3 billion industry, using only the power of her ambition and body.
Sing, Muse, of the glory of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes.
Did you enjoy it?
Not particularly. Then again, I find demure women attractive, not goatish whores.
I do think she is under 30.
Think whatever you like. Don't let the facts get in the way of your mental picture of your hero, Jenna Jameson.
She is making a living, paying taxes and is a bit player in the coarsening of American culture.
Her goal is to crossover from porn celebrity to mainstream celebrity and she seems to be the only porn star to have successfully pierced that veil of respectability. That would make her a major player in the coarsening of our culture.
If she is a prositute, she has millions of Johns who carpool, mow the lawn, preach, tithe, do volunteer work, walk the beat in tough cities, go to foreign lands to defend freedom, bake cookies, keep a clean house and raise smart, decent kids.
Even the best people have dark sides and have done shameful things. That doesn't mean that their moments of weakness should be accorded the same moral status and respectability as the rest of their moral life.
You imply that a father should feel equally proud of raising a well-educated child and of owning an extensive collection of Jenna Jameson videos.
Your silliness is snowballing.
You are, but if you do, that makes you an a-hole. Just my opinion.
It's strange to celebrate the 1 in 10,000 in this lifestyle
who actually make a good living as if it's legit.
But then again, there are probably people out there who
still think OJ's houseboy is a great philosopher.
At least the NEA isn't funding her (yet), but I'm sure the
American Library Association will fight for her website to
be available on all local library computers.
I guess we cannot judge anyone for anything? How can we rightly judge Kerry as a flip-flopper when we have done it ourselves in our own lives sometime or another?
Did you see 60 Minutes report on the porn industry last week. I knew it was a huge industry, but I had no idea and alot of Freepers would be surprised on who is making the most money from it.
This is an interesting topic. On a moralistic level, I find her behavior and lifestyle abhorent and awful. On a political level, I believe in liberty and self-determination... if this is what she honestly and freely chooses to do with her life, and if consenting adults choose to view her "work," than so be it. As a realist, however, I know that with her history of abuse and drug use, her ability to "freely choose" this lifestyle may be less than whole. I also know that children often have access to this material, and that certain types of sexual predators often use it to fuel their obsessions. But, I also know that the sex "industry," be it porn or prostitution or whatever, has been with human society for ages, perhaps since its inception. As a christian, I pity her and all of her "colleagues," and reject in the strongest terms her debasing the "temple" of her body given to her by God. Yet, on a primal level, I cannot deny that some part of me finds her alluring in a dirty, darwinian "procreation of the species" kind of way. So what is my opinion? I don't really know. I guess it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is, baby. :)
I would also note that Traci Lords has done so, and other adult stars like Jill Kelly and Chasey Lain have appeared in regular, mainstream big-screen films.
Thank you for chiming in, Senator Kerry. :^)
Hey, that hits below the belt!
And everyone is entitled to be an a-hole, too.
Well, what better thread to do so? ;-)
What a strange question. I imagine the poster doesn't find S&M, satanism or Child Porn erotic. Plus, child porn is illegal.
Of course, videos involving S&M and/or satanism are probably quite legal to make and purchase. That doesn't mean that the average porn buyer has an interest in watching them.
Traci Lords did that about a decade ago.
I didn't see it, but I know lots of mainstream companies are.
This is in the mainstream. Good Republican couples use it to add spice to their lives. I think much of it is rancid. And I think it wrecks lives. But I think the American people have spoken and they like Porn. There is no prohibition that would work. It's here to stay.
To say everyone's judgement on this matter is invalid because everyone is enjoying the product and behavior is a generalization to say the least. I'm willing to bet most of people with the opposing position are not porn stars nor like porn.
The best prohibition is to encourage others not to buy or promote the product/lifestyle.
What does one have to do with the other? There are parts of the world that are not meant to be for kids. The entire world does not have to be G-rated. Unless a person is showing porn to their kids, what's the harm in adults enjoying it?
We weren't discussing her career at age 18. We are talking about what she is doing now. Now she runs her own company.
The truth is porn is run by men. It needs women, but it is men that recruit and direct and film these movies.
I suppose you believe that the only people in managerial positions in the world of prostitution are men as well.
Both men and women profit from the degradation of human sexuality.
Making an under 30 year old woman the focus of evil is sexism.
First, she's not under 30. Second, being under 30 is not a magic ticket to moral irreproachability. Third, "sexism" is the position taken by a person who thinks that adult women are incapable of being morally responsible for their own actions - i.e. your position.
It is by men for men and watched primarily by men.
Yet, your hero Jenna Jameson is one of the people trying to mainstream pornwatching into a couples activity for men and women to both "enjoy."
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