''100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed'' (Grove), the sexual memoir of a teenage Italian girl, and ''The Surrender'' (ReganBooks), a former ballet dancer's account of her spiritual awakening through anal sex, are also on the way. Atria Books has just issued ''Star,'' a novel by Pamela Anderson with a reversible book jacket that contains a nude pinup of the author on the inside. Jameson (which led some stores, including Wal-Mart, to refuse to stock it).Īlso headed for stores this fall is ''XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits'' (Bullfinch Press) by the photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, with an introduction by Gore Vidal and essays on the intersection of pornography and culture by Salman Rushdie, Nancy Friday, John Malkovich and others.įor history buffs there is ''The Intimate History of the Orgasm'' (Grove Press), as well as histories of prostitution (Grove) and the pornographic film industry (ReganBooks), all currently in stores or coming soon. The book, which is already climbing the best-seller lists, is long (579 pages), graphic (with clinical descriptions of a smorgasbord of sex acts) and bulging with color photos of a mostly nude Ms. Regan's most recent offering is ''How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale,'' a memoir by Jenna Jameson, probably the most successful woman ever in the adult-film business, written with Neil Strauss, a former reporter and music critic for The New York Times. A lot of people try to imitate what I do but they don't do it well.'' ''I don't publish pornography,'' said Judith Regan, president and publisher of ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. Publishers, for their part, insist they are not simply churning out dirty books.
But the latest flurry of sex books, coming at a time when sexual images already dominate advertising, entertainment and the Internet, is clearly finding a wide audience. While many bookstores have long maintained sections devoted to erotica or sexuality, rarely have those books been as prominently positioned as some of the current crop, which have been elbowing their way onto display tables at the front of the major chain bookstores.Įvery generation has a book or two that sets pulses quickening and generates frantic debate about pornography, community standards and the lowering of the bar for what is acceptable. Porn stars may not keep many things hidden, but whatever secrets they had are now on the shelf at the local bookstore.Ī wave of confessionals and self-help guides written by current or former stars of pornographic films is flooding bookstores this year, accompanied by erotic novels, racy sexual-instruction guides, histories of sexual particulars and photographic treatments of the world of pornography.
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