

Notes on reading the book I'm enjoying reading this book, but I'm not enjoying the story. She once replied to a question about being in porn films with a cheery, "the only thing I ever learned was how to give a blow job without messing up my lipstick". Traci hasn't reconciled herself to the fact she cannot ever outlive those two terrible years no matter what she does, but to some extent she has come to terms with it. All the many others used clips, outtakes and leftover film but not even IMDB can resist saying she made "somewhere between 80 and 100 It doesn't matter how pc society is about sex-workers, porn stars are still considered sleazy, whores but titillating ones. Porn defines her in the eyes of the world. No matter how many catalogues she modelled in, tv shows she appeared in, films she acted in, clubs she dj'ed in, records she made, or awards (she won best supporting actress twice) she could never get away without being asked about her porn past or having it used to create publicity.

It was downhill through drugs and porn for the next two years. That old pervert molested her as she slept, or lay there frozen pretending to sleep. She was only in the porn industry for two years, having been led there by her mother's boyfriend, whom she thought of as a father figure. Now I've finished the book I have a lot of respect for Traci Lords. at 10, I'd been molested by my step-father.
