thisameliagirl 's review for:

Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood by Maitland Ward

0.25

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This had so much potential to be empowering and sex-positive/body-positive and it unfortunately fell flat. Saying that you respect someone for not being ashamed of their body is quickly canceled out as you describe the size of their thighs and butt in negative terms or penis shame multiple men vindictively at times. Saying that you don’t judge people for their sexual activities/kink-shame while you go on a rant about how offended you are that people think your husband is a cuck and how he’s better than that or being upset the two men in your threesome hooked up with each other is contradictory. Talking down about celebrities who have sex tapes or other porn stars whose videos “don’t count” likes yours do ends up just looking bad and feels petty. It felt like a lot of pointing out other people’s flaws so she could look better in comparison, and it had the opposite effect. There were so many other things I would like to reference (like claiming her porn would make even Jesus proud or celebrating that she got more attention than Bernie Sanders heart attack) but I would rather just put this book behind me. If you want to read a book about the porn industry that doesn’t require putting down other women and a lack of self-awareness, Jenna Jameson‘s book was much better.