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Chapter 1 “Enter Jennaworld”: Host Molly Lambert introduces listeners to the Jennaworld podcast universe and outlines 90s porn superstar Jenna Jameson’s cultural impact. Jenna Massoli is born in Las Vegas, Nevada to a showgirl mother and cop father, whose romance comes to a tragic early end. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 2 “Learning From Las Vegas Showgirls”: Jenna drops acid, goes to a biker rally, gets a tattoo, and gets a sketchy older boyfriend. Carol Doda invents topless go-go dancing in San Francisco at The Condor Club.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 3 “B.J. (Before Jenna)”: Steven Hirsch founds Vivid Video and turns adult actress Ginger Lynn Allen into porn’s first video age superstar. The San Fernando Valley becomes the epicenter of the adult industry.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 4 “The Valley Goes Gonzo”: Jenna fends off her drug issues and a bad boyfriend in Las Vegas. She goes to LA, makes new friends and shoots her first porn at the height of the “gonzo” trend in adult film. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 5 “Savannah”: The story of Jenna’s porn star inspiration Savannah, and how the mainstream media focused on only tragic stories of adult film stars to create a narrative that the adult film industry is a death trap.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 6 “Climaxing”: Jenna breaks through into mainstream media as a guest on Howard Stern’s show and becomes a superstar. She sweeps awards shows from Cannes to Las Vegas and becomes increasingly obsessed with her own fame. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 7 “Cybersex”: Porn hits the internet and a gold rush ensues. The history of phone sex hotlines and early internet adult pioneers like Danny Ashe and Cindy Margolis. A hustler named Seth Warshavsky turns Seattle into a cam girl (and boy) mecca with his company Internet Entertainment Group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 8 “Club Jenna”: Jenna starts her own internet studio called Club Jenna and falls in love with porn producer Jay Grdina. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 9 “The Game”: Jenna signs a book deal. The story of girlboss publishing tycoon Judith Regan’s own tumultuous rise and fall, and how Jenna’s co-writer Neil Strauss went on to cover the rise of male pickup artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 9.5 "Moms I’d Like To Film": A 20 minute minisode about the history of another low budget sometimes very profitable film genre: sex comedies! with Tess Lynch in dual roles as Jennifer Coolidge (as Stifler’s Mom) and as Kim Cattrall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 10 “Beyond Jennaworld”: Heather Hunter becomes the first Black female porn superstar and tries to cross over into rap. Performer Sean Michaels moves into directing to try to tackle the porn industry’s racism issues firsthand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 11 “Pirates!”: As the porn industry makes record profits in the early 2000s, upstart studio Digital Playground makes the highest budget adult film ever called Pirates just as online piracy begins to destroy the entire adult film industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 12 "Heel Turn": Jenna announces she’s leaving porn with a dramatic awards show speech.  A new crop of unlikely porn tycoons and internet stars emerge online as the ecosystem of Porn Valley and its studio system continues to collapse into streaming.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 13 "Valley of the Dolls": As the old adult film industry evaporates, a new world emerges. Jenna finds new notoriety on Twitter and TikTok as her porn stardom fades. New attacks from the right wing threaten to undermine porn’s hard-won legality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 1: An LA Story: How Heidi Fleiss’s Family Came To Be And How One Car Accident Changed Them Forever (The 1970s) In Chapter One we meet young Heidi and the rest of the Fleiss family, delving into the bohemian California lifestyle of the 70s as Heidi ditches high school for her first hustles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.