The book drags a little for me past the midway point, as it turns into a running record of successive projects. Quickly.Įverything she has, she’s earned against all odds and of her one determination and hard work.

Many people in her place would’ve self-destructed and died. Traci Lords will forever be misunderstood and unfairly judged by a mistake she made over three decades ago.

Thankfully, the poison quickly fades and we get to hear her story. However, nowadays, few books get published without at least a small, requisite piece of propaganda. The book does start off by paying dues to the obligatory Marxist religion of the day by taking a potshot at men and equating being a housewife to a slave - as ridiculous as they at may sound. that and the fact that she genuinely seemed to enjoy her 'work'.I expected a sob story about how she was a helpless victim at the hands of a ruthless industry. Sadly, without any input from the lady herself, we learn little about Traci's true nature except that she is a calculating, business-minded individual who used her body to catapult herself to fame. We also get to see some non-explicit moments from some of her adult classics, including the rubber rat scene from Black Throat, a personal favourite of mine. X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story is a made-for-TV documentary that charts Traci's rise to success as a porn-star and tells of the shock revelation that brought the whole US adult movie industry to its knees: Traci was only 15 when she began her career! Through a series of interviews with key players of the Hollywood porn scene during the 80s-Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn, Peter North, Tom Byron, Nina Hartley-we learn the facts behind Traci's amazing rise and fall as a sex performer, how she duped everyone into believing she was twenty one when she was in fact under-age, how she demanded the highest wages, and how she was finally rumbled by the government, sending a shock-wave through the entire porn industry. Asking around, I learn that the video is called 'Love Bites' and that the woman with the killer curves is Traci Lords, the No.1 US porn-star of the mid-eighties what I don't discover till several years later is that the story behind Traci's adult movie career is almost as incredible as her insatiable libido and voluptuous physique. I'm at a house party-latter half of the 80s-wandering around looking for my drink when I spy something that stops me in my tracks: a video playing on TV shows a big-breasted blonde nurse with a bee-sting pout enthusiastically getting jiggy with a randy doctor.

Traci lords story