Review: Entertaining and well-written while being shallow and slightly insulting
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Jason Luke sure does like his interviews.I really felt like Jason Luke did his research and knew his topic.  The question/answer portions of the book reiterated information given in real interviews with men in the porn industry, but it was well written and entertaining.  There was no contention that we were supposed to feel like the sex was a love connection or romantic in any way, it was simply hot porn.I appreciated the recognition of how some predators use the desperation of young women to exploit them.  I also liked the emphasized fact that porn is a job like any other.  Being an adult film star wasn't glamorized or glorified (at least in the interview portions).  The sex scenes were a bit unrealistic when you realize that these are scenes being filmed for a movie, but it's an erotic fiction novel, so we have to allow for a bit of creative license.I deducted a star for the blatant misrepresentation that women do not enjoy porn (beyond our written erotica).  I know many women who enjoy a good dirty movie as much as their husbands, and often watch with their husbands.I also deducted a star for the statements regarding "mommy-porn" and the fact that women read erotica because we hope that there are really men like those on these pages and they will come take us away from "overweight slob husbands" who neglect us.  This felt like an insult to all the readers who have made Jason Luke a sensation.  This along with the statement that men who watch porn are only watching because they hope to one day have sex with the young women (or someone like them) displayed really irritated me.  Many people who watch/read porn/erotica aren't doing so because they're dissatisfied with their partner, but merely because they enjoy the stimulation.To sum it up, Interview with a Porn Star was entertaining and well written if shallow and slightly insulting.