The Opposite of Sex: ReganBooks

From today’s NY Times report of Inside Deep Throat‘s premier and the panel talk that followed:

… Though Ms. Regan had presumably been invited on the panel as a “pornocrat,” to use a term that came up a couple of times – as the publisher of both The Surrender, Toni Bentley’s memoir of anal sex, and Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star – she claimed not to be an expert.

As a young woman, she said, she was not one of the thousands of sensation-seekers who dutifully lined up at the World Theater, on West 49th Street, where Deep Throat was first shown. She added that she learned about Ms. Jameson from her son, who dropped out of his M.I.T. fraternity because Ms. Jameson’s videos were all the fraternity brothers were interested in watching.

… Ms. Regan reminded everyone that How to Make Love Like a Porn Star is subtitled “A Cautionary Tale.” She said she thought that despite all Ms. Jameson’s financial success, the author was “miserable,” and that the writing of the book had caused her to realize how much she had been exploited. Though she was not averse to selling a few copies, Ms. Regan added – which is why How to Make Love had a suggestive cover and some topless photographs inside – part of her reason for publishing the book was to encourage Ms. Jameson and women like her to begin exploring their own stories.

(Regan added that women like Jameson should feel free to send such exploratory manuscripts to ReganBooks @ HarperCollins, 10 E. 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.)

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