“How to make love like a porn star” by Neil Strauss told by Jenna Jameson.

The book is about the young Jenna Masoli and her upbringing. As a reader you get to follow through many of her personal crisis who sets her path through life and don’t only make her a broken person but also an extremely strong one.

I think the bottom line in the book is how important your family is. The introvert Jenna Masoli who grew up without a mother misses a lot of values that are typical teached by female role models. Even though her father loves her and would do everything to protect her he is not around a lot which makes her awkward when trying to be social. But once she starts to work as a stripper she learns that she has the gift of seducing men and being the social center of a group. Since she is not really good at anything else and that she heard stories about her mother who was a show girl in Las Vegas she makes the decision to pursuit a career as a naked model and later a porn star. This transforms her to be the biggest porn star in history. Jenna Jameson is born.

A so called “chosen truth” about people in the porn business is that they are damaged from bad experiences in their life. I’m bound to agree. I think there are very rare that “normal” people with a good childhood and economic stability make the choice to get naked and have sex on camera.  When saying that I know I make a generalization but from my point of view there are always other options to explore your exhibitionistic needs which does not include making moving picture of you having sex available on the internet forever. Some people in porn defend themselves with that they love to have sex and why should they not take the opportunity to make money on it? I would like to see a prostitute making the same argument and hear how many who buys into it.

Off course there is a difference. As a porn actor you can chose what people you will work with and what sexual boundaries you won’t cross. But since the business sets the prices it is hard to make a living without agree to do almost all kind of scenes. In reality there are only the biggest stars that enjoy the benefit to do only the scenes they want to.

A fact mentioned in the book is that a lot of the girls have a really bad start in the business since they haven’t learned to distinguish serious production companies from the unserious ones. This result that a lot of the girls doing porn have been treated really badly so their self-esteem is set really low from the start.

But in the end of the day your business is your business and I won’t judge anyone. Still I would never recommend anyone joining the business.

Since I have read both logistics and energy and environmental engineering this was not news to me. The consumer society is consuming us as well but from a consumers point of view that is hard to see. When you buy your stuff you always go for the cheap one produced far away where workers work their ass of for almost nothing in return. Also you don’t see the amount of raw materials use or the energy wasted. Energy waste is one of mine personal favorite subject which I’m planning to fight in my later days as a worker in the energy business. At so many point in the chain of production energy is going to waste although it didn’t have to! But when a corporate boss is making decisions he won’t do changes in the production unless the investment will break even in less than four to five years. Since most new technology is expensive before a broader mass is using it, it will never help the society until the society helps the technology. The weird thing in all this is that the one who will benefit the most from this is the society itself but since there is just one man on the top of the hill who making the decisions for you that aint gonna happen dude!

So what to do?

I say it is extremely hard for a person who is not educated in this to separate good products from bad, it’s even hard for those of us who studies for years at a university!

In environment engineering we talk about allocation. Who will take responsibility for the waste, the dirt air and the slaves working at the very beginning and actually in the end of the supply chain (just look at Lidel in Sweden and Wall mart in the US as example of bad labor conditions). I say you are! The one consuming is the one responsible. You should pay for all the costs, all the environmental impact and all unhealth that is created during all parts of making your stuff! But for customers to be able to take that responsibility some one will have to make it clear what product is good and what product is bad. And who is going to do that? My answer is simple, one of the most powerful actors in today’s society, media. Media have to educate us on what is going on and who makes the decisions when you buy a product or flick the switch on your electronics.

Sadly most media is not up for the tasks, partly because it is controlled by people who don’t won’t them to educate since they will lose money on it. There for its back to us the consumers. Make better choices when you turn on the TV or buying a newspaper. Because as long as you watch low quality TV shows they will keep on producing them for us. The thing is we all have to pitch in. I for one have stopped reading Aftonbladet and Expressen which I consider as unserious and lying.

So now it is up to you my friend. The truth that media controls us is just partly true, if you stop watching they will not control you anymore. So be pickier on what news channel you watch and which newspaper you buy and you will reclaim your intellectual freedom. Let’s not just make it a cleaner world, let’s make it a smarter one!

Corporate survelience the cancer that destroys our beautiful world.

I respect that a bussiness owner wants his employees to work at work time and leave their facebooking and other surfing to their time off. And for me there is nothing wrong with spying on wich websites your personel are watching on the companys computer. But what you do on your time off is your bussiness and yur bussiness only.

When people tracking your wherabouts you dont feel like a free man anymore. I think that the freedome is one of the moast beautiful things in our society and no CEO in the world shuld be able to mess with that. No lost bussiness relation and no loss are to big to take compared to the loss of freedome. At least that is my point off view, but hey, I'm only a normal guy with no money to protect so what does I really know? A lot if you ask me!