there won’t be another jenna the same way there won’t ever be a michael jordan. i assume what girls really want is nothing more than money, fame and some kind of acceptance from the public. kobe bryant and lebron james carved out their niche from the NBA without having to *become the next Michael*

The same reason why dictatorships put huge portraits of their leaders in very public places. Or why Big Brother in 1984 was an omnipresent face. In order for people to cope with (not necesarily be happy with, but at least suffer through without caving in nor revolting totally) broad, complex social phenomena that don’t fully engage the logical mind, they find it easier to think that it’s just one person who’s responsible for it.

Instead of accepting their own, and their neighbor’s, and their relative’s, and their coworker’s, and their milk man’s culpability for whatever negative cultural or political practice is causing the overall, long term quality of their life to decline, they prefer to think of it as the will of one particular (and almost supernatural) consciousness.

Jenna Jameson didn’t become “queen” for any of the reasons Mike listed. As I said in a previous comment, Mike doesn’t allow himself to think about the porn industry with the same epistemology he brings to other fields (mainly politics), and so of course he would “strike at the branch” of the issue and produce such a list. But the fact remains: the ultimate reason why Jenna became the poster girl of porn is simply because a poster person of every genre of senseless behavior is necesssary.

Obama is it in politics. Jenna is/was it in porn. Osama is it in war (which is why victory in that fiasco is determined by whether or not we’ve killed him). Let’s see… Timothy Leary was it for the birth popular drug use, Elvis for the first salvo in the destruction of rhythm, purpose, and reverence for human emotion in music… etc, etc, etc.

I think your “who will be the next Jenna?” concept puts limitations on the industry and those who inhabit it. Personally, I don’t think an heir apparent exits in the biz nor will one materialize. In fact, I don’t think we need one.

What we need are solutions to the economic problems that plague us, not another Jenna Jameson.

LOL

In exchange for your honesty, whenever I need a first-person testimony about the porn world or a fishing guide, you’ll be at the top of my list.

But getting to the porn thing, I can’t think of much of anything in porn that actually impresses me. Even or shining examples of accomplishment (tongue firmly in cheek) the FSC and AIM have huge cracks that let the light in.

But that doesn’t negate the fact that many girls in porn are trying to be the next Jenna, some intentionally others maybe not.

And that said one can’t overlook the fact that Sasha is in the catbirds seat right now.

And even at that what exactly has been Jenna’s contribution to the world? It isn’t like she is a regular at the TED Conference, she hasn’t done anything special…she fucks on camera. In the grand scheme of things she is right up there with my bukkake site in terms of contributions to the world. So am I impressed by any of them…not really no.