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Infamous

Did Jenna Jameson Create Our Pornified Culture?

Infamous

Sony Music

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, Relationships, Entertainment News

3.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How did Jenna Jameson go from Vegas strip clubs to becoming the world’s most famous porn star—and what does her story reveal about sex, the internet, and the birth of personal branding? Natalie and Vanessa talk with Molly Lambert, creator of the new podcast JennaWorld: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video, & The Valley. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media, this is infamous. I'm Natalie Rubberman.

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And I'm Vanessa Rigori Otis. Today we're talking about Jenna Jameson, one of the most famous porn stars, if not just the most famous porn star, of all time. The porn star that your parents know.

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You probably remember what she looks like, at least from her kind of early 2000s peak, sort of

1:36.9

blonde hair, dark eyeliner, Pamela Anderson, big Melanie boobs type thing, just two orbs completely isolated from each other in the middle of

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her chest.

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But she was also a businesswoman and sort of at the very turning point of culture and porn

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as it rose and also descended.

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Yeah.

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And I think today, you know, we all agree that 13-year-olds are sort of looking like only fans,

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ladies. It's a more pornified culture than it ever was. There's more focus on being sexy and

2:11.6

attractive for better or worse, obviously very hard to become an influencer unless you are

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both of those things as a woman. But

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