Book Review // Absolute Mayhem: Secret Confessions of a Porn Star, M. Mayhem [2010]

Absolute Mayhem: Secret Confessions of a Porn Star¹ is a memoir by pornographic film actor Monica Mayhem, detailing her traumatic early life and her somewhat accidental rise into the Industry.

Having long suspected that yesterday’s pornographic actors will be tomorrow’s culturo-survivalist sages, we read this as a potential accidental field manual of sorts for the coming age of hyper-real subjectivity, hoping to learn some trench warfare techniques. What we learned is how she properly grooms her asshole.²

1. Mayhem, Monica. Absolute Mayhem. Skyhorse, 2010.

2. Despite popular consensus, never wax! Apparently you can tear something. Rather: just shave, very carefully.