Wednesday, 3 September 2003
Traci Lords, Traci Lords Underneath It All (Harper Collins)
[This review appeared in Popshot.]
Not surprisingly, the period of her life that gained her the most repute is the period Traci Lords would most like people to forget. In a short three years, from age 15 to 18, Traci lived a lifetime in pornography. In her newly published autobiography, Traci Lords Underneath it All, Lords is unafraid of discussing the subject. In fact, her frank tone disarms the reader who expects chaste preachifying or dismissive vagaries.
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