Mollyworld

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Chapter 13: Valley of the Dolls Jan 26, 2026

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Chapter 13 "Valley of the Dolls": As the old adult film industry evaporates, a new world emerges. Jenna finds new notoriety on Twitter and TikTok as her porn stardom fades. New attacks from the right wing threaten to undermine porn’s hard-won legality.

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Chapter 12: Heel Turn Jan 19, 2026

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Chapter 12 "Heel Turn": Jenna announces she’s leaving porn with a dramatic awards show speech. A new crop of unlikely porn tycoons and internet stars emerge online as the ecosystem of Porn Valley and its studio system continues to collapse into streaming.

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Chapter 11: Pirates! Jan 12, 2026

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Chapter 11 “Pirates!”: As the porn industry makes record profits in the early 2000s, upstart studio Digital Playground makes the highest budget adult film ever called Pirates just as online piracy begins to destroy the entire adult film industry.

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Chapter 10: Beyond JennaWorld Jan 05, 2026

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Chapter 10 “Beyond Jennaworld”: Heather Hunter becomes the first Black female porn superstar and tries to cross over into rap. Performer Sean Michaels moves into directing to try to tackle the porn industry’s racism issues firsthand.

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Chapter 9.5: Moms I'd Like to Film Dec 29, 2025

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Chapter 9.5 "Moms I’d Like To Film": A 20 minute minisode about the history of another low budget sometimes very profitable film genre: sex comedies! with Tess Lynch in dual roles as Jennifer Coolidge (as Stifler’s Mom) and as Kim Cattrall.

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Chapter 9: The Game Dec 22, 2025

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Chapter 9 “The Game”: Jenna signs a book deal. The story of girlboss publishing tycoon Judith Regan’s own tumultuous rise and fall, and how Jenna’s co-writer Neil Strauss went on to cover the rise of male pickup artists.

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Chapter 8: Club Jenna Dec 15, 2025

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Chapter 8 “Club Jenna”: Jenna starts her own internet studio called Club Jenna and falls in love with porn producer Jay Grdina.

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Chapter 7: Cybersex Dec 08, 2025

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Chapter 7 “Cybersex”: Porn hits the internet and a gold rush ensues. The history of phone sex hotlines and early internet adult pioneers like Danny Ashe and Cindy Margolis. A hustler named Seth Warshavsky turns Seattle into a cam girl (and boy) mecca with his company Internet Entertainment Group.

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Chapter 6: Climaxing Dec 01, 2025

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Chapter 6 “Climaxing”: Jenna breaks through into mainstream media as a guest on Howard Stern’s show and becomes a superstar. She sweeps awards shows from Cannes to Las Vegas and becomes increasingly obsessed with her own fame.

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Chapter 5: Savannah Nov 24, 2025

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Chapter 5 “Savannah”: The story of Jenna’s porn star inspiration Savannah, and how the mainstream media focused on only tragic stories of adult film stars to create a narrative that the adult film industry is a death trap.

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