#399 - Autobiography of Jennifer Jordan Volume Two
The Autobiography of Jennifer Jordan,
Volume Two
Encounter Books
Wilmington, Delaware
1978
digital replica
The Autobiography of Jennifer Jordan looks like a volume in the Bizarre Books series from Eros Publishing Company — glossy color cover, mail order ads for products in Cleveland, Ohio (i.e., Reuben Sturman), content ending on page 182, 12 pictures, same dimensions, same pulp paper inside. Although the cover shows BB-166, it's not quite the same thing.
While volume two in the three-book set unfolds as first-person history, it's most likely a mix of fact and fiction. Although a disclaimer warns that any similarity to real people is coincidental, let's consider these chapters as accounts of incidents from someone's life, a person with whom we have long been fascinated.
In the book, Jennifer Jordan works a successful dominatrix business, first in the Netherlands, then in Great Britain. Her wealthy clientele requires a diversity of deviations to achieve sexual satisfaction. Generally, this means painful punishment and pretense-crushing humiliation. She uses whips, dildos and people to accomplish discipline. Once individuals are trained and consistently obey her commands, they enjoy sexual rewards.
In early stages of training, all clients beg for mercy but eventually thank Mistress Jennifer for her vicious attention. An unruly brother and sister were sent by their father in hopes that Jennifer Jordan could re-form them into proper adults. The Mistress discovers that the brother is a secret transvestite. After lots of whipping, he becomes relaxed and enjoys the pleasures of feminine dress without guilt or shame.
A barrister merely wants enema punishment and rubber undergarments as foreplay, but the only woman who's willing to accommodate his eccentricities is Jennifer Jordan. Two judges are incestuous brothers who seek the pain she administers as a gateway to intense pleasure. Baroness Vivian has a fear of men but Mistress Jennifer teaches terrifying lessons that help the beautiful aristocrat overcome and enjoy.
In one London episode, Mistress Jennifer orchestrates a sexual ambush for a peer with a penchant for anal abuse. She photographs proceedings and threatens him with exposure if he refuses to assist her friend in a political matter.
Through a series of punishments and insults, the Mistress helps an arrogant land owner untangle sexual confusion concerning his mother. In that story, they both experience exquisite fulfillment. Afterward, he wants to marry the sexy dominatrix, but that doesn't fit into her plans.
Incidents and personalities are conformed to illustrate one of Mr. Burtman's (husband of Jennifer Jordan at the time the book was published) favorite themes. He believed that, for masochists and others, pain yielded pleasure and accomplished rehabilitation for those with certain sexual disorders. Or put another way, the cat(-o-nine-tails) is mightier than the (analyst's) couch.
the prose
The writing achieves a level of quality, precision and articulateness we don't find in Bizarre Books. The first-person narrator reveals intentions and responses rationally; the objective is rehabilitation and pleasure, not vengeance. Like any genuine pornography, there's exaggeration, but it seems essential to the interaction. The excellent vocabulary and intelligent diction betray the skill of a professional writer. Although Jutka Goz was born in Hungary, the prose reads like it was written by someone who spoke English first.
Authors are supposed to have a voice in their writing. In autobiography, the author is also the subject. Like a goddess, the autobiographer is vain, but her beauty, strength and competence seem to accomplish justification for her exotic conceit. She's comfortable characterizing every part of her body as beautiful; insightful and prescient, all of her predictions come true. A knowledgeable practitioner of esoteric arts, she enjoys her work and intimate successes with clients.
12 pictures
Twelve photographs from magazine pictorials are in the original paperback and ebook. Although brightness and contrast were adjusted and specks re-touched, picture quality barely reaches the level of good. Rough-textured pulp paper serves as an excellent carrier of text and line art, but seldom renders photographs well. The photos show familiar scenes and models, some nicely dressed, but the value of
this book resides in the stories, not the pictures.
the ebook
The digital replica includes all content of the original except advertising. In the ebook, pictures are positioned after text they are near in the paperback.
The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Minor editing changes spelling and punctuation. Some words were eliminated to relieve redundancy. Generally, the ebook contains the text as originally published, including vulgar expletives and exclamation points!
The Autobiography answers this question: If Jennifer Jordan were a professional dominatrix in Europe, how would she spend her days and nights? The answer puts into words the persona presented in magazine pictorials first published by her husband and later by herself. She'd dress her shapely figure in glamorous attire and punish men and women for their own good — exercising her inner sadist to improve the mental health of her peculiar clients.
The book tells about complex personalities in intensely sexual situations. Fierce brutality alternates with shuddering pleasure. An unusually good read for those who enjoy stories that depict sadists, masochists, and fetishists at play, The Autobiography of Jennifer Jordan presents a unique narrative about a fantasy female we first encountered in magazines and then in our dreams.
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