The Marilyn Chambers Online Archive
Notable books featuring Marilyn
Show Business Laid Bare by Earl Wilson, 1974 (Out of print)
Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them by Kenneth Turan and Stephen F. Zito, 1974 (Out of print)
Playboy's Sex in Cinema 5, 1975 (Out of print)
What Makes a Woman GIB* (*Good In Bed) by Wendy Leigh, 1977 (Out of print)
White Trash by Christopher Makos, 1977 (Out of print; reissued 2014)
Bottom Feeders by John Hubner, 1994 (Out of print)
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible" by Linda Williams, 1999
The Other Hollywood by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne, 2005
The Big Book of Porn by Seth Grahame-Smith, 2005
John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches by Jennifer Sugar and Jill C. Nelson, 2011
Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City by Elizabeth L. Wollman, 2012
Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 by Jill C. Nelson, 2012
Hindsight: True Love & Mischief in the Golden Age of Porn by Howie Gordon (aka Richard Pacheco), 2013
Marilyn teamed up with Xaviera Hollander, the renowned Happy Hooker, for an explicit "tell-all." But the two ladies, despite the book's content, the ladies weren't nearly as close as they led readers to believe. Read more.
Marilyn's "erotobiography" written and released to cash in on the porno chic fad. It's most likely Chuck Traynor wrote or co-wrote most of the book. It sold fairly well -- enough to get a second pressing -- and was reissued in 2014 with a new foreward by Marilyn's daughter. Read more.
Marilyn Chambers:
My Story (1975/2014)
Xaviera Meets Marilyn Chambers (1976)
For 16 years, Marilyn wrote a sex advice column for two different publications: Genesis and Club. Read more.
Sensual Secrets was a mail-order book with tips and tricks for a better sex life. It featured lush, beautiful photographs throughout. A young Ron Jeremy appears on the cover and in several of the photos. Read more.
Sex Advice Columns (1976-1992)
