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”: 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": 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”: 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”: 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”: 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”: 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”: 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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Chapter 4 “The Valley Goes Gonzo”: Jenna fends off her drug issues and a bad boyfriend in Las Vegas. She goes to LA, makes new friends and shoots her first porn at the height of the “gonzo” trend in adult film.

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Chapter 3 “B.J. (Before Jenna)”: Steven Hirsch founds Vivid Video and turns adult actress Ginger Lynn Allen into porn’s first video age superstar. The San Fernando Valley becomes the epicenter of the adult industry. 

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