If Not to Please

Once a "good girl," Jane Marshall fell into a tailspin when her parents went missing in Africa during the Mau-Mau revolt. Trying to contain her rage but careless of her future, Jane fled to California along with so many other disaffected 60s youth. A bookstore clerk by day, by night Jane performed in a tony strip club and made short "stag films" for gentlemen's clubs and fraternities. When asked to take it up a notch to feature-length skin flicks, Jane agreed. What did she care what people thought? Apprenticing in Copenhagen and Amsterdam, Jane fornicated both on-screen and off with male and female Danish sex workers, an unlicensed female therapist, a randy Bahamaian character actor, and an Elizabethan scholar. Returning to a country aflame with assassinations, war and civil rights protests, Jane only slowly grasped that true love hid in plain sight.