"I don't do anal sex. I've never had it privately and it's not something that I'd be willing to do for the camera. And S&M... I'll beat the s--- out of anybody else, but they won't lay a hand on me. I enjoy oral sex and a man's come isn't offensive to me." (AFW 5/80)

"It disturbs me when I feel that someone is there on the set using the situation to get himself off."

Jesie did women on camera but not in her private life.

Jesie felt annoyed by "the attitude about the penis being the main thing to have a sex scene. Having those insertions. I would like to do away with those closeups - the real extreme ones. A closeup to me is where you still see both bodies on screen. You should be able to see enough of the insertion without having to focus in on that area. It's not erotic to me. It's clinical. I might as well be at a doctor's office seeing slides. There's no excitement. That's why I don't do loops.

"I'd like to see more sensuality and eroticism [in X films]. More foreplay - which can be erotic, building up to a climax. I don't like the whole formula for adult films. They start with a little story at the beginning, then they have one sex scene, then they'll go to another little story and get another sex scene and then they'll flash back - this one will be having an orgasm - then the next one, etc..

"They should start with their whole story and save a lot of the orgasms for the end of the movie.

"People come to see X films to be teased. They come to be stimulated instead of just - boom - throwing it all out there in the beginning. If they would get into the story and tease people along for the first three quarters of the film, saving the explicit action for the end, they would have a turn-on."

Jsesie gives views common to women inside and outside of the industry. Male sexuality is much more genitally oriented than female, and even though a woman may perform in adult movies which overwhelmingly sell to men who jack off to them, she may have no clue about the meaning of her work. Most female performers want scripts and character development and romance and fewer cum shots and graphic close-ups. In essence, they don't want porn.

"If I go to see a sex film, I want it to appeal to what I like. And what I like is to be in control. If a man goes to an X-rated film, he wants to see the man in control. He's got this gorgeous woman who's deprived of sex and will do anything to have sex with him and he doesn't have to do a thing. So it's appealing to a male audience. But I think they should open up the whole industry and give women like Gail Palmer the opportunity to present the woman's point of view."

The woman's point of view towards sex revolves around feelings, relationships, romance, seduction and foreplay, - not stuff that typically gets men off. Porno films are for men and the best ones have always been made by men and from a male point of view. Female directors have made little if any contribution to the genre.

As of 1980, Jesie St. James had been engaged half a dozen times and endured about 20 major romances. This seems further evidence of her inability, despite porn performing and surrogate work, to understand male sexuality.

When Jesie St. James is off the set, she worked in Berkeley as a sex surrogate.

Surrogate means substitute.

"Let's say a man is coming in for counseling. If his wife will go through it with him, she'll enter the program too. If he doesn't have a wife or girl friend or someone who will make the commitment of going through several months of therapy with him, then they hire a surrogate like myself.

"I go through sexual counseling with the patient as though I were his girl friend or partner - but only on a sexual level. I am not a girl friend. They make it clear that there is a separation so that there is no emotional involvement.

"Their success rate is high. Rather than going to a psychiatrist and talking out that kind of problem - you can talk about it only so long - there's got to be action. A surrogate is a stepping stone to going out into the mainstream again with other ladies. It gives a man a safe place to start."

Hustler describes sexual surrogacy.

Thirty-four year-old Eric, a welder from Glendale, California, closes his eyes and concentrates on forestalling the orgasm that threatens to blast from his bursting balls with each gentle thrust of his partner's supple hips.

Straddling Eric in this cock-to-cunt clinch is a sensuous blonde named Thea.

For the next quarter hour, Eric and Thea continue this seemingly torturous give and take...

As Thea congratulates Eric on his improved sex performance. At the door, he gives her a check for $80. There's no question it was money well spent. Eric eagerly awaits his next evaluation.

Although sex occurs, and money changes hands, Thea is not a prostitute - she's a sexual surrogate, clinically trained to assist in the recoveries of men and women suffering from a variety of sexual dysfunctions. One of several clients Thea sees on a regular basis, Eric has been unable to maintain intimate relationships because of performance anxiety and premature ejaculation. Following the course of treatment prescribed by his sex therapist, Eric's intimate relationship with Thea will end by mutual agreement when, at last, Eric is able to maintain an erection and keep from ejaculating during at least 15 minutes of intercourse.

Sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson first brought sexual surrogates into mainstream clinical use in the 1960s. Masters and Johnson first used prostitutes before starting a training program for men and women who believed they could help others in the role of educator and sexual partner.

A common misconception about sexual surrogates is that they are amorous adventurers who help clients become better lovers through marathon sessions of wild sex.