Embedded: Confessions of a TV Sex Journalist

By Ross Dale

"Just like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, this book is a great ride: sexy, hilarious, raunchy, and unexpectedly touching."

--Danny Leiner, Director of Dude, Where's My Car? And Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

ROSS DALE is a Wesleyan graduate serenely sailing through post-college life when he gets the offer he can't refuse. For double his pay, Playboy TV wants him to produce their show Sexcetera, an explicit experience in journalism billed as "true stories from the sexual frontier."

A prep student from a sheltered home, Dale finds himself everywhere he never imagined he'd go: shooting gang bangs with the West Coast Gang Bangers, attending the annual Nudes-A-Popping Festival at an Indiana nudist resort, brothels in Amsterdam, swinger parties and more.

Behind Dale's initial shock, a fascination grows for the characters in front of the camera: some funny, some gross, all facing the pressure of trying to balance humdrum, day-to-day existence with outrageous sex lives. Plus one of his leading ladies, a gorgeous and naked soft-core movie queen, just might have a thing for him. Dale's odd job becomes a life-changing adventure, and he's enjoying the ride.

By turns hilarious, wry, and deliciously erotic, Dale evokes the bizarre world of pornography and the people who inhabit it, and gives readers a story about finding love in the least likely of places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402212178
• ISBN13: 9781402212178
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Memorable

Many nonfiction books seem unreal. They're filled with angst and tragedy, or lack the little details that make a scene come to life. Not this one. By turns charming, explicit, embarrassing, touching, funny, and honest, Ross Dale lets readers experience a side of life most people would deny knowing. Lighthearted and very, very personal. I hope to read more from him someday.

Great read!

Embedded is an excellent summer read. Ross Dale masterfully egages us with fascinating self reflection and witty dialoge in this entertaining journey behind the cameras of the misunderstood adult entertainment industry. He shows us characters that are at one time flawed and endearing. The result is a love story that is profoundly real amid often surreal surroundings. From cover to cover, I was thoroughly entertained.

Sex + Comedy = Win!

A friend recommended this to me and I must say - great read! It has two of my favorite things, sex and comedy combined with a pretty insightful look at the other side of the TV business. In less skilled hands, these adventures would come off as cartoonish. But Ross touches on the human element of the stories as well. My big question is, "How can I become a TV sex journalist?"