they shoot porn stars dont they?

"a text-and-photo essay about the adult movie industry and the recession."

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seeing as most of us here are reasonably intelligent people and consumers of porn, i thought (possibly wrongly) that some of you might find this essay interesting. personally, i am completely shocked at the level of darkness involved in todays porn industry. i mean, its always been a sleazy business, but some of this stuff is pretty gut wrenching. the first page is not for the feint of heart (the text, not the images). the piece was written by susanna breslin who has a very interesting blog and has written extensively, and very intelligently, on porn in the past.

an important piece i think.

most of us consume porn, but we're pretty silly if we pay for it.

i also try to only look at free-range organic porn

who said anything about paying?

no one?

edit: WAIT... me?

edit: is this some kind of koan?

i guess i thought you meant that i implied we paid for porn. i guess i was wrong.

reminds me of that horrid vid messaien posted a while back. shocking....

no i was just pointing out that though we reap the benfits, we dont support it financially. so its not the same as being a consumer in the economic sense.

but dont sites get ad revenue from all the traffic?

also, i didnt intend for this to be an anti porn thread in any way. i just thought the essay was a well written, intelligent analysis of the industry

awesome read, thanks

ok, change "consumers" to "viewers"

glad you found it interesting goffer

twas interesting. forwarded.

this is a good read, cheers.

btw,lol@The plotline concerned itself with a coterie of firemen and firewomen, who, in the wake of the tragic death of one of their fallen brethren, were consoling each another by engaging in copious amounts of sex.

so wait no porn stars are actually being shot??

i assume its a play on -

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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a novel written by Horace McCoy and first published in 1935. The story mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression.

interesting..

if anybody is interesting in reading a book (fiction) on the same topic pick up The Pornographer's Poem. It's a fucking devastatingly great book. won a ton of awards.

  On 11/26/2009 at 3:04 AM, 42Orange said:

most of us consume porn, but we're pretty silly if we pay for it.

 

i also try to only look at free-range organic porn

lol

i recognise the 'guy' on the front page. he wears white trainers and a baseball cap, you never see his face.

i saw a movie about this once.

I think it was called something like dancey nights or summat. the man had a big penis

has anyone seen “Gang Bang Horse (Pony Sex Game)” ?

So what if the porn industry is at crisis, what more porn needs to be made? Surely there's enough jerk-off material already.

Interesting read, what strikes me is how much the porn industry and the music biz have in common. They're basically producing content for free, but governments don't give a shit if porn companies are getting ripped off. Honestly, who does? we all think of these girls as fucked up, and the "stars" of the 80s and 90s only get by from their website subscriptions, with the young guys these days it's all about the fucked up shit on the net. Having a liberal president now, I kind of worry where it will go next.

  On 11/26/2009 at 9:04 AM, xxx said:

I have to disagree with this author as being intelligent or a good writer. I found myself scanning through her blooming prose trying to get to the topic at hand. That's all--I liked the nuggets once I got them; it was just fatty writing. Like the one fucking crab claw that finally splits only to have a few shreds of flesh.

I agree somewhat. it wasn't what I would call bad writing, but a few pages worth of shit could have been trimmed probably. reads stylistically like some of the occasional articles I've read in rolling stone over the years. nothing especially revelatory here. I went in expecting some mindblowing expose, but it was pretty mundane.

  On 11/26/2009 at 11:27 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Interesting read, what strikes me is how much the porn industry and the music biz have in common. They're basically producing content for free, but governments don't give a shit if porn companies are getting ripped off. Honestly, who does? we all think of these girls as fucked up, and the "stars" of the 80s and 90s only get by from their website subscriptions, with the young guys these days it's all about the fucked up shit on the net. Having a liberal president now, I kind of worry where it will go next.

yeah man, with that black fella in the white house, people are gonna be wishing for the sinmple blowjobs of the CLinton administration. He's gonna be getting his soul-brothers together to run trains up on white 18 year olds. And the liberal policy makers will sit back and bless marriages between horses and humans.

I couldn't get past the first page, any writer who goes for that sort of sensationalism from the start loses my attention. Does it get better?

yeah this was kind of lame. zak smith, an artist who has also done a few indie porn films, wrote a book called we did porn that is a lot more honest and interesting than anything in this article. unfortunately it tends to lapse into a pseudo hunter s thompson gonzo style, but it's worth reading simply for the primary source information on how the porn industry works and how it's a morally ambiguous place rather than just outright evil.