The Porn Industry Sucks

Bo says:

It’s too bad this hasn’t gotten any comments, because this is easily the greatest article I’ve read all week. It was worth it just for these 2 anecdotes:

Among the acts DeArmond performs […] are anal sex and double penetration. “I don’t think people are just going to do what porn stars do for free and put it on the Internet,” she said.

he nostalgically keeps [Sasha] Grey’s first email on his phone. […] He read the email aloud like a proud father, omitting only her real name, and ended by turning the phone around to display the long, long list of all the sex acts Grey was willing to perform on camera. The reporters turned totally silent as Spiegler scrolled down the list.

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Bo says:

That’s too bad. It’s like a fun-house mirror version of the whole MSM vs. internet argument, with ‘freaky ass shit’ replacing ‘original reporting’. How the whole porn stars moonlighting as hookers angle metaphorically translates to the journalism profession was especially apropos, since most of the ex-journalists I know work in corporate PR now.Report