Porn Stars Go From the Main Vein to Mainstream
Citing examples like Sasha Grey,Jenna Jameson, Traci Lords, Katie Morgan, and the upcoming stage musical based on the life of Linda Lovelace, yesterday’s LA Times declared that “porn stars are the new crossover artists.”
This does not include porn stars Mila, who is an ass artist, or Charlie, who appears in The Pickup Artist.
The widely reported recent death of Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano reminded the world of the time in the early 1970s, when porn chic brought hardcore to millions of viewers who would have never braved a porno theater before.
A few years later, home video would do a much better job of it.
Now that adult actresses like Sasha Grey and Katie Morgan are appearing in the new Steven Soderbergh film The Girlfriend Experience and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, respectively, the topic of porn in the mainstream is hot again.
The phenomenal success of big-budget porn extravaganzas like Pirates with Jesse Jane, Janine Lindemulder, and Teagan Presley, and its even bigger sequel Pirates II with Belladonna, Riley Steele, and the aforementioned Sasha Grey, is further evidence of the widening audience of hardcore.
The MrSkin.com crew’s recent skin on the street interviews have also shown that fans have strong opinions on their favorite adult actresses, debating the relative merits of Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick.
Mr Skin hopes that this influx of X-rated talent into Hollywood will skin-spire more big-name actresses to do some art for hard’s sake a la Chloe Sevigny in The Brown Bunny.
Here’s scoping!
