New York Times article on porn in the mainstream - GoFuckYourself.com

Mr.Fiction · 07-31-2003, 04:53 PM

Finally, Porn Does Prime Time

So what is Mr. Bruckheimer doing for an encore this fall? "Skin," the first prime-time network series to take on what is euphemistically called the adult entertainment industry. And with a soupçon of Shakespeare, yet. "Skin" tells of the forbidden romance between a 17-year-old Mexican-Irish Romeo, whose father is the Los Angeles D.A., and a 16-year-old Jewish Juliet, whose father is a porn king. Or as the show's Web site sums it up: " `Skin' is about sex and race. `Skin' is about politics. And most of all, `Skin' is about skin: complexion, beauty, desire, attraction, obsession and prejudice in contemporary Los Angeles."

Taboos are falling so quickly that the word taboo itself increasingly has an archaic ring. Wal-Mart may drop Maxim and hide the cover of Cosmo, but last month CMT, the country music channel, joined MTV and VH1 in raciness by exposing Joe Don Rooney's tushy in a new video. Cirque du Soleil, its countercultural past well behind it, is readying its first sex show for Las Vegas, "Zumanity." It arrives just as Nevada considers meeting its education budget by applying its first tax on the services provided by its legal whorehouses.

Is the mainstreaming of porn the end of civilization as we know it? Even SpongeBob may have to hold on to his SquarePants now that Playboy is collaborating with Stan Lee, the creator of "Spider-Man," on "Hef's Superbunnies," a new animated series for a major network.

But few bemoan the porning of America these days. Except for the usual fire-and-brimstone sermonizers in pulpits and on the Supreme Court (one of whom, Clarence Thomas, has himself reportedly been a porn consumer), most conservatives have joined most liberals in giving up the fight against all but the scourge of child pornography.

The only major cable operator that refused to distribute the stuff, Adelphia Communications, has reversed itself now that its family-values-preaching founder, John Rigas, and his sons have been indicted and ousted for Enron-style shenanigans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/arts/27RICH.html

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Mr.Fiction Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Free Speech Land Posts: 9,484	New York Times article on porn in the mainstream Finally, Porn Does Prime Time So what is Mr. Bruckheimer doing for an encore this fall? "Skin," the first prime-time network series to take on what is euphemistically called the adult entertainment industry. And with a soupçon of Shakespeare, yet. "Skin" tells of the forbidden romance between a 17-year-old Mexican-Irish Romeo, whose father is the Los Angeles D.A., and a 16-year-old Jewish Juliet, whose father is a porn king. Or as the show's Web site sums it up: " `Skin' is about sex and race. `Skin' is about politics. And most of all, `Skin' is about skin: complexion, beauty, desire, attraction, obsession and prejudice in contemporary Los Angeles." Taboos are falling so quickly that the word taboo itself increasingly has an archaic ring. Wal-Mart may drop Maxim and hide the cover of Cosmo, but last month CMT, the country music channel, joined MTV and VH1 in raciness by exposing Joe Don Rooney's tushy in a new video. Cirque du Soleil, its countercultural past well behind it, is readying its first sex show for Las Vegas, "Zumanity." It arrives just as Nevada considers meeting its education budget by applying its first tax on the services provided by its legal whorehouses. Is the mainstreaming of porn the end of civilization as we know it? Even SpongeBob may have to hold on to his SquarePants now that Playboy is collaborating with Stan Lee, the creator of "Spider-Man," on "Hef's Superbunnies," a new animated series for a major network. But few bemoan the porning of America these days. Except for the usual fire-and-brimstone sermonizers in pulpits and on the Supreme Court (one of whom, Clarence Thomas, has himself reportedly been a porn consumer), most conservatives have joined most liberals in giving up the fight against all but the scourge of child pornography. The only major cable operator that refused to distribute the stuff, Adelphia Communications, has reversed itself now that its family-values-preaching founder, John Rigas, and his sons have been indicted and ousted for Enron-style shenanigans. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/arts/27RICH.html __________________ Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU \| Free Speech Coalition \| EFF \| IMPA