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PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream, Part Four

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream Part Four: The Evolution is Here to Stay

Scholars and pornographers alike have agreed that this evolution is here to stay. Vouyer Media's Jack Napier has been in the industry for eight years; but, in his first three years, he helped build an entire porn company (West Coast Productions) and became one of the most bankable adult stars. Jack agrees that pornography is entering the mainstream world. Jack said, "It's a lot more accepted as well as marketable than ever before." Tony Tedeschi has been in the industry since 1990 and has starred in hundreds of adult films. Tony feels that pornography "is being accepted more and more because it is on cable and it is eas[ier] to get now (i.e. the Internet, cable, [and the addition of] more video stores)." BLKMaarq has been in and out of the adult industry since the late 1970s. He is now the owner of 9x7 Video Productions, the world's leading producer of amateur interracial pornography. BLKMaarq acknowledges that, "there are more and more porn stars doing mainstream projects and being seen to hang out with main stream celebrities." BLKMaarq said that porn stars being in the public eye is not a new thing.

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream, Part Three

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream Part Three: Hip Hop Accepts the Porn World

Since the pornography-mainstream merger has generated intense revenue, the opposite (mainstream-pornography) is becoming a marketable commodity. Hip Hop has stepped to the forefront and embraced the adult film world. Veteran pornographer Jake Steed has come out with a soundtrack to his adult series Freaks, Whoes, and Flows.

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream, Part Two

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream Part Two: Sex and Scandal - The Porn World Meets the Real World

Consumers have had an illicit affair with the "hardcore" world for decades now. Whether it's a sex flick or a sex scandal, Americans flock by the dozens to see the dirty deeds. On November 6, 1997, the infamous Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex video made its first appearance on an Internet site (distributed by Internet Entertainment Group), but was taken down after five heavily-trafficked hours. Penthouse Magazine printed still shots from the video. "It's fucking unbelievable," Lee reportedly said. "These fuckers are profiting from my privacy, profiting on personal shit stolen from my home, stolen from a safe the size of a fucking refrigerator." A contractor with an apparently acute business sense stole the rustic video, directed by Tommy Lee himself, from the Lee's home in Malibu. The contractor sold the tape to Penthouse, which immediately locked it in a safe.

PORN In the U.S.A.: Pornography Goes Mainstream, Part One

Earlier this year ... I got to hang out with a long time friend ... that friend was adult MEGA star JACK NAPIER! The company he works for VOUYER MEDIA sent him to FTL for some meet and greets ... and we got a chance to hang out ...

This got me to thinking about the past ... and about a year after I met Jack ... I wrote a term paper for my second semester literature course on Pornography Going Mainstream ... and I interviewed him ...

At the time I wrote the paper ... Snoop Dogg joined the porn world in hosting a couple of DVDs ... Ron Jeremy was all over the television on reality shows and game shows ... and more and more porn stars started popping up in music videos ...

So here is ...