They Shoot Porn Stars, The Sequel

Reddit picked up "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?" again recently, which has been sending some readers here. It's a long-form investigation of how the Great Recession impacted the adult movie industry I wrote in 2009. You can read more about the project here.

This year, I'll be returning to the Valley to write a follow up, revealing how the porn business is faring five years later.

An excerpt from the original piece:

"To date, he has produced and directed over 500 adult movies. But, this isn’t your father’s porn. Equal parts freak show, horror movie, and Russ Meyer-on-crack, his X-rated visions are deranged, demented, mind-boggling expeditions into the dark, unexplored continent of human sexual perversity. Fascinating, horrifying, and amusing—oftentimes all of those things at the same time—Powers’ celluloid world is one populated by midgets, bald chicks, and crazed men outfitted with monster-sized papier-mâché phalluses which spew torrents of goo onto the naked bodies of supine women, movies in which everyone has sex all of the time, and in which, most of the time, no one appears to win."

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