In The Porn Library Archives #4

Recently, I set out to read and reread, watch and rewatch, and view and review The Porn Library archives. This time, I reread Tom Junod’s “The Devil in Greg Dark,” which was published in Esquire in 2007.

Here’s an excerpt:

“I met him four years ago. He was making pornography then. He was famous for it, sort of—famous for making the worst pornography, a pornography of transgression and violation, a pornography that seemed intended less to glorify sex than to advertise the death of the soul. People were calling him the devil back then—in fact, that's exactly what he said when I met him: ‘People call me the devil’—but I liked him immediately. He was solicitous, and he was smart. He talked about surrealism and breaking down the wall between viewer and participant. Then I went to watch him make a pornographic movie out in the Valley and saw something so irredeemably obscene that I figured, Okay, Gregory Dark really is the devil, or at least someone I should stay away from.”

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