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Dear Susannah: What About the Porn Industry Interested You?
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Dear Ms. Breslin,
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I have also always wanted to ask you what about the porn industry interested you. I would think it would be like writing about strippers or hookers. I have known my share of both and have found their stories at best tiresome and at worst downright tragic. Yet, you are a very intelligent and interesting writer and chose to write about the industry. What am I missing? There is clearly more to it than I think or you wouldn't be writing about it. I have never quite figured out what that is. I would love to hear what about it made you want to write about the porn industry rather than something else.
Though I don't get the porn industry, porn's role and influence in society can be very interesting. I saw your blog post on the hundreds of men who write you wanting to get into the porn industry. I find that fascinating. What are these guys thinking? Do they not read your work and realize straight male porn actors never make any money? I know it sounds nice to get paid to have sex but having to perform on demand and being judged by how long you last and how much volume you can ejaculate would, I think, take all of the fun out of it. What is going on that so many men think this is a good idea?
Also, I am not an expert but judging from the porn I have seen, the men get into the industry mostly because they have an 8 inch or better cock. Is that not true anymore or do these guys not know this? If they do, are they so delusional that they think they will be the exception? According to what I have read, I am bigger than most men and they would laugh me out of a porn audition. How exactly does a guy with an average cock and presumably some kind of prospects doing something decide that they not only could he get into the porn industry but also doing so is a good idea and something worth pursuing? I am as heterosexual and libertine about sex as any other guy but I don't get younger men. I am 44 and could not imagine even the biggest meathead man whore I ever knew wanting to get into porn. This seems to be significantly less rare in the younger generation. Judging from the hundreds of letters you have received from these guys, do you have any idea what is going on? I would very much like to hear why you think this is happening, because it utterly baffles me.
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Regards,
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Dear Redacted:
Why write about the porn industry? Why not? I probably write about porn industry for the same reasons people write about the movie industry. It's a world within a world. It exists behind a screen, and most people only get to view the screen. I was curious to know more about a world where, at the time, most of its inhabitants were considered pariahs (things have changed, to a degree, since). I recount my start as a journalist covering the business in "They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?":
"For all of porn’s ridiculous aspects, and those are legion, there was something deeply revelatory about witnessing its making. Despite the smoke and mirrors—the fake orgasms, the unreal bodies, the cockamamie premises—something else altogether lay behind the curtain. What that something was would take me several years to discover. Yet, on that day, I was sure of one thing: In Porn Valley, reality and fantasy are one and the same."
As for why so many men (in India?) want to be porn stars: I keep hoping someone who lives in India or who knows India will explain to me why I've received so many emails from men in India who want to be porn stars. (That hasn't happened yet.) I think the answer regarding their interests or aspirations or delusions eludes me because I'm not a man. And I don't live in India. And I don't want to be a porn star. Perhaps porn is newer to India (?), and they think they can live their fantasy lives in the reality of porn? Or perhaps because the role of women is changing in India (?), it's creating a kind of anxiety among men that makes them feel like they have to be hyper-masculine to be men? I'm really flummoxed on this one. The male porn stars I've met and watched work are true workhorses. Their job seems to involve making a woman happy -- and, my god, who'd want to do that for a living?
Re penis size: My guess is that's not what they're focusing on in their porn star aspirations. Likely, they think performance will trump size. That said, most male porn stars do not have giant penises (John Holmes being the most obvious exception) because women porn stars do not want to work with male porn stars who have very large appendages because uncomfortable, natch. Of course, I don't have a penis or any ability to imagine walking around comparing my penis size to other penis sizes. It sounds like a challenging existence.
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Happy Valentine's Day, Asshole
Men's Health has a list of super-freaky Valentine's Day gift ideas.
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"Yes, believe it or not, chocolate anuses are a real thing that you can actually buy for somebody you care about this Valentine's Day. We're not sure why you would want to, but it's a plan B if you've already perused the selections in our Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Her and you keep thinking, 'Not anusy enough.'"
Watch Out!
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Women Don't Poop
Don't miss the WSJ's hard-hitting expose of poop advertising: "Ads for Bathroom Products Flush with Potty Humor." (FLUSH. GET IT??)
Toilet cleaner companies used to "scare consumers about the dangers lurking beneath their bottoms," but the power to ass-terrorize waned over time.
One toilet cleaner company decided to target women and created "ads featuring four shirtless, studly crooners gyrating in cages resembling the product’s apparatus and belting out, 'Flush it, baby, flush it.'" Using sex to sell toilet cleaner. Will wonders never cease?
A lady suit in the toilet biz says, "We wanted to make women understand that toilet cleaning, this chore, is not necessarily terrible." Clearly, she's never leaned in to a toilet with a brush in her hand.
Personally, I'm a fan of this campaign:
"Dallas-based Poo-Pourri, which makes air fresheners, took the cheekiness to another level with ads called 'Girls Don’t Poop.' They feature a well-dressed woman sitting on a toilet speaking in a posh British accent about her bowel movements."
Because of course! 30M YouTube views can't be wrong.
Apparently, "Sesame Street" has a puppet that talks about toilet stuff.
And then there's Mr. Toilet and the WTO:
"The World Toilet Organization is a Singapore-based nonprofit that works to improve sanitation conditions world-wide. Founder Jack Sim, who proudly calls himself Mr. Toilet, says toilet-care companies’ new approach is making it easier to talk about sanitation and raise awareness world-wide. 'Toilet humor is the only strategy that works.'"
[WSJ]
Fishnets
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Orgy Time
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This wild poster is from Colleen Brennan Shrine. I interviewed Brennan in 2013. She's lovely.
The Religion of Skank
I'm not even sure what this article, "Skank Amateurs," is about, but it is fascinating.
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"The idea that every time I do it, I’m 'getting in touch with God' or whatever is clearly meant to be a solvent for eonic strata of guilt and shame. But frankly, that daunting concept is a far more effective method of contraception than NFP. It’s bad enough worrying about whether or not I’ve shaved my legs …"
[Taki's]
Roger Aisles Fourway
Miley Cyrus Porn
The Beaver View
Straight Outta Bootytown
The red band trailer for "Straight Outta Compton" features: the real Dre, the real Cube, a great Eazy impersonation, naked and half-naked women gyrating around, and Paul Giamatti as Jerry Heller.
I Hear You
Kim Kardashian Full Frontal
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The full on, fully frontal, final set (???) of that shoot with Kim Kardashian can be found here.
Living Room Pole Dancers
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Very cool photo series by Tom Sanders: "Pole Dancing at Home."
"The series explores the sub-culture of home pole dancers and how they challenge societal notions of domestic normalcy, privacy, sexuality and voyeurism."
[via Ashley Benigno]
SpongeBob Erotica
To get information and tell about myself
"Mrs.
Most request fully that I have known about you my friend name [redacted] and I am from India I am 22 years young boy and this time also student
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I want to tell you that in matter of sex I am something special and also experience holder
My study would be completed after 5 month then I want to work in your company like pornstar
So please help me to arrange this job I don't know that what should I write you so that you could pay attention on me but I like to speak truth
I will be great full you and if you support for me it will be great help
I hope you will not disappointed me and do act upon my request I will be highly obliged you
Science I have 5 or six month so I will improve my self much
So please reply if you think it better and I will wait your replying
Yours truthfully
[redacted]"
Kim Kardashian Is Still Naked
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The rest of those nakedish photos of Kim Kardashian are online.