Porn Stars: The Death of a Sex-Industry Profession
Interesting article touching on the industry and how we may never see another Jenna Jameson, etc with the varying factors they feel are involved.....
Porn Stars: The Death of a Sex-Industry Profession
Feb 28, 2012 4:45 AM EST A few years ago, the figure of the porn-star-as-mogul had become integrated into mainstream pop culture. Now, they can barely get work. Richard Abowitz reports.
Whither the porn star? And: wither the porn star?
In recent years, if not exactly mainstream, the porn star became a recognizable popular culture figure. She was a raunchy symbol for a debauched time. Placed on a pedestal, the porn star was OK with us gazing up her skirt. During the aughts, porn stars penned bestsellers and helped stock cable-reality-show casts. Even in suburban malls “Porn Star” T-shirts were ubiquitous. There were Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, and Sasha Grey: all were well known in mainstream pop culture. They appeared on magazine covers, hosted nightclubs in Las Vegas, and starred in music videos by popular bands.
Then the moment passed.
As if to underline the lack of star power in porn these days, at the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards in Vegas last month, three of the nominees for Crossover Star of the Year were primarily known for encounters with Charlie Sheen (Capri Anderson, Kacey Jordan, and Bree Olson). And the winner of Crossover Star of 2012? Fifty-eight year-old Ron Jeremy.
The veteran Jesse Jane (who appeared on the cover of Drowning Pool’s disc Desensitized in 2004) remembers when things were different. With almost a decade making movies, Jane is one of the few stars left from porn’s pre-recession, golden crossover years. “I came in at the perfect time when people still cared about stars,” she says. “Now, no one has a fair chance at what happened for Jenna, Tera, and me.”
The adult film actress Cytherea attended the 28th annual Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas in 2011, Ethan Miller
Full piece at- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/27/porn-stars-the-death-of-a-sex-industry-profession.html
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