Comments on: Dear Porn: What happened? (Part 2) https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/dear-porn-what-happened-part-2-13159/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: BT https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/dear-porn-what-happened-part-2-13159/#comment-28546 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:28:52 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=13159#comment-28546 It’ll be interesting to see. There’s a famous story that years and years ago, when Marilyn Monroe was breaking out, the studios learned that she’d posed nude. A studio exec is alleged to have asked: She didn’t show her asshole, did she. That’s seemed to be the standard back then. I don’t know that that much has changed since. Mainstream starlets have posed nude; they’ve showed us breasts, butts, and maybe some bush. But none has ever really exposed herself. And, I’m not sure that mainstream is yet ready for that level of reveal – assuming a starlet is willing to do it.

On the porn side, we forever wait for the X-starlet who is going to break through into mainstream. Ginger Lynn got a few breaks but could never bust through; Jenna got a chance or two before she became a train wreck; Tara Patrick looked like she might have a chance when she was married to Spyder and he had a reality show – instead they both tanked; Sasha Grey looked like she was going to do it, but she’s never really been able to move beyond her porn image.

So many young girls come into porn looking fresh faced, new, and excited and within a year or so, they’re tatted up, blown up with implants and botox, and just start to look hard and jaded. They become one-dimensional, real life blow up fuck dolls.

That just doesn’t translate to the screen.

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By: Ivy https://mikesouth.com/reader-mail/dear-porn-what-happened-part-2-13159/#comment-28545 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:27:09 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=13159#comment-28545 Spawn this is a fantastic post (and Mike as well!) Spawn you are now endeared to my heart. Thanks for writing it, I enjoyed reading it.

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