Interesting take. You could relate it to the pre-hardcore grindhouse "roughies" of the mid 1960s, then.
Over the last couple decades, pornographers have had alot of success "mainstreaming" their business. Witness Jenna Jameson hosting show on the "E" Channel and those "porn star" t-shirts Christina Agulera display in US Magazine. Porn has achieved never-before-seen degree of hipness, partly due to re-branding sleaze as pseudo-feminist sexual empowerment. Girls can be bad, just like the guys, etc. Then out from under his rock crawls Max Hardcore with his blatant mysogyny, pedophilic tendencies and scatalogical obsessions--just vile enough to disgust even "enlightened" minds and remind people of the sickness and hate behind all the glitz, girl power and libertarian glee. Ironically, the porn industry has more to fear from Max Hardcore than it's opponents do. He's a gift to Concerned Women for America.