You beat me to it.
Posted on 08/05/2004 6:23:07 AM PDT by presidio9
Once, they were exiled to the sleazy tenderloin districts of our cities.
Today, porn actors have become the darlings of the lit set and the toast of SoHo.
Gore Vidal and Salman Rushdie are among the intellectuals who've written essays ruminating on hard-core erotica in "XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits," by celeb photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
"Doubtless, sex tales were told [around] the Neanderthal campfire and perhaps instructive positions drawn on cave walls," Vidal writes in the introduction to the book, which prestigious Bullfinch Press will publish on Oct. 1.
"Meanwhile, the human race was busy establishing such exciting institutions as slavery and its first cousin, marriage."
Rushdie writes that in conservative societies, porn "sometimes becomes a kind of standard-bearer for freedom, even for civilization."
Feminist Faye Wattleton inveighs against porn-phobic "religious dogma that does not comport with human need."
"Alien" author Whitley Strieber writes about sex with extraterrestrials. Also contributing are novelist Francine du Plessix Gray (on the Marquis de Sade, "The Big Daddy of Porn"), actor John Malkovich (who remembers seeing his first porn movie, "Emmanuelle," in college) and director John Waters (reflecting on sex addiction).
But the main attractions - the money shots - of Greenfield-Sanders' book are his portraits of adult performers, like Jenna Jameson, dressed and undressed.
The photographer, whose previous subjects have included Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, several Supreme Court justices and both Presidents Bush, says: "There's a great openness about these [porn] people that's good."
The book is part of the lensman's multimedia juggernaut, which will also include a major show at the Mary Boone Gallery (opening Oct. 30); an HBO documentary, "Thinking XXX"; and a soundtrack CD featuring music by his friend Lou Reed.
"I'm even thinking about doing a perfume," says Greenfield-Sanders, "but I can't decide about what it would smell like."
We asked him if his year-long immersion into the skin trade improved his sex life with his wife, Karin. "I refuse to answer the question," says the artist.
SKANK...the scent of heat
"Watching siliconized actors rutting like mindless beast becomes a kind of standard-bearer for freedom, even for civilization."
Yeah, I prefer amateur p0rn.
Salman Rushdie - the author that they Ayatollah wanted killed?
Do the Muslims have it right in this case? They claimed rushdie was no more than a sleeze ball - among other descriptions - and the west felt sorry for him and took him in. Now we have to put up with his porn?
As has been since the beginning of the communist empires, their best offense was to INFILTRATE and destroy from the INSIDE! They are near victory inside our own borders!
These creeps are demented.
Just my opinion of course.
????? his porn? Did you read the article? He's writing about porn, not producing it.
As has been since the beginning of the communist empires, their best offense was to INFILTRATE and destroy from the INSIDE! They are near victory inside our own borders!
Are you suggesting that the islamo-nutters are using porn to subvert our country?
check your meds.
What an odd idea. Well, all things considered, I wouldn't mind seeing more Iranian chicks in porn, but that's just me.
" 'Meanwhile, the human race was busy establishing such exciting institutions as slavery and its first cousin, marriage.' "
My husband must be doing something wrong because I don't feel like a slave. I feel comfortable, safe and happy. Shouldn't I feel some misery? A little angst maybe?
Nope. I'm definitely content with my life. We'll have to go to counseling to figure out what is wrong with us.
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"The orgasm has replaced the crucifix as the symbol of the greatest human good." -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Have you asked your husband whether he feels opressed?
This should be an interesting thread. 12 posts in and we already have someone suggesting that Salman Rushdie should die for writing an article about porn.
Oh, but he can't be oppressed. He is the oppressor. He has to be because all of the best leftists say so.
None of the Lensmen I know would have any truck with pornographers, other than to use their ships for target practice. E.E. (Doc) Smith would not approve.
You beat me to it.
The cream of Arisia - Mentor would be pleased.
Every husband in the world knows this is not true.
chadors get me hot....
"Every husband in the world knows this is not true."
Let me make sure I'm following you. Are you saying that every husband believes that he is oppressed by his wife?
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