December 30, 2006
The Graying of Naughty
“There has been a greater openness to older performers than there once was,” said Mark Kernes, a senior editor at Adult Video News, or AVN, the industry’s main trade paper. “Typically, once you got to 35, your possibilities were pretty much shot.”
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The “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” T-shirt I ordered for Jon arrived the other day.
Of course, he’s younger than me.
A friend of mine who attended med school back in the ’90s said that part of the content of her human sexuality class involved watching various kinds of porn, and she said that one they saw had performers who had to have been in their seventies.
Yesterday, after seeing perhaps the third or fourth TV ad for Cialis in the course of a football game, I thought back to this post and thought, our aging population is going to shape pop culture’s productions for many generations to come. And as has historically been the case with the emergence of new media, porn has been right at the forefront (which sounds a bit sexual, in this context) of those changes.
Depictions of sex as cultural DNA.
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