I need to preface the following by saying that I believe that we did ourselves no favors here in North America when we started referring to pornography as 'adult entertainment' or 'adult movies'. And I will go farther and say that I sincerely believe that the rise of 'adult entertainment' through the seventies and eighties has a direct link to the decline of actual adult entertainment - i.e. films produced dominantly for adults in their thirties and higher - over that same period. Because, quite simply, if you made a film for an adult audience you couldn't market it that way any more with inadvertently also attaching the stigma of smut, whether it was there or not. So now the vast majority of films are made for teens or kids or fall into a small collection of clearly labeled, easily marketed genres that cross age barriers and the grown...
- 4/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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