how much of it is enhanced in some way. you know, through editing, drugs, injections, etc . . . testing policies, salaries, legalities, etc . . .

i have yet to find a serious take on the porn industry either in book form or periodical.

4/14/2006 1:54:59 PM

is this a serious question?

4/14/2006 2:00:48 PM

^

Its posted on TWW, of course not.

4/14/2006 2:02:12 PM

The book Reefer Madness, by Eric Schlosser (of Fast Food Nation fame) covers this pretty extensively. Did you know the guy who started Adam & Eve has some pretty high up degree in Slavic Languages and is working on I think a PhD in Public Health?

4/14/2006 2:02:21 PM

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"how much of it is enhanced in some way"

i'm pretty sure most of the boobs are enhanced

4/14/2006 2:12:57 PM

I remember hearing a report on NPR almost a year ago about such a book. It was titled Porn, Technology, something or rather.

Basically the author studied how the internet has evolved due to the increase of online porn. One quote was like the average male would spend 30 secs trying to figure out how to play a video clip of a baseball game, but 9 mins trying to play a porn clip.

anyway happy searching

4/14/2006 2:17:09 PM

^^ u cant really say that without some kind of backup. there are different areas of the porn industry and not all include barbie doll blondes with plastic tits.

4/14/2006 2:20:03 PM

I second the Reefer Madness book.

4/14/2006 2:36:05 PM

B. this is in the Lounge. it's serious, k.

4/14/2006 2:37:51 PM

I'm serious about the Reefer Madness book. I own a copy. Look it up, the book has 3 parts to it.
Porn
Marijuana
Imigrant workers

4/14/2006 2:45:47 PM

i know someone in the industry and they havne't had any plastic surgery done.

4/14/2006 7:45:46 PM

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"Basically the author studied how the internet has evolved due to the increase of online porn."

I don't know about the internet, but I know I had to lookup stuff about VCR's for a HI340 project. Porn was a good market and helped the home videos get started.

Amsterdam, you'll probably have a difficult time finding something that is comprehensive in what you are looking for. Porn, like any other form of entertainment/movies, varies from country to country, culture to culture, heck, even region to region. Finding an unbiased study that covers a wide variety of porn genres will be fun. I'd suggest Lexus-Nexus as a starting point if nothing else.

4/14/2006 8:21:10 PM

There was a show on it on Oxygen last week, and it may be a series. There have been a number of discovery type shows on the industry, sometimes on VH1 type channels.

From what I remember from the last couple of years of info.
There is mandatory testing on a regular basis, for drugs and stds
The women make on average $500 a movie, while men get $200

4/14/2006 8:50:49 PM

Lexus-Nexus
haha imma go check out me a lexxxuuuuuuuuuuuus lexis nexis

4/14/2006 9:11:47 PM

any other recommendations. ?

4/16/2006 8:15:57 PM

I saw a program on this a while ago that was really cool. The porn stars are great they're like "it's just everyday work, you have sex in front of a lot of people and they all just want to finish and get lunch".

My impression is that the big names are a pretty legit outfit. Beyond that, i immagine that just about anything you can immagine exists in terms of business practices. I mean, there's a lot of wierd porn out there.

4/16/2006 8:32:34 PM

Bill Margold wrote a book on the Porn Industry a while back (he was a pioneer). He was a guest speaker at some sex class I had at UCLA. The book is hilarious yet serious and is probably exactly what you are looking for.

4/16/2006 9:29:11 PM

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"is this a serious question?"

it's a multi-billion dollar industry

yeah, it's a serious question

4/16/2006 9:34:51 PM