(Though when it comes to penetrating pop culture, a porn performer with ties to the White House - and we don’t mean Kim Kardashian - has come close.)īut is it possible that this year, 2019, marks the beginning of the end of the gay porn industry, at least as a structured business? Will the future of gay porn see a slow submergence of those already sinking ships that have kept the industry afloat, the studios?
She earned the highest buck for her bang, and in her 10-year absence, no one has come close to entering her stratosphere of salacious success. The trajectory of Jenna Jameson is a prime example of how the industry has never fully recovered. Porn performers who earned the big bucks came after the dawn of the new millennium, when the internet provided greater exposure to content but before the web racked up an abundance of hackers and copyright violators. Some historians will attest it synchronizes with the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, but that’s just when porn achieved mainstream integration.
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The facts were clear: the glided age of skin flicks was coming to a close.Ĭlassifying the “Golden Age of Porn” is tricky business. It didn’t matter whether you could comprehend the complexities of the consumer price index or business cycles. That time period saw a lot happen - Jenna Jameson retired, the financial market crisis reared its ugly head, video rental shops went kaput. Two years later, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge was released, now considered one of the most expensive pornographic films of all time. In 2006, controversial porn star Michael Lucas produced the most expensive gay adult film to date, Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita. You, too, can contribute stories to Hornet. This story about the future of gay porn was contributed by a Hornet user through our Community Platform.