The observations in the original post are so astute and complete that I have nothing to add. But it occurred to me somewhere in the course of reading this thread that all it would take to bring the industry to its knees is if one of these girls would go public and file charges. It may get hopelessly tangled in legal semantics as far as The Law, but culturally I imagine it would be the equivalent of that shot in 'Blue Velvet' in which Lynch's camera descends into the lush, manicured suburban lawn to find repulsively teeming insects just underneath. I doubt the typical John & Mary Q. Public have any idea. For most people, porn is still the charmingly naughty peekaboo shows of old, not the hateful and sick juggernaut we have today. One gagging UPSIDEDOWN head would do it. It would have tremendous legs as a story in today's oppurtunistic media environment.


P.S. And in regards to the on camera despair that monkey observes in current porn- why do so fewer porn stars shoot themselves in the head now than in the relatively more innocent days when the degradation was in the subtext and the perfomers could certainly be called actors and stars by comparison? Is this a hopeful sign, or much more disturbing?