Okay, here's the deal, I was not a fan of this documentary.

The director, Paul Cowan, backed up by a mostly female crew, clearly had an agenda going in - to show the industry as evil.

He had his researchers, one of which was obviously Luke Ford, draw up the absolute worst elements of the industry, and then went about designing a story around that.

1) The drug addict - OD, clearly Cowan found that he could exploit the pain of JD's family and girlfriend, and fit it perfectly into his agenda. By bringing them along to the awards, he was able to provide proof that the industry was selfish and uncaring - forget the fact that various members of the industry did try to get JD help. Yes, maybe the industry should've given the family more attention, but clearly JD was a troubled individual who was beyond help.

2) The Marc Wallice nightmare. This was the ONLY thing that Cowan could hang the industry on. Kimberly Jade made a very good point when she talked about the day she was notified of her +HIV status, and how various industry types tried to get her to keep it under wraps. "Let's keep it in the family," Sharon Mitchell supposedly told her. When it comes to matters of life and death, that whole family thing doesn't walk damn. The industry-wide condemnation of Luke Ford for getting the let out about Marc made no sense to me. He should have been applauded, but that's just my opinion.

3)The Katie June thing with her mom bothered me, but, fuck, seriously how often does that happen, really? I think Cowan lucked out by finding Katie and her mom. I'm sure this kind of stuff goes on in Hollywood, but in this documentary, it was so matter-of-fact and it just seemed so wrong. Like I said, I can't understand it, but seriously it wasn't the industry's fault that it happened. Did the industry exploit these two women, yes, of course, but it also paid them for their services. See if Walmart will pay that much... See if Walmart cares either. At the end of the documentary there was a piece about how Randy West actually bailed Katie out of jail, after she got into some trouble with the law.

4) The lonely masturbators. I think Cowan was trying to show where a life of porn watching will lead a person. How sad, how utterly pathetic. Yes, it surely is, but don't be pointing your camera and making judgements. Cowan was clearly getting what he wanted in that room on that night. Nothing like exploiting those lonely people, then seemingly placing the blame on the industry.

The whole documentary seemed to want to place all the blame on the shoulders of the dirty immoral porn industry, but every month somebody in the music industry dies of a drug overdose but nobody blames the whole of that industry for all the problems that exists within it. They blame the individual.

Am I making any sense? Probably not, but these are my feelings on the documentary.

The fact that Cowan decided to point his camera at the darkest area of the industry, trotting out Rob Black and such, the same way every other person doing a documentary about porn has done, only showed me that he is highly unoriginal. Clearly, there are some good things that happen in porn - friendships, love stories, money, hard work, intelligent kind people, etc... Nobody EVER makes a documentary about these things.

Everybody is looking for their own Bella Donna story, and I'm so tired of it.