Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
   
Sunday, Sep 07 2008, 09:00 pm
Jan 20, 2007
SecksCells

By the way 'SecksCells.com' is available. 

Anyway I boot up my status log and once again find that somebody has trained a firehose of viewers at one of my websites. This time it's an article about the new Jenna Jameson flick. Everybody wants to get a look at the chosen actress...

Which I find quite interesting - especially since I've been starting to de-commission my adult sites for lack of use. People (I'm talking the majority here) don't really want porn. They don't really want erotica literature. They don't want to see a thousand college girls who get $50 to pose naked or get banged in front of a webcam. Yawn.  

But show Britt's labias or provide an article on Scarlett Johansson doing Jenna and they can't get enough.  'Sex' is still the runaway leader in Google search terms.

So saying that 'sex sells' doesn't tell the whole story. Not all of it does. But it is still the number one product of our culture. It is consistently the top thing on the collective consciousness. Celebrity sex sells big time. But here's the rub - it has to be presented in the mainstream. Then it's socially acceptable to look at. Sex outside the mainstream is considered sleaze.  Lia19's labias might be a vast improvement over Brittney's, but she's not in the mainstream. Jenna was a cult porn star for years, but that still was nothing compared to Hollywood. Now she's a mainstream star and selling big time - and she doesn't even have to take her clothes off anymore.  Nobody has seen Ricky and Kim's sex video. But millions have watched Pamela and Tommy. 

Fascinating... 

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