Today's Daily Telegraph
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2001 12:08 pm
I read an article in the Daily Telegraph today (Saturday 9th) entitled 'When Fashion Met Porn'. In it Richard Benson writes "Fashion magazines are one thing; the hardcore videos bought in brown paper bags for ?20 over chipped formica counters are still quite another, with women squinting in pain, or taking drugs and drinking beforehand to dull their senses."
"People in the industry will admit , for all the self-possession of Alisha Klass or former page 3 pin-up Joanne Guest, most of those women in most of those videos would rather have earned fame and fortune of a different order, in a different way."
Bizzarly the writer also describes Maxim magazine as soft porn!
Is this journalist an oddball throwback to the 19th century, or just another Mary Whitehouse/Anne Widecombe extremeist preventing Britain from comming into line with Europe and the USA with its attitude towards porn? Presumably he's visited the sex shops in Britain and watched some videos to come to his conclusions? Of course not, he's just used his preconceived prejudiced ideas to write an article on something he knows nothing about.
Perhaps some people in the industry, especially actresses would like to comment?
"People in the industry will admit , for all the self-possession of Alisha Klass or former page 3 pin-up Joanne Guest, most of those women in most of those videos would rather have earned fame and fortune of a different order, in a different way."
Bizzarly the writer also describes Maxim magazine as soft porn!
Is this journalist an oddball throwback to the 19th century, or just another Mary Whitehouse/Anne Widecombe extremeist preventing Britain from comming into line with Europe and the USA with its attitude towards porn? Presumably he's visited the sex shops in Britain and watched some videos to come to his conclusions? Of course not, he's just used his preconceived prejudiced ideas to write an article on something he knows nothing about.
Perhaps some people in the industry, especially actresses would like to comment?
