Celebrity Lesbian Sex Scene

In recent years, the porn industry has gotten screwed harder than a beleaguered Marquis de Sade heroine, first by rampant piracy, then by a vicious recession. Now that thousands of former customers believe that money shots should be as free as Lady Gaga singles and New York Times editorials, the industry's revenues are dropping, production is declining, and thousands of talented but underutilized adult video performers are fantasizing about a stimulus package of their own. But even if lesbian MILF bondage is no longer the foolproof cash cow it once was, there's still one subspecies of porn that can reliably open our wallets.

How strong is the allure of the celebrity sex tape? Just ask John Edwards. Blessed with the raw animal magnetism of a well-groomed Maltese, the one-time Democratic presidential candidate is certainly not the first person you'd think of if you were asked to name America's most bankable porn star. But according to Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide who temporarily possessed a copy of a 15-minute sex tape his boss made with his personal videographer Rielle Hunter, at least one entrepreneur offered Young "gigantic amounts of money" for the unlikely artifact.

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Combining technology, exhibitionism, populism, fame, a do-it-yourself ethos, and the possibility of a quick buck, the celebrity sex tape celebrates everything we celebrate; it's the signature art form of the age. It also solves porn's greatest challenge in an age of visual ubiquity: How to retain an aura of illicitness.

Throughout the 20th century, even as photographs, films, and video proliferated, various constraints limited the amount of imagery available to us. In the world of old media, devoting 70 editorial pages to, say, celebrity nose-picking photos, was an extravagance not even The National Enquirer could afford. Compiling gruesome galleries of headless motorists, armless torture victims, and kittens becoming lunch was not considered a particularly noble way to inform the public or attract department store advertisers. Economics and taste kept us optically innocent.

Now porn is overexposed, a little too permissible, a little too easily obtained. Except the celebrity sex tape. Compared to much of the commercial porn that's being produced today, celebrity sex tapes are notable for their chasteness and sense of restraint. They tend to limit the action to just two participants, who couple as sweetly and kinklessly as a pair of cuddly bunny rabbits. The first 40 minutes of Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored, the 1998 tape that became the genre's first huge commercial hit, contained less risque material than the average Lifetime Channel romantic comedy. Thanks to their ostensibly confidential nature, however, celebrity sex tapes do manage to re-establish porn as something that's at least mildly forbidden.

No doubt a legitimate desire for privacy informs such attitudes, but consider the messages celebrity sex tapes end up conveying most explicitly. Sex is shameful and embarrassing. It can damage your character. It's best kept behind closed doors. It's easy to see how anti-porn groups like the American Family Association might enthusiastically embrace the genre, but the rest of us are faced with a difficult, uncomfortable truth: Our most publicized, best-selling porn titles are designed not to incite desire or celebrate sexuality but to embarrass and humiliate celebrity exhibitionists, or at the very least demystify their carefully cultivated personas.

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