WEBVTT - Chapter 11: Pirates! 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.360 The industry is in transition. Stephen Hirsch, Vivid Entertainment. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.520 My original aim was to make a bunch of money 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.720 with these CD ROMs to start my mainstream company. It 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.280 started out as paying a rent, but through the years 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:33.760 I changed it to what I want to do. June Directed. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:36.319 I think I. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.760 Got to a point in my career when people got 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.320 sick of me being positive about myself and my career, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.000 and they decided they wanted to try and find some 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.320 dirt on me. The point when I started defending myself. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.280 I embraced it, and things are working out for me. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.960 I started doing a lot of mainstream things which brought attention, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.640 and I started to speak out on women's rights. I 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.440 had to study and prepare myself on things to sound intellectual. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:04.880 Jenna Jamison. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.080 Video took porn out of the downtown theater and into 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.399 your house. It made it more palatable, even though it 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.280 brought the quality way way down. DVDs are making us 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.360 more acceptable in society. Seeing a porno tape in a 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.080 DVD box just gives it a better smell, a better 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.600 sen Paul Thomas director. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.479 I want to have the chance to change and evolve 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.000 and not be pigeonholed as an adult star and that's it. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:38.960 Heather Hunter performer. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.960 Because of the economy, we're now shooting in some much 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.200 nicer places. Before it was I'll never have adult in 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.960 my house. Now it's can you get someone out here 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:58.320 to shoot? It's eighteen bedroom, sixteen car garage. Evanstone performer. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:17.239 Welcome to General World. Welcome back to General World. I'm 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:22.519 your host, Molly Lambert. This is episode eleven Pirates. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.120 I look at the porn business where Vegas and gambling 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.360 was in the seventies. Vegas was still mob owned and 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.720 they were making a transition between these small groups of 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:42.800 people to corporate own. I feel the same exact thing 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.840 is going to happen with adults. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.080 The early two thousands Internet promises democratization. The web is 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.720 supposed to be a place where people can make stuff 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.320 and share it. But the dark flip side is that 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.680 online art starts being shared for free, scrubbed of credits 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 for pornography, an art form that always struggled to be 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.880 categorized as legitimate entertainment because of its status as underground 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:16.840 and illicit. Online streaming will prove absolutely devastating in this 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.320 next media format shift. As always, porn leads the way. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.400 While the Internet opens up avenues for self made porn 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.480 entrepreneurs like Danny Ash, it also allows for adult content 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.320 to be easily bootlegged and shared for free what are 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.160 called tube sites. Will decimate the San Fernando Valley's porn 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:43.120 studio system and the porn industry as a whole. The 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.360 Internet opens pornography consumption up to its largest audience, yet, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.480 pulling in even those who would never be brave enough 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.920 to buy a VHS or DVD. Streaming porn illegally and 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.320 watching it privately, not on a television but a computer 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.000 screen adds a yet another level of horny secrecy to 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.280 the act of masturbation, and because most people are so 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.240 reluctant to admit they even consume pornography at all, the 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.600 moment that porn becomes easy to pirate online, DVD sales 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.359 start dropping dramatically, and the entire adult film industry begins 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:25.039 to collapse. In two thousand and five, a porn studio 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.040 called Digital Playground releases a movie called Pirates, advertised as 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:34.880 the biggest budget pornographic film of all time. Pirates is 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.919 a swashbuckling sex comedy riffing off of Pirates of the 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.119 Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney's two thousand 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.839 and three blockbuster film based on a theme park ride, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.719 Digital Playgrounds Pirates has a total production budget of over 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.040 a million dollars. It's shot on high definition digital video 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.480 mastered in Dolby Surround sound, and features over three hundred 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.640 CGI effect shots. These faring scenes are shot on a 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.520 ship that's a replica of the original HMS bounty called 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.520 the Bounty, built for MGM's nineteen sixty two film Mutiny 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.880 on the Bounty. While the Bounty was built for filming, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.440 it's also a fully functional sailing ship that sailed from 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.719 Nova Scotia to Tahiti. The Bounty was scheduled to be 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.359 burned after Mutiny on the Bounty finished filming, but that 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:30.240 film star Marlon Brando insisted that it be preserved. The 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.159 Bounty was then turned into a tourist attraction and docked 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.480 in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where Digital Playground director Ali June 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.640 rents it to film the non sex scenes for Pirates. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.040 He tells the Bounty's owners that he and his film 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.560 crew are just making a regular Pirate movie, never disclosing 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.640 that it's a pornographic one. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.200 I had an Apple Quadra nine fifty and I managed 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.599 to license a wicked title called De Barlow's Affair. I 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.720 did ties it to three twenty two forty FOURMAT and 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.039 added the menus. I had to fly up to San 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.240 Francisco with a hard drive to a company that had 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.320 a CD bar name. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.279 Digital Playground AKADP is founded in nineteen ninety three to 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.000 sell adult CD rams by a twenty five year old 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:25.440 who goes by one name June. Most of dp's initial 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.279 business model is digitizing existing foreign content from other studios 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.640 onto CD ROMs so that they can be viewed on 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:37.240 a home computer screen. June is Ali June, an ambitious 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.599 Iranian American UCLA Film School grad and aspiring director who 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:46.600 idolizes directors like Federico Fellini, Jean Luke Gedard, and Steven Spielberg. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.279 June teams up with another UCLA Film grad who goes 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:52.360 by Robbie d. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.440 At first, I didn't know anyone, but I lucked out 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.040 by making two right phone calls. The first was the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.480 Jim South, who really hooked me up with my first girls. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.280 In those days world modeling would close for lunch and 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.119 everyone would hang out at Hamburger Hamlet. So I cruised 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.839 over there and made the connection right then and there. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.840 Robbie d cinematographer. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.520 June wants to direct Hollywood films, but as a no 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.640 name director with a dream, it's much easier to break 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:25.320 into directing porn. June and Robbie Dee assemble a tight 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.200 knit film crew for Digital Playground, and they all do 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.520 mixed martial arts together in their free time. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.120 Shooting sex is really like shooting sports, which is where 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.680 I came from. It's about the way people move. How 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.640 you learn to anticipate, improve communication, get the right chemistry going, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.120 be ready for anything. Often the best way to be 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.960 a director is to get out of your own way, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.040 roll with it, trust your instincts. You can shoot the 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.000 same girl in the same house and one day it's 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.000 totally hot and the next day it's just plain not happening. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.320 You just learn to recognize and let it happen. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.080 In nineteen ninety eight, Digital Playground become innovators of digital 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.200 pornography when they release Virtual Sex, with a series that 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.480 allows the user to point and click their way through 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.880 sex scenes by selecting from menu choices like foreplay and strip. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.280 The viewer can choose from one of four sexual positions 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.480 and decide whether the performer is innocent or dominant. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.040 It's the closest you'll ever get to having a sex 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:31.280 with a girl without really having a sex with them. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.120 It's interactive in the sense that the user decides what 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.320 they want to see next. In nineteen ninety nine, DP 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.520 releases Virtual Sex with Jenna Jamison, which retails for thirty 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.600 one dollars and becomes one of the best selling adult 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:51.400 DVDs of all time. DVDs allow for films to be 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.600 padded out with bonus features like behind the scenes footage 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.760 of starlits on set, which some viewers prefer to the 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.000 main content itself. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.320 I guess they just like seeing me going through what 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.720 I actually went through. They like the real stuff. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.440 Mercedes performer. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.800 Point of view akapov porn is another best selling trend 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.760 in the late nineties and early two thousands. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:25.000 When you're watching a regular porn movie, you're watching it 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.960 in the third person. You're basically a warrior. This way, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.840 it's a first person experience. If the girl is in 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.800 the missionary position, the camera is looking down at her 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.320 as you would if you were actually there with her. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.400 You're the god of your bold at that moment. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.120 Virtual POV porn favors the illusion that the camera's point 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.000 of view is the viewers and that the penis shown 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.120 on screen is their own. While camcorder content sometimes has 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.920 the director or male performer operating the camera, POV porn 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.359 is meant to create an illusion that erases the existence 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.440 of the male performer entirely so that the viewer can 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.520 project into the scene. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.000 We already choot our girl against a black background for 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:23.040 our interactive DVDs. That way, when we perfect hologram technology, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.080 we can cancel out the black background and bring this 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.120 subject into three dimensional isspace. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.440 Men will love it. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.600 They'll sit in front of their giant TV turn off 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.480 delights and the only thing lead will be the gear. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.880 This leads to a brief panic that virtual sex POV 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.640 scenes will make male porn stars obsolete. This doesn't pan out, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.400 nor does June's two thousand and three promise of holographic 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.840 porn stars. Digital Playground is at the forefront of new 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.080 technology like super high definition digital video and DVDs. After 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.120 Sony lost out by choosing not to sell adult content 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.319 in the eighties dooming Beta Max. New physical media formats 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.040 like Blu ray and HD DVD are determined not to 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.680 make the same fatal mistake. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.160 I keep up with the technology trends every day as 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.040 an artist. I know it's a tool. I don't get 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:29.160 sentimental about one particular machine when another one might do 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.880 the job. Vetter, you know, one of my happiest days 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.360 was when I stopped shooting on film. I love the 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.800 freedom of going digital. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.680 So when porn starts transitioning online, Digital Playground is already 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.760 ahead of the curve. DP move into a studio and 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.920 Van Nuys to make original content, take advantage of the 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.400 porn industry's role as a testing ground for new tech 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.319 and brand themselves as the porn studio of the digital future, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.920 the way that Vivid was the studio of the Via 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.320 jess Age. In two thousand and four, DP shoots the 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.720 first high definition porn film, Island Fever three, on location 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.280 in Bora, Bora and Tahiti. The Digital Playground brand is 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:18.600 high budget, escapist fantasy sex shot on high definition digital 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.720 video cameras in exotic locations. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:28.599 The only difference between us and a Disney is the content. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.000 They also have digital playground contract girls like Jesse Jane, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.800 a p teit blonde bombshell born Cynthia Anne Howell in 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.640 Fort Worth, Texas in nineteen eighty a cancer. She grew 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.040 up in Oklahoma and graduated from her high school with honors. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.679 You have to treat it like a job. I'm a mom, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.160 I have a family. You know I bought a house. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.440 It's the way you pay your bills. Jesse Jane, performer. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.480 Horn stars, much like athletes, know that industry success can 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.120 be fleeting, fickle, or stop cold due to physical injury. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.800 They aren't expecting marquee fame to last forever, but they 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.360 want to make money for however long they can. Jesse 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.880 Jane starts out doing local modeling for mall prom dress stores, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.800 gets a waitressing job at Hooters, and works her way 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.200 up through the ranks to become regional training coordinator, then 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:29.119 becomes a Hawaiian Tropic bikini model. By the two thousands, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.920 American media has semi normalized making porn as a legitimate 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 job due to public advocacy by performers like Jenna Jamison. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.520 Twenty first century performers don't view doing porn as a 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.400 death sentence or something that will prevent them from having 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:48.239 a normal civilian life afterwards. Doing sex work isn't automatically 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.880 stigmatized as a sign of mental illness or trauma induced 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.720 hyper sexualization. It is simply one way to make a 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.360 buck off of willing to pay simps, a practical solution 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.920 to the larger problem of having to earn money to exist, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.160 and it's hard work. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.760 We get new girls all the time, and I don't 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.200 feel anyone as my competition. 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.719 Jesse Jane signs with Digital Playground in two thousand and 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.000 two and becomes one of the last major contract girls 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.960 to emerge from the Valley's porn studio system. She gets 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.680 the traditional full marketing push that a baroque era porn 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.240 studio like Digital Playground provides. In the cash heavy early 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:36.720 two thousands. Like Jenna before her, Jesse Jane crosses over 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.560 into mainstream Hollywood a little bit as a famous blonde 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.800 porn star. She appears on Entourage playing herself, and has 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.440 a cameo in Pod Philips Starsky and Hutch. She hosts 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.040 a show for Playboy TV called Night Calls no relation 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.360 to my former podcast Night Call for two thousands performers 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:00.440 porn is no longer necessarily a lifelong vocation. Sometimes it 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.480 is merely a day job. Some performers even get into 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.840 porn in order to cultivate name recognition that they hope 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.640 to use as a springboard to other kinds of work. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.720 I guess I was naive at the time. I thought 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.040 since these movies featured women, and that since the women 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.920 are on the box covers, that there'd be more women 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.680 buying it or running things. But throughout the nineties, I'd 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.000 say ninety percent of the people I met on business 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:37.480 calls and at the conventions were men. Samantha Lewis Digital Playground. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.480 Ali June marries a woman named Samantha Lewis who works 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.760 with him at Digital Playground. They divorce but continue to 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:50.840 work together. June and Lewis understand that marketing is just 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.320 as important as the content, and they are very ambitious 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:54.960 about both. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.600 I was in real estate for eleven years, and I 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.520 really had a misconception, as most people do, about what 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.360 adult is. But since mainstream sales experience is what I 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.440 came in with, that's when I applied to selling porn. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.800 Unknowingly, one of the last big adult film studios to 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.640 ever produce full length adult films. Digital Playground leads the 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.800 way into porn's baroque era. The budgets are bigger than 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.640 they've ever been in the history of the industry. The 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.320 films have wide instant reach online, and they're made to 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:37.240 stand right alongside mainstream Hollywood's content. Digital Playground even has 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.520 tent pole releases each year, the term for big movies 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.920 in the studios lineup, whose profits are supposed to help 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.920 prop up with smaller movies. And, like the name says, 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.040 DP shoots exclusively on digital video cameras. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.280 I went through all the great Sony models along the way, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.240 the one thousands and two thousands, then jumped on board 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.920 with the Cannon because of their sixteen millimeters glass options. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.840 Moved into varcams for a long time, back to Sony 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.320 in the nine hundreds for a bit. Those nine hundreds 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.440 are temperamental. I didn't like them so much. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.680 The Island Fever series is Digital Playground's first successful tent 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:19.320 pole franchise. DP calls it high end gonzo shot by 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.680 cinematographer Robbie d who they poached away from Vivid. By 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.879 the time they make Pirates, Digital Playground is shooting on 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.159 top of the line read four K cameras. Pirates is 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.280 marketed as one of the most expensive and ambitious adult 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.000 films ever made. It's the first adult film ever released 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.120 on Blu ray and HD DBD. There's even a three 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:47.439 disc special edition for seventy bucks Pirates and Standard Definition HD, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:53.119 and a special features disc with bloopers. Digital Playground sells 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.800 half a million copies of the single disc version of 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.239 Pirates at twenty five dollars a pop. There's even an 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.160 R rated secre cut that's available to screen or rent 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.679 from video stores. Copies of Pirates are sent out to 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.840 college campuses with info on how to organize a screening 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:13.280 for students. Dp's publicity blitz centers on their use of 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:18.560 cutting edge digital video technology. The stars of Pirates, Jesse 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.359 Jane and legendary woodman Evan Stone, say the movie is 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.120 a rollicking adventure comedy film that just happens to have 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:27.960 a little bit of hardcore acc in it. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.159 Take the sex out of this movie, and it's Walt Disney. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.600 There are reports of parents accidentally renting Pirates for their 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.760 children at video stores, assuming it's a family movie about 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.760 Pirates from the cover art, which is why it's sometimes 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:49.800 also known as Pirates triple X. Pirates should be the 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:54.359 cherry on top of porn's gradual acceptance in mainstream Hollywood 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:59.199 as a legitimate form of filmmaking, and then come the 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:11.520 other pirates. It's Jenna Jamison continues to promote her memoir 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.000 How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, a cautionary tale, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.919 in newspapers and on TV outlets across the globe. Porn, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.840 mind you, is not the cautionary part of the tale. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.920 It's the various creepy men who tried to manipulate and 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.520 control her in her personal life. The porn industry is 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.800 where Jenna actually received respect. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.520 I thought it was important for people to know they're 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:34.000 real me. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.240 While the portrayal of porn in the media has improved 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.080 dramatically since the seventies, eighties, and nineties, even in two 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.479 thousand and four, interviewers on outlets like Fox News are 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.120 still trying to bait Jenna into saying the porn industry 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.159 is a bad place and that she's only in porn 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:56.199 because she experienced sexual trauma. Jenna refuses to take the 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.320 bait and diplomatically states that she's had good experiences and born, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.280 and she could have endured the exact same traumas and 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.560 just as easily ended up in another field like newscasting. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.359 There are women who've experienced sexual trauma in every industry 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:17.600 because such a high percentage of women do. When General 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:33.560 World returns, Roccos Safreddi retires, Oh my god, welcome back 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:34.680 to General World. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.760 My children are growing up and I can no longer 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.679 just say dad is going to work to make money 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.280 for the family. They want to know more. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.440 Raccos Safredde performer. 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.160 In two thousand and four, Rocos Safreddi announces at an 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.720 industry convention in Paris that he is retiring from performing. 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.119 While porn has made him rich and famous, having so 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.919 much sex on camera has caused him to struggle with 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.920 sex addiction in his personal life and neglect his home life. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.560 While he plans to continue directing and producing, he no 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.679 longer wants to have sex on screen. By the early 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.320 two thousands, Vivid Entertainment Group is still the biggest porn 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.359 studio in the valley, making one hundred million dollars a 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:31.280 year in DVD sales. Porn studios are releasing seven thousand 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.159 new pornographic films each year sex, toupling the number of 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.520 new releases from the early nineties, but DVD sales and 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.840 rental numbers are suddenly starting to drop by as much 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.959 as fifteen percent. Could it be because the market is 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:50.320 so oversaturated now that there is simply too much porn 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.480 for even an eager customer with expendable income to consume, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:59.040 or is it something else? In two thousand and four, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.719 a sex tape is released starring celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:07.160 titled One Night in Paris. Against her wishes, Paris Hilton's 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.439 ex boyfriend Rick Solomon sells the sex tape, filmed in 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.560 two thousand and one to a Chatsworth adult film distribution 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:17.560 company called red Light District. Video. One Night in Paris 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.400 opens with the dedication, in memory of nine to eleven 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.360 two thousand and one, we will never forget One Night 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.040 in Paris is horrible and not sexy at all. It's 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.280 actually so depressing. In the past, celebrity sex tape scandal 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.040 is usually involved men who were exposed filming with underage 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:41.400 girls like eighty star name redacted, or urinating on underage 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.640 girls or getting oral sex from groupies while saying it's 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.440 good to be King to the camera like Scott Staff 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.760 from Creed, allegedly in a video of him and Kid 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.119 Rock getting head from fans on a tour bus and 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.080 a preview for a tape that was blocked from release 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:59.960 by Kid Rock. Paris successfully sues Rick Solomon for release 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:01.280 One Night in Paris. 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.719 I never received a dime for the video. It's just 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.040 dirty money and he should give it all to some 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.199 charity for the sexually abused or something. To be honest, 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.960 I don't even think about it anymore. Paris Hilton Airis. 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.520 One Night in Paris wins top selling and renting title 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.640 at the two thousand and five Avian Awards, which features 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:32.480 musical guests smash Mouth, Lit and Chingy. Not since Jamie 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.880 Gillis Made on the Prowl has a pornographic movie created 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:40.280 such a seismic shock through the adult film industry. Porn 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:44.760 is no longer just the domain of professional performers. Anyone 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:47.159 on earth can be a porn star now, and a 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:51.720 famous civilian's depressing, perloined sex tape can outsell even the 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:56.280 most famous porn stars. One Night in Paris causes a 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.600 brief two thousands vogue for boutique sex tapes from D 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:03.199 list celebrities, culminating in the two thousand and seven ray 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:08.360 j and Kim Kardashian sex tape Kim Kardashian Superstar. While 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:12.040 Kim threatened legal action against Vivid for releasing the tape, 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.600 there are some people, including ray Ja, who claim it 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:19.000 was allegedly her mamager Chris Jenner's idea to release a 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:22.400 KIMK sex tape to the public, allegedly inspired by how 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.200 One Night in Paris made Paris Hilton into a household name, 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:29.200 even if it was as a punchline. Jenna herself says 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.200 she was neighbors with the Kardashians in La at some point, 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:35.960 and they all knew each other. The Kim K sex 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.479 tape helped met Kim Kardashian and her family a two 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.440 thousand and seven reality show on the E Entertainment Network, 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:45.720 the same channel Regenna did red Carpet interviews. The reality 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:48.719 show is built around Kim's new notoriety and invokes her 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:52.320 deceased father, Robert Kardashian's brief national fame as one of 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:56.880 Oj Simpson's friends and defense attorneys. Kim drops her suit 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.520 against Vivid and settles for five million. She also poses 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:05.800 for Playboy at her mother's urging. Kim Kardashian has taken 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:08.960 the Jenna Jamison model of fame and reduced it down 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:12.080 to one mediocre filmed sex scene that will launch her 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.600 career doing whatever it is that she does. The marketing 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.840 of oneself that porn stars have always done is becoming 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:22.560 something civilians do now too, in the new world of 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:26.840 social media. In the same way that the first parasocial 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:29.359 porn stars offered a way you could follow along with 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:33.600 their real lives from home, now civilians can also create 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:39.560 and cultivate parasocial relationships with their followers. Internet stardom morphs 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:47.040 into a new future, defining paradigm the influencer digital playgrounds. 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:50.720 Pirates sweeps the two thousand and six Adult Video News Awards. 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:55.360 It sets a new record, winning eleven AVN trophies, including 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:59.240 June for Best Director, Jeanine Linda Mulder for Best Actress, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.879 and Jesse Jane for Best All Girl Sex Scene, and 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:07.040 newly created awards for Best HD Video and Best Online 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:08.080 Marketing Campaign. 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.199 I never sought porn, It found me. 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:18.919 Evanstone wins Best Actor for Pirates, part of a string 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:22.959 of two thousand's Best Actor wins for Stone. Born Thomas 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:27.040 Ryan on July eighteenth, a cancer, his parents divorced and 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:30.280 he's raised by his mother and firefighter stepfather in Texas. 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:34.159 He plays defensive linemen for a Division I college football 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.760