PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

"Porn has entered the mature years," says Paul Fishbein, publisher of AVN, the adult film industry trade magazine. "It's no longer naughty, underground. It's an up-front, in-your-face business, as much a part of the pop culture as anything else. We're in a different phase of our pop culture. Kids today have access to material that we didn't when we were kids. It's more normal, when a kid turns 18, to have that access to sexual material."Or maybe, claims Bowen, it's simply a case of American sexual attitudes finally shedding their Puritanism and achieving maturity."Europe has been doing this stuff forever," she says. "They're not hung up on the whole sex thing. No one ever made a big deal about violence in the movies, but sex has been taboo. Maybe we're finally keeping up with the Joneses."

-NY Daily News
Sept 20 2008