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59.
Laura Kipnis, “(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading
Hustler,
” in
Cultural Studies,
ed. Larry Grossberg, C. Nelson, and P. Treichler (New York: Routledge, 1992), 378.
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60.
Hustler
Reader Profile, Fall 1995.
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61.
Newsweek,
January 1964, 48;
Saturday Evening Post,
April 28, 1962, 28;
Forbes,
March 3, 1971, 18.
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62.
Forbes,
March 3, 1971, 18.
,
17.
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63.
Time,
March 3, 1967, 76;
Newsweek,
January 6, 1964, 48.
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64.
Time,
March 20, 1978.
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65.
People,
August 2, 1993, 92.
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66.
Newsweek,
January 14, 1983, 16;
Time,
March 20, 1978, 20.
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67.
People,
July 20, 1987, 32.
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68.
Dirk Smillie, “Dangerous Curves,”
Forbes,
April 7, 2008,
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0407/056_print.html
(accessed October 2, 2008).
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69.
“Penthouse Owner Sued by Guccione,”
South Florida Business Journal,
February 24, 2006,
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/02/27/story3.html
(accessed March 6, 2008).
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70.
Smillie, “Dangerous Curves.”
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71.
Jennifer Ordoñez, “
Penthouse
Gets Pious,”
Newsweek,
May 19, 2008, 47.
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72.
Ibid.
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73.
Smillie, “Dangerous Curves.”
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74.
Xeni Jardin, “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Porn,” February 19, 2004,
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/02/62343?currentPage=all
(accessed March 24, 2009).
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75.
Stuart Miller, “Risqué Business,”
Multichannel News,
June 16, 2008, 12–17.
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76.
Ibid.
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77.
Steven J. Dubner, “Chris Napolitano on George Bush, the State of Porn, and Why
Playboy
Is Still Hot,”
New York Times,
August 27, 2007,
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/chris-napolitano-on-george-bush-the-state-of-porn-and-why-playboy-doesnt-suck/?ex=1188878400&en=8e13af140c83037e&ei=5070&emc=eta1
(accessed March 9, 2009).
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78.
Izabella St. James,
Bunny Tales
(New York: Running Press, 2008), 158.
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Two: Pop Goes the Porn Culture

1.
Reed Johnson, “Porn Stars Are the New Crossover Artists,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 3, 2008,
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-porn3–2008nov03,0,6573308.story
(accessed November 6, 2008).
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2.
This image has recently been somewhat tarnished as Francis is facing a slew of legal problems ranging from using underage girls to tax evasion. See Richard Verrier, “Tax Evasion Charges Add to Francis’ Legal Woes,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 12, 2007,
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/12/business/fi-girls12
(accessed March 5, 2009).
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3.
Claire Hoffman, “‘Baby, Give Me a Kiss’—The Man Behind the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Soft-Porn Empire Lets Claire Hoffman into His World, for Better or Worse,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 6, 2006,
http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,2664370.story
(accessed October 5, 2007).
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4.
“
Girls Gone Wild
Helps Shape America,” PR Newswire, March 29, 2007,
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03–29–2007/0004556380&EDATE=
(accessed June 28, 2007).
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5.
Gretchen Gallen, “
Girls Gone Wild
Affiliate Program Makes Debut,”
XBIZ,
February 2, 2006,
http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?cat=2&id=13236
(accessed June 24, 2007).
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6.
http://members.girlsgonewild.com/bonus
(accessed April 24, 2007).
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7.
http://www.adultcon.com/indexa.html
(accessed April 24, 2007).
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8.
David Sullivan, “IVD Throws
Girls Gone Wild
Bellagio Bash,”
Adult Video News,
n.d.,
http://www.avn.com/index_cache.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=281697
(accessed June 2, 2007).
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9.
Gallen, “
Girls Gone Wild
Affiliate Program Makes Debut.”
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10.
Stephen Ochs, “Joe Francis,”
XBIZ,
September 1, 2005,
http://www.xbiz.com/articles/80073/girls+gone+wild
(accessed January 23, 2009).
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11.
Vicki Mayer has pointed out that, on a televised talk show, the producers call themselves “a documentary film company.” Vicki Mayer, “Soft-Core in TV Time: The Political Economy of a ‘Cultural Trend,’”
Critical Studies in Media Communication
22, no. 4 (2005): 302–20.
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12.
M. Navarro, “The Very Long Legs of ‘Girls Gone Wild,’”
New York Times,
April 4, 2004, sec. 9.
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13.
Ariel Levy,
Female Chauvinist Pigs
(New York: Free Press, 2005), 12.
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14.
The hip-hop artist Snoop Dog teamed up with Joe Francis in 2002 to make
Girls Gone Wild: Doggy Style.
One year later Snoop Dog cut ties with Francis because of the lack of black women in
GGW.
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15.
E. Maticka-Tyndale, E. S. Herold, and D. Mewhinney, “Casual Sex on Spring Break: Intentions and Behaviors of Canadian Students,”
Journal of Sex Research
35, no. 3 (1998): 254–64, quoted in Karen Pitcher, “The Staging of Agency in
Girls Gone Wild,
”
Critical Studies in Media Communication
23, no. 3 (2006): 204.
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16.
Matthew Miller, “The (Porn) Player,”
Forbes,
July 4, 2005,
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0704/124.html
(accessed January 24, 2007).
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17.
“‘I Chose the Right Profession’: Porn Star’s New Book Tells of Rise to Fame,” August 27, 2004,
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/08/27/jenna.jameson
(accessed March 6, 2009).
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18.
Jenna Jameson, interview by Judith Regan, n.d.,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSzAdntX1As
(accessed February 24, 2009).
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19.
Jenna Jameson,
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
(New York: Harper Collins), 96–97.
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20.
Ibid., 67.
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21.
Ibid., 132.
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22.
Adult DVD Talk, February 27, 2008,
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/whichpage=3/topic_id=114797/forum_id=1/cat_id=1/reply=1270099#post1270099
(accessed March 3, 2009).
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23.
Adult DVD Talk, September 11, 2008,
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/topic_id=125602/forum_id=1/cat_id=1/125602.htm#post0
(accessed March 3, 2009).
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24.
Adult DVD Talk, January 19, 2007,
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/topic_id=115100/forum_id=5/cat_id=1/reply=1206931#post1206931
(accessed March 3, 2009).
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25.
Adult DVD Talk, January 20, 2008,
http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum/topic.dlt/topic_id=115100/forum_id=5/cat_id=1/reply=1206931#post1206931
(accessed March 30, 2009). Chatsworth in Los Angeles is often considered the center of the American porn industry, with companies such as Wicked Pictures, Anabolic Video, and Adult Video News located in the area.
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26.
According to porn producer and performer Annie Cruz, women make $1,200 for a double penetration scene, $1,300 for multiple penetration by three guys, and $1,500 for double anal. Quoted in
Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships
(Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2007).
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27.
Bob Preston, “Sasha Grey Stars in New Ad for American Apparel,”
XBIZ,
December 30, 2008,
http://www.xbiz.com/news/103170
(accessed March 23, 2009).
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28.
Adult Video News,
n.d.,
http://www.avn.com/performer/companies/830.html
(accessed March 4, 2009).
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29.
Ann Riley Katz, “Family Guy: Steve Hirsch Followed in His Dad’s Footsteps by Launching His Own Adult Film Company, Now the Leader in a Very Mainstream Business,”
Los Angeles Business Journal,
November 12, 2007, 29.
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30.
“MSNBC’s Rita Cosby Delves into Vivid Valley,”
Adult Video News,
December 15, 2005,
http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=70F9F731-B1EE-818D-931BEAF17B36C7C6&articleID=EDA39917–1372–4B41-C477FEEB259C7491
(accessed January 16, 2006).
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31.
Kathy Brewer, “The Digital Divide,”
Adult Video News,
January 3, 2008,
http://online.avn.com/articles/1499.html
(accessed January 7, 2008).
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32.
Dreamworlds 3
(Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2007).
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33.
Quoted in Matt Ezzell, “Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coal Mine,” in
The Sexualization of Childhood,
ed. Sharna Olfman (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009), 16–17.
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34.
Laramie D. Taylor, “All for Him: Articles about Sex in American Lad Magazines,”
Sex Roles
52, nos. 3–4 (2005): 153–63.
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35.
Ibid., 162.
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36.
Ezzell, “Pornography,” 18.
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37.
Thomas Stanton, “
Denver Post
Reports on Mainstreaming of Adult,”
Adult Video News,
July 10, 2006,
http://www.avn.com/video/articles/27570.html
(accessed April 12, 2007).
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38.
Jackson Katz,
The Macho Paradox
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2006), 173.
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Three: From the Backstreet to Wall Street

1.
http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html#anchor1
(accessed March 20, 2009).
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2.
Brandweek,
October 2000, 41, 1Q48.
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3.
Jonathan Coopersmith, “Does Your Mother Know What You Really Do? The Changing Nature and Image of Computer-Based Pornography,”
History and Technology
22, no. 1 (2006): 1–25.
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4.
Sinead Carew, “Porn to Spice Up Cell Phones,” January 30, 2008,
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN3030000720080130
(accessed February 21, 2009).
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5.
Blaise Cronin and Elisabeth Davenport, “E-rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy,”
Information Society
17 (2001): 41.
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6.
Coopersmith, “Does Your Mother Know What You Really Do?” 6.
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7.
Ibid., 7.
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8.
Amanda Spink and Bernard J. Jansen,
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web
(New York: Springer, 2004), quoted in Coopersmith, “Does Your Mother Know What You Really Do?” 7.
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9.
Ibid., 8–9.
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10.
Ibid., 12.
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11.
Joel Johnson, “Real Touch: Interactive Sex Device Syncs Porn with Belt-Driven USB Orifice (Yay!),”
Boing Boing,
January 12, 2009,
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/12/real-touch-interacti.html
(accessed March 21, 2009).
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12.
http://www.adultvest.com/index.php
(accessed March 23, 2009).
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13.
Stephen Yagielowicz, “The State of the Industry,”
XBIZ,
March 20, 2009,
http://www.xbiz.com/articles/106157/
(accessed March 23, 2009).
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14.
Alex Henderson, “Making Bank,”
XBIZ,
April 16, 2007,
http://www.xbiz.com/articles/22392/steve+Hirsch
(accessed March 20, 2009).
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