Golden Age of Porn
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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The term "porno chic" was first used in the early 1970s to describe the wave of pornographic movies like Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and Score that appeared in mainstream moviehouses of the United States for the first time. For a period of two or three years it was fashionable to watch and discuss such films. An influential five-page article about the movie Deep Throat in the New York Times Magazine in early 1973 used the phrase "porno chic" in the title and described the phenomenon. Actress Linda Lovelace once stated at that time that she believed that the porn industry would merge with the mainstream film industry.
During the era of porn chic, also known as "The Golden Age of Porn", adult film stars such as Linda Lovelace, Harry Reems, Marilyn Chambers, and John C. Holmes (a.k.a., "Johnny Wadd") became household names and much sought-out superstars. As the industry flourished, Mr. Holmes was cast as the first recurring porn character in the wildly popular "Johnny Wadd" film series, in which he played a world-wise detective.
More recently, "porno chic" or "porn chic" has been used to refer to the mainstreaming of pornography and the use of imagery from pornography in popular culture, such as advertising, music videos, movies and cable television.<ref>William L. Hamilton: The Mainstream Flirts With Pornography Chic. The New York Times, 21 March 1999</ref> Adult models and actresses are routinely interviewed on radio and appear on "The Howard Stern Show." As a result, such actresses, as well as a few actors such as Ron Jeremy, have received increased exposure. In the 1990s it became common for mainstream Hollywood actors to date adult video stars. In some cases, private videos subsequently made by them were discovered and later sold over the Internet.
The latter use of the term has been promoted by British media researcher Brian McNair. <ref>The mainstreaming of pornography in mass culture, by Anette Dina Sørensen. Talk given in 2003. </ref>
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