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>> Do these people look like pornographers? Of course not. That's the point.

Great piece about porn in this Sunday's NYT Magazine. And it's not the usual oh-so-clever piece that usually shows up in the legitimate press. Instead, Frank Rich analyzes the business aspects of the industry, interviews the people who run things, discusses how pornography has become mainstream in America. We aren't to the level of the Europeans, who tend to have topless women on posterboards in the subway, but the facts are still amazing.

Pornography is a bigger business than professional football, basketball and baseball put together. People pay more money for pornography in America in a year than they do on movie tickets, more than they do on all the performing arts combined. As one of the porn people I met in the industry's epicenter, the San Fernando Valley, put it, "We realized that when there are 700 million porn rentals a year, it can't just be a million perverts renting 700 videos each."

posted by Bryan at 10:12 PM