Gingersnap
03-04-2010, 03:38 PM
Being a porn star ain't what it used to be
KATHERINE FEENEY
March 4, 2010
Monica Mayhem had become accustomed to a certain degree of luxury in her sex life.
The Brisbane-born, US-based porn veteran once worked in Bel Air mansions, enjoying the pampering associated with dedicated costume designers and hefty budgets.
Then the internet came along.
Like video killed the radio star, the bright lights of the world's pornographic film industry are being bound, gagged and held to ransom by the world wide web.
"It's pretty bad," says Ms Mayhem, who has 400 XXX American film credits to her name. "A lot of us are screwed."
In town for Brisbane Sexpo, the articulate, attractive 31-year-old says dark clouds have gathered over California's San Fernando Valley, the once thriving, spiritual home of pornographic film.
In a world of free online downloads, plummeting DVD sales and disappearing profits, Ms Mayhem says she knows directors who give the industry two more years, tops.
"All these little girls are coming in straight out of high school and thinking [porn] is glamorous and that they'll be like [porn super star] Jenna Jameson," Ms Mayhem says.
"And these little girls are coming in doing way hardcore things for $300 and ruining it for everyone.
I'll take her word for it.
Brisbane Times (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/your-brisbane/being-a-porn-star-aint-what-it-used-to-be-20100303-pj5m.html)
KATHERINE FEENEY
March 4, 2010
Monica Mayhem had become accustomed to a certain degree of luxury in her sex life.
The Brisbane-born, US-based porn veteran once worked in Bel Air mansions, enjoying the pampering associated with dedicated costume designers and hefty budgets.
Then the internet came along.
Like video killed the radio star, the bright lights of the world's pornographic film industry are being bound, gagged and held to ransom by the world wide web.
"It's pretty bad," says Ms Mayhem, who has 400 XXX American film credits to her name. "A lot of us are screwed."
In town for Brisbane Sexpo, the articulate, attractive 31-year-old says dark clouds have gathered over California's San Fernando Valley, the once thriving, spiritual home of pornographic film.
In a world of free online downloads, plummeting DVD sales and disappearing profits, Ms Mayhem says she knows directors who give the industry two more years, tops.
"All these little girls are coming in straight out of high school and thinking [porn] is glamorous and that they'll be like [porn super star] Jenna Jameson," Ms Mayhem says.
"And these little girls are coming in doing way hardcore things for $300 and ruining it for everyone.
I'll take her word for it.
Brisbane Times (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/your-brisbane/being-a-porn-star-aint-what-it-used-to-be-20100303-pj5m.html)