Word: porn
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pastime. But technological advances have repeatedly changed the nature and allure of the game. Polaroids, for example, enabled people to take seductive snapshots without having the pictures developed by strangers. Soon after the arrival of the VCR, people who wouldn't have been caught dead in a Times Square porn house became comfortable with seeing sex tapes at home. Erotic movies account for an estimated 10% to 20% of video rentals. And when affordable, lightweight camcorders became commonplace during the past few years, X-rated home movies were the inevitable next step. No one keeps statistics on the trend...
Finding himself between a rock and a hard place, Tanner has tried to clear himself with everything from plea bargaining with the store owners to using public funds to distribute anti-porn literature from left-wing Christian groups. When I left Daytona in September, it was apparent that Tanner had realized that he was quickly losing ground...
Cincinnati has made a name for itself as a porn-busting town: Censornati. There is not a single X-rated theater, topless bar or massage parlor inside the city limits. That is small comfort to museum directors elsewhere, who fear they could be next. Some plan to testify as expert witnesses, hoping to persuade the jury that pictures may resemble porn but also affect the viewer in the more complex manner of art. "These photographs are not meant to titillate," says Arnold Lehman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. "They don't have that vacuous anonymity that pornography...
...moody Sailor (Nicolas Cage) bashing a black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy ending complete with deus ex machina...
Local prosecutors have also learned that they can flex their muscles on a national scale, shutting down interstate porn operators by bringing them to trial in conservative localities. The New York-based Home Dish Satellite Network once beamed X-rated films on its American Exxxtasy Channel to 30,000 subscribers around the country. It was driven into bankruptcy earlier this year after a district attorney in Montgomery County, Ala. -- where 30 households received the service -- brought criminal charges against the company's officers for violating the state's anti-obscenity laws...