10 Times Porn Went Mainstream
Mizuka Ishiwatari
Published
04/29/2015
Adult industry members and productions that reached celebrity status.
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The Ballad Of Chasey Lain By The Bloodhound Gang was the hit song of year 1999. Jimmy Pop made the porn star's name recognized internationally, although it wasn't Chasey's first appearance on mainstream TV - she played in the Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight and Spike Lee’s He Got Game. The song by Bloodhound Gang was one of the first mentions of a porn star name in pop culture, that instantly made the performer mentioned into a celebrity. -
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Boogie Nights is an Oscar-nominated film starring Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore. It depicted California’s X-rated film industry. Burt Reynolds said he visited actual porn sets and his experiences made him want to take a shower afterwards. -
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Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience casts real-life porn star Sasha Grey as a New York call girl. The 21-year-old Grey was already the veteran of over a hundred pornographic films, and from there she would star in more and more mainstream movies. 2 years later she retired from porn, after appearing in 224 hard-core films, to become a musician, writer, mainstream actress and TV celebrity. -
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Ron Jeremy is the most recognized male porn star name, both in the adult industry and mainstream media. He played in many big screen movies, and he’s a regular in low-budget horror films. -
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In 2004, HBO launched its program called Pornucopia, which documented the lives of those who work in California’s sex industry. It had interviews with such porn stars as Jenna Jameson, Jenna Haze, Jill Kelly and Jeff Stryker. Other TV stations followed and many similar shows emerged, such as Skin by the Fox Network, a prime-time drama about a porn magnate, which was cancelled after only three episodes. -
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Released in 2001, Doggystyle, the collaboration between Hustler Video and Snoop Dogg, became so popular, it resulted in a follow-up, Hustlaz: Diary Of A Pimp, and persuaded Ice-T to make Pimpin’ 101, a documentary where the famous rapper interviews pimps and hookers. It was also the year when many porn starlets were already a common sight in music videos. -
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Jenna Jameson is one of the most popular and richest porn stars of the 90s. The mainstream beckoned in 1997 when she appeared opposite Howard Stern in Private Parts. She was famous enough to play herself in episodes of Family Guy and Mister Sterling, as well as lend her vocal talents to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The porn star also endorsed sneakers, appeared on Times Square billboards and was in the music video for Eminem’s Without Me. Jameson announced her retirement from hard-core in 2008. She released her autobiography, How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, in 2010. -
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Nora Louise Kuzma, better known as Traci Lords, debuted underage in the porn industry in 1984, which was later subject to an internationally blown scandal. Since then she has sung with the Manic Street Preachers, voiced videogame characters and appeared in several high profile movies. Her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, was published in 2003 and made the New York Times bestseller list. -
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Gregory Hippolyte, known under the alias Greg Dark got his start in filmmaking in a porn production team in the early 1980s. After he gathered enough experience, he started doing different projects - horror films, comedies, TV shows. He didn't stop there, and started directing music promos for such artists as Mandy Moore. Linkin Park, Sublime or Xzibit, although he's probably best known for the Britney Spears music video From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart. -
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In 1971, Deep Throat was more popular than James Bond or Dirty Harry, made more money than pictures directed by Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah, and became the first stag movie to be reviewed by Roger Ebert. The movie's star, Linda Lovelace, became the most famous porn star on the planet, even though she only received $1200 for her role.
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