12 Inches of American Voters
Although pornographic films exist on the periphery of American Culture,1 the Adult Film Business earns as much money per year as the “legitimate” Film Biz. American Voters love their Porn, and their Porn Stars.
Thanks to the support of American Voters, there are a lot of very wealthy (and sticky) Porn Stars walking around bow-legged in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County.
And in American Politics, wealth equals access. Presidential Campaigns are aiming for these Swing Voters in 2008, because Porn Stars are an influential Demographic.
History
Porn Stars haven’t always had the political clout they now brandish about like so many 18 inch black dildos. It wasn’t until the early 1970’s that Porn Stars and Politicians were forever linked.
If that isn’t a 70’s Porn Stache, I don’t know what is…
You see, although the era of free love and peace of the Sixties ended on December 31, 1969; the early 70’s were still pretty much a sexual free-for-all in this country. The sloppy seconds, if you will. We had penicillin, and the CIA hadn’t yet created AIDS to kill black people in the inner cities.2
It was a Polyester Paradise…
But back then, if one wanted to enjoy an Adult Film in the United States, you had to travel to a theater on the wrong side of the tracks and watch it from the moist seats with lots of other Sad, Lonely Men.
As the story goes,3 Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman had hit a wall in their investigation of the Democratic National Committee Offices break-in at the Watergate hotel. Although he disputes it today, experts speculate that it was Hoffman who suggested relieving the stress of the investigation by taking in a “skin flick.”
Popular history has cleaned the story up a bit with tales of secret meetings with mystery sources deep within the subterranean depths of DC parking lots, but in reality, it was the 2:30A screening of “Deep Throat” that effectively swallowed Nixon’s presidency. Woodward and Hoffman ran into FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt with his trench coat dangerously tented, and the rest is history.
Will Porn Stars make one of the Major Candidates the “Big Tent” Candidate this year?
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1 And your Spam Box
2 Special thanks to Research Intern Pastor Jeremiah Wright
3 NB: this entire period is a little sketchy for the author, due to excessive Quaalude and Bee-Gees abuse in the ’70’s
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