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Is Porn the new Reality TV? TV Squad is reporting the hot new thing in Reality TV is Porn.
This fall, the Fox Reality Channel will be airing a three-episode series titled My Bare Lady, which will take four female porn stars out of their usual element and place them on the London theater stage, where they will perform "legitimate" theater.
So, is this a gentrification for these porn stars, or is this paving the way to blur the line between what's acceptable and what's not on TV?
In doing a technorati search, I've seen so many men linking around to this show, but not many women speaking up on this issue.
Re: gentrification vs. convergence
Melissa Gira May 4, 2006 - 1:17pm
Putting porn on primetime seems to be just one more step center of things like HBO's Real Sex, or Howard Stern on E!. It's not as if the porn-consuming audience is all that different from the tv-watching audience.
Will this make porn any more 'legitimate'? It depends on what you mean by that. Do you mean, will it make watching porn a less stigmatized activity? Will it make doing porn a less stigmatized gig?
What I see here is a step towards what Barb Brents and Kate Hausbeck (UNLV, Womens' Studies & Sociology) are finding in their research: the convergence of the sex industry with leisure culture at large. They've published a great deal in academic journals on the inter-relationship between the sex industry and pop culture.
(And for more women on porn, there's Violet Blue's The Smart Girl's Guide to Porn, due this Summer.