Rattle wrote:
] ] Despite moral watchdogs lamenting Hollywood's vile
] ] tendencies, the studios have actually been cleaning up
] ] their act. R-rated films, once the studios' mainstay, are
] ] on the decline, both in numbers and in lure. In the last
] ] five years, R-rated pics have dwindled from 212 in 1999
] ] to just 147 last year.
]
] Coming soon.. an even less edgy Hollywood.

These numbers may be misleading. It's just a displacement, like DVDs instead of VHS, or CDs instead of audiotapes and vinyl.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/10928137.htm?1c

The "pornification" of America, as Judith Regan, publisher of The Other Hollywood and last year's best-selling Jenna Jameson bio, calls it, has been a continuing process, oozing across the cultural landscape "like lava."

It's hard to measure just how big such a multifarious and shady business really is. Forbes magazine says that the oft-quoted figure of more than $10 billion in sales a year is, like many things about the adult entertainment industry, greatly exaggerated, placing the realistic figure closer to $3 billion.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=497893

In 2002, 11,000 porn films were made, the documentary says, compared with less than 500 Hollywood films.

Let's see what Pat Buchanan has to say ...

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42843

In his second inaugural, George W. Bush used the words liberty and freedom 42 times. And, indeed, if America is about anything, she is about freedom. But freedom from what, and for what?

What brings the old question to mind is the decision by Adelphia Communications, the cable operator that has long refused to carry pornography, to offer triple-X rated programming for the first time in a major media market: Southern California.

Adelphia's fall from grace would be a matter of little interest were it not for the trend it exposed.

"Adelphia joins a marketplace already teeming with ways to procure hard-core sexual content. The Internet has become a carnal cornucopia, with graphic images, videos and cartoons ... EchoStar Communications Corp., the nation's second-ranked satellite TV provider, has offered triple-X programming for several years on its Dish Network. Satellite leader DirecTV Group Inc., owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., peddles fare that falls just shy of triple-X."

Fifty percent of all hotel movies purchased are "adult."

We are in a worldwide race to the bottom, and America is winning.

RE: Variety.com - Don't give me an 'R'