It's Official: Porn is the Mainstream

Since 1905 Variety has reported on Tinseltown's business, but it has studiously ignored the seedier side of the business down in the San Fernando Valley, namely, the porn industry. You know, the industry that moved out at, like, 15 -- okay, ran away -- and ended up living on the "wrong side of the street"? Even the name suggests an aura of up-to-no-good. No, Variety wanted to keep face; Variety was not about that; Variety would cover Nicholson, BO, prexy changes and helmers.

No longer. Add the verb porning to the Variety lexicon. Variety Magazine, the essential rag for the film and tv industry here in the US has started an official porn blog called The Porning Report, which means that the $10 billion dollar a year industry is now about as close to legit as it has ever been.

Imagine if 100 years from now Paris Hilton, whose porn tape was viewed en masse in bars and offices, was the one who liberated porn.