But I can recall only a handful of watchable movies about porn, and I watch porn… well, a lot. So why have there been so few mainstream movies about porn? Off the top of my head, I could name dozens of movies about war, and I’ve never been in the military. My point is, porn has been such a consistently weird part of our cultural history, and a window into our complicated relationship with sex. It used to be profitable, but now everything is free online, and yet somehow there’s more porn content being created than ever in the history of people recording each other fucking, with more video of well-lit carnality than anybody could ever possibly want or need, and nobody’s paying for any of it, and yet porn actors are still calling themselves “stars,” even though there hasn't been a legitimate “porn star” since the 70s, and even then you could only describe them as “stars” if you were using “air quotes.” It’s a business where people get paid to have sex with each other while being filmed so that that the footage can be watched later by people trying to masturbate.

Everything about the adult film industry is fascinating.