NSFW: Extreme Sports and Extreme Sex

EDIT: Apparently this is misinformation but it is entertaining misinformation so I'll leave it up for entertainment purposes. Misinformation is not always a bad thing.

I had grown a bit tired of the same old news stories day in and day out. You try different sources but you just get different spin. Even science news gets inundated with 'political ramifications'. I wanted a NEW perspective.

So I went out and found an Adult Industry news feed to add to my Google Homepage. Not that I really care about Kim Chambers' birthday party or a new club opening in LA. I just wanted to see what the news feed would be like over time. And I will try to remember to put the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) in titles that contain links to porn sites. Aren't I a peach?

So today I found out that Adam & Eve Stars Sign at ASR Trade Show.

Alarik Skarstrom, President of Blend Marketing, a full service entertainment consulting & marketing company, helped put this deal together. "Upon walking into the AVN Expo in Las Vegas with Bob Christian, I was blown away with how many people were dressed in extreme sports apparel. I made one phone call to Rich Marshall, head of new business development at The Kayo Corp., and we were able to make this happen. Adam and Eve is known as the best company in the adult world. We feel that extreme sports and extreme sex go together extremely well, and look forward to showcasing this in 2006. Most importantly, we know that this clothing line, and its partners involved, are here to promote safe sex."

I understand it, but if I actually READ it, it's all gibberish. It doesn't actually say anything.

Beyond that, this is an excellent example of the mainstreaming of the adult industry. Before the internet porn revolution, adult entertainment was a weak industry. I remember walking into an adult book store in downtown Minneapolis. You could scour the shelves and find maybe a magazine or two with some sub-culture type people in it. Things have really changed. For one thing, almost all of the small adult industry photo publishers have shut down their print operations and gone strictly to electronic delivery. Most content still centers on that 'just turned 18 big boobed blonde'. The American dream. But the freaky people are no longer cut out of the scene. There's sites like Gothic Sluts, Barely Evil, Suicide Girls, and even Rob Rotten's Punx Productions just to name a few of the more dominant ones.

The Adam & Eve story underlines a trend. It's not the sick deviates who drive the porn industry. Regular folks LIKE porn and are fueling the growth of that industry. So much so that an extreme sports corporation has been bold enough to use actual porn stars for promoting purposes. Ten years ago that would have spelled disaster. Now it hardly seems like a risk at all. Adult entertainment has become so popular that this year they will be holding The First U.S. Mobile Adult Content Congress. Dare I say that it is certainly a growth industry? (I had to get one bad joke in there.)

And for those in denial about their love of porn, there's always The Starr Report.