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The skin trade is not all that it might crack up to be.

For those of us who occasionally indulge in the sin of pornography, (and that could be more of us than you think) any behind the scenes information is welcome.

In most cases, all the titillation so skillfully edited into a film is lost on the repetition, the boredom of continually naked bodies and, for men. the chase for elusive erection.

I read that today's film was "loosely" based on the career of straight porn superstar John Holmes who evidently had a legendary dick. Longer than long.

Somewhere the myth of the big dick started and still stays in the mind of many voyeurs as the be all and end all of male virility.

Any gay man can attest to the fact that this is not really so. Men with big equipment figure they have brought everything they needed to the party and no more need be done.

Very boring men, the long donged.

But that aside, Dirk Diggler, played my Mark Wahlberg, is a star among stars.

Boogie Nights (1997)

is his realm. Until it is not.

The ending for this film is not uplifting. In a way, one wishes it could be otherwise. They used to make all sinners pay for their good times and here the same obtains but it seems that there is more truth than moral in this state of affairs.

But enough of that.

This movie is a lot of fun. It is also funny. It recognizes and capitalizes on the fact that sex is a comedy. Even the pros have to laugh. Except that in this case the pros are also drug addicts.

I do not know if the confluence of drugs and porn production is true. I hope not. It is too bad if it is.

I do know a few ex-porn stars (no name dropping here) and the down can be as low as the highs. Like everything else I suppose.

The sex industry has always been seedy, I believe, mostly because it is kept to the margins by the blue noses and the religionists who recognize rightly that healthy sex lives conflict with purity of thought word and deed.

I have to give this film a 5 out of Netflix5 because I come back to it over and over. It is always fresh and fun.

There are a lot of stars in this film or near stars just coming out. The last one of these is Alfred Molina who plays a gleefully dirty old man who is also as high as a kite. I had forgotten about Molina and was glad to see him.

In fact, seeing the film is like a reunion of my favorite actors. All gathered together in this one film.