A Survivor In The Smut Business
Silent Porn Star has an exclusive interview with Irv O. Neil — a writer and editor of smut for books, magazines, movies, video, the web, and your Kindle since 1974. It looks like SPS will be doling out the interview in parts (only the first of which is up yet) but even this man’s list of all the porn jobs he’s had reads like a history of the industry. Here’s his memory of Times Square, back in the day:
Eighth Avenue near Times Square was lined with streetwalkers, some of whom were really beautiful and sexy – amazing blondes in hot pants and platform shoes. I was smitten. Strip clubs, inexpensive massage parlors, hookers and dominatrixes advertising in Screw, porn movie theaters with live shows. The Melody Burlesque with the porn stars as feature dancers and where girls danced naked in your lap for a dollar – and with its infamous “Mardi Gras,” where customers lined up to eat out the dancers at a buck a lick…
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I walk that stretch of Eighth Avenue regularly and aside from the occasional eccentric sight that makes for ErosBlog fodder in these days it’s not even remotely interesting from an adult business perspective. One or two minor establishments that sell adult merchandise hang on in the vicinity of Port Authority Bus Terminal, but pretty much elsewhere else Disney has won over classic New York. Phht!
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New York is dead, gone is the erotic allure, it’s been taken over by crap Disney ventures, which means it’s been destroyed. Say goodbye to 42nd Street :(