Six Degrees of Paris Hilton
Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood
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The Hustler, the Heiress, and the Soft-Porn King
The video is stark and grainy, its color garish, almost fluorescent, from one too many generations of unauthorized copying. A figure lies facedown on a bed, his eyes glassy, his mouth puddled in a stuporous grin, his pants pulled down around his ankles. There is a remote-controlled, multi-pronged pink vibrator resting along the crest of his buttocks, lazily whirring in a clockwise motion, like a rotating finger. A whip-pan stage left shows a driver's license pinned to a wall -- a subtle parody of the countlessb porn ingénues forced to comply with Title 18, Section 2257 of the U.S. Code, the federal record-keeping law passed in the wake of the Traci Lords scandal to make sure the adult film industry stays that way. Except nobody here is acting brazen or flirty or petulant or even just the slightest bit naughty. It's more like one of those hostage videos from war-ravaged Iraq, its subject disheveled, sleep deprived, and, just maybe, fearing ... read full excerpt from: Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood ebook