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American Ecstasy, American Porn
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Porn is an industry, and quite a profitable one: we probably don’t realize this enough, distracted as we are by the thought of naked body parts. And just like any other industry, the porn business has had its ups and downs—you understand the irony of this, right?—over the years.
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