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...idea, says Leonard, had two inspirations: his daily routine of deleting unwanted porn e-mails from his teenage sons' computer and his overhearing two mothers at his gym discussing whether to let their 13-year-old daughters get their navels pierced. "Their conversation," he says, "was really about the same issue, the sexualization of children and youth culture." (Raising that subject on the network that gives us The O.C. and Paradise Hotel is either denial or genius...
...America ready to make a pornographer into the next Tony Soprano? Leonard and his stars say yes, on the grounds that porn is more "mainstream" than ever. It's accessible on computers, in hotel rooms, on cable; dirty movies are a punch line on Friends; Pamela Anderson voices a pole dancer on Spike TV's cartoon Stripperella; porn chic is embraced by pop stars from Blink 182 to Kid Rock to Madonna...
...course, if porn were truly mainstream, it would cease to be dirty and thus cease to be porn. (Would you be reading this article if Skin were set in the aluminum industry?) But porn is definitely Big Business--estimated at $10 billion a year--and as Skin emphasizes, much of that goes into the coffers of blue-chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck...
That reference was probably more controversial than anything you will see on Skin; it's really no more risque than several new fall shows--NBC's Coupling and Las Vegas, say--and less so than basic-cable fare like FX's Nip/Tuck. If anything, it may whitewash porn by showing only its most telegenic, soft-core side. The big risk Skin takes is with Goldman, who makes a surprisingly appealing flesh peddler. You could mistake him for the respectable entertainment mogul that he believes he is. Like Satan in Paradise Lost, he's the devil who gets all the best...
...prepare for the role, Silver met with Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and went to porn sets (strictly in the interest of craft!) to chat up starlets. "They have a term for everything," he marvels. "They're talking about D.P.s, and I'm nodding knowingly. It turns out that it means 'double penetration.'" Silver says he considers Goldman a "compartmentalizer." "Nobody wants to think of themselves as a bad person," he says. "He has elaborate rationalizations...