Jack says you’ve got a great big cock. Boogie Nights 1997 starring Mark Wahlberg & Burt Reynolds & Julianne Moore & Don Cheadle & John C Reilly & William H Macy & Heather Graham & Luiz Guzman & Philip Seymour Hoffmann & Philip Baker Hall et al, director Paul Thomas Anderson, financier
This is the future – video tape tells the truth. ibid. boss man
This is a fine life you’ve made for yourself. ibid. dude
I want mellow, mellow, mellow. ibid. Jack
‘That was all for show. They raid us once a month for appearances sake.’ Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty II: Goodbye Rotten Geezer, Soho sex shop worker, BBC 2021
At this time Soho at least in term of pornography was a huge corruption machine in which hundreds of pounds was being paid every year to crooked cops. ibid. Martin Short, journalist
Demand for pornography in the late 1960s was at an all-time high. Magazines are cheap to produce, and hardcore material is easily smuggled in from the more liberal Europe. With vast profits to be made, pornographers continually pushed the boundaries of acceptability. The job of policing this lucrative trade is down to the Obscene Publications Squad. In charge of the Obscene Publications Squad is none other than Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody … He was making vast sums of cash doing deals with pornographers. ibid.
Police Chief And The Porn King. ibid. Sunday People front page
Seven days after taking charge, Robert Mark rewrites the rulebook and announces the Metropolitan Police’s first ever dedicated anti-corruption branch: A10. ibid.
A10 swoop on ten officers accused of corruption. ibid.
Ron Jeremy was the biggest porn star in the world. He made it into the mainstream. Porn King: The Rise & Fall of Ron Jeremy I, woman, Channel 4 2022
He’s not a legend. The man’s a rapist. ibid.
Jeremy is facing 34 counts of sexual assault. ibid. man
He was just almost like a cartoon character. ibid. woman
The adult business really took off when VHS came around. ibid. man
We absolutely knew he was a groper … He felt entitled. ibid. woman
As far as I know, I was the very first woman in the industry to be raped by Ron in 1983. I wish I had gone to the police. ibid.
I think there’s hundreds of victims out there. Porn King: The Rise & Fall of Ron Jeremy II, woman
Reality TV shows became really big for Ron. ibid.
He was too cheap to pay for dates. ibid. man
You see such a change in Ron. Ron visibly stopped taking care of himself. ibid.
In 2017 police in California and Washington State launch investigations into the allegations. The police investigations are dropped in 2018. ibid. caption
He’s frail and mentally incompetent … I see the signs of dementia. ibid. woman friend
He was trying with all his might to rape me in that bathroom. ibid.
When he was arrested, dozens and dozens of women come forward to the LA Sheriff’s Department. ibid. man
The allegations against Jeremy do get more violent over time. ibid.
For sixty years Hugh Hefner was the Pied Piper of soft porn, selling a dream of fame, glamour and sex with a magazine empire that he created. A sting of Playboy clubs for members only promised a taste of Hefner’s high life. Playboy: The Centrefolds that Changed the World aka The Rise and Fall of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, Channel 5 2024
Playboy was a cultural game changer, the original lad’s mag. ibid.
‘Underneath it was really ugly’ … ‘I don’t think anybody was safe there’ … ‘There was some sordid stories going around at that time’ … ‘He did things to women without their permission’ … ibid. witnesses and victims
‘The whole empire was being supported by gaming in London … the largest casino in Europe.’ ibid. man
It was part of the deal that women who posed for the magazine stay at the mansion now in full sexual swing. ibid.