Millennial Pause

Let's talk about porn. Not the "Know it when I see it" kind - the verboten kind, but the softcore - the type for which Cinemax and Showtime were initially founded. There's something inherently funny about that period in the 80s and 90s when they tried to make it more palatable to the general public. Comedian Dave Anthony often jokingly reflects on the 70s, when hardcore was first popularized and you'd attend a screening of Behind The Green Door with people from your community, like your dentist. By the time I was a theatregoer, though, they ran those in different theatres and scrambled cable channels . Before even dial-up was a time when curiosity and confusion were your only motivation. Then one day, you'd find the dilapidated, sunburnt pages of a Playboy or Penthouse from six months back in the desert and that'd be your first exposure.   The softcore kind, however, was booming— packing in audiences of parents at the nearest multiplex right next door t