When newly retired porn star Jenna Jameson recently talked about having her breast implants removed, the mainstream press made a big fuss.
Jameson gave an interview to Us Weekly, which is usually more interested in celebrity babies. ("I had my surgery while [my boyfriend] was in Iraq on a USO tour. He was so excited: 'I'm coming home to brand new boobies.' ") Dozens of pop culture Web sites picked up quotes.
But it's not as if Ms. Jameson renounced the porn-star look in favor of a more subdued approach. With her cosmetically reconstructed face, her alarmingly thin figure, her perma-tanned skin and her bleached-blonde hair, Jenna Jameson still looks like, well, a porn star.
Porno swims the mainstream
Walk past any of the mega-clubs that dominate the Las Vegas nightlife scene -- or even some nightclubs in Chicago -- and you'll see long lines of young men and women waiting for the chance for a man behind a velvet rope to judge them on their looks. If they're lucky, they'll pay $20 for the right to enter a swe
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