Porn Director Paul Verhoeven blames the "current conservative climate" for the poor box office of porn films recently. His 1996 classic "Showgirls" was the first porn flick to tank and is now regarded as a camp "so-bad-it's-good" classic.
Verhoeven's remark reminds one of Berthold Brecht's comment after the East German government upbraided the German people as "being unworthy of Communism" after Berlin riots in the early fifties. Brecht's trenchant observation "Perhaps the Government should get a new People" also holds true with Dutch porn king Verhoeven. Perhaps he should peddle his smut where people actually pay for public porn, like his native land full of legal dope dens and public prostitution stalls.
"Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, ...the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being govern'd, as the sea is, by the moon" [Henry IV, I.ii.31-33] HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF, BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck
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