The LA Daily News is doing a lush series on porn. They're flash files, so be aware of that, though nothing I saw was not work safe. The ubiquity of porn chronicled in that series in America today is worth keeping in mind when we simultaneously have a teacher convicted of a felony because she inadvertently exposed some of her students to porn pop-ups (spyware which another teacher mistakenly installed).
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Googling Sasha Grey, one of the porn actress profiled in the series, led me to this rather amusing youtube clip of her on some entertainment news type program, includes an intervention by a "celebrity" doctor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDpXQYNQGo