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Skinemax movies were created to arouse and titillate, but the ratio of skin to script always hovered around 50/50 (OK, maybe 60/40). In 2010, television and telecommunications companies brought in $899 million in revenue from adult films, “down from a peak of $1 billion in 2008.” Even Playboy Enterprises Inc., which includes the far more explicit Spice and Playboy TV, fell from $75.8 million in 2007 to $44.4 million in 2010. In 2011, one-third of Time Warner Cable Inc.’s $14 million drop in revenue was credited to the “shrinkage in the adult category” (feel free to fill in your own pun) reported Sam Schecner and Jessica E. Boardwalk Empire-classy HBO featured its own set of smuttier fare in the early days of pay-cable.Īnd then came the internet, technology that would forever revolutionize the activities of our daily life, not least of which the way we masturbate. It’s hard to remember that long before it carried Emmy winning shows like Weeds and Nurse Jackie, Showtime was also softcore porn central. “The hope is that I don’t hear ‘Skinemax’ any time after our original programming starts to really takeover the (lineup)” Lombardo told Variety.
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Instead of movies like Hotel Erotica and The Bikini Escort Company, Cinemax is launching respectable series in 2014, like The Knick, a drama starring Clive Owen that’s directed by Steven Soderbergh. Michael Lombardo, the president of programming for HBO (which is the parent company of Cinemax) said he plants to shift the content to more original shows (and specifically ones that don’t involve pantomimed intercourse). And with the latest death knell, it looks more and more likely that cable will not regain its reputation as a purveyor of porn.Īfter almost 30 years, the end has come for Cinemax After Dark, a “block of late-night, softcore porn that is better known to a generation of former teenagers as Skinemax,” writes Sam Grobart at Bloomberg Businessweek. Relying on late-night cable television to access porn is as foreign and archaic to millennials as listening to cassette tapes in a DeLorean.
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