Descent into degeneracy.(Insider Report)

According to publisher Judith Regan, "The culture has become much more porn-ized." As examples she cites the increasingly smutty tone of television advertising and the October debut of Skin, a Fox-TV series in which a central character is a porn kingpin played by CFR member Ron Silver. And Regan's own publishing company, HarperCollins ReganBooks, will accelerate our slide into the sewer next spring by publishing How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, the memoir of porn star Jenna Jameson.

The October 24 issue of Entertainment Weekly calls Jameson "the queen of a booming industry that pulls in a lowball estimate of $10 billion a year." The 29-year-old daughter of a sheriff and a now-deceased Las Vegas showgirl, Jameson rakes in an estimated $5-15 million through her personal merchandising company. She has appeared on NBC's prime-time program Mister Sterling--playing a porn star, of course.

While mainstream Hollywood tries to distance itself from its porn subsidiary, Jameson reports: "Everybody that I've met who is famous is real intrigued by who I am and what I do. Arnold ...