Page 6 Pictorial: 'From XXX to A-list: Stars with Porn Pasts'

NEW YORK—The NY Post's Page Six today published a pictorial gallery featuring some of your favorite stars, all of whom share "porn pasts" that have since come to light, sometimes scandalously, sometimes not. Some of the names include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Hamm, Cameron Diaz, Stormy Daniels, Helen Mirren... wait a second. Stormy Daniels? What the heck is she... Hold on, now that we notice, they also included in the pictorial Sasha Grey, Veronica Hart, Ginger Lynn, Gina Lynn and ... of course, Ron Jeremy. Right there alongside the others, as if they all shared a similar career trajectory, winding up as bona fide celebrities while sharing varying degrees of a "porn past," even if they have a "porn present." It just proves the obvious; that as far as being a legitimate celebrity goes, the porn route truly is just as viable as any other, and even the New York tabloids are confused about what actually constitutes a "porn past" or even an A-lister, for that matter. Porn and mainstream have actually become synonymous. They mean the same damn thing, making the media's sensationalism over the Belle Knox Story kind of moot, and kind of disingenuous, because that particularly hoary narrative—that the wall between adult and mainstreaming is slowly disappearing—has long since evolved. The wall no longer divides. Porn stars, musicians, movie and television actors sit atop it and get along fine. No one looking up can tell the difference. Just ask Page Six.