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No, not really, but give it a few weeks. Yesterday a "private collector"' allegedly shelled out $1.5 million for a video of Marilyn giving an unidentified man 15 minutes of, er, oral pleasure. No one's sure if it's real or a media hoax (Ashton -- is this you?) but there are public FBI records from the 60s that verify the existence of such a tape. At least the story has allowed us to discuss two questions we've been pondering for a while: how much would a Marilyn Monroe sex-tape go for these days, and when will we get an excuse to write about the booming YouPorn Industry?

If this tape went public it would immediately supplant Pam and Tommy Lee as the most well-known pioneers of the Hollywood sex-tape genre; Wikipedia already grants Marilyn the top spot in this list, so it must be true. And what's $1.5 million for a legendary starlet when someone paid $5 million to give us Kim Kardashian and Ray-J?

Rockin' Boogie Nights quote after the jump.


You'd probably have to pay twenty dollars to buy the full version, but YouPorn and its porno-for-the-people and YouTube-inspired competitors (RedTube, PornoTube, XTube... you and Google can take it from here) would likely undercut the profiteers eventually. These sites are killing the establishment porn business, a trend which proves the enduring prescience of this clip from Boogie Nights' Jack Horner. Just make a slight internet-for-videotape substitution to update the cultural reference:

Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? I'm a filmmaker, which is why I will never make a movie on tape.
One thing is certain, however: it's never been easier for horny 13-year-olds to see celebrity boobs on their family computers. If only this technology existed ten years ago, a friend of mine wouldn't have been busted when his parents looked in their Netscape Navigator search history and discovered "Yasmine Bleeth nude," "Yasmine Bleeth topless," "Yasmine Bleeth minus red bathing suit," and "please Lord show me Yasmine Bleeth with no clothes on and I'll do all my algebra homework until the day I die." Good memory, you say... well, he was a good friend.

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