Porn industry has made me a prude, says Theroux
The 42-year-old presenter, who has shared a hot-tub at a swingers’ party and filmed in a brothel, has just returned to Los Angeles to film some of the porn stars he met for his Weird Weekends show in 1997.
He told the Radio Times: “A lot of performers, I would say most, have had some chaos or turbulence in their upbringing, perhaps connected with their parents. But the porn industry then exacerbates it, stores up more problems.”
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Hide AdTheroux, who regularly moves in with his subjects while making his films, said his new film about the porn industry was very different from the one he made as a young man.
“I’ve discovered I am quite a puritanical person.”
He said he now believed there was a better argument for legalising prostitution rather than pornography.
“It seems a more humane profession,” he added.
Theroux is best known for his documentaries in the television series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, his BBC2 specials and When Louis Met…