Sharon Waxman, Los Angeles reporter for the New York Times, reports on a new trend in the porn industry, AV shoots featuring women (and men) in their 50s.

Still, the trend has taken a lot of the pornography world by surprise, including Mr. Joseph of Platinum X. When DeBella asked him for permission to pursue a sex-film career in her spare time, he was mystified.

“It was weird to me,” he said. “She could be my mom. At first I thought it would blow over and that maybe no one would hire her. But then people started hiring her, and then they wanted her for magazines. It’s crazy. This is supposed to be an industry with the youngest, newest, most beautiful girls in the world. Isn’t youth what everyone wants?”

Apparently not. Is this a worldwide trend now, with Japan’s AV industry soon to follow?