Popshots of the Millennium Pt. IV: Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

If this millennium has delivered anything shocking, it is that sometimes even porn doesn't sell. After the gap are examples of several adult ventures that were a hit with everyone but consumers.

Anyone lucky enough (and I do consider myself lucky) to be paid to write about porn knows that the hype needs to be taken with a grain of saltpeter. Joone is not the next Gore Verbinski, No one is the next Jenna Jameson, and let us all please wake up from the massive eyeroll that is/was corporate altporn.

But someone definitely loved these doomed projects, and you will see that porn is at least 99 percent fun to make, so don't forget that there's a lot of masturbation that goes into your masturbation material.

In the gallery you will see Seymore Butts' ill-fated party bus service, which was supposed to show up at your door with strippers gyrating within. You will also see an example of the short-lived "Porn for Our Troops" movement, also a good idea, but why get Jenn Steele when you can create your own at Abu Ghraib?

The there was the shockingly bad (but delightfully cast) "Alpha 15: The ReEducation of Emily Devore" starring Justine Joli and Daisy Layne. Or think pieces like "The Doll Underground," or movies like "Phantom of the Porn Set" (starring the delicious Harmony Rose) that were directed so shabbily that they weren't even released.

Then there's the ill-fated Nikki Nine, who helped to end Hustler's contract girl program, or Devon, who helped do the same thing to Shane's World. They weren't bad people, but their arrival hastened the end.

Oh, and the "secret" Joey Buttafuoco sex tape.