IMDb Gets Childish With “Adult” Movies

The Internet Movie Database has always had a somewhat uneasy relationship with porn. The huge infodump does contain pages on porn movies and their stars, but such titles can't be found via a simple search off the home page. (Only registered users can do that, and only if they manually turn off the adult filter in their profile.) However, it recently came to the attention of some bloggers that John Cameron Mitchell's decidedly un-porn like "Shortbus" has been lumped into this category, as a search for the movie title or the names of any of the actors who start in it (besides Mitchell) turns up nothing. You can, however, search for Michael Winterbottom's mainstream jizzfest "9 Songs" or "Tera Patrick, for that matter" and find both fairly quickly. So who at IMDb decides what's porn and what isn't? And how are we supposed to easily learn who played "Girl on Trash Can" in the 2005 version of "The Devil in Miss Jones"? Is it just another one of those unsolvable internet mysteries? (P.S. It was Fleshbot fave Vicky Vette, in case you were wondering.)

· IMDb Censors Shortbus Listing (rabbireport.com)
· IMDb Pretends to Proscribe Porn (cinematical.com)
· Shortbus Star Sings A Song (indiewire.com)

Previously: Francesco Vezzoli's "Caligula" on YouTube, "Shortbus" Review & Premiere