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Quentin Jones is not your everyday pornographer: first of all, she is a female – part of a new generation of women porn-pushers, who grew up in a post-Madonna world; she is also educated – graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Philosophy, and, she is extremely articulate – her interviews are filled with references to Art History and theories of fashion and design. Her well-spoken British personality and persona contrasts sharply with the sleazy, greedy, and semi-nefarious past and present male porn king-pins symbolized by Americans Bobby Hollander and Steven Hirsch. And, for this reason, Jones is all the more dangerous: for, she comes across as an avant-garde bon vivant, not as your stereotypical pervert. Recently, she worked with Miley Cyrus on a highly conceptualized music video featuring BDSM that is actually nothing more than a pretentious quickie porn flick masquerading as high-Art. Making her handles somewhat hysterical, Cyrus entered, and then mysteriously withdrew, the video from a New York porn fest. All of that is somewhat irrelevant considering Cyrus had played the film during her concerts and a version of it is already on YouTube; overall, the film is derivative of Madonna’s “Justify My Love” from two decades before. Now, for the most part, because of Madonna, and because of the success experienced by such films as “9½ Weeks,” “Basic Instinct” and “Wild Things,” our complacency as a society has created a culture with no boundaries – a morbid sort of fluidity from the so-called main-stream to the pornographic; where flashing the camera can turn a B-actress into a star or an ingénue into the lead; it’s “All About Eve” gone berserk; and, a generation of woman (and highly over-sexed and or confused men) have been raised on it. Consequently, for all intents and purposes, there is currently little, beyond the criminal, which is forbidden. For that reason, society has paid a heavy price: the middle-class explosion of child-porn arrests, the curious rise of clinical depression, and the horrific phenomena of children sexually abusing other children.