xxxtom.com: manufactured celebrity sex masquerading as genuine celebrity sex?

According to Justice, Tom Sizemore is not only a tempestuous celebrity with a fetish for exposing himself in intimate moments, but he’s also a skilled manipulator of simulacra, in a Baudrillardian sense. (Sorry, but I really can’t write about porn without throwing in a few pretentious semiotics references in order to distance myself from the subject matter.) The site http://xxxtom.com purports to be a collection of his home sex tapes, but Justice presents a convincing case that the content was actually created specifically for the website itself (which further suggests that Sizemore’s statement that he knows nothing of the origins of the site is another ‘simulacra’, or, in lay terms, a ‘fib.’)

The evidence:

The evidence is the “2257” notice on the site’s homepage.

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