News that former Jane’s Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro wants to reinvent himself as a director of porn films got us thinking about the long and unpleasant history of musicians getting jiggy for the cameras…

Jonathan Davis
While the whey-faced Korn frontman never actually got naked – thank god – he did make a cameo appearance in high-minded art-house flick Backstage Sluts Volume 2: No Ass, No Pass. Perhaps it was the influence of his wife, porn star Deven Davis. Her films are “all girl-girl,” notes Davis, sagely, “and I’m into that.”

Fred Durst
What is it with nu metal has beens? The image of the portly Limp Bizkit frontman penetrating an unidentified female from behind – while simultaneously gurning in self-satisfied fashion for the camera – has been burned indelibly onto Q’s retina ever since the footage emerged online in 2005. Google it at your peril.

Snoop Dogg
We’re stretching the definition of “rock star” somewhat, but you get the idea. Mr Dogg’s startlingly graphic Doggystyle, released in 2001, was the first hardcore porn video ever listed on the Billboard music video sales chart. It spawned a massively lucrative franchise – as well as an endless stream of turgid hip-hop promos like this.

Warren Cuccurullo
As Duran Duran’s guitarist during the band’s early-90s second wind, Cuccurullo helped write hits such as Ordinary World. He was axed in 2000, shortly after posing naked for a Brazilian gay porn mag. Unfazed, Cuccurullo later made a living from sales of the Rock Rod, a dildo modelled on his own super-size member.

Evan Seinfeld
As chief bludgeoneer with Brooklyn punk-metal pioneers Biohazard, Seinfeld likes to let off steam by performing alongside his wife Tera Patrick in such nerve-jangling psychodramas as Reign Of Tera, Teradise Island, and Tera Tera Tera. Sorry, what was her name again?