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Sunday, April 2, 2000

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Bestiality Rampant In Rural Australia

Tannum Sands, Australia: 7PM. This evening, I visited with a bloke who recalled working on oil rigs in Western Queensland. One day, a fellow worker was discovered buggering a cow who was stuck in soft mud. Two policemen arrested the man. At his trial 18 months later, it was discovered that the cow had been stuck in the soft mud for several days. And each day the man came down and buggered it.

The man was a geologist, married, with two kids.

Over at Biloela, an hour's drive west from here, a man was convicted for buggering a horse. When I played soccer for BITS (Boyne Island - Tannum Sands) in 1984-85, we played Biloela regularly but never witnessed any buggery.

I just finished reading Robert Hughes' book "The Fatal Shore," about Australia's convict origins. Here are some excerpts:

"...descriptions of women convicts in the "very act of exciting each other's passions - on the Lord's Day in the House of God - and at the very same time divine service was performing." By then the local press was printing stories about the "fiendish fondness" of Sapphic practices in the factories...

Luke: Here's an excerpt on courtship among the Aboriginees. From the 1802 book "History of New South Wales":

"In obtaining a female partner the first step they take, romantic as it may seem, is to fix on some female of a tribe at enmity with their own.... The monster then stupefies her with blows, which he inflicts with his club, on her head, back, neck, and indeed every part of her body, then snatching up one of her arms, he drags her, streaming with blood from her wounds, through the woods, over stones, rocks, hills and logs, with all the violence and determination of a savage, till her reaches his tribe."

Lynne writes: Thank you for the cow story. Perhaps I shall specialize in the psychological care of animals who have been sexually exploited by humans. "Bossy, what did you say when he put his penis inside you?" "Moo." "Obviously he misunderstood you. He thought you said 'more!' " And poor Woofie, who can no longer get it up for canine bitches after having had ....[porn actress].

Price Hanson Porner

XXX writes: Prior to going into porn, he was a sandblasting and dumpster clean-up contractor (he didn't move to southern California because of porn - he already was here since at least 1998) and it wasn't too long ago that he stopped being a contractor - of course he left all this out. To verify this, search the California State Contractors Board website: http://www.cslb.ca.gov/personnel+request.html and type in his name. Labor Standards may also be able to tell you how many employees of his filed complaints because he would either withhold their wages or underpay them -maybe that's how he made his money? Clearly he is financially responsible and so he's got to make up for it somewhere else...

If he has all those millions that he claims he got from his daddy, why is he pulling cheap stunts with "Internet stills"? Then again, if he really does have all those millions, that means he's REALLY pathological and just can't help but lie and steal from people he is around...

Oh by the way, prior to IA2000 did anyone pay attention to the PrimeXTC website...especially before December? He was so brilliant as to claim that he already had over 13 websites up and running when he had nothing. Duh! Did you know they were supposed to be live with dozens more by January? Maybe he isn't as rich as he claims to be or he's clueless - or both (why isn't Hancoent.com - the home site of Hanco Entertainment not accessable by the way? Isn't that stupid thing to do? Anyone with any business or internet sense would never have their corporate site down or inaccessable to potential clients).

I've included an email conversation I had with him as well as with Craig Tant of CCBill (CCBill co-sponsored the IA2000 Hard Rock Cafe event and who quickly distanced themselves from him due to his clear dishonesty - also notice they currently aren't working together now) about his claims of having live websites up.

Luke: Craig Tant, VP CCBill, craig@ccbill.com, writes XXX:

Dear Sir, I was forwarded an email, and I wanted to answer some of your concerns. Regarding Hanco, we are simply co sponsoring a party with them in Vegas. Actually we are co sponsoring the party with Hustler Magazine, and Hanco, and we are throwing 5 other parties as well. Hanco is brand new, so we don't know much about them, but if you have a problem, you may want to just call them, and get it worked out. We have no ownership or control of this company. I hope this helps.

Too Pretty For Porn

Poke writes on RAME: What the hell does a person mean when they say a woman is too pretty to be in a porn movie or to be stripping???? A friend of mine today checked out a Tera Patrick movie and actually said to me that she's too pretty to be in a porn movie. This isn't the first time I've seen this comment. I've seen it in articles and I've heard other people mention it. I don't get it. I've always seen pretty women in porn. Am I missing something? In the early 1900's, was there nothing but one-eyed ugly women with hunchbacks in porn movies? Were there directors back then who would tell Chasey Lain that she wouldn't be allowed to suck dick because she's too gorgeous? Did strip club owners have signs above their doors saying, "NO PRETTY GIRLS ALLOWED HERE"? Are they saying something about self-esteem? Are they saying that porn is degrading and that only ugly women would degrade themselves?

Lenscap writes on RAME: They are just manifesting our cultures mindset that equates success and respectability with good looks....I am guilty of it too....ever see a good looking woman walking arm-in-arm with a ho hum guy and say to yourself "what the hell is she doing with him"..? we fail to separate the outside presence with the inside being....good looks are also a personal taste...Patrick Riley thinks Vanessa Del Rio is a "fat, disgusting pig"...while I see her as a sexy, beautiful woman...it's all up to the individual.

Nick Adams writes on RAME: I think they are saying there are more lucrative ways for incredibly beautiful women to degrade themselves. Like posing for Sports Illustrated or Victoria's Secret. :>

But, as the renowned wet-t-shirt model once said, "It's a funny way to make a living. It's makebelieve. It's playing with people's fantasies." That's why every model in the the SI swimsuit addition has exactly the same tan and all their blemishes and scars have been airbrushed out. You see someone like Tera Patrick or Janine and for a moment you think, "wow, the did a great job on her in pre-press." Then you realize it's not a picture. She's standing in front of you and you think, "wow, can you imagine what I could do with her in Photoshop." It's a disease.

Frank writes: This was in the early 1980's but I had some friends who worked at the airport rental car return area. The would check the trash and eventually get impresive collections of printed porn. Businessmen would realise they had to get rid of the stuff before going home. More recently, there is a Limo operation near my house. I've found several tossed porn videos there. Apparently people rent a Limo for a night on th town. These now have vide-tape players. They apparently seem to like the "bottom shelf" $5 porn videos. I just pulled old a truely awful one that looks Miami mid 1970's judging from the big old car and the Goodyear Blimp. It was shot on location in a cheesy motel room. They looked like the normal girl next door types you might meet at your local bar. Like the girl next door they had pubic hair, didn't have implants, didn't wear shoes in bed and wern't plastered in makeup. Enjoyable compared to the current glut of strippers turned porn actresses.

Lynne L-patin Opines

Lynne writes: Luke: You are in Australia and I am in Oregon. How does that legally affect a restraining order? It can't! I love the internet, almost as much as I love you!

I know you want to keep me as your own personal Pet, but I want to tell NJG that I am not insecure, only pulling a "Lukey" and writing for the most obnoxious effect. She is far more "Jewish-looking" than I am.

In honour of you, my dear Luke, I purchased a bottle of chardonnay from NSW, Australia.... Cheers! Yesterday I dumped a glass of really good Oregon reisling all over my office. Just an accident... The Aussie wine is nowhere as good but I don't expect much from grapes grown upside down.

DAVE HARDMAN, IN THE TRASH WHERE HE BELONGS

Lynne writes: Today was my first day of my forty required hours of Pre-Vet Observation Detail, and it seems that, no matter what, I will never escape pornography and that horrible pestilence known as Dave Hardman....

One of the duties of the person on the bottom of the totem pole at a vet practice is to do a Poop Patrol and trash cleanup around the clinic.

As a Pre-Vet Observer, I'm actually the underground portion of the totem pole. The delightful young blonde woman who was formerly the bottom rung took me outside to supervise as I picked up trash. She showed me an area under bushes and behind a fence, where trash collects, and asked me to do my best to clean it up.

Being at least as smart as your average chimpanzee, I suggested we retrieve the Pooper Scooper and use it to pull the trash out from under the bushes so we could bag it. And there was lots of trash to retrieve, since no one had previously thought to use a pole to pull it within reach. Food wrappers, soft drink containers, a used diaper and a porno video box.

Being very curious to see what porno has been so casually discarded along the roadside, I eagerly maneuvered it from under the bushes. Lo and behold, it's a copy of the 1996 release "She Needs It Bad," a wall-to-waller collection of unrelated scenes featuring my favorite redhead, Flame, Kaitlin Ashley, Guy da Silva, and the ubiquitous and thoroughly evil Dave Hardman!

"Oh, no!" I exclaimed. "It's my ex-boyfriend, or my ex-business partner, or my ex-whatever you wanna call him! The sonofabitch who threw me in jail!"

I'm not sure what was the emotional highlight of my day: seeing the three-legged puppy go home with her loving owners or throwing that video box in the trash...

JEWISH MEN -- ARE THEY THE PROBLEM?

Lynne writes: Thanks, guys, for your support. Yes, there are beautiful Jewish women (I knew that, but wanted to see if you menfolk knew). But we haven't answered my question: do successful, prosperous Jewish men prefer to marry gentiles rather than Jewesses? How about a list of the ten most prominent married Jewish men, gay or heterosexual, and the religion of their wives? I don't believe that the diminishment of the Jewish race should be blamed on us women without a little more study of the behavior of our men, thank you.

POLITICALLY CORRECT PORNOGRAPHERS: WHERE HAVE THEY GONE?

Lynne continues to write: For those of you who wonder what happened to that generation of pornographers and performers who had a political consciousness of the effects of their work, here's the story in a nutshell:

After the Meese-led Justice Department Operation Wormwood during the early 1990's, the adult industry's primary spokespeople, Bill Margold and Gloria Leonard, were effectively muzzled by the dissolution of the Adult Video Association. Both Bill and Gloria were well aware of the relationship between politics, free speech and porn. Margold, to whom personal self-aggrandizement has always been more important than the industry as a whole, was immediately co-opted by the Sturman-approved Free Speech Association. The FSC, which was intended to operate as a personal scam by its creator, Bill "Pinky" Stolbach (head salesman for Charlie Brickman, Cinderella Video), positioned itself as a competitor for the few dollars available from those manufacturers still willing to promote the idea of an organization representing the adult video industry. Sturman and his buddies wanted to maintain a low profile during the prosecutions so they could vanish their "cooked" books before the feds examined the files. They did not want anyone defending the adult industry in public, so they co-opted Margold and banished Leonard.

Leonard, one of the few politically aware intellectual leaders of the adult business community, lost her position as Executive Director when the AVA dissolved. Humiliated, she fled to her family in Hawaii, leaving porn without competent leadership.

The AVA, for which I served for over two years as an officer on the board, was replaced by the deliberately ineffective Free Speech Coalition, which focused on holding events for company owners at country clubs. At first they attempted to present a legitimate image by hiring Barry Freilich, a gentleman from Florida who had fought against a particularly repressive local government to keep his video stores. After his dismissal, the FSC retained as Administrative Director a beautiful but inexperienced woman named Carol Belitz who had never participated in the adult industry in any capacity other than as Stolbach's girlfriend.

Soon it became a joke to pretend that porn had any legitimate role as a forefront for human rights and political change. I was ridiculed for my political attitudes toward the product.

Since then, the primary industry publication, Adult Video News, has derailed any attempt at making politically responsible porno by promoting exploitative garbage with pleases their sexually inexperienced staff. My work, which reflects happy, healthy sexual relationships, is scorned and I personally have been ostracized: we are left with the commercial garbage now on the market.

By the way, I am not the only producer who is upset by AVN's continually worsening attitude toward "politically aware" porn. All of us who have attempted to make non-exploitative adult material are consistently ignored by their editorial and reviewing policies. Adult Video News rewards those producers who humiliate women, and dismisses those of us who do not. Many of the performers are indeed angry at the anti-social behavior demonstrated by those producers "approved" by Adult Video News. Unfortunately, other than l-keford.com, they have no venue to express their dissatisfaction. Performers who wish to organize for whatever reason have been threatened by manufacturers repeatedly over the last ten years. They are told that they will not be hired if they pursue any attempts to make the adult industry behave in a responsible manner toward them. Those performers and producers who regularly make use of Luke F-rd's venue are discriminated against by Adult Video News and those manufacturers who believe AVN is actually influential in the wholesale market.

I was made aware of porn as a political tool by my first adult industry employers, Paul and Shirley Eberle of the L.A. Star. As veterans of the Los Angeles Free Press (one of the original hippie newspapers from the early seventies), the Eberles were pioneers in publishing the politics of sexuality and pornography.

Their co-publisher, Max Lobkowicz, continues the battle. He is currently married to Dr. Susan Block and politicizes the personal every Saturday night via her salon and internet broadcast at www.drsusanblock.com.

Under Cover Angel Dishes

Under Cover Angel writes: It's been a while since I've been able to give you some dirt as I've been traveling for work. However, I am proud to say my previous postings have proven for the most part to be right on the head, i.e. Amber Lynn to Extreme and Seymore's court battle with Adam and Eve.

Now I hear Seymore's ex-partner, Nick Pinkowski from Ultimate Video, has found himself in a fine mess. Seems he's gotten one of his contract girls pregnant and is having to pay her off to keep her from telling his wife. The problem is he's made himself out to be a bigshot but he's nearly broke and has recently filed for bankruptcy and his pregnant mistress is not being very understanding.

I also hear Madelyne Knight is returning to VIVID. Mainstream actor Emilio Estevez has found himself in the middle of an X-Rated triangle featuring a very well known female performer and her very pissed off boyfriend he now travels with a bodyguard! I'll let you know more when I can.

Craig Vasiloff Interview

Craig Vasiloff tells GeneRoss.com: "I come from a music background. I did a lot of web-stuff before. I developed CD-ROMs. I was working in the world of multimedia, so when the Internet came up, obviously, it was something that really interested me. The adult world on the Internet was something that I saw as booming and one where money takes precedence and where you can have a lot of success. Like any business, I basically did a lot of research. In researching the industry, being 3,000 miles away, the only resource I had was the newsgroups and websites. That's basically where I discovered people like Luke F-rd. It came around a time when Luke was doing a lot of posts not only on his own site but the RAME site. I noticed a lot of names that kept reoccurring. I contacted these people and asked a lot of questions. One of the things that I saw with Luke F-rd's site was that he created an interest. It wasn't always positive. But it was an audience that was there. I watched it for awhile.

"At the time his site got shut down, I was just putting FANtastic together. I was hosting some sites and basically offered to host his site for free. It was my way of connecting to somebody in the business. A lot of it was just a business decision. Actually it was the Luke F-rd association that brought the financier in. Luke F-rd was recognized. He did have some press. He did have a certain number of hits, and that basically was what allowed me to get the money I needed to get started. It wasn't until after that I got more involved in the business that I started to realize a lot of the negative connotations that were coming out of the Luke F-rd site. I sort of had to deal with that over a period of a year."

Mumia Abu-Jamal Murderer

Buffer writes: Luke, I enjoy (but am not sure I fully understand) your site. And I know that Luke F-rd.com is not a place to rant about issues other than the porn industry. However, as a native of the Delaware Valley, I could not let recent references by others in your column about Mumia Abu-Jamal go without offering some insight. I want your readers who are supporters of Mumia to know that the "cop" had a name, Daniel Faulkner. Office Faulkner also had a wife named Maureen who fights myths about the murder through the Internet (http://www.danielfaulkner.com/). Ed Asner, Mike Farrell, Spike Lee and the thousands more caught up in the hype of the free Mumia movement need to find a new poster child for their opposition to capital punishment.

Luke Gets Mail

Russell writes: In response to John's query about where to find unedited 1960s and 1970s era movies, try www.alphabluearchives.com. They seem aware of the camp aspect of much of what they sell -- the catalogs are pretty funny. Just remember, even in a golden age Sturgeon's Law holds: 90% of everything is crap.

Let's Finish Luke Off

Alan Watts writes: Who knows, if Anne Frank had become a porn actress like XXX, she might possibly have said, "I still believe there are a few good people left in porn." Are there any good people left in porn? Craig Vasiloff's decision to cancel his advertising and association with l-keford.com this week shows there really are a few good people left in porn, and marks a true turning point, and the beginning of the end for merciless Luke F-rd and his blood-letting website.

WE HAVE HEARTLESS BULLY LUKE ON THE RUN, GUYS, NOW LET'S FINISH THE BLOOD-SUCKING BASTARD OFF!

In the past 10 days on this site, Luke has admitted to being a stalker and published psychiatric proof that he is deemed unemployable. What more proof do we need that he's really sick and that this certified sicko needs to go and go for good, AND WE CAN DO IT GUYS!

The XXX case is next on the docket, and Luke's certain defeat will only demoralize Luke and his sponsors at FANTASTIC still further and show them all he's ready for the junk heap. His career is in ashes as we speak.

DUM-DUM LUKE FAILED TO REALIZE THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS HIS SOLE CALLING CARD AND A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY. HE BLEW THAT CHANCE WITH HIS STUPID ATTEMPT TO HUMILIATE CHRISTY LAKE. FAT CHANCE THEY'LL EVER TOUCH HIS SICKENING ASS AGAIN! HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE COOL AND CONDONED BY THE PORN INDUSTRY TO INFLICT HUMILIATION ON A PORNO.

No, stupid kid, we cannot and do not condone using the WWW to inflict humiliation on others, not even poor pornos like XXX. Now you're going to pay, stupid. It's the beginning of the end for you, you dumb f---er.

WE ALL NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO ELIMINATE ANY CHANCE LUKE HAS FOR FUTURE CONTACT WITH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. We need to advise all TV and print media that he is a sick f---er with no credibility. SOMEONE READING THIS HAS THE POWER TO BLACKBALL Luke F-rd. BE A HERO AND BLACKBALL THE BASTARD!

We must make all Luke's advertisers, now and in the future, aware that there is no payoff in running ads on this site. We need to make them understand they will pay a price in negative publicity, as Craig Vasiloff came to realize.

How many chances will the people of the porn industry have the opportunity to work together to accomplish something worthwhile? How many chances will you have to terminate this jackass's career and run him out of town! We can do it, we can end it all, the whole sick affair, we just need to get him NOW while he's down and out and finish the job for good!

Calling on all the people of porn to show that no one, not even untested, rank-amateur, never-before-sued Luke F-rd can get away with using the Web as an instrument of humiliation and turn it on the people of porn without paying for it with their career. You have it in your power to finish Luke F-rd off once and for all, and make him untouchable to the media and the sex industry.

Seize the opportunity and do the sorry bastard in now while he's on a downward spiral! Working together it will be EASY to do, just stick in there till he's history. Show us what you can do, working together, on behalf of one of your own, like XXX. Good luck, guys!

J.D. Considine writes: Before we "finish Luke off," could we get somebody to break Alan Watts' caps lock key?

Goddess writes: Luke, your bio says you started working in the news department of a radio station. Why didn't you stick with mainstream journalism? I'm not being a smart ass here, I'm just curious.

Luke: I went to university. Then I got sick for six years. I never finished my undergraduate degree. I was looking around for an opportunity to prove myself, on my own. I decided to write a book, etc... If an opportunity came up to work in mainstream journalism, I might well do that.

NJG Writes Lynne

Nice Jewish Girl writes Lynne L-patin: You said "I am unfortunately at least three-quarters pure genetic Jew and share many of the racial characteristics of my people, making me exceedingly unattractive per modern standards of beauty".

I know, you think the stereotype of how jews look is unattractive. I am 100% jewish. Do you think I am unattractive? I was blonde, even in high school, and I have big blue eyes, am very fair. Luke, do you think I am not attractive?

I know Lynne, you probably feel lack of self esteem and all that. You are thin and that is a big plus. I think you can do a lot with what you have. Luke send Lynne my e-mail addy and I can talk to her. Lynne, you are just feeling unattractive right now because of all the recent traumas and rejections you have experienced. You will feel better soon, so chin up girl.

I am glad you went back to school. And, in Oregon, there are a lot of very attractive men. Nicer too, than the ones in L.A. for sure. Men who actually LIKE women and treat them well. It will be a nice change from the LA or SF ones. So, Lynne, chin up. Go shopping at Macy's or the Gap and show off that beautiful thin body of yours, I don't mean lasciviously, but you know. You would look really good in their clothes. Love, Nice Jewish Girl :o)

Lynne writes: Dear Luke:

Fortunately I love you for you and not for your current or potential celebrity or vast financial empire or status in the porn world. Still, this is not a good thing to happen while you are so far away. I don't care for the timing.

Your brother Paul owns a nursery? How nice! I'm planning on doing yardwork this weekend -- putting in flowers and such. I find it healing. Growing things, nurturing things. Nurturing Luke.

Thanks for posting Craig's e-mail address. I need to write him when I get home from school. He impressed me as a real sweetheart. I just have one class today, but because I have trouble with my old eyes I need to go back to the Biology Lab and finish from Wednesday. Buy a parking sticker. Check in with the Women's Center about health insurance. Try to arrange my practicum with the vet -- that will give me forty hours of experience that I can use to find a paying job with another vet. I'm trying to stay out of porn, but the reality is that's what I have done and do well and can find work doing.

Regardless of what your family believes, NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 CARES about porn. It's just another part of life, like computers or ATM machines, that younger people have grown up with and accept. There are all sorts of references to porn in today's popular music. The Beastie Boys have been singing about it for ten years....

NEWS FROM THE MEAN MOM CLUB

I've been up here seven days, after driving a thousand miles. In that time, I've enrolled and attended classes, been rear-ended, unpacked a little, tried to deal with old business back in L.A., opened a bank account, lost my ATM card, filed for financial aid on-line, cried on your distant shoulder, had a pet die. Yesterday my Mother calls my brother:

Has Lynne found a job yet? With all her computer skills, she should find a job. Is she looking in the paper every day?

Rick replies (facetiously): Well, there's plenty of strip clubs here in Portland.....

Mother: ? sick!

Rick: Yes, there's a lot of sick guys here in Portland. Strippers make $500 a night...

Mother says something and hangs up abruptly.

QUOTE FROM "WORKING STIFF" "If you have a family that loves you, stay the hell away from porn." Luke F-rd. Does this mean that, if your family are assholes, porn is an acceptable alternative? No, but that initial detachment from the primary social unit makes it easier to detach from society at large.

Today is my brother's birthday, and I promised him I'd nail her sometime this weekend when we get together to celebrate. He wanted a diamond stud earring, which I charged at Montgomery Wards. My brother has a bunch of prison tattoos, a shaved head and an eight inch goatee -- he's a real biker kind of guy. Scary on the outside, a lamb on the inside. I love you and I have to run...

Lynne writes: I had the absolute pleasure of making two videos with Lexington Steele, "Tales of the South Side" for Video Team and "Indigo Moods" for Adam & Eve. (Luke, you were on the set for the Video Team movie -- wearing your yarmulke and looking cute as a button.) "Indigo Moods" is the all-black couples' video which Adult Video News found so offensive last summer. It is a gentle, romantic view of black sexuality, with loving married couples and bubble baths instead of pimps and 'hos.

Lex is paired with Montana Wett, a tall chocolate natural beauty with beautiful real breasts, who gets the ride of her life. An extremely intelligent, soft-spoken gentleman, Lex attended the 1998 CES and immediately impressed my late husband, Bruce, and me with his good manners. That he has a huge dick the size of John Holmes' makes it even better, although it's difficult to find a condom to cover it! The one thing I took away from working with Lex is that he prefers women who take an active, aggressive role in lovemaking, rather than those who want to "be done." Plus he let me play with his enormous penis on the set -- one of those producer's perks I'll truly miss.

Dirty Bob writes on RAME: Just heard that Mike South has decided to come out with a black version of his Blowgirls series and it will be called Southern Fried Blowjobs. Will that be Original or Extra Crispy, Mike?

Mike replies: hey Luke check the date on that post from Dirty Bob, II would never title a vid "Southern Fried" anything...it's an old worn out cliche. BTW don't have black girl vids, white girls vids and all that nonsense I shoot pretty girls, period. I make no distinction as to race, I just want em to be Southern.

Email: Hey This is dominic ....... Whatahappend to all my pics and you dont write about me no more am I not cool enough. Idiot Bitch........ People want to read about me and they are compaining that they cant find me on your site. They try to read up on the gossip of me and your not helping them. You should write about my last three shows in La. Temptress does shows with me and Nadia childs, Aliyssa Klass these are pretty well known girls and you should keep up.