Friday, April 28, 2000

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Turmoil at SexTracker.com, YNOT

I hear that sales exec Shawn Bodie has left SexTracker.com.

Andy Edmond owns the majority of SexTracker.com's parent company Flying Crocodile. I talked to Andy and several of his execs Friday afternoon.

Porn net sources say that Edmond's ego is out of control and his YNOTnetwork.com is headed for a meltdown.

Bodie may launch a long and messy lawsuit against Edmond.

XXX: "Andy Edmond tries to take all the credit for SexTracker.com, but Bodie wrote all the programs, and was SexTracker.com. 21-year old whiz kid. And they're trying to screw him out of ownership of stock options and force him out the door, and he's an officer of Flying Crocodile. He called all his customers.... YNOT is going down in flames."

Andy Edmond: "Shawn never wrote any code. He was not an executive with Flying Crocodile. We've parted on friendly terms..."

I also hear that Andy Edmond's Flying Crocodile is about to acquire another major hosting company.

I hear that Sharky has been fired from Voice Media aka Cybererotica.com aka Sharkylive.com.

I talked to Andy Edmond shortly after 2PM Friday. Like most of the big net porners, he's carefully spoken (unlike many of his peers in video porn).

I hear second hand that Shawn and his supporters are exclaiming "bulls---" and "motherf---er" and the like while reading the interview below.

ANDY: "You caught me at a good time. Normally I don't read email during the day. Also on the line with us is JT, who handles public relations for us. And Scott Byer, president of Flying Crocodile. My title is founder and CEO.

"First of all, I concur with XXX that Shawn is extremely smart, motivated and energetic. He's stubborn in all the good ways. He's got a great contingent of fans here at Flying Crocodile. He was let go. It was due to differences with company management. Something that we realized that we had to do as a growing company was to hire a Fortune 500 management team. That is President Scott Byhre and VP of Operations Joy Johnston and VP of Marketing Joy Rogers. These are professionals with 20-30 years of experience running big corporations.

"We invented SexTracker and XXX Counter and Sex List as kids. I was younger than 25 as well as everyone else... We decided to salt ourselves with a lot of heavy experience on how to make sure that our customers and vendors and employees had all the success that they needed. Shawn had a problem with that. He liked a more entrepreneurial [slimmer] company and he really loved SexTracker and our relationship... He didn't want to let go.

"And I wanted to give him a chance to catch up with us being a big company. And frankly he wasn't happy. And as soon as that started affecting his work, I sat him down and said. 'Shawn, I think you need to start your own company.' And he concurred with that. He said, 'Yeah, that is exactly what I need to do.'

"Are there differences of opinion on the way that it was handled? Yes. Are there differences of opinion remaining between me an him? Yes. But overall Shawn and I are good friends. We enjoy each other's company and we respect each other immensely. And I wish him the best... And he can count on our full 100% support.

"Shawn did not write any code for SexTracker. Not one line. He was not a company officer. You can look that up with the Secretary of the State of Washington to verify that."

Luke: "He was not Director of Business Development?"

Andy: "He was not. He was and always was Advertising & Sales. He's been replaced by Eric Rogers."

Luke: "He was not a cofounder of Flying Crocodile?"

Andy: "He was not. Flying Crocodile was founded a year-and-a-half before Shawn Bode's employment. SexTracker was written a full year before Bode began work at Flying Crocodile. That's all documented... If you ask anybody who's been around the business, well, they really don't care... That is the truth..."

Luke: "So you are the sole founder of Flying Crocodile?"

Andy: "That is correct. I do have a partner in business. His name is Ralph Perkins."

Luke: "Are you trying to screw Shawn Bode out of stock options?"

Andy: "No, not at all. We all agreed when we were granted stock in the company... I gave stock away to Ross and Shawn... That when we ended our employment at Flying Crocodile, we would return our stock to Flying Crocodile. I believe in every employee at Flying Crocodile, from me to the janitor, owns stock in Flying Crocodile. Shawn was included in the package. But when you leave, you have to return your stock to the company so that we can give it away to another employee who's working for the benefit of the company. If I died or left the company for any reason, I would have to return my stock too."

Luke: "What difference will this make to the industry that Shawn Bodet is no longer with you guys?"

Andy: "I don't think it makes any difference... We have the same great product. We have a staff of 100 that do a great job, as good as Shawn ever did.. Shawn was in a position that was a key strategic relationship with a lot of our advertisers... We've told our advertisers about what happened and they are still positive about doing business with us. Shawn doesn't suffer anything. When he forms his new company, he can use the great contacts he formed while working for this company."

Luke: "How are things with YNOT?"

Andy: "Fantastic. At YNOT, we have so many things going on, so many positive relationships being built, that I don't think the industry has had a chance to catch up with what we have been doing. We've just released the Adult Webmaster Directory. We've built an awesome relationship with APIC run by Steve Easton [an organization for net porn content providers] to help manage licensed content around the internet. We've invested about $100,000 in technology we're lending to them, so they can make more money...

"A lot of old allies that haven't been around YNOT are showing up in droves...excited that YNOT is innovative. We have an awesome board of directors that consistently contribute key strategic elements to the industry success.

"We have a new community standards feature that will come out in a month and a half which will really allow the whole community to talk about self regulation... It will allow the whole industry to participate in an automated technical consensus vehicle which allows us to decide issues as an industry when it comes to credit card processing, pay site ownership, billing issues, content providers, free hosts... Everything that goes into that.

"We have amazing new employees like Bob Rice [KB's ex-best friend] who is blowing away any public relations manager that has ever worked there before. Your friend Kevin Blatt had his record broken for the first time ever when it comes down to advertising sales."

Luke: "What is the Adult Webmaster Directory?"

Andy: "It is a directory of every adult webmaster on the internet, ranked by what they do, how they do it, their reputation for doing it... And it evolves through community participation. It is like an interactive yellow pages for the adult internet, not just companies but the people that make the adult internet."

Luke: "I hear that you are going to buy a major hosting company?"

Andy: "A major hosting company? No, you probably misheard that. We're thinking internally about spinning off our hosting company as a separate company."

Pause.

Andy: "How's KB [Kevin Blatt, former YNOT marketing director] doing these days?"

Luke: "It sounds like he's going to a lot of parties."

Laughter.

Scott: "It sounds like he's got a bit of free time."

Andy: "I can't speak highly enough of that guy. He's so motivated, he's got such a dynamic personality. You know he's pretty new to the business but I really think that if we wait and watch him, he's going to do really well."

Luke: "He's lucky he didn't get shot in San Francisco last week."

Andy: "What?"

Luke: "He was with a bunch of webmasters at some black rap party. And it was full of gangbangers. And five minutes after the webmasters left for a Japanese massage parlor, someone at the party got shot and killed."

Andy: "Wow. Well, Kevin is always smart. He puts himself in the right place at the right time... That's just a testament to his character."

Luke: "Any final words, Andy?"

Andy: "I just want everyone to know that we really liked Shawn. I do want to contest what XXX told you. No he did not write any code and he wasn't a company officer or a manager or director. He was an advertising sales person, that's all he was and that's all he... He was never anything different. Our split was mutual and friendly and other than some lawyers hashing over some settlement issues right now, everything is kosher. We're good friends and we look forward to building positive relationships in the future with everybody involved. KB, Shawn, and everybody who is not a part of the family anymore is certainly a part of our extended family."

Luke talked to a few Andy Edmond detractors.

XXX: "The Jack Gallaghers [owns Babenet] of the world laughed at Andy when he pushed himself into the GIA Conference and tried to grandstand. Who does this guy think he is? Ron Levi? The GIA was the ultimate sponsors panel... It met a few hours prior to the YNOT press conference. The RBs, Jack Gallaghers, Ron Levis, Greg Dumases, all sat down. It was the Illuminati. They decided to put together a panel and outlaw many of the things on the adult web.

"Andy says that KB [Kevin Blatt] has not been in the adult business that long. Remind Andy that two-and-a-half years ago, he was calling Kevin and Darren Blatt to find out everything he needed to know about his competitor, the folks who trailblazed the territory he later followed, WebSideStory.

"Kevin used to be best friends with Bob Rice, but now they don't talk to each other. Bob didn't shatter any sales records. I know every advertiser on there and there is not one new advertiser."

YYY, a former YNOT techie, says he's livid about the bulls--- he just read in the Edmond interview: "Bob Rice f---ed Kevin over... YNOT f---s everybody. Kevin Blatt always puts himself in the right place at the right time? Yeah, like a courtroom.

"You know how pissed Kevin is towards Edmond, yet Andy's coming across like they are good friends."

Arg: luke, at&t issued a warning, i think there was an ap release...go to nocreditcard.com to see the basic scam. in a nutshell: install their "dialer", and it bills you $430+ per hour to view porn. big companies like ce [Cybererotica.com] were using them on exit consoles, but stopped soon after the bad press. i view ce as basically ethical...i think they realized the thing was a scam and pulled using it.

Arg> luke, another interesting expose would be what the heck's up with the penis enlargement programs on the internet. i'd be curious to hear, but not $35 curious :-).

brad shaw swears it's totally legit, i forget which proggy he runs...gethung.com?

Cheap Beer Leads to STDs

ATLANTA –– (AP) Cheap beer is a leading contributor to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, according to a government report that says raising the tax on a six-pack by 20 cents could reduce gonorrhea by up to 9 percent.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, released Thursday, compared changes in gonorrhea rates to changes in alcohol policy in all states from 1981 to 1995. In years following beer tax increases, gonorrhea rates usually dropped among young people. The same happened when the drinking age went up – as it did in many states during the 1980s.

"Alcohol has been linked to risky sexual behavior among youth. It influences a person's judgment and they are more likely to have sex without a condom, with multiple partners or with high-risk partners," said Harrell Chesson, a health economist with the CDC.

Director John Bowen writes: "It has been my experience that cheap whores are the greater source of STD's."

Rocco's Animal Trainer

Pat Riley writes on RAME about whether Rocco's Animal Trainer is good for civilization: you are trying to set out the level of proof that society should accept to agree that counter-propaganda such as Animal Trainer is of a net detriment to society. It's not your place to set such a level and in fact most of the time we have no such "beyond a shadow of a doubt" proof for any law, prohibition, social directive etc. The main reason is that there is no alternative universe so unlike the "studies" of the physical world we have no way of varying just one parameter and drawing a conclusion as to the effect of that variation. It doesn't mean we shouldn't use deductive reasoning to infer a likely result and in fact this is the way most laws arise. Studies in the sociological world are also suspect because of frequent methodological shortcomings so even if there were large numbers of studies on this particular subject they would hardly be better than intuition supported by anecdotal evidence.

Anecdotal accounts such as "The Money Train" example are described in the aforementioned thread so I won't go into them here. The usual reaction to such examples is to pooh-pooh them (as you try to do with your "smattering of studies" comment) as being too small to be a decisive factor in setting social policy however when combined with the intuitively obvious result of a constant diet of supportive counter-propaganda such as "Animal Trainer" they become compelling.

Do a month by month comparison of videos reviewed in AVN and you'll find that raincoater fare vastly outnumbers the VVWA&E group. In my video store there's a whole wall of Evil Angel/Elegant Angel/Anabolic but VVWA&E movies are rare and scattered amongst the rest of the trash. Even Leisure Time Entertainment compilations are more plentiful. Of course it could be that my video store is unique, or, since I would also assert that that's the pattern of other NYC stores, that NYC is somehow different from (say) Kansas City. Could be but on the face of it, it's unlikely.

I doubt that even Boris would maintain that Rocco is the cause of the downfall of Western civilization as we know it; I certainly wouldn't. Rocco and the rise of the raincoater movie are not themselves the sole factors in the increase in misogynistic sex and in the permissive attitudes shown in this thread but just a very visible part of an ongoing problem with society generally.

Luke: I was listening to Dennis Prager this morning who interviewed UCLA psychiatrist Steven Marmer about finding the right mate. Dr Marmer said that he learned from his teacher Robert Stoller that we are drawn to people who can hurt us. Those who can't hurt us, don't attract us. We are excited by those who can hurt us.

We unconsciously scan the universe for people who can threaten or endanger us in the same ways we were threatened as kids. We're trying to undo the hurts we received from our parents, typically our opposite sex parent.

Rumdar: Luke, Dr. Marmur is way off base. Most guys I know are not looking to meet anyone as f---ed up as their mother. It is just the opposite. For the most part single guys are scouring the universe looking to boff the best looking girl possible while spending the least amount of cash, time and effort. After we get it we then want someone who is not going to kvetch when we have to leave her to go spend time with our friends. Is Dr. Marmer Jewish? If so that is why his theory is so bogus. His scrotum sack was removed at birth by a domineering yenta mother. Hey Marmer....speak for yourself, your theory stinks.

Luke: Dr. Marmer used the example of a male patient who had a controlling mother. Thus he was always on alert when she was around, and pumping with adrenalin. Now he's attracted to a highly controlling woman. She makes life exciting for him. But she can also devastate him. He wants to recreate many of the dynamics of his childhood, but have it turn out good.

Excitement is the simultaneous rush of pleasure and danger, through replaying the key emotional events of childhood. If somebody is too easy, then they are boring and you're not excited by them.

Guys should look for women who had good relations with their father. They are less likely to hate men.

Good excitement is having to growing up. Having good sex. Learning. Bad excitement is love of possible harm. Going to the edge. Healthy excitement is learning new things and the thrill of intimacy. Boys fear intimacy while men do not.

Caller: I love my wife and we have a good relationship but I still lust for other women.

Dr Marmer: That's just part of male biological nature. Many men find it helpful to rechannel their sexual energy into variety of other pursuits - such as cars, work, sports... That's why many men work so hard.

Dennis: In latin America and parts of Europe, it is common for married men to get mistresses. But that is not permitted in the US.

Dr Marmer: That is why our economy is better. We work harder. Theirs is the more ancient way of dealing with things.

Recommended books: Sex Smart. How to be Your Own Dating Service.

Caller: Is porn an acceptable outlet for male sexual energy?

Dr Marmer: Depends on how it is used. Can be good or bad. Good if used to enhance the relationship.

Prager: Porn use is bad if used as a substitute for wife, good if used for desire for variety.

From www.amazon.com:

Hi. I'm Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D., the author of Sex Smart, a licensed psychologist, and a sex therapist certified by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. I'm happy to tell you more about my book. If you are mystified about why you turned out the way you did sexually, or how to solve your sexual problems, Sex Smart is for you. Sex Smart is also for you if you are a person who is simply intrigued by sexuality and wants to understand it more deeply. Sex Smart talks about sex in a way that is unlike most other self help books, because it discusses many of the non-sexual aspects of family life which contribute to adult sexuality. How your family touches, and whether or not your parents listened to you and your emotional needs. Whether or not you learned trust. What kind of message your parents gave you about your body. How your parents handled power. What you learned from your parents' relationship to you. Whether there was emotional neglect, alcoholism, or physical violence. What your parents taught you about friendship. Whether you felt you owned your own self or not. These probably aren't aspects of your family life that you think of as being tied to how you feel about yourself as a sexual person now.

I have always loved being a sex therapist. Each person's sexual development is so completely unique that figuring out the puzzle of each patient's (or a couple's) sexual problem is always interesting. For many years, I have been thinking about why people turn out so different sexually, why there are so many variations in sexual preferences and sexual pleasures and sexual problems. I did a lot of reading, trying to see if anyone had written a theory of sexual development that explained this phenomenon for me. I couldn't find one.

Many of my patients had erotic blocks which completely puzzled them. The other "how-to" books and articles they had read had not explained to them why they had the issues they had and hadn't helped to fix them. The problems themselves weren't unusual--things like lack of desire, difficulty getting aroused, orgasm problems, erection difficulties, premature ejaculation, sexual addictions and compulsions, sexual pain. These are garden variety issues for a sexual therapist to treat. But when I unraveled a number of these people's questions, it turned out that the answer lay in their family experience. And until they were able to understand the deeper events, the behavioral exercises suggested in the other articles and the books they had been reading didn't work. (For instance, a man with erection problems had been negatively affected by seeing his father beat his mother. A woman with sexual pain came from a family where no one ever touched each other affectionately.)

My patients thought my explanations made a lot of sense. But people lose a lot of what happens during the therapy siession within a few hours, let alone from one week to the next. They wanted a book to read that would reinforce and amplify what I was saying to them in their sex therapy sessions. But there was no book available I could recommend to them that explained what had happened to them the way I was describing it in the sex therapy sessions. As I treated more and more patients and looked carefully at why people had the sexual difficulties they had, I came up with my own integrated theory of what each of us needs to get in our family-of-origin to be able to enjoy being sexual as an adult. So I wrote Sex Smart, to help people understand that a lot of non-sexual events in family life turn out to profoundly affect how we feel about letting go sexually with another person. Understanding the basis of our sexual difficulties lays the groundwork emotionally. At the end of each chapter, Sex Smart goes on to give exercises to do.

Porno 101

I picked up this new book from Prometheus based on the 1998 World Pornography Conference. The book is more carefully thought out than the Conference.

Here are a few sentences from the area I turned to first - Section 7: A View of Film and Video as a Genre:

He [Jim Holliday] summarizes the New York productions as having more plot and grittier sex and what he rather sexistly calls "ugly chicks." San Francisco emphasized kinky sex, adequate story, and hippie looking women. Los Angeles for its part had "cuter" female actresses, playful and fluffier sex, and minimal plots.

Luke: Notice the PC attitude of the writer, dismissing the reality that there can be ugly chicks and cute chicks.

Lynne writes: I feel like I'm flogging a dead animal here, but PC aside, we're back to "lookism." Holliday's description is "rather sexist," in that it defines an entire group of performers with a gratuitous insult rather than a useful, value-free description which lets the reader decide who is cute and who is ugly.

The writer is not dismissing the reality that there can indeed be ugly chicks and cuter chicks, but only that Holliday is concealing his personal tastes in order to say something mean and hurtful about East Coast performers, among whom are probably both cute and ugly women.

Are the New York chicks "ugly" or just not Holliday's type? Not everyone out there agrees with Holliday's definition of "cute," nor should they. Unfortunately, what we have is an example of bad, value-laden writing. If by "ugly" one means "skinny, flat-chested brunettes who look like they've just come from shooting heroin in the stairwell," or if by "cute" one means "classic California beach bunny babes, with peroxided hair and pneumatic silicone breasts," then just say it, and avoid gratuitous sexist insults.

I don't argue politics because I have decided that any group of humans over a thousand is too large to manage with any system. All systems become equally useless. The problem is population, not devising a perfect economic system.

(Curiously enough, the Jehovah's Witnesses concur with me, limiting congregational membership to 100 families. They divide like an amoeba when they get too big, forming another congregation/community, so that everyone's needs and contributions can be managed at an optimum level.)

I don't argue racism for the same reason. It's a construct needed to separate groups of people when there are too many people competing for scarce resources.

For example, millions of women are competing for your sexual favors. You define them into various groups, Black, White, Yellow, Red and gorgeous supermodel, so you can concentrate on seducing only the very few women for whom you actually have time. You then further divide that group into those that will wait for you to become financially secure to get married and explore anal sex, leaving a much more manageable group of none.

Or, you could start with those who would wait for marriage to have the anal sex and then keep only the gorgeous supermodels. You would end up in the same position, with none, but it would take a lot more time. Thus we divide people up into smaller groups to make it easier to make decisions about them, using pseudoscience or religion to validate and justify our thought processes.

In your case, either way, you now have all the time in the world to work and masturbate, because, for the time being, you've eliminated all potential female distractions. Gorgeous supermodels don't need to wait for men to become successful. If they are desperate to get married because they crave the anal sex, there's plenty of guys who are already successful from whom to choose.

But Luke, never fear -- once you finally do become financially successful, gorgeous supermodels craving anal sex will be jumping out of the closets and from behind the bushes at you, too.

Brad From Danger Boy Video

Jimplasti: How ya been?
Jimplasti: workin hard ....selling alot of shoes.
Jimplasti: people cant rent them and dupe their own pairs.
Luzdedos1: still doin porno?
Jimplasti: I put in a full day in the life of a porn distributor today.
Luzdedos1: Oh yeah?
Jimplasti: picked up a bunch of pieces for a customer opening a new store.
Jimplasti: Chasin all over town for this prick.
Luzdedos1: are you still shooting?
Jimplasti: Its a f---ing price war out there.
Jimplasti: We just shot the final scene and some pick ups for the third Mila , Queen of Nasty.
Jimplasti: I have had no time. I figured, with a new kid and all....maybe sell some shoes and pay a few bills for a change. Jimplasti: But Im squeezing in the time to finish the edits in a week or so. Then K-Beech is putting it out.
Jimplasti: Its psyco....needless to say.
Jimplasti: We have some " southern california" fireman in this one...
Jimplasti: Not naked, but he lost a watch up inside Mila, if ya dig what I'm saying, litterraly
Luzdedos1: what's it like bein a dad?
Jimplasti: Its the best thing in the world.
Jimplasti: I have always wanted to be this dedicated to something....and nothing comes close.
Jimplasti: Ive owned several businesses, and was married to them all..... Jimplasti: Not like this baby. Luzdedos1: great Jimplasti: My Sofie. She did pesach last week...her first trip to temple
Jimplasti: Have you seen the prices these days? (Back to video?)
Jimplasti: Man...DVD's for $4.00?
Jimplasti: Why wait 15 years like in video, lets just crush the price structure during the initial launch
Jimplasti: Its too funny Jimplasti: why even print the f---ers.
Jimplasti: It aint worth it.
Jimplasti: We bought videos today for $1.25. its a sad day.
Jimplasti: Thats why Im out on it.
Luzdedos1: good, it is better for you to be out
Jimplasti: Thanks, but don't say it like its bad to be involved with adult entertainment. It's not what a man does for a living....Its how he does it amd how much dough.
Luzdedos1: I think adult is bad for you and for everyone who touches it, just mho
Jimplasti: i can understand.
Luzdedos1: but it is prbly more fun than shoes
Jimplasti: Thats how I feel about drug dealers. Not porn dealers.
Jimplasti: Well...the shoe thing actually....has always been fun.
Jimplasti: My stores have always been in Encino, Beverly Hills, Sherman Oaks...always mainstream stars and athelets... Jimplasti: Id rather schmooz with them than a bunch of porn stars.

Luke Gets Mail

LT writes: Luke, while Lynne can write some interestingly analytical pieces for your site and I certainly appreciate her outspokeness, something she sent to you last Friday (4/21) has me troubled. Her attitude to fake tits is contradictory. On one hand, she wrote that if you find women with real breasts and (paraphrasing) real vaginas, one can be sure they at least have some intellegence. But, then on the other hand, she writes acceptingly and excusingly of implants. Most of what she wrote seemed to be attempt at rationalizing tolerance of breast implants rather than an explanation.

Lynne, yes fake tits have become acceptable, but have you ever asked why?...or how?. You seem very analytic, but for some reason (perhaps being too close to porn), you seem to have just stopped on this one. Especially how quickly it happened. I am fully aware of big breasts being a drawing point, but that was the case when the big breasts were natural and the women often came with big hips and butts (there are exceptions, few and far between, but very special). That's the way nature is! If you want big breasts, then be prepared for what comes with it.

Two big factors: Reagan de-regulating television (which opened a whole Pandora's Box of advertising within and under the guise of "news") and, more importantly, Dow-Corning realizing they were going to lose silicone implants when given a three year notice by the FDA. Dow-Corning's response was to go on an aggresive marketing campaign and drastically cut the price of implants.

Then an increasingly aggresive marketing campaign when silicone implants were banned telling everyone how safe saline implants are. The media, interested more in what they believe will give them ratings than in truth, swallow whole any press release sent out by the corporations.

Almost overnight, women like Pamela Anderson are held up as THE ideal of beauty and this is constantly re-inforced. There are people who made these decisions, and there is even some evidence they were bought (so to speak). Breast implants are a fashion trend that was created and repeated so often to become a sorry fact.

And, yes! I realize women used to stuff their bras and do many other things in effort to appear larger...I'm not saying there wasn't a market, just there wasn't the level of market that was created. Breast implants are the most extreme example of marketing run amok.

The public is now convinced saline implants are safe, silicone isn't/wasn't that dangerous, that there is no scarring (or virtually no or practically invisible), there is little or no pain and complications are rare and minor...none of these are true, but the marketing machine and the enablers of the media have made it "fact".

When she writes "The natural ones are few and far between, and rarely beautiful once unleashed from clothing"...well, that's called conditioning Lynne. Real breasts were considered beautiful prior to the popularization of breast implants. There are more natural women out there than believed. Only someone inured to fake tits will have a skewed view. To say their aren't enough real women around for the porn industry...bulls---. And whose fault is that?

The vast majority of women that arrive natural to the industry aren't able to last more than a year without getting their breasts sliced open. I definitely agree with you that most fans not be discerning enough. Some wouldn't care no matter what. They can overlook the scars and puckering and the fact that implants just plain look like s---. They've been conditioned well. Some, were they to understand what all has really gone on, would be sickened by it...like myself.

Lynne, surely you must have run across some horror stories or noticed some troubling cases involving porn starlets getting implants. Or did you just look the other way?. The porn industry's stance on implants parallels Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (Hell, even non-believer Luke has heard some good tales about doctor "kickbacks" and agent/producer pressures). I'm not one to play dime store psychologist, but maybe that lookism thing is right. Perhaps not being analytical about fake tits and going along with it while in the industry is now Karma coming back on her. IMO, probably not, but it's an interesting thought.

Laura writes: First of all Luke I am very well aware that Chaim Amalek is you, I was just playing along. Secondly I am not hideous looking nor do I have a nose job. Every part of my body is natural. Also I'm not from NY although I am close by. As for Nina Hartley, is she an actual communist or do you just call her that? Conservatives tend to refer to any liberal as a communist therefore the accusation is meaningless. Nevertheless I admire Nina Hartley regardless, I think she is a great role model both sexy and intelligent and someone I would love to have sex with.

Steve Neece is absolutely right, despite all your complaints about liberalism being the force behind the porn industry I would suspect that if you remove the religious right element of the republican party and conservative movement most pornographers would identify more with republican party politics rather than liberal Democrat politics.

Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, a few days ago I wrote to you ("More important than any porno pissing match") about the hypocrisy of the national press in spending so much time dealing with the difficulty of one Danny Glover, celebrity black man, in getting a cab ride in New York, while ignoring the slaughter of 8 livery cab drivers (all black/brown) at the hands of people of color. Here is an update. A ninth driver has just been found killed, in Brooklyn. Married man, from the Dominican Republic, the father of three. Think Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw will cover this story? Seriously, some sort of "Tipping point" has been reached here regarding such crimes, which have not been the work of a serial killer but of multiple hoodlums. But since it is generally black /hispanic men killing other black/hispanic men, the National press is not interested. f---ing hypocrites.

And yes, Laura, Nina Hartley is a self-avowed communist, a red, a pinko, the sort of bad person Senator Joe McCarthy tried to warn us against, a human virus capable of thriving only by sickening the wider society in which she and her kind exist. I wonder - is it mere coincidence that she is of Jewish descent, and an apostate jewess at that? Why were so many members of the Communist Party USA of jewish descent, anyway? Chaim Am Luke wants to know. Any commie fans of mine out there who want to pipe in?

Turning to my good jewish friend Laura, who wrote: "First of all Luke I am very well aware that Chaim Amalek is you, I was just playing along. (I knew you were all along - Luke)

Secondly I am not hideous looking nor do I have a nose job. Every part of my body is natural. (Could you send a JPEG for me to look at? I am sick of wanking off to images of unnatural pornets - Luke)

As for Nina Hartley, is she an actual communist or do you just call her that? (See the above. The "Chaim" side of me lives to keep lists of reds and other socially maladapted people, especially when they are snooty jews. - Luke)

Nevertheless I admire Nina Hartley regardless, I think she is a great role model both sexy and intelligent and someone I would love to have sex with. (You have never had sex with a woman, have you? - Luke)

Luke: I found an interesting article on the cover of the latest New Times in Los Angeles (www.newtimesla.com) about the Kabbalah Center. Chaim Amalek writes: "Philip Berg" eh? The name resonates. Wasn't there a cult in the 70's led by one "Moe Berg"- the Children of God, I think, that prostituted its nubile women out to get male adherents? I wonder if the Bergs are kin to each other. On the other hand . . . . I live in a damn hovel, and these parasites get to live it up! Why can't I, Luke F-rd, find a scam like that?!

Peter: Just thought your readers would like to know that hot Asian porn star Kitty Yung (Now working under the name "Tia") has just started her own web site. www.ediblefantasies.com is a sex/food fetish site. Very hot!

Lynne replies to Ogman: I had an arts editor once who liked running pictures of bloody people for the shock value, not that it had anything to do with music or popular culture, the ostensible reason for the magazine. Shock doesn’t turn me on, but "pornography" does mean "the writings of prostitutes" or at the very least "sex writing," and the term should be used carefully. "Adult entertainment" encompasses a whole lot of stuff, from casinos in Las Vegas to porno videos. Our subject is sexually explicit videocassettes, and the softer movies made from them that are shown on cable.

I've never been a Nina Hartley fan. I worked the Adult Video Association booth with her for six hours one CES, and two weeks later she didn't remember who I was nor was she polite. I could do nothing for her; she had nothing for me. And that wasn't the first time we'd run into each other. Her girlfriend, Bobbi, was always really sweet to me.

As to Jenna, Kendra and pretty, I haven't looked at another woman since I fell for Luke F-rd, so can't even comment.

During Operation Wormwood both Bill Margold and Gloria Leonard were, along with Nina, making regular appearances on behalf of the industry on talk shows (primarily Donahue and Geraldo.) They were told to stop. They did. Gloria Leonard WAS the best spokesperson we ever had, but she degenerated into the kind of gal who flipped Luke off in the California Legislature. Not very professional.

Traci Lords. One of my jobs at Parliament News was to scan all magazines scheduled for reprinting to make sure there were no pictures of Traci. Her breasts, her ankles, her butt. Nothing. I got to be a Traci expert. We had a giant blow up of her drivers’ license in the art department – just to remind that if they look underage, and they act underage, they might be underage despite their legitimate identification. Traci cost the industry millions of dollars in product which had to be destroyed but, bless their hearts, no one was unfairly prosecuted who pulled her material from inventory. My late husband was on a set with Traci Lords, and said, yes, she was gorgeous, but acted "as if she’d just gotten those breasts." And, of course, she had. I agree, she’s an icon, but for years I wanted to smack her on behalf of the biz for all the trouble she caused. I have a windbreaker from the shoot.

I agree with you that there is a sociopathic edge to pornography. I’ve always said, "Show me a guy’s porn, I’ll give you his profile, just like the FBI." I got my bachelor’s degree in search of more knowledge on sexual variation and the kinks that make porn work, and I have read pretty much only true crime books about sociopathic sex killers for years now, so I do know what I’m saying.

Certain magazines, both trade and consumer, do not. I’m not talking about the ones deliberately aimed at sociopaths – the whips and chains wannabe crowd. I’m talking about the ones which present Max Hardcore, heads in toilets and gang bangs as good old-fashioned, all American sex. The ones which don’t like my movies, because they have no bitch-beating or goo. My movies are still commercial (as opposed to "art") and still designed to be sexually arousing, but they’re aimed at the vast cross-section of Americans who currently or hope in the future to have happy relationships with the opposite sex (except the gay movies, which are the same, only gay).

Adultery is common across all walks of life these days, and drug use only attracts attention when the user sinks into the gutter, regardless of profession. Most people who use drugs never attract attention, and the only person upset by adultery in porn is Luke, because Luke is looking for personal assurance that he can keep his job and have a chaste marriage so he can have ANAL SEX without using a condom.. Plenty of people in the porn industry do not cheat on their spouses – my husband cheated continuously on his first two wives but not on me, because I kept him exhausted. I didn’t cheat on him – I asked permission. And most of the non-performers don’t take it that far…they’re too busy getting up and going to work and too tired after work to have sex with their spouses, let alone cheat.

Porn battles are fought in the courts these days. I’m as much a politically incorrect consumer as anyone (had dead pig at McDonalds for breakfast this morning myself). (No, Luke, I’m not going to give up roasting dead animals – I need to get rid of my failed veterinary experiments somehow…) The girls will all end up in the bathroom together checking out each other’s piercings and tattoos and if you’re so cute guys would hit on you, you’d be in the bathroom getting blown by one of the girls. No one has had any decent coke for years, but if we’re really lucky someone will have some not-to-mediocre pot. No one will pay Nina to be there, so Luke will probably end up giving the sound byte unless it’s Saturday, in which case I’ll cover for him.

Roger Pipe vs Trey Kaiza

Roger Pipe of www.rogreviews.com writes: This is part of an email that was sent to me after a review. I replied to the email, correcting a mistake he made (I had nothing but good things to say about Teri in the movie since she was the only thing worth watching in it.) but taking his criticisms seriously. Of course, I thought he was just a reader pointing some things out to me. Then today, I see him posting a promo for Bubbles' web site, making me realize that there was more behind he email than just honest criticism. I have nothing against Bubbles, or any of the women in the movies I review, and I hate to hurt anyone's feelings. However, I'm not going to cheat readers for the sake of protecting someone's feelings. Perhaps this guy should have been straight from the start about why he was so upset instead of taking shots and then not even having the decency to respond. Hell, if he wants something nice said about his woman, he can buy banner space, I'll send him all the traffic he wants. Otherwise, I'll keep being honest.

Trey writes Roger: I just read your review of American Bukkake 7 and I can only say that I'm amazed at the amount of time you have. I dont read reveiws and I rarely read RAME but I had a little surplus time to kill when I noticed Bukkake 7 in the newsgroup header. I know Teri and Murrill very well and visit with them at least once a week. I heard something about you getting KO'd at CES or some Expo and I know you're not exactly the most handsome thing in the world. Why then would you care to use such harsh language about the girls? I mean, before the internet YOU was just another idiot renting porn at your local video store. You still are just another idiot, just much more public about it. You bag on Teri, Zarina and Bubbles but yet, you like 10,000 other guys would love to have just a second with these girls. I was on the internet, years before it got commerialized(when it was still arpanet). I'm still amazed at how people get a damn computer and modem and they become critics.

Earlier this week, Trey sent GeneRoss.com and myself this: Bubbles, a well known swinger in LA is selling her first video under her own line. She was in America Bukkake #7 and Cum Burpers. You can see her in action at wildbubbles.com. Bubbles has been holding parties in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Everyone is welcum to attend with the only requirement being you MUST cum on her face. She was profiled in the April edition of Hustler in a segment highlighting swingers in America.

Julie Meadows

Emmett writes: Luke you should interview Julie Meadows and ask her when she will return back to porn. I haven't seen her in anything in 5 months. During her hiatus she had been quickly replaced by Jade Marcella who does scorching anal sex. The only thing that I find annoying about Jade is her tattoos and her fake screaming. Screaming is good but if you can obviously tell a woman is faking it then she should remain silent and just work on her body expressions to convey her feeling of sexual excitement. Julie Meadows is and Jade both have hard, erotic looking faces when they are performing. I would love to see them in a lesbian scene with Lexington Steele sneaking in. Hey! Both of their first appearances in Anabolic videos had them performing with Lexington Steele who remodeled their vaginas with his Juggernaut cock. I say that Julie Meadows scene was way more powerful and erotic then Jade's. Julie actually showed she enjoyed it and even if she didn't you couldn't tell Also her body movements and her duration during his f--- scenes were spectacular and long. Jade on there hand makes you question whether she enjoyed her scene or not. Julie's website sounds good but she doesn't offer enough of good samples to make a guy want to pay for her website; http://www.juliemeadows.com. But really, you should interview her Luke. She is still the number one Asian when it comes to sex. Especially during anal scenes.

Cherri Doll is fantastic in Nasty Nymphos 24! He tall, slender body her "f----me" face made that video spectacular. When Nacho Vidal was splitting her ass apart with his thunder-cock, she was pain but Cherri took it like a pro and adjusted to his fat cock. She quickly accepted it and enjoyed the anal reaming of her life and requested that she get pounded harder. She is hottest woman I have seen this year! I am not into tattoos but her unique tattoo was aligned perfectly to her body. I hope she plays in more Anabolic films.

Roger Pipe of www.rogreviews.com writes: By the way, Julie Meadows is still around. I interviewed her on my site, you can pull some off for Emmett if you want.

Mad Jack: Luke, I know you're laughing as hard as I am...Emmett...You're the f---in' bomb...Juggernaut cock!!! Tim connelly [editor of Adam Film World], call this guy!!

Insider Training Conviction

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A federal jury has convicted former Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. (X.KBW) Chief Executive James J. McDermott Jr. on charges he leaked inside information to an X-rated actress who was his mistress. The case marks the first time a Wall Street chief executive has been charged and convicted of insider trading, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Darva Conger and Pamela Lee Anderson

From today's Wall Street Journal:

"Darva Conger, the woman who wed Rick Rockwell on Fox TV's "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" then promptly dumped him, has "agreed in principle" to pose naked for Playboy, according to a representative for the magazine, the New York Post reported yesterday. She is to receive a six-figure fee for the photo shoot.

"Now a company called the Internet Entertainment Group has obtained a video Ms. Anderson made with an earlier rocker boyfriend, Brett Michaels of Poison. Although the quondam couple have managed to get a federal injunction blocking distribution of the tape, they're being frustrated by the guerrilla potential of the Internet. "All they do the minute you shut them down is open another Web site," Mr. Michaels told Mr. Showbiz, one of the Internet's entertainment news sites."

Dennis Prager on his radio show today said: It is hard to argue that you were humiliated by the TV show, and then pose naked for Playboy.

Darva will get six figures, about $120,000. What percentage of American women would pose naked for Playboy for that money? Prager said two-thirds.

Why will so many people want to buy the issue of Playboy featuring Darva? I think because they want to see her totally exposed and humiliated.

Will it change your view of Darva once she has appeared nude? I think yes. It means she's chosen to humiliate herself.

Prager and callers said that Darva was in a downward spiral. She's lost her job as an emergency room nurse. She'd humiliated herself on national TV. She's been caught lying about her past (she did not serve in the Persian Gulf conflict). She has fewer options.