Tuesday, August 22nd, 2000
Vivid Mail Parodies Bestiality
XXX writes Luke: Is Vivid now spamming bestiality? That's what it looks like according to the Vivid Insider, their latest e-mail newsletter dated 8-22-00. "Claudia" and "King" her "German Shepard" "play" together and "tape(s) the fun"? Is this inter-species sex? Or is it just another bulls--- scam? Oh gee, look on JungleGirls.com- they advertise "Girls With Animals Like Never Seen Before"- implying bestiality content- on the main page, but down below plain to see they say "Disclaimer: Jungle Girls Contains No Beastiality!" Ha! What a rip!
A Vivid source writes: "Jungle girls is a parody site and contains no beastiality. Same goes for Farm Secrets."
Luke: Here's the Vivid Insider email. If you thought anybody would be hip to parody and satire, it would be a "journalist" who used that in his defense while debating Vivid attorney Paul Cambria last August.
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:57 -0700
From: Vivid Insider
Claudia shows how her and her best pal, King, a German Shepherd, spend most of their time together. She lets the dog play with her and even tapes the fun. See it at Junglegirls: http://www.thepics.com/vivid/jgfresh.html
Sweet, pink 18 year-old virgins straight from the Midwest, LIVE and totally f---able. Wanna see 'em doin' it for the first time? Click: http://www.thepics.com/vivid/scfresh.html Mega-sex site. See the top porn stars in non-stop orgies. Complete archive of the largest collection of new hardcore ever assembled. Check out Digitalchicks: http://www.thepics.com/vivid/dcfresh.html
It's back to nature for the babes who just love to feel their furry friends against their bare skin. Only at a girl and her pet's site. Check out Farmsecrets: http://www.thepics.com/vivid/fsfresh.html
-VIVID NEWS-
Hey wanna meet a new Vivid Girl? Well her name's Dayton and she's blond, sassy and loves to f---. Although her name lends itself to someone from the Midwest, this Southern California native is anything but common. She's a virtual bundle of sexual energy and she makes her Vivid debut in a scorching feature that was shot completely on location at the infamous Bunny Ranch in Reno, Nevada. Partnering with another hot new Vivid Girl, Cheyenne, the duo gives you the scoop on what it's like to be a 'ho in hicksville! This is "docuporn" at its dirtiest. And it's all real - the hookers, the johns, and of course new Vivid Girl Dayton. Catch all of the nasty goings on in Vivid's Inside of Sex Volume 1.
And by the way, you know what's coming this November don't you? Well if you've forgotten, we're electing a new President and unless people like you, who love adult material, don't get out and vote, we're in danger of losing these liberties that we take so much for granted. The Vivid Girls will be out there voting so let's count on you too. Vote this November for the candidates who'll keep freedom free. Click on http://www.vote2k.net now!
Becky Carols writes: Luke, What's all this s--- about Vivid? It's almost as bad as all that religious BS I have to wade through. It is funny how the Vivid dumbf---s are trying to compete with gonzo by hiring a few young girls (of course they all get fake tits and a pound of clown makeup splattered on their faces). Let's not forget that all of their movies are condom-clad, boring, worthless s---. As far as I'm concerned, Cheyenne Silver no longer exists but, Sky has now come back from the dead. Welcome back Sky. Maybe you could do Lex Steel in his new series for ANABOLIC (the best porn company in the U.S.)?
Brittany O'Connell Refuses Comment On Anton Levay
Rick writes Brittany: DEAR BRIT, ANTON LEVAY WAS A FALSE PROPHET. HIS DEATH WAS WELL DESERVED....AND SATAN SAW TO IT. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. LATER.
Brittany: Hi Rick, No comment here about Anton Levay's death. Later, Brittany
Rick writes Brittany: DEAR BRIT, I HAVEN'T HEARD s--- FROM YOU IN A WHILE. DID SOMETHING I SAID STRIKE A NERVE??? ARE YOU MAD AT ME FOR SOME REASON??? HEY....LISTEN....I'M DOWN WITH SATAN. YOU AIN'T DOWN WITH HIM....SO WHAT'S THE DEALIO??? HEY LOOK....YOU'RE STILL COOL. YOU'RE STILL MY GODDESS. I JUST THINK SATAN IS PRETTY COOL. HE HATES FAGGOTS AND ALL THAT. I HATE FAGGOTS AND ALL THAT. DOES THAT BOTHER YOU??? HEY....I GOT NEWS FOR YOU. MOST OF YOUR FANS HATE FAGGOTS. AND I THINK YOU KNOW THAT. THE THINGS I DO....I DO IN THE NAME OF THE DARK CARNIVAL.... AND SATAN.
I REMEMBER ONE TIME YOU TOLD ME THAT IT PISSES YOU OFF IN THE NAME OF GOD. WELL....DOES IT PISS YOU OFF THAT I DO THINGS IN THE NAME OF SATAN??? WELL....DOES IT??? NO ANSWER HUH??? I DIDN'T THINK YOU WOULD WANT TO VOICE YOUR OPINION. ANYWAY....WHEN'S MY VIDEO COMING??? I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR QUITE A WHILE NOW. LET KNOW AT LEAST THAT IF ANTHING ELSE. DON'T WORRY BRIT....I STILL LOVE YOU....EVEN IF YOU DON'T LOVE "THE MAN DOWNSTAIRS". LATER.
Brittany: Hi Rick, Your video will be sent out this week. I've been waiting on L.B.O. They screwed up my shipment when I ordered from them and I had to send it back. I should be getting it tomorrow and once I do I'll be sending out your video. I appreciate all the stuff you've been sending me but really I'm not into rap or the Juggalos. I like Tool, Type O Negative etc. As far as the gay thing goes I really don't care. As long as their not hurting anyone then let live. When it comes to practicing any type of religion I don't have the time and I believe what I want to believe. Take it easy, Brittany
PornoDave@aol.com writes: Hey, I saw South Park the movie, and Satan was a fag. Are you telling me movies lie!!!
Eurobabes vs American Porn Stars
Ron Wilhelm writes on RAME: It's been many years since I've posted to this group. My time at Marine Corps training cost me the database, and I was never a part of the moderation process for RAME. But I'm a man who likes to write, and I had had some those on my recent video viewing experiences.
By and large my favorite videos recently have been Christoph Clark's video of Evil Angel - Euro Angels and Euro Hardball specifically. Compared to the "mainstream" US produced porn selections, his stuff several notches up in terms of camera work, and the quality of the girls. This second point is perhaps the main reason I write this.
There seems to be a great difference in the attitudes of American and European pornstars. It seems to me that this difference is their view towards their work. Name brand American pornstars seem to be more in the buiness of being celebrities, than they are in the business of having good sex on camera. I am concerning myself with those stars that grace the larger studio titles, specifically.
Their European counterparts seem to be soley concerned with having good sex on camera, and it shows in their work. It comes across on screen. With the short number of titles (at least that are released over here) by Euro pornstars, it's almost as if it's something extremely attractive European women do - to have nasty sex in at least a couple of films because that just what they are expected to do. A few European stars seem to be the embodiment of certain ideas. Laura Angel to be is the ultimate powerful woman, the kind most men fear. Meridian is the embodyment of the enjoyment of having sex. The list could go on, and we would probably find that many European women strongly embody many of these sorts of ideas. Their American counterparts lack this. There are exceptions, but by and large, American stars seem to "empty".
This assessment is probably in large part due to my selection of the videos I've seem. It is two different genres - "mainstream" porn and Euro-gonzo, and in fact one director's work at that. Yet the women in American gonzo seem to lack the something that their European counterparts have. And the women in mainstream European release have the same quality as the women in European gonzo. They are many times the same woman.
It seems strange to me that when a big budget European film is made, there's no problem with putting nasty sex in. Yet when Vivid makes a big budget film, there's a lack of nasty sex, compared to the European releases.
This is nothing new. I remember in 1994 or so driving to Philidephia to see Imperator and watching some Angelica Bella videos. European films have always been harder than American, yet when the American videos try to catch up, they fall short.
You could probably chalk this up to the differences in the attitudes toward sex here and in most European countries. No matter how liberated a group on American porn producers are, the underlying national attitude still permiates what they do. Add to this that more European women are natural breasted, and I just fail to see what American porn offers anymore.
Downloading Video, Let Porn Show The Way
General Schvantzkoph writes on RAME: Napster, Gnutella and their ilk have provoked panic in the recording industry and the emergence of DIVX (not the Circuit City version, I'm talking about the new Mpeg4 compression scheme that is appearing on the web) is causing a similar reaction in Hollywood. Instead of figuring out how to exploit the new technology those industries are engaged in a desperate attempt to shut the barn door long after the horse has left.
The adult video industry has an opportunity here to show the world how to take advantage of the new opportunity that broadband internet connections provide. Porn has always been the first industry to exploit new media technologies, whether it was French postcards which became available as soon as photography was invented, to video tapes, to DVDs, to the Internet itself. Porn is ideally situated to be the first industry to switch from a prepackaged content based model to a service based model. To explain these terms, by packaged content I mean selling a particular DVD or Tape, by service I mean the cable television model where you pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited access to the cable channels but don't pay for particular programs. Porn is well situated for the following reasons,
1) Individual videos have little value, nobody spends a $100 Million to make a porn movie. So porn producers don't have to worry about getting every last bit of return from a particular movie.
2) There are no blockbusters, porn is a volume business, the figure quoted in this newsgroup is 12,000 videos a year. Contrast that with the record industry which gets 25% of it's revenue from 84 records a year. Hollywood has only a handfull of big hits a year. This is really the same point as in 1), porn guys don't have to worry about protecting particular properties. Porn is more like the milk business than the movie business, it's about delivering a perishable commodity not about intellectual property with long term value.
3) The porn industry gets bigger with each new technology that makes it easier and less embarrassing to obtain the stuff. The number of people who are willing to rent tapes is orders of magnitude larger than the number who were willing to go to a sticky floored porno theater. Renting tapes has it's disincentives also, how many of you suffer a cringe of guilt when you hand a copy of Major f---ing Whore to the 16 year old clerk in the video store? Buying DVDs off of the web is the next step, now only you mailman knows. Downloading is the final step, now only your laptop knows.
4) Porn can be sold by the scene rather than as whole movies, and porn consumers are highly tolerant of lousy video quality. This is important for the next five years or so until broadband connections get to 10 Mbits/sec. Today's broadband connections are only 1 Mbit/second. In practical terms this means that DVD quality video, which runs from 7 to 10 Mbits/sec, requires 10 seconds to download for each second of video. However porn has very static backgrounds which means that it can be highly compressed without a terrible loss of quality. At 2 Mbits/sec a fifteen minute scene can be downloaded in a half an hour which is below the threshold of pain. I expect that most porn consumers would prefer to buy porn by the scene rather than by the movie. I know that I fast forward past 75% of a porn movie. I'd be much happier looking at previews on the web and then just downloading the good stuff.
5) If commercial porn servers are reasonably priced and reliable then Napster type piracy is not much of a problem. There was a study in the paper today that looked at the behavior of Gnutella users, not surprisingly the number of people who downloaded MP3s out numbered the people who allowed uploading from their machines by hundreds to one. The reason for this behavior is obvious, why would anyone want their broadband connection tied up by someone else uploading from their system when they don't profit from it? The net effect of this is that the performance of free peer to peer systems is going to be lousy because not enough people will provide upload bandwidth. Commercial providers that provide unlimited access for a reasonably fee, say $20/month, and that maintain large collections will be worth it to enough consumers to make it pay.
6) Because porn producers are not much interested in protecting their content, for example porn DVDs never have regional coding on them, they can dispense with inconvenient copy protection schemes. Copy protection schemes always fail because they have no value to the consumer, their value is only to the producer. If you make something hard to use, people won't use it. A fixed price all you can eat system eliminates the need for copy protection.
Robert: the whole reason i spend huge amounts of time burning audio CD's and copying jpegs and mpegs is that the industry puts so much crap in their product - we've all wasted money on a CD that had 1 good tune and 11 turkeys or a porn vid with 1 really hot chick giving great head and 5 bus station skanks doing whatever. Sell me a CD/vid that i can listen/watch from end to end and i WONT NEED to copy it !
Wonderful Entertainments Await You
Dear Mr. Luke F-rd!
You recently raised questions concerning the sort of entertainments there were to be found among our people. Lest you travel here thinking that, pending the creation of an authentic Workers' Adult Cinema, there were not any, let me be the one to correct your understanding!
To give you but one example, the light comedy "Let's Always Be Cheerful", produced by creators and artistes of the April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army was staged at the Mansudae Art Theatre just yesterday.
Kim Yong Nam, Hong Song Nam and other senior party and state officials and working people in the city appreciated the performance. The light comedy represents the revolutionary spirit of servicemen and their families who cheerfully pull through all difficulties in their way, though it is thorny, firmly convinced that they are sure to win as long as they are under the leadership of the respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
It relates the story about how the wives of officers in a unit came to participate in an art contest among art circles of families of officers of the whole army, the first of its kind in its history. So you see, Mr. Luke F-rd, there are many wholesome entertainments here that await you!
Flying Solo
The latest Time magazine cover story is about women staying single. Here are some highlights from Time.com:
More women are deciding that marriage is not inevitable, that they can lead a fulfilling life as a single. It's an empowering choice, but for many not an easy one...
The single woman has come into her own. Not too long ago, she would live a temporary existence: a rented apartment shared with a girlfriend or two and a job she could easily ditch. Adult life--a house, a car, travel, children--only came with a husband. Well, gone are the days. Forty-three million women are currently single--more than 40% of all adult females, up from about 30% in 1960. (The ranks of single men have grown at roughly the same rate.) If you separate out women of the most marriageable age, the numbers are even more head snapping: in 1963, 83% of women 25 to 55 were married; by 1997 that figure had dropped to 65%. "Are you kidding? An 18% to 20% point change? This is huge," says Linda Waite, a sociologist at the University of Chicago.
To be sure, the rise in single women encompasses some other important trends. An estimated 4 million of these unmarried women are cohabiting with their lovers, and a growing number are being more open about gay relationships. Nevertheless, single women as a group are wielding more and more clout. A Young and Rubicam study released earlier this summer labeled single women the yuppies of this decade, the blockbuster consumer group whose tastes will matter most to retailers and dictate our trends. The report found that nearly 60% of single women own their own home, buying them faster than single men; that single women fuel the home-renovation market; and that unmarried women are giving a big boost to the travel industry, making up half the adventure travelers and 2 out of 5 business travelers.
Equally important is the attitudinal change. The dictionary once defined a spinster as an unmarried woman above a certain age: 30. If you passed that milestone without a partner, your best hope was to be seen as an eccentric Auntie Mame; your worst fear was to grow old like Miss Havisham, locked in her cavernous mansion, bitter after being ditched at the altar. Not anymore. "We've ended the spinster era," says Philadelphia psychotherapist Diana Adile Kirschner, who has made single women a focus of her practice. "Women used to tell me about isolation, living alone, low level of activity, feeling different. Now there's family, lots of friends, they're less isolated and more integrated into social lives."
Luke: Dennis Prager points out how all the women pictured in the story look fabulously happy. And as most people will only look at the pictures rather than read the article, Time presents a distorted and destructive vision.
DP: What comes through most is how these women love themselves. They're unable to bond with a man, but many still feel capable of raising kids. I love myself, I'm fabulous. I'm free to do what I want, even raise kids without a father.
In the TIME/CNN poll, fully 61% of single women ages 18 to 49 answered yes when asked whether they would consider rearing a child on their own.
Men only get married if it is the only way they can get sex. Single women may be putting up a brave face.
The women in the Time article are more representative of the type of women that Time reporters meet, rather than the typical single woman.
The longer one stays single, the more incapacitated they become from forming a relationship. It is easy to make love but it is not easy to create love.
The longer women put off marriage, the bigger the mistake. The longer they wait, the worse their chances to marry.
Time: "It would be great if I found a relationship that allowed me to be as I am and added something to that," says documentary producer Pam Wolfe, 33, sitting in her one-bedroom condo in New York City. "But I'm not going to do anything to attract a person that means changing. I've worked long and hard to be myself."
DP: To the extent that this article (which shows lots of happy single women) is accurate, it is pathetic.
Chaim: Regarding that Time mag story on "Sex in the City" I gotta laugh. I have read (probably NJG could back this up) that the writers of that show are gay men describing their gay male lifestyles. (The women who act this all out, of course, have nothing to do with the writing, and in fact often are married.) Yet such is the corruptive power of Big Media in general and Gerald Levin's Time Warner in particular, that countless hetero women have been duped into thinking that the lifestyles portrayed on that show are normal and to be emulated.
Big Sassy Woman writes: Hiya Luke! The girls and I have been following your new romance on your web site site (we are not interested in male porn since it never is sex-positive). You are being mislead by some of your loser-readers into thinking that just because a woman is no longer a highschool cheerleader, she is somehow less sexual than is age appropriate...
Time Magazine has a cover story about women like me and your business woman friend that should be read by all men who want to know what real women, the sort of women portrayed on that wonderful new HBO television show "Sex in the City" are like these days. We are professional, successful, and quite frankly, do not need a man in our lives to be self-realized. Not even for becoming mothers (which many of us do quite successfully for the first time in our fabulous forties, thank you). Not that we do not like men, we do, but face facts Luke, we are not helpless, and you need us more than we need you.
Problems in Lesbianism: A Patriarchal Review
Chaim: And now, even Lynne confirms the dark, Hollywood-suppressed truth:
"I went on a job interview where it immediately became clear that the office was controlled by seriously obese, power-mad lesbians."
Yes, I too have a story or two to tell about these damned Daughters of Bilitis. I knew one who had the nasty habit of writing annonymous, accusatory letters to the IRS everytime she decided she did not like someone (in every instance a hetero woman). Disproportionately many of the psychologically damaged or just plain evil women I have known have been lesbian. And they are nothing like the fake lesbians you see on the Howard Stern show. Unlike Stern's "show" lesbians, the real lesbian is too damn ugly to get herself a man, is mentally impaired, or both.
But let us have mercy on them - their lesbianism is but a symptom of far darker, more fundamental maladies. Certainly no woman has ever nor would she ever choose lesbianism for herself. It is chosen for her by the forces of fate, abuse, and insanity, and often after only many years of abuse. (Even Ellen Steinberg did not go gay until after prostituting herself to men in New York City for decades. The horror . . . the horror.)
PS to Lynne: I have never had any fear of meeting up with a black crack addict in an alley here. There are no alleys, dark or otherwise, in Manhattan. So can't we leave the racist generalizations at home?
Steve Neece's Thoughts For The Day
Steve Neece writes: Here are my thoughts for the day(8/22). Chaim:Get real.Gayness,male or female,is genetically programmed.As to Ellen Steinberg,I just think it took her a long time to realize it.If you look back you will find that almost from the start she took her sexual cues from Gay men.She idolized and tried to emulate their sexuality.From leather boys to queens to bodybuilder/hustlers she was fascinated by them.After all,THEY,not HER,were the ultimate sexual outlaws.
Ellen always said that her bad experiences as a prostitute were miniscule.She estimated 100 negative experiences out of several thousand.She said she exorcized these experiences by incorporating them into her perforfance art under the title(I think) of '100 blowjobs'.To see her perform it is revealing and searing and she said she wept uncontrollably the first few weeks but she succeeded in exorcizing it from her psyche.I wish her only the best wherever her sexuality takes her.
To Amused:why do you hate Heather Barron's intelligence and feel the need to hurt her?Believe me,she is probably far more attractive than the average escort.I have seen women old enough to be her mother that look far better than most women ever will.Your sexual inadequacy is showing big time. To str8man.Are you sure you are.What an insecure jackoff!
Re:Mr.Marcus' posts.This lot was pretty everyday but much of the earlier ones show that subhumans come in all colors.Luke,why don't you have more female posters like Marcus?Plus,for all of the mindless garbage by non literates he also has many thoughtful posters that hopefully can be encouraged to post to your site. Heather,Lynne,Sassy,keep up the good work.
Would love to know why Dennis Prager finds self sufficient financially viable women so sad?Talk about being insecure.Listen up,Prager.There are too damn many people on this planet and those that contribute to overpopulation are the worst kind of criminals.They destroy the quality of life for all.And don't talk about the poor oppressed third world to me.They have to be stopped from overbreeding by any means necessary so they don't destroy the planet for all of us.It is simple math.This planet has FINITE resources.Too many people and they run out.As for not wanting to marry,why should they.Most people are by nature loathsome and hateful and only marry one another out of necessity,be it financial,social or sexual.
Do you doubt that the huge majority of women worldwide hate every minute of their married life?They felt they had no choice they were brainwashed by convention into believing it was inevitable fate.The percentages are probably nearly as high for men.To love or care about 90% of humanity is impossible if you are a thinking person and do so is degrading to your sense of self.They only decent logical thing they could do is not procreate so as not to further poison the gene pool.How many women got into porn to escape a fate worse than death;to have to marry some asshole and hope he will support you.Compared to that even degradation by Max Hardcore is a walk in the park.
Should Women Become Adult Webmasters?
Danielle writes on Netpond: I am looking for some brutally honest opinions here. I have recently become a member to Alec Helmy's board where there is a very.....hot conversation going on. Should women be adult webmasters? Would you have a problem if your mom was doing this? What about your girlfriend or wife decided to take it up? Do you think it affects the home lives of women with underage children?
Str8guy writes on Helmy's board: I was thinking recently about what seems to be the recent proliferation of women into the role of webmaster of adult content sites. Is this what our society has finally succumbed to? Would you want your mom to be doing this? Would you bring your soon-to-be-bride home to your parents and proudly exclaim, "Mom, Dad, meet my sweetie, she's an adult webmistress!" Now, I agree that they make great subjects for the content, and provide excellent motivation at times, but webmasters? I know what they have done after a little "nesting" at my house, with their curtains, and doilies, do we really want them doing this to our porn sites too? Think about it, name any successful porn mag run by a woman. Nothing personal ladies, I enjoy the company, but shouldn't you be in the kitchen cooking something? or putting another log on the fire, or doing laundry? Now married guys, you don't need to respond if your wife is watching over your shoulder, I understand. Anyone else agree with me? Would you marry one?
Jul: I have never heard such male chauvinist pig talk in years. Come out of the dark ages and smell the coffee. If you do a study of the adult industry I suspect you will find there are as many, if not more, women adult webmasters as there are men. I feel sorry for you and any poor woman you might be associated with. FYI I am a female, grandmother, adult webmistriss and my son was the one who suggested I do it for a living. How do you like them apples?
Str8guy replies: Well, if someone was in the kitchen making coffee instead of websites, perhaps I could smell the coffee. As far as your contention "If you do a study of the adult industry I suspect you will find there are as many, if not more, women adult webmasters as there are men" I know you don't mean that. Pretty funny, but in no way accurate and you know it. The industry would not even exist if left to a majority of adult website owners being female.
The dark ages comment makes me think about how todays society really sucks compared to when we grew up. Kids packing heat to school, too many divorces, etc, most of which can be blamed on the family losing continuity because of Women's Lib, which of course started when they were given the right to vote. Then they wanted in the work force causing men (fathers) to lose their jobs in the name of affirmative action. Now Sjayne is correct, we need women for porn to work, and of course everyone has the right to look at porn, it's just that on a whole women don't look at porn. It's genetic, nothing to do with prudishness or anything. Scientific fact. Also, addressing the issue about introducing mom and dad to porn guy/gal, do you think you'd be hesitant to tell them you were marrying Hugh Hefner?
Fay Sharp: Well - MOM is here! My kids think it is a lark that I have entered the Adult Biz. Can we be AdultWebmistresses? Have been for almost 3 years. Can we be content providers? Have been for a year. Interested in being content? nope, will leave that to those who have the desire to be. Can we maybe even drum up enough intelligence to maybe run an Adult TradeShow? I think I have managed for 6 years to build the largest attended independent Adult tradeshow. (AdultDex) Even managed to put together the webmaster popular CybernetExpo. I think maybe you should attend and improve on your networking skills. Now let's see what else I can't do because I am a woman and a mother? :-)
Bianca Trump On Howard Stern
Bianca Trump writes: I am going to be live on he Howard Stern show for my own segment...... Sept 8th.....radio....later to be aired on E.... Will let you know when I do. the topic is basically about being a open porn star escort......and not a typical bunny ranch girl
XXX: well considering shes visited the bunny ranch so many times, i guess she would know what a "typical bunny ranch girl" is--my only question is what seperates her from them??
Bianca: I have been to the bunny ranch all of one time for 3 days.....that hardly qualifies me to be a repeater. i didnt like it and left. I have been an independent escort...(no agency) and publically open about it for 7 years......thats the difference.
XXX says : Ok so youre a common street whore instead of a legal one in a brothel.Thanks for clearing that up.
Bianca: No I see you are still very unclear...I have never been a "street whore".... 1. I have never been on a street offering my services. 2. Whores do it for free. Thanks for the wasted flaming in cyberspace.....NEXT...
Juli Ashton Sacks Mr Marcus
From MrMarcus.com:
Posted By: Laker fan Posted On: 8/22/100 00:45 Sup Marcus! Just got thru watching video of Juli Ashton: Forbidden. Say bruh! Seems like you were three hours late to f--- Juli and Nina Hartley! Juli had to fired yo ass! Come on man! You gots to explain yourself! I would have love to seen you do these two fine ladies!
Posted By: Mr.Marcus Posted On: 8/22/100 04:46 She fired my ass. Do
I need to explain? not really. s--- I've been a very business like man
and a not so business like man, and sometimes in-between. Juli was f---ed
up for showing the s--- and I was f---ed up for being late. But I got
pictures of her sucking my dick, so now what?.
Posted By: Gary Coleman Posted On: 8/22/100 06:03 Damn Marcus. I coulda filled in for you if you couldn't have made the shoot. We practically twins.
Heather Barron: Poet / Philosopher / Outcall Escort
Amused writes: More musings from the Maya Angelou of Burbank escorts ... Ms. Heather 'Spanker Banker' Barron.
Good Girl / Bad Girl by Heather Barron
Everyone has a good side.
And a naughty side.
I can be a nasty girl when I want to.
I guess that comes with being raised Catholic.
Rigidity is not creative.
Exploration is the way we find out who we really are.
And what we like...under the covers...and above.
Whoa! Deep and provoking. In fact, I am inspired to put quill to parchment myself.
Escort / Shmescort by Amused
Two hundred dollars an hour?
For a thirty-two year old escort?
Well, I guess I'll pay it.
But I ain't wearin' no rubber.
And I'm gonna pop on your face.
Glaze you like a donut.
Bitch.
Click here: Good Girl/Bad Girl
What I've Learned From Porn
Mr Scorpio writes on RAME: Screwing an entire football team in highschool doesn't disqualify you from being "fresh" or a "first-timer".
All pornstars Scotchguard their furniture.
Want to get laid? Stand at a bustop.
If you're watching a couple screw frow an open doorway or through a window, masterbate, it'll turn you invisible.
In California, some guys will shave their balls before they shave their faces.
Everyone is a sexual opportunist. Yes, that means your spouse, 18+ year children, bosses, friends, neighbors... Everyone! Just break up with your girlfriend.
Nubile young girls falling into a netherworld full of leather-clad freaks is a pretty common occurance
If a "good" girl has an "evil" twin, odds are she takes it up the ass.
Worst Section of the Porn Video Store
Studmufn writes on RAME: My top ten section that I intentionally avoid:
(1) Rodney Moore videos - Perhaps he has gotten better over the years, but this guy consistently has the ugliest women in his videos.
(2) Sex Toy section - only sex toy I want is a condom to put on my dick.
(3) Bondage films - let me get this straight - seeing someone get beat and whipped is supposed to turn me on?
(4) Pregnant women getting screwed films - There must not be company maternity insurance in the porn industry because these chicks should be sitting their butts at home
(5) Ed Powers videos - Ed Powers, nuff said.
(6) Gangbang videos - Don't want to watch a bunch of guys jacking off trying to pull off a cumshot.
(7) Monique videos - The chick's ugly.
(8) Mila videos - The chick's too disgusting and her asshole is wrecked beyond recognition.
(9) Leisure Time 4 hr compilation videos - Consistently shows 3 1/2 hrs of horrible scenes and only 30 minutes of good scenes.
(10) Anal - Things were meant to come out of the butthole, not go into it!!!!!
Love Train Leaving With Lynne Aboard
Lynne writes: It is now official: I have exited the adult industry after twenty-five years, off and on, serving in various capacities, enjoying the good times and suffering through the bad. My life in porn is over, kaput, terminado. Twenty-five years is a long time to have sex on the brain unless one is being paid well for it; I have not been paid well for some time, and a year after my husband's passing, have no further reason to remain.
I received my "Working Stiff" photos back from Zane on Saturday and spoke with my editor yesterday, making a final arrangement to get my raw footage from SCSI Post, and it's over. The only thing that remains in my life are friends, and memories, and my ongoing relationship with l-keford.com (which many of you would prefer I end as well, but we forget that Luke has something to say about that. I hope to be ridin' Luke's Love Train as long as he's collecting the tickets).
During my quarter-century tenure in porn, I've held just about every non-technical job possible and enjoyed them all. Luke has my bio elsewhere on the site, and there's no reason to repeat the information contained in it: his file on me contains sufficient redundancies as it is. The time I spent as a photographer's model, dancer and video performer constituted only a tiny fraction of my career, and those contributions were insignificant compared to my work with the Adult Video Association, or my work here on l-keford.com.
When I initially moved from Los Angeles to Portland after completing the editing on "Working Stiff," several readers had the temerity to insist that I could no longer contribute anything of value to discussions on porn, and that my involvement with the site was indicative only of my ongoing desire to get into Luke's pants. I was righteously offended, not because I didn't have an ongoing desire to explore the enigmatic situation in Luke's pants to which I've always freely admitted, but because at the time, I still was very much involved in the business. I had a movie to sell, for one, and had made no decision at the time to do anything other than take a break, to see if I wanted to leave pornography behind and begin something new. It could have gone either way last March: I could have easily decided that the civilian world held no interest for me, and after going to school for a couple of terms, to have made the decision to return to my long-time career.
My sexual interest in Luke has waned as our friendship deepens, and although I do not believe that I have nothing to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the inner workings of porn and the place of pornography in society, I have less interest every day in the mechanics of the adult business. Bowen bounced another check? The sun rises in the east? Houston's labia minora were trimmed, not the majora, but who cares? I hear Curious wants to shave my wild, untamed pubic hair, auction it off on E-bay and buy a hot tub with the proceeds so he can shoot a new series called (what else) "Anal Biker Hot Tub Twat..." but the whole idea bores me.
I still don't know what I am going to do with the next chapter of my life. I have abandoned the idea of veterinary technology, as I do not believe I will be comfortable in a woman-dominated professon. I will be exploring fitness technology over the next term (notice how we abuse the term "technology?") and, if that doesn't feel right, will keep looking until I find something that does.
There are still a few things I have learned about the porn industry that may be of value to others, though most of my gathered wisdom has already been imparted on this site. I am sad that Luke was unable to document my late husband's knowledge of the early days of porn video before Bruce had the stroke in February, 1999, which destroyed his memory just two weeks after I first contacted Luke via the internet. At that point, Bruce and I knew he had only six months left, and that the history he had lived would be lost with him; we did not know that Luke was more than just the butt of industry jokes and Gene Ross' unrequited love object, but the closest thing we had to a historian of porn. Bruce lost his ability to read with the stroke, and never knew that Luke had made an attempt to compile the history of the industry; I would never have made it through the year following Bruce's death without Luke's steady friendship and emotional support.
I've escaped with my original equipment intact; a lot of good tattoos (no flash, all original artwork, more to come); five decent, funny movies, each technically better than the last, to my credit as a producer, writer and director; some scenes as a performer ranging from awful to simply really silly, and Luke F-rd's respect. The latter is my treasure.
During my tenure I've watched the porn industry go from outlaw status to another American capitalistic enterprise, from accepting of women and, indeed even valuing their contribution (though treating individuals badly in individual circumstances) to having institutionalized misogyny and mutilation; from print and film to video, DVD and cable television. From under the counter of liquor stores in bad parts of town to every home in every country, from America to Zanzibar, via the World Wide Web. I do not want to be a pornographer in a time when Max Hardcore is lionized by Adult Video News for abusing women. I like sex, and want everyone to have happy, fulfilling sexualities, even should they not have access to a partner. There was a time when it looked like porn could be for everyone, but it is now at the lowest common denominator stage -- made for serial killer wannabes and their misogynistic ilk, and I expect to see the adult industry flushed down the toilet by the next administration. As far as I am concerned, my leaving is timely.
Perhaps the most important thing I've learned which is particularly relevant in the context of this essay is this: porn operates no differently than any other American business. Many people in the industry believe that the problems they have at work are unique to the field they are in -- that if only they were opticians or bricklayers, life would be hunky dory, checks would never bounce, co-workers would never be abusive and managers never exploitative. And I hear them say it about themselves: "If I could just get out of porn...I guess I have to take this abuse, because I'm in porno..."
Please believe me when I say that every career field is equally as exploitative, heartless and stupid as porn. Bad management makes for untenable working situations in any business: an individual employer sets the tone for their company's day-to-day operation. I am currently working in another field, where the office manager steals from the daily cash take, and deliberately left the receipts where I could find them as a test to see how I'd react; and with co-workers who insult me in front of customers and in private for hours at a time. I went on a job interview where it immediately became clear that the office was controlled by seriously obese, power-mad lesbians who did not want leadership in job candidates, but docility, despite the job description calling for direction and competency (Chaim, I owe you a rant on the warped psychology of obese women, lesbians or not, because you are right to fear them even more than black crack addicts in dark alleys). And look at Brandy Alexandre's experience at Forest Lawn! The world is full of evil employers...at least in porn, we talk freely about who they are, and it is easy to find out who will do right by you and who will bounce a check on you.
The other thing I've learned that is relevant here is that one can get out of porn, if one wants, with "wants" being the operative word. I did it before, when I went to school at UMass from 1979 through 1982 , other than dancing to supplement my college financial aid, and did not work in porn for five years, from January 1983, after graduation, until January 1988, when I returned to Parliament News as an assistant to the Business Manager. Now I am doing it again. The biggest difficulty is that financial aid levels have remained exactly the same over the past twenty years while costs on everything have skyrocketed. My rent has tripled, my car payment and my insurance equal my rent, and my student work study wages continue to be $5 an hour. At 23 I was willing to dance in Boston's Combat Zone; at 45, no thanks. I'm sure we'd all like to be spared that spectacle. I had no financial resources then nor do I now; no family or no husband footing the bills. What I have is the desire to make a change, and the self-esteem to know I can see it through, and the willpower to stick with it despite hardship.
When the Beastie Boys sang about daddy's porn magazines on MTV, it was because the culture had become far more accepting of the fact that porn exists. "I made porn" is no longer a very big deal, especially if one was not a performer. Even being a bimbo with plastic tits won't hurt you in the job market these days, pornlet or not: watch the Spring Break movies on the market which document college student festivities on the Colorado River, and you will see that fake breasts have permeated the culture as deeply as adult video.
Porn is notorious for breaking down self-esteem, but if you didn't have any to start with, which is why you ended up making porn, then don't blame porn. All it takes to walk away is the self-esteem to know that you are what you are inside, and not a label, not an orifice, not a rating and a snide comment from Adult Video News.
The Roommate Zone
Lynne: Voiceover in our best Rod Serling parodic imitation:
Posit for a moment, a man, unmarried, his late thirties. Living with a woman who does not know that, each night, behind her back, he is cruising the World Wide Web looking for love in very wrong places. After slavering over gaping quim and anus, and chatting for hours with strange, extremely strange women with whom he shares all the deepest secrets of his life save one, he returns unfulfilled to her bed. She believes they have a future together, but little does she know that his lies reveal him forever trapped in "The Roommate Zone."
Lynne's Obscenity Rant
Russell writes: Yes, Max Hardcore's "films" are misogynist crap but I think it's naive to think you can rely on juries made up of "average persons" to apply the Miller test and throw out Max Hardcore while allowing the Bukkake videos that Lynne likes.
The existence of Max-like videos isn't a new problem -- as long as there's been porn there's been extreme porn. De Sade is not PC. I think what worries people is how mainstream it has become. This is partly because the cultural standard for misogyny has (thankfully) been changed so the same stuff looks more misogynist than it would have looked 25 years ago. But more fundamentally, we're seeing the presentation of what used to be various specialty fetishes to a mainstream audience in an ongoing attempt to come up with new material. Consider three audiences for female humiliation porn:
1. Misogynists who will take whatever they can get to feed their fantasies. These people are beyond reach of anything we do about porn.
2. Men and women who have such fantasies and know how to separate them from reality (the "safe, sane, and consensual" BDSM crowd). These people aren't being corrupted by extreme porn any more than conscious consumers of any other fantasy media genre (e.g. Road Runner cartoons). And they get pissed if you try to take away their bondage videos because you think they're "patently offensive".
3. The great unwashed. Unsuspecting porn consumers being subtly brainwashed by Max into treating their girlfriends worse, thinking their secretary just might secretly want to be pressured into a BJ, etc. Yes, these people exist, but nobody wants to admit that they're in this group, and casting others here comes off as condescending -- "I know the difference between fantasy and reality but you're not discerning enough and will be warped if you are allowed to view this material, so society must protect itself by preventing you from seeing it".
Max's argument, of course, is that his fans are in group #2, not #3. Well, most of them are not, but I don't think any renewed attempts to enforce the extremely subjective criteria of Miller is going to solve the problem... any more than it would if we tried to apply it to the essentially similar problem of Eminem and 2 Live Crew. Declining sales numbers and pressure by industry insiders like Jane Hamilton are the only truly effective brake. Eventually misogynist porn and rap will revert to a specialty audience, just like rape scenes and disco music before them.