Thursday, August 31st, 2000
I heard that Extreme Associates GM Jon Blatt is leaving Rob Black's company.
Janine Co-hosts Radio Show
According to Poolstory.com: Riki Rachtman is finally returning to the radio. On Sunday Sept 24 10:00 pm Riki will be back on 97.1 in Los Angeles. So. Cal may remember the last time Riki was at that station he left in handcuffs. The show is called "Riki & Janine" co hosted by you guessed it.
Jamoo Dies Of Drug Overdose
Gay porn star and author Jamoo died this past weekend of a drug overdose. According to www.filth2go.com, posted by a guy named turtle, Jamoo appeared in dozens of B & C list films and wrote columns for "Unzipped" and "Freshman" magazines. He also wrote the interview books "Superstars" and "Superstars 2" from Companion Press.
Duking It Out With The Australian Porn Mafia
I duked it out over the telephone this afternoon with Greg Lasrado, the putative head of the putatitive "Australian Porn Mafia" (which refers to a group of highly successful Australian porn internet entrepreneurs - Lasrado, Scott Phillips, Jon Atherton and co, none of whom have been proven to have links to organized crime).
Lasrado, like the rest of the Brisbane porners, comes across as the nicest, most low key guy. He speaks in an unassuming and gentle manner. Almost makes me feel bad for beating up on him so bad on my site.
My parents, sister and many relatives live in Brisbane. I spent three weeks there this Spring. And next time I'm there, Greg says he'll show me around his operation.
Luke: "What are you doing these days with FilthyCash?"
Greg: "I'll be involved with it until I sell it or the new guys take it over. I had a couple of partners in the business [Yohan Lewis and Guy McKenzie] and we've gone our separate ways. I bought them out. I'll just maintain it. We have a lot of staff here. And leave it running for quite a while. But I've been focusing more on the mainstream."
Luke: "Who is this Mike Zulu aka Commmando guy? Is he based in Brooklyn?"
Greg: "Yeah. Mike was part of the Filthy Cash group. He's a really good guy despite what people tend to say. He's a friend of mine that I met a long time ago. We partnered up on a few projects. We help each other out in various areas. He was from the password arena originally. He taught me a helluva lot about things in the adult market.
"That's how I got into it originally. I was with Scott Phillips ages ago... I just assisted with the financial end. I really did not know too much about being a webmaster."
Luke: "What did you think of that Weekend Magazine article on you, entitled "The Great Internet Hijack.""
Greg: "It went across a few of the papers... The Courier Mail here in Brisbane released an article saying that the FTC and the ACCC are happy with the outcome [regarding the internet hijacking]... As I said in the beginning, I employed a [search engine] advertiser, he went and did a few things. From there we canned him. Obviously I've got to take the blame for taking all the traffic at the end of the day."
Luke: "You must be embarrassed. If I hired someone who did that, I'd feel like hell."
Greg: "It was an embarrassing situation. As you know Luke, if you stick your jaw out far enough, you're going to get it slapped every now and again.
"A lot of the things in the Weekend article were untrue, such as taking a drive in my Lambaghini. The gentleman [who wrote the article] did not even drive in it... I asked him to ask the FTC and the ACCC and he did not even do it while the Courier Mail guy, when I asked him to do the same thing, he got the story from them."
Luke: "A lot of your peers believe that Carlos Pereira was paid to take the fall for you."
Greg: "No, not at all. Carlos Pereira wasn't paid to take a fall. He was simply an advertiser and he came to me and said he was very good with search engines. We employed him to do that. I never met him personally. I talked to him on the phone. I could hardly understand two words that he had to say. He doesn't speak much English. But he seems to type perfect English. He seems like a nice enough guy. He just went a bit crazy with the search engine stuff and the rest if history."
Luke: "Where did the term 'Australian Porn Mafia' come from?"
Greg: "I don't know, to tell you the truth. If you've met the Australian guys personally, they're just normal guys, like the rest of the guys in this business."
Luke: "Where did the term come from?"
Greg: "There was something years ago that mentioned the 'Pink Mafia'... But there is no such thing as the Australian Porn Mafia. And if there is, it is not the webmasters you think it is. The guys in Brisbane are just a bunch of blokes, just normal fellows leading normal lives, and everything is pretty straight up aside from the porn thing."
Luke: "Is your main company Insane Media?"
Greg: "That's a mainstream business. I generate traffic and sell it locally. It is the beginning of me building a large portal in Australia. It's going to be an informative portal that helps the Kids First Foundation. Go to KidsFirst.com.au. I have a lot of reporters ringing me up asking for stories. So now I ask them to pay a fee to get the interview and the funds go to KidsFirst. And when they have their charity auctions, I say, what you don't sell, I'll take on. It's a way of giving something back."
Luke: "How much have you donated to Kids First?"
Greg: "Probably about $20,000. Another $100,000 will go to them shortly. There's a company that has exclusive rights to our wedding here. GregandMelissa.com. It will be one of the bigger weddings around. If they take up the offer, they'll pay about $100,000 for the coverage. I don't know why they want to do it, but they probably want to do it because it will be held [September 23rd] at the new Palazzo Versace hotel here [Gold Coast]. It will be the first wedding there.
"I bought one of Brisbane's premier blocks that overlooks the city and the river. I'm having a party there this weekend. I have a fulltime builder on it. I have the plans for my new house right here.
"It hasn't been postponed at all. It just takes a long time here to get things through the City Council. The plans have gone in..."
Luke: "What is your relationship with Serge Birbrair?"
Greg: "I met Serge years ago. I've never bought any traffic off him. I've kept in touch with him from time to time. He seems like a nice enough guy. Because I've had no dealings with him, I can't comment on his business."
Luke: "Do you own a lot of offshore companies?"
Greg: "I've had offshore companies."
Luke: "I hear that you own companies around the world, based out places like Hong Kong."
Greg: "We process through certain areas, obviously through IBill. They'll pay to one company and then that company will pay the expenses in Australia. I pay my taxes here."
Luke: "What is your primary business?"
Greg: "My primary business is not my most profitable. It is just developing conventional stuff on the internet. I'm doing a deal with a media station here to build a portal to take on another portal here.
"Insane Media develops casino portals. We're going to wait for the Australian moratorium to lift and then put our application in for an Australian casino license. I've been buying lots of casino domains. At the moment, we're just generating the traffic and selling it to the other webmasters who are running casinos."
Luke: "You're 30 years old. How did you get so rich so quickly?"
Greg: "I've been in the industry for a while. I come from a wealthy family. My father assisted me in certain areas. I wouldn't say that Melissa [Crosker, Greg's bride to be] are very wealthy, but we live ok. I just enjoy life.
"I take part in the boards now and again. A lot of the stuff on the webmaster boards can be taken out of context."
Luke: "I talked to some content guys in the adult industry who complained that your company stole content."
Greg: "That would not have come from our company. I have some copyright issues at the moment. One's with Brad Shaw. Dave from PureHardcore used to own that company. I purchased the content off Dave. I just dealt with it today because someone told me that Brad Shaw was posting on the Netpond boards. The other one is for copyright infringement with SunUp Media. That will be sorted out by the end of today. I've been exchanging email with Jeff Miller. And the one with Sweet Entertainment, I bought content for one company but I did not buy a license to run it across multiple sites. So I paid about $60,000 to sort out that issue."
Luke: "Thanks for your time."
Greg: "Yeah... The whole thing about the Australian Porn Mafia is getting ridiculous. I don't believe there is such a thing.
"Scotty Phillips is a really nice guy if you sit down and talk with him. He can go off the handle a little bit but he's a great guy."
Luke: "Jon Atherton has a reputation as a big spammer."
Greg: "He lives just around the corner from me... A big spammer? Yeah. I think everyone in Australia spams, myself included. We've always done it. You'll start seeing that the mailings I'm doing now are a bit different. We now have a huge opt-in list. But I've toned it all down. I'm just maintaining the data base. I'm happy with the income coming in. I'm mostly focused on doing new things. Once I get married, I'll be getting out of the adult side of the industry."
Luke: "Have you ever operated bestiality sites?"
Greg: "We've been accused of that quite a lot. I did a joint venture with a guy a long time ago. Yeah, I was involved in it. I'll admit it. And then got out of it. But on that side of it, that's what Yohan [Lewis] and Guy [McKenzie] used to control and run and everything like that. And I think they've [the bestiality sites] have all been shut down.
"I'm not going to lie to you, Luke. I was involved in it. It made some money for us at the time. A few years back, we used to do anything to make a quid out of this industry. But now, more and more, it's about maintaining the data base and getting more longevity out of the clients themselves, so you don't have to work as hard. And to tell you the truth, I've had enough of the [adult] industry.
"I read your board [l-keford.com] from time to time. Every now and again you take the piss out of me. It doesn't make any difference. That's the name of the game. I don't take offense unless people make accusations that are completely untrue. And there is a lot of that going on right now.
"If you talk to a lot of the webmasters, we're pretty straight up. There's never been anyone who has not been paid. And we only started running commercial programs this year. FilthyCash.com has not been around long. Until then we just did individual deals with webmasters.
"Next time you're in Brisbane, feel free to drop over. You can learn more about what I do. I think you'll get a totally different reality of what we're really like. We don't operate the same as a lot of the Americans do. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how simply it really is. I'll look forward to seeing you one day."
Luke: "I will look forward to seeing you in Brisbane. Thanks mate."
Rob Spallone Update
For the first time in weeks, I talked Thursday morning with my buddy Rob Spallone. After buying into a construction company, he's moving with his family to Florida.
On Monday he shut down Realpornworld.com. Now he just needs to get rid of the six porners living at his former shooting house in Chatsworth.
Rob sounds hoarse.
Luke: "Were you yelling at people?"
Rob: "Yes. Of course Lukey. Why else would I lose my voice?"
Luke: "Have you been yelling at Sharon Mitchell?"
Rob: "No. I'm going to wait for her to close up by herself. She knew about producers who knew about fake [HIV] tests but would not tell her about who it was.
"Every two months, I'm going to come back here to shoot movies for Russ [Hampshire, at VCA] and do the clinic.
"We finished shooting Sopornos 2 last night. Gene Ross is in it. He plays the owner of the AVN magazine. I go there to shake him down.
"Jim [DiGiorgio] owed me money. He talks me into going into the porno business. Then he told me about this magazine, where if you get a good review, the movie sells good. So I went to Gene Ross and told him that he had to give me a good review. He said that he had to see the movie. I told him that he didn't have to see nothing."
From GeneRoss.com: "Rob Spallone along with two other goons best described as English language challenged, waved a three-part harmony of roscoes in my face yesterday afternoon. Spallone threatened reprisals unless I gave him a good review. There was also talk of a bribe. A rather substantial one. So it was either the big mazuma or the big sleep, one or the other. My choice. Convinced that I had received the message loud and clear, Stallone and his gunsels slunk back into the Neopolitan sewer they came from. Of course, we're talking about a scene out of Sopornos 2 for VCA Pictures which Spallone and director Jim Di Giorgio wrapped up yesterday."
White Slave Trade Threatens Euro-Porn
XXX writes Luke: Gabriella, a former major supplier of girls to Pierre Woodman and Private in Budapest has now chucked in supplying girls to them and others and is now in a far, far more lucrative business, (for both her and the girls concerned.) She has washed her hands of cheap porners completely. Gabrielle had the majority of most beautiful girls in the business under her wing but porn is not getting their mitts on them anymore. Instead it is stinking and rich Arabs in Abu Dabi and Kuwait who have stolen them away from the market. This is a black occurrence for European porn as the significantly reduced supply in "Beautiful" girls has already edged up their rates.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Rich nations face a rising tide of trafficking in human cargo -- mostly women and girls forced into prostitution -- and have been unable or unwilling to stop the criminal gangs behind this "modern-day slavery," experts say.
"It is really a sick business and it's a real dark side of the globalization that's taking place as we've increased interconnection between the countries and ease with which people can travel," said Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican from Kansas and one of the chief sponsors of legislation that aims to crack down on the trade in the United States and abroad.
"It's a global problem and the numbers are significant," Regan Ralph, executive director of the women's rights division of activist group Human Rights Watch, said. "Our investigations help support the claim that hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked."
Welcome To The Jungle
A journal of ULTIMATE PICTURES/ADAM & EVE production in Venezuela. By a Survivor.
Day 1. A 12 hour flight, wait for the baggage, get through customs, load into a van for the trip into town. Several hours after getting off the plane we finally arrive at a hotel. We're starving and the restaurants closed. It takes a lot of persuasion, but the local coordinator arranges dinner.
Day2. The jeep ride from hell. Overloaded into 2 jeeps, with the luggage tied on the roof, the 2 hour ride becomes over 4 hours of bumping & jostling over badly rutted dirt roads. Through the river and through the woods we go, occasional heads lean out the window to barf, trying to be careful not to get smacked by tree branches. What have we gotten ourselves into ???? We arrive at the posada, which was explained as a resort hotel on white sand beaches. The beach is somewhere over the mountain. There is no hot water. No, it is broken, there never was, never will be hot water. It seems that hot water isn't a necessity in the jungle. Before we brace for the cold showers, we're all given a towel. It will be ours for the next two weeks. It's instantly apparent how important it is to guard that towel. The only version of air-conditioning is standing in front of the fan after getting out of the cold shower. I suppose that's a solution to the towel shortage as well. It's hot, sticky, there are lots of mosquitoes. The food is mysterious. Women should be mysterious, not food. I can't sleep so I watch the lizards crawl through the bottom of my door. I could really go for a bottle of water, but the bats flying around the dining room freak me out. Welcome to the jungle.
Day 3. We get the morning lecture from Nick Pinkowski, director and producer, about how important it is no one at the posada and no one in town find out what we're really doing here. That's when the scope of the lies is apparent. We were told what we were doing here is legal, apparently it is not. The prospect of a third world jail is hugely unappealing, but we're trapped here with no way out for two weeks. I knew this was a bad idea. Next time I'll follow my instincts. Kelly, the director's wife is a bitch. I hope she's just that way in the morning.
THE BEACH. The local beach is full of locals. Given the secrecy of our mission, we have to climb into a couple rickety wooden boats and head for a private beach. As the water gets rough and waves crash over the boats, I wish there were life vests, especially since some of us can't swim. The sea is too rough to get the boats to the beach, so we have to swim for it. Those that can't swim are pulled to shore. The crew ferries equipment high over their heads one piece at a time. There are many harried moments as several of the crew are getting thrashed about in the sea. The biggest guy gets smashed in the back when the boat shoots up and comes down on him. It becomes frighteningly obvious how dangerous this trip is. I'm told not to worry about the sharks, it's the barracuda that you really have to watch out for. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
DAY 4. We've barely begun shooting and we're already a day behind. It seems like the crew should all be in the emergency room instead of working. The food is getting worse and worse. It's okay, I can survive on Oreo's and coke. I'm not the only one with that idea and we run out of coke.The director is screaming at everyone, his wife's the bitch from hell, we're hungry, we're tired, we're sunburned and mosquito bitten- and we haven't yet begun to fight.
DAY 5. Sunrise. Sautéed squid for breakfast. I'm not the only one to opt for crackers and water. My room smells like moldy socks. No maid service or laundry service ate this resort (Except for the director and his wife) It's raining, it's pouring, and we're hiking across rivers and up treacherous mountain trails to shoot a waterfall scene. We sit muddy in the cold rain waiting for hours for it to stop. Everything hurts. A big moral booster. After we drag ourselves and a lot of big, heavy equipment back down the mountain and through the river a couple of miles , it's a treat. Burgers. A long way from being as good as Mc Donalds, but they're here, they're familiar, and they're not fish. We're happy with the burgers.
DAY 6. The crew is sick. They think it's funny exchanging vomiting and diarrhea stories. I guess any amusement is good. The director is a bigger asshole every day, screaming at people who can barely walk. The first aid kit is almost empty and the nearest pharmacy is an eight hour round trip to Caracas. So far we've had 1 dislocated hip, 2 back injuries, spider bites, countless mosquito bites, various nasty unidentified stings and bites, sunburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cuts, scrapes, etc. I wish I hadn't listened to the director when he told us that shots and malaria pills weren't necessary for this area. Obviously he was just too cheap to pay for them. I found out him and his wife got all the shots. I guess the rest of us just have to cross our fingers and hope whatever we get goes away quickly.
DAY 7. We're prisoners in the posada. Between meals, there is only coke and water. Lunch was sandwiches with one piece of meat between two stale pieces of bread. All things considered, it wouldn't have been that bad and some of us wish we hadn't missed it. There's a conspiracy forming to find out where Nick and Kelly are hiding their secret stash of Gatorade, Cookies, and chocolate bars. Even civilized men revert to primitive means when they're starving. The first wave to get sick are hungry now, haven't eaten in days. For the second wave to get sick food isn't an issue. Tension runs high, tempers are flaring. The director is no longer the only person prone to outbursts of rage. Only 3 more days. We can do anything for three days, can't we.
DAY ???. The days are running together now. We finished shooting at 3 a.m. and had to leave to shoot again at 6 a.m. I guess sleep is one of the last necessities we need to prove isn't really necessary. Nick and Kelly and a few others have been calling one of the actresses a bitch for days now. I just don't see it. I think everyone's holding up really good, considering. The fact that no one has been physically assaulted is amazing. Maybe it helps that the biggest guys have been the sickest. Well, bitch or not, things went to far today. "The bitch" has been writing her name on her water bottle, and Nick thought it totally amusing to spit into her water bottle. We just crossed over to a new realm of disgusting and I'm just walking around numb until it's time to leave.
THE LAST DAY. The director and his wife are leaving for town. We wish we weren't being left behind for one more day, but the end's in sight and the main objects of our hostility will be gone. We can hang. The production manager is finally able to wrangle a jeep and takes us into town. It's only for an hour, and it's the seediest little town you can imagine, but we love it. The production manager buys us cold sodas. Whatever kind we want. And cigarettes, and rum. Rum will have to make a good souvenir, there aren't many choices and we can't go back home empty handed. We walk the two blocks of the beach and pose for pictures together as the sun sets. We're refreshed, happier than we've been since we got there. We should have done this days ago.
THE WAY HOME. We don't care about the bumpy jeep ride, we are too exhausted to really appreciate a real restaurant with real food and a hotel with hot showers. We can finally make a phone call for the first time in two weeks. There's a dinner we're all invited to at the hotel, and most of us show up, but what can this even begin to do to make up for the last two weeks. The new gold and diamond jewelry the director and his wife are wearing that they bought in town today, we can't help wishing that money had been spent on some of the simpler things, like food for the crew. We can't help but wonder why they've never once asked how anyone was felling or how anyone was doing. We can only hope we never become people like that. But, We're focused on one thing and one thing alone. Tomorrow we'll be HOME AT LAST.
Vivid Ethics
I surfed over to VividVideo.com to see if the company was emulating Crescent's dishonest ways. It did not look like it. It seems to me that Vivid's billing procedures, including the introductory free three day trial, are straight forward and honest.
I found this notification on the VividVideo.com signup page: "I understand that unless I cancel, at the end of the FREE trial period, I will automatically be billed monthly at the MaxPack rate of $1.33 a day for Vivid Video and less than ten cents a day each for XXXAsianHardcore, Amazing Facials, ButtHunger, and Black Pack. XXXScreenTest is always FREE when I choose the full MaxPack. Billing will appear on your statement as Vivid Presents, Vivid Facials, Vivid Hunger, Vivid Black, Vivid Asians."
Over a year ago, I heard many complaints from surfers that they'd been fraudulently billed by Vivid. But I've not heard many complaints over the past nine months and thus I concluded that Vivid had cleaned up its act.
XXX writes Luke: "He calls himself Bob Johnson. But its not his real name. He worked directly for Yitzhai to set up the whole Creasent scam. Vivd's website is run along exactly the same lines. Rumours are they have HUGE chargebacks and that not all the income from the site ends up in Vivids coffers. Serge [Birbrair] knows a lot about all this stuff.... He helped set up the Creasent scam in the first place. These people are basicaly EVERYTHING thats wrong with the Adult Internet Industry and make the Brisbane connection and Joe E look like nuns. The only worse people are the ones who run the dial up access scams where surfers have to dial international numbers to access sites at exhorbitant rates."
If XXX's charges have truth to them, then this is very bad news for Vivid's attempt to go public and like Metro and IEG before them, they'll go down in flames.
YYY: Vivid has the greatest program going on the net right now. It is a clean program that converts [surfers into subscribers] like crazy. In 1999, they went from nobody to one of the big six.
When you surf away from Vividvideo.com, the company pops a browser on you about the forthcoming election. It reads: " Did you know you can register to vote online? Do it here... Already registered? Find out how to get an absentee ballot in your state... Learn more about the issues that are important to you... [and the link is to Norman Lear's People For The American Way, Pfaw.com]..."
WilliamC writes on Netpond: l-keford: Like we actually take any of your drivel seriously to begin with.
XXXSurvivor [Forest Williams, organizer of the Shag for a Million gangbang] writes on Netpond: I made the mistake of venturing over to the Luke F-rd page....Funny it was a carbon copy of what was on the Netpond Page...he probbably just "cut and paste" does he know how to write???? Luke F-rd is a LOOOOSER...and the s---ty page toook forever to LOAD...like the LOAD thsat he is I guess...LOLOLOL.....lets see him cut and paste that...
JR: hmmmm. I dont know. All of the negative press he printed about the "shag to be a millionaire" fiasco seemed to be original work. BTW is there a XXXtransvestivesurvivor in the works??
Kim@CCBill.com writes on Netpond: Well at least luke is starting to recognize the meaning of brevity, as opposed to pasting the whole damn site here ;)
Emeritus professor of English, Dr Jay Gertzman, sent me a new essay of his entitled "The 'Forbidden Fruit Business': Jewish Middlemen As Erotica Dealers." Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the essay:
The Jewish presence in the publishing, distribution, and retailing of erotica literature has occasioned much comment, some of it anti-Semitic. Those who want to see Jews as contemptuous of their culture's moral values, as heedless of how their products affect the purchaser, or simply as social radicals point to the erotica industry...
...Recently, gangster Sammy Gravano described his murdered colleague Robert DiBernardo, head of Star Distributors and a member of the DeCavalcante crime family, as "with these Jewish guys as the largest distributor of X-rated films and stuff in the country." "Perhaps as a way of dismissing suggestions of any extensive Mafia control," wrote the authors of Porn Gold in 1988, "some industry leaders claim that porn in the United States is essentially a Jewish business."
...Sexually explicit expression...has been for so long identified with the taboo, and thus with prurience, that Jewish erotica dealers are an embarrassment to most of their co-religionists. This is true of even the most non-observant of the latter, since the members of any minority group to whom social acceptance is paramount know that their competitors will identify them with the coarse, vulgar and anti-social whenever possible. It is an age-old mantra of hate-mongering anti-Semitic groups to equate Jewishness with licentiousness and obscenity, a calumny of which the hook-nosed voyeur is the symbol, connoting, as Sander Gilman puts it, "the sexuality of the polluter." The newsletters of Gordon Winrod, who believes Jews are the exclusive distributors of pornography in America, are an example. Perhaps the myth of a cabal of polluters accounts for the discomfort with which many Jewish people respond even to heart-felt, albeit shallow, statements by some politicians, clergy, community leaders, or feminists about "sick" and "degenerate" peddlers of pornography. These crusaders assert that forces of decency should close "dirty" businesses and reclaim the locations the smut mongers have infested.
Luke: Dr. Gertzman recently published the book Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade In Erotica 1920-1940.
On my radio show Tuesday
Jay: "They [Jews] do seem to have a talent for this business and for understanding what interests people. People who sold erotica before 1957 were mostly book sellers... After that, pornography became so lucrative that organized crime got involved..."
Luke: "Why does porn attract so many Jews?"
Jay: "...Jewish people are literate. They're good observers and they tend to be irreverent about established values... Of course, Joe Lieberman, who's running now for Vice President, has probably said more in the same sort of imagery and language about pornography and popular entertainment than any anti-Semite...
"A famous rabbi in the 1930s [Stephen S. Wise] was very much against anything that had to do with sexual explicitness."
Luke: "Judaism is as opposed to pornography as Christianity or any other organized religion. Every organized religion of which I am aware opposes both porn and masturbation.
"The Jews that enter porn tend to be non-Jewish Jews. Jews who do not lead Jewish lives, do not belong to a synagogue, do not study Torah regularly and do nothing for Israel. They're Jews who've rejected Judaism but have not converted to another religion. They're alienated from their own roots but are not attached to any other tradition. Therefore, they've been free to innovate."
Jay: "Jewish people have had different attitudes to their job... And some of them have even shared with religious Jews a certain idea of destiny, called 'tachlis.' It means destiny or fate, the most important object of an endeavor [the bottom line]. The people I studied believed that what they were doing was important [not just profitable]. They were changing people's ideas and liberating people's conceptions of sexuality and making people more comfortable with their bodies. Also, giving people an important safety valve, which they needed given the various frustrations of every day life in the big city."
Luke: "You list their accomplishments... People with traditional values will view their work as an overall negative... It does seem clear to me Jay that most of these guys did not lead happy lives."
Jay: "Probably true though it is difficult to say what a happy life is. There was a man called Esar Levine who published sexology in the 1930s. He made a lot of money with his mail order erotica business. And he went to jail in 1936 in one of the first cases where the concept of pandering came up.
"After he got out of jail in 1940, he changed his name to Ivan Esav. He wrote books on comedy and joke collections... He died a few years ago at age 99. He led various lives once he got out of the erotica business... He did well financially and brought good literature to people. He seemed to have a happy and long life in New York and California.
"Lyle Stuart in now in his late 70s. He's fighting a First Amendment case against [gambling empressario] Steve Wynn. I know Lyle and I would say that he is a happy man. He's very contented. He published a book that many feminists would hate, 'The Sensuous Woman." It changed the way people thought about sex. He was the first to publish books in defense of Castro and critical of US policy. One of his good friends of Paul Krassner from 'The Realist.'
Luke: "You write about the phrase 'The Sexuality of the Polluter.'"
Jay: "Jewish people have been associated with [moral] pollution in the various countries they've gone into... It is a characteristic of middlemen - people who come into a situation and are able to see people's needs and provide people with materials that they can't get themselves... Naturally in a Judeo-Christian culture, merchants who bring that to people are thought to be as dirty as usurious money lenders. Gilman uses the idea of the penis-like long nose as an example of the sexuality of the polluter.
"I'm looking at Joe Lieberman's website and he has a lot on their about the electronic media and values."
Luke: Here's an excerpt from Joe's site:
Over the last several years, public concern about the impact of the popular culture on children has risen significantly. More and more parents are pointing to the entertainment media and the rising tide of sex and violence as not just offensive to their values, but threatening to the well-being of their kids. These worries have escalated in the wake of the horrific shooting at Columbine High School and other schoolyard killings that followed, with evidence mounting to indicate that the culture of carnage in which we are raising our children is contributing to a general epidemic of youth violence.
In response to this outpouring of concern, Senator Joe Lieberman has worked on a number of fronts to help parents keep their kids safe and ultimately to improve the quality of America’s cultural environment. He started out by holding the first-ever hearings in Congress on video game violence. He pushed the game-makers to adopt a detailed rating system to warn parents about violent content. Lieberman has regularly challenged the game industry to reduce the amount of blood and gore in its products and issued annual report cards on the game-makers’ progress in responding to parental concerns.
Lieberman went on to be a lead sponsor of the V-chip legislation, which supplied parents with news tools to screen out violent and offensive programs, in the form of the V-chip blocking technology now installed in all new televisions and a rating system designed to work with it. He has also been a vocal advocate for higher television standards, spearheading an effort to promote more education programs for children on broadcast television, championing the return of the family hour as a safe have for young viewers, sponsoring legislation encouraging the industry to resurrect its longstanding code of conduct, and asking the Federal Communications Commission to determine if broadcasters are meeting the ‘public interest’ standard prescribed by law.
In the aftermath of the Columbine killings, Lieberman joined with Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to cosponsor legislation to help protect children from media violence, which was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate as an amendment to an omnibus juvenile justice bill. The measure calls on the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on the marketing of hyperviolent, adult-rated entertainment products to children, directs the National Institutes of Health to compile additional research documenting the effect of screen violence on kids, and makes it easier for the different industries to adopt their own codes of conduct. The Senate also unanimously passed legislation that Lieberman and former Presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) sponsored calling for the creation of a national youth violence commission to help understand the complex mix of forces behind the recent outbreak of school shootings.
Outside of Congress, Lieberman has teamed up with former Education Secretary William Bennett in a bipartisan partnership to prod the entertainment industry into behaving more responsibly. The duo has sought to shame corporate leaders into behaving more responsibly, regularly dishonoring the nation’s leading cultural polluters with their Silver Sewer Award . They have also tried to summon the industry’s sense of citizenship, joining together with a diverse and distinguished coalition of public figures in issuing “An Appeal to Hollywood,” a call for higher standards and a new ethic of responsibility.
Jay: "There's a bit on here about him giving the Silver Sewer award to Seagrams Inc because they sponsored the Jerry Springer Show. And this press release, I'm just looking at the words that have to do with pollution."
Luke: Here's an excerpt from that press release:
The Silver Sewer aims to identify the nation's worst cultural polluters and to put a specific name to a cultural disgrace. Previous award-winners were Seagram Inc. and CBS.
Fox was presented with a special “lifetime achievement” award for “its tireless, tasteless, and ongoing efforts to drag down network programming standards and for its cutting-edge contribution to the coarsening of our culture.”
In particular, Bennett and Lieberman condemned Fox's new fall lineup, led by the lewd, obscenity-filled Hollywood satire “Action,” for setting new lows in primetime network programming and accelerating television's race to the bottom.
“Through hard work, substantial financial investments, and critical editing decisions, Mr. Murdoch has led one of America's largest, most successful, most powerful television networks into the gutter,” Bennett said. “He is now responsible for what is perhaps the worst -- the most crude, cynical, and insulting -- material ever to be broadcast to the American public over network television airwaves.”
Jay: "Of course Lieberman is Jewish and these are not references to Jewish people, but that same image of the polluter associated with people who are explicit about sex and violence and put it into people's environment... These images are especially used on Jewish middlemen who bring these types of images to people who are not a part of the elite or of high culture."
Luke: "Notions of spiritual pollution are throughout the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition."
Jay: "I remember one of Bob Dole's early speeches when he was running for president. He spoke in Hollywood about how Hollywood had to clean up its act. And the three types of entertainment he mentioned were rap music, sexy violent films and Oliver Stone films. And frankly, there seemed to be some code words in there. Maybe I'm paranoid. But the code words for rap music were for black people, depravity was a code word for Jews, and Oliver Stone movies was a code word for leftists. A lot of conservative moralists can use that concept of [spiritual] pollution to associate with minority groups in general and with Jewish people specifically. The phrase "dirty Jew" is so frightening to Jewish people, especially if they are as old enough as me and can remember the 1940s. Because the imagery that Hitler used, the eternal Jew, the rats, the sewers are opening... And the pollution of a culture by Jewish people. It's an image that is frightening in the Jewish psyche.
Brothel Etiquette
What is the only thing worse than being a whoremonger? Being a whoremonger with poor manners. Gentle readers, please review the brothel etiquette below to avoid any faux pas in front of your favorite porn stars at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. Remember that when you visit the ranch you represent all of the readers of l-keford.com, so please be polite.
"How do you go about getting a lady?"
It depends on the brothel you're in, the Las Vegas area brothels require you to pick out of a line-up, all the others, you can pick out of a line-up or you have the option of sitting at the bar and ordering a drink. After your drink is served, ladies will approach you, do NOT feel obligated to party with the first one that approaches you. You are welcome to talk to, and tour with as many ladies as you like, there is no obligation attached to taking a tour with a lady. Sometimes its best to talk with a few until you find one you click with.
If you have a specific preference in the 'type' of lady (a specific hair color, ethnicity, height, whatever) you want and don't see her in the line-up or the parlor, ask the floor maid. The lady you want may be 'busy' or just resting in her room and they can let you know.
Brothel Etiquette in this situation:
1. If a lady is talking to you, no other lady will approach you. So if you aren't interested in the lady, politely let her know. If you want her to stay and talk to you, offer to buy her a drink to let her know you want her to stay.
2. If a you are interested in a lady and she is talking to someone else, male or female, DO NOT hesitate to approach her and make eye contact. The ladies would rather make money in their room than talk in the parlor. If she can't talk to you because she is with another customer, she'll break eye contact with you...then you need to make another choice. If a lady stands in the next line-up, she is available for a tour.
"When and where do you negotiate?"
You will negotiate somewhere private; in her room or in the jacuzzi room. She cannot/will not negotiate with you in the parlor so don't even try.
"About how much is a reasonable asking price? How long do the encounters last?"
The session will last as long as you can afford to pay. Time is negotiated by 15 minute increments. A house minimum is usually 15 minutes and one act of sex (example: straight sex, a blow job or a hand job). Then you can negotiate for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, one hour up days, weeks or however much you can afford and whatever you want to do. Click here: NV Brothels Discussion Forum
DVD To VHS Piracy?
Chud writes: Adulteyecandy.com. Noticed this site supplying vids to the uk only- Seems to me like someone has imported a few DVD's (all the covershots are from DVD's) and is illegally pirating them for sale. Have to wonder what the introduction of DVD to consumers has done for piracy- (I'm sure we've all seen a few what we were suspected, anyway were badly dubbed video's)- but with DVD-VHS copying with a macrovision defeated player the quality is quite high- is their any guesses into what this costs the industry?
Happy Birthday Mr Marcus - Mazal Tov!
Mr Marcus celebrates his 31st birthday tonight with a party at Club Lush at 2020 Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica.
Mr Marcus writes: send gifts, money and women
On: 8/30/100 11:21 jj wrote: more like send crack, welfare checks, steroids and a life... to marcus for his birthday, he needs them.
Luke Gets Mail
Publisher Alan Miles writes: Luke: John Coyle is spelled John Coil. And I think I read on your site that the feds visited the offices of Arthur Schwartz in connection with the Goalie bust. Didn't happen.
XXX: I heard that the IRS had a plant in Wedelstedt's Dallas office.
Jack Chicks Warns That Hell Is Hot
It's hot in the San Fernando Valley porners, but the flames of Hell are much hotter! How much longer can you avert your eyes from the artistic salvation of Jack Chick? Porners you spend so much time on your knees orally copulating before the camera can you also get down on your knees to pray? Today's installment - The Story of Bad Bob. Click here: Bad Bob!
Future Prophecy
Chaim Amalek (who taught Jack Chick all the theology he knows) writes: Luke, while I wish you the best with X-X, I fear that she is not compatible with your spiritual side. Read on.
You are far more religious than the average jew in this country, especially the average secular jew. I know your readers think it is all an act, but I can confirm that when it comes to religion, Luke F-rd is one serious dude. (The apple does not fall far from the tree!) The man resolutely refused to pimp for me throughout my travels in LA, instead offering to take me along to prayer services and talmud classes (no doubt conducted in aramaic). Do not let the lack of a black hat fool you - if the man were any more religious, he would be a zealot for Hashem.
So serious is the jewish faith to Luke that he would not sin against it for anyone, with one exception: the secular jewess X-X. Already, in his effort to accommodate her irreligious, rootless cosmopolitan nature, Luke has violated the sabbath - something he would never do for a shiksa of more modest means. I fear that the closer he gets to X-X, the further he will move away from judaism. Ironic, no? (Sometimes, Luke, you just cannot establish an irony-free zone.)
I think the way out of this is for Luke to find a nice young shiksa who is wandering about, estranged from the Christian faith of her youth and looking for something else. Luke could convert her over to his brand of judaism, supervise her conversion, and live with her the fully jewish life he is unlikely ever to have with the X-X. Where might he find such a rootless wanderer? The ranks of the porn industry must be teeming with them.
PS Regarding that detailed description of prostitution in Cuba, outstanding! Just what we all want to read. I know where MY next vacation will be. The only problem I had with it was that line of text attributing 99% of the rip-offs to black cuban hookers. Coming on top of your and Lynne's praise for the writings of William Pierce, this is very disquieting, and will serve to limit your career prospects in Hollywood.
Porn, Drugs & Lynne
Lynne L-patin writes: Funny thing about being the female side of a married couple: one gets tarred and feathered with the sins of one's spouse, though it doesn't work the other way around. No man ever got the label of mall-oholic because his wife liked to shop.
My late husband, Bruce, was a chronic pot smoker from the age of fifteen until his recent death. Every day during our marriage he smoked pot, and I smoked along with him. What was I supposed to do -- fight about it?
Our video shoots were, of course, marijuana-tolerant, and he considered it part of his responsibility as co-producer to make sure pot was available to all who wanted it. Until his death I had never purchased any type of recreational drug on my own.
Since his death I have smoked a little pot, had a few beers, enjoyed an occasional bottle of good Oregon Reisling and even a little French cognac. I pick it up and put it down -- my particular interest was always sex, and I am not getting very much of that either.
All my recreation is based on available discretionary funding, which, at the moment, is non-existent. Donations are always welcome, of course. I will be in Los Angeles for a quick in-and-out visit on September 11th & 12th; my birthday is September 13th, and checks and money orders (but no cash--don't tempt Luke--and certainly no illegal drugs) may be sent to me care of Luke F-rd's mailing address.
Pot smoking was Bruce's thing; I look forward to the vices and virtues of my next husband, and pray that they do not include NASCAR or endless sporting events....
Federal Agency Probes Scouts Over Gay Ban
From the Washington Times: A division of the Department of Interior is gathering information on its ties to the Boy Scouts to determine whether such ties violate President Clinton's executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the Scouts were within their constitutional rights in barring homosexuals from serving as Scout leaders. The gathering of information is the first known instance of the federal government questioning ties with the Boy Scouts since that ruling.
The Bureau of Reclamation "will assist [the Department of Justice] by providing information as it relates to the Boy Scouts of America to ensure consistency with the Executive Order" President Clinton signed on June 23, Nattie Silva, assistant director of diversity and equal opportunity for the bureau, said in an e-mail memo sent out Tuesday.
The memo, sent to the bureau's commissioner and its regional directors, asked that the agency officials provide answers to seven questions regarding all the "activities, events or programs" they have in conjunction with the Boy Scouts by the end of business tomorrow.
Luke: Dennis Prager says that this issue is as important as any in the forthcoming election. The Democrats appear to be making life difficult for the Boy Scouts so long as the Scouts adhere to their policy of not hiring avowed homosexuals as leaders.
DP: About one in a 100 films produced by Hollywood is morally compelling and important. You should search them out. Plays have always had the ability to serve as a moral vehicle. I saw "A Simple Plan." It will make you think hard.
A group of three men in a snowy field find a crashed plane with a dead pilot. Then they find over four million dollars. They decide, after a couple of minutes, to not tell the police.
Mostafa Hefny from Cairo, Egypt writes on Amazon.com about the movie: As Hank comes home to his lovely, soon to be Lady Macbeth, housewife, he asks her a theoretical question: "Suppose you found lost money, would you keep it?". She says that she wouldn't but has a complete moral u-turn once he spills four million dollars on their living room table. While watching the scene I asked myself if I would keep the money. I would. And I would live to regret it.
DP: By taking the money, the people gave up their ethical core. Once you get started doing the wrong stuff, you generally can't stop.