Friday, October 13th, 2000

Chaim Amalek To Replace Gene Ross?

Lynn LeMay writes on RAME: Thank you,but no. I do a lot of things but sex on film will not be one of them.

I hear that AVN publisher Paul Fishbein offered Gene Ross's post to Dirty Bob, who turned him down because he didn't want to move to LA.

I hear from a well placed source that Fishbein has offered the job to Chaim Amalek who's accepted and will be moving to Los Angeles in two weeks.

Curious writes: Chaim is absolutely the best man to fill Gene's shoes at AVN. His many qualifications include:

* He is a secular Jew like Paul Fishbein

* He has f---ed Kendra Jade

* He respects Jack T. Chick

* He is a dead ringer for Al Goldstein

But there is one minor problem, Luke. As your mentor and confidante Chaim has been privy to the many private foibles of Mr. Luke F-rd. Will these embarrassing secrets find their way onto the AVN website? Sweating yet, Luke?

Amber Lynn Comeback

Walter Garner writes on RAME: The only activity that I know of was as a feature in dance clubs. The rumor was that she drank a lot and would cancel many appearances. She was scheduled to my town and cancelled also.

As far as Ginger's movies I'll never buy another (that's directed by Veronica Hart anyway). They were luke warm scenes, short, cut to threads, 100% condoms, no facials, very low heat. I saw, Torn, and White Lightening. I love Ginger, but the heat is gone.

I have not seen Amber's scenes yet, but I suspect that she still is willing to take some risk and generate some heat. Her comeback may not be as well, but maybe just maybe she can still dish out some serious heat. I love Ginger, but she seemed to just lay there, and even her DP could have been a lot better. I know what she used to be capable off. So technically she has not made a comeback. But she has returned. Big difference. I do blame a lot of it on the director and editing. Directors do have an effect. Imagine a Rocco directed movie for her comback. Even if he wasn't in it. It would have been a scorcher.

Is Kendra Jade Good For The Jews?

Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, I learned from the Howard Stern show today (which I seldom listen to these days - just wanted to hear his rant on mideast politics) that your friend KJ is going to permit a Palestinian man who won a contest on the Stern show to have anal sex with her. Given that she has never let me do this to her (not that I would want to - Amalek always takes the front door), can she fairly be called a friend to the Jews?

PS NOTE TO THAT FISHBINE GUY: See what you could have on your web site if you hired Luke F-rd? More intelligent, well reasoned craftsman-like prose that you could shake a lulav at.

Regarding this potential new gig, how much money are we talking about, and if you become the industry suck-ass I know that you can be, Luke, does that mean that you will be able to arrange all sorts of favors?

Luke says: About 10K a month and lots of favors.

Extreme Teen 9

Patrick Riley writes on RAME: Extreme Teen #9: Amongst The Vultures 2000--Extreme Associates Producer/Director: Luis Cypher Featuring: Jamie Lynn, Kristina Black, Dusty, Kyla Young, Suzanne Storm, Jade Marcela, Claudia Adkins, Luciano (Mike Long), Marc Woods, Claudio Cazzo, Jason McCain, Gino Greco

Extreme seem to finally be getting their act together and doing a reasonable job at least in recruitment of the prettier of the new girls and in the story lines and even the--dare I say it--acting. The things that constantly bring them down are the degrading facials and painful anals. Unfortunately one has to live with the facials or otherwise be limited to a couple of movies a month starring the cantaloupe-equipped plasticized bimbos and there are only two anals here and no A2M, rimming, or other associated disgusting acts. Another big negative is the meanness associated with the stories. Why? I suppose Extreme is going for the "raincoater getting his own back on the nasty females" market but it makes watching and listening to the little stories, innovative though they are, an unpleasant experience for normal people.

Jamie, who looked young even in {Bring 'Um Young #2}, looks almost pre-pubertal (say eight years old--move over Max Hardcore) here with her hair in two pigtails and clad in kiddie pajamas. She talks about how she was shocked the previous night when her parents had one of those special "parties" with the people "all naked and everything" and one of the guys came into her room and made her suck his dick. The guy turns out to be Luciano and he's back but this time he wants more than to just have his dick sucked and screws her after which he calls her a little teenage whore and, while she cowers in her enclosed bunk bed and looks like she might burst into tears, he tells her that she shouldn't tell her mother.

Kristina (see also {Bring 'Um Young #2}) looks better in this movie perhaps because she's on her feet and moving around a lot of the time. At the beginning, while she lies naked on a chair poolside, she talks on the phone about how her parents are away and how she's not going back to school and then lies back for a good suntan. But she's being watched by her brother, Justin, who finally makes his presence known and plays (or is?) the fool. He chases her around the outside of the house while she tries chastely to cover her nudity with first a skimpy towel and then her hands. But it seems that this is all an act and the two have had incestuous relations in the past, something that is proven by the skill and lack of reticence with which they screw. In the end, in another little bit of meanness, she drowns him in the pool saying, "It's going to be nice being an only child."

Dusty (shoulder length brown curly hair, passable face, bushy eyebrows, small tits, lithe body, prominent tan lines, shaven pussy, no visible tattoos or piercings) and Kyla (credits: Kayla Swallows--see {The Babysitter #3}) seem to be having some lesbian sex out in the woods when along comes nature photographer Marc with his handy camera. There's no real g/g but I suppose for the purpose of the story we should presume that Marc sees more than we do. He confronts them and promises to publish the photos on the internet and they'll do anything to avoid that--even a man. They do a three way which is notable for the falsity of the moaning and groaning and then for the zinger you know is coming, they rub poison ivy all over his underpants.

In the next one, we're almost but not quite to the point of tying the girl down and screwing her, something far more erotic than the excreta-focus we have in all too many movies. Claudio seems to have employed hooker Suzanne (see {Gag Factor}--passable face, long brown hair in pigtails, tattoo right shoulder outside, tattoo around left ankle, small firm tits, tiny triangle of pubic hair, tight waist, lithe body) and has her dressed in a traditional schoolgirl dress, not the habitual blouse and skirt. She's impatient and keeps asking if she should take off her panties now but he wants to savor the moment. We cut to her tied up in the bathtub (empty) while he fondles her and then, at the last moment he releases her and they screw. Not a good scene with her looking very bored or perhaps disgusted and the screwing in and around the bathtub is awkward. The zinger? He grumpily leaves at the end and the camera returns to see her in the tub with the rope around her neck, presumably dead.

Gino talks on the phone about his mail-order bride (?) Jade who doesn't speak English but is always wanting sex and sure enough she appears and is all over him like a rash. Since Gino is about as attractive as Hardman or Masters one can question the believability of this but they screw including an anal. Just pro sex. After he finishes and leaves she picks up the phone and asks the person on the other end if they heard all that; i.e., she speaks perfect English. So?

The last scene is probably the best with Luciano and the heard but not seen cameraman creeping into a backyard where Claudia (pretty, facial acne, shoulder length black hair, plucked eyebrows, small tits, prominent tan lines, stubbly large pubic area, tight waist, lithe body, no obvious tattoos or piercings) is sleeping and sunning herself beside the pool. Luciano simply slaps his dick against her face and when she wakes he rams it into her mouth. Some gagging and he's not too nice to her either physically or verbally but strangely she seems to be quite excited by the sex which includes an anal. She really doesn't speak apart from a few words so it's hard to tell about her nationality but if she's foreign she's most likely from Latin America and not Eastern Europe. The other thing that crossed my mind is that she might be mentally or otherwise handicapped but we'll have to wait for another movie to check this out. The ending of this scene has Luciano pushing her in the pool and telling the cameraman that he can have her now but this is interrupted by the arrival of her father. The guys flee. All scenes end in facials and no condoms were used. Date of production: 9/4/00.

******End review

Descriptions for rame readers seeing they don't have the referred-to movies:

Jamie Lynn: Passable face, short blonde hair, tattoo of a confederate flag on her right shoulder back, tattoo of a heart on her left belly, small tits, splooge of pubic hair, lithe petite body, 19 years old, comes from TX, DOB = 6/16/81.

Kristina Black: Kristina comes from CA, DOB = 6/28/82, 5'6" tall, 110lbs, 18 years old, passable face, piranha teeth, long straight black hair, small/medium unequally-sized tits, racing stripe, slightly bulging belly, lithe body, no obvious tattoos or piercings.

Kyla Young: Long straight blonde hair in two ponytails, passable face, small tits, shaven pussy, lithe body, no obvious tattoos or piercings.

(Piranha teeth = TM Torris)

Asia Carrera's Day Job

Asia Carrera writes: my 9 to 5 job is doing dvd authoring for my contract company, simon wolf productions. i'll only be shooting movies about once every other month, and the rest of the time i report to the office for DVD duty, where i work on computers all day with my two DVD geek co-workers. (and no, it's not an office full of pornstar nerds under contract - my co-workers are just two regular 9-to-5-world guys!)

we design and create the interactive dvd menus and wraparounds for adult movies. basically, we get handed a movie, with instructions to "go make an interactive dvd with great graphics and lots of bonus materials". then the three of us come up with a concept, design and implement the layout, compile assorted 'bonus materials' and other dvd contents, and burn it all into a dvd that's ready to go to the duplicator's. that's about it.

well, except for the days that the three of us have to go down to doc johnson's to test out dildos, of course. HAHAHAHA!!! sorry, i couldn't resist that last part - when i saw the snide little comment somebody made on your site earlier, i had to call my co-workers away from their computers so they could read it for themselves. we spent the rest of the afternoon snickering about our entire nerdy 9-5 existence being a front for our REAL jobs of 'testing dildos for doc johnson' all day... HAHAHAHA!!!

Helpful writes: Asia I do apologize about my snide comment. Congrats on your straight job. Now can you pass around my friend Luke's resume? You see he's looking for a change and ...

Vital News From Africa

Jechu Prospect writes from North Korea: National seminar on Luke F-rdism held in Madagascar

Pyongyang, October 11 -- A Madagascan national seminar on the Luke F-rd idea and education was held on September 30 on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Worker's Party of Pelukagonga.

Present at the seminar were personages of political, public, academic and press circles of Madagascar including the speaker of the parliament. It was stressed there that the pornographic pedagogy, advanced by the great leader President Kim Il Sung and developed in depth by Mr. Luke F-rd, is an entirely unique theory of sex.

A reporter and speakers said the Ford idea is the most scientific outlook on the world in the present times, the most correct guiding idea for sexual revolution and construction and an encyclopedic idea that gives an overall exposition of all the problems arising in all fields.

Today the progressive people struggling for the building of a new society and independence see in the Ford-based idea of pan-knowledge a true way of training the revolutionary personnel and solving the issue of national cadres as well as a powerful weapon of the struggle for genuine freedom and rights of education, they said.

They declared that they would fully support the Luke F-rd in his struggle to smash his enemies' isolation and suffocation moves, build a powerful web site and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of man and woman. A letter to Luke F-rd was adopted at the seminar.

Luke asks: How come i get so little response to my jechu prospect posts?

Aghast writes: The pitiful concerns of a fifth world country pale in contrast to the shameful dearth of midget couples oriented porn.

Fred writes: I think the joke has been beaten to death. Either that, or the readers of l-keford.com can spot a neo-revisionist counterrevolutionary in their midst when they see one.

Give Me Your Soul

Paul Cowan's documentary on the porn industry "Give Me Your Soul" premieres on Canadian TV October 29.

Here's a Q&A with Cowan:

Why a film on pornography?

There are two parts to the answer: In the beginning, I was really interested in censorship: why people are afraid of certain things and why they go the route of censoring rather than dealing with it in another way. The more I read about censorship issues, the more it came down to sex. Sex - or rather, the depiction of sex - was a problem for people throughout history: So the film really started from a censorship perspective and then the more I got into it, one thing led to another, and the film gradually became about people who work in the porn film industry.

We live in an age of porn chic. Pornography used to be the most debased adjective that one could use to describe something and all of the sudden it was okay, even trendy. People were becoming fascinated with pornography, and I decided to make a film about it. I didn't want to condemn it, I didn't want to say it was wonderful, I just said here's the world of porn. Here it is from the inside. And that's the film.

Describe the production history of the film.

When I was at Porn Con, this young guy came up to me and introduced himself to me as Luke F-rd. Why he ever came up to me I don't know. There were hundreds of people there and he said "I'm Luke F-rd and I write about this business."

I also met the godfather of porn, Bill Margold. I stayed in touch with both Luke and Bill and at that point I knew I wanted to move into that world and that they were natural protagonists.

The other stories developed through Bill and Luke. And I had a gut feeling that told me to follow these people and see where they would take me. You're in a world that you don't know, with people doing something that's only quasi-legal. Stories are unfolding before you and you make decisions every day. I had long since lost the notion of a theoretical film about sex and censorship; it just became about the world of these people trying to make their way in this world.

So you chose to go to California, the mecca of porn?

Yes, 95% of the porn tapes that are bought and rented in Canada and the United States come from the San Fernando Valley - that one little piece of real estate out there. And so it was a natural place for me to go and film. The stories just unfolded before the camera and for the most part they were all intermeshed. I had filmed other people who had interesting perspectives outside the San Fernando scene, but there was nothing evolving, their stories weren't changing.

The stories in California were real and constantly taking new directions and that became the style of the film - almost a dramatic quality where characters rather than ideas dictated the direction of the film. And people weren't sitting there giving intellectual or quasi-intellectual arguments of why this was good or not good. I think the film is much more interesting to look at and it also presents the arguments about pornography in a way that forces people to think about the issues.

In a certain sense I was really lucky that the good, the bad and the ugly of pornography presented itself organically. Rather than my saying, "I'm going to find a person who's a victim and I'm going to find someone who thinks pornography is wonderful," and so on. I didn't want to make that kind of film.

How you would situate your film with the 1981 NFB documentary "Not A Love Story"?

I didn't make the film as a male answer to "Not A Love Story." In fact, it wasn't until I finished shooting the film that I actually sat down and watched "Not A Love Story," which I hadn't seen since it was first released. I only watched it because I wanted some stock shots of Manhattan. That's not a comment on the film, it's just that my making this film had nothing to do with that film.

Do you think our ideas about pornography changed since "Not A Love Story"?

"Not A Love Story" speaks for that time, when pornography was a natural target for feminism. It was clear from the outset that this is why the filmmakers made the film. And that was their choice. I think women's views on porn have changed more than men's, especially among younger women. Instead of seeing porn as nasty and anti-woman, I think women see porn as a more complex issue than before. I didn't want to make a film that was going to tell people what to think. I wanted to make a film that showed porn the way I think it is, and let people make up their own minds.

How did you decide what shots to put in the film?

We filmed lots of intelligent people saying intelligent things with interesting perspectives, but unlike the lives of Luke, Bill and Katy June, there was nothing evolving, their stories weren't changing. We kept gravitating more towards the stories, making a film that was about the stories and not wanting to do anything else. My editor and I would be going along with the stories in the film and then there would be an interview with an "expert" or someone like that and it would pull the film down. Those interviews were eliminated one by one and that's how we ended up with what we have.

Was it hard getting access?

For the most part, these people are pretty open given what they do for a living. Some of the access is also just spending time with people and by that I mean spending time while they're shooting and also spending time with them when they're not shooting, just hanging out, having meals and that kind of thing.

Also, I think they were convinced that I wasn't trying to do a hatchet job and that I wasn't moralizing. At the same time, there were certainly people along the way who didn't want me to film them. A lot of what you do in documentary is finding people that you're simpatico with, both at a human and filmic level.

Also, one of the fortunate things about making films with the NFB is that you have the time to get the story. We had a tiny crew, just myself and a sound person, so it wasn't a big expense for me to spend a couple of days every time just hanging with people.

What drew you to the characters that you chose to be in the film? Let's start with Luke.

I thought that Luke represented a lot of males in the sense that he was very conflicted about pornography. On an intellectual level he thought pornography was trash and yet, at the same time, he admits his own fascination with pornography and with people in that world. Luke also allowed me to have someone in the film who was anti-porn and who was organic to the film.

Bill Margold was the epicenter of the porn world. People were constantly coming in and out of his world. When porn men and women get in trouble, they come to Bill. Spending time with Bill was never boring. It may have been frustrating, but never boring.

I came across Katy June exactly as it shows in the film. Bill told me that there was a new girl coming in from Tennessee and I decided to film her when she got off the bus - the cliché. She was fine with that because I guess if you're going to take off your clothes and have sex with someone in front of the whole world, it's not going to bother you to have a film crew follow you.

Is Katy typical of a lot of the girls you met?

It's hard to say what's typical because everyone has a story. She's typical in the sense that she had a troubled background and she got started in the business by stripping - stripping is often how young women make their entry into porn films. But beyond that there are no two girls who are the same.

Some of the scenes in the film must have been hard to shoot. As a filmmaker, did it ever feel like you were being exploitative?

Yeah, sometimes it did. For example, when I shot the scene of Katy June on set. At one point I just left because I couldn't take it any more, but I really regretted that I left. I shouldn't have left because I'm a documentary filmmaker and it was a good scene and I should have stayed until the end. But at a certain point, I just wanted to get out of there.

But you do get a sense from that scene that the situation is very awkward, the fact that Katy June's mom is hearing her daughter have sex on camera...

Absolutely, but I should have stayed because after I left, her mother got so freaked out that she eventually went upstairs because she couldn't take it any more. I could have filmed anything with Katy June and her mother. It was almost embarrassing. There were things that I didn't film because I couldn't do it. For example, in the narration there is mention of Katy June doing a scene with her mother and Bill Margold and a second guy and I could have filmed that and but I said, "I don't want to do this."

Why did Katy June's mother decide to turn to porn herself?

She was shocked to be there but I think there was a part of her that was just fascinated by the sex - and of course attracted by the money. And so when the opportunity was presented to her, she didn't have to think about it very long.

You talk about AIDS in the film and how shocking it is that for so many years AIDS wasn't an issue in the porn industry and yet, even now, a young porn actress like Katy June doesn't seem concerned about it.

She's nineteen and she can't imagine that AIDS is going to happen to her. She knows that all the actors have to get tested every thirty days, but look what happened to Kimberly - she saw the guy's test too and he faked it. It's the belief when you're 19 that you're invincible. There were great calls for making porn shoots all condom, but now they've gone back to making it optional and of course they're hoping that the actors don't use them because tapes which are non-condom sell much better than tapes that are condom. It's scary.

Why did you choose to make a film that deals strictly with heterosexual porn?

I filmed people working in gay and lesbian porn films, and some S&M performers as well - there's a very big gay porn world out there. But I ended up with a movie about heterosexual porn because that's where the people I met took me. That's where the stories went organically.

What does the film say about the porn industry?

Everything I wanted to say ended up in the film. There's a woman in the film who tells how porno films make us think it's wonderful and that everyone's really enjoying sex and having a great time, and it's not quite like that. Porn isn't the big bad boogieman that so many people think it is, but on the other hand it's a nasty business. It's a world where everyone seems to hate everybody else. But I imagine it's like being inside the mafia where you can never quite trust anybody, but at the same time they're thrown upon each other because nobody else on the whole planet trusts them. There are all sorts of rivalries and nastiness that goes on. It's a crazy world.

What do you think the reaction to the film will be?

I don't know. I'm curious to see what audiences will think about it. I think the film will elicit a fair spectrum of emotional responses. The film is a pretty nasty look at pornography. Critics can hardly say that we glossed it over or are supporting porn in any way and yet at the same time we're really honest about it. One of the biggest questions might be why we want to look at porn anyway. Well, why would we want to look at crime, or pollution or anything else? It's part of life. It says a lot about humanity. It's not going to go away. And I think it says a lot about our culture - the extent to which market forces exploit our voyeuristic tendencies and shape our notions of sex.

How has your own understanding of the porn industry changed from when you first started working on the film?

Well first of all, I knew very little about pornography when I started. I had probably watched a half a dozen parts of porn tapes in my whole life. I wasn't against it; I just had no particular desire to watch and, more than anything, no occasion to watch it. I felt too embarrassed to go down to the local video store and take one out. Obviously, I knew porn was out there, but I didn't know much about it so I didn't have a whole lot of feelings about it one way or another except that I thought it must be an interesting world. How could it not be? I didn't feel disgusted by it or think that it was the worst thing that humanity's ever invented or anything like that. And after having made the film, I wouldn't make porn illegal; however, I think that a frank and open discussion about sexuality is good and that discussion should include pornography. I think putting pornography into the light of day and looking at it and talking about it is a good thing.

Do you think that "Give Me Your Soul" is successful in opening up the discussion?

Well, I think it's one little tiny step. Any time people have information they are better off for it, whether they like pornography or hate it. Pornography has such a weird mystique about it, but there isn't much mysterious about it at all. Making the film certainly took any of the allure of pornography away from me. It's similar to working in the movies for a long time and seeing the guy with the boom pole and the gaffer outside the frame line every time you watch a film. You're there. The artifice is gone. And the magic is gone. And so I guess to whatever degree porn had any magic to me, it doesn't any more. You've seen the inside... And the fact that these people who you're supposed to think are so passionate actually just met five minutes before and frankly they're looking at their watches and can't wait until it's over. I might have assumed that anyway, but now I know it.

What do you think the future of porn is?

Well it seems to have enduring appeal. People are fascinated by watching other people having sex. I don't get it. But it's not going away.

Dirty Bob writes: Luke: I gotta comment on your interview with Paul Cowan' and his documentary on the porn industry "Give Me Your Soul". HAH! They had him snowed. Totally. His comments about Katie June (correct spelling) were hilarious. Katie's trip(s) to L.A. to shoot were well-planned in advance, she knew exactly what she was getting into, and her mom (who totally supported Katie) not only came out once to "hang out" with her during one her L.A. trips, she also agreed to be in a shoot with her daughter. It was all planned. Yes, one of her trips to L.A. was "off the bus" only because she had to get from Vegas (during the 1999 CES) to L.A. and a bus was the most convenient way to get there (for her) at that time. Katie, who has been out of the biz for well over a year now, also had done a few amateur shoots in Tennessee prior to going West. Speaking of West, she also had a "thing" going with Randy West, but that is another story.

DJX, an employee of Randy West, writes on RAME 1/18/00 about Katie June, who entered porn with her mother in early 1999: "She's in Tenessee, and can leave the state only upon authorization of her probation officer. (She was caught transporting drugs, pills, in Texas). Randy was kind enough to bail her drug-addicted ass out of jail, and then she disappeared. She is a cutie and had a future in porn if she could handle it. Obviously, she couldn't!"

Katie June pic Katie pic2

Who Should Replace Gene Ross?

AVNlive.com's conducting a poll on who should replace Gene Ross as AVN's gossip king. So far the leading contender is Luke F-rd with 60% of the vote.

Dear readers, I'm wondering if it is time that I take my Jewish witness to those parts of the world unfamiliar with ethical monotheism? I know that AVN is a Godless place, but surely that makes it even more imperative that I share the Gospel of Luke with them.

Curious writes the AVN publisher: Dear Paul Fishbein:

I am saddened to hear of the departure of your right-hand man Gene Ross to a wrestling ?!? organization. However, his vacancy leaves you an excellent opportunity to fill the glaring void that Gene always had in his porn reporting ... Jewish theological discussion. As you know, we porn fans love three things: thick gooey facials, wide gaping anals, and feverish Torah debate. Shalom.

Rumdar writes: Luke, Your replacing Gene would ruin l-keford.com forever. You would be required to "sell out." Become a lot more professional. Wag your tail for the boss. Do I think this is a bad thing? For us your loyal fans and advisory committee yes. For you, no. That is why I will write to Paul Fishbrain and urge him to hire you. I have been looking for something sell, as in "sell out" my entire life. Alas! I have nothing to compromise so I remain an indentured public servant. We will miss you but here is hoping you get the job...

Goddess advises: To get the edge on other whipcord thigh wannabe's, Luke, make sure you include an 8x10 glossy of yourself along with your resume....word is Gene *loves* that....

Rumdar writes Paul Fishbein: Dear Mr. Publisher. This is Rum from the Luke column. There is only one logical choice in selecting a replacement for Gene. Luke of course. I say this knowing the old l-keford.com column will disappear as we now know it. He will have to become more professional and kiss a lot of industry ass. No problem. Luke wants to be a player. He will do it. He will be a good boy.

Let us look at it another way. I read Luke everyday. I read Gene rarely. If Luke gets Gene's job he will bring all his fans over with him. We will then read Luke doing Gene until he eventually morphs into Gene. Then many of us will disappear altogether. I may flip out entirely and turn to the Reader's Digest for solace. Or return to abusing my unit to pictures of dark skinned topless native girls in National Geographic like I did when I was a kid.

Anyway, Hire Luke. You will be making a smart move. And also, being a loyal employee he will not be able to criticize you again. Yours in free advice.

Putatitve Marc writes Luke: ethical question: would you ditch sabbath and festival observance in exchange for the doubtlessly frequent holy day work that would accompany the geneross job? (i.e. a weekend like this one.) is, say, $10k a month a trade-off to become more secular, compared to potentially abject poverty after your sponsor money stops to flow? (is it, in fact, still flowing?)

Luke: No I would not take any job that requires me to work on the Sabbath and the festivals.

Porn Happens

Women's lives are made two-dimensional and dead. We are flattened on the page or on the screen. Our vaginal lips are painted purple for the consumer to clue him in as to where to focus his attention such as it is. Our rectums are highlighted so that he knows where to push. Our mouths are used and our throats are used for deep penetration.

Rob writes: Dammit! She deserves a link!Click here: Pornography Happens to Women

Heather Barron - Wannabe Anna Nicole Smith

Amused writes: If you have any time left over in your 2 hour ( !?! ) therapy session today maybe you could submit this bizarre, stream of consciousness piece by Heather Barron for analysis. Her writings are getting weirder and weirder. I'm worried about her. Click here: Pulling an Anna Nicole on the Buttocks of Hollywood

Johnny Castano

Johnny Castano phoned. "I haven't worked in seven months [since back troubles]. They've got to a thing on my knee and then I'll be ok.

"People keep asking when I will get back to work. Joey Silvera really took care of me. He sent me all his videos and called me a few times. He does some great work. He shoots the best He-Shes... Friends of mine in New York who own bookstores tell me that his He-Shes are the best selling around.

"Aren't you tired of this business yet, Luke? It's bulls---. I know you can do something better than that crap. This Scotty Schwartz. I used to see the kid hanging around and I used to say, what are you doing around here, man? I used to photograph one of the girls he first lived with. I always thought he was a nice kid. And I am just so sorry that he gave up his whole life for soemthing like this. I don't know why he did that.

"Jesus, you don't get in porno, for chrissakes, and throw your whole career away. I used to tell him, it's all right to come to these shows, but don't get involved with this s---. Oh man. And he was always a nice person.

"Alexandra Quinn was the best model I photographed in my life. You didn't have to tell her to do a goddam thing. You'd blow your powerpack with her.

"Tom Byron and me have always been friends. I used to take care of Ron Jeremy in the 1970s. I got him his first job in porno - in a movie called "Lips." For Caballero. They paid him $1500 for the week."

Jenna Jameson On Roman Catholicism

Here's an excerpt from the interview at StunningCurves.com:

Kevin: Are you religious at all? What is your opinion on spirituality?

Jenna: I am a very religious person. I was raised Catholic, my family is very devout. I think it's very important to have some sort of faith, whatever it may be. God has given me a lot of strength and helps me make the right decisions. My guy always makes the joke that the church roof is going to burst into flames when I walk in for Sunday mass.(laugh)

Evilstein writes: I could be wrong but I seem to recall on Howard Stern,Jenna saying that she brings home chicks for her Dad to have sex with and that her Mom at one time was a stripper...I'm just wondering what the non-"devout" families are into?It must be some pretty wild stuff!

Let's Cross 101

Chaim Amalek writes: (Luke, I suspect that I really do not disagree with Fred all that much, but since you are not feeling well and need more free material . . . .)

Fred, Silicon Valley is one of the least truly diverse places on earth. I note that although the fastest growing or largest minority groups in America are Hispanics and Blacks, these are not among the many groups you list as having contact with. (One suspects that you have little reason, as a patent lawyer, to have any contact with the black people of East Palo Alto.) And in fact, African-Americans and Mexican-Americans are essentially invisible among the ranks of the engineers, MBA and VC-type folks who define Silicon Valley culture. Moreover, the people you speak of are almost all male, all between the ages of what, 22 and 45?, and mostly engineer-types who are drawn from the top one or two percentiles of the population for intelligence. Diverse they are not.

Sure, these engineers get along with each other. They are all getting rich or at least think they might! If you want to see real diversity, go to New York City or Los Angeles, where racial/linguistic/religious/ethnic groups that each encompass both the rich and the poor, professionals and blue collar workers, the dumb and the smart (and each in varying proportions by group) interact with and compete against each other in communal terms. Here, where life is viewed more as a zero-sum game, you will get a very different view of diversity.

A New York Jew Speaks Out

Chaim Amalek writes: What should Israel do to the primary source of its cultural/religious diversity, the Palestinians?

"Kill kill kill them until they are all dead." - Howard Stern, rich powerful New York media Jew

Diversity (and I speak of it in its demographically significant form) has failed to be a source of national cohesion in Israel, Indonesia, South Asia (India/Pakistan), Congo, Tibet, Iraq, Turkey, Rwanda, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia (from which millions of Sudetan Germans were driven out after WW II), South Africa, Rhodesia, the Balkans, and Ireland to cite just a few examples. (Only in the fantasy world of the human termites who control Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and Television is demographic diversity an endlessly good thing.)

We are deluding ourselves if we think that America will prove to be the exception. If there is one good thing that might come out of the current troubles in Palestine, it is that it will force the jews who control mass media to finally acknowledge that perhaps diversity is not always such a good thing - especially as millions of muslims settle here and increasingly negate the ability of jews to tilt American policy towards Israel.

Re-reading what I wrote about diversity today, I want to clarify one point. In quoting Howard Stern, I did not mean to leave the impression that I agree with him. I do not favor genocide as the solution to tribal trouble anywhere. (Any Jew with my name is doubly sensitive to what it is like to be hunted down merely for having the wrong tribal affiliation.)

In fact, I can empathize somewhat with the Palestinians, who as a group are showing much more courage than would be expected from a group of secular Hollywood jews stripped of their lawyers. To the Palestinian, all of eretz yisrael is Palestine, from the Jordan to the Med. Sea. Why, they must wonder, was this Arab occupied land given to the jews as compensation for having been slaughtered by Germans during a war that the Palestinians had no part in? Should not the guilty-minded europeans have carved a jewish state out of German soil? After all, it was the Germans who perpetrated the holocaust, not the Palestinians. And besides, once the war ended large chunks of German territory were grabbed by the USSR, Poland, and others and swept clean of every trace of German life. Why couldn't the europeans have put a Jewish state somewhere in there, between East Prussia and the Elbe? Why punish Palestinians for the sins of the Germans? Such a move would have spared the mideast a great deal of grief, and likely would have been accepted by the Germans with the stoicism and finality with which they have faced the loss of territory to the Soviets and Poles after WWII.

Alas, if only Amalek had been present at Yalta . . .

Has Luke Gone Soft?

Greg writes: Luke: Have you gone soft? I was reading the profile of TT Boy and noticed you have changed it quite a bit. What happened to the stories about his Dad being cruel to him, forcing him to break rocks with a sledge hammer in the hot desert? His father teaching him contempt for women? Pounding Stacy Valentine's ass so violently she cried after the scene? Now its replaced with stuff like "his acting has improved dramatically over the past few years ..." Are you kidding, Luke? Are you nuts?

Luke: I do not believe that T.T. Boy has received the credit he deserves for his acting performances.

Aren't Bestiality Vids Illegal?

>If I understand the law correctly, technically they are not illegal. >However having sex with an animal is illegal in some states in the US.

Rob writes: I won't buy them if they use condoms!

Kendra's Retirement Over

Amused writes: Well, according to geneross.com Kendra Jade is appearing in the Sexual Survivor webcast so that makes her retirement from porn almost as brief as yours Mr. ford.

Sin & Forgiveness

Porners. You mock Jack T. Chick when he says all your sins have been paid for, but it is true! Your web site's fraudulent double credit card billings? Forgiven! Your reselling of old Aunt Peg tapes with an Asia Carrera box cover? Forgiven! Your doctoring of your PCR DNA test? Forgiven! All your sins are forgiven porners! If you only ... do ... one ... simple ... thing. Click here: The Execution

A Message To You Atheists

Chaim writes: That Jack Chick has got me to theenkin. I urge you atheistic porners to drop to your knees and utter the following prayer:

"Lord AMALEK, I repent of my sins and ask you to be my personal Lord and Saviour."

Oh, sure, I know what you are thinking - "Why the hell should I bow to YOU, Lord Amalek?" Well, either I am Christ returned to earth or I am not. If the latter, there is no harm in uttering this prayer (if you are an atheist). But suppose I am? Then failing to kneel before me and utter this prayer condemns you to eternal HELL. Why take this chance? And as for you Fishbane, I COMMAND THEE to offer Luke that job.

PS I remember reading that just before his death, the homosexual mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer found Jesus. Dahmer was in prison for a series of heinous acts, the final victim of which was a 14 year old Buddhist boy in whose head he drilled a hole and poured some foul liquid. So far as we know, that boy died a Buddhist. End result? If Jack Chick is right (and he may well be), that 14 year old is burning in hell right now and will forever, and Jeffrey Dahmer is having the time of his life in heaven with Jesus. And that true story, fundamentally, illustrates the basic theological impediment "Jews for Jesus" has in winning over jewish converts. (A shame, since Christianity otherwise has a lot going for it.)