Thursday, October 19th, 2000
Gossip
I hear that crazy things have being going on at Vivid the past few weeks. But I don't have the specifics.
Mark Gallagher's mailorder porn company XON is finished. It was financed by Jack Gallagher who pulled the plug. Mark's company Plush is now known as Seduction. Their general manager, Roxanne aka Chastity Tryst, has left.
XXX says: AVN publisher Paul Fishbein is not as sweet as he used to be. He's just too busy now. His responsibilities have gone up ten fold in four years. Now he's doing stuff in Europe. He looks tired and haggard. I bet he's really hurt that Gene Ross left. I hear that Mike South has the inside track to replace Gene.
Persian Kitty In Luke's Bizarre Thought Processes
Rumdar writes: Luke, I always have to ask myself "is Luke putting us on." Some of your thought processes are so bizarre it takes me a while to sort out the put-on from the real. In the case of Persian Kitty I am confounded. Her attributes are obvious. She appears to be a relatively uncomplicated Persian Sex Kitten.
Does every Luke relationship have to be an exercise in cross analysis? "You tell me why you are f---ed up and I'll tell you why I am...." And if you are not f---ed up you are not my type of gal. Luke..get real. Put your overheated brain on "parade rest"....Pick up a video...A chick flic. Kick back with Kitty. Don't ask her any heavy/complicated questions....Go for it. And don't forget to keep us informed...Details dude.
Luke replies: Dear reader. Many of you wonder about my thought processes and when I am putting you on. Generally speaking, if I am writing about myself, and from all appearances am doing so seriously and literally, then I am not putting you on. This is genuinely how I see life. So Rum and co, that heartfelt email I sent you last night was literally true.
Lysa writes: Go for it Luke. Seriously. Just because she watches TV and you read books... Couples don't have to do EVERYTHING together, just the fun stuff. She can watch TV in one room, you read books in the other. Then when the lights go out, you have everything in common. I listen to Metal and David listens to Hippie Rock, I'm conservative, he's liberal but we have mostly the same interests in other areas. Come on, from what you told me, she's the girl for you. Couples can't be exactly alike, in fact, its not advised. Focus on the things you DO have in common, look at the other things as diversity. Go for it, don't look back.
Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, stop looking to women for both sexual and intellectual stimulation. Not one woman in a thousand can pull off both simultaneously, and even then only for a few years of cohabitation. To obey God's commandments you need one of the former; for the latter (intellectual stimulation) the internet will do.
That 26 year old persian kitty may well have been sent to you by God. CALL HER NOW AND ASK HER OUT!!!!!!! Then, if you are in need of intellectual stimulation later on, give Japster a call to discuss your date with Persian Kitty.
This may be the first truly plausible candidate-jewess you have ever mentioned. And she is at the perfect age. (PUH-LEEZE, stop going after the damn spinsters!!!!!! No wonder you are always depressed!)
Rumdar writes: I love Persian woman too. I see them all the time at the local kabobi joint...usually with sullen, dark, greasball types (with cell phones). I always say to myself "she would be better off with me."
...That is why I love the third worlders. They cut to the chase. No expensive and time consuming mating dance that Americans put you through.
Go for it Putz....if you think you don't deserve her, that you are compromising your values, than go ask Barbara Bush for a date. Or find another neurotic demanding Jewess.
Chaim writes: The two audiences you have, namely geeks who got into porn, versus those concerned with broader issues, generally are bored to death and contemptuous of what the other has to say. And, of course, porners and lesbians being an especially humorless lot, they likely do not appreciate some of the calls you get from the fringes of the world.
What you ought to do is save up your seratonin and testosterone for one big push to get a REAL show on a REAL BROADcast radio station that is NOT focused on all the boring webmaster stuff. You could be, in your own way, the new Dennis Prager. Who knows, maybe somewhere out there is a disaffected muslim waiting for you to lead him to the Light.
And this time, if you get a woman as a sidekick, make sure that she does not dominate you in any way.
Rumdar writes: Fair enough...The show is for webmasters not masturbators. You should not ask us on your site to call in. We don't want to ruin the program. If you have a program geared toward one legged dwarfs who pick their noses with their left pinkie you are gonna get one legged dwarfs calling in. Again, that James Di what's his name was a riot. He made the show. The rest I heard was a bore.
Allen Iverson vs John Rocker
Philadelphia 76er basketball star Allen Iverson has released a rap music CD where he essentially says that a homosexual who approaches him will sleep with the maggots. How can Iverson get away with this with so little protest yet Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker got creamed for his more benign remarks to a Sports Illustrated reporter?
That's simple. Because Allen Iverson is black and people must expect a lower standard of behavior from a black than a white.
By the way, can anyone send me examples from Iverson's latest lyrics?
Distinguished freelance journalist Jeffrey Winbush writes Luke: There's a reason I don't write about the ouster of Slobodan Milosivec or why the stock market is in the crapper. Those are subjects out of my area of expertise. Apparently, sports is not one of your strong spots either.
"That's simple. Because Allen Iverson is black and people must expect a lower standard of behavior from a black than a white."
That might be sarcasm or your true sentiments, Luke. I can't tell from reading on a website. However, there are just as many black people who are disgusted and appalled with Allen Iverson's rap lyrics as there were white people who were disgusted and appalled with John Rocker. There's no double standard here. You're looking to make one. Iverson has been getting slammed on sports radio just as much as Rocker ever did. Iverson also gets slammed for his tatoos, his lack of respect for rules and authority, for his B-boy, "keepin' it real" lifestyle and his just generally low-class/no-class act.
Just like Rocker, Iverson has a First Amendment right to say whatever he likes about whomever he dislikes---and then he has to suffer the consequences of his big mouth.
Filmaker Spike Lee (another black man you probably think runs off at the mouth) called Iverson's lyrics, "a 21st century ministrel show."
There has been no shortage of Blacks willing to hold Iverson accountable for his homophobic, sexist and violent-laced lyrics. The funny thing is the album isn't even out yet. Nobody knows if Iverson can even rap!
Perhaps the next time you're interviewing Max Hardcore about what kind of beer he drinks to get the right flavor for his piss when he whizzes on some "little piece of f---meat" you can ask him for his take on Iverson and how he demeans women, gays and others.
Ultimately, the only one Iverson demeans--just like John Rocker--is himself.
Luke replies: Nobody is going to order Iverson into psychiatric treatment, like was done to Rocker. Nobody is going to suspend Iverson, like was done to Rocker. The 76er GM said he was not going to interefere with Iverson's "art" and free speech rights.
Almost all of Iverson's peers that I've read have supported his rights to say what he wants.
And you are so wrong about the only one Iverson demeans is himself. Anyone who reads his lyrics or listens to his music is demeaned. His lyrics are far more foul than Rocker's off the cuff comments.
But it just goes back to the reason why police did not crack down on the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York earlier this year. Or the riots after the Lakers won the championship. If the people misbehaving are black or brown, we treat them more gently than if they are white.
Challenger writes: Luke, your comparison between the treatment of Allen Iverson and Rocker is bogus. It seems that many whites are too quick to jump on the deluted illusion that there is a double standard in favor of African Americans and against whites. No matter how many unjust and unfair scenarios you feel go against whites, it will never compare to the unfair and unjust treatment that African Americans and Latinos face by the hands of whites.
Since you are on the topic of sports. You should consider the media play between the 4x100 relay team including Marice Green,(which I would agree was unsportsman like conduct) as they gloated and posed before the crowd after their victory, and the American swimmer Amy Van Dieken spitting in the swimming lane of her main competitor. I barely heard anything about that after it was over, but I did hear about the relay teams embarrassment even days afterwords.
With all of the perks and advantages given to you as a white man, If you still can not make it in society without crying about double standards against you, you are pretty sorry. Stick to what you know best, which is not sports.
Proposal for Annointing Luke F-rd to Head GeneRoss.com Exalted
Pyongyang, October 18 -- Mamadou Ali Sampil, chairman of the Guinean Society for Supporting the appointment of Luke F-rd to the position being vacated by Gene Ross, on October 6 issued a statement on the occasion of the proposal.
The proposal for annointing Mr. Ford is the most reasonable, fair and aboveboard one acceptable to all people who desire the reunification of proletariate consumer and producer of pornography, he said, and continued:
The great leader Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles for worker/producer reunification, the 10-point programme for great unity of pornography and the proposal for assisting Luke F-rd which the President Kim Il Sung put forward as the three-point charter of hope, and is wisely leading the cause of Workers sexual liberation.
According to Kim Jong Il's idea of the great social unity, the joint declaration was released, talks have been held, and the meeting of separated sides and others realized. The recent situation on the web has been changed in favour of the appointment of Luke F-rd.com. He said he was convinced that pornography would be unitary at an early date in accordance with the proposal for appointment.
Jack writes: dear luke: a brief, grammatically-f---ed note of praise for you as a person and your journalistic credentials. as a former employee of crescent publishing, with firsthand knowledge of their ongoing criminal activities, i can definitely say your reportage on their cyberfelony operation was right on the money. not only were you the only person anywhere to allude to their bunco operation over a year ago, but you established yourself to me as the unbiased publication of record for any porn news whatsoever with your outstanding scoop of, i believe, aug. 24: "crescent crooks creamed". comparing you to a hack like matt drudge is unfair-he just isn't in your league. i sense that not only are you (at times and when necessary) brutally honest with the industry, but also w/the basic facts of your own personl struggles on this planet (depression, spiritual journies, etc.). i hope you find the jewess of your dreams and continue doing what you do. i only have one quick question: when is bruce chew going to prison?
Bill writes: whats going on with the ftc and crescent publishing? looks like their sites are still up and running. looks like their credit card submission pages have changed to reflect that there are charges if not canceled, etc
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Is Jenna Jameson Dressing Up For Halloween Parties?
PornNewsDaily.com: Are you dressing up for any Halloween parties? What will you be?
Jenna: I'm going to a big pimp and ho party this weekend... I don't have to shop for that one... LOL. I think I'm going to wear a see-through tiger outfit for Halloween... So many parties, not enough crack! LOL
Aria Giovanni
Stefanie from writes Homegrown Video: Aria is the cover girl for the holiday issue of Hustler and is in the running for their Beaver Hunt of the Year girl. I saw her in New Orleans and she told me she will be in Penthouse soon. She did one of her first-ever photo shoots for www.homegrownvideo.com and we really liked her. Besides being beautiful she's also fun and sweet and professional. Looks like soon we'll be able to add her to the growing list of girls we worked with when they were amateurs who went on to become superstars!
Disturbing Trend In Straight Porn - Not Enough Attention Paid To Male Actors
I recently wrote to porn star Jeremy Steele: I'm not gay but I've noticed this disturbing trend in new Str8 porn, especially in the last two years. There is less attention to male actors faces, bodies and personalities. All you see anymore is their hard juggernaut dicks going in and out of one hole or another.
Perhaps you see them at the beginning of the scene, but after that, the guy is just a big juicy cock going in and out of something until the pop. If I were an actor, I'd be pissed about this. I'd want fans of all sexes and sexual orientations to be able to say my name when they saw my face, or be able to associate my face, name, body and cock. We know that str8 porn is mostly for str8 men who don't care what a guy looks like... but don't producers and directors know that women and gay men can be marketed to buy these films if men were even a little more showcased?
In the mid 80's and early 90's there was still more women's bodies, faces and pussies than men's faces and bodies. But at least every now and then you'd get a shot of they guys face as he comes, or a mid range shot of his whole body, and sometimes, the camera would pan his whole bod and face for about 30 seconds. Now, they are hiring more and more buff and handsome studs, but just showing their dicks drilling. What gives? Any of your wisdom, Jeremy would be helpful.
Jeremy responds: I've been out of the porn loop for a while and it looks like I'll be leaving the business soon.. though I will still stay in touch.. But moving on to bigger and better things.. Thanx to the universe and it's friends.. It looks like I will be doing some well paying hugo-boss type of modeling jobs.. And I won't even have to take my clothes off, let alone expose myself in everyway and risk my health and life for survival wages...
But to answer your question.. This business is slowly evolving... It's gained respect, acknowledgment from society to significant degrees.. It's attracted more attractive models male and female, which have in turn attracted more attractive models, male and female.. Although, overall, more or less, the biz is still run by unconscious idiots with the imagination, awareness and aescetics of door knobs.. It's sad that these people are telling us what sex, or sex-on film/video is..
When I entered the biz in 1996, I said to so called "agents" and directors that porn certainly is viewed by women and gays, and even straight guys want to see attractive looking males.. that this doesn't make you gay.. It brings more out of the females, adds aescetically.. adds to the dimensions and possibities, attracting more better looking female models as well.. But I was told that the biz is only watched by straight males and that we guys are just props.. I said "Bulls---" and "Speak for yourself" and that people want sex.. But they also want things which include sex, but go beyond it. When someone wants sex it's not just sex organs, but the whole package, inside and out, even.. The possibilities are endless..
And so these idiots keep to the tried and true, to avoid being overwhelmed.. Maybe by focusing on a guy overall that might make the cameraman and director's gay... And since guys are getting better looking.. They better not do that.. There is hostility for the unknown.. where knowledge and evolution and truth lie.. So they block out the growing dawn that sheds light on the realities they've lived hidden in.. by zooming in and the same old tried and true pumping sex organs.. to keep a sense of safety and balance in their sad one- demensional lives.
Significant Movies In Your Porn History
I checked out this interesting thread on RAME and want to extend it to the denizens of LF.com. What pornographic movies most affected your psycho-social development and how?
David Aaron Clark writes on RAME: In the days of yore, a stately porn theater in Westmont, NJ there was ... Relatively classy place, on a nicely appointed suburban street, actually got its share of '70s porno chic couples out for a thrill ... Which is what my 16-year-old gfriend and 16-year-old me were looking for when we went to "Erotic Adventures of Candy," Gail Palmer's rip-off of the Terry Southern classic. I forget the second movie on the bill ... but we went back another time and saw "Little Orphan Dusty," with "Farrah-Fawcett-lookalike" Rhonda Jo Petty getting raped/fisted on a motorcycle ... ah, those were the days.
The next signif moment was with same girl about five years later, in motel room. We had just f---ed, and I had dropped some acid. She went to sleep, I of course bounced off the walls. Turned on the TV and what was the closed-circuit showing but ... DEVIL IN MISS JONES. Ruined, ruined, ruined for life.
A couple years later, saw HOUSE OF SIN in one of those (then) new-fangled TV screen peep booths in a local scumatorium. It was a Saturday morning, and it seemed an appropriate segue from the cartoon and frosted cereal days ...
By the time I owned a VCR and a video-club membership in college, porn was not as big a deal to me. I do remember having a Traci Lords jones, and seeing something where she was blindfolded, leashed and sucking dick, and having lots of ideas occur to me ...
Mrmacpimp@aol.com (Mr MacPimp) writes on RAME: I think I was around 13 or so and my cousin had brought over this porn that featured Ginger Lynn, Angel, and some other starlets working as lingerie models and Robert Bullock and some other guy were running from some mob honcho who sent one of his hitmen, John Holmes, after them. I remember a scene where Holmes was dressed as a woman and screwed the bejesus out of Ginger Lynn. Now imagine this being your first porn ever and seeing that huge tool of Holmes.
Pat Riley adds: Girls On Fire 1985 from VCX
MrMacPimp writes: Now, my dad used to have a this porno that I found hidden in the cupboard of all places. I remember the name of this one. Motel Lust it was called. It had a young Bunny Bleu as a maid doing Herchel Savage. And, I think it was Kay Parker that was in this one as well. Now, I've looked at all the websites that sell porn and I can't find it anywhere. I would love to own this movie, but can't find it anywhere. Perhaps, you guys could help? This movie is signifigant because, well, you could say I became a man to it.
Pat Riley adds: Nice 'N' Tight 1985 from Tara Video directed by Bob Chinn. Yes, it does have Kay Parker but its main claim to fame is being the first movie of delicious little Nichole West. You have to forget that it's dick o' death Marc Wallice doing her.
Luke F-rd adds: Pat, your comment "dick o'death" is exactly the type of cynical, disruptive and disparaging speech no longer permitted on LF.com. I know you didn't mean to hurt Marc's feelings, and you made this slip accidentally, but please apologize immediately to Mr Wallice.
John writes: Saw Devil in Miss Jones and Deep Throat over and over again because I slept one night in a Las Vegas dirty movie theater (age 19). In Times Square in the 70s when I was 15, I met a guy who took me to his place to show me dirty 8mm films, in case I wanted to buy any. He showed me one film in black and white (a group sex film), and one in color which was a girl masturbating with a salami and then getting f---ed by a grocery delivery boy. These were the first porn movies I'd ever seen. The guy had gay movies and wanted to show me them, and he wanted to blow me, and he also talked about kids performing in movies, but I said no to everything, except for buying the color film (five or seven dollars--I don't remember). I watched the film several times on my father's film projector, then threw it down the sewer.
Sergio writes: "Take Off", the porno version of "The Portrait of Dorian Gray". I actually CRIED during the closing scene.
Zane's Backstage Sluts 3 Party
Hey Rock n roll perverts, Backstage Sluts # 3 if finally here! Zane Entertainment is celebrating the release of the adult industry's most innovative rock/porn series with one huge and nasty rock/porn party! All of your favorite Backstage Sluts starlets will be in attendance. Along with the screening of Backstage Sluts # 3 there will be free porno giveaways all night long! Kicking off the party at 9PM is a wet T-shirt contest, at 10PM an over the top bondage show, featuring Joey Strange. Taking the stage at 11PM is Society 1 playing tunes from their upcoming release " Exit Through Fear." Adult industry folks can get access to the guest list only VIP room by contacting John in advance at 818-994-9544. Any other questions can be directed to tylongley@hotmail.com.
Best Porn Director Of All Time
David Clark writes: Radley Metzger is a very good choice, and certainly a commonly-agreed-upon icon. Anthony Spinelli's in the running, but not quite the top. I'd say that John Leslie is definitely a nominee. Though a victim of the video age, he has still turned out an extraordinary little body of work in the feature arena -- Curse of the Catwoman, Chameleons, Fresh Meat: A Ghost Story and Drop Sex are all contenders for a list of the top 50 porn flicks of all time.
But at the end of the day, I think I'd have to give it to Damiano, who single-handedly jumpstarted the industry into BEING a coherent industry. At the end of the day, he might not be quite the filmmaker as Metzger, but working out on the edge with no support system, he made the two groundbreaking porn movies from which basically all the variations sprung -- one comedy, one drama, and for my money, nobody's ever made a better porn film than DEVIL IN MISS JONES -- except for IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, and it's sort of cheating to put Oshima into the mix here, since that's the only hardcore he ever did.
AVN Live Battles Illegal Whaling
I surfed over to AVNLive.com this morning, hoping to find some hot smutpix and instead I found this: "Please help us in our support to stop illegal whaling. The Japanese government has continued to hunt whales in the Sanctuary despite repeated calls by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to stop this activity. By ignoring the IWC Japan is violating the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea."
AVN publisher Paul Fishbein, like Vivid owner Steve Hirsch and many of the Vivid girls including Dyanna Lauren (and former Vivid girl Julia Ann), is a big animal rights activist.
Luke says: To be serious for a moment, Paul Fishbein, Steve Hirsch and Luke F-rd all use their respective platforms to push their moral beliefs. We just have different agendas. Stopping illegal whaling is not high on my list of priorities. I care more about people. Just like I frequently care more about soul pollution than air pollution.
Cynical Disparaging Speech No Longer Tolerated At LF.com
It has come to my attention that certain members of our esteemed pornography industry have had their feelings hurt by comments made on this website. Others porners claim that their livelihood has been threatened by innuendos and gossip distributed here. A certain gentleman, a Marc Goldberg who used the moniker "Marc Wallice," found that his work opportunities as a male stud dramatically declined after this site revealed him to be HIV Positive.
As an example of the type email that will no longer be received at my address, I present these unfortunate and insensitive lines that Luke F-rd, during the holy festival of Sukkot, received from Prometheus Books porn critic Pat Riley: "I see that Chookles is not just an irritant, he's one of these slimy types that you have difficulty grasping. Like a frog, he just slips through one's fingers, changes the subject, adds irrelevancies, and simply won't stand still to take the final body blow."
I wish to create a warm caring porn-centered community whereby any pornographer, no matter how sleazy and unethical, can feel at home, and not have his conscience or aesthetic judgement challenged.
Henceforth, while Luke F-rd welcomes all sincere well-intentioned inquiries into the inner workings of the porn industry, he no longer will publish (or even look with a kind eye) upon emails that contain cynical, disparaging or disruptive speech. It is because of such email that I am blocked from attaining the coveted position recently vacated by Gene Ross.
JRob writes: Your decision to respect the feelings of others is admirable on the surface, but may be ultimately impractical. It is dependent upon predicting what someone may or may not consider offensive. Eventually, you will make an error and be accused of violating your own policy.
An exaggerated (admittedly absurd) fictional example of what may happen might be that a female adult star is described as "busty." However, you will be innocently unaware that she finds that term offensive and prefers being described as "looking like she was shot in the back with a pair of cruise missiles creating humongous twin flesh zepplins." There will be no reasonable way you can predict this type of reaction, but once you receive a complaint from the lady in question, you will be in violation of your kinder, gentler policy by default. You will be at the mercy of a reaction you cannot predict.
You are better served by your current policy of providing a virtually unlimited forum for people to express their opinions about public or semi-public figures and reasonably allowing the objects of those opinions equal access to reply. Its also more fun for the rest of us.
Nick writes: Hi Luke, This is a message just to say that I think you really made the right decision in not printing stuff from schmucks like me when we're not asking something in particular. It ends up polluting the site when you print junk that's for the most part irrelevant to the thrust of your content, unless it's intentionally so of course. You provide both my husband and I a few minutes of enjoyment.
Billy Graham writes: Dear Porners, God has forgiven you for all your sins. Your forged HIV tests. Your bounced checks to video duplicators. Your crooked royalty accounting for celebrity molded artificial vaginas. Your pirating of copyright protected pornographic images. Won't you search down deep into your heart to forgive Luke F-rd for his transgressions against you? Isn't that the Christian thing to do? Read and embrace Jack T. Chick's message of forgiveness. Click here: The Hit
Curious writes: After reading lf.com for a little over a year now one thing is abundantly clear and that is that porners, in general, are a sad, humorless lot. They make their livings in the basest, most vulgar way and then expect people to take them seriously.
An emaciated 5' 2" woman attaches DD implants to her 98 LB frame and then boohoos when someone says they don't look "natural"?!? Director "A" is enraged at Director "B" because Director "B" says Director "A's" films aren't as depraved as Director "B's"?!? The star of "Filthy Cum-Soaked Anal Gang Bang Whores" is upset because someone called her a "bitch"?!? Two production companies were feuding earlier this year as to who brought bukkake to the USA first. Is the importation of this bizarre concept of having 60 guys jerk off on one woman's face really what they want to be in the first paragraph of their obituary?!? Gimme a break!
Members of the porn community, I know I speak for the entirety of lf.com's readership when I say, LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!! You are NOT artists! You are NOT First Amendment crusaders! You are NOT anything that any decent person would be proud to admit being a part of! You are pornographers! Laugh at yourselves a little. Jeez!
Michael writes: Gotta agree with lightening up, but whats to be ashamed of, working in porn? *Decent*? You mean like attorneys and such? LOL Better to make your living f---ing, than f---ing people over, or as a fellow Ex-Porner friend once said Oh-So eloquently; *Well I was an attorney who got busted for dealing drugs and now Im a pornographer. I think my parents will finally be proud of me*
Are Internet Porn Performers Tested For HIV?
Are internet porn performers are places like Deja Vu and Babenet in Chatsworth tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases?
I know that performers in hardcore videos are supposed to take HIV tests every 30 days. But places like Babenet supposedly only shoot softcore. So do they require HIV testing?
Napster Like Porn File Sharing
Torris writes on RAME: That's the same failed logic that was used to keep the VCR off the market by the MPAA: people will just tape movies off cable or tv and quit going to movies
Jim Gunn responds: It's a similar situation but not quite the same- in the case of these modern Napster-like systems on the internet they are comprised of a database with links to many if not most tracks from many if not most artists instantly selectable. It's essentially unlimited and instantaneous, and comprehensive as well as fre. The VCR on the other hand back in the 80's was much more limited in terms of only letting you record and time shift whatever *happens to already be broadcast* by various tv channels or perhaps whatever physical VHS tape copies you might trade privately with friends. That's a big difference in terms of A- the usefulness to the end user interms of "sampling" (a/k/a/ glomming) speific free entertainment AND B- the threat to the copyright holders from not being paid for their investment into the product . Today's Napster-like services are a major leap forward- a FAR greater leap than the VCR in my opinion- with all the opportunities and problems asociated with such a sea change.
Torris writes: It's all fruit of the same new technology advancement. If you're going to legislate Napster away, what are you going to institute in its place?
Jim responds: Well how about considering the plight of the legitimate, licensed sites and services that exist to download music and video content. There are several e-music retailers online (true they all don't have the greatest selections) not to mention sites to download video content, for example pornoraphy sites like my LesbianLoving.com site? Sites like these already exist and are deserving of the protection of law.
Torris writes: The genie is out of the bottle and you run the risk of pissing off your customer base to make it a free speech issue rather then a commercial one. Look at all the efforts to boycott Metallica for their ratting out all of the email addresses of people who downloaded their songs to the authorities.
Jim responds: Well to be quite blunt, I don't think people have a right to be pissed off about Metallica wanting to be involved in what they see as a defense of their rights. There's no doubt that it turned out to be an unpopular move in some circles- mostly selfish young people- but until there is some legal precedent or compromise between the industry and consumers, there ought to at least be a dialogue if not legal decision.
Torris writes: The idea that the entire damn movie in pristine digital video would be available to anyone worldwide for free at the click of a button though is another story altogether. How are you going to stop it?
Jim responds: Well, one cannot stop piracy of every kind everywhere. No doubt some of my own movies are being sold in Asia or someplace or on a New York City street corner and no one has the resources to be everywhere at once. That doesn't mean that we as a society should just throw our hands up and give in to anarchy. In terms of digital content online, I think that the current set of litigation will lead to legislation that will force the larger companies that have file sharing services (Napster, Scour etc) to make business deals and accomodations with the industry. Of course there will always be an underground element that trades through other means like in irc for example, but at least we can try to keep the otherwise majority of honest people honest. These initial rounds of litigation are more than likely paving a way for much needed compromise that will grow the business for digital entertainment in a legitamite fashion, which is good for everyone, producers and consumers alike.
Torris writes:Well maybe someday you'll have the means to market your porn direct to the consumer and be able to bypass the middle man altogether. More profit for you less overhead and cheaper for the consumer
Jim responds: Absolutely. To some extent that day is here now. In the near future, there will be even better streaming and full length movies and that will be great for my business as well as the fans who can get easy access right from their homes. That is if the threat from the so-called file-sharing systems (also known as "I don't hafta pay systems") doesn't derail that first.
Torris writes:Well you collectively better get on the stick and create a workable alternative b/c if you hope that people will legislate it away you've just made hundreds of thousands of enemies who probably can't wait to then make it a war of wills and since the US doesn't own the internet, I wouldn't be surprised if all these servers go to places like Aruba like has happened with internet gambling. Or how do you stop peer to peer file sharing? Increase gov't intrusion? Censorship?
Jim responds: Well I for one support the death penalty for copyright violators, but that is a little extreme. ;-) In terms of practicality, I think these services could team up with content producers like record labels or movie companies to *legitimately* offer entertainment over the net, possibly with value added services and conveniences that make it atractive for end users to patronize.
Give Me Your Soul
Here are some photos from the forthcoming National Film Board of Canada 80-minute documentary on the sex industry by director Paul Cowan. It shows on the Canadian TV program "The Passionate Eye" October 29th at 10PM on CBC Newsworld (there is also a channel, Newsworld International, that airs in the United States).
I appear early in the program, in a black executioner's mask peering in through a window. Underneath reads the captions: "By the late 20th Century, watching porn had become chic. Although being a porn star was still a very questionable career move."
Then the scene shifts to the first World Pornography Conference in Universal City.
The narration, written by director Paul Cowan, is intelligent and perceptive.
"But society's acceptance of porn is not without limits. Those who do porn, the actors, are still considered misfits. This is a film about them."
The title of the documentary, "Give Me Your Soul," comes from a Bill Margold quote.
Shortly after the title sequence, the NFB follows Dr. Susan Block into the ladies room.
"Inside the room are two journalists. Matt Labash, who writes for the Weekly Standard. And Luke F-rd, who has a website devoted to the porn business."
Soon we see Brittany Andrews tell journalists: "I'm a model. I masturbate. And I'm an actress, all in one. I'm a multi-faceted female."
Matt Labash tells the camera: "It's pretty simple. These people like to f---. More than that, they like to watch people f---. You can ascribe all sorts of purpose to it and make it a discipline and a field of study. But that, at the end of the day, is what it is."
Luke: "I really do think there is room for serious academic study of pornography. I don't have as harsh a view as Matt. Pornography may be the very best revelation of basic male nature. The male animal is not a very nice animal. The greatest task of every civilization is what do you do with the men. Men have to be domesticated... Traditionally that has been through marriage. Pornography reveals what men want."
We then cut to the fans panel at the conference.
Dr. Kaplan tells the small crowd. "Sex has never been easy for me. I attract women sometimes but they don't get where I am coming from. I do something dumb to screw it up."
Narrator: "The one panel at PornCon that almost nobody attends is perhaps the most revealing. It's made up of men who watch porn, a lot. It's mostly single lonely men but they have a champion."
Bill Margold: "My name is Bill Margold for those who don't know me. And if you don't, then you're big trouble because I've been around a very long time [but not involved in one leading porn film] and hopefully you've jacked off to me."
Dr. Kaplan then leads a chant. "I masturbate. It feels good. I am proud." Few people join in.
The camera then cuts to an earnest elderly academic who talks about the many professional conferences he's attended. "I considered myself very liberal, sophisticated and open minded."
Narrator: "At the end of the conference, there's one final consciousness raiser."
Professor: "I've seen more intelligence, more humanism, more sensitivity than in many professional meetings."
Applause.
Narrator: "Bill Margold thrives on the adulation..."
Camera pans celebrating hugging porners then cuts to me sitting soberly alone at the back of the room.
The first three photos however are from my recent debate with Lasse Braun and Bill Margold on the Dr Susan Block Show.
Sub-titles:
1. After the filming...
2. Luke F-rd faces three separate suits from pornographers for libel. He undergoes a thorough psychological assessment.
3. Bill Margold acquires a new porn kid for his back room.
4. Richard Pacheco is inducted into the adult entertainment Hall of Fame.
5. Kimberly Jade returns to the sex business, behind the scenes.
6. Jim South's modeling business is booming.
7. Katie June's mother, Dolly, returns to cleaning houses for a living.
8. Katie June goes back to stripping. She is arrested for drug possession and is bailed out by Randy West.
9. Then she disappears.
Becky Carols writes: Well Luke, once again you've convinced me that you're one of the most incompetent fools on the net by giving the wrong ID's on the recent photos. You clearly could never get a real job after repeatedly making the same stupid mistakes. I suggest you become a porn performer. Don't worry, if you can't get it up, Grandpa Randy West has plenty of Viagra.
Frank writes on RAME: Hey voyager, have you read Luke F-rd today? He has an interview with the guy from the Canadian TV who was following him around a year or so ago and the guy talks about our little cutie pie Katie June and says that she did a scene with her mother, William Margold, and another guy.
Voyager7 replies on RAME: Katie really went south fast, after such a promising career starting out on the bidet..... First IR with Jake, then Grandpa porn with Randi, now teddie-bear porn. Though in my mind, munching momma is a big rebound! I wonder if her mother has curly hair?
Pat Riley responds: The answer to that is no but she doesn't look too good all the same. Luke published some photos today and despite the lousy quality I believe the mother's stage name (or real name--who knows?) is Tina O. who appeared with Katie in a Dreamland release, Tight Pussy, in 1999. This is an horrible movie and a real rip off with the girls just preening and masturbating and then Katie and Tina giving a BJ to an anonymous dick which is probably Bill Margold (not that I would recognize Bill Margold's dick). There's no in-out in the movie and she doesn't "munch momma".
Why Are Chinese Airmen Being Trained In US Fighter Aircraft?
Sandra writes: Dear Luke. Please forward this to Dennis Prager for his review and thoughts. This certainly is not only un American but stupid and dangerous to our remaining national security. Its a little frightening that chinese airmen are being trained in US fighter aircraft. This is one you can call on and find out the truth for yourselves, there is a great deal of hanky panky going on in our govt and military and this info. is surprising but then it is not. What are you thoughts Luke? I mean Waaas up here?
First Hand information as relayed to Kathy McDaniel 10-15-2000 A veteran who is now a truck driver was at Paul's Truck Stop, New Llano, Louisiana, Sunday morning at 2:00 A.M. New Llano, La. is only a few miles from Fort Polk, La.
The veteran noticed 6 military personnel dressed in military style flight suits in an adjoining booth, 4 men of Oriental descent, 1 American man, 1 American woman. He listened closely to their conversation and noticed that all spoke very fluent English. As they started to check out, the veteran rose and went to the register and began a conversation with the female asking her where she was from. She replied Oklahoma, and the other American looking man was from Virginia. The Veteran then asked the female about the 4 Oriental men, she responded that they were from Singapore/ Chinese forces
The veteran replied that he didn't like the idea of Communist Chinese being at Fort Polk, the female replied they didn't like it either, they had been ordered to train them to fly American Aircraft! How do you like being a part of "Operation Sitting Duck? "
So much for the lies being formatted by the Public Relations Office at Fort Polk and their continual denial that foreign troops are NOT THERE. Why not call Major Guy Rudisil, PAO, and Dan Nance, CAO, and tell them? Ph: (337) 531-2911. The veteran who relayed this story to me is willing to step forward, he himself plans to call in the A.M.
Paris writes: Luke, This is definitely the funniest piece I've ever read on your site. This is the paranoia that leads to the formation of militia groups in this country. The reason the US military trains foreign airmen is so they can fly the fighters we sell them. Not all chinese are communists. Singapore is an ally best known in this country as the city-state that canned a US graffiti vandal several years ago.
What would these paranoid types do if they found out that we train and share information with the Russians, German, Japanese and dozens of other countries. We are even supplying North Korea with a nuclear reactor. Anyways there is no reason to worry, there isn't anything of strategic value in Lousiana except for the offshore oil and Mardi Gras. And the "communists" can't reach Louisiana except by flying coach. :)
Luke says: I'm glad you find it amusing that the US is jeopardizing its national security to train Chinese Communists at Fort Poke.
Steve writes: You and some of your correspondents are just amazing. Fort Polk, located in central Louisiana, is an Army training center for basic training and Infantry AIT. They do not have pilots nor do they do pilot training there. I believe the Air Force academy is in Colorado and most flying training for both Air Force and Navy flyers takes place in Florida, Nevada or California. Singapore is an island and is an independent city-state between Malaysia and Indonesia. The stupidity on your sight is enough to make one puke at times.
Gonad.l-keford.com
How come when I go to http://gonad.l-keford.com, I find l-keford.com? And what does it mean?
Depressed Persons Can't Be Too Careful
I've found that a depressed person can't be too careful about his selection of social activities. You let a sliver of light in, and your depression is a thing of the past.
Wednesday night I was melancholy, nauseated and headachey. Despite this, I decided to check out Yidstock at a local temple. Most of the best Jewish bands in Los Angeles were there, along with attractive emotionally available physically warm Jewesses of my age who did not know about this website and were willing to do anything to bring me closer to the Torah. I had a wonderful time.
David Sturman Joins The 20th Century
David Sturman has finally caught up with the internet and placed his vast Sin City film archive online at www.SinCityFilms.com.
Sin City writes: Our vaults have been opened to the public, 10 years of unseen content unleashed!!! Tons of hardcore videos to browse in every category imaginable!! The largest collection of porn star content ever assembled and updated daily!! We have content of almost every adult star ever!!!! Browse through countless video clips and images containing the likes of hottie porn legends Jill Kelly, Rebecca Wild, Samantha Strong, Debi Diamond, Kelly Jaye, Rebecca Lord, J.R. Carrington, Rocki Roads, Nina Hartley, Kaitlyn Ashley, Sindee Coxx, Nici Sterling, Roxanne Hall, Shanna McCullough, Brittany O’Connell, Anna Malle, P.J. Sparxx, Jeanna Fine and 100’s more!! Not to mention our "Before They Were Contract Girls" section featuring the early scenes of Jenna Jameson, Julia Ann, Farrah, Jenteal, Houston, Missy, Asia Carrera, Shayla LaVeaux, Kylie Ireland, Stacy Valentine, Raylene, Stephanie Swift, Misty Rain, Kristi Myst, Jessica Darlin, Alexa Rae, Dyanna Lauren, Cheyenne Silver, Temptress, Cassidey, Dayton Rains, Serenity, Celeste, Nikki Randall, Jennifer Stewart and Ashlyn Gere. Plus additional video and still content such as The Teen Sex Videos, The Casting Couch, The Fetish Channel, Hardcore TV, and so much more!! And we’ve also unleashed RoccoClassic, exclusive previously unreleased Rocco Siffredi content found nowhere else on the web!!
Celebrities Hiring Outcall
Miss Jacki writes from Australia: An old friend of mine, (we used to "dance" together has been working for a visiting service in VEGAS. Recently, she got a call to go to a hotel for a booking, and guess who, suprise, suprise...XXX [Christian pop star]. Seems XXX is very keen on hiring call girls. Is this a known thing? Any other "legit" female celebs do this, I heard once that Kylie Minogue had a thing going with Jenna?
Heat
Mr_slutty@my-deja.com writes on RAME: However, porn is not about depicting a fantasy anymore (if it ever was).
Pat Riley responds: Sure it is, and was.
Mr Slutty writes: Porn is documentary in nature, as opposed to fictional.
Pat Riley writes: You mean Jenna Jameson really works as a fireman and is really in love with TT Boy or Mickey G. or whoever it was? Or that all those girls in U&C and MDD just love the old guys and have enormous orgasms while screwing Ed and Randy?
MrSlutty writes: Viewers of "normal" movies seek to suspend disbelief, and get carried into the story by identifying with one or more protagonists. Viewers of porn, on the other hand, have a completely different mindset. "Some" viewers have that different mindset, mainly the juveniles. They want the thrill of watching sex, which is redolent with taboos even in allegedly permissive Western society.
Pat Riley writes: Sex is the same boring in-out over and over again. Sure one scene has an anal and it's the same as every other of the countless anal scenes out there, and another has a DP and it's the same as the countless DP scenes out there, and another has a gang bang and it's...you get the idea. For regular fare (movies, TV) by about the age of six the average young male, having being exposed to many hours of TV, has learned that Mr Rogers and Sesame Street are not really very interesting and are no longer funny. Unfortunately because he starts much later he doesn't learn similar lessons about porn until he's in his twenties and sometimes not even then.
MrSlutty writes: They don't want to identify with a fictional hero -- if they did, the male performer would generally cum inside his partner, since it is more pleasurable to climax in situ rather than substitute one's own boring hand.
Pat Riley writes: And many of us would like internal cum shots to be the rule rather than the rare exception.
MrSlutty writes: The audience could really care less that the male actor have an A-1 orgasm, since what they want to see is the sticky white proof.
Pat Riley writes: People who are fascinated by semen and the penis do; others are more interested in the emotional interplay between the couple.
I'll Have Nightmares The Rest Of My Life
By Mark Seager, Sunday Telegraph
MARK SEAGER, 29, a British photographer, was working on a pictorial study of Palestinian refugees when he found himself caught up in the horrific lynching of two Israeli army reservists in Ramallah. The only journalist to witness the beating, as he tried to take the photograph that would have made his fortune, the crowd turned on him with such hatred, destroying his camera, that he feared for his own life. This is his exclusive, eyewitness account:
"I had arrived in Ramallah at about 10.30 in the morning and was getting into a taxi on the main road to go to Nablus, where there was to be a funeral that I wanted to film, when all of a sudden there came a big crowd of Palestinians shouting and running down the hill from the police station.
I got out of the car to see what was happening and saw that they were dragging something behind them. Within moments they were in front of me and, to my horror, I saw that it was a body, a man they were dragging by the feet. The lower part of his body was on fire and the upper part had been shot at, and the head beaten so badly that it was a pulp, like red jelly.
I thought he was a soldier because I could see the remains of khaki trousers and boots. My God, I thought, they've killed this guy. He was dead, he must have been dead, but they were still beating him, madly, kicking his head. They were like animals.
They were just a few feet in front of me and I could see everything. Instinctively, I reached for my camera. I was composing the picture when I was punched in the face by a Palestinian. Another Palestinian pointed right at me shouting "no picture, no picture!", while another guy hit me in the face and said "give me your film!".
I tried to get the film out but they were all grabbing me and one guy just pulled the camera off me and smashed it to the floor. I knew I had lost the chance to take the photograph that would have made me famous and I had lost my favourite lens that I'd used all over the world, but I didn't care. I was scared for my life.
At the same time, the guy that looked like a soldier was being beaten and the crowd was getting angrier and angrier, shouting "Allah akbar" - God is great. They were dragging the dead man around the street like a cat toying with a mouse. It was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places. In Kosovo, I saw Serbs beating an Albanian but it wasn't like this. There was such hatred, such unbelievable hatred and anger distorting their faces.
The worst thing was that I realised the anger that they were directing at me was the same as that which they'd had toward the soldier before dragging him from the police station and killing him. Somehow I escaped and ran and ran not knowing where I was going. I never saw the other guy they killed, the one they threw out of the window.
I thought that I'd got to know the Palestinians well. I've made six trips this year and had been going to Ramallah every day for the past 16 days. I thought they were kind, hospitable people. I know they are not all like this and I'm a very forgiving person but I'll never forget this. It was murder of the most barbaric kind. When I think about it, I see that man's head, all smashed. I know that I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life.
That night when I got back to Jerusalem, I found out that I was the only photographer there and people kept asking me if I'd got the picture, then telling me I would have made my name.
I was so shocked that for the first time I didn't call my girlfriend who is back home in west London, five months pregnant with our first child. Of course, she was really worried because she'd seen on television what had happened and she knew that I was in Ramallah and then I hadn't called. She was horrified and, when I did speak to her the next day, she asked: "Did you see?" I just said yes, but I couldn't really talk about it.
Afterwards, I heard even worse details like that the policeman's wife was phoning his mobile to see if he was all right and them telling her that they were killing him. From what I saw, I can believe that. I love this country, I'd love nothing more than to see Israelis and Palestinians sharing an argalah or waterpipe but, after the hatred that I've seen in the past few days, I don't think that will happen in my lifetime. Look how many years that they've been talking peace - since 1993. Then, within just a couple of weeks, they are at each other's throats. It seems that it's easier to hate than to forgive. I didn't get the picture that would have made me famous but at least I am alive to see the birth of my child."
