Thursday, April 12th, 2001

What's With The John Decker Adulation?

Fred writes: O.K. What the hell is it with John Decker? This is the second time some femaile has sent you an ode praising the glory of Mr. D. Do you think it is a mere matter of his physical appearance? Or is it the way he carries himself? Some analysis here, please. This might be the only worthwhile or useful information ever posted on l-keford.com. (Other than your occaisional analysis of Talmud.)

BTW, did Decker drop out of high school, or did he get some kind of advanced degree somewhere? There appears to be an inconsistency in the bio you post of him and some of the other material.

On another note, sir, don't you think that you're a big heavy-handed with the torn anus/broken jaw schtick? Query--whose films have you heard such stuff about? Is it just Max Hardcore? Or is there anyone else?

Luke says: I got carried away in my interview with the CBC's Fifth Estate. I meant to say that porn sex can be a full contact sport where people, usually women, can get hurt. But a fractured jaw is something I've only heard of happening once or twice. Though torn anuses happen more frequently. Rocco Siffredi is the most notorious rough sex performer. Max Hardcore isn't a heavy hitter by comparison.

John Decker attracts women because he is smart, both bookwise and streetwise, he is attractive and he has the dark brooding personality that many women love. He has a Masters Degree in Psychology.

Luke Gets Mail

Wendy writes: I recently watched a documentary on CBC that featured the dark side of the porn industry. After watching the documentary and viewing your website, I was confused. I would like to know your take on the porn industry. Is it degrading or does it serve a purpose in our society?

Luke says: Both.

WriterCindi@aol.com writes: Hi Luke, I am very interested in doing a story on the porners views on the aid/hiv connection or lack of. Also on the ease of falsifying an aids test. I would appreciate it if you could perhaps hook me up with Farrel Timlake and anyone else that's very opinionated on either side of the coin. Could you forward this on to them? Or post this request on your site? That way if they are interested in having their opinions heard (and printed) they can get in touch with me.

Amused writes: Luke, I know that you are particularly fond of Dr. Pierce's brand of scholarly racism for your site, but not all of LF.com's readers enjoy his windy rhetoric. I have found an enjoyable alternative to Dr. Pierce at www.whitepower.ws. It features separate joke pages to offend homosexuals, African-Americans, and JEWS! A "white trash" photo page and a link to "White Power" mp3s. It's all there. Enjoy!

Simon writes: Hi Luke, I've just seen a documentary on UK TV called 'Disinfo Nation' of the growing trend in 'Extreme Porn' from LA. I thought you insights were spot-on as to the effect of porn on modern personal relationships. I myself have been in contact with a few pornstars who have worked with the likes of Rob Black and 'Extreme' and too find his whole approach too disgusting to palette. However, in a strange way I find him more moralistic and 'mainstream' than say something like Vivid, in the sense that he believes that what he does is wrong and evil, and he thinks of it as prostitution and pandering. It seems to me that here in Europe he would not be so controversial, not because we are more perverted, but that people would just think of him as irrelevant, infantile even.

I found Inari Vachs to be more intelligent and articulate than I expected and would like to correspond with her. Do you know if she has a general E-mail for people to write to??

Finally, one criticism of porn critics I have is that you seem very reluctant to admit to liking porn. Instead you give a diatribe on its effects on the American psyche without actually saying that you like writing about it because you like to watch it. Why not say you are conflicted, and that porn can corrupt even middle class journalists. Are porn stars erotic entertainers or low class play things? It's so easy to see from way up here.

Luke says: Porn is very easy to overdose on, thus many, if not most porn critics, have come to hate porn.

Betz writes: Hi Luke, I just visited your website for the 1st time and being a fan of the supernaturally pretty, Nancy Suiter, I was hoping to find some additional info concerning her whereabouts. I've heard both rumors - one RAMEr wrote recently that he once read in an adult mag that Nancy had left porn to take a job in Japan. Although it's plausible, I can't believe that she'd be so naive so as to do something as risky as that and especially with her great looks, one would think she would have better opportunities.

The other rumor, as you have written, is another RAMEr who said that Jamie Gillis has said that she married a doctor who was a fan and the two of them live in New York or somewhere in the Midwest. This to me seems too fairytale-like and perhaps Gillis, still in the adult biz, is merely glamorizing the controversial adult industry.

I'm just wondering, Luke, if you may have heard something or know of someone who might or even an avenue I might take to try to find something concrete. And I certainly am not asking for a freebee - if you'd like me to send you a copy (I have the original) of the rare 'Beauty Pageant' with Nancy in '81, just let me know. In my opinion, in a pantheon of porn peons, she was the lone princess who catapulted the industry for the briefest of times into the realm of wonderful fantasy and which to this day, the industry has never come close to reaching again.

BMWGuru69 wrote: >Brandy, I have always liked your movies but I don't think very much of you >as a person. All you do is sue people is that your job now?

Brandy replies: Where do you get the impression that all I do is sue people? What lawsuits are you referring to? Wrongful termination by Forest Lawn? First of all, there has to be a legal basis for any lawsuit. It means someone has to have done something wrong, for which there has been a legal precedent set. The fact that I have had lawsuits in the past, and that I have won every last one of them or received a settlement, demonstrates that I had a right to sue for reparation or remuneration surrounding the issue. It's not like anyone can just file a lawsuit and, right or wrong, the defendant will have to pay money. It doesn't work like that. People cry "poor John" when I sued him in a case that landed on People's Court, but fail to recognize that he breached a contract/broke a promise. Don't you think that is a little more despicable? Maybe you should feel sorry for me that so many people try to treat me like an idiot. Once that is done you're more than welcome to feel sorry for them for being sadly mistaken. I know ALL of my rights, not just my free speech ones as they relate to porn. And I didn't sue this company, I sent them a bill and they immediately made arrangements to pay it. So obviously we both agree the money is owed. What's wrong with that, exactly?

Farrell Timlake from Homegrown Video writes: Allow me to set the record straight. My views about HIV are not based on any conspiracy theories. The world's top virologist, the first to map the genome of a retrovirus, says he does not see how HIV can cause AIDS. The man who won the Nobel prize for inventing the DNA test says it is used incorrectly to diagnose HIV. The scientist who holds eight patents on protease inhibitor drugs says they are not ready for human consumption. The French co-discover of HIV says that HIV is an unlikely cause of AIDS. I do not call that conspiracy theory. I call that paying attention and being informed. I may be an optimist, but I am also a realist. I do not believe Martians erected the pyramids. I do not believe a secret society of Illuminati are controlling the world. I believe in safe sex and have always been pro-condom on our shoots for Homegrown and Xplor.

All I do know is that HomegrownVideo.com is the best all exclusive amateur site on the internet, and that our definition of beautiful is much different than the definition used in Porn Valley USA. We should know what we are talking about. Homegrown is the longest running series in the history of adult entertainment.

I am sending some pictures of some of the girls that we have worked with recently so everyone can be the judge. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I know I am prone to engaging in a pissing match here and there but I try to keep my prose creative, insightful, and entertaining, at the very least. If Luke or anyone else makes an editorial decision not to run something I write that is their prerogative, just like it is every readers prerogative to read or not read whatever I write. If you read what I write and think it is pure s---, then you probably have some Freudian fecal issues. Sort it out and let me know.

Luke is free to choose any sponsor program on the net. We are very grateful of his support for us at Homegrown Video and Cybererotica. He does not run our program as compensation for dealing with my rants. I think he runs it because he trusts the sponsors and he knows our traffic converts. I am eternally grateful for the support Luke has given to us, I like the rumbling and rambling nature of the discourse found at l-keford.com even when I get a little bruised from it.

May everyone have a day filled with blissful orgasmic energy and remember that www.Homegrownvideo.com is still a place where folks can have fun sex that does not have to look like bloody gory gladiatorial combat. (Stefanie is mailing the pics.. we kept them on the softer side for your convenience) As always, thank you Luke. May you forever find a windmill to tilt against.

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Curious writes: Do my eyes deceive me or does the "Homegrown Honey" in JPEG 0104123.jpg look Semitic? Could this be the one young, hot Jewess who would accept Luke F-rd's pornographic livelihood? Tim Farrell, forward her stats to Luke immediately!

NicisGirls.com and AdultStarFantasy.com Offer The Hottest Porn Girls

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Kendra Jade writes: i have not booked anything with ASF. please stop posting this nonsense. i am not escorting .period. end of story. stop printing that i am , luke. im serious.

Mr Marcus Is An Uppity Negro

John writes: Luke, I'm sick and tired of Mr. Marcus and his bulls---. He can't stop crying about being discriminated against. Has he ever stopped to think that white folks have made him what he is today and thank them instead? Who would he be and what kind of career and money would he have without interracial. Can you live off of Booty Talk #27, 28, etc? No, if white women would not f--- him he would still be driving a truck. Then he attacks Vivid for putting a sticker over him on a box? What bulls---, another reason to weasel into more Vivid videos, he should kiss Vivid's ass for paying him to f--- Renee Larue and cum on her face in that video. I guess his ego gets in the way, hell pussy-ass Vivid probably will give him his own line where he f---s the precious contract gals like Devon, Cassisy, Dayton and the Lori Michaels. Hell, maybe a few of Vivids's top gals need a little mud splashed on them, bring them down a bit from their high horses. I am involved with porn production and attend the trade shows like CES and VSDA and you see punk-ass Marcus, all 4'10" of him strut around with that stupid hat, he visits every booth, invited or not and harasses the gals, grabbing asses, rubbing up on them, etc. Never mind the pressure of him bugging them to do scenes with him, especially their 1st interracials, that is his thing. The problem is when he walks away they roll their eyes and shake their heads, trying to smile and be professionals and fulfill contract requirements and sign autographs, no one needs his s---. He is the only one who pulls this s---, class guys like Evan Stone, Joel Lawrence, and even Sean Micheals show up, meet fans and act respectful to the ladies, I guess to many rap videos have effected him, always having to be a player, treat the gals like trash. Marcus's website message board was famous for his predictions of who will go black next and who is on his list of conquests to be had, this is low class and for losers in high school. He will continue to cry and never say thanks, too bad he will never grow up, I'm glad Sylvia Saint came to her senses and left his ass. I hope the top gals in the biz see thru his game and smooth talk and recognize a hustler when he comes a knocking and he will, it's his nature.

Mr Marcus writes: Thanks for the compliment, dawg...I mean John. It means a lot to me to know I am observed and judged by you.

More John Decker

Susan writes: Mr. Ford, Three words: More John Decker. I belong to that presumably small group of female porn consumers (granted, the view from Chicago on that point might be skewed); my membership is solely based on your interview with John Decker. I can't think now of what innocuous search I was doing that pulled it up, but it intrigued me enough to send me behind the beaded curtain (truthfully,a door with lots of greasy handprints) for the first time. My current foray into porn has been brief -- I've now rented every tape of JD's in my local video store, and I'm far too lazy to venture afield in search of other movies (didn't do it for Gabriel Byrne movies, won't do it for John Decker movies -- arguably sat through more dreck during the former enthusiasm). Besides, the current habitues of the porn section are glad to see me go; my entry invariably cleared the room inside of three minutes. In light of the fact that surely NJG and I are not the only female Decker enthusiasts, how about an update of the original piece? I also enjoyed your early-years bio. And a final question: with such a baby face, how do you attract such vitriol?

Inside The Australian Porn Mafia

XXX (various porn industry sources) says: "Greg Lasrado got "heavied" by some boozers in the fruit markets. And Greg withstood it by hiring guys. Greg and company are not standard business people. But they don't even get along with each other. They don't operate as a collusive entity.

"Greg presents the most normal image of any of them.

"Scott Phillips talks like Rob Black and Rob Spallone. He does not sound like someone who made it on the back page of the Financial Review business section.

"Around August, 2000, Lasrado walked in and fired three of his partners, including Yohan Lewis and Guy McKenzie. He laid off about 12 people. He shut down the offices. He said he only wanted a small staff so that he could move away from adult and into the commercial market.

"Guy and Yohan ran the adult show while Greg stayed up at his house doing the non-adult stuff. Who knows why Greg got rid of them? Things weren't going the way Greg wanted and he wanted to stir up chaos. It was a mutual thing. I don't think they were surprised that it happened.

"Guy's getting ready to get married and Yohan's moved to the coast.

"About every eight months, Greg tries to reinvent himself. So by late March, Greg should have a new name for his companies. Greg still owns FilthyCash with Mike Zulu. Greg also owns The Traffic Company which largely deals in internet traffic deals, both porn and mainstream. Al Hunt is the CEO. Mike Loew also helps run the show. Mike served as fraud director for IBill. He had access to all of IBill's end user's credit card numbers.

"I remember they once got hit for copyright violations on their bestiality content and their servers got shut down. And their accounts got attached. They did over a million dollars in deals with spammers who took them for every penny.

"We're talking about famous spammers. You pay them to do totally illegal spamming. Remember the AOL incident that got IBill shut down? Somebody had hacked into the AOL database and stolen all the user names and then spammed to it all.

"They also lost their spam solution. Then they have their IBill end user list that they stole. Which they were stupid enough to give to several other people before they got their solution up and running. And they never got to mail to it once. And it has been mailed to to death.

"Spam Solution. You have to have an ISP that will let you send out mass amounts of email without getting caught. In Australia, it is easier because you can still hit a small ma-and-pop ISP in Australia and get away with it. There aren't many small ISPs in the United States. Here in the US, there are spam police who monitor that stuff 24/7. They don't have that in Australia. Spam monitoring is an 8-5 job. And you don't work on the weekends. Telstra (Australia's telephone company) hasn't caught on yet. So the Aussie porners can still get away with spamming.

"The hardest part for spammers is that you have to have somebody who will host your pages (where you send the spam traffic) and keep them up as long as you possibly can. And that's where they ran into problems. You need to have that usually in the United States. And that's hard to find now. Now the Real Time Blackhole List (RBL) runs 24/7 and effectively catches mass spammers."

Luke: "Do you think Lasrado and company might be part of an international crime ring?"

XXX: "No. Lasrado's had his run-ins with the Triads. I don't know if he turned States Evidence. For a while he had 24 hour bodyguards. And the police ended up busting somebody. The Triads were trying to blackmail Lasrado for millions of dollars. I think has resolved. I'm sure that Greg made the mistake of borrowing money from the Triads.

"Scott Phillips is very successful. Scott conquered the IBill/RBL issues. I would never send any traffic to him. I would never work for him.On a business level, Scott is ruthless. On a personal level, Scott's a nice guy.

"Scott Phillips and Greg Lasrado started PinkBits. They wanted to stay friends. So Scott bought out Greg. And Scott has done phenomenal ever since.

"Scott went out and learned from the masters. He met up with Serge and learned from him. And Scott learned from Fantasy Man. He learned from the best.

"And Scott hires great programmers. Scott has a dual degree in law and accounting. He uses several different credit card processors.

"Dean Shannon has always been the class act of the group. The professional one who does things the right way. He's always been the one to test the limits. A while ago, Dean spammed. But now, with so much heat being caused by it, I don't think so. Dean's not even involved in the porn business anymore. He has his own non-adult ventures. He's got a couple of IPOs running. Other people run his porn businesses.

"Dean is the godfather of Brisbane internet porn. Scott worked for Dean until going out on his own and hooking up with Greg. They're all friends and they all live near each other but Dean doesn't do business with any of them. They talk on the phone...

"Scott and Greg do no business together because they want to stay friends."

Luke: "Does Lasrado's operation steal content?"

XXX: "He always pays for it when he gets caught. He will often buy one or two site licenses, not 250 site licenses. And because of the constant turmoil that goes on in his business life. The constant change of business partners. I'm sure it was fraud at one point.

"Greg is a master manipulator. He enjoys manipulating. That is the game for him. He loves to play the ends against the middle. Greg's whole idea of management is to keep people in competition. Instead of working together as a team, he's going to pit them against each other to see who produces the best results, figuring that they will both produce good results from the competition. He does take care of his people eventually.

"Is Greg a pathological liar or a sadist? I don't know. He likes to stir up trouble. He thinks his life isn't complete unless it is in total chaos."

Luke: "How come these Aussies all process with IBill?"

XXX: "In 1997, Tim from IBill went down under to meet with Dean Shannon. IBill was willing to work with them and make it happen. It was about loyalty. IBill has always been there for them and made sure that whatever was needed was taken care of. The Aussies are a good chunk of IBill's business."

Luke: "Did Lasrados operation fraudulently bill people's credit cards?"

XXX: "No way. They've never had the database to do that. Greg has been the only one who never collected credit card numbers."

Greg Lasrado replies: sorry i did not get back to you on it. i actually took my first holiday since being in this business. had a week off away from the computer and just stayed at home and relaxed, took the new lambo for a drive and did absolutely nothing.

Playboy Delays Launch Of Spice Platinum?

MediaExpert writes on Yahoo's NOOF message board: According to my sources, Playboy has delayed its launch of Spice Platinum "indefinitely". More vaporware from the company that supports Hugh Hefner and his seven girlfriends to the tune of $5.0 million a year. The bunny has no carriage for the new service.

Big writes on Yahoo: NOOF has 27 million subscribers and Bell ExpressVu has 500,000. Need I say more. This piece by the Canadian Broadcast Company was shoddy journalism at best and resulted in a reactionary move by expressvu. The Dominican Republic deal should make up some of the groud and rumors abound on a DISH acquisition of Directv which would be great for NOOF.

Fifth Estate Porn Expose

Owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, the investigative show "The Fifth Estate" tackled porn on satellite TV a couple of weeks ago. I finally got a tape of the show and watched it today and took some photos.

NationalPost.com reports: Sex sells -- so what else is new? True enough, but when venerable Ma Bell is encouraging Canadians to order hardcore porn flicks on their television screens, it seems we've moved beyond a cold observation about market forces into the hotly contentious domain of public morality.

The CBC's current affairs show, the fifth estate, drew attention on Wednesday night to the dirtiest open secret in Canadian broadcasting. Thanks to the technological marvels of digital technology, Bell ExpressVu subscribers are furtively spending millions on pay-per-view porn movies delivered directly to their TV screens.

The CBC targeted Bell Canada -- which owns the CTV television network and The Globe and Mail -- though porn is also available on Star Choice and digital cable TV. Bell ExpressVu charges $7.95 per movie or $15.95 for an entire day of wall-to-wall hardcore eroticism on its two "adult" channels, True Blue and Extasy.

Bell Canada procures its porn from Colorado-based New Frontier Media, which trades on the Nasdaq. Its movies are decidedly not of the soft-porn Playboy TV variety. They depict scenes of sado-masochism, rape, torture, and other graphic acts of sexual violence that many would find morally offensive.

Bell ExpressVu was in panic mode all week due to the imminent broadcast of the CBC investigation. On Wednesday, before the fifth estate went to air, Bell ExpressVu yanked all hardcore porn movies from its pay-per-view offerings.

Beyond moral issues, the pay-per-view porn controversy has exposed deeper, more troubling, things about the underbelly of the Canadian broadcasting system.

First, let's look at the CRTC. Jean-Pierre Blais, the regulator's top broadcasting bureaucrat, claims the CRTC doesn't have the time to monitor erotic content on pay-per-view services. Excuse me? This is the same regulator that finds the time to impose Canadian-content quotas, censor radio DJs such as Howard Stern for uttering the dreaded f-word, impose strict codes on gender and sexual stereotypes and preach ad nauseum the politically correct gospel of cultural diversity on the airwaves.

In truth, the CRTC has turned a blind eye to hardcore porn because its most powerful industry clients -- Bell, Astral, CTV, Rogers -- have been making out like bandits in this high-growth market segment. In fact, business is so good they have asked the CRTC to authorize even more porn channels in Canada.

Fittingly, the biggest porn purveyor in Canadian broadcasting is André Bureau, chairman of Astral Media. Astral controls Canada's two main pay-per-view services, Viewer's Choice and Canal Indigo. Mr. Bureau just happens to be a former CRTC chairman. The head of Astral's pay-per-view services, Lisa de Wilde, is another former top CRTC bureaucrat.

Luke says: Hana Gartner interviewed me and narrated the segment.

Hana: "Rob Black churns out some of the worst [pornography] and he revels in it."

Rob: "Someone goes, you're a pornographer. And I go, yeah, the real dirty kind."

Hana: "The respectable corporations delivering pay per porn into Canadian homes and making big profits aren't so eager to brag."

Mark Kreloff, New Frontier CEO: "The operators have asked us for anonymity and we have granted them their wish."

Hana: "But now the Fifth Estate has learned that satellite system Bell ExpressVu, Canada's industry leader in raunch, seems to have sidestepped the system and broken the rules.

"It used to be that the folks who peddled pornography kept the goods under the counter. Nowadays because they can pipe it straight into your home through cable and satellite, there's a race on - to bring customers the raunchiest material possible which also happens to be the most lucrative. Without any real public debate, porn has gone legit in Canada. Respectable companies are making huge profits while distancing themselves from the product. Call them the Pious Pornographers.

"And in the process of pushing the envelope when it comes to porn, it seems that one major Canadian corporation has broken the rules.

"A warning - this is a serious program on a serious subject and inevitably it will include some images and descriptions that are not at all suitable for children. Adults should exercise their own best judgment.

"Rob Black is proud to be an American. He is running for mayor of Los Angeles, California. Rob Black is also a pornographer."

Rob poses with his fiance Lizzy Borden and his contract girl Jessica and an American flag.

Rob: "The next mayor of Los Angeles taking pictures with naked broads."

Lizzy: "I am not a broad."

Rob: "But to the average people, you're a broad."

Hana: "Your own web sites celebrates that you make the nastiest, the most degrading, degenerate movies. This is what you're proud of?"

Rob: "Yeah."

Hana: "If I see a Rob Black movie, what do I see?"

Rob: "Oh God, Planet of the Gapes. Cocksmokers. Mansmokers, a homo line. It's horrible. It's all horrible."

Hana: "Not so horrible that the Canadian government won't allow movies by Rob Black to be beamed into homes by cable and satellite providers like BellExpressVu, a division of BCE Inc, a conglomerate that owns such diverse holdings as CTV, the Globe and Mail [newspaper] and Bell Canada [long distance phone company].

"It's their satellite service that brings you the most extensive choice of round the clock pay per view porn on eight different channels."

The Fifth Estate includes clips of bondage and S-M movies showing girls writhing in pain while they're handcuffed, gagged and covered with hot wax.

Hana: "You can't find anything racier on TV. That's because technology has outpaced government regulations. Here supply and demand is the rule. It is a race for the raciest.

"It was not so long ago that you had to looking for porn. No longer. Pornography has gone from the back street to Bay Street, a multi-billion dollar industry that is seducing some big corporations with cable and satellite subsidiaries. American giants like General Motors, AT&T, Time Warner and in Canada, Rogers, Shaw and Astral Media and the symbol of corporate propriety, Bell Canada.

"Two of the channels offered by Bell ExpressVu originate here in the Rocky Mountain town of Boulder, Colorado.

"This is New Frontier Media, North America's leader in the distribution of hardcore pornography. Three years ago, this company was producing educational CD Roms and going broke. Now they're bringing in about $50 million a year.

"Now nearly three-quarters of a million Canadian homes have access to these channels.

"New Frontier's sales pitch is all about privacy - no more trips to the video store."

New Frontier CEO Mark Kreloff: "Bricks and mortar transactions are embarrassing for 90% of the population, myself included. I would never walk into even a Tower Records and buy an adult video."

Hana: "Why?"

Kreloff: "It's embarrassing. I don't want my neighbor's daughter, who happens to be working at the counter, to know what I am buying and renting. It's none of her business. It's no one's business.

"Our tag line is 'publicly traded, privately watched.'"

Hana: "Being publicly traded on the Nasdaq means that porn is no longer on the margins of commerce. It's a mainstream moneymaker."

Kreloff: "Adult is at the top of the heap in profits. Then heavyweight fighting and special events and Hollywood movies."

Hana: "According to Kreloff, the harder the porn, the higher the profits. So when BellExpressVu came shopping, they bought the raunchiest stuff on the shelf - two networks called Xtasy and True Blue."

Kreloff: "We've been much more willing to push the envelope in terms of editing standards to show content as it was originally shot, without all the editing. And the economic performance of content more liberally edited is phenomenally better than the economic performance of the content that is fully edited. In fact, it is four to five times greater. You can't get any more explicit. And that's where we are going to stay."

Hana: "For $15:95 a day, Bell ExpressVu will deliver your fantasy - anal sex, sadomasochistic sex, group sex, penetration, ejaculation, nothing is left to your imagination. And Mark Kreloff insists that all his films meet a certain standard."

Kreloff: "They're always from reputable directors or studios or producers. People that we know that deal with quality programming that meets our standard."

Hana: "Most of those studios are in Los Angeles, California, North America's porn capitol. One of them is Extreme Associates."

Rob to Luciano: "What are we shooting today?"

Luciano: "We're shooting Big Tits 5. Those are girls with big tits who take it up the ass."

Hana: "Rob Black is the brains behind Extreme Associates. For this 27-year old businessman, porn is bred at the bone. He began working at his dad's New York video store when he was just a kid."

Rob: "I felt I could be a great director and have my own company. My dad said, 'No, it's too hard. You've got to live out there.' So I took all my money that I was supposed to go to college with...and made two movies."

Hana: "After three years in the business, he has 25 people on the payroll and churns out 14 movies a month. His highest paying customers are the cable and satellite providers. He'll proudly tell you that out of the ten thousand pornographic videos churned out of Los Angeles every year, his movies are the most shocking."

Rob: "Our cameras go right up in there, almost where you can get inside the girl and see what's in there... If I've got a girl and I'm making her eat out of a dog bowl while a guy is having anal intercourse with her, or if you've got her on a college campus with pom poms and her breasts flopping around, it's the same thing. It's selling sex."

Hana: "Journalist Luke F-rd writes about porn and the people who make it. Like Rob Black."

Luke reads while he types: "Rob Black describes his approach to degrading women. 'We also have a girl kneeling," says Rob, 'and we get a line of guys to come by and spit in her face.'"

Hana: "Ford has been covering the business for the past seven years and he says he doesn't much like the people with whom he keeps company."

Luke: "Pornography is an industry that is run by thieves, crooks, lowlifes, scumbags, ex-cons, drug addicts. These are people who are polluting the moral environment."

Hana: "So if you describe these people as scum lowlife, how is it that they have forged partnerships with General Motors, AT&T, Bell Canada?"

Luke: "Because businessmen will do virtually anything they can do and get away with, to make a buck."

Hana: "Where would you place New Frontier Media in this business?"

Luke: "They're on the polite mainstream end of an impolite industry. They are poster boys for the industry in that they are publicly traded. They are at the forefront of pushing pornography into mainstream homes."

Hana: "As a distributor of porn, Colorado's New Frontier is ahead of the pack. They own ten thousand hours of video, one of the largest libraries in North America. President Mark Kreloff says it is all a celebration of sex."

Kreloff: "Anything that is violent, anything that is forced, anything that is nonconsensual, is not part of our standards and practices."

Hana: "How do you define nonconsensual?"

Kreloff: "If someone is in a scene and that scene is shot so that one person looks like they don't want to be there, where they're being forced, that would be nonconsensual."

Hana: "Obviously Mark Kreloff forgot about this one and this one or this one."

The Fifth Estate shows various scenes of women in bondage, in pain and looking like they are being forced to endure unwanted pain.

Hana: "And many other movies being beamed to Bell Expressvu, his customer in Canada.

"We contacted Bell Expressvu and its parent company BCE Inc and both declined to be interviewed on camera. But over the telephone, Bell Expressvu did say that all the movies running on their pay-per-view channels have been cleared by censors in Ontario and Quebec. It's part of the licensing deal they have with the Canadian Radio and Television Licensing Commission (CRTC). No movie is allowed to be broadcast without first being screened and rated by a provincial film review board."

Bob Warren, chair of the Ontario Film Review Board: "We don't allow anything where there is any indication of pain, discomfort or distress. We don't allow coercion, degradation, humiliation, dehumanization, incest..."

Hana: "So when the volunteers at the Ontario Film Review Board put in a cassette, they know what to look for. Understand these are not prudes. All sorts of explicit sex gets their ok as long as it is consensual, no one is getting hurt and no one looks underage. They have the power to reject any film they feel crosses the line, offends community standards or breaks Canadian obscenity laws.

"We brought Bob Warren, chair of the Ontario Film Review Board, some examples of movies playing on Bell Expressvu's two Colorado channels. Movies the company claims had been cleared by him."

Bob: "We have a situation here with a burglar coming into the room masked. She's resisting at this point. And her hands are being bound. And this would definitely be something we would not allow. Now we have a scene with a whip and there are definite indications of pain on this girl."

Hana: "So this breaks all the rules?"

Bob: "Yes. It's been a long time since we've seen something this violent here at the Board.

"Ok, now we've got hot wax."

The picture shows hot candle wax getting poured over a bound naked woman.

Bob: "We know that hurts. She's flinching. Again, this is not something that we would allow.

"A lot of this is not a morality issue. It's an issue of harm to society as this kind of activity starts being considered normal."

Hana: "He made her stuff a doorknob in her mouth."

Bob: "Yes. Now she seems to be in discomfort at this particular point. Grimacing. She seems to be protesting. We're definitely crossing a line here."

Hana: "But Bob Warren and the Review Board are only responsible for movies in theaters and in video stores. They have no authority over what goes over the airwaves or through cable. That is the job of our federally appointed broadcast regulator, Canadian Radio Television and Communications Commission (CRTC)."

Hana: "How did this hardcore porn sneak through?"

Bob: "I don't know these porn channels had been approved by the CRTC. There has not been a public debate over this and it is probably overdue."

Jean-Pierre Blais, the regulator's top broadcasting bureaucrat which issues licenses but does not monitor content.

Han: "The CRTC has all sorts of rules and regulations, about Canadian content, about gender and religion sensitivity and bilingualism but there don't seem to be those sorts of rules about a woman being tied and gagged with clothespins on their genitals and having hot wax poured on her."

Jean: "Clearly, if you're dealing with the type of things you're talking about, one might argue that it is contrary to the criminal code. If somebody were to say that there's a particular pay per view broadcast in Canada that is broadcasting movies not rated by any authority in Canada, we can investigate that..."

Hana: "So, I'll assume you will be investigating?"

Jean: "Well, to investigate I'll need more details..."

Hana: "This is Playboy television in Los Angeles, part of the largest adult entertainment conglomerate in the world. The hosts, Juli [Ashton] and Tiffany, are stars. Their fans write in letting them know how they masturbate to their show.

"More than a decade ago, Canada said no to Playboy TV. Then three years ago, the CRTC approved their request for license and now the Playboy Channel is on every cable and satellite network in Canada.

"Jim English is the president of Playboy Entertainment."

Jim: "Nightcalls is truly live."

Hana: "This is Playboy Television's flagship show... And the participation is in the penetration over the phone."

People call in while having sex.

Jim: "It's a family of viewers. It's a shared experience. And it's as close as you can have to true interactive television."

Hana: "Consumer research has told Playboy that viewers want to see more. So Playboy, which has always promoted itself as the thinking man's adult entertainment, is getting down and dirty with the rest of them. Playboy now offers a hardcore movie every Saturday night and it's launching two new XXX channels this April."

Jim: "We have two or three years worth of research which says that I will come and buy more if you show me something that I want to see. And while the Playmates are very pretty and the girls on Nightcalls are fun to watch and entertaining, I really want to see more. People are willing to pay if you deliver what they want. Build it and they will come."

Hana: "Bell Canada and other companies don't seem to be proud of their new enterprise. In fact, they have given their distributor in Boulder, Colorado, explicit instructions not to mention their names."

Kreloff: "The cable operators have asked us for anonymity... It's a business decision for us and we have granted them their wish."

Hana: "These guys make a deal with you in the backroom but they don't want to be seen with you in public?"

Kreloff: "That's not true."

Hana: "I'm speaking metaphorically."

Kreloff: "Metaphorically speaking, you're right."

Hana: "Hypocrisy is still part of this whole game?"

Kreloff: "Without question. Because you can't be in this business and ignore the dollars associated with it without acknowledging that you're in it, and that's essentially what's happening."

Luke: "I'm glad that these businessmen are ashamed that they are dealing in pornography. I'm glad that they don't want to come before your camera and say they deal in pornography. That shows that there is some decency and some sense of shame left.

"Frequently sex in these hardcore productions is a full contact sport. Frequently women have their anuses ripped open. Frequently women have had their jaws broken. Women have gone to the hospital from internal bleeding, bleeding out of any of their different orifices. These companies like Bell Canada have it at arm's length. They don't have to see the blood flowing out of a woman's anus on a set. They don't have to deal with the scumbags who populate this industry."

The Fifth Estate shows Extreme preparing to shoot a rape scene with a female who recently arrived from Slovenia.

Luke: "Pornography relies for its shock value on breaking taboos. As pornography becomes more mainstream, it must also become more perverse to retain that same shock value. So if pornography becomes more acceptable to the North American public, you'll have more pornographers becoming increasingly extreme in their product so that people can get the same kicks."

A masked man breaks in and grabs the woman.

Man: "Don't say a f---ing word, bitch."

Hana: "It's exactly a coercive scene like this that the provincial review boards would reject. Their rule book says no force, no degradation."

Hana: "When Rob Black's father was in the business, police charged him 247 times. No one has laid a glove on Rob Black."

Rob Black: "That's the great thing about the United States of America. Everything couldn't have been better in the last eight years. All of us now, kids who've gone through this, are in an age where we're controlling the media and we are not bothered by pornography. We don't care what your neighbor down the street gets off on."

The April 1st issue of Digital Broadband trade magazine has a stupid article by Amy Cosper on New Frontier which includes this gem: "In recent months, New Frontier Media's stock has become a hot pick, so to speak, for Wall Street's high rollers."

Luke says: Yeah, then why is its stock languishing at $2 a share?

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Goddess writes: Every picture tells a story, Luke F-rd's pic tells the same story over and over...thanks for posting those pictures of you, luke. for a moment there, i think we were all in danger of forgetting what you look like. btw, the pics of you were all....so very.....exactly the same.

Ginger writes: I carefully examined each of those photos and noted the following differences:

#5: slight undereye puffiness that denotes journalistic seriousness
#6 delectable fullness of lower lip
#20: perfect, non Jewish nose
#21: symmetrical, kissable mouth
#22: vehemence of anti-porn stance

Also, in the first two, you can clearly see the scar on his forehead which is symbolic of his lack of driving skill. The boy is safe at the keyboard, but at the wheel?

Compare and contrast these pictures with the one from the XRCO, where a beaming Luke has his hand on a porn girl's butt. Which is the "true" Luke F-rd?

Mdl writes: Why is it okay for Formula One race car driver to risk his life for money -- but soul destroying for a porn girl to risk her life, jaw or anus for the same goal? Is it the amount of money, the sex of the participant or just the fact it's sex.

Why is okay for Muhammad Ali to sacrifice his brain on the alter of boxing for cash -- but a huge deal if some 18 year old let's Anton Fury beat her up for a couple of grand? I'm pretty sure the damage the 18 year old suffers will heal far more quickly than Mr. Ali's will.

Is it somehow morally more correct to be a pro-line backer sacrificing his knees in the NFL than it is to be Asia Carrera? And if it's just because God says so. Then does it apply to all God's, or just yours. Is Buddha down on "Rough Sex", what about Shiva? Or have we finally reached the point that if your God doesn't like it, it's a no go.

Does Y*H*Wh have a black card dude, or does he make them talk to the hand?

Luke says: There's only objective right and wrong if a transcendent source declares right and wrong.

From a Jewish perspective, all unnecessary risking of life, be it a Formula One race car driver or a Mount Everest climber is forbidden.

Regarding porn and masturbation, all traditional religions condemn both, from Buddhism to Hinduism to Judaism.

JRob writes: The problem is, that transcendent sources are historically finite. Once, thousands accepted rules of right and wrong as set forth by Zeus. Later, by Jupiter. Later, by Mithras. The transcendent sources recognized by the Celts are now only loosely (and probably incorrectly) appreciated by the occasional wiccan weirdo. The Romans effectively stamped out any mention of the transcendent sources relied upon by the Germanic tribes. The Edomites had their transcendent sources upon whom they garnered great moral guidance, but those sources are no more having been supplanted by the transcendent source recognized by a stronger aggressor. The transcendent sources of the Egyptians hobnob now with Odin and the boys and girls from Valhalla. The transcendent source appreciated by the Samaritans seemed to have gotten tired of his disciples handing out free favors. The modern day Palestinians recognize a transcendent source who doesn't seem to be helping out very much.

The "right and wrong" declared by a transcendent source is nothing more than malleable civil opinion made law, or law-like. The only difference from the laws of man are the claims of divine preference and possible enforcement.

Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, are geographically and culturally subjective. There are no absolutes, because a dissenting opinion is only in dissent until a majority agree and re-write the rules. The new authors even tell us that the "Transcendent Source" is in complete agreement.

Luke says: So there's nothing evil if I murder you? All you can say is that you do not like it.

JRob writes: Your question is loaded. Murder is an illegal killing. So, we must first determine if your act of kiling me is illegal. If, in the culture in question, the killing is allowed by law, then it is not murder. If a court of law (allowing local statute) ordered that I be executed by you, then it would not be murder. You do, however, use the word "murder." Hence, we must first assume the killing (you killing me) is illegal. Legality is locally determined. We must, therefore, assume that you are speaking of a killing which, according to the local man made laws, is illegal. The local laws are established because a majority of the people in that locale consider non-sanctioned killing to be a bad thing.

Next, we must assume (given the loaded nature of your question) that the reason the local legal authority has determined said killing to be illegal is because their beliefs (religious or otherwise) prohibit any non-sanctioned killings. Hence, local (geocentric) and religious (dominant local religous) standards determine whether a killing is legal or illegal. If considered illegal, then the act is murder. If not, then it is either a state sanctioned execution or simply a justified killing not worth prosecuting.

Your question is simplistic. Murder is a legal term, not a moral term. And, no, I would not be happy if you murdered me. I would also be less than ecstatic about the state legally executing me. Different motivation, same result for me.

MDL writes: Murder is always wrong Mr. Ford. It is the definition of murder that shifts. Priests performing religious sacrifices were not committing murder. They were seeking the grace of the almighty. When Abraham put his son on the alter was there murder in his heart? I might think so. But your bunch believe his heart was consumed by a crystal clear faith in God. The concept of murder seems pretty constant in humanity, it's the definition of murder that changes through time. This seems pretty much true for all the big concepts, incest, pornography etc.

Luke asks: What objectively makes murder wrong? Is society the source of morality? So Nazi society said murdering Jews was right. Who are you to say they are wrong?