Sunday,
April 15th, 2001
Porn middleman Flashman left these messages on my voicemail:
Today is shabbos. Tomorrow it's Easter. I'll roll out some matza and mix it with some Easter Bunny eggs and have a nice Christian Jewish weekend with friends and hang out on the Santa Monica Beach, rollerblading and having fun.
Mirage and I will have a Blueman Group party next weekend in Las Vegas.
I walked into the Hardrock Cafe in Las Vegas and I was happily embarrassed because of you. All the teenage guys with their girlfriends started chanting, 'Flashman, Flashman, Flashman.' I said 'Hi.' They said, 'You've got to be Flashman. You look like Kid Rock.' I said, 'Thank you. I'm flattered. I'm quite a bit older. What's up?'
"And they said, 'You're all over l-keford all the time. We check l-keford every day.' I said, 'Who are you guys?' And they said, 'We're UCLA and USC college students and we check l-keford all the time. We know all the gossip. We know all about Kobe Tai and her little baby.'
"Luke, it shocks me how many people, from New York to Tijuana, check your site regularly. They say, 'Flashman, you're all over l-keford. You're a fabulous crazy character. It's all just a great soap opera and a lot of fun.'
"Luke, it's getting embarrassing. It's getting to the point now whereever I go in Los Angeles, Las Vegas or New York City, people are beginning to recognize me. They're beginning to say, 'Flasherman, can you get me a couple of porn stars? I'm dying to get laid by a famous lady.' Isn't that funky?
"Luke, you have a good Easter. And stop eating the matza. Mirage is telling me that you're starting to put on weight. We want to keep you in that 39 regular sportcoat from that wonderful tailor in Sydney.
"Luke, perhaps you could write something on your site like 'I've met Flashman and Mirage and they seem like nice people.'"
Luke says: I've met Flashman and Mirage and they seem like nice people.
Phyllisha Anne left these messages: "I've been hearing a lot of things said about Flashman and it saddens me that people can be so harsh and ruthless. I remember the time when he first left a message on my answer machine saying that he was looking for the lovely Phyllisha Anne that he'd heard so much about. I think that I still have that tape somewhere in my keepsafe box. He washed away all the worries and insecurities I was having. That was when I first entered the business three years ago.
"Since then he's gotten me bookings, conventions, movies, boxcovers and all sorts of things. Everything that he's done so far has been completely legitimate. Flashman is an exciting person with an outrageous personality. Maybe he is not everyone. But in all the time that I have known him, he's not made one rude or insensitive comment. He likes the whirlwind of this business.
"I can understand the necessity of being careful, particularly in this business. It seems that people are always stabbing people in the back and that you are always being lied to. It seems that people will always be your friend when it is profitable for them.
"I'd like to say to Flashman personally, don't let all this hurt your spirit. You are one of the most inspiring people I've ever met. You do so much for people. You make people feel good about themselves. And you make life exciting for us. The people who say terrible things, they just don't know you well. So you keep your spirits high Flash, because there are some of us who greatly appreciate who you are. Thank you for everything you've done for me."
Whatever Happened To Nancy Suiter?
Nick writes: In "A Grand Guy," a bio of Terry Southern, a porn aficionado and famous as the author of Candy and Blue Movie, it is said that in the early 80s he asked Josh Alan Freidman, then the editor of High Times (and the son of famous writer Bruce Jay Friedman and later a writer in his own right -- Tales of Times Square) to track her down. The book says Josh found her married to a rich rancher.
Netporner Expose
A new web site details the alleged misdeeds of leading porn internet power Flying Crocodile Incorporated. Check out www.motherf---ers.ru.
Hal writes on RAME: All I can really say about this pic is for her first porno pic, Miss Taylor does not look as fresh as she might. Instead, she looks decidedly long in the tooth and most crack-whorish. She certainly has generous tits, as do most of the chix in the flick, and she also sucks cock pretty well, but over all, I was pretty underwhelmed. This is because I was hoping for a film which showed how she went from stripping to beauty pageantry to porno films. As far as I can tell, it shows how she went from stripping to beauty pageantry to stripping. I would have enjoyed a depiction of her entry into adult films. But my main gripe is she isn't terribly fresh-looking. I enjoyed her glistening chin during fellatio scenes, and she f---s well, but I was hoping for a film which showed a good girl gone bad. One sees nice-looking girls with big tits f---ing, but it isn't very sexy. Altho she has pleasingly big tits, Alex Taylor does not have a body one would write home about.
Deep Inside Brittany Andrews
Jason Sechrest writes on RAME: When Brittany says she's become busy doing "more important things" than private shows for her fans, I highly doubt that she means it as a personal diss to any of her followers in any way! I think you may have perceived her posting in the wrong light. She doesn't mean there are more important things than you... she's simply stating there are things more important going on in her life right now! Such as... running three video production companies (she's not just a figurehead) and launching a series of hers and everyone else's web sites through BritCo and Cave Post, plus being her own little juggernaut of self-promotion that we know her to be, keeping fabulously high on ahem life, and being the diva that she in.
Honey, that all takes work! And work is time! And time is money. Then to get beauty sleep in between it all? Nearly impossible! Plus, Brittany's got a new slave boy around the house to deal with these days in case you haven't heard! He's a gay porn boy with tiger striped tattoos all over him and he's become not only one her best friends, but her personal live in slave as she whips him into shape on a daily basis! (Find out more about this on "X TV," a new show debuting on The Erotic Network in June.)
Now if Brit is resorting to tactics like these to get her phones answered and papers filed, clearly this is an indication that the woman is busy, busy, busy doing more important things than scheduling "private sessions" with her fans. Come meet her at the promotional signings and rent the videos! She f---s on film for you. What more can a girl do?! Oh and as for her seeming like a "cold fish," I personally believe that deep down inside our Miss Brittany Andrews is a very warm blooded creature! Her steely and often deemed diva exterior is a guard to keep certain individuals (like yourself) at bay and it seems to be working quite nicely for her. I think Brit is one of the most misunderstood women in the sex industry. No one knows what's going on inside that head or heart of hers. Why? She doesn't want you to know, baby.
Cheyenne Silver's Ex-Boyfriend Takes Out Restraining Order Against The Vivid Girl
XXX writes: Luke I just got off the phone with Greg Bowman (ex bf of Cheyenne Silver). He informed me that he was granted a restraining order against Cheyenne Silver for stalking and terrorist threats. Filed in Los Angeles Superior Ct North Valley division on April 13, 2001. This girl is a complete idiot. She needs to be committed. She can't have him.
He's way out of her league. Somebody tell her to get a life and leave the big dogs alone before she gets bit. I'm not sure she knows exactly who he is. I've known him for years and he is the kindest man I have ever known but is well connected both here and in Asia. He is a very private man and likes it that way; he comes across very humble but has long been a very respectable member of certain very powerful organizations that makes the porn industry look like the girlscouts. Does this girl have any sense???
AIDS In Brazil
Gregory Bowman writes: Adult Film producers are flagrantly ignoring the risk factor in making films using Brazilian actresses. Many are not tested. Most do not require condom use, and most are very open to anal sex (a high risk activity for infection).
Yes its cheap to fly to Rio and shoot movies; the girls are young, cheap, don't require condoms and will do anal scenes. The temptation is overwhelming; the damage catastrophic. The end result will be many more performers participating in film-work shot in Brazil becoming HIV positive, not to mention other sexually transmitted diseases.
The continued blindness of the adult film industry will see a catastrophic result. Actors coming back to do work here will infect those women and men working in the United States.
Again, the profit incentive in Porn risks the lives of the hard-working women and men who rely on their health for a living. Producers making films in Brazil are exposing the entire industry to ENORMOUSLY HIGH risk and the following suggestion should be made.
Blacklist those who do Brazilian porn; especially those not using condoms, having sex with untested girls, and doing high risk scenes such as anal. HIV is just one scene away for these actors.
Inform those producers that Brazilian work is suicide for the talent. I guarantee more will test positive for HIV in the next year from the increased shooting in Brazil; it is inevitable.
Once again the adult film world shows its careless disregard for safety to make profit while ignoring the consequences. As with the many tragedies of drug abuse in the industry, health issues are overlooked for profits sake. When will producers wake up and stop risking the lives of the people who make them rich? This is just another view into the self-destructive nature that is the beast of the adult film industry. I value your comments and would like to hear from you at nathans_parable@yahoo.com.
Here are some statistics:
In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, the regions most affected by AIDS, an estimated 580,000 of the country's 167 million residents are HIV-positive,Taken from Washington Post 9/17/2000 Stephen Buckley
Brazil has the second-highest rate of HIV infection in the Americas (BBC Online, 17 Jun).
Epidemiologists account for the high rate of HIV infection and death from AIDS in Brazil to the follow conditions.
1. Catholic populations refrain from practicing use of condoms.
2. The liberal sexual attitudes of Rio attribute to multiple sexual partners starting at a very early age. Reports indicate a mean rate of up to six times that of the United States in teens from 12 to 18.
3. A common practice of married men visiting transvestite prostitutes accounts for an increase in heterosexual cross contamination to spouses and children. It is not generally considered "homosexual" for a man to have sex with a transvestite prostitute and its condoned by the populous.
4. Sexual practices of married men are much more open to multiple sexual partners including visiting prostitutes as compared with the United States.
5. Testing and treatment amongst sex workers is highly variable and seldom used. Prostitutes interviewed seldom practice safe sex practices and freely engage in anal and high-risk sex without condoms.
6. Testing of Prostitutes in Rio De Janeiro has shown over an 80% HIV rate including male transvestites and bisexual prostitutes.
7. Social attitudes towards HIV are vastly different and taken less serious as compared to the United States. Public education is lacking.
8. The standard of living to afford safe sex practices and education is drastically lower resulting in a lack of safe sex and general ignorance to the threat of HIV infection.
An Easter Message From Jack Chick
Today millions of American's will celebrate the resurrection of their savior, the Easter Bunny, who died for their chocolate eggs. Heathens! Crass commercialism mocks the death and return of Jesus Christ. Have you forgotten his sacrifice? If so, let Brother Chick refresh your memory ... Click here: The Empty Tomb
Learn the GOOD News of Christ and Happy Easter to all the Christian Women in Porn Bondage to Jews and Slick Eyetalians
Chaim Amalek writes Luke: By and large, your are correct in your analysis. Watered-down faiths the world over are in steep decline; it is the True Believers who teach more rigorous versions who are winning converts. On the other hand, Judaism is doomed no matter what.
By the way, I wish you a very happy easter. I know that no matter your current beliefs, a holiday that speaks to rebirth and that you celebrated throughout your childhood must loom large in your psyche. And isn't it better to celebrate a day marking rebirth (Easter) than one which presents the mass extermination of ALL of the first born sons of Egypt as a moral act of its God?
In Brooklyn, the True Believers of Satmar, Bobover, and other hassidic sects would answer "yes" to all of your questions. And it is they who are having the children, so it is they who shall inherit all that secular judaism has built over the last century. (That is not to say that they will know what to do with it.) That group which breeds the most prolificly, in the end, becomes dominant.
Fred writes Luke: Have you ever read the Book of Joshua, and do you really believe that Joshua's forces (through the prism of 20th century moral standards) was occupying the moral high ground? Do you believe that Joshua's forces occupied the moral high ground under your present views of the world? Do you really think Torah is a literally true, even as a moral document? Do you really think that slavery is moral? Do you really think that stoning people is moral? Do your orthodox friends believe the foregoing?
Luke replies: Yes, I have read the Book of Joshua. I don't like much of the Book of Joshua. In the Torah and in Joshua, God commands the Israelites to commit genocide - to wipe out the people of Canaan. So to answer your question, I am skeptical about Joshua's forces occupying the moral high ground here.
No, I do not believe that the Torah is always literally true, even as a moral document. I do believe that it is the most significant document in history, and a giant leap forward morally. I believe that the system of indentured servitude in the Torah, commonly referred to as slavery, was a moral leap ahead of the mores of the time. I think that in some instances stoning is moral, but not in many of the instances prescribed by the Torah (such as for the rebellious son). My Orthodox friends tend to a more unambivalent positive regard of the Torah than I have stated.
Does Britt Morgan Have A Life?
BrandyAlx1: For Britt Morgan to suggest that my reading and responding to articles on l-keford.com indicates I have no life, then she is saying that no one who reads l-keford.com has a life. Everyone should be insulted.
Britt responds: I AM NOT suggesting that just ANYone who reads l-keford.com has no life - I am merely suggesting that only YOU have no life - I do not know anyone else who reads l-keford.com, so I can't really opinionate about them, now can I?
However, I myself, DO read and respond to the goofball crap on l-keford.com (because it is cheap and thrilling entertainment) and I, consequently, DO have a life - so quit trying to drag everybody down with you, Brandy - most people probably don't take it all as personally as you.
Also, in light of the fact that my real life has been taking precedence over this little pugilistic correspondence of ours, I have been unable to respond with my own due challenged breast photo. But forthcoming, indeed (WITH my head ATTACHED - nice try - couldn't come up with one with your face included or what? You always were better to look at from the neck down, anyway....)
Brandy writes: "Maybe you should feel sorry for me that so many people try to treat me like an idiot."
Britt writes: I feel sorry for you, Brandy. And NOT because people try to treat you like an idiot - but because you ARE an idiot.
Jason Sechrest Writes About Danni's Hard Drive
Jason Sechrest writes: Hiya, Luke... Just wanted to clear something up. I'm sure you knew this was coming! Yes, I am cute and boyish! Yes, I did work at Danni's Hard Drive for two years and pen under a female pseudonym as that's the way the site was geared at the time I was hired. However, since then Danni has not been shy in stating that there are plenty of male employees and DHD. She is in fact proud of it and recently gave me this quote for an upcoming cover story in Femme Fatales magazine: "When the operation began, it basically was all women and that was very important in giving us a voice and setting us apart from the rest. Since then, with the amount of people that have been hired, it's virtually impossible to keep that going. Plus, I just wouldn't want to! There was way too much female energy floating around that office and now there is a nice balance. We have men and women of all different races working at DHD these days." Look for "The Story of Danni Ashe" on the cover of FF later this year!
Why Don't You Come To The Ranch?
Porn star Ruby writes Luke from Nevada's Bunny Ranch (1 888 Bunnyranch) : Why don't you come to the ranch, and see for yourself what it's like? You helped create some of the controversy surrounding the place, you should come and see if your opinions match reality. I'll be here till the 29th of April, and my birthday is on the 21st , and I want to be f---ed silly on my birthday! Plus, I'm cheaper than a girlfriend! I just though I'd let everyone know ! Ruby is at the Bunnyranch waiting.....for you and you and you and you !!!!
Goddess writes: Ruby is right, Luke. You owe it to us to go to the Bunny Ranch, get f---ed and tell us all about it. If for no other reason, than to fill up your page. I am POSITIVE that all of your loyal readers--except for me, cause I don't make enough money writing for www.mikesouth.com to buy tampons, let alone finance *your* friggin' vacations!!--will chip in to get rid of you.... I mean, to send you to the ranch for some fun and "work related relaxation." Okay, guys, ante up!
Max Hardcore Responds To British Documentary
Ten days ago, Britain's Channel 4 TV network showed the documentary "Hardcore" about a local girl's (Felicity) dip into the Los Angeles porn industry. The show portrayed Max Hardcore savaging the naive young woman.
Now Max has responded to the documentary and his response was published on BGAFD.com.
Ian writes: Hi Luke. I wrote you a while ago mentioning a documentary, 'Hardcore', which Channel 4 was proposing to broadcastin England, describing the experiences of an English would-be pornstar, Felicity, in California. Well, they showed it a few days ago, and very informative it was - about the porn industry, about Felicity, the role of agents, and Max Hardcore. It had been implied that this was a horror story about exploitation, but I found it much more complicated than that. The US porn industry turned out to be no more, no less, exploitative than I expected, and a number of performers appearing in the documentary appeared quite happy with what they were doing.
Felicity was probably typical of many who go into the industry and repent of doing so. She was carrying a lot of psychological baggage from being a single (and obviously loving) mother and, especially, from having twice in her life been abandoned by her father - once as a child and once as a teenager, following a brief reunion. At one point Felicity confided to the photographer/commentator that one of her objectives was to do something of which her father would have disapproved, and then point out to him, if he objected, that he no longer had any say in her life. She was invited to the US by an agent whose name was given as 'Richard', though I recognized him as Dick Nasty, a well-known British porn performer. He promised to get lucrative work for her, and she assured him that she was eager to please. They fell out fairly early on in the visit when it became clear that Felicity was reluctant to perform in certain ways (especially anal) to which she had earlier assured Richard she had no objection.
Somehow (and I suspect that this was Richard's way of teaching Felicity the facts of life for a porn neophyte) she got an 'interview' with Max Hardcore, and at the point of the interview where she might have expected to be shaking his hand she found him thrusting his penis into her butt. Things went on from there in the way that might be expected from Max Hardcore, and 20 minutes into the interview Felicity fled, loudly complaining about having been throttled, and generally abused. Max followed her and spent several minutes sweet-talking her, followed by several more telling her what a waste of space she was, and that only one other girl had ever tried less to perform with him than Felicity had done.
Though clearly unnerved, Felicity apparently decided to continue with the session, but at this point the photographer, concluding that he was presiding at a rape, intervened and took Felicity away, back to his apartment. Max H apparently made no effort to contact her again, but the experience had somehow made Felicity willing to do things on film that she hadn't been prepared to before. We saw her arranging to participate in a 3-girl + Mr. Marcus scene in a 'Rough Sex' episode, agreeing to be sodomized and slapped around, her only reservation being that she wasn't to be throttled.
The programme ended with a postscript saying that all this had happened 18 months ago, and that Felicity was no longer in the porn industry. Writing as someone who enjoys watching porn, I'm not prepared to take a horrified, moral stand on all this, but the documentary was in its way a cautionary tale, showing how naive, disturbed women stand to be hurt by participating in it.
Max Hardcore writes: While I don’t know what the British television show producers showed the public concerning my video shoot with porn actress Felicity, or what you saw concerning the program, but we do know that you haven’t seen the whole story. In any case, I would like to apologize for how it appeared. I have not and have no intentions of using any of the footage of this shooting for broadcast.
Ordinarily, I don’t let film crews cover my shoots because they often put porno in the most negative light so it is more shocking to their viewers. But Felicity’s agent said it would be a big favor to him and Felicity, so I reluctantly granted them permission. As I suspected, they have completely turned this around to serve their purposes.
I’ve been making X-rated movies for ten years, and I always endeavor to treat my actresses with respect. Before each shoot, especially with a new actress, I interview her to find out what she is willing to do so there will be no problems on the set. Prior to this scene, I interviewed Felicity and explained that he wanted a pleasant scene where she is agreeable at all times.
Felicity told me that she had done several scenes before this in England, including a double penetration scene with two men, and that everything was okay with what I wanted, which in any case was not supposed to be extreme at all. She also told me that she could deep throat a penis very well. But on the set, all that changed, and she acted like she couldn’t handle it. Then without warning, she walked off the set.
Shortly after that, I went up to the dressing room and talked to her in a very reasonable manner, never threatening in any way, in an attempt calm her down and find out what had upset her so much. I was trying to determine what I had misunderstood, and make changes so we could possibly finish the scene, which her agent assured me would be the best thing to do. But she was too upset and the scene was aborted by a mutual decision.
After that, the British film crew also interviewed me on the set and her agent asked me to say some outrageous things, and even led me on by saying such things like don’t you think she’s pretty foolish and so forth. Of course they did not show these leading questions I’m sure.
I believe this whole episode happened partly because Felicity was under stress at the time, because she didn’t want to be seen doing porn in her native England. But it now seems like it was a set up by the television producers and Felicity’s agent. After all, it’s made great controversy now in England.
Finally, you should also know is that after this aborted scene with me, Felicity went to make other X-rated movies here in the US, including ‘Rough Sex 2.’ But the producer of that video would not allow the British film crew in the studio when it was shot. Unlike my shoots, in ‘Rough Sex 2,’ the sex is much more hard core with slapping and choking. Felicity completed her ‘Rough Sex’ scene and had and told the producers she had an enjoyable time doing it. Of course it would not be released in England.
Again, I would like to express my apologies to Felicity for any misunderstandings, as well as all the viewers of the program who found it so offensive. This is not the real Max Hardcore at all. In any case, let me assure you that I have not and never will be releasing any of this material to the public, and will never again deal with her agent.
Matt writes on BGAFD.com: In 2000, Max Hardcore produced a film in which a girl pretended to be 12 years old. His films are there for people who enjoy watching women being degraded and humiliated and stretched to their limits. That's not wrong, if both parties are consenting and gaining gratification from it, but the question is... Max Hardcore: porn industry pimp, abuser and encourager to paedophiles, or producer of a speciality line of sexual movie and champion of free speach and action.
DavidJ writes: I don't find Max's reply too convincing, as some of his filmed conversation with Felicity was aggressive, if not explicitly threatening (the bit where he told her she didn't make enough 'effort', i.e. she had the temerity to object to his cock in her throat.) But it adds to my suspicion that the film-makers were manipulating the situation more than they would like us to know.
Felicity aka Leanna McQueen also appeared in these porn films: Coed Cocksuckers 16 (not on boxcover or jadedvideos's cast list) Cock Smokers 14 (ditto) MH Home Video 544: Cunt of the Month January, MH Home Video 551: Hand Gallopers 3 MH Home video 554: Girls Who Swallow Cum 18, Pussyman's Decandent Divas, Rough Sex 2
WendysWonderland@hotmail.com writes: I too saw the C4 'Hardcore' programme last night and have read all the associated messages in the forum. I have worked with both Felicity (aka Leeanne) and Dick Nasty (aka Richard Sheed).
The scene I did with Felicity was for the British Erotica magazine and you can see it in volume 1 of that series (just to make it clear I've been paid for that scene and get nothing from any sales! :-)). She struck me as a very nice girl although she did have very definite limits so I ended up having to do all the anal. Nevertheless we all respected her limits and there were no complaints. There are complaints about what girls will and won't do when they've said they'll do so and so but when they get on set they've changed their minds. Quite rightly that annoys the producers and co-performers but again the limits are generally respected in the UK. In yesterday's programme I got the feeling that she gave Dick Nasty the impression she'd do something and then when she got to the US she'd changed her mind.
Now for Dick Nasty. The last time I spoke to him I called him an arrogant little prick. He really lives up to his name I'm afraid and really does exploit the girls. His payment rates for his own productions are very low and he respects no-one. He asks virtually every girl to go over to the States and promises them the earth. (I know he's done it to me and most of the girls I know in the business). However, we know what he's like and anyone who goes over there at his invitation is asking for trouble. Seems poor Felicity fell for it though. A little naive perhaps? Isn't it funny how he tried to hold hands etc. with Felicity. Very sad don't you think?. Seems he wanted to set up an affectionate relationship as he does with all of us. Maybe we should pity him as a sad lonely individual. On second thoughts let's not.
I've received lots of offers to appear in documentaries and on chat shows. I have never accepted because I know their remit is to show me and/or the porn business as stupid, sleazy and exploitative. It's usually tabloid TV at its worst although I will admit that it would be hard to show Dick Nasty and the producers in last night's programme in a good light.
British porn star Layla Jade writes: Wow !!! So many postings on that documentary last night, so this one is for everyone as it will hopefully give an overall picture on the way things are and the way that I feel about them. This is what I have to say on the documentary "Hardcore" that was screened last night and also about the occurrences within it.
This documentary has pissed me off considerably, once again the adult industry has been misrepresented for good television and high viewing rates.That was the idea. The hype and publicity surrounding this documentary was ridiculous, as it has already been pointed out on another posting in this forum, "what sexual and explicit footage ?" Where was this terribly graphic content that we were all warned about.
The industry is nothing like that, with two and a half years experience under my belt and having starred in over 200 movies, having worked in Amsterdam, Germany,France, America and the UK... believe you me I am more then qualified to say.
They just took one girl who had a bad experience on one occasion and exploited it and her for television and wasn't it good !!! Stephen geared the documentary up to show the exploitation of poor, young, innocent, girls when he was one of the main culprits himself. That must mean that I'm exploited too then. I don't think so, doesn't quite fit the Layla~Jade you know does it?
What Richard [Dick Nasty] did was wrong, there is no denying that, but he is deffinitly not the suit case pimp that they made him out to be via the miricle of cleaver editing and only using footage that shed him in such a light. I know the guy well and he also did this to me, but luckily I had the sense to clarify exactly what I was going to experience at the hands of max hardcore before arriving for the shoot, admittedly Felicity tried but due to the fact that the television crew where there Richard chose not to be as specific as he could have been or was when I asked him on my first trip out there myself, however the television crew knew what she was walking into though as the brief clip that they showed of myself discussing Max was shot way before felicity's visit to him with Richard. Indeed we had discussed it on numerous occasions both on and off camera. So why didn't they say ?. Why didn't I tell her myself ? Because it was never made clear to me what was going on, I was only told of her "dreadful" experience after it had already occurred.
Indeed the character Max hardcore is horrible, abusive and a women hater but that is his character... the guy himself is actually ok, I am not defending either he or what he does and just because I have shoot for him does not mean that I agree with this kind of sex or enjoy it, if you can even call what he does sex, but at the same time I am just trying to put across a clear perspective on the guy himself from someone who knows, has been there, brought the postcard and done that on two occasions.
Did anyone notice when he was in character and when he was not ? When he enters the office and she allows him to stick his knob up her he is merely getting into character, psyching himself up for the scene, you can tell as his voice changes slightly and he starts to do those peculiar little grimaces, also note the questions about her age, height and weight ? It is so he can start to develop a personal for her in his mind...IE) that of a young girl (which again I do not condone, I am merely stating facts).
Though when felicity freaks out and max is in the bedroom with her it is clear to see that he is no longer in character. Why Richard was smirking when Max is screwing her in the office though I have no idea, though I would hope that it is not because he is getting his own back on her, just simply because he has seen Max behave in such a way so many times before. Though only Richard knows the answer to that one. Like Stephen said "they decided not to intervene at this point".... why ? did anyone not see that it was because Stephen (the public school boy) wanted to make good television ? that's why. He wanted to shoot a documentary from which he would achieve status and make money.
There are many people that slag him Max off but what you must remember is this. THERE IS A MARKET FOR THIS STUFF. If people didn't buy this s--- then he would not shoot it, he's not doing it for the good of his health, supply and demand and you saw his house with your own eyes...the guy is f---ing minted. Million's of people buy his films world wide doesn't that say something to you. People wanna see this stuff.
Also note that after felicity shot for max she then went of to do rough sex which was actually banned within the first couple of months of production due to the fact that shooting this sort of stuff is not the industry slandered and the industry would not put up with it. Rough sex is much worse then anything that hardcore does. For example they was a very well known incident when one of the girls was shooting for this line and was deep-throating on of the guys and making herself retch, she did it to much and ran to the toilet to be sick, they consequently followed her and filmed her vomiting to be included in the movie.
In rough sex the girls were being choked to unconsciousness, somewhere where max would never go, they are punched, kicked, hit and welted. Again something that you would never see in a max hardcore movie. But she enjoyed that so where do you go from there. I've shoot for max twice but I refused point blank to do rough sex not only because of the horror stories I had heard about it but also because I had worked with max I knew what and where my limitations were. Any way being beaten up is simply not my scene. Again, nor is it sex.
Don't be mislead by this bulls---, it is NOT what the industry is like, I have shot over 200 scenes and been in the industry two and a half years, everyone is really really nice and nobody gets exploited,with the exception of a couple of characters such as Rocco and max its just normal stuff that is shot, the people that made this documentary wanted you to be shocked that was exactly what they wanted and its worked. Fair play if it was a realistic perspective on the industry but it is not. This retched documentary has just been another kick in the teeth for adult yet adult cannot answer back so that's exactly what I am doing now, the public need to know the truth.
I am so mad about this, the British cencors--- laws have at last just been changed and Briton has just come out of the dark ages in reference to porn and then they bring out this. Just as pornography is starting to become more readily excepted a documentary that basically puts across that we are all sickos perverts and paedophiles comes along. Great that's just what the business needs. its unfair that the industry should be blackened by one silly little girl who clearly had problems and should never have gone into the industry in the first place. As you heard her say, it was only to get back at her father anyway. Do it because you enjoy it or don't do it at all. Hard core pornography is not the answer when you are looking to get revenge on some one. If you know what your doing and your doing it for the right reasons its a fantastic, fun and lucrative business to be in.
Ned writes on How To Make A Shockumentary:
1. Get a film maker with an agenda.
2. Hook him up with a hardnosed contact (in this case Dick Nasty)
3. Wait. Eventually a fairly naive girl will turn up and give you a
money shot of your own.
4. Allow her to put herself in difficult situations. You have been around
Nasty for a while and know the kind of people he deals with. You can
see the girl has no idea what she's into, but what the hell. It makes
a good film.
5. Realise when it's too late that maybe things are going bit too far,
then project yourself as the knight in shining armour.
6. Get the girl to spill her guts about her personal life.
7. Wait 15 months then put it out when she's quit the business.
QUESTION : Who really exploited Felicity in that film?
Luke Gets Mail
Rumdar writes: Luke, I may be mistaken but isn't this your 4th or 5th interview with Jeremy Steele? Why not give us a break and interview Chaim Amalek next. And did you see that news blurb. Someone did computer imaging of the real Jesus. Turns out he didn't look like Dolph Lundgren after all. More like Ron Jeremy. Happy Easter. They sure don't make Jews like Jesus anymore.
Murphy writes: First of all--stand by your religius convictions
second --Will you be attending the porn conference in VAncouver next week
Third- How come there is such a silence in the porn industry over aids? With the exception of LA weekly there has been no comment about AiDS in the porn industry...
and your column I guess certain mags assume that certain starlettes just drop out of sire naturally----- the aids testing is not big in European porn so actors and Actress' that do GONZO style porn will feal the pain shortly... Is it true that Rocco Scoffeldi tested + for aids?? A Vancouver porn co rufused to work with him enless he got a local test--which he refused to do and that got the local scene buzzing....... What is up with Miss Swift and a teen lover--I thought she was dating a director?
Luke says: I don't know.
Awesome writes: Hi Luke , here is an email bit Greed Rears it's Ugly head in Porn again ,Jenna J is in town at Just Teazin In Paineville OH and I wanted to let you know that I was really interested in going to see her till I found out the cover price is 35 $ plus a 5$ minium I mean no girl is worth that I saw a lot of people turn around and leave and say no one is worth that .I wish her well but she is not a goddess if you want confimation theur phone number is 440 639 -8686 she is their today and tommorow by the way they did not advertise the cost to get at all, Normally at least 6 months ago is was 5 bucks to get thanks all my best D.K. Ps I just Stephanie Swift last month and she was awesome and nice and at a decent club not a back water club
Jose (pisspassi@yahoo.es) writes: Tanks for your web., im from Spain, im a student of journalism, and i want to know if you can help me. I would like to interview a female porn star , i´d interview a porn star of Europe or american eho be in Europe, but that can come to spain. Are you friend of a porn star who lives in Europe and Want to have an interview witha young jounalist. If yoy find one that has morbid for f---ing a young journalism , perfect iam looking for the address and tlephone of Sarah louise Young do you Knw?
Poges writes: Luke,is there truth in the rumour that Asia Carrera may be doing her first interracial scene in the sequel to Sin City's 'Underworld' maybe Lexington Steele??
Asia replies: no. my first interracial scene was 8 years ago, in 'cinesex' with guy desilva.
MaxCashLive.com
Kim Lee writes: Luke, Did you listen to Sharky last week when he did
his first radio show on maxcashlive.com? A couple of my friends listened
and thought the show was a mess. The host is not Luke F-rd, that is
for sure. Why can't they find someone like you or Berkowitz? The reason
I am writing to you is that I posted a message on the maxcashlive message
board, and they had it on the screen for about fifteen minutes and deleted
it. It looks like they plan to censor you if you post anything they
don't like. No free speech for Sharky! What a dorky idiot. Here is my
message they zapped. Do you see anything wrong with it?
*****************************
Sharky, I missed your first show. Internet radio can be a great help to webmasters when those in charge know what they are doing. Nothing is working on your maxcashlive website. How can you start your new radio show with everything so f---ed up? In particular, the archives do not have your very first show. Please! Some of us do not have the patience to babysit you with this radio show. You are supposed to be a professional. You have been down this road before. DON'T MAKE THIS NEW SHOW OF YOURS A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE FOR THOSE OF US WHO WANT TO LISTEN AND LEARN!
IBill Processing For Incest Site
Internet credit card processor IBill is processing for the web site RealIncest.com.
Theft At AdultCheck.com?
Tom writes: Did you see the post by Paul Bakir, owner and chairman, of Adult Check? It seems they fired numerous employees including CEO Marc Fields. Practically the entire webmaster support department was fired. They were embezzeling money from Adult Check. They faked the referral number on sales and credited the sale to fake companies that they owned! Over $5,000,000 was stolen over the last few years!
Here is the post:
Author: Paul Bakir
Date: 04-13-01 22:46
As I read over the posts on some other chat boards I feel the need to set the record straight on certain issues. I cant/wont get into an indepth discussion about these points, and didnt even want to discuss it at all, however I feel we would be remiss in not dealing with allegations brought up on these boards. So, in that vein here are the bullet points that need to be clarified:
1. Certain members of the Webmaster Support department were caught and have confessed to stealing a substantial amount of money from the company (although none from our webmasters) and will face criminal prosecution. Other members are under investigation, while others were terminated to restructure and clean up the department.
2. Neither Brad Estes nor his wife own any Adult Check sites, nor have they since the inception of his employment.
3. All of our merchant accounts remain solid.
4. We are not downsizing by any means, we have over 110 employees and rising. Our company has been and continues to be extremely profitable for its webmasters (paying out over $5 million each and every month - on time)...
Lauren Montgomery Stars In Naked Hollywood
Lauren Montgomery is all smiles about her recurring role in the new 12 episode series from Adam and Eve currently entitled "Naked Hollywood". (You may have heard buzz about the series earlier under the title "Girl Talk".) Toni English, one of the top female directors in the adult industry, is directing the series. If anyone can make a project like this come across successfully, it is Toni. The series also stars best friend Keri Windsor, gorgeous Dee and the infamous Nina Hartley.
Being on set, it is easy to see that these sexy, intelligent women have amazing on screen chemistry and are working very hard alongside their director to make this project a smashing success. Lauren says, "I've been waiting for a juicy project like this to come along. I am having a great time and I am looking forward to the next episodes to see what our characters are up to next. Like Keri always says, "Good things come to those who wait". It's a darn good thing that I'm so patient."
The "Naked Hollywood" cast and crew begin shooting episodes 3 and 4 starting Sunday, April 15, 2001.
Shocking Racial Differences - Chinese Eat Babies
Dr. William Pierce, the most dangerous racist in America according to Anti-Defamation League, writes:
During the past couple of weeks we've spoken a bit about the "diversity" being pushed so vigorously by the government and by the Jewish media, and I apparently made some irreverent remarks on this very sensitive topic which greatly offended some of our more Politically Correct listeners, because I've received a number of letters from listeners who were practically in tears.
The general tenor of these letters is: "Why can't we all just learn to get along with each other? We're really all the same. The only difference between us is skin color; why is that so important to you? Why do you hate people just because they're from a different country? By coming here with their different customs they enrich our lives." Et cetera.
Some of the letters were more on the weepy, hand-wringing side, and some were more on the belligerent, hateful side, but they were all written by folks who are distressed that I want to stop the flow of non-White immigrants into America, boot out the ones who're already here, and then hunt down and hang the people who arranged to bring them here. Some folks just can't understand why I want to do that. I must have spoken with a dozen interviewers for the mass media who asked me: "What's wrong with multiculturalism? Why do you think it's bad?" That's exactly what I was asked by a pretty, young woman reporter for a German television news program last week. And I believe that she was sincere. She really didn't understand. That's the lemming factor. The girl wasn't stupid. It's just that her brain is wired in such a way that she is incapable of absorbing any information or reaching any conclusion that is Politically Incorrect.
If multiculturalism and diversity were not promoted by the controlled mass media -- if wanting to have a clean, White America were still Politically Correct, the way it was here, say, 50 years ago, and also the way it was in her country until 1945 -- then she would be able to understand perfectly well why multiculturalism is socially, culturally, and racially destructive. She would agree completely with me. But because it is unfashionable to understand such things now, she can't. And I don't mean that she doesn't want to understand; I mean that she can't understand. That is the way lemmings function.
I've often thought about how we might rearrange the wiring in a lemming's brain and permit him or her to understand what is blocked out by the overwhelming compulsion to conform, to be fashionable. I've spoken in the past, only half jokingly, about the oak-table-leg method of persuasion: about putting a lemming on a diet of 500 calories a day and beating him half to death with an oak table leg about once a day until he gets his thinking straightened out. That's the method the communists used in their so-called "labor reeducation" camps, and it seems to have worked pretty well. It's also the method the Allies used on the German population after the Second World War to make them realize the error of their ways in supporting Hitler. Eventually they had most of the Germans blaming Hitler for their suffering instead of the people who were raping, beating, looting, and starving them.
Well, of course, I can't use trauma and privation as an educational method, but perhaps it is nevertheless possible to shock a lemming to his senses. I don't know, but it is something you might like to try for yourself. So with that in mind let's talk for a moment about the Chinese. The Chinese are a people with whom we are rapidly becoming more and more closely involved, both through trade and through immigration. And the properly conditioned lemming will tell you that there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The Chinese, after all, are exactly like us, except that they speak a different language, are a little darker, and have slanted eyes. They add wonderfully to our "diversity" here. They enrich our culture by their presence.
Well, actually they're not quite like us. They have different customs, and those different customs come from a different way of looking at the world, a different attitude toward life, and that different attitude evolved over the course of thousands of generations of living in a different environment from the environment in which our ancestors lived. For example, the Chinese eat babies and see nothing wrong in it. And what they do to cats and dogs they get their hands on is too horrible, too sickening, for me to describe here. What they do to cats and dogs is much worse than just eating them. But to get back to babies: I had heard reports from time to time about the Chinese custom of eating babies in the belief that it is an especially healthy thing to do. For a modern nuclear superpower, the Chinese have some strange ideas about health. These ideas have nearly wiped out a number of species of wild animals because of the insatiable Chinese demand for their body parts. Ground rhinocerous horn is in such demand that it has seriously threatened the rhinocerous with extinction. The same sort of demand exists for tiger penises and various bear parts.
Human babies are harder to get for eating, and I imagine that there are laws in China about killing babies for that purpose. But there seems to be no law against eating aborted human fetuses. A number of hospitals in China which perform abortions sell the aborted fetuses for eating. The smaller fetuses are cooked in a soup. The late-term fetuses are eaten more like roast suckling pig. The Chinese government understandably is a little bashful about having Western journalists publicize this sort of thing, just as it is bashful about having Western journalists film what the Chinese do to cats and dogs. Not to worry, though: Western journalists understand that it would be the worst kind of "no, no" to publish such information in the West; it might dampen the public's enthusiasm for more togetherness with the Chinese.
Despite the effort on both sides to keep these peculiar customs of the Chinese from becoming better known in the West, information is available to the diligent seeker. I recently acquired photographs taken in a restaurant in China of a Chinese man eating what is quite plainly recognizable as a late-term human fetus. The photographs are shocking and disgusting to me, and I imagine that they also will be shocking and disgusting to the average American lemming. They won't be shocking to Chinese, of course. Eating fetuses is no more strange to them than, say, the habit of eating snails in garlic sauce is to a Frenchman.
The significance I see in the Chinese habit of eating fetuses, even if only the wealthier Chinese can afford them, is more than simply a difference between us and the Chinese in culinary tastes or in ideas of what's healthy. A society which sees nothing wrong in eating babies, a race which finds this habit acceptable, is profoundly different from ours. The difference is far deeper than language or skin color or facial features.
Now, I don't hate the Chinese because they aren't White. I don't hate them for being different. I don't even hate them because they see nothing wrong in eating aborted babies. That's their business. I do have stronger feelings about what they do to cats and dogs, and if I had the power to do so I would depopulate China in order to put a stop to that. But if they want to eat Chinese fetuses, I don't care -- so long as they do it in China, not here. But they will be doing it here if we permit the criminal insanity of multiculturalism to continue. And it won't be just Chinese who'll be doing it. Think how much the customs and the morals of White Americans already have changed under the influence of the multiculturalism we already have here.
I'm not telling you that if more Chinese come to America we'll all be eating babies. I believe that most of us, even our lemmings, will retain an instinctive block against that sort of thing. But the Chinese nevertheless will change our culture. More important, they will change our attitudes, our morals. If we have a lot of Chinese immigrants in America eating fetuses, you can bet your bottom dollar that any White American who publicly expresses his disgust, his disapproval of this habit, will be denounced by our Jewish media as a "hater," a "bigot," a "racist," and so on. Christian preachers will be issuing a call for more tolerance. Politically ambitious prosecutors and police officials will announce to the media that they are looking into the possibility of filing "hate speech" charges against the White person who made the offensive remarks.
You know that's what would happen because it's what already has been happening with other phases of the campaign to multiculturalize America. The lemmings adjust to it the same way a kettle full of frogs over a fire adjust to the gradually increasing temperature of the water. But at this time the idea of eating babies probably still will shock most lemmings, just as taking a frog from a kettle of cold water and dropping him into a kettle of boiling water will shock the frog.
Would you like to try it? Send me a 9-inch by 12-inch, self-addressed envelope with 55 cents postage on it, and I'll send you two photographs, each approximately eight by ten inches in size. One is of a Chinese man in a restaurant in China carrying a plate with a large, late-term human fetus. The other photograph shows him sitting at a table and eating the dismembered fetus. The head of the fetus is still attached to the torso, and the features are clearly distinguishable. They are horrible, shocking, disgusting photographs. I'll send these photographs to you free if you send me your envelope with 55 cents postage on it and promise to show the photographs to other people and get them to listen to an American Dissident Voices broadcast with you.
Well, the Chinese are not the only exotic ingredient in America's multicultural stew. The Jews are a much more important exotic element because they wield so much more power in American society through their control of our mass media of news and entertainment. And there are people who will tell you, "So what? What difference does it make if the Jews control Hollywood and television? They're just like us, except that they have a different religion." That is what the lemmings have been taught to believe about the Jews. But in fact, the Jews are as profoundly different from us as the Chinese are, and the difference consists in much more than the Jews' uncanny ability to accumulate money. The Jews, like the Chinese, have a fundamentally different way of looking at the world, and this difference is based in thousands of generations of separate evolution in a different environment.
I'll give you just one example of this difference today. This is something I first noticed when I was a junior high school student in Dallas, Texas. The school I attended was in one of Dallas' wealthier suburbs, and there were a number of Jews in the school. What I and several of my classmates noticed about the Jews was their uniquely Jewish sense of humor. One doesn't expect much delicacy in the jokes told by 14-year-olds, of course, but the thing that made the jokes that appealed especially to the Jews stand out was their scatological content. Nearly every Jewish joke involved excrement in one way or another. As I said, this Jewish tendency was so pronounced that I and my Gentile classmates noticed it and commented on it, even though we didn't understand it. And it wasn't that we had an exceptionally large number of budding Howard Sterns among our Jewish classmates. The inclination toward scatology is a general Jewish characteristic. Jews themselves, including Jewish psychologists, have commented on this Jewish trait often, explaining it in terms of the collective Jewish experience throughout history. It is real, and it is quite noticeable.
The Jews who control America's entertainment media are men who as much as anything else want to make money, and they understand the need to keep their Jewishness from being too obvious in the entertainment they produce for Gentile consumption. At least, they used to understand that, but in the last decade or so they've become a lot cockier, a lot bolder. They believe that they have such a tight grip on the minds and morals of the Gentiles now that they can do and say anything they want on the television screen without danger of a Gentile reaction. They believe that they now can let all of their Jewishness hang out. And I'm not talking just about the Howard Stern types. I'm talking about the ultra-rich and powerful mainstream media moguls, Jews such as Michael Eisner and Gerald Levin and Sumner Redstone. Sumner Redstone's MTV has been described by students of the media as the single most powerful influence on the attitudes and behavior of teenaged White girls.
I don't watch MTV myself, and I suspect that most White parents of teenaged girls, even very liberal and trendy parents, also don't pay attention to what their daughters are being indoctrinated with by Sumner Redstone's MTV. An example of which I recently became aware was brought to my attention by the filing just last week of a lawsuit against MTV in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Let me give you the details: three months ago, on January 21, MTV was taping a pilot for a new show called Dude, This Sucks. Some teenaged girls were visiting the studio during the taping. A studio employee instructed them to stand on the stage in a certain place for a part of the show in which a pair of performers known as the "Shower Rangers" were to go through their routine. The girls were not told what the performance would be or how they would be involved in it.
The "Shower Rangers" were two men dressed in Boy Scout uniforms. They came on stage, turned their backs to the camera and to the teenaged spectators on the stage, dropped their trousers, bent over, and let fly with a shower of semi-liquid feces, spattering the unsuspecting girls from head to foot. Apparently they had dosed themselves with a powerful laxative prior to the performance.
To Jews, including billionaire Jewish media moguls like the owner of CBS and MTV, Sumner Redstone, this sort of thing is hilariously funny. It's their idea of humor. Unfortunately for MTV, however, the girls who were sprayed by MTV's "Shower Rangers" weren't amused, nor were their parents. Last week two of the girls sued. One of them told the court: -- quote -- "We were having a good time until the second act of Dude, This Sucks went on. All of a sudden I was smelling something disgusting, and I started to gag. I looked around at my friends. They were covered in something. As I looked down at myself I realized that I was too." -- end quote --
Another of the plaintiffs, 14-year-old Kelly Sloat, spoke of the humiliation the girls felt when they returned to school: -- quote -- "Everyone knew about it, even some of the teachers. Most of the kids were cracking jokes or wouldn't come near us because, even though we washed off the feces, they said we smelled. I will never, ever forget what a horrible experience this was." -- end of quote --
The girls' lawsuit charges MTV with "infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and battery." I would charge MTV and Sumner Redstone with much more than that. I would charge Mr. Redstone and his fellow Jews with a deliberate effort to degrade White culture, White standards, White morality. I would charge them with attempting to destroy all traditional ideas in young people's minds of what is right and just and noble and beautiful and replace those traditional ideas and values with a Jewish concoction of filth and degeneracy designed to make our young people accept a Jew-dominated, multicultural pigsty society. And in my book, that's a hanging offense.
And I assure you that when the time for hanging comes, it will not be just this one incident with the "Shower Rangers" which leaves Sumner Redstone and all of his kosher crew dancing on air. This incident is merely an illustration of a general pattern of behavior over a long period of time. I chose this illustration not just because it is current, but because it is a matter of court record. You can verify all the details for yourself. You certainly won't get those details from the other Jewish media.
I also chose this incident because it cannot be written off as an aberration, like some piece of Howard Stern scatology. Sumner Redstone is a mainstream Jew: one of, the wealthiest, most powerful, and most influential Jews in the world. He is a leader of the Jews, a Jew to whom nearly all the other Jews look up. No one can call him an aberration. He is the essence of Jewish influence on our society. He is a Jew who is welcomed with open arms at the White House, regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican is in residence. And he believes that what teenaged White girls need is more exposure to the "Shower Rangers." That will loosen them up, make them more openminded, prepare them for sex with Black boys.
And if you've been paying any attention at all to the trends in entertainment for teens, you'll understand that there's nothing exceptional about the "Shower Rangers." They are just one more step in the direction the Jews have been going all along: not just Sumner Redstone, but all of them, from the time they first began taking over control of our entertainment media.
In the 1930s Gentile leaders, most of them Christians, were able to threaten Jews effectively with boycotts if they violated standards of decency. One of the most effective leaders of this effort was Joseph Breen, who helped establish the Production Code for Hollywood in 1934. Breen knew exactly what he was up against. Of Jewish film-makers Breen wrote in 1932, and I quote: "These lousy Jews . . . are simply a vile bunch of people with no respect for anything but the making of money. . . . These Jews seem to think of nothing but money-making and sexual indulgence. . . . [They] are the men and women who decide what the film fare of the nation is to be." -- end quote --
The Production Code constrained the Jews for a couple of decades, but with the advent of television the Jews gained far more influence over public attitudes and behavior than the churches had. The Jews could safely ignore the Code, and in the 1960s they began pushing again in the same direction Sumner Redstone is still pushing with the "Shower Rangers."
So you see, Jews really are different. They're not just like us any more than the Chinese are. And let me tell you something: I and a lot of other White Americans have had just about as much of the Chinese and the Jews and the Blacks and the rest of the multicultural filth here as we will tolerate. We've been pushed about as far as we're willing to let ourselves be pushed. We want our country back, and we intend to take it back, and if a lot of soccer moms and yuppies and Politically Correct journalists who can't understand that get in the way, they're going to be hurt.
Get Right With God Now
Lynne writes: Dear Luke:
"Our love for God is like the moon, rarely at the full; even at its best, full of holes; and more often, just a crescent streak, sometimes not even visible. God's love for us is like the sun, pouring out fully, instantaneously, without interruption. You never concentrate on your love for God. You concentrate on God's love for you." - D-smond Ford Right With God Right Now, Page 78
Somehow I doubt that you visit your Dad's site on a regular basis, especially over a holiday or Sabbath, so I copied the above. I continue to honor your request that I not contact your father (and you honor my suggestion that you not be linking your site to his), but sometimes I cruise his page, and I find the above very interesting, in that it leaves room for disbelief/agnosticism/atheism /questioning. And offers an accurate description of my relationship with "God," and a direction for me to take.
Of course, I disagree that all one has to do to be "right with God" is to "accept Jesus as the Savior" and the "laws" (read "behavior") is irrelevant. I figure it is my consistant behavior that makes me acceptable even as I go through long periods of little faith. Speaking of sites, and third person communication....(I thought the segue in your writing was rather drastic....Alisha Klass prostituting herself in Vegas to Bible Talk....)
"There are many ways to see the world. But the people whose primary way of viewing life is through the prism of the Torah, understood literally, will most likely dominate Jewish life. In Judaism, the rigorists win out."
"Dominate" is a funny choice of words. The minority will probably never dominate the majority. They become the most visible. They may even be perceived as being "more Jewish," the way the darkest African-Americans are perceived as being the "most Negroid." But we dominate culture by being more visible in daily life, not by shrinking into our hovels and associating only with a limited number of our own kind.
"My father was a Bible scholar, so I've known about this stuff since I was a kid. I understand the Torah as a moral document, not a historical one."
But is it not both? It has a place in history, as a document which affected the behavior of the participants at various times and places, thus affecting history. And it offers moral teachings, some limited to times and places, and some universal.
"I'm a fideist. I believe in the truth of my own religion and I believe in the truth of secular science. And I live happily knowing that the two conflict. When secular science shows parts of my sacred tradition can not be accepted literally, I then understand those sacred texts as teaching on a moral and spiritual place, rather than a historical and scientific one."
Hmmmm... this is good to know. I wonder sometimes if you have any grasp on secular science, not so much because you are a religious fundamentalist, but because you seem so eager to cling to delusion when it serves your purpose. Homeopathy, for example, which has been discredited by secular science over and over again.
"But I know that this multiple approach, which is basically the approach of Conservative Judaism (CJ), is not the ingredient for the masses. CJ is a college professor's type of religion. It doesn't work well sociologically."
Stop being such an elitist. Okay...CJ can be a religion for the upper middle class educated Jews. Jews tend to be more educated than some other groups. In fact, you can divide Jews up, if you like, into those with college educations and professions and critical thinking skills and those who are uneducated trailer trash, and leave CJ for the former, and find something else for the latter. Are there a whole lot of people who crave a Jewish identity who do NOT heed the Jewish call to education and learning? That's what I enjoy about turning Orthodox.
"Over the past nine months, I've run into so many people who believe in things I regard as ludicrous."
Like what? See, this is what I don't enjoy about our correspondence. I know that contrary to your statements, you DO touch your computer over the holiday, but just to talk with your friends, which is permissible, of course. I wish I had someone of your calibre with whom to engage in intellectual and theological debate. I can pass long, pleasant hours in such activity. You would answer this for any of your male buddies, but not enlighten me. Sometimes, punkin', you are infuriating in your opacity. I'm not a sex goddess, I'm not a buddy...oh, never mind....as long as you're happy. Your happiness is a damn good start.
I'm glad you have male buddies. It says in the INTJ profile that male INTJ's don't usually have the emotional security to relate to female INTJ's of equivalent intellectual ability, leaving the females out in the emotional cold with their pussycats, since the females won't settle for men of lesser intellect, whereas the men still need the manly sense of control and domination over a lesser female being.
"I don't think the unraveling of the Bible as fact will have much affect on either Judaism or Christianity. This battle was already fought over 100 years ago. And even as the evidence becomes increasingly overwhelming that the Bible is a post-Mosaic composite document that is not historically accurate, the religious fundamentalists, both Jewish and Christian, are winning more adherents than their liberal and more rational bretheren. As the new book Jew vs Jew puts it, the Orthodox are winning."
The unraveling of the Bible as fact has been taking place for at least TWO hundred years now, and it hasn't had much EFFECT on Judaism, Christianity, Islam or any other religion. And you are correct -- the more science interprets the Bible as a spiritual document only, the further the rational drop away from it. There is, however, a corresponding rise in adherence to another form of irrational spirituality -- "New Age Thought."
People are hardwired to need the spiritual explanation for that which they can't control or understand, and they turn to astrology, crystals, alien abductions, homeopathy or what-have-you to replace their loss of faith in traditional religious sources. What bothers me is that they are unlinking the moral from the spiritual. It's all getting very selfish. The New Age stuff is all about "how the cosmos affects ME." Is liberal and rational also selfish? Loss of interaction in community; more focus on self? Are we required to share an odd or unpopular belief system, be it involvement in pornography or literal interpretation of Torah and observance of ritual in order to bond as a community?
The piece you can't feel is that because of my ethnicity and cultural background, I can't avoid being Jewish, and a Russian Jew at that. I CAN'T be "white trash" or a tall, Scandinavian blonde. That's why I am gonna look at the Jewish singles thing...presumably by the time a Jewish male is 50+, if he attends that sort of dating function, he is willing to accept a Jewish-appearing woman. And I don't even look stereotypically Jewish....
So, orthodox or not, I'm a Jew, and I find it interesting that you find it so difficult to attend to my spiritual development, but perhaps that's because I would be asking the hard questions, and they might make you question your own? Anyway, I ordered the book you mentioned through the library system and, if I get it in time, perhaps next Sabbath, as you observe rituals and community, I shall read (and report) and then have something Jewish to discuss on the 50+ Singles Trip to the Chinese Gardens next Sunday.
Chaim Amalek writes: Never mind all this religion stuff. Babies are being eaten by chinese in china, and the media refuses to discuss it! I shudder to think what may be hanging next to the Peking duck in Chinatown in just a few years.
PS What ever happened to that woman who had the hots for you in Vancouver, BC... Did you ever meet up with her? Vancouver has lots of Chinese. Perhaps she would know if one can purchase the fetus of a white baby there for dinner.
Fred writes: I think your friend, Dr. Pierce, has flipped. I sincerely doubt that cannibalism in China, to the extent it exists at all, is anything other than an aberration. (The community I live in is starting to become majority Chinese, and I see no evidence of this remarkable practice. Also, I've dated Chinese women, and again, I saw not evidence of this practice.) Pierce's claims to the contrary lead me to suspect that he is taking leave of his senses, or his minions and readership are gullible.
Second, I sincerely doubt that MTV would broadcast anybody defecating on anybody else. Not only do I disbelieve this story, but I doubt that most people would find it anything other than absurd.
[Helpful writes: Do not doubt Dr Pierce.]
Third, as a member of one of Dr. Pierce's least favorite tribes, I find it very hard to believe that we as an ethnic group engage in scatological humor any more than any other ethic group. I don't recall myself or any of my Jewish friends having told a scatological joke since childhood. I believe that Dr. Pierce's data gathering technique is profoundly flawed (i.e. he makes all this nonsense). What's your take on all of this--is Pierce taking leave of his senses in a more grand style than usual?
On another note, I think that any porner who receives a request to have a film crew watching him at work would do well to a) find out whether that film crew has an "agenda"; and b) be on this best behavior. I would also be suspicious of any film crew that wants to film Max Hardcore, Rocco Siffredi or Anabolic stuff. I'd be willing to bet that any crew that wants to film those folks is looking for red meat propaganda to toss in the direction of anti-porn types.
Anyway, Luke, what sort of sedar did you attend this Passover? Finally, Chaim's description of Passover constituting a celebration of the mass extermination of first borns by a moral god is quite a misrepresentation of the festival. I seem to recall liberation from slavery as being more of the main point of the holiday, eh? Chaim, why do you insist on trying to portray this holiday in a bad light, and Luke, why would you post such a thing?
Luke replies: I believe Dr Pierce that some Chinese eat fetuses (though I have no independent sources) and that the MTV defecation lawsuit is real.
Regarding Jews alleged defecation humor fetish, I've not encountered it. I would wager that Jewish humor contains considerably less defecation fetish than other groups. In fact, I once heard Orthodox rabbi Berel Wein point out that Jewish humor is not scatological. Much as it pains me to disagree with Dr. Pierce.
I attended two wonderful seders, the second one at my rabbi's house. I came away with this dominant impression - Jewish kids don't lack for self esteem. They all wanted to stand up and give Torah talks that they had not adaquately rehearsed and that they barely understood if at all. Which drove me and many adults crazy, as we wanted to get to the food. And the presence of all the kids mouthing off diminished the possibility of substantive adult conversation.
I disagree with both Fred's and Chaim's view of Passover. My understanding is that in its literal religion meaning, it is about release from the bondage of Pharoah and evil rule, so that we can autonomously accept the Torah and take on another ruler - God. We move from being servants of Pharoah to being servants of God. We will always serve something - be it fame, status, money, art, or whatever. The ideal is to serve God, and God alone.
Chaim has a wicked sense of humor. I publish everything I find interesting, irrespective of whether I agree with it.
Bob Jones writes: The MTV defecation lawsuit is real, and settled. MTV will never air the show, and paid the girls a lot of money.
The Chinese fetus-eating thing is utter nonsense; what could possibly make you think such a thing is true?
I think jews are into sex jokes and fart jokes; I've only ever heard gentiles make s--- jokes. I also think your interpretation of Passover is wrong. First, the covenant with g-d is made by Abraham, before bondage in Mizrayim. Second, after reaching Israel, the Israelites had a king, so they certainly served another besides g-d. The Passover story is about exactly what it says it is about: How we escaped from bondage in Egypt, with the help of g-d.
I Wank, Therefore I Am
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Dudley Moore writes from his sick bed: Luke, you've often stated, in the preface to History of X and elsewhere, that you went into porn to find out more about yourself. I realize you meant answers of a narcissistic variety, but, if I may, I'd like to briefly outline the deep, very satisfying psychoanalytic answers given by reparative psychoanalyst Charles Socarides MD in his book, The Pre-oedipal Origins of the Sexual Perversions.
As any regular reader knows, the lofty, if largely unspoken goals of l-keford.com are first and foremost to unify communication among all the branches of the sex industry--i.e.,porn, dancing, and prostitution--under one domain name, and simultaneously, as a part of this world-changing process, to pioneer the link between modern science and the porn industry. As you are well aware, Luke, modern psychoanalysis, let alone science, doesn't find the sex industry interesting enough to study, at least not since Robert Stoller died. And society certainly doesn't give a damn about understanding the sex industry. So thanks for posting this scientific update on your radical site.
Socarides' model is a unitary theory of the sexual perversions and, by extension, it also applies to all sexually perverse behaviors and perverse fantasies. It's also the identical model used for therapies of reparative homosexuality. Very briefly, here's how it works(see Socarides' book for a full 600 pages of exhaustive details on the below):
Every normal boy and girl has a primary feminine identification with his or her mother. In the sexual perversions, including reparative homosexuality, some early crisis always occurs in separating and individuating from the mother, usually in the 3rd or 4th year, which results in a pre-oedipal (i.e., maternal) fixation, resulting in a specific, later sexual perversion which is used by the child or later adult to "repair" a sense of masculine or feminine incompleteness and defective gender.
This primary feminine identification becomes a point of fixation. The now-perverted boy fails to develop a fully separated masculine self-identity, the now-perverted girl fails to attain a separated feminine self-identity.
To demonstrate how well this model fits, let me use reparative homosexuality--which Socarides himself developed--as a quick example. According to Socarides, male and female homosexuality are a reparative MIRRORING or TWINNING process: the male or female homosexual seeks to repair the earliest, broken phase of mirroring/union with their idealized mother by finding instead an idealized homosexual male or female MIRROR or TWIN. As an obvious example, you'll often see 2 male homosexual bodybuilding "twins" together, since bodybuilding is also an attempt at self-repair of a defective body image/gender identity, or you'll see 2 butch lesbians "twins" with similar hairstyles and outfits, or you'll find ultrafemme lesbian "twin" pairs working the tables together at strip clubs.
Well, here's the deep, unifying insight of Socarides. A similar VISUAL reparative, gender-seeking fixation motivates ALL the sexual perversions(and thus by extension, all sexually perverse behaviors and fantasies too).
For example, both male porn consumers AND reparative homosexuals retain a primary feminine identification, and are seeking their lost masculinity through repetition compulsion. The male homosexual seeks his lost masculinity in other idealized males, while the male porn consumer seeks his lost masculinity in extremized sex with females in order to feel himself as SEPARATELY male as possible. This primary feminine identification also reveals the roots of homophobia: the homophobic males detect their shared primary feminine identification in homosexual men, and feel threatened by it(more specifically, they are paranoid of the sensed threat of total maternal engulfment/intrusion--see Socarides).
But it's slightly more complex than that for the male porn consumer: the compromising acts viewed in porn are actually revenge fantasies on the mother, in a repetition compulsion which must continually seek to somehow effect lasting and permanent maternal separation and feelings of masculinity, but cannot. The irony is that masculinity can only truly be successfully achieved by identifying with either a strong heterosexual father,or, for example, a therapist or male role model, or at least through supportive and organizing statements from the mother and significant others such as "Some day you will be a father and have children of your own," not by differentiating himself from mother through ever more extreme, sex-object females who unconsciously represent either his sexually REJECTING or INTRUSIVE mother. Therefore, what he really repetitiously accomplishes through porn and other perverse fixations is not his lost masculinity, which he seeks, but an ongoing CONFRONTATION with his primary feminine identification, which he cannot escape. However, he must continue to try to escape his feminine identification through repeat attempts in order to feel himself securely masculine, at least during the duration of these compulsive sex acts.
Some psychoanalysts call this fixated primary feminine identification (as in porn), "unconscious homo (same) sexuality" in the literature, and here's why: What the male porn consumer unconsciously fulfills in viewing "sex-object sex" either in 1.vengeful sex (directed at his mother) or 2.feminine sex like lesbian sex (where the feminine identification is obvious), is a FEELING OF WHAT THE FEMALE IS FEELING IN THE SEX ACT. As an example, he sees a girl in revealing lingerie surrounded by leering men, and fantasizes what it must be like to BE HIMSELF A GIRL IN REVEALING LINGERIE being leered at by all these other more-masculine-than-he men. He thereby reassures himself by feeling himself male both THROUGH SHARING A FEMININE IDENTIFICATION WITH THE FEMALE SEX OBJECT and, at the same time, fantasizing what he believes, through displacement of his own sex drives, OTHER MEN would feel toward that identical female in that sex scene or act. Another example of a retained primary feminine identification would be men who enjoy hearing their girlfriends relate stories of what other men did to her, since he vicariously enjoys what they did, i.e., he IS her.
Masturbation exercise: Masturbate your usual number of times this week, and as you do so, allow yourself to become consciously aware that you are in fact actually identifying with the female sex objects in your sexual fantasies. You and the girl in your masturbation fantasies are one and the same! According to Socarides, you are indulging a primary feminine identification.
P.S. Freud also had a primary feminine identification with his mother. See the book Freud and his Mother.
Luke Winds Up Passover
I've gone without chametz (bread and most grains) for the past eight days of Passover. I've kept a basic routine of prayer (8AM - noon), eat (till 3PM), sleep, pray (7PM - 9PM) eat (till midnight) sleep.... It is good to spend time with people at their homes, to be invited back for meals and hours of conversation, reminds me of my childhood at Avondale and PUC.
I met a Chinese girl who converted to Orthodox Judaism nine years ago, but still has not told her parents because they will stop communicating with her when they find out... I'm lucky my parents are more understanding... Everybody always asks me, "How did your parents react?" I say that it is particularly disappointing to my father, that my mom mainly wants to lead a good life and to be happy, but both my parents think it is much better for me to be into Judaism than atheistic communism...