Thursday, May 10th, 2001

Mr Marcus Piledrives Miss Daisy

Curious George writes: I wonder how the pimp of all pimps feels about being Vivid's bitch. Hardcore wannabe Mr. Marcus fakes like he is the "Macnificent" but unfortunately this overdeveloped midget of a giant ain't nothing but a Token Nigga. I think it's funny that he complains about all of the racism in the industry, but he is doing his danmedest to f--- every white bitch vivid can sign. Not only is his cause self defeating, it allows Vivid to respond to racial allegation by saying "Racist.? Some of our best friends are black" Thank you Mr. Marcus for driving Ms. Daisy. You are a true supporter of the Underground Railroad. By the way I hear that we are free up north. Drop your shackles and run you sell out bitch.

Mr Marcus writes: Read the book I'm writing, it will explain everything. Until then check out www.mrmarcus.com and see some of those pretty Vivid Girls I've f---ed. Mr.Marcus PS: and it's Magnificent you idiot.

But I like the "Mac" association... PS again dammit....I really like Vivid, they just said a very stupid thing.

Phyllisha Anne, Penthouse Pet Venus In San Francisco Bay Area

From BigDoggie.net: Guys, I just received confirmation that the newly enhanced Porn Star and Feauture Dancer Bethany Alexander a.k.a. Phyllisha Anne is on Tour and Feature Dancing as well in the Bay area at The New Century Club. She brought along her friend Penthouse Pet and June 2000 Hustler's Center Fold Venus to help her take care of the many hobbyist that would love to see either or both of these Classy Ladies.

I personally read on the Adult Star Magazine for this month that she will be Feature Dancing later on this year in my hometown. I will finally be able to witness LIVE, her new look and dancing abilities that so many people have spoken about lately. If you want to have a Up, Close and Personal Meeting Of The Minds with both or either of them you can do so by calling 818-801-5489 and/or e-mail them at SexualBunny@Excite.Com. They will be there until Sunday, May 12th, 2001.

XXX writes: Have you ever gone bareback with a porn star escort?

Stripperfan writes: In my opinion, it's just too dangerous to go bareback all the way. After meeting and talking with one porn star who is HIV positive, I decided at that time to be careful. This girl is beautiful and in the heat of the moment, it would be very easy to say "to hell with it" and go for it. This girl convinced me that you never know who has what and you certainly can't tell by looking at someone. So I'm pretty careful these days.

Jenna Jameson Checks Out Heather Barron Tip

Heather Barron writes: Luke, I could be wrong but look at LondonExotics.com, and search for Blonde Escort Andrea...is this a Jenna Jameson picture? Please check it out to verify and inform the real JJ of copyright infringement if it is. If it's not here, this girl is a dead ringer.

Jenna Jameson replies: Hi Luke, I checked out the tip off from Heather. That picture is SO far from what I look like. DEFINATELY NOT ME! But, thank you Heather for keeping your eye out. Once again, I don’t escort, and if anyone sees anything on any hooker sites, feel free to inform clubjenna.com.

Temptress Update

Yes, its me Temptress. Me and Wicked are taking a little break. I'm still in the business but right now IM just looking to-do mainly photo shoots unless there is a hot chick I haven't had the pleasure of licking. I just thought Id ask you to let people know my fan club address and maybe let photographers know IM looking for a Photo shoot. Iv been taking a break and IM ready to get my face back out there. IM even considering Featuring. I just have to decide on an agent.

I have a fan club and Its address #347 16787 beach blvd. Huntington Beach Ca 92647

Big Porno Production Companies Financed By Drugs

Gregory Bowman writes: "I was involved in regarding financing certain BIG production companies with drug money from the 80's. I have all the names and where the money came from. Even arrest reports and grand jury findings. Certain companies today were mere money launderers from the 80s who hid assets in porn. I have all the names and the companies."

Curious writes: Loved the headline "Big Porn Production Companies Financed By Drugs." zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I mean who cares? I have a scoop on a really shocking story. "Orthodox Jew Financed By Internet Porn Advertising!"

Luke says: How can you jerk off to a porno financed by drugs?

I never do that. I am above all that. I have reached a higher spiritual plane, and therefore these tawdry earthly acts are of no interest to me.

Curious answers: With gusto! Better question. How do you give to your shul the money that is soiled by pornography?

Luke: "I do this because it enables me to rub shoulders with important men who satisfy my Daddy cravings. After all, I am a mere boy of 35 years, and I do need a Hollywood Daddy."

Coke Turns Into Poke

Gregory Bowman writes: I started investigating the drug connection in porn when my neighbor, a Colombian fellow with many nice cars and a big fence around his home, was carted off in a swat truck one morning in 1979. Five other cartel heads living in the valley were arrested that day. At that time it was touted as the largest drug bust in the nation; arresting the king-pins behind the operation. The bail was set for my neighbor at 5.6 million dollars-all five defendants were bailed out that day. The entire bail amounts were paid in cash; not with a bond and it was in upwards of 12 million dollars.

Who moved into the house after he was arrested? A porn producer from NY. His wife, retired from being a porn star, took a liking to me and we spent many a hot afternoon drinking margaritas pool-side. She loved to talk and I loved to listen. We sometimes would watch her movies in the private theatre they had built. She had a particular turn on-she loved to have sex on top of her husband money while he was in New York and would open the safe in the house to reveal CASH! lots and lots of cash. I have very fond memories of her; and getting his money all sweaty and wrinkled as we satisfied her turn on. GOOD TIMES! That continued for two years and then they VANISHED! POOF! gone.

In investigating further and by doing title searches, I stumbled across some names that were involved in the porn business.

Im not at this time ready to dump this bomb and watch everyone in the industry play grab ass while the paper shredders go into overtime but I will say that tens of millions of dollars were funneled from this Cartel through certain porn companies and even were used to establish one very big name in porn today.

Im sure some of your readers are well aware of the rumors and I can say first hand that, indeed, drug money from the eighties went directly into the production and establishment of porn production companies.

What may be more alarming to some readers is that the DEA and the Justice Dept. allowed these porn companies to walk free, in most part, in exchange for information vital to the conviction of the Cartel, mostly Colombians. Some companies owners testified in Grand Jury indictments of these Colombians. The Colombians?? Most fled the country.

Additionally, in researching land holdings, there were numerous transfers of title on homes and land to some of these individuals. For example, I have the records of at least six transfers of title on one house within a year to different dummy companies with the final owner being an owner of a porn company. Interestingly enough, the house was torn apart bit by bit looking for hidden stashes of cash and was finally rebuilt before the owner moved in. More to come.

If your readers have any comments or information they would like to share they can certainly send it to Nathans_parable@yahoo.com

World famous director James DiGiorgio writes: Lukey: As usual, lots of sizzle, but no steak. When are you gonna learn? Are you absorbing nothing at my feet? Someone writes you with (what you think are) some startling revelations about the jizz bizz, and once again, you have nothing concrete to back any of it up. Drug dealers financing porn flicks? s---, dude, drug dealers financed all kinds of s--- in the 80s and still do. Oh, I see, it's different when they finance a porn company, rather than say, a mainstream movie, or an apartment complex, or a shopping mall. Lukey, stop being so naieve. No one cares. We don't care, the law don't care, only you, apparently care! No one's grabbing their asscheeks. Stick to what you do best: Defending the concept of "tachlis" and other oddities of Judaism, and being my co-host on the net radio.

Luke Gets Mail

Brandy Alexandre writes: I was just watching a documentary segment that studied brain activity during deep religious experiences. What they discovered was that when someone reaches the peak of their religious experience or devotion, the area of the brain that accepts sensory input and gives us our sense of self shuts off. We get the feeling off being part of something bigger, more of a feeling of community, and the like. So I guess that's my problem with religion. I'm too selfish and self-aware. I cannot give myself over to community and its dictates. It also perhaps explains why porn stars do what they do. They don't feel those dictates; being part of something greater than themselves. Or maybe that's WHY they come to porn. It's the only thing that unlocks it for them.

Lynne writes Luke: I think that being too selfish is your problem, period. Porn is a community as much as is any religious congregation, or club scene, or college campus, and people naturally want to belong to a community. We're pack animals. Your self-awareness reveals the selfishness and evil within your soul.

You deliberately attempt to crash a traditional religious community to which you know you can never really belong, enforcing your belief that you are condemned to being an outcast, that you deserve to be an outcast. Meanwhile you laugh at the community itself because they are so easily fooled by your surface presentation into thinking that you are potentially one of them.

You lurk on the edges of the porn community, where no one trusts you; you prowl about the Orthodox Jewish community, disclosing as little as possible about yourself, knowing that should they find out the truth about you, you will be cast aside, or stoned, or excommunicated, or whatever it is they do these days to sinners like yourself who mock their values.

You need a Hollywood Daddy, a celestial Daddy, the approval of a masculine peer group regardless of how you make women suffer... too bad you aren't gay, Luke -- you would have gotten all the daddying you need and you'd be a far better man for it.

Welth writes: do american jews think that the west bank and gaza strip are not occupied territory? that isreal really has claims that are valid out side of the "promised land" thing?

Chaim Amalek writes: The West Bank is a geographically nebulous expression that easily encompasses all the land between the river Jordan and the Med. Sea. Regarding the current struggle, let's face it, the arabs want the jews out, just as their ancestors wanted the crusader states of yore eliminated. Which they were, after about 80 years of struggle. I think it is a pretty good bet that this struggle will continue until:

1. the arabs win and Israel is destroyed from without;

2. demographic changes from within combined with democratic principles destroy the jewish state from within, ala South Africa and Rhodesia; or

3. the arabs grow weary of the battle.

3, if it ever is to occur, will take centuries. And in that time frame, 1 and 2 are far, far more likely. THAT'S WHY JEWS WANT THE UNITED STATES TO KEEP ITS DOORS OPEN TO IMMIGRATION - THEY SUSPECT THAT THEY WILL HAVE NEED OF AMERICA AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR WHEN ARAB ARMIES CRUSH THE JEWISH STATE.

Luke, feel free to discuss the above with your new hebrew honeys.

Why Therapy When You Can Pray

Jason Stoner writes: Luke, Why do you go to a therapist? You are a religious Jew. Pray to Almighty God for guidance, strength and healing. Shrinks are for secularists. Psychology is based on a fraud, Sigmund Fraud (as I like to call him) and his botched medical experiments and resulting bogus theories.

All you need to do is believe, walk in the paths of righteousness and continue exposing the sex industry to the light, which is obviously your calling. It may seem strange and mysterious that you've been called in that manner but God is a mystery as is His purpose for you. Instead of spending money on a therapist, donate that cash to a Jewish charity. Instead of spending time in therapy, spend it volunteering with a Jewish social services group, soup kitchen, food bank or something. Therapy is a waste of time and money.

Curious writes: Why do you go to a therapist? Because she is hot looking?

Fred writes: I agree. By the way, dentistry is also a fraud. If you have a tooth ache, all you need to do is to pray to god, and he will fix it if it were destined and meant to be fixed.

I suppose if I were interested in giving a non-glib answer, I would say the following. It is certainly true that psychiatry at the time of Freud was an infant field, and as such, the initial speculations were often inaccurate. Just like numerous suppositions by Aristotle et al. were often innacurate at best. With time, individuals working in these fields become more knowledgeable. Was Aristotle a fraud just because he got a lot of things wrong?

BTW, I actually took the time to read Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Freud, and I was left with the impression that a) his ideas were interesting, b) probably not accurate, and c) there didn't seem to be a lot of experimental work in the normal sense of providing a hypothesis, running an experiment, and seeing what happens. Maybe he did that work, but his introductory lectures sure don't report it. But at the time, there was simply very little information on the subject of mental illness. And I was filled with rage about this. Then I realized it was my mother's fault. I've been in therapy ever since.

Lastly, is "Stoner" a last name or a hobby description?

Chaim Amalek writes: Are there any studies that identify specific "talking" therapies as being substantially more effective over time than the simple passage of time, sans therapist? I do not think it is fair to compare the worth of a shrink to that of a dentist. Dental pain (the kind that compels one to visit the dentist) is often very intense, and is due to readily identifiable and well understood reasons. The average dentist can bring this intense physical pain to an abrupt end with standard medical procedures. Shrinks (who do not use drugs) can not make similar claims for their therapies.

On the other hand, if there was no market for therapists, god knows what sort of mischief the jews who dominate the field would get into, so perhaps it is a good thing in that sense.

Lynne responds: There are studies that identify talking with friends as being as effective as talking with paid professional therapists. As I'm sure Luke can attest, some people have no friends with whom they feel comfortable sharing their deepest secrets. And if one has no friends, and never interacts with society, preferring instead to live alone in the woods and build bombs, it doesn't really matter if one is loony tunes or not until there's complaints, now, does it?

Internet Gossip

XXX Porner says: There was a big fight during Evan Horowitz's AdultGossip.com radio show last week. There was some bad blood between Fantasyman (FM aka Ron Levi) and Kimberly, who works for SexEntertain. Sexentertain threw a party Saturday night at the Silent Theater on Fairfax Blvd in Los Angeles which conflicted with FM's party Saturday night at the LAX Marriot.

FM's Cybererotica planned this party way in advance to run in conjunction with its big trade show for webmasters. Cybererotica wanted to keep these webmasters hostage, feed them information, feed them, entertain them, and hope that they will sign up for all your programs.

Some competing internet companies didn't want to pay FM a thousand dollars to help sponsor the show.

SexEntertain was originally going to throw a Cinco De Mayo cyberparty with Mike Rick from Cybersynergism but Mike's house wasn't ready in time.

So Kimber goes into the chat the other day of AdultGossip.com's radio show and she got lambasted by FM. It got heated. They go back and forth. And FM tells her that she's not welcome at the hotel. Then Friday night, Kimber showed up at the hotel. It was a ballsy move on Kimber's part. And FM told her that she wasn't welcome there. But she was certainly within her rights to see other people at the hotel.

Kimber spoke up for herself and it got ugly.

FM's got problems with SexEntertain stemming back to many different things.

The Cybererotica trade show in Los Angeles last weekend was a tremendous success, attracting several hundred people, most of whom were new to the business. When you've got girls eating pussy in the middle of a room. With a bunch of amateur porn stars getting down surrounded by a bunch of amateur webmasters trying to get into this business. It's like Avon. You're closing.

I saw looks on people's faces. Holy hell! This is what the porn business is all about. I want to quit my day job.

The LA scene was there - Vivid, IGallery, PornKings.com. JoeE had a suite at the Mondrian where he threw these crazy bashes.

Cybererotica consultant Lee Noga writes: CyberErotica and numerous sponsors put on the AWE event and the night time events are part of the convention and sponsorships, Ron does not benefit from these parties, its the other sponsors who do...their signage is everywhere, and CEN was a 50% sponsor of the party, so its not just a CE event....so stating the hostage crap is incorrect, CE gets no more exposure than a regular sponsor and often gets less, so lets not take this out of context...

Kimber does not know when to back off, and has only been marketing for 2 weeks, and did not even know who FM was, she should learn the terrain before going mouth to mouth with anyone. Several webmasters talked to her about her behavior and what they witnessed, and she was remorseful and apoligized on Saturday on the boards so I am told.

Any webmaster company that shows up to the AWE shows without being a sponsor is asked to leave, this has been policy set after the first Miami show. Its only fair the AWE sponsors get the chance to spend time with the webmasters as well as show them a good time without interference from outsiders.

There was no way any tour would have accepted Sex Entertain as a sponsor last minute after all that preceded the event given their actions and attitude.

I personally spoke to Kimber and was gonna suggest they leave the immediate premises but she said they would NOT be back on Saturday and it was like 2:30AM outside the front of the hotel where many hung out and smoked, and it was her right to stay on the outside of the property if she wanted too.

Had Sex Entertain conducted themselves more professional [ie-Kimber], they could have had a sponsorship, they clearly had no respect for the event, and had no business coming anywhere near the Marriot.

If you want to harvest webmasters, spend some money, take part in whats happening, but not cease an opportunity because the webmasters are housed under one roof taking part in events paid by numerous companies [CyberAge, CCBill, Xpays, CEN, AVNonline, VIVIDVIP, PornHolio, WebInc, HerbalO, Pornication, RoseCash, National Net, EMG, SilverCash, Sweet Entertainment, NetBilling, Net Dialers, Content Club, Conversion Cash, BabeNet, Shaw Internet].

The show as fantastic, I would say 80% or more attendees never had been to a webmaster event [we did a show of hands], about 250 attended the seminar.

PS-- FM never just lambasts anyone without firing numerous warning shots, I have been present when some ppl disregard the shots and opt to go toe to toe with him, I have never seen FM start crap, he is not that way, if he does pin somebody it was of their own doing that wanted to take it there. When that happens FM is no different than anyone else, he will go for the win.

J.D. Considine Update

Music critic J.D. Considine has moved to New York (working for Harris Publications) from Baltimore. And he loves his new digs. J.D. writes Luke: "Things are good here, although I've been so busy since moving to New York that my online activities have dropped off considerably. (Though on the plus side, riding the subway to and from Brooklyn has greatly increased my book-reading time. Who says there aren't benefits to mass transit?)"

Quality DVDs From Vivid Interactive

Stolen from AVNGossip.com (please your Email Luke comments):

Jim Monroe led us through a look at the latest from Vivid Interactive. They're making it a point to add more title-specific materials to each disc, including a "Fetish Menu" for particular shots of interest...

"At one time, we were the only game in town," Monroe said. "We were the only people quality DVDs. Now a lot of people are making them, and making good ones. We have to stay ahead of the curve."

Luke wonders: Instead of adding all this bonus footage, why doesn't Vivid simply release DVDs with ALL THE SCENES in the original tape?

Hey Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

Porn star Ruby writes from the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada: Luke, My MSNBC special, "Red Light Survivors" was on last night. I would like to say that the bottle in my hand was Henry Weinhards draft ROOTBEER!!! I haven't partied in two days and I'm horny!! I have masturbated to my own movies on occasion. However, my fantasies are a lot more complicated, and porn has rules, my mind can go anywhere!!!

Luke, I hate that song! Ruby Baby by Dion and the Bellmonts is a much better choice. I finally got laid, and feel much better now. Sometimes you have to be patient. What's up, anything more interesting than the same old, same old? Tell everyone I'll be up at the ranch till the 20th, and my cat Jezebel needs surgery, so be generous!!

Linda Lovelace Special On Luke F-rd Live

Linda Lovelace interview on Eyada.com.

Listen here to Tuesday's show with Linda Lovelace expert Eric Danville.

James DiGiorgio to Jay Gertzman: "Luke understands why there are so many Italians in porn because Italians are generally criminal. But he doesn't understand why Jews are in it."

Jay: "Jewish people came to this country and they were on the outside. They had skills in publishing and printing and selling... All the vices are engaged in by people who use other people in their same group because they can trust them. And at the end of World War I, no Jew could be a publisher in the mainstream publishing industry."

Jim: "But they could in pornography. And after all, most of the people buying pornography are goyim (non-Jews) and they're all going to hell anyway. So what difference does it make?"

Jay: "I don't know about that. But I think Jewish people had this sense of tachlis, brass tacks."

Jim: "I think that's the greatest thing in that religion, that tachlis thing... So Jews can basically do what they want when they need to make a buck."

Jay: "It gets detached from religion when you live in a secular society..."

We then switched guests.

Luke: "Ok Jimmy, start off really nice and really quiet with my next guest."

Jim: "[Jay] didn't know how to take me. He wasn't sure if I was being funny."

Luke: "Well, he's a professor of English."

Jim: "Big deal. I'm a pornographer."

Luke: "He's not used to talking to somebody as crude as you."

Jim: "Well, he devotes his life to studying the products of people like me."

Luke; "He studies more literary smut."

Jim: "I've made some movies that are pretty literary. My new movie Succubus has a 36-page script. That's literature. It's practically a novel."

Luke: "He's not used to talking about people jerking off. [It's more autoeroticism.]"

Next we interview Eric Danville, author of The Complete Linda Lovelace. Never has somebody assembled so much material on the Deep Throat star.

It's an important book on an important topic. Finally, the Linda Lovelace book we've all been waiting for.

And you can quote that blurb in your promotions, Eric.

Eric: "Three years of my life, that was."

Eric wrote, assembled and published the book. "And thousands and thousands of dollars putting it all together and collecting this stuff too."

Luke: "What did you think of the True Hollywood Story on Linda Lovelace?"

Eric: "It was ok. I knew what it was going to be like going into it... It was the first time I'd done a show like that. They give you a pre-interview and let you know where they want the story to go. They tell you what the questions are going to be. It was the typical Linda as victim, the same story everyone's been hearing for 20 years."

Jim: "She didn't age too well."

Eric: "She looks ok. She looks like a 52-year old Linda Lovelace. She's suffered miserably. With the liver transplant... She can't really afford to take her medication all the time. She's supposed to take two or three pills every day for life and she's lucky if she takes 15 a month."

Jim: "And they don't have an old porn star fund. It's not a business that likes to give back to its own. Some people would say that it is because there are a lot of Jews in it, but there are a lot of Jews in regular Hollywood and they give back."

Luke: "Eric, do you buy Linda's claim that she was a victim and an unwilling participant in Deep Throat and her other pornographic adventures?"

Eric: "As far as her getting beaten up and domestically abused, yeah [I believe her claims]. As far as her enjoying the sex on film, I can't possibly know that. And no one other than her and Chuck could possibly know that. It wasn't really my intentions to prove or disprove anything.

"I was definitely skeptical [of Linda's claims]...until I read the Screw interviews with [Gerard] Damiano and Chuck Traynor [where they talk about Chuck beating Linda]."

Luke: "But do you buy her claim that she was a victim of the pornography industry?"

Eric: "Not necessarily. I buy her claim that she was a victim of Chuck Traynor. I think she was only a victim of the pornography industry in as much as she really didn't want to do pornography and the straight media really didn't know what to do with her. As mainstream America saw her with the taint of pornography on her face. She never really said that Harry Reems [Linda's Deep Throat costar] laid a hand on her, or that Damiano laid a hand on her."

Luke: "She claims that when people watch Deep Throat, they are watching her being raped. That seems ludicrous."

Eric: "That's definitely her perspective. But it makes sense. She did it unwillingly, she says. Sex against someone's will is rape so whenever they watch that movie, they're watching her being raped. It depends on whether or not you believe that she did not enjoy having the sex, which I think a lot of people in porn have a hard time believing."

Luke: "I believe she was in an abusive relationship with Chuck Traynor."

Jim: "Half the girls in porno today are in abusive relationships. Big deal. Ok, the only difference is that this movie happens to be the big crossover movie. This movie became the biggest grossing independently financed feature. If it didn't make all that money, nobody would give a s---. Because this happens all the time. I shoot porn for a living. I've had girls come on my sets with black eyes. Where do you think they got 'em? They didn't fall off their stationary bicycle while they were exercising."

Eric: "Who's come on your set with a black eye?"

Jim: "I don't want to name names. I've seen it. I've seen these suitcase pimps. Some of them are kind of abusive. I've seen their reaction when they [the girls] did a s---ty scene and didn't really put themselves into it. And I can only imagine what went on after they got home. I've seen that plenty."

Eric: "It sounds like you are more on Linda's side than Luke thinks I am. In my ten years of interviewing chicks, I've never seen one with a black eye."

Jim: "You've got this suitcase pimp who's a drug addict and she's financing his drug addiction."

Eric: "There are firemen who go home and beat up their wives."

Jim: "It's a fact of life in society."

Eric: "I knew a guy who was a battered boyfriend. He was routinely beaten up by his girl."

Jim: "Luke could easily become a battered boyfriend. Because he's wimpy. If Luke got a girlfriend who started beating on him, Luke would not only take it, he would stay in the relationship. He'd just go talk about it to his therapist. He'd convince himself that he deserved it."

Luke: "I am in an abusive relationship. I have you as a cohost every week."

Jim: "I can empathize with Linda Lovelace for being in an abusive relationship but she's trying to make a career out of it."

Eric: "She was led down the wrong path a couple of times in life. You have to really spend some time with her..."

Jim interrupts again: "She probably sits there and goes, 'They made a movie about Ike and Tina Turner, why don't they make a movie about me and Chuck Traynor?"

Eric: "People have been trying for 20 years. She definitely wants vindication with whatever movie gets made.

"A few years ago, Ron Howard was going to do a movie. I got a copy of the script and gave Linda a copy. She made it through about ten pages and she couldn't handle the dramatic license they were taking...

"It's the classic story of good triumphing over evil."

Jim: "But did good really triumph? Tina Turner went on to become a superstar without Ike. She didn't become anything."

Eric: "I don't think that was necessarily her fault though.

"Linda's been playing it [victimhood] lately only because that is the only thing that people ask her about. If anything, that would be my only true complaint about the E! True Hollywood Story thing. Whenever anyone sits her down and interviews her... And I've been doing a lot of interview with her for this book. And I have to sit people down beforehand and say, 'If all you're looking for is to bag an interview with Linda Lovelace the victim,' that's not going to happen. What I'm into and what I spoke to her about in the back of the book is where she's at now. She's really pretty much over it. It's only when people keep bringing it up, 'Oh, wasn't it horrible what happened to you with Deep Throat,' that she gets all morbid and depressed about it. That's the only thing people really give a s--- about. But if they ask her, 'what is it that gives you joy in life?' First words out of her mouth are going to be 'Oh, my grandson is the light of my life.' She has a lot more going for her than the victim mentality that people commonly see her for.

"Any movie that's made about her has got to show that she was victimized, but she's gotten over it."

Luke: "Do you think she was victimized? You seem to keep using this as though you believe she was?"

Jim: "I'll tell you how she was victimized. Because the movie made $300 million dollars. It continues to produce revenues today and she ain't seeing a f---ing dime of it. And she's got to think about that every fricking day."

Eric: "That's part of why I'm going to heaven. In doing this book, I knew I was going to make some money off of this. When I called her up and asked her for an interview, I wanted to tell her that the book was on its way so she wouldn't be surprised. And I wanted to help her get some money. And she wanted some money to do the interview. And I told her that I don't pay for interviews. I won't do that. But I will show you ways to make money using your name.

"And I told her, 'I don't think there's a reason in the world that you should be ashamed of having been Linda Lovelace. Other people are making money off of the name. Still do. I'm going to. You should to.' So I've been teaching her about marketing, about personal appearances with movie memorabilia and she's done well at those events. And people come up to her absolutely loving it because they're meeting somebody famous. Not because they're meeting a porno star who's going to suck their dick. But they're meeting a legitimate pop culture icon.

"And she is so gracious with everyone. Granted, most of the people come up to her and say, 'Deep Throat was the first movie I saw. And I saw it with my girlfriend. And it opened up our sex lives...' She's very happy for people. If they ask, 'Oh, is it really true? What you say.' She says, 'Yeah. I was forced to make that movie.' And she signs her autograph and they go on their way.

"A large percentage of people come up to her with copies of Ordeal for her to sign. 'Oh my God, my girlfriend lived in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend and I gave her a copy of your book and she had the strength to get away from him.' So she sees people from both sides of the spectrum."

Luke: "How did you get her to talk to you?"

Eric: "That wasn't easy. I had to charm her. I sent her flowers for her birthday. When I heard that Ron Howard was going to be doing a movie, I called her up and I had gotten her number from a guy who'd worked at Arrow Video. And I introduced myself to her. I recognized her voice right away. She told me that she was her [Linda's] secretary. And I told her what I wanted. That I worked at Screw magazine. She said, 'Oh, Goldstein, huh?' I said, 'Yes, I'm being honest with you.' She gave me about ten minutes of her time. I told her what I wanted and she said that she would give Linda the message and to never call again.

"So I didn't call her for another year and a half until I was actually working on the book and getting to the end of it. And I realized that to complete my book, I wanted to have an exclusive interview with her. And when I told her that, she realized that I wasn't just out to trash her. And that I knew Catherine McKinnon's books, and I knew Andrea Dworkin's books. She said that I'd caught her on a good night. She said that she wanted to meet me in person and see what I was about.

"I flew out to her a couple of months later. I met her. I told her what I wanted to do with the book, the marketing and all that. About a month after that, she gave me about two-and-a-half hours of her time and I got the interview."

Jim: "Didn't she go on a religious trip for a while?"

Eric: "No, no, not really. There are a lot of things that people think that they know about Linda like she's a born again. She wasn't born again. She's always been pretty religious. She didn't have a double masectomy. She had a liver transplant. But she didn't go on a holler roller..."

Jim: "I think she should make a comeback movie?"

Eric: "It's probably not going to happen any time soon. She's been offered a lot of money to do that."

Jim: "Nobody's doing anything with the domain name LindaLovelace.com."

Eric: "But it takes a lot of money and a time investment. She would definitely win a case like that."

Luke: "Eric, why didn't you do a conventional journalistic evaluation of the truth of her claims [of victimhood]?"

Eric: "It's more like a pop culture book and the beginning part looks at the way the media looks at her. And I am much more into the pop culture aspect of things, like collecting... The chapters on songs about her. But as far as [conventional journalism], I would have to talk to a lot of people to make it credible. And Al Goldstein wouldn't talk to me. [Gerard] Damiano wouldn't talk to me. And when I couldn't get the two of them... There are only about ten people who really really know..."

Luke: "Do you leave [Screw magazine] on good terms with Al Goldstein?"

Eric: "Yes."

Jim: "Did you get tired of all the Jew jokes while you were there?"

Eric: "No. I was writing some of the best of them."

Jim: "Are you Jewish?"

Eric: "No. I was the token goy with all my friends in high school and college."

Jim: "Then you worked for Penthouse. Is it better working for guineas or for Jews?"

Eric: "It's better working for guineas."

Jim: "Eric, do you read Luke's web site?"

Eric: "Daily. I think it's interesting cross between almost daily serious journalism and performance art. Sometimes when I can not take it seriously. And there are other times when he brings up legitimate issues. I'm interested that he's got such a hardon for the Mafia and the guys at Crescent. The online billing issues - I don't have an interest in.

"I don't like a lot of what he [Luke] stands for... What he's doing is actually very smart. He's subverting something from the inside. And that I have a lot of respect for. I don't agree with a lot of his attitudes."

Jim: "Would it surprise you to find out that he's not taken seriously enough to subvert anything? Because in the four years of Luke F-rd in the porn business, basically nothing's changed. And he has impacted nothing. When he started out, he pissed a few people off. But then people stopped taking him serious. He hasn't had a good scoop in two years.

"The only thing he ever scooped was the Marc Wallice thing. That's his one claim to fame. When he dies, they're going to write his obituary and just put two words down - Marc Wallice.

"We had a professor on earlier who wrote on erotica in literature in the 1920s and '30s, which Luke thought would be a fascinating subject for the group that listens to this show.

"Luke is really a pathetic human being. He has twelve different diseases though no army of doctors can convince him that he doesn't have. His hovel is a converted garage. He doesn't go anywhere. He doesn't date."

Eric: "He won't go down on chicks."

Jim: "No, he won't. He's got vagina phobia. Everytime he meets a new porn girl and there's talk that maybe they will go on a date. I ask them up front if it is going to be a problem that Luke is afraid of her vagina. He ain't gonna get his face anywhere down there. And the girl always at first says no, but upon further investigation, she knows there's a problem.

"Luke and Linda Lovelace would make a great couple. They're both martyrs."

Eric: "One thing that Linda has in common with the mainstream porno community now is that she is not too big on Luke F-rd."

Jim: "So there's not too big of a chance that we will get Linda on the phone?"

Eric: "Doubtful. I didn't even tell her that I am doing it.

"Linda was real pissed off when she found out that Chuck Traynor was going to be on E! True Hollywood Story. Way pissed. Because the guy [producer Dan Isaacson] had allegedly told Linda that he wasn't going to try to get Traynor for the show. They finished up their interview [E!'s interview with Linda] and then, 'Oh, by the way. We're flying to go see Chuck.'

"I understood why he had to have Chuck on the show. But Linda didn't. She's not a writer. She wouldn't understand."

From the chat during Luke F-rd Live:

MikeSouth> My question is very simple. Why must everyone blame someone else for their bad decisions, despite her claims nobody held a gun to her head and she did f--- a dog so she f---ed up...admit it and stop trying to blame others for her bad decisions...WHY

Lynne> Ecco, I've tried being nice to him, I've tried being mean to him...nothing seems to work. Now I'm trying prayer...I need some help with the boy... Great insight, guys...

Lynne> Which Luke would appreciate, being that l-keford.com is the closest to reader-written porn we've got left

ecco> eric [danville] really held back on Berkowitz. he was boring. today he is loose.....congrats to jimmy for bringing out the real eric

JustMrT> if you want this guy's book, you have to borrow the master copy of it from him, go down to Kinkos, and copy it yourself,

Lynne> how can you forget about l-keford.com? I have it engraved upon my doorposts, upon my heart, elsewhere I can't mention...

PSI-TiBo> Maybe one of the 12 people in this room will click on a banner on completelindalovelace.com or something. He's on his way.

JustMrT> don't forget the 7-8 additional people who will read the archived chat, Tibo

JustMrT> no one renting porn tapes has the *slightest* interest in a fictionalized account of Rob Spallone's feud with Jim South, don't you understand that, Jimmyd?

Eric Danville, Abby Ehman Uncovered

From the 9/29/98 LF.com archive:

Abby Ehmann began writing on porn in 1992 after answering an ad in the New York Times classifieds for an associate editor at Penthouse Forum. Two years later Abby was laid off and she's bounced around several jobs since including a month for ex-hot dog vendor Ted Leibowitz who made millions from phone sex and now operates numerous porn web sites.

"I was supposed to update his web site every day. I replaced Jeff Hickey. Ted didn't know what he wanted, so he let me go."

Abby now writes for Hustler, Fox, Gallery, Adam Film World, Panty Play and other sex magazines. She writes and edits her own bimonthly Extreme Fetish. The two men who provide the money for the publication wish to remain anonymous.

On Halloween, Abby, 39, will celebrate the fourth anniversary of her marriage to 35-year old Eric Danville, formerly of Screw and High Times. "It's awesome [that the two write on the sex business]. We work like a team. We discover stuff and share it… I helped him find stuff for his sex scene column. We go on the same business trips. We both go to Las Vegas [for the CES]. When there is a fetish ball, I'd rather not go alone. I considered replacing him at Screw.

"I love porn. I think there's lots of schlock out there, some of which I contribute to. Money is money. Whatever it takes to pay the rent. If I won lotto, and could become Larry Flynt and have my own porn empire, I'd think that would rock. I'd love to do a slick couples-oriented porn magazine. I'd like to do a US version of the British magazine Desire.

"I like Rob Black and Max Hardcore movies. I like dirtier movies. I'm all for plot, seduction and beautiful settings but if it is lousy script, I'm bored. I watch 18 porn videos a month so I've gotten numb. I need it wilder.

"I just did an article for Adam Film World entitled "Babe Fest." I invited a bunch of female writers over. We watched videos and I quoted their observations. I showed them a Rob Black movie with a gangbang… The consensus was - if you're going to do this fantasy, you might as well do it well. Get outrageous… That's what movies are for."

Abby lived in upstate New York during elementary school. She attended high school (class of 1977) in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated college with a double major from San Diego State in Graphic Communications and Journalism. "I got a Ph.D. in party. Playboy called it the biggest party school in America and the easiest place to get laid. I will attest to both being true."

Abby and Eric do not swing. "We are so vanilla. People don't want to know how boring we are.

"I've done mushrooms. I do coke when someone offers it to me. I can't bear to part with my cash for it. I'm too cheap to be a drug addict. I used to be a hardcore slut. I've slept with about 100 guys in my life. No women. After I got together with Eric, I wrote about my slutdom for Screw.

"All the people I know in this business, and the hardcore consumers… I've found them to be more respectful and more polite than the average shmuck.

"The most enjoyable part of CES is people watching. Looking at the drooling fans who stand in line to get autographed pictures from porn chicks. It gives you a feel for who out there supports the industry. You get to see the guys that feminists are afraid of, and it's immediately apparent that they [feminists] have nothing to worry about. They are like the AVECH guys (Audio-Visual techies who pushed slide projectors around in high school), or the ones with pimples who did not go to the prom. They're nerds. I mean that in the best way, having married one [Eric Danville]."

Like Al Goldstein, Eric Danville graduated from Pace University, a NY private school.

"Goldstein's myth preceded me there. I was part of this artsy clique of rebellious English majors. We thought Goldstein was cool."

Eric served as managing editor for the marijuana magazine High Times. "I wasn't a big pornography fan when I started in the industry. I was freelancing for nine months after I left High Times. My sister saw an ad in the New York Times for a porn magazine [High Society]… Fine.

"Porn is a fun industry to work in and I've met lots of nice people. I have three Rolodexes of s---. I started at Screw [in 1991] as Associate Editor, doing copy editing and proof reading… When the senior editor split, I became senior editor.

"It's not easy working for Goldstein. You earn every dime. He says going in, 'I'm probably the hardest person on the planet to work for.' If you can accept that and deal with it and perform up to his standards, which are high, then fine.

"I had gone as far in the company as I could go. It has a small editorial staff. The only way I could've gone further is to actually possess Goldstein's body."

Eric says Screw is not retrenching. "The editorial content has always been second in size to the ads. About six months ago, we added six new pages of ads and two pages of editorial."

Eric covered New York's sex scene for several years. "I'd go to sex clubs. I covered one porn film premiere (Sunset & Divine)."

Luke: "Did working at Screw help you get laid?"

Eric: "Not really. Not beyond doing a couple of massage parlor reviews… There's no groupie fan base for Screw writers and the porn chicks don't have to f--- you unless they want to. Working at Screw helped me meet my wife [Abby]. At a job interview."

Eric appeared briefly in the documentary Screwed. "My minute of hilarity got cut out. I thought it was too long and strayed away from Goldstein too much."

Danville's six months into a biography of Linda Lovelace.

Susan Walsh - Unsolved Mystery

On July 16, 1996 Susan Walsh hurriedly dropped her son, David, off with her estranged husband. She never said exactly where she was going, but did claim she'd be back within a few minutes. But that morning, 36-year-old Susan Walsh disappeared into the streets of Nutley, New Jersey, only a brief commuter train trip from Manhattan. What happened to Susan Walsh? The police believe she simply chose to disappear. But some say Susan Walsh was murdered by mobsters. Others say she overdosed on drugs. Still others believe she vanished into the sub-culture of sex and danger that lured her in and wouldn't let go.

From early childhood Susan Walsh's dream was to be a poet and a writer. But a broken home and an unhappy childhood made reaching that goal a constant struggle. By the time Susan was in her twenties, she was an admitted alcoholic, drug addict, and a stripper. Still, she kept her dream alive. Stripping paid her way through college. When Susan graduated in 1984, she cleaned up her act. By 1988, Susan had been sober for four years. She had married and had become a devoted mother. According to friends, the two things that mattered most to Susan were her son and her career as a journalist. Eventually, Susan and her husband separated. Though Susan still dreamed of being a writer, she had a tough time getting breaks. To support her son, she went back to stripping, unable to resist the easy money and seductive lifestyle. Read on

Boycott TrafficCrew.com?

Steve Easton from APIC (a group that monitors for stolen content) writes on Netpond: I would like to request a boycott of TRAFFICCREW.COM. This person is a long time thief of content, and is currently using stolen content to steal traffic also. Upon request to remove, his response was "F--K OFF" more than once. APIC asks that the adultweb not support people like David Tainsh.

Luke asks: Who is David Tainsh?

Steve replies: He's a thief, has been since I stumbled upon him 2 years ago. He lives in UK and believes he cannot be punished for his actions so I will put him out of business simply because he is an ass. Here are his emails to Holly Randall, after she politely requested he remove their images he stole. The second one I would assume as a threat, wouldn't you? Let it be public knowledge that this jerk doesn't belong on the Internet doing business with anyone.

Message one: To Holly Listen you stupid bitch I send you well over 1500 people per day. Do not worry those pages will go. What would you rather have 10% of something or 100% of nothing? I have told you each page will turn like the other. Do not worry, your precious photos will be removed. Now f--- OFF

Message two: To Holly I am Scottish, I may pop down to England and see Suze's mother and father. BITCH.

Luke says: Full disclosure. Weeks ago, I spoke by phone with David Tainsh in a friendly way and he paid me in advance for some advertising on this site. I believe that David is independently wealthy and a friend of Ben Dover aka Steve Perry, the English video porner.

I talked to David Tainsh Wednesday evening. He says he's mystified by all this. He says he's never emailed Holly or Suze Randall. He's not aware of having any dealings with APIC. All his content comes from Ben Dover.

David says to Luke: "You've seen our sites like UKVideobabes.com. I do not have any Suze Randall content on there. It's all shot by Ben Dover. It's a load of bollocks. APIC's been on to me for two years? It's the first time I've heard about it. We shoot everything ourselves. I don't like the Suze Randall type photography. It's not popular in the UK and we can't sell it.

"I don't know what they're going on about but my ICQ is going crazy. I've had three people say APIC told them not to do business with TrafficCrew.com anymore and they're trying to block us from doing anything. The bottom line is I am going to have to take APIC to court, find an American lawyer, and sue them. All I want is a retraction from them.

"I did not send those emails to Holly Randall. There's another bloke in the UK called Krome."

David Tainsh writes: To Luke: Copy of message just posted on Net Pond. You have seen in our sites, we shoot that ourselves.

To Apic: Can you please look at the sites we run www.benscastingcouch.com and www.ukvideobabes.com if you can see content on there that we have not shot ourselves or have brought in then skin me alive and call me luggage. You have just claimed to Luke F-rd that I have been under investigation by yourselves for 2 years. Why have you never issued any legal action against me? You have also claimed to Luke F-rd that I have made threats against Holly Randalls. I have never spoken to her by email or on the phone. I employ over 40 people here running the record label side and the internet based side. I will ask tomorrow if anyone has spoken about them or to them. In the event that my staff say no we will proceed with full legal action against you unless you issue a retraction. You have already cost us a casino based deal due to your mass mailing and posts on message boards.

You are now attempting to ruin trade for us by your actions. We are a UK registered company. Can you please issue and order against us or issue a retraction. We are currently acquiring a US legal representative with the view to taking action against yourselves for lible. I sincerely hope we can resolve this amicably.

Steve Easton from APIC replies: David, I remember you from the past. Don't twist things around. I have all the evidence I need. No one said you were under investigation. What I said was "You have always been an asshole". Sue me for that.

Should We Disclose Our Porn Past?

Discussing her past as a porn star, Brandy Alexander writes: In the past, my honesty has turned a nice dinner date into a "Let's skip dinner and get down to business" offer. Others beg off when they find out.

Lynne responds: Brandy, those yokels would give you the same response if you told them you were once a waitress at Denny's. They're the kind who used to think stewardesses (we call them flight personnel now that we'e politically correct) were loose, too. I remember them from my dating days in the late 1970's, so it is a phenomenon that knows neither time nor place. I was always grateful to have found a second husband in the porn business: my first was not, and though he was initially tremendously excited at the thought of marrying a porner, he turned against me when the marriage ended. It's not pleasant to read in one's divorce depositions that, if awarded custody, one would use one's child to make kiddie porn.

Brandy says: I hear you on that. People paint "porn" with the same broad brush. Forget that there are many, many areas of medicine, or law, or sports, porn is all porn regardless of its content, and as far as "they" are concerned we are responsible for and participate in all of it. And before the anti-fans chime in that I'm whining, porn viewers are perceived to be all the same as well. You ARE the same people who view child porn and animal porn, even if you are a dedicated Vivid or Femme viewer. Only buy Playboy? Too bad. You are also lumped in with those who beat off to scat. When NBC wanted to do the piece about my imminent termination from Forest Lawn, I agreed as long as the reporter would be Doug Kriegel. He covered a child porn story once and took the time to note the difference from mainstream porn. Obviously one of the friendlies.

Lynne writes: I do have to conceal the last twelve years of my work history when I look for jobs, which literally means starting all over again, at the very bottom of the clerical ladder, and lying about a huge part of my life, which I hate. I tell my gay male friends about my career in porn and they're very appreciative. When and if I do start "dating" again (and I feel that I "should" even though as yet I've no real desire to do so), if my dates can't handle full disclosure of my checkered past, they don't deserve to handle me.

Brandy responds: That's what pisses me off so much about the closed minds of society. I've said it a hundred thousand times: If they want the industry to shut down and all of us to get real jobs, they have to be willing to accept those who are qualified to work right alongside them. One of the things I brought up on Berkowitz (listen to the archive at http://www.eyada.com/show_archives.cfm?showid=8) was a comparison to Paula Jones.

She took a lot of heat for her appearance in Penthouse, but what is she supposed to do? Everyone says she should get a job, but media follows her every move. What company is going to be able to tolerate that kind of intense focus? She's famous for something highly controversial that does not generate income. Luckily, neither you nor I are so recognizable that we can't get away with fibbing, but it does hinder our employability when we have some major gaps in our resumes, and, quite possibly, can be outed in a number of ways at any time even without jealous psychotics doing it for us. Same goes for the lovelife. At least that doesn't have to keep a roof over my head and I can be a little more true to myself and separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm telling no matter what. It's just a matter of timing.