Sunday,
July 1st, 2001
Playboy Acquires Three Hardcore Porn Channels
From the LATimes.com: Expanding into the hard-core pornography business, Playboy Enterprises Inc. has struck an agreement with Van Nuys-based Vivid Video to buy its three fast-growing XX-rated television channels, according to sources close to the two companies.
Christie Hefner, chief executive of Playboy, contacted some of the Chicago-based company's largest distributors Friday to notify them of the deal, according to the sources. Vivid, one of the nation's largest producers of pornography, also alerted some distributors Friday of the planned sale, they said.
HBO's Six Feet Under
The death of a porno queen shocks Ruth, who isn't prepared for the crush of co-stars who arrive at Fisher's to eulogize the fallen star.
Alisha Klass Meets Bess Myerson
From PageSix.com: ALISHA Klass can find herself some action even in the relatively geriatric Friars Club. The porn queen who once did some scenes off-camera with Bruce Willis dined there the other night with some friends, she told eYada.com’s Bob Berkowitz. As she was leaving, she noticed a striking older woman and told her how beautiful she was. "Thank you, I was a Miss America," the tall brunette said, "the only Jewish Miss America in history." Klass said the woman then dropped her keys, and that when Klass bent down to pick them up, the woman brushed against her behind. "You know who that was," a shocked Berkowitz said. Klass shook her head no. "That was Bess Myerson."
From the New York Times: But as the home delivery of pornography by way of the Internet and cable television becomes more routine, more films are catching up and featuring explicit sex: actual penetration in the Danish director Lars von Trier's "Idiots," the French director Bruno Dumont's "Vie de Jesus" and the French director Catherine Breillat's "Romance"; brightly lighted, plainly filmed fellatio between ordinary middle-aged actors in "Intimacy," the French director Patrice Chéreau's English-language film that won the top award at this year's Berlin Film Festival (and will probably open this fall in the United States); or hardcore, unsimulated sex performed by the porn actresses Raffaela Anderson and Karen Bach in the unrated French film "Baise-Moi," based on a 1995 novel by Virginie Despentes and directed by both Ms. Despentes and the porn actress Coralie Trinh Thi. (It opens in New York on Friday.)
THERE are those who are offended by the saccharine quality of the Hollywood love scene, gauzy and backlit, choreographed like pas de deux. But if romantic, sentimental sex scenes might insult our intelligence or offend our aesthetics, they can be easier on the psyche than the sex in films like "Baise-Moi," "Intimacy" and "Romance," which is allowed to be sad, empty, desperate, banal, bleak, inevitable, stark, awkward, brightly lighted, depressing and truthful: sex that does not sweet-talk us at all.
Internext Wrapup
Evan Horowitz from Xpays.com writes: XPays is totally on cloud nine after a tremendous show! AVN does not get enough credit for their role but I can only hope AVN will continue to help XPays so dramatically year after year. Paul Fishbein is my vote for next year's Pimp of the Year as he is a true old school player to the nth degree (nice orgy in your vip booth booby at the player's ball ;-). D$ and Main Sponsor CE went above and beyond our wildest expectations with the Player's Ball! D$, The jerseys you made me and snoop are both loved and cherished and both of us appreciate our Big Woodies! Snoop And Evan = Both Big Woody Winners and BOTH HIGH on XPays Supply. Only Snoop wasn't lucky enough to have his woody in-between Tricia's legs all night and Snoop didn't get his ass pinched by JenAvn's MOM :-))))) hahahahaha
Funny thing was that when Snoop rolled 5 blunts with my greenery he said "it's all chronic to me man..", after he smoked said blunts he had munchies he could not control and bragged all night about how that "xpays chronic....".
FM, our pleasure and look for same 4th of the July :-) Lee Noga, your pearls of wisdom are as great as my chronic- keep them coming!
XPays has tons of pics and videos from the show that we will put online this week, so look out for the evidence. Look for us to expand the Skate Ramp double-wide and double-tall and we will make a kicker out of the ramp into a street course for January.
Special Thanks to Vivid Video for blessing us with Taylor and Dayton for an impromptu shoot in our XPays half-pipe! VividGirls sell for VividVip, SexToyNetwork and XPays because of how incredibly exclusive you keep your vixens and we are very lucky you all believe in XPays enough to trust co-branding your long established Vivid Brand with our XPays brand!!!
To The XPays Pipe skater's - you re-invented the phrase "Hit The Pipe". To our DJ's, Pure Butter all show! Kendra at XPays - I love you forever and ever, I trust you with my life and you extend it. Michael at XPays - Ditto.
This week's Thursday AdultGossip 4:20 will be full of juicy gossip. Join me there. Can't wait to tell you about the initiation joke Tricia & I played on the Rookie of the Year NewBizSchlong. Tricia will explain what my big woody was doing in between her legs for several hours and about our exclusive XPays, Homegrown/EliteCash House-party after the Player's Ball.
To Mike Silvercash, nothing but love and respect for you. Rob silvercash, sorry I broke your wrist when your goalie blocked my backfield shot on the fooze table. For the record, I did shut Rob out as predicted prior to the show because of LAMIke's Kendra comments. Mike however managed to duck me all show and we will have to match up soon.
Charlo, Lance, and Michelle CartoonBucks- was great to party with you until all the politics interfered. Hope we can continue to build together for the future nonetheless.
JoeE, JBubbala, Rocki, Jen and everyone at CEN - your VBar party was great and I really appreciate the extra effort JOE went through to find XPays an extra special Harley Davidson FatBoy!!! We only acheived so many sales so far (do the math folks on the number of joins needed to earn the Harley with TCG goldbar points) because your sites just plain convert. We will use the Harley with fondness for you and we plan to donate the Harley to charity jointly in XPays and CEN's names in the near future. Big shout out to all the webmasters who were not able to attend the show! We'll go bigger in January so get ready now.
Internet pornographer Gary Horn writes: Hi Luke, I can't seem to fall asleep after all the excitement at the show these past few days. I'm looking forward to coming home to South Bay and wanted to share my day here at Internext. As you know I have been involved in Adult Online Publishing for over 12 years. So I hope you find my account of the day interesting enough to share with your readers.
Tonight was the "Big" party, The Players Ball at the AVN Internext Convention that ran Wednesday though Friday this week at the Venetian Hotel/Sands Expo in Las Vegas. Many of the Ball attendees dressed as pimps and had hanging on to them a bevy of scantily clad women dressed as "ho's". It was a fun event to help wind down from the intensity of the trade show. And to be surrounded by so many breathtakingly spectacular women and all your industry friends was a wonderful experience.
Is life good or what?
I had the opportunity to meet several of these sex goddess’s like amateur gone pro Ari Giovanni, Alexus Winston, and my favorite of the event was the enchanting “Lisa” from South Florida currently living in the Carolinas. I think she works for Randy Beasley. One of the first lines she fed me was “do you like Jewish girls?” This is the type of woman that can tongue tie me (with all my years of exposure to some of the most sexually alluring women off all time)!
There is great danger for me of falling for one of these goddesses and the numerous consequences that go with it! Danger bells rang (or was that Wedding bells?) in my brain and off I went…quickly the other way, leaving the enchanting “Lisa” as only a smile and a wish. Hmmm, I wonder if seeing Shawna being wheeled out of the show by paramedics had anything to do with my sensitivities today? She had told me two days ago that she wanted to come back to L.A., but it was obvious to everyone around her that she was far too trashed to function. A fifth of Jack was spotted in her purse. Hope she gets clean and sober and has a new beginning for herself.
The famous Woody Award
The first award of the evening was given to Norm Wilson of Phoenix Fulfillment for his perseverance and contributions to our industry. This was the "been around the block" award for Norm's thirty plus years in the adult business, and his continuing contributions to the both novice and the top webmasters. He was an innovator in adult online sex stores and affiliate networks. The show debut of Phoenix Fulfillment, and the overwhelming support from so many of the important webmasters was one of those proud moments that we really feel good about industry. Norm’s sister project “Cyber-Date” also debuted and it’s strategic marketing arrangement with Phoenix Fulfillment was well received and many comments overheard thought that Cyber-Date product was the coolest thing at the show and a real money maker. Say recurring revenue.
Karma in Action
Norm’s work of building IFC (Internet Fulfillment Corp) and the achievement of becoming a full distributor for his products made some webmasters big money.
On April 20th at 4:20 PM “Norm’s world was rocked.” A security force stormed his building and served a court order immediately removing Norm from the company and the court ordering him to stay away until further notice. The court also placed IFC in the hands of a receiver. The shock and realization that you could and were being shut out of your business, a business that you created from just an idea and then realizing that you had built your entire life around that business was terrible.
Norm actually sat by his pool for a few days and tried to figure out how this could have happened. Norm was forced to stand helplessly with his hands tied and watch his formers partners and a receiver (with no real e-commerce experience, and certainly no “adult” experience) trash his baby. Hearing that some of his loyal webmasters were getting bad checks or no checks at all he saw his business ruined.
The Stuff Winners are made of…
Wilson will still have to defend the nine million dollar litigation against him by his old partners and that could take years. Several weeks ago with the support of several successful businessmen and a team of dedicated web professionals, Norm Wilson turned in his resignation to the partners and receiver at IFC.
Lemons into Lemonade
Four weeks later Phoenix Fulfillment rose out of the ashes in the grave his former partners thought they had buried him in. The new Norm Wilson 2.0 (a wiser and younger web warrior appeared as a reinvented man) debuted his dream team and a bigger, better, bader affiliate shopping system. The next level of shopping and inventory control software along with a newer and better-stocked warehouse located in the heart of the industry puts Phoenix on the map in a big way. When asked about whether the industry really needs another toy distributor Wilson smiled and says “They ain't seen nothing yet” Phoenix and it’s management team have launched four highly profitable new marketing programs that are far ahead of the current players.
The VOD (video on demand) program with seven thousand full length movies already digitized and ready for market, is an important component to the significantly evolved shopping system and should be a gold mine with it’s potential for explosive growth. I was fortunate in having time to visit with the top corporate management from AEBN who are partners with Phoenix in this exclusive arrangement They also came to visit and show their support Norm’s new world. They too were very pleased with deal made between the companies and impressed with the Phoenix team.
The One-Two Punch
As a follow up to the VOD program, but not taking a back seat is the arrival of the sister company “Cyber-Date” the patent pending live avatar chat program that screams recurring revenue. “You enter a room and choose your avatar which becomes your online body. We have been busy doing three dimensional body scans and wire-frames of some well know adult stars as well as magazine models. You can then enter a theme room in your new hot body. Each room has 25 participants with whom you interact (or even speak to if your computer is equipped for it). You and your new friend can now have virtual sex with each other only limited by your imagination. Totally safe but hot sex. There will eventually be thousands of rooms (or environments according their Chief Techno guru “Scott”). The software is evolving rapidly, and will constantly be upgraded in the background while you meet and explore new friends. Wilson states that the Cyber-Date module will have a $5 one day trial and membership will be recurring at $19.95 with the affiliate webmaster getting his 30% for the life of the member.
Last but not least, the new evolution of the software provides real time demonstrations of selected toys thus bringing webmasters deeper content and a higher volume of sales.
Wilson states that all the models and content all content is reviewed by the companies legal team and are all 2257 compliant. With the demonstrations as well as all the beautiful photographs of a huge selection of clothing, lingerie and fetish gear keeping children out of the store is a number one priority agreed upon by all the owners. Strategic relationships and agreements are complete and now place with new AVI on the block “Adult Port”. Phoenix expects to work with other major AVS providers to give Webmasters an arsenal of the best tools available to protect themselves as well as the mass of computer literate children that inhabit the web.
After Accepting His Award…
As Norm and I walked back to our seats he paused, looked over at me and said “Thanks buddy”. Today was a good day in Las Vegas.
Gary Horn is a principal in Phoenix Fulfillment and has been a close friend of Norm Wilson’s since the early days of the Adult Web.
Luke Gets Mail
Vivid girl Lori Michaels writes: I didn't have time to do my last two movies under my last contract, but if I do any more I'll only work with Vivid. They have just been to nice to me. I think my old contract expired in April, but won't be able to do anything until later this year. Just to much going on. Hey, you won't believe this. Check out the pics. Mitck Corp. is sponsoring my Impala SS RoadRacer project. They are converting it into a audio/video show car that will be in their booth at the CES show this January. I think they are spending around $30,000 or more on the install. They found out that I have a tour bus and that I might be taking it around to the shows with the car. I went to Marble Hill, Missouri last monday and they converted my bus into a show vehicle also. They put this awesome stereo in one of the bays and then included two remote column speakers. Then they went inside and completely replaced and added speakers everywhere in the coach, installed amps, new stereo, new dvd player, surround sound, etc. Now tell me it doesn't pay to be a Vivid Girl? hehe
Porn star Ruby writes from the Moonlight Bunny Ranch: Luke, All I did was read all of the pages I missed! I looove to f--- Jewish men, not obese, and gastronomicly challenged men. Chaim Amalek always has something horribly negative to say. When are you coming to Reno? Dennis Hof may comp you, how's that for wholesale! I will personally do that comp, and you'd get a hell of a story! I will be at the Night of the Stars, with my new "it" girls, Rebecca Brat and a surprise girl. You can see Rebecca on www.nvbrothels.com.
Chaim Amalek responds to Ruby:
1. If Dennis Hoff were not such a miserable anti-semite, he would at least offer to fly me out first class.
2. So whadaya think Luke, should I take Generous Ruby up on her generous offer, just so that I can write up the experience for your web site?
3. OH s--- - I have re-read the email, and it seems that YOU are the one she offers to do for free, not me. I am now so depressed over this I am going to walk over to the nearest Krispy Kreme donut shop and eat a box of goo-filled donuts. Luke, born jews like me never get a break in life. Never. Be grateful you were born a goy.
Porn star Krista Leigh writes: dear luke, i have been hearing and reading that i have retired but just wanted to straighten it out. i have not retired but just moved back to the east coast and will be flying back and forth in the future. i am staying busy with 2 new lines of my own and will still be shooting for other companies, plus i have a website at www.kristaxxx.com. anyone interested in shooting me or just keeping in touch can reach me at kristaleighxxx@yahoo.com. thanks luke and be sure to check out my new fan series cumming soon, it should be alot of fun and i'd love to have you for my first scene, interested? love and lust, krista leigh
Truths Guardian writes: Hi Luke, I see that El Zorro has been working on his project on the Adult Business and certain entertainers. To El Zoro, you have way too much time on your hands and it appears you really are knowledgable of the prostitute's and pimp lifestyle. You have appeared to bring up all sorts of points but failed to bring up one other equation in your Pimp/Prostitute scenario. The third element of your equation that is missing is the "Trick" or "John" in which comes in many different forms. Sometimes the "tricks" think they know the whole routine and in fact they know nothing except being a good trick. So keep watching all the Entertainers on different formats and get into their backgrounds, who are their pimps, husbands ,or agents and anything that seems to matter. So if your watching, filming, or masturbating, enjoy.
El Zorro, you seem to have one hell of an opinion on all parties concerned. You may want to take a step back and look in the mirror and take a good look. If you look hard enough it may scare you because looking directly at you in the text sense, you have some issues. That is the bottom line. My hats off to all the entertainers, whether black, white, yellow, whatever. My hats off to all of the entertainers who have good sex with all nationalities (ooops, was that the incorrect usage El Zorro) and matter not of race. Enjoy the beauty and sex. If anyone has problems with the Entertainers lifestyles, jobs, or what they claim, please change the channel, do not buy the product, and don't follow anything to deep because it may seem like an obsession and /or disfunction. That is the truth.
Julian from WifeTrader.com writes: I'm just a fat, white, bald guy that was in the right place at the right time. I have a few friends (women) who had amateur web sites. They are always looking for a guy that can stay hard in front of a bunch of cameras. Luckily I am able to do that so I offered my services to them. After a few photo shoots I started thinking, Hey! I can make a site about my exploits with these girls. I started my site in June 2000 and It's been getting bigger ever since. you can check out my site and see the web girls I've done shoots with. I also own a harley davidson fat boy and I love to ride. I try to attend as many biker rallies as I can. There are a lot of pictures of biker chicks on my site that I've met also.
Chaim Amalek writes: There is much that they could learn from the chassidic community. They have now reared generations of girls to understand that their highest calling in life is to breed children and raise them. In fact, all westernized peoples need to study the techniques that the chassidim have used to mold the minds of their daughters. That feminism is a poison, there is do doubt. But what is the cure?
Luke, my comments were about an article that appears in today's NY Times Magazine regarding japanese women and their failure to do their racial duty (i.e., breed). The manner in which you posted my comments stripped them of all context, rendering them incomprehensible. Remember that now that you are generally viewed as a gentile by the people who count (Juden), it is going to be that much harder for you to break into the media business, so if you want to be taken seriously as a journalist, you must try harder. You can start by paying attention to context.
Someone said that the Holocaust made jews more tolerant of others. Tell that to the Zionist on the West Bank (which, of course, extends to the Med. sea), his foot on the neck of a Palestinian youth.
There are a whole lot of churches out there that would love to have you witness for them the cruelty of the rabbinate.
Seriously, if you cannot be jewish, then it is time to be gay! Gays have lots of the attributes of jews anyway - secretly reviled by most decent folk, the target of scorn and envy, thought to engage in all manner of hidden and revolting practices. And - best of all - the source of enormous power in media/Hollywood/democratic party. There is no reason for you to stay in the closet any longer, now that the jews (or at least the ones you wanted to respect you) have abandoned you. C'mon Out Luke, the water is fine!
Luke, face some facts. As a morbidly inbred people (any man among us who dares breed with an outsider is punished through the banishment of his children from the body of israel), we just don't want any goy genes in our midst, as they can only serve to call into question the wisdom of our racial exclusivity. Sure this results in a lot of genetic trouble (see that OTHER article in today's NY Times Sunday Magazine, the one on genetic illness, and read it CAREFULLY to see what I mean), but it also keeps our bloodlines pure and well suited to the tasks God has set before us: mastery of the goyim via control over their banking, their media, and their more mindless diversions (e.g. porn). The genes of the outsider cannot be counted on to keep this strategy going, so we MUST erect enourmous barriers against them. And that, ultimately, is why you have been ejected from the world of torah-true judaism, whereas I (a man far less observant than you) have not. Now that you no longer are regarded as a jew by those you regard as torah-true jews, what will you do? What will Luke F-rd do?
PS Just as an aside, IF I had in my posession a video tape of Luke F-rd having receptive-anal sex with a male human, what do you think I could get for it on Ebay? Not that such a video exists, mind you.
Nick writes: Did you see the article on Paula Poundstones' charges for Lewd Contact withe her foster/adopted daughter- she is not a pornstar but a lesbian comic who has been poular for a number of years. I thought it may have been of interest to you as you tend to report on perversions of all kinds. Also, you tend to frown on homosexuality and this shows that one can basically adopt their own sex toy- as wrong as it may be. Mainstream stars are more disturbed than pornstars.
Porner Hank Rose writes: Luke: In some of my latest contributions you literally edited and changed words to suit your own agenda and left out my E mail address. But that's ok. You have shown your true colors. If you make money off of porn ads on your site, then that makes you party to the sale of pornography---and part of the alleged evil that you report on as if it were some foreign entity.
Having said that, you still shine as a top notch journalist when you get the real scoop and your false presumptions are proven wrong. I enjoyed your mob interview with Kevin Beech, who is a class act and told it like it is. I worked for people who sold product to him. He was connected and did what he had to do to make it in this biz. I'm glad he put you straight to the fact that big mob ties are old hat.
Back in the good old days when porn was sleazy and at it cultural zenith, the mob pulled the strings. Today, it is no longer an illegal vice and is too popular and accepted to be monopolized. The only big shots left from the Golden Era mob control are the Jewish front men. The new Italian mob, if there is one, has been rendered ineffective and therefore impotent because its ranks have been mixed with a gene pool of WASPs and non-Mediterranean blood after years of American assimilation.
There's a dog-eat-dog, Darwin/Machiavellian/Nietche amoral imperitive to success in life as well as showbiz or "blowbiz". Live with it, Luke. Do not make your living as a porn paracite and then complain that the lifeblood that feeds you is poison. You are the biggest hypocrite I've ever seen in my life. No wonder why you were thrown out of your shul.
When parties on both sides of your double life want nothing to do with you, then you know it's time to go back to being the Aussie Christian you truly are and quit the pro-Jew anti-porn convert side show. The moral/immoral stage act is getting old. You are a walking, living, breathing contradiction.
Your holy war against us is not a Jewish one, it's a CHRISTIAN crusade. We witnessed it all before in the Reagan Era with the Meese Commission. You might as well be a spy undercover for the Bush Administration. With the way your life is playing out, you will have come full circle. You are an enemy of real Jews, showbiz, porn and Hollywood in general. Go get a job working for the right wing GOP and leave us alone.
I bear you no ill will. It's all adult entertainment for your readers as far as I'm concerned. As a porn player who also started in this biz as a writer like you, I see as much good in you as bad. This I see in most people I have met in blowbiz...with rare exceptions.
It's just that you have been wooed, romanced and gilted by this biz and its aura of false glamour. You warm your libido by the heat of its fire and then complain to the world that it burns.
Take your hand and pen away and you might become a serious award winning journalist someday---in the real world---where it counts and matters most. Due to fateful circumstances in my life which have precipitated a return to my porn roots, I sought a comeback bid to ease the transition. However, I'm hoping to land a gig with a newcomer behind the scenes so as to not sacrifice my marriage to the temptation of performing, which is as addictive as any drug or foreign substance.
A certain miraculous discovery on my part has finally at long last been brought to fruition. Yet I am bittersweet with the revelation. So I will not get into detail in order to protect a friend's right to privacy. You no doubt have your reasons to sling mud and create controversy. So I will not fan the flames.
You're like a verbal tennis player who must cry foul and unmask the umpires and linesman to feel you are in the game. This is the basis of dog-eat-dog gossip journalism. And you are a one of a kind porn original. Whether people like you or not, you belong. Otherwise porners would not open up to you and expose their souls as they are prone to do.
This is a gift. But you can make better use of to tear down social walls rather than reinforce old or build new ones. Despite my unsung status I have a long prolific history in this biz that dates back to the mid 80s. And believe me, we have seen better days. I find myself growing weary of all the endless in-fighting and bad blood.
You can still be a good balanced reporter and temper your religious bias by commenting on the good as well as the bad. Hollywood is filled with a hodgepodge of fast lane lonely people who use success in the public eye to cover up their insecurities. In that equation, porn is simply sexual pop culture fast food. It is not poison to cook or eat.
Unlike you, its chefs and consumers are often enough people who have suffered in life and have chosen professional public sexuality or voyeurism as a means of escape. Do not pity them, chastize them or bedevil them. We are all infallible beings on this earth who mold our destiny out of the hand that life deals us. And some of us bask in recreating ourselves and give the finger to the bluenose naysayers.
As long as America is a nation of hypocritical puritan perverts who jerk off to porn and then call it evil, we will never enjoy anything more than a begrudging quasi-acceptance. Red meat causes Cancer, yet the world loves a hamburger. Sex as a means of expression tests free speech. Yet we all have a sexuality that cannot be denied or repressed in order to be healthy.
The jerkoff who can't get laid has porn while the sex addict who is unlucky in love and family has the adult stage to exorcise his/her demons. It is a symbiotic capitalistic carnal relationship. The American Way, as it were. As long as there is a socially accepted and lawful demand...then the alleged "immorality" of the supply will forever be a moot point.
Ian writes: Hi Luke, Your correspondent Coyote wrote: "I've known several women who stripped for a living .... all of them have felt more scarred by the disapproval of their families than by the profession they chose". I'm sure this is right, and also that the social disapproval which is such a powerful constraint against porn becoming a respectable profession is a matter of historical timing rather than of fundamental immorality. A hundred years ago there was just as strong social disapproval in the western world of living together outside marriage, of homosexuality, of ladies walking out with the calves of their legs uncovered, etc. Today the same activities would face heavy disapproval (and worse) in countries like Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan etc, etc. I look forward to a time when bodily prostitution is regarded as no more immoral (and as respectable a profession) as mental prostitution (lawyers, lobbyists, commission-earning salesmen).
Hi Luke, You wrote: "Another moment in the evening, Rabbi B related a story about behavioral psychologist BF Skinner telling a woman who was knitting in the front row of his audience, that what she was really doing was not knitting. I was the only one who laughed... " Can you explain the joke to me? I know something about Skinner's theory of taught behaviour (Skinner's rats), and I know about that painting of a pipe with the caption: 'This is not a pipe'. Is the joke anything to do with either of these concepts?
Luke says: Yes. Skinner was saying the woman was engaged in an activity that was a substitute for sex.
Ian writes: Hi Luke, When Ruby (your favourite ho) confirmed that it WAS her on Strip Search Las Vegas, I dug out the tape on which I had recorded the programme and watched her segment again with special interest. She was introduced as 'a genuine porn star', and performed an energetic threesome (g/g/g) on stage. There was also a segment where she talked to her sister, Sarah - a plump brunette with a pretty face, who apparently swallows, though Ruby doesn't! - about how supportive her family has been about her career, and how much she enjoys it. Ruby came across as enthusiastic and friendly - about as I'd imagined, though with bigger tits!
From jeff in nyc: Luke, regarding Jews being more tolerant of porn than non-jews: I want to point out that Jews are tolerant of most things because as a people, they have always been persecuted and the holocaust has taught today's Jews what happens when freedom and tolerance is not allowed.
Alex writes: I have recently decided to enter the Adult business, in the Transsexual world. There still appears to be good growth in this area. A lot of the same sub-par content appears all over the web. Fans of Transsexual material normally have a ferocious appetite especially for new models and demand is rising (Ask a transsexual hooker how business is today versus 2-3 years ago). I’ve assembled a very good and plentiful ‘stable’ of completely new talent, most of them being Asian. All are available and have done work for me in softcore/hardcore action. They are very experienced and hot. I’m looking to talk with established Internet sites with good membership and traffic that perhaps want to get into Transsexuals. I have plenty of my own ideas But maybe your ones are better? Email ams187@hotmail.com
The Jewish Position On Pornography
Rabbi Lawrence Grossman writes for the American Jewish Committee:
Judaism... is not a prudish culture. Even a cursory reading of the Bible shows that sexual matters -- marital intercourse, rape, seduction, adultery, prostitution, incest -- are described with no sense of embarrassment both in the narrative texts and in the legal passages. One book of Scripture, the Song of Songs, is a long love poem, and although later Jewish tradition often interpreted its graphic imagery allegorically, a literal understanding of the poem was always considered legitimate. The medieval Spanish scholar Abraham Ibn Ezra, for example, wrote three commentaries on the book, one explaining the words, a second interpreting the poem as a love story between a man and a woman, and the third presenting it as an allegory of the relationship between God and the Jewish people.
In the Biblical-Talmudic view, God created the pleasures of the physical world for the enjoyment of mankind; unlike Christianity, Judaism associates no stigma whatsoever with sexual activity. It rejects celibacy and commands the human race to "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis I, 28). But the tradition teaches that the enjoyment of the Godly gift of sexuality should be channeled into the marriage relationship: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis II, 24).
The Talmud records a debate among the rabbis over whether to attempt to regulate what goes on between spouses in the privacy of their bedroom. The one sage who favored regulation was outvoted by his colleagues who insisted on erotic freedom. The great 12th-century codifier Moses Maimonides states the law as follows: "He may have relations with her whenever he wants [provided he has her consent and she is not ritually impure], can embrace any part of her body, and have intercourse in any position."
To The Glory Of God
I found this in notes 8/31/00:
To The Glory Of God.
There. That's a good way to begin.
He sat at the keyboard and reminded himself of his values. Reminded himself of the themes that his life was supposedly dedicated to - God, Torah, Israel, Justice, Truth.
The way to serve the Holy God was with Truth. Let me write in truth.
No more satire and irony and double entendre. Let me sit here and write to my readers in truth. Words that come from the heart are heard in the heart.
He couldn't go back to his slovenly ways now that he davened (prayed) at shul twice a day. There's something about tying yourself every morning in the leather straps of t'fillin, containing holy texts of Torah, that changes how you lead your day. Follow it up with a page of Talmud study (Daf Yomi) and your life changes. Now he had to reject most of his emails as lacking in taste and not worthy of publishing.
He paused and could think of nothing to write. He had no enthusiasm for phoning porners for interviews. Why should he when he got paid late every month?
The sun broke through the clouds of an overcast August day in Los Angeles. He took his green beach towel, blue pillow and blue T-shirt and lay outside. He placed his T-shirt over the pillow so it wouldn't get stained with his sweat.
He lay on his back with his arms beside him, palms up. As he breathed out, he thought "Beginning heals." As he slipped into a meditative trance, his mantra became simply his breathing. In. Out. In. Out.