Wednesday, August 1st, 2001

Is Nude Dancing A First Amendment Right?

A judge today dismissed more than 30 cases brought under Tampa's lap dance ban, the first successful constitutional challenge of the controversial ordinance. County Judge Elvin Martinez sided with defense arguments that the ban violates the First Amendment rights of nude dancers, who are required to stay six feet away from customers. Other county judges have found that the ban does not violate the rights of dancers. Juries convicted two dancers last week, the first time jurors had weighed in on the ordinance. One jury panel, however, said later that the ordinance is a waste of police power.

Rob vs Sharon

Gregory Bowman writes: Luke, Earlier this week, I sent you an email regarding Rob Spallone's comments on your site and the ongoing feud between He and Sharon Mitchell, director of AIM, a clinic that does testing for talent in the adult film industry. My letter was directed to Rob and in paraphrasing, I pointed out that Mitch is doing a service to the industry and Rob should take the high road and provide a positive forum, rather than slinging mud. I did receive a reply back from you saying "Rob wants you to call him" and I had no problem with the request. Rob called me back from a page and from the beginning of the conversation I knew I liked this guy.

He does love to talk. He explained his ongoing problems with Sharon and I did listen. Did I mention that he loves to talk? I was aware of the history that had transpired but was willing to hear it first hand. Rob is a good guy and his heart seems to be in the right place, in my opinion.

I did, however, point out to him the need for producers to be the watchdog in keeping talent responsible for having current HIV tests on set and I did feel it irresponsible of him for coming out to say he did not enforce it on his set a week past. In no way am I scolding Rob; Im merely pointing out that everyone should be careful, life is a precious thing.

I did point out to him that I felt that testing should be left to agency OUTSIDE the industry where there is NO question of protocol. This is my personal opinion. I certainly do not want to tear down the walls of any helpful organization with the suggestion of doubt.

Where do I leave this? Rob is seemingly a nice man and has the reality based foundation that this business is about money. His street smarts are apparent. But I did let him know that Sharon Mitchell is providing some positive contribution to this equation.

So, do I tell Rob to shut his trap and let Sharon do her work? NO. For the very reason that he has the right to stand up just as he did at the Sportman's Lodge and voice his opinions. The same Rob Spallone that told everyone at the FSC to go f--- themselves and asserted himself to allow Senior Luke F-rd's attendance the Night of the Stars last month. Rob is a stand-up kinda guy.

Our conversation was very congenial and had no hostility and Rob said basically that I can contact Luke and tell him go ahead with my letter scolding him for his recent comments. Rather than that, I hope there can be some other solution, and informed you, Luke, that my letter need not be posted. I also must realize that Rob Spallone is in this business to make money. I cannot begrudge him that and if he were doing it for free, I am confident his wife, Helena, would have a word with him. a LARGE word.

Sharon Mitchell, My most vivid memory of you was coming in with a parrot you had just purchased in the early-mid 80s to a Tarzana Vet clinic where I just so happened to work. I think you were partying with Jerry Butler at the time. What I remember most was the bright red rash you had around your nose from, what I could only assume was from of cocaine use. You were HIGH as a kite but happy and caring none the less. I said to the Dr. who was treating your parrot. "Hey Max, ya know she's a PORN STAR!! and he just chuckled.

Sharon you have come along way since the days of being brutally thin and having the time of your life on drugs. I wish you many years of active work in a new life. I admire you, truly, for giving back to the industry that almost killed you. You are an inspiration. Please call me, I would love to talk to you and help with your cause in any way I can.

So here I sit, wondering why two very good people, intent on the SAME DAMN PURPOSE, have such animosity towards each other. Rob Spallone, Sharon Mitchell, I think both of you are nice, well intentioned people. Its too bad that you both can't put down your differences to work together towards a noble cause. After all, you both want to see talent protected and cared for so this brutal industry is spared the sorrow of HIV infection and other ills both physical and moreover mental.

Rob, I'm asking you to be the kind person you were today on the phone with me. Sharon, Im asking you to understand that Rob means well. Although you two may never want to be in the same room together, PLEASE lay down your history and think of the reason you both are at odds. You both are good people for caring for the well-being of talent; don't loose sight of that for trivial disagreements. I thank you both for caring and I know that your efforts will not go unrewarded. Your comments? Nathans_parable@yahoo.com

Israel Is, and Must Be, an Apartheid State to be a Jewish State

Chaim Amalek writes: Torn from today's headlines, DEBORAH ORIN reports in today's NY Post:

**August 1, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - New, even harsher anti-Israel language is now being pushed for an upcoming U.N. conference - including claims that Israel is "an apartheid, racist and fascist state" that is guilty of "war crimes."**

I don't know that Israel is guilty of war crimes, but it most certainly is, and MUST be, an apartheid state. How can you have a state that exists to provide the members of a specific ethnic group with a place where they can call the shots, AND a substantial unassimilable populace that has dreams of wielding power on equal terms, and not have apartheid? Too bad so many jews helped destroy the apartheid states of South Africa and Rhodesia. More and more, it is looking like Israel could have used the company of these like-minded states. The story goes on to report:

It ... contends that Palestinians have the right to resist Israel "by any means." "This is a Kafka-esque nightmare," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "The bottom line is that it could become a crime to be an Israeli settler." ***

Well, if you were a Palestinian man, evicted from land lovingly farmed by your ancestors for many immediate generations to make room for some Brooklyn jew whose connection to the land was based on a two thousand year old myth, how would you feel? Once again we see that diversity is a source of weakness, not strength. As white people decline as a percentage of the population here in the West, we will come to know what dispossession feels like.

PS I think that not only are you going to lose your bet, but in trying to placate those with whom you made the bet, you are going to lose your manhood as well. You will end up paying them off with your credibility.

Curious writes: Help a Gentile out here. Is Yom Kippur the holiday when all debts are forgiven? Does this date fall near Luke's impending pay out date?

Chaim replies: No debts - only vows made under duress that are contrary to God.

My Struggle Against Porn - By Luke F-rd

Chaim Amalek writes: God is punishing you for not making yourself sufficiently successful such that men such as I can eat bountifully from the crumbs that fall off your table.

Have you given any thought to re-writing "Mein Kampf" so that it does not give offense to jewish people, Russians, Slavs, or Frenchmen? This would take you far in bringing jews and Aryans together at last - the union the white race has long been waiting for. Let your motto be "Storm Let Loose!"

Why haven't you written a screenplay based on your life?

Why haven't you moved to Israel, as you said you would a year ago, when it needs you now more than ever?

Why Not To Leave

Jeremy Steele writes: Luke, Don't leave. Don't you think we porno stars have stigmas too? Jesus! But running from that is handing victory over to those who will never respect you for who you truly are and what you have to offer, anyway. It's precisely because you want to leave the business that you should stay.

Anyone of higher consciousness comes to ask themselves "What the f--- am I doing here in THIS business?" That's expected. But the truth, is everything needs people who offer to bring it to a higher space. I don't propose that's what you always do, but, at times you do. And that's important. In time, those who judged you will be with nothing to say, but you'll have said alot.

I may be just another porno star of many, but I'm trying to help bring things to a higher level. I pay the price many times by stating what I believe in.. because I stand for something.. You also, it seems, are trying to incorporate spirituality and consciousness into the business. That's the way I see it. And I've been familiar with the cliche of "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" since the 80's, thanks to My Dad's entreprenurial pursuits and the "Success Education" seminars my dad talked me into, briefly, being a part of, in an attempt for me to try to get closer to him.

People want and need crazy Luke F-rd, because there's too much death and unconsciousness and carelessness and mindlessness and greed, not only in the porno business, but in society and religion, as well.

Porno will, one day, be, at least, in some examples, something to be proud of, believe it, or not... at least, by how certain people make it. Sex will always sell. People will always buy it. You were wise enough to recognize it's too important a subject to be ignored. You may offer alot of gossip, but, there's more to you than that. It's not necessary everyone believes in what you believe in. But those who ultimately believe in what you believe in, need to realize that you're the only entity in the universe offering that to wayward souls like us.

If you're dissastified with yourself.. Don't run from it all together, but examine ways in which you can change other's perceptions of what it is you are. Do that by persisting.. improving, Remain a forum for the business to express itself, and slowly evolve.. And meanwhile, do your thing, Luke. Read and talk about your Torah. Those of us who are interested in reading about that will, and the rest will scroll past it and read about what they care to read about.

Realize that sex is everyone's addiction, at times, whether they will admit it or not. You believe in the Torah. You offer alternatives to a sex industry. That's important for us. You are here for us. If someone in your Jewish circles has a problem with that, then ask them if a person who confesses something and seeks absolution or atonement comes to them, should they away from them, for what they've done, or offer what they can for them?

Don't you think it's a stigma for me? You think I can tell girls I meet I'm a porno star? Well, some, yes. But most, no. Personally, I'm trying to incorporate something that would make someone want to admit they watched it...

Who is not a whore? If someone has a problem that you associate or write about them, then tell them they should not associate with just about everyone in modern societies. Is being a jew who cares a little too much about money any better than a jew who is caught up in the sex business? The person who obsequiously kisses and licks ass for 8 hours a day at a job, the person serving or consuming s--- in the form of fast food, or some other kind of junk food, or junk food for thought via media is no better. We must associate with s--- no matter where we go. There's nowhere to run to and hide. If someone judges you, they don't understand that the sex business is a legitimate industry which needs someone who is trying to find "God" or "something" more than what the porno business, currently is.

The porn business is comprised of souls... human beings... And someone needs to reach out to them. To deny them that would be to forgoe your duty. You might not realize it, but you are a vehicle for transformation. (who cares who's laughing now reading this) And the energy of sex is also associated with birth, creation, death, mystery, power, money and transformation. It's not that these energies should be ignored for social correctness and acceptance, but acknowledged... so that they can serve instead of hinder man.

Consider that you are a brave soul for being here, despite your beliefs, not a coward or freak. And as you start to believe it, others will as well. And for those who don't, that's their problem. Think, if just one lost porno whore decides to find God, or even the torah, or maybe something they read on your site from either you or someone, made them think a little, and caused them to do or to do something which altered the events favorably for themselves and those they deal with. Then realize your importance and that you must remain.

DON'T f---ING LEAVE LUKE! STAND PROUD. STAY THE JOURNEY. IT AIN'T OVER YET. MAKE YOUR MARK AND MAKE IT FOR THE BETTER. IN TIME, YOUR CIRCLE WILL REALIZE YOU WERE THERE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL, INCLUDING THEM.

For God's sakes, don't lead us to start reading Quasarman instead.

Putative Marc writes: there is one place that will take your moral leader schtick seriously and help us both earn a decent income--ROGER AILES c/o the FOX NEWS CHANNEL (wherever the heck they are in NYC--up the street from the hilton hotel if i remember right) ... please bring details of your current transformation to his attention, pronto.

Porn star Ruby writes: Luke, We could do a "He said-She-said", thing, where we could debate. You tell them about the evils of porn, and I could tell them how legalized prostitution can save the public school system. Don't stop being a forum for everyone, that is noble, so is nonjudgement. Don't get discouraged, and mabye I wont either. Stick to your guns, man.

Alec Helmy Update

XXX writes: I overheard yesterday that webmaster Alec Helmy (69Spot.com) purchased a 4 letter domain name in the high five figures and that he's going to be making some major announcements next week related to his 69spot site. I met his girlfriend at the last Internext show - have u seen her!? she is one fine piece of ass! (that bastard)

The Bet Is On

Quasarman aka Mike McCormick writes: Dear Luke: In response to your recent wager, I'll bet you $200 that you will indeed still be writing about and earning your living from pornography two months from now. I'll bet you another two hundred that you'll still be writing about and earning your living from pornography two YEARS from now. I have attempted to leave the industry twice Luke and both times I discovered that the world outside is cold, boring and doesn't pay very well. It will be even worse for someone suffering from advanced narcissism such as yourself. Should you decide to dedicate your life to judaism you should know that Rabbis will not be lining up to purchase banner space on the new Luke F-rd.com. Newspapers, TV and radio shows will not be calling you for your unique perspective on yamulkah embroidery.

To quote Al Pacino from GodFather 3, "Every time I try to get out they pull me back in".

Luke says: I accept both your bets, for $200 two months from now and $200 two years from now.

The thing I know and that Mike McCormick doesn't, is the power and beautify of community. In my case, Orthodox Jewish community in Los Angeles. I know these people. They are great people.

I believe that l-keford.com has been a good thing for the world and for those affected by pornography. I believe that my religious community is wrong in condemning me for l-keford.com.

I also know that I would rather spend my time with members of my religious community who condemn l-keford.com than with those outside the community who praise it.

Therefore, even though I think my community is wrong in this instance, I would rather cave in to them and belong to them, than be right and be excluded.

Gregory Bowman writes: Luke, Betting online? are you serious? Isn't this considered solicitation for online gambling? I hope the FTC doesn't get wind. They may own your website if you are not careful.

Rumdar writes: I believe Quasarman is on to something. Although your religious community scorns you for your choice of employment that is far more acceptable then having the same community ignore you once you are making $6.00 an hour working at Starbuck's. You ain't going anywhere buddy. Start worrying how your porn community is going to react when you renege after loosing those bets you just made.

Curious writes: And $6200 to Nici the She-Pimp! Will our hapless friend be able to pay off in services? As a webmaster for nicisgirls.com? As a driver for the porn-whores he once slandered? As a man-whore himself? Wake up now and scream "SATIRE!"

Rumdar writes: Plus $400 to Qusarman, $100 to RW, and a new pair of Charlie Chaplin shoes and two (2) pair of white socks to me. One wonders how the cause on Ortho Judaism will be affected by a yiddle convert who doesn't even attempt to make good on his gambling debts? Bad vibes all around.

Chaim Amalek writes: What are you going to do for ideas once you have closed down your web site and we who give you them stop giving you them?

Curious writes: Good point! Where will the shoemaker be once all his elves have all moved over to Gene Ross and Quasarman's sites?

Luke says: The Torah will be the source of my inspiration.

Chaim replies: As a true student of the Torah, you ought to know that one is NOT supposed to make a living off of the Torah, but to use it as a guide to the rest of one's life, including making a living. So, unless you propose to make a series of bible-based porn epics (which you easily could - there is loads of sex in the bible), what will you do? What will Luke F-rd do to support himself in a manner that his CFS weakened corpus/psyche can tolerate?

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SUPPORT YOURSELF? By hanging out with the jews, begging them for alms and free meals on the sabbath?

Sorry, but I think he [Quasarman] is going to collect (at least a marker - I don't think your good for the money) from you. The stone cold truth is that most jobs really do suck: they suck in that you have to show up every freakin' day, CFS or not; they suck in that they don't pay even as well as what you presently are doing, even though they require so much more of your time; they suck because NO ONE CARES FOR THE OPINIONS of those doing them. No more media attention for you once you start working with some man-lawyer as his paralegal, or as a clerk at Kinko's. And if you think your social prospects among the jewesses of LA are limited now through your involvement in porn, just wait until you have lost the one thing you have going for you, your bad-boy notoriety. You will quickly become invisible to the lot of them.

And for what do you trade all of this in? The chance to wrap a strip of dead animal skin in the company of nine cold-hearded jewish men who are vastly wealthier than you, and who will always secretly regard you as a gentile shkutz? Luke, you have not thought this through.

Scott Lawrence writes: LUKE, SAY IT'S NOT SO! You really have to think this through. Look at it like this,what kind of people are in this Shul that they make demands on you? How kosher are their lives-do you know? These Jews are too pushy. Stay with us Luke! We accept you for who you are-a porn-hating porn junkie with the best porn site on the net! Sure, there are those death threats, but that happens in the best of families. Surely if your Shul clique actually read your site instead of focusing on the "bust a nut in this teen's face" banner, they'd see you are spreading the word of Jewish faith and educating us heathens. Before LF.com, I had no idea what a tellefin was or the importance of Jewish hollidays. Thanks to Luke, I now know watching Bukkake videos with 12 guys squirting teste bleach in Kiki A'Daire's face is wrong. I still watch it but I know it's wrong! Can't these Jews make an exception for you? Who else will share my love of Chick comics? Where will I get my porno news and Judeo-wisdom-not from that hack Quaserman, that's for sure! And this business of selling the site-what if Extreme buys it and Turd Ferguson takes it over? Do you really want your legacy represented by a guy dressed like a giant turd? Think it over! BTW-don't worry about that bet with Nici-her assets will probably be seized any day now!

Rumdar writes: Whatever credibility Levi has left among his porno peers will evaporate once it becomes clear he has no intention of paying off his gambling depts. I may resign from the advisory committee. Luke's "have mercy on me, I am a neurotic putz" routine won' t work in this instance. Bets where people are laying down cold hard cash should be taken seriously. This is no joke Levi. You better be prepared to pay up or face the wrath of those who wagered against you.

Luke replies: I am a man of my word. I will pay up if necessary.

Luke's mom writes: Confucius say: You can get Luke out of porn, but can you get porn out of Luke?

Hey, I'm not a gambling woman but I'll bet you $200 you are out within 2 months--but you have stay out 6 months. So I can save up.

David writes: Will you then disappear completely from public life in order to really pursue this seriously? Whatever happens. You're still going to have to accept that you're not a normal person and, if it isn't porn, you'll rub someone else the wrong way for something else. I've learned the hard way to wear my ``weirdness'' as a badge of honor like you. But I also know the price. You can't live your life to please everyone else. If that means quitting porn journalism to live up to others expectations, or staying in porn journalism to live up to others expectations, you have to do it for yourself.

Luke replies: I will start up l-keford.net which will be similar to l-keford.com but without the porn.

Luke F-rd - Your Moral Leader

I've decided on my new field of endeavor - I'm going to become YOUR MORAL LEADER! Who else it out there saying, I am your moral leader? Nobody. Who else is writing books on goodness? Nobody. I will be THE ROLE MODEL for America's youth.

See, what I got right in deciding to go into porn, was knowing that a journalist must specialize to get attention. I almost decided six years ago to specialize in goodness. Now I will. l-keford - Your moral leader! I will lecture in churches, schools, shuls...everywhere. Particularly about the evils of pornography. What do you think? I'll be just like Jimmy Swaggart.

Jason Curious writes: HAHA... Ok, I'm no longer worried. As soon as you said the Jimmy Swaggart thing, I knew you were just kidding. Whew! You had me scared there for a minute, Lucas!

P.S.: Can't you just get into Kabbalah or something? I'll give you a book or take you to the center for a lecture or something! It rocks the house.

Meet your new Oral Leader

Heather Barron Asks - Will Wild Cherry End This On A Good Note?

Heather Barron writes: If WildCherry wanted to end this on a good note, they would furnish me with my ibill site administration so that I could continue my site for my fans. The position I am in now leaves me in a state where my ibill site administration isn't up to date. I update the version on my computer but not every single moment of the day. I do appreciate their input regarding my photo sizing and the suggestions they made as such. There service up to that last experience was impeccable and their rates were actually quite reasonable. I would have rather left things on a good note with no bad blood. I'm not the one that hung up. I wasn't thrilled with their mention driving traffic to their sites and I expressed that without raising my voice. I just said I didn't want to be involved in that. My site is free of those types of banners.

I really wish WildCherry would give me my site admin file so off their servers or backup disk so that I can deliver my site to the fans that are currently signed up. That to me would show they fulfilled their obligations as a hosting company and that our relationship terminated with one party getting paid and the other party not being royally screwed. I have emailed them with the request and they are not responding to my emails.

Heather Barron writes Wild Cherry: Christine, I saw your comments on l-keford.com and responded there. You might want to check it out today or tomorrow. I then noted the figure that you indicated about the hosting overage. I went into my email record and took a look at the email you sent me regarding the overage. That day, I looked at it quickly and I thought it was a $204.98 overage charge IN ADDITION TO my hosting fee. I am really sorry for everything that happened and I truly wish that I never left Wildcherry. You comments about photo size were well received. The suggestion about the connection with your site wasn't taken well because it's just not something I want at this time. If he would have asked me at another time independent of our conversation about what I thought was an additional $204.98, I probably wouldn't have felt the way I did. Either way, I just wanted to say that I truly feel bad about how I handled the situation. I will definitely read my emails more carefully.

Heather Barron writes Luke: After speaking with several companies about the possibility about going into a partnership regarding hbxxx, I decided to bite the bullet and attempt to get the site back up and working on my own. I selected another hosting company with low per gig overage rates and will be more economical by condensing my photos ever so slightly. HeatherBarronXXX.com should be up in 2 days. I may have to hire a programmer to rewrite the scripts or do all the passwords manually so I ask my members to bear with the members area as i may not work initially. It's too early to tell. I just wanted to update my fans and thank them for their patience. I guess my site really is a true amateur site as I am less than flawless technically and learning as I go but there is something to be said for direct fan contact and controlling all aspects of your creative endeavors.

Bummed About Harry

Jimplasti: Bummer about [deceased VCX salesman] Harry Young. We loved him.
Jimplasti: and he was only half Jew and half Italian. and he raised 2 lovely daughters. One he adopted and he told the best old time porn stories ever. All the Essex stuff.
Jimplasti: He rode the bus every day to work...his small clutch bag concealing a small .380 auto.True.
Jimplasti: He probably had the cleanest accounts receivable in the biz too. That's respect.
Jimplasti: Anyway....a bummer. His legacy lives on with so many players in this industry that started with Harry.

Jimplasti: You are retiring? like...what and when? Jimplasti: its monumental, the things youve done...the commotion stirred. Jimplasti: you are like the Stutterring Jon of porn.
Jimplasti: this is like an all of a sudden .....from mesiach?
Jimplasti: how about teaching at a religous school
Jimplasti: well....i can see you wanting to get away.
Jimplasti: you went looking for s---, stepped all in it deep.....now you want it off..
Jimplasti: there is a differrence between getting dirty and getting in as deep as Luke F-rd.
Jimplasti: I loved my time in porn...and the little bit that i mingle in now..
Jimplasti: Its all about going home and seperating yourself from the life. Its a J.O.B.
Jimplasti: but when you are getting slugged at conventions and people are barring you from gatherings because you dig for gossip.....thats a harsh life.

Jimplasti: I just ask that you find someone that is now seeing the light that you once saw four years back.....the light on the end of the Sony VX1000....the crotch light....No, I mean the urge to wallow in the s--- and allow himself to be used and abused as a litterary punching bag or dart board, or message board .
Jimplasti: BTW is this Jeremy steele guy for real or is that another one of your fictional characters that you use to sound a fool? A bounced check for a hundred bucks and 4 returned item fees? like a buck 60? $160- is what I have to read about? Are you f---ing kidding? Thats wasted space that someone could be using to promote something like....milanasty.com maybe? I dunno....just seems like alot of popping off at the mouth for a buck sixty.

Stevie Attacks Ona Zee

I met porn star Stevie on Rob Spallone's set last week. She's a tall 30-year old athletic brunette who speaks with a Southern accent and doesn't do black guys.

Stevie phoned Tuesday evening.

Stevie: "You've got a reputation for liking to slander people. If you do, I have a really good story for you that I want you to print and spread to everybody you know. I am freakin' pissed right now.

"Miss Ona Zee. She booked me for three days, the 30th, 31st and the 1st. So I don't book anything for these three days and that's already cost me $2000. Then on Friday she says, 'I'm just going to use you on the 31st.' So I'm a little pissed.

"My scene is supposed to be a straight-up boy girl. And I show up and it is changed to an interracial thing. And I don't do interracial. And she knows this. She goes, 'Ok, we'll change it. We'll call Pat Myne.' So Pat Myne comes all the way down there. Next thing I know, I'm involved in a threeway and it is still interracial. So I made a comment, 'I'll do it, but it is at least another $100. I don't think that's asking too much.' She sent me home.

"I'd been sitting there for eight hours. She'd been surprising people with new scenes all day long.

"When I told every new person I talked to that I was going to work for Ona Zee, they warned me, 'She's notorious for burning people financially. Her checks bounce. That's why she disappeared for a while.' I don't know this woman. Fine, I'll take her check directly to her bank.

"Here she is trying to make her comeback in porn and she's already f---ing over people. She f---ed over me and she f---ed over everybody on that set. But they're just sitting there because they want to do their scenes and get paid. And I'm sitting here real curious about whose checks are going to bounce and whose aren't.

"I asked some people on the set about her checks. And they said, 'Yeah, it concerns us too. We're not depositing ours directly into our account either. We're going directly to her bank.' A couple of them had stuck it out all three days. I know she will pay some of the people because they will hunt her down if she doesn't.

"If she's trying to make a comeback from notoriously screwing over talent, she's not doing that good of a job.

"And I was going to do the interracial scene. Fine. I'll be completely professional. You won't even know that it bothers me. In the future, you need to be more professional and tell the talent what they're doing when they get here. And I was sent home because I said something."

Mark says: "f--- stevie the whore, she can take her hillbilly ass where she belongs, back to Kentucky."

Goodbye and Good Riddance Luke

Porn Pro writes: God, I hope for once that something you write is actually true. Good riddance you hypocritical leech. If you hate porn so much, how do you possibly rationalize making your "living (such as it is)" off of it? At least the right-wing religious whacko anti-porn groups such as the AFA live consistent with their misguided beliefs - they despise porn and thus have nothing to do with it. You on the other hand, with your self-rightous high-horse moralizing, equally despise porn, yet associate yourself with it on a daily basis. Perhaps the recognition of this glaring double standard you set for yourself is fueling your announced plans to retire (I'm not holding my breath) from your site. My only question is what took you so long?

Luke replies: There were many stories I wanted to write first, bad dealings I wanted to expose. I feel I've done my duty. I know the FBI, LAPD and John Ashcroft are happy with me, so now I will move on.

Jeremy Steele Says Extreme Screwed Him

On Friday, I published an email from the new female performer Lisa who complained about Extreme bouncing a check on her. Jeremy Steele then emailed in with his complaints about Extreme's dodgy financial dealings. In retaliation, it appears that Extreme put a stop-payment on a check to Steele, leaving him in a nasty financial hole.

Jeremy (jeremysteelexx@hotmail.com) told me Tuesday afternoon: "I deposited Extreme's check for the fourth time. The bank told me that Extreme had sufficient funds. Then Extreme put a stop-payment on it. So the check was never there. All that's there are all the bounced check fees I've been paying. I'm just a total wreck now because I am in deep sh-t financially now."

Luke: "They probably did it after they read your email to me on Friday."

Jeremy: "They fired me a year and a half ago and they've never hired me since. Then I worked for them in June and they haven't paid me. They're pulling all this evil bulls---. Perhaps I should've held back a day or so but I saw the girl that typed that and it really pissed me off and so I responded in kind with all the sh-- that I'd been holding back.

"I'm devastated right now. I'm not going to go shoot anybody but that's what I'd like to do.

"They didn't want to pay me a $100 that they owed me from a year and a half ago. They said because I'd been talking s--- about them on the internet. Or Krysti Myst said I'd talked about her on the internet. And now the bounced check fees which happened repeatedly.

"I feel really stupid right now about having spoken on your site maybe a little bit too soon. I'm speechless right now. I'm really devastated. I don't work that often so that when I get jobs lined up, I work enough in this business so that I can get by. Right now I'm really f---ed.

"I'm calling you to find out what knowledge you might have about other people. Are they still having these problems with getting paid? Has anybody gotten paid lately by Extreme?

"If you know of any girls looking for work, I do have something set up for Seymore Butts. I have sent a few his way. Yeah, I'm just a bit distraught."

Luke: "Maybe it is time to get out of the industry?"

Jeremy: "I'm chose to be in this business. And it's hard once you're in this business, to do something else. What are you going to do? Bulls--- some kind of resume for what I've been doing the last five years? My goal is to distribute my movie.

"The whole world is like this unfortunately. Greed rules everything. I'm not going to work some f---ing eight dollar an hour job and be a slave or something.

"My goals are to have my own line, make my own movies, and to distribute it. I guess I'm just crying out right now, calling you. I've got to sue them. If anyone wants to jump on the bandwagon, they should contact me. It could be a class action suit. They don't have the right to pull this repeatedly.

"Obviously I'm not going to call them after what I said. There's no point after what I wrote you. I guess that was a mistake.

"I tend to make a lot of mistakes like that in the business where I speak my mind. But I believed in what I said."

Luke: "I really think you should get out of the industry. I'm quitting l-keford.com. I decided today to put it up for sale. I don't know what I am going to do but I know that I am getting out of the industry."

Jeremy: "Why are you getting out?"

Luke: "The price of social exclusion."

Jeremy: "You were making a living off of this, right? That's what it's all about. Everyone is usually in a job that they hate."

Luke: "I enjoy my job, it's the social price I have to pay in stigma is too high."

Jeremy: "I'm sorry because you're the only person that I talk to. Not so much because I am an outcast in the business but I felt you were the least political and you also stood for something. I might not read the Torah but I always respected that you tried to get to a higher level than other people. I find it sad that you're leaving. I'd try to ask you to stay but if you've made your decision."

XXX Porner says: Tell Jeremy he'll solve the problem right away if he goes to a local EDD (Employment Development Department) office and act like as far as he knows, he was paid on a W2 form (where tax is taken out of the check) and bring that bounced that paycheck. The EDD will probably investigate Extreme Associates.

Everybody should be paying on W2s. And if the EDD determines that Jeremy was an employee, they will threaten to padlock Extreme's doors until they cover paychecks.

Vivid, VCA, Wicked, Wildlife and all the people who pay on W2s now, they don't do it because they love to throw the money away. All these people who are paying on 1099 forms, they're breaking the law.

Extreme Associates Bounces Another Check

Hi, My name is Lisa and I feel so stupid. I'm not sure if this is appropriate but I have no where else to turn. I was issued a check that bounced by a well known company and don't know how to proceed. I was told that the check will go through but that I need to wait a week. I don't have a problem financially- It's just that I'm 22 years old and can BALANCE A CHECKBOOK and am just feeling used and stupid. Silly me didn't ask or think of asking if the check was good upon receiving it. My god.

The irony here is that I did a scene for a website 3 days before that was the most pleasurable experience of my life. It paid the most and the guy was a babe. I was told that doing websites was cheap and that it would hurt my career. I was told this by my "agent." The guy paid me right there and treated me like a queen. People have different agendas in this industry and I can't talk to anyone else so here it goes. Am I the only one that has had this happen? Please disregard if this isn't relevant to your site. But I don't know if I should just wait or call the police. The check is small ( less than 500.00 ) so it's not the end of the world. Sorry for the drama-just don't know what to do.

The company is called Extreme Associates. I was told that that this has happened before and the company came though -and paid- so I guess it isn't the end of the world.

Jeremy Steele writes: Hey Luke, Tell Lisa She can email me (jeremysteelexx@hotmail.com) and I can refer her to some of the decent people in this business who I've worked for who don't bounce checks and who don't treat people like s--- and pull bulls--- like Extreme perpetually does. They were the ones I were referring to last month when they bounced their check on me three times. I'm never working for them again. I had to stress out major about paying rent late. I would call and leave messages and the accountant would never call me back. I had to keep calling and calling and calling. I had to make two trips and wait hours to get checks which ended up bouncing three times. Maybe good for the bad man image but not f---ing funny, having to live on the street and having a bad relationship with your owner/landlord.

Meanwhile, Extreme owed me a measily $100.00 for half of a whopping $200.00 for a Krysti Myst gangbang from over a year and a half ago, which they claimed I never worked the second half of. The proof that I did work both days of a single girl $100.00 a day shoot spread out over three and a half weeks is in the video itself, where, in the first half of the video, I'm clean shaven, and in the second half, I suddenly appear with a goatee, which I grew for over three weeks. Some bulls--- happened with them, where I found out I was fired while showing up to be in a gang bang with a girl named Sunshine (forget her stage name), who with I never worked, and was escorted out without EVER being heard.

It turns out that someone, on l-keford, I believe, was apparently talking s--- about Krysti Myst and Extreme, and did so anonymously. I was one of a few people complaining the day of the shoot about this sudden ultimatum we were given about having to show up three and a half weeks later to the day we were booked to finish the cheap gangbang, otherwise we would no! t get paid for either. Krysti couldn't finish the shoot, and it may have had something to do with the fact that all of us were told, for the first time, once we got there, that we had to be real brutal with her.. Slap her, spit on her, and in her mouth, piss on her, and have her lick our dirty s---holes, as well. This kind of s--- we should all be warned about, and cleared with first, especially the actress. When I talked to her the second day of the gangbang, three weeks later, I told her I thought they should treat her better.

Anyway, later on in the scene, she suddenly says to me, in it's midst that I was the one talking "s---" about her, on the internet. I still don't know what Krysti Myst was talking about and I never said s--- about Krysti Myst on the internet, and what I said about Extreme, I said to them, in person, and to her. I was sticking up for Krysti, yet she somehow thought I was the one talking s--- about her, whatever it was. Maybe someone went on the internet paraphrasing what I articulated?

I don't f---ing talk anonymously on the internet, and don't fear them or anybody. I've spoken in the past about World Modeling and how they've f---ed me over and said s--- about me when Steve Austin was with them, because I fell out with them over a misunderstanding of intentions.. I speak my mind and I don't hide, in the name of fairness over political correctness.. which not enough people partake in, unfortunately. Anyway, I was blamed for saying some s--- on the internet and was convicted without a trial ever since, and they refused to pay me all this time. Even if I did talk s--- about them, I'm still entitled to be payed for my work.. They measily amount it was, at the time. Then, pretty recently, a nice guy by the name of Rod Fontana booked me on Extreme's Boot Camp, and a did three scenes (bj, dp and regular boy/girl) for $700 (I didn't even know what I'd get paid until ! I finally got the check).

I'll say it now and I'm not speaking anonymously, by the way. Extreme Sucks. They're lucky they are still on the shelves. The constantly reveal what they really think of talent, not only by the way they brutalize them on tape, for their own kicks, but by the way they bounce checks as well, and all the other unprofessional bulls---. They apparently pride themselves on f---ing with people in every way. It ain't cool we're exposing ourselves to the world in every way and risking our health or even lives for the public's entertainment, then we gotta deal with not being able to cash our checks, and wondering if we can pay rent. I think it's just one more middle finger they're waving at us, while laughing. It's part of the scumbag anti-porn posterchildren image they pride themselves in. With all the times I've had to call for my $100.00 check over the many months, and then the $700.00 and the bounced check fees, and my late rent fee, and the driving and the aggravation, I've tacked on my own late fees, the way the government might do with a late traffic citation.

I'd say, Extreme owes me about double, at the very least..Which I've managed to more or less collect, because I talked the accountant into giving me a second check, when the first one bounced, and was never returned to me promptly, by my bank. So, I finally two days ago deposited both checks and now I'll call us even, and give them a little taste of what it feels like to be ripped off, lied to, humiliated, repeatedly. Take me to court if you like, or otherwise just try confronting me in person, and you'll meet the wrath of both God and Satan, with the pain of all the f---s who've ever f---ed with me in my life but which I've held back against lashing out on, held within me still.

I've got more interesting things I could mention about Extreme, but I won't bother, unless they want a war. They need to learn respect and humility themselves... They're already way too high on humiliation.

Jeff writes: Do you think Extreme bounces checks because they don't manage their business properly? Or do they really have financial troubles?

Gregory Bowman writes: If a company writes you a bad check and has a history of doing so, I would suggest the following to recoup your losses and send a message to that company that writing bad checks may very well be illegal.

1. File suit in Small Claims court for treble the amount of damages plus your filing fees and costs due to the bad check. Missing that days work to appear is not recoverable nor are other items such as gas money or time taken to file the action. See your local court clerk for the criteria by which you may want to file and the amount.

2. Certainly file a complaint with the District Attorney's office for the bad check. Bad check writing is against the law. I am confident that the DA will be more willing to file charges if that company is also looking at future prosecution for obscenity laws. Its worth a try to get the District Attorney involved; what can it hurt.

3. Share information with others about the misconduct of companies who frequently have accounting problems. Writing bad checks is also called check FRAUD. It is a crime in some cases and the burden lies with the company to show it was not deliberate.

Hope this helps some of your readers solve the problem of check fraud and maybe puts those companies who have a practice of doing so on notice. Talent works very hard for you screwing on camera; they don't expect or deserve you to continue to screw them out of their entitled money.

The Story Behind f---PaulFishbein.com

Mike writes: Your story on Phil Donnick and the fpb.com site is somewhat false. I don't know if you care but none of the people you mentioned in the write up had anything to do with that site. It was the work of a no name "kid" in LA that stole info and posted it unknown to Phil who thought he was hosting a wrestling page for this "kid". This person is a writer for a wrestling web page that also has ties with other industries. I know them both and I know what's true. There is bad blood between Phil and the "kid" because of this whole mess.

Luke asks: What was Gene Ross's role in this?

Mike answers: None, none of the other people in your article had any connections with Phil. Maybe with the other "kid", but not with Phil. I heard through the grape vine that emails were stolen by the "kid" through his place of business.

Luke Taking Wagers

I am taking wagers that I will not be writing on porn in two months and earning my living from porn banner ads. I will be doing something else. Anyone care to bet me?

Nici@Nicisgirls.com writes: "Luke, I'll take that bet! I will bet you $6,000 (that is $100 for every day between today and the two month mark) that on October 1, 2001 you will still be writing on porn and making money from banner ads on your website. If you are not then I will gladly pay you my wager in full but if you are then you my Aussie friend will owe me a whopping $6,200."

Luke says: Good people, it is time to step up to the plate and place your bets. And follow in the holy example of Madam Superior Nici. I know that betting is also a sin but it is permitted in this particular instant as a spur to my doing the moral and upright thing.

Putative Marc writes: i think it's only right that instead of taking her cash, you redeem it in the form of credit with her agency and share with all of your loyal contributors ... (ditto if you lose the bet.)

Helpful writes: Forget money! If Luke does not retire from LF.com by October 1 he must perform cunnilingus on Lynne L-patin over a web cam!! Got your resume updated Luke?

Fred writes: If Luke loses the bet, I wonder what it's like trying to extract $6K from LF.

Helpful replies: He will no doubt barter advertising on lf.com. He will give her a free banner ad between loyal paying sponsors like s---city.com and beastworld.com.

Fred replies: Oh-my-God! There really is a web site s---city.com. That is incredibly disgusting! I don't believe I shall ever be able to achieve an erection again. Although I must admit, watching LF go down on Lynne L-patin on a web cam is not a heck of a lot more appetizing.

David writes: My friend who was raised Jewish but isn't practicing says the wager is a good idea if you're truly Jewish. He jokes a real Jew would do anything to avoid spending money period. However, since I'm not Jewish, I can't make those assumptions.

Robert Lombard of Creative Image Management PLEADS don't give up the QUEST! Where else am I going to get a FREE education on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Adult Industry. The Rights and The Wrongs, The Lies, The Gossip, The Truths, The Facts, The Banter... The Entertainment. YOU are the BEST at pulling the covers. WE SHALL ALL MISS YOU....EVEN YOUR ENEMIES WILL MISS YOU. I for one will miss visiting l-keford.com :-]

Chaim Amalek writes: Luke, you are the C.S. Lewis of pornography. Now go check out http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/archives26.htm They mention you there!