Two little known porners were arraigned last Friday for manufacturing drugs (GHB) with the intent to sell them.

Police found three gallons of a "date rape" drug similar to Rohypnol in the possession of Daniel Arthur Mead of Canoga Park and Scott Catalfamo of Topanga Canyon.

Catalfamo, 25, was charged with one felony count of assaulting a police officer during the arrest.

Mead, 38, produces porn and Catalfamo is his co-worker, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

The two men are scheduled to appear Sept. 2 for a preliminary hearing. What are their stage names?

Last year, Mike Ross and Bill Margold's PAW, despite opposition by Jeffrey Douglas and the FSC, worked to outlaw GHB.

From the 8/22/98 LA Times:

The federal government has warned that GHB, a popular party drug often promoted to teenagers over the Internet as an aphrodisiac or an easy high, can be deadly.

The chemical was banned in this country in 1991, but in recent years the drug has experienced a resurgence as a date-rape drug that, when slipped into a beverage, can render the drinker helpless.

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HarryCaul1 wrote on RAME:

> I'd been aware of three types of cuts in porn flicks:

> 1) The hotel or spice cut that we all know and hate. No hard dicks orinsertion allowed, etc.

> 2) The mainstream US hardcore version. Full insertion, anal, cum shots, four finger fisting, Mila's asshole hanging out, etc. No pissing, s---ting, fisting, etc.

> 3) The european version, featuring usually full fisting and pissing scenes.

> But I wonder if there is a "1.5." I travel a lot and in a couple of different hotels, I've "rented" the porn flicks and been surprised to see basically the hotel version, but in each sex scene there will be about 5 or 10 seconds of penetration.

Porner Matt Taylor writes:

Harry, You are not seeing a mirage. What is happening is a totally new type of "cut" of edit called "Double X". This style of edit only will show the sex, and many times, from a long shot, and will edit out the money shot.

This new cut is currently being purchased by a handful of hotel chains such as Oceanic Cable in Hawaii and others. There are satellite broadcasters who also show this type of show. They include The Erotic Network (TEN), and Spice Hot, now, I believe, to be renamed the Vivid Channel because Playboy purchased Spice and do not want to be associated with this harder product.

What is going on here is competition has created the old testing of the outer edge of the envelope routine. These companies that choose to exhibit this kind of product are doing so to reach a larger audience and dig in to the customer base of their competition. This combined with the so-called loosening or lessening of the obscenity procecutions results in a harder product in the cable and hotel market and a harder product in the adult video market, ala, Rob Black, et al.

Liza Harper's boyfriend Christoph has returned to France and Liza has supposedly taken up with Rod Fontana.

Reb Sawitz meets with Annabel Chong Wednesday. She plans to sign exclusively with Pretty Girl.

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Brooke Ashley appeared on Entertainment Tonight Monday evening. "No where does Brooke mention contracting this at a 50 man anal gangbang... People who saw this interview and know nothing else about this matter must be scratching their heads. One could almost develop the impression after hearing her that her body had been borrowed by evil pornographers without her consent and returned damaged. She also claims she has been "banned" from the biz but I seem to recall someone offered her a job..." (Duke56@webtv.net)

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Charley Frey says newcomer Kim Alexus went on Jerry Springer Monday. "She informed her up til now unaware boyfriend that she had joined the wonderful world of pornography. He was not happy about it."

From the 8/22/98 edition of New Scientist:

"Men are not the only ones who experience a testosterone surge after watching a pornographic film - women do too, Austrian Researchers have discovered. Their findings call into question the commonly heldf view that males and females respond in different ways to sexually explicit material they say.

"Astrid Jutte and her colleagues at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna asked 10 men and 10 women to wtch a 15 minute pornographic film. The researchers took blood samples: before the film and three at intervals asterwards. There was a significant increase in testosterone in both males and females after the film, Jutte said. The median increase in men was 100 per cent, she says, and for women it was 80 per cent. Studies have shown that the more testosterone a woman produces over the monthly cycle, the more sexually active she tends to be, but little is known about the effects of short-term surges in this hormone, says Jutte. "Maybe it changes her sexual drive or her motivation for sex," she speculates."

HarryCaul1@aol.com writes on RAME: "Problem is, even though porn very well might turn on a woman who doesn't like porn, it's often not a permanent change.

"That is, she tells you she really doesn't like porn. And she doesn't. She watches a porn vid with you, gets sopping wet and you have great sex. Problem is, she still may not _like_ porn, or watching porn, even though it turns her on. And she still may not want to watch it again, even though there is no denying the results (her arousal.) All the same psychological reasons for not liking porn will still be there, despite the pleasurable physiological response to watching people f---.

To exagerate a bit, it's kinda like the small minority of women who have orgasms during rape. Yeah, they come, but the process involved...."

AMutimer@aol.com adds: "You're right in all respects. It is absolutley my experience too that women love porn when they see it. But the *idea* of porn is often atrocious to them.

"I have found however that you can wear this down by repeated exposure to porn that turns them on. At the very least they tend to become more tolerant of it.

"What I want to know is, what underlies the resistance? Does it have some inherited basis or is it a learned repsonse soemething to do with our culture?

"If it is the latter then we owe it to women everywhere to cooperate in scorning all the social norms which put them in this trap and positively encouraging the idea that getting turned on is good, be it by the humans or by images. I may write a tract."