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Monday, September 14, 1998

Bianca Trump blames Jim South and Mark Carriere for pushing her into getting a breast job that has backfired on her (infection).

Here's a sneak peak at an essay by Matt Labash in the forthcoming issue (9/21/98) of The Weekly Standard about the World Pornography Conference held in early August:

Luke is from Cooranbong, outside Sydney. He's a kind of shaggy-haired, acid-washed Brad Pitt, the 32-year old son of a former Seventh Day Adventist evangelist. After a bout with atheism in his twenties, he converted to Judaism on hearing Dennis Prager, the Jewish radio theologian. Luke moved to Los Angeles and decided to write a book on either ethical living or pornography. He settled on porn, and his A History of X will be published next year. In the meantime, he serves as the industry's Matt Drudge, operating a porn-news Web site, where profiles of Wendy Whoppers and Max Hardcore are garnished with Torah references and discussion of whether Jewish porners keep kosher.

Loathed in the porn industry for aggressively reporting stories such as an HIV epidemic that has seen five stars test positive since January, Luke is forced to cadge a Sydney Morning Herald press pass to gain admittance to the conference. I ask him why stays on this beat, and after feeble protestations about being hte only critical observer in a racket filled industry shills, he finally shrugs: "Good question - it's something I talk about weekly with my shrink. He's an orthodox Jew."

Like everyone else here, Luke discounts claims by feminists and fundamentalists that pornography leads to violence against women. But unlike anyone else here, he seems perplexed about porn, offering eloquent disquisitions on its corrosive effect and tendency to desensitize.

Luke breaks with the academics and porners who've adopted a chipper Rousseauian view of things: No impulse should be subjugated; porn is nothing but natural man expressing himself in the most natural of ways. He regards pornography as "inherently wild, nasty and vicious." "The male animals is very bad news," he says, "and pornography exemplifies that. These people are divorced from the foundations of our civilization." As Luke sees it, "the best arguments against pornography are religious ones: that sex should be sacred, that the human being contains the image of God, that we should not act like animals but live in a moral, elevated sense. I buy that," he says, "Even if I don't live up to it."

Despite his inner conflict, Luke serves as my Sacajawea, guiding me through the alien biosphere that is convocation, pointing out people I should meet. Because his name is recognized and reviled by industry regulars, Luke intermittently uses an alias, and I join in for sport. We introduce ourselves as retired gay porn stars Dick Dundee and Jack Hammer.

...

"Oy vey," says Luke. "Proverbs says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. This conference will show you how incredibly stupid people get when they don't have a fear of God."

He's speaking of the professors, who slither through the halls ogling passing porn actresses...

...the Free Speech Coalition's awards dinner... Luke can't attend as he has to keep the Sabbath holy...

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Children

I talked to Jackie Lick 9/15/98: "I listen to the Howard Stern show every morning. Eight months ago, a NAMBLA [society to eliminate minimum age laws for sexual consent] member called up. The caller upset me so much that I looked up NAMBLA on the internet so that I could send them a nasty letter. And the first page that came up [in the search engine], was anti-NAMBLA, [http://www.shadow-net.com]. So I contacted [the site's operator] Mike Echols.

"I've done a few things like write letters to senators to keep people [pedarasts] from being released [from prison]. This Tony (Mario) Ivan Leyva is due to get out October 20th after only serving ten years of his sentence. I'm directly in contact with Macalyn, the mother of two of Tony's victims (boys aged 10 and 14 at the time)."

Lick says that her anti-NAMBLA friends know that she works in porn, and that they do not have a problem with it. "They know that consenting adults having sex is different from adults having sex with children."

Jackie appears in the forthcoming mainstream film 8mm. "My title [in the credits] is "The Bound Woman," but I have two different speaking characters."

Lick does marketing for Atlas Multimedia owned by Don Holt. The company hosts Jackie's site and sites for about a dozen or so other porn stars including Racquel Darrian, Missy, Liza Harper..."

Jackie has ceased doing sex scenes, believing that the industry's testing procedures for STDs is inadequate.

She spends her summers stripping in clubs.

Lick trains to become a kick boxing instructor.