Maya Divine and her husband Eric Matterson did their first sex scene together this weekend for Michael Raven's Strange Magic Staring Gina Ryder and Evan Stone. The wife of production manager Mark Webb, Keri Windsor, shoots Sex Court Monday and then flies to Chicago this week to appear on the Jenny Jones Show. It's a "Look At Me Now" show. Keri was the first girl football player in Arizona.
Dave Kay: "I was at the Cleveland International Film Festival yesterday and had the chance to watch the film Sex; The Annabel Chong Story followed by discussion group featuring Grace Quek The Producer and several feminist speakers.
"First of all allow me to give my take on the film.Grace/Annabel is a highly intelligent person who has several indentity problems, mostly about her place in the world. Rob Black comes across as a coked up moron that makes the adult film industry look bad. John T. Bone is a cold fellow that refuses to pay his talent, hence Annabel did not get paid for the gang bang film [Bone and Chuck Zane quibbled over who had to pay her]. Ed Powers presented himself in a intelligent manner, well spoken and quick. Ona Zee [appeared like] a holier than thou porn queen "I don't do those type of films." Ron the hedgehog [appeared] funny and fat. Hey the audiance laughed at him and it was mostly a feminist crowd.
"The Panel discusssion was short but well recieved by the audience. Annabel/Grace made several good points about safe sex and how the industry turns its back on performers with HIV. Most of it [discussion] was about feminist point of views and the and the director trying to make the film as dark as possible. All in all it was a weird way to spend an afternoon."
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Genesis magazine's 5/99 issue lists the 100 hottest women in porn for 1998. Jenna Jameson, the Wicked contract girl who made no movies in 1998 but Stared in several that were released last year such as Flashpoint, Paradise and Jenna's Revenge, appears on top of the list. "Her legacy already rivals that of Marilyn Chambers and Linda Lovelace," writes Genesis, "and she still has plenty of time to surpass their accomplishments."
Jenna's selection as number one surprised many. She wasn't even nominated for AVN's Female Performer of the Year. That award went to Chloe who only ranks 28 on the Genesis list. The XRCO Female Performer of the Year award went to Stacy Valentine, who only ranks ten on the Genesis list.
Genesis has included special foldouts and layouts of Jenna in the past, and generally appears friendly to Wicked Pictures and its publicist Joy King. Other Wicked girls feature high on the Genesis 100: Serenity (4), Missy (7) and Stephanie Swift (14).
Number two on the Genesis list is Jill Kelly who did have a big 1998. Asia Carrera came in third, Serenity fourth, and then two more puzzling selections - Nina Hartley five, and Shane six.
7-Missy, 8-Chasey Lain, 9-Juli Ashton...
Missy appeared at number eight on the Celebrity Sleuth list (Volume 12 Number 3) as one of the "25 Sexiest Women of 1999," a list that includes Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez and Bridget Fonda. Missy received the highest ranking ever for a porn star. Her next feature is Jonathan Morgan's "Tell Me What You Want" that also stars her husband Mickey G.
Fresh off the set of Wicked Sex Party 2, Stephanie Swift will be shooting her second movie under contract at the end of March. It is tentatively titled "Sex Safari," and is directed by Jenna's ex-husband Brad Armstrong.
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Cass Paley's award winning VCA documentary on John Holmes, Wadd, plays at the New Egyptian Theatre at 6712 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, next Thursday at 7:30 PM. The print edition of Thursday's LA Weekly says: "Holmes' life has all the ingredients of a classic American tragedy: An Ohio country boy "discovers a pot of gold at the end of his zipper," and finds himself bestriding the adult-entertainment world like a three-legged Colossus. Remembered as, variously, the Gable, the Elvis and the Neil Armstrong of hardcore, Holmes later developed a coke habit that impoverished him, robbed him of his erectile capacity, and finally got him involved in the infamous "Four-on-the-Floor" bludgeonings on Wonderland Avenue in 1982 (Wadd's crimescene footage is ghastly). Thenceforth his life was a downward trajectory of prison, AIDS (and he kept working, condomless), and death at age 42. It's ironic to think that the conservatively dressed geezers and schoolmarmy grandmas interviewed here spent much of the '60s and '70s chugging cock or writing their names in semen upon young women's faces, back when porn still considered itself a pioneering cadet branch of the counterculture."
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Wicked Pictures contract stars Serenity and Jonathan Morgan will be panel speakers at the California State University at Long Beach "Sex in the 90's" workshop Tuesday, March 23, 1999 at 6:00pm.
Porner Sasha Gabor writes to the editor of www.konformist.com about his piece on the Houston 500: << Hi Robert Sterling, You puzzle me with your slander and insinuations. Be a man and give me a phone call so I can find out what woman allegedly turned me down. None this year that I know of. Home number (deleted by Robalini) Best regards sasha gabor >>
Sterling replies:
Dear Mr. Gabor,
First of all, let me thank you for your letter: as I'm sure you're aware, the best way to flatter a writer is to let them know that their words actually have some value. That you were disturbed by what little old me wrote enough to write back is a true compliment.
Having said that, I unfortunately can't name the woman, however unmanly that may make me. I'll let her reveal herself to you if she chooses: it's called not revealing your sources, something you as a writer I'm sure are aware of and can understand.
Besides, it wasn't really about her: it was about my total impression of you. For some reason, based on what I was told and saw, I came away with the impression that you were a narcissistic egotist with a highly inflated sense of self-importance. But after reading your letter to me and the stuff on Luke F-rd about you, I must say it's a mystery how I came up with that conclusion.
I suppose you are a bit upset at me for what I said, and I do understand. However, let me explain something to you: I've twice interviewed a Commander of Green Beret Special Forces in Vietnam and Operation Phoenix whose nickname is Dr. Doom. I've written an expose on another high-ranking military intelligence officer who in his spare time molests children and runs the most powerful Satanic kult in the country. I've printed attacks on the "Church" of Scientology. And even more frightening, I've slammed Michael Jackson. Needless to say, if you have it out for me, I'm afraid you're going to have to wait in line.
Still, I will call you tomorrow. And, who knows, maybe we'll meet, and perhaps we can talk about your objections. At the very least I can give you a komplimentary Kirby Koffee mug as thanks.
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A Sin City exec: "I went to Michael Raven's studio and saw some of the rushes on his latest [Sin City] mega-project, entitled, Principles of Lust and they looked phenomenal. It was shot in a digital format which gives the movie the look of film, much better than any I have ever seen. All of his shows are shot using stereo, digital sound, and, heavens, duplicated in stereo. For that matter, all new Sin City releases are duplicated in stereo and have been for some time now.
"Sin City has had fantastic success with its "Michael Raven" signature line, both in cassette sales, and, most importantly, in international copyright and satellite sales. Output satellite deals have been penned both in Germany and in Scandinavia and a hand-shake deal has been made with the much coveted Canal + channel in France.
"Contrary to the policies at SCV, negotiations are being held with some of the most beautiful international sex stars in the world, the two top contenders both hail from the land of the blond bomb shell, Scandinavia. It is rumored that the honchos at the company can't decide which one to hire and might hire both."
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Porn journalist Marc Star www.stickygreen.com devotes his "The World From From a Porn Point of View" column in the February 1999 edition of Erotic X Film Guide to the internet. I first met Star via email in early 1998 and recommended him to the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica where 3/10 he posted this query: "I am writing an article for Erotic X-Film Guide on the possible connection between the gangbang and latent homosexuality, and I would love to get any feedback you all might have. I am simply exploring the connection, not necessarily asserting there is one. But the implication can't be ignored. I'm sure if any of you have seen a gangbang video or two, you must have given the idea some thought."
Star proceeded to get reamed. Bitter about the experience, he published this 2/99 column entitled "The Internet Strikes Back: Internet gossip hound, Luke F-rd, has turned porn's favorite medium into it's most dangerous enemy."
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By Marc Star of www.stickygreen.com
I cannot tell a lie. The internet has been my saving grace. Whenever I'm called to do a story that requires even a scant bit of background knowledge, I dial into my trusty world library and search around for a few hours, gathering bits and pieces to sustain my musings. It's rarely as effective just making your point as it is framing it within the context of others. With the internet at hand, there are plenty of others - and they all seem to have diarrhea of the mouth.
Simply because it's posted on the 'net, of course, doth not truth it make. But how much easier is it now to get a first person perspective on literally any topic you can dream up? Hell, it's an anti-social reporter's fantasy come alive! I don't even have to talk to these folks. Such was the case when I went researching some opinions on a previous topic I covered in the Angle:
Homosexuality in the gangbang. Could there possibly be any link between latent gay desires and participation in a gangbang. Dozens of naked guys standing around sharing a woman. The topic was a firebreathing dragon, sure to incite and spread like a foul virus. I expected convulsive reactions. Anger. A vile torrent of slurs. To get going, I dropped the word "gangbang" in the Alta Vista search engine. In moments I was linked to a number of sites. Most of them were picture sites. Few were informational. Only one was voluminous.
l-keford.com. It was a text-only site, but was packed with information on every aspect of porn: every position, every act, nearly any actor or actress from porn's outlaw past to its multi-billion dollar present. I felt I had gone on a blind date with Pamela Anderson - only to find out later she was a post-op transsexual with a fantastic plastic surgeon. The man had hundreds of pages detailing the history of the business. He intimately described the lives of its players. And somehow, he kept his updated with breaking gossip, exposing HIV cases before they broke, giving out performers' real names. He appeared like the Matt Drudge of the porn industry, only Drudge's inside information tends to be more accurate. I learned of Luke's poor standard of fact checking (or rather, complete disregard) too late.
I e-mailed Luke for his comments on the gangbang. Perhaps in his vast research of porn he had stumbled upon some mention of this, or perhaps he had developed an opinion already. Ford enthusiastically and promptly replied. Though he couldn't lend any insight, he wrote, he suggested I post the query to the newsgroup RAME, rec.arts.movies.erotica.
RAME was born by a handful of adult movie diehards who used to converse in alt.sex.movies before the internet explosion, the adult website explosion and scads of advertising spam flooded the newsgroup with unceasing noise. Trying to carry on an intelligent discussion on porn became as infuriating as trying to hold a conversation across the length of a sold-out football stadium right after a touchdown. RAME, however, was to be a moderated, mature discussion area where men and women could seriously discuss porn. It has developed today into an arena where industry folks can listen to what the public has to say and where fans can sometimes grab the ear of a porn insider, oftentimes drawing him or her into an engaging discussion.
RAME is Luke's home. But when I dropped by for cocktails and unleashed my query to the guests, I would never have been able to guess the backlash my simple speculation would cause. Everybody who replied to my query misunderstood the question, thinking I was suggesting that viewers of the gangbang were gay, rather then the male participants. RAME took my post personally! Instead of gathering comments on the gangbang, a flurry ensued over the meaning of my post. My journalistic ability was picked apart, raked over and it was suggested that my post was a backhanded attempt to come out of the closet. In the end, Luke F-rd appended the comments to his site, tacking them onto his own column on the gangbang:
"Porn journalist Marc Star wondered aloud on RAME if love of gangbangs indicates latent homosexuality. Ted Stanulis demurred. He wrote satirically:
"I assume that you, My. Marc Star, will end up writing some similar sounding drivel. You will most likely convince watchers of Vivid flicks and like garbage that us filthy viewers of gangbangs are all really a bunch o'queers. He will write "These gangbang people all really want to be f---ed by Ron Jeremy. He is large and hairy and has a really big dick. He is the essence of masculinity and these viewers, in their unconscious fantasies, become the hapless female subject of the gangbang, becoming enveloped in a sea of hairy assed, big dicked, wisecracking Ron Jeremies, yearning for his precious bodily fluids."
"Dithering voices a similar view: "Here I was, naively thinking I enjoyed watching Trixie Tyler in Anabolic's GangBang Girl 1 because she tenderly received and swallowed 8 gooey cum-shots. It turns out, the REAL reason I liked that movie, and several other Anabolic Gangbang Girls is because I am a latent homosexual. I was subconsciously watching Ron Jeremy's hairy asshole, wishing it was me there; with Ron, instead of Trixie Tyler."
Now, I'm well aware that Ford understood my question when I first emailed him. However, the juicy bits of reply that the RAME participants offered up were apparently too golden to pass up for the sake of journalistic accuracy. The least he could have done was, perhaps, offer up the viewpoint of a handful of RAME readers that challenged the offended for misinterpreting my question.
But such is the style of Luke F-rd. And it's that style which has infiltrated his name through the porn business. When the man slanders professionals and often publishes outright lies, he is going to garner attention. You have to give him credit. In only a few short months, Luke F-rd has made himself impossible to ignore.
Mike Albo (Editor Hustler's Erotic Video Guide): "That dickhead? His skills as a writer are seriously lacking... Most of those geeks on the internet are [losers]."
Jim Holliday (in AVN): "[Luke F-rd is] probably unaware that those who violate the code of privacy get no second chance in pornoland. Much of the industry is now hip to [his] smarmy groveling act, the complete insincerity, the posturing of phony blithe innocence to hide the deviousness and the squirrelly, plagiaristic mindset methodology of this dumb f---."
Gene Ross: (VP Editorial Operations AVN): "Though he proclaims himself an 'accredited' journalist, I still contend that Ford's one of these smear tactic commandos who deploys cryptic sources to do his dirty work, but, himself, isn't able to discern a facto from a fortune cookie."
Rarely have I come across any positive comments on Mr. Ford. In fact, I really only came across one, and with a little insight, it seems quite telling.
Mike South: "You know, it's only a matter of time before 60 Minutes or someone is gonna get a hold of a story about this biz and Gene Ross, Mark Kernes and others are gonna beg for the day when Luke F-rd's journalism was considered a problem. If they think Luke is a problem, wait until they have to deal with a real attack dog like Mike Wallace. Luke should be considered training. Go Luke, we need ya."
As much as I respect Gene Ross, I have to think he's got it backwards. Rather than Ford deploying cryptic sources to do his dirty work, I suggest that Ford is being used as the mouthpiece of folks like Mike South and Rob Spallone, being fed all sorts of rumors and half-truths to discredit all save themselves.
Ford had to have dug up his information from someplace. Though he publishes his autobiography on the internet (just a facet of his self-promotional blitz in his somewhat successful attempt to squeeze himself into the biz), he leaves out any detail regarding his compilation of such an enormous amount of information on porn. Undoubtedly, his first foray from porn fan to porn writer began as an attempt to chronicle porn's mysterious history. I don't think anybody has accomplished what Ford has in that regard, though I don't know if anybody (like Jim Holliday, Bill Margold or Gene Ross) has read the pages for accuracy. Nevertheless, chronicling porn is an excellent way to make friends in the industry, especially with Bill Margold who is more than willing to tell every last detail of his story to nearly anyone with a pen. It's not too much of a stretch to see how Ford could have made a few friends. It's not too far fetched to understand how he could have started getting his gossip. And it's awful easy to see how certain folks within the industry could have pinpointed Ford from the get-go as a weak-minded fan willing to print anything to give himself an ounce of recognition. After all, it's an industry he lusts after enough to have devoted such a huge chunk of his life chronicling.
If you read Ford's site today, you'll find it filled with quotes from Mike South and Rob Spallone. I don't know much about Mike South or whom he is out to get, but I do know something of Spallone's motives. Spallone is the man behind Star World Modeling and a serious competitor to Jim South's agency stranglehold. I have run into Spallone only once and sat through a half-hour tirade on South's ineptitude. That tirade continues on Ford's site.
Nothing comes for free. If Ford wants his juicy gossip, he needs to keep his sources happy. And you only need a couple of good insiders to keep your pages filled with information. But let's call a spade a spade. Ford's page has two types of content: a researched history of porn and a soap opera filled with gossip. Sure, the soap opera is far more interesting, and a less informed reader will take Ford's word as fact. That's what has most of the industry up in arms. The only solution is to convince Ford to police himself. He has accomplished what he probably initially set out to do: He made himself a name in the biz. Now that he has the power to get folks to talk to him, it's about time he start checking his sources a little more carefully, though he indicates he may do that. Ford closes a recent update with a fake conversation with god:
"The entire industry hates you. You've betrayed the trust of the talent. You've betrayed the trust of the movers and shakers. Have you no shame, Luke F-rd?"
"No."
"I didn't think so. Listen, try to do the right thing. Don't be so quick to post your new updates, maybe check the spelling. Make a few phone calls and verify the information. I mean, like, what's the rush? Is the world going to stop if you update your site a few hours later?
Perhaps Ford is indicating that amends will be made. Or perhaps, as Jim Holliday would say, that's just the posturing of phony blithe innocence to hide the deviousness and the squirrelly, plagiaristic mindset methodology of this dumb f---.
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Luke F-rd replies:
After initially friendly e-mails from Marc Star in early 1998 which led me to recommend him to RAME where he got reamed, I did not hear from Marc again. In late 1998, I met him at the Hustler Hollywood opening where he mentioned this article. Despite repeated requests that he send me a copy, none was forthcoming until Erotic X Film Guide (EFG) Art Director Wes Trails finally sent one to me this week.
I never heard of the article from sources outside Star and Trails. In fact, I don't remember anyone ever mentioning the magazine Erotic X Film Guide (available at newsstands or at 9030 W. Sahara Ave, Suite 455, Las Vegas, NV, 89117) or Marc Star's porn journalism.
The most influential industry magazine is the only industry magazine - Adult Video News. EFG resembles other periodicals for porn consumers such as Adam Film World, Hustler Erotic Video Guide, New Rave and Swank's Video World.
I rarely reply to articles about me, but I have a few thoughts on Marc's article:
1. Regarding the gay & gangbang issue. I posted above Marc's query to RAME, "...on the possible connection between the gangbang and latent homosexuality..." It is by no means clear that he was suggesting, as he asserts in his 2/99 column, that he wondered about the homosexuality of participants as opposed to viewers. Though Star believes I understood his question the way he says he meant it, I did not. I think that many of RAME's answers to his query were sharp and funny. I think that underneath his 2/99 column one can read his hurt at being verbally raped by RAME.
When bad things happen to us, we usually tend to blame others. Rather than take responsibility for either asking an unclear question, or asking what was clearly on his mind and than not liking the response, Star blames me for quoting on my site the juiciest replies to his query.
Star writes that he expected "convulsive replies." Why if he was only asking about the supposed homosexuality of porn studs partaking in gangbangs? People generally only get angry when you threaten them or values and people they cherish.
Regarding the issue of gangbangs and homosexuality, it seems to be the view of many of the most intelligent porn journalists and porn observers that to enjoy watching gangbangs indicates homosexual tendencies. I doubt it. I think it is more likely that porn journalists, who tend be on the left socially, support more fluid sexual identities or, perhaps, project their own.
Does participating in a gangbang indicate homosexual tendencies? I doubt it, though I do think that about half of the heterosexual male performers have had gay sex. And I believe that exposure to porn and participation in it weakens sexual boundaries and makes deviant behavior like homosexuality more likely.
Email: "Luke, here is a fun test to give to porn savvy conservatives and liberals. Have them compare female and male bisexuality. A conservative (right leaning) would stress the huge disease risk difference and perhaps the way a bisexual female can avoid some of the negative social aspects of much of the lesbian lifestyle (disproportionately high domestic abuse, alchohol tobacco and drug use etc). A liberal (left leaning) will tend to have the fluid definitions, minimise the general/disease/social differences and tend to catagorize all bisexuality as the same. As a example, envision telling Rob Spallone that a porn actress is a "rug muncher" and consider the non-reaction. The opposite would probably occur if Rob was told a male performer is bisexual. The flaming of Mars Star is well deserved. In my case I have had long hair since 1968 and this caused a lot of inferences of "latent homosexuality" which invariably said a lot more about them than me."
2. When Star writes that I "slander professionals," I wonder who he's talking about? Himself? Because he writes for Erotic X Film Guide, he's a professional but I am not because I write for my own site on the internet? Is Star referring to other porn journalists like Albo or Ross? Porn makers? Performers?
In my view, there are few "professionals" in porn (exceptions, like publicist Joy King, director Gregory Dark and producer Jane Hamilton, can be found at Vivid, Wicked, VCA and a handful of other companies). Most people who are truly professional would never work in the porn industry. In common parlance, professional in its restrictive sense means doctors, lawyers and accountants.
3. Star writes that "In only a few short months, Luke F-rd has made himself impossible to ignore." And later, "And it's awful easy to see how certain folks within the industry could have pinpointed Ford from the get-go as a weak-minded fan willing to print anything to give himself an ounce of recognition."
I spent two years researching the porn industry before I published anything, and then only to internet newsgroups and later an awkward web site of my notes and ramblings. I came to prominence (first in early 1997 and then in 1998) with my internet reporting on porn's latest cases of HIV. I came into the biz to write a quick history of porn, but ended up getting entangled here and gaining a reputation for circulating a combination of breakings news, gossip, and rants on my front page (beginning in April, 1998).
I used porn magazines in my teens but I had only seen about eight X-rated videos in my life before deciding in September of 1995, at age 29, to write a history of hardcore.
Porn titillates and excites me about as often as it disgusts me and bores me. I am part fan, part critic, part historian, part journalist, part gossipmonger, part satirist, part interviewer... In other words, I am a complex human being (like my readers) who writes what he wants to on his own site. My forthcoming book, A History of X, is more conventional and more filtered (through a publishing company and an editor).
Generally speaking, the profiles, analyses and history on the inside of my site fall under the rubric of journalism, while my daily updates are a mixture of journalism, gossip, and satire. Part of the fun for many readers is that I do not label which is which. I ask that people think when reading my site. I don't offer predigested news like CNN or the USA Today. If you want conventional porn journalism, go to www.avn.com.
Do my sources use me? You bet they do just like they use Marc Star and other journalists. Here's the main difference - on my site it is transparent that I am being used. I frequently don't filter the BS I'm served.
I have not sought to make friends in the porn industry nor to insert myself into it any further than I need to to write on it. I rarely socialize with the industry. I've rarely, if ever, been accused to trying to schtup porn chicks, though I'd be happy to have sex with many of them. I won't lead however.
My sex life has become more boring since I began writing on porn.
In the year before I started researching this industry, I slept with about 30 women. In the past two years, I've slept with three women. In the past year only one and almost always with the lights out. I used to like raunchy experimental sex. Since researching porn, I've come to more highly prize monogamy, safety, modesty and tenderness. My number one personal goal is to get married to a nice Jewish girl and lead a monogamous Judaic life. I would ten times prefer such as an achievement than sex with a dozen of my favorite porn stars (thought that would be great too).
I've often said in interviews that the only way I now see myself quickly leaving this industry is if I fall in love with a woman who demands it. Otherwise, I'm here for a while (though I frequently change focus to material that I find more interesting and meaningful). When asked to choose in the Spring of 1998 between my favorite synagogue and writing on porn, I chose to remain in porn. When asked to choose between a couple of friendships and writing on porn, I chose to remain in porn. When asked to not embarrass my family, I chose to remain in porn.
4. Luke and Fact Checking: I have thousands of readers who fact check my site every day and email me corrections. The material that has been up on my site the longest, therefore, is most likely to be the most accurate as it has been read by the most people.My frontpage updates are the least accurate.
I regard most of the issues and news in the industry as unimportant in its surface meaning. Who wins the AVN Award for Best Anal Sex Scene is meaningless to me. There's no forthcoming video release that I am looking forward to. I see little significance to many of the debates between porners. Therefore, I happily quote people at length in my updates without worrying much about checking the factual accuracy of what they say (with exceptions). I fequently operate more as a talkshow host taking calls than as a journalist. I largely finds meaning underneath the surface of what people say through the way their words reveal themselves, the industry, and the human condition.
When I write as a journalist, as in my profiles and historial riffs, accuracy is important. When I simply quote the rants of porners, I worry most about quoting them accurately and generally worry little about the factual truth of their claims (though this depends on what they say and in what context I quote them). For instance, if Suzy Jean tells me she's "most proud of my roles in Anal Action 32 and Butt Banged 15," Luke is unconcerned (at least initially) with verifying that Suzy truly appeared in those productions and gave a good scene. I simply want to give the reader a taste of Suzy and what is important to her. If I later find out that she did not appear in those scenes or was mediocre, that becomes interesting too and worthy of comment.
Marc Star is right when he comments: "Ford's page has two types of content: a researched history of porn and a soap opera filled with gossip." But he may not be right when he says: "...a less informed reader will take Ford's word as fact." I think my readers are more sophisticated than than. And most of the stuff on my updates does not come from me. I rarely give opinions or pronouncements. I don't regard myself as a paragon of porn knowledge. My daily updates do not pretend to be the gospel truth of porn news. They seek rather to reveal the deeper truths of what motivates and interests porners and porn users.
I strive to offer something different from the industry magazines and websites.
Porn journalists, like most trade journalists, quickly imbibe the values and perspectives of their industry, and hence rarely challenge them. In some cases, like Larry Flynt Publications, porn company actively censor and restrict its writers. Generally, however, it's not so much a matter of porn journalists not being allowed to write certain things as it is that most of them don't question the assumptions and values of the people they cover. Most of the best porn journalism (e.g., Nick Ravo on Paul Little, LA Times 6/82 series on the Perainos) has come from outside the industry.
5. Star writes: "Nothing
comes for free. If Ford wants his juicy gossip, he needs to keep his
sources happy." Good point.