Archives - Monday, June 28th, 1999

A History of X in Washington Times

A conservative newspaper funded by Korean "Reverend" Sun Myung Moon, the Washington Times, mentions Luke's New Book in its Culture Etc column on page two (6/18/99):

RISKY BUSINESS

"While over 100 homosexual performers in homo-porn have died of AIDS, no exclusively heterosexual male in hetero-porn has died of AIDS. As is the case throughout the Western world, porn's AIDS cases demonstrate that HIV does discriminate: Gays and intravenous drug users are far more likely to get it than straights, and women are more likely to be HIV-positive than men. During the 1990s, at least eight females and two males in the heterosexual porn industry have tested HIV-positive.

"From AIDS to the Mob, the specter of death has long haunted porn. Shauna Grant, a 1982 discovery of Bobby Hollander, blew her brains out in 1984. Other porn star suicides include Melba Brue, Mary Millington, Talia James, Lynn Tars, Tina Ross, Wade Nichols, Savannah, Megan Leigh, Nancee Kellee, Alex Jordan, and Cal Jammer. Laurien Dominique choked to death. Kathy Harcout was fished out of New York's East River. Tiffany Lane died in a car accident . . .. Veri Knotty, transsexual Jill Munro, Michael Bruce, Kevin James, and Danny Husong all died young. Linda Wong, Arcadia Lake, and about a dozen other performers died of drug overdoses. . . . European porn actor Riny Rey was gunned down in Budapest on April 12, 1996, just days after finishing work on `Private Dancer' and `Sin.' . . .. In 1997, a shootout at porn production company Elegant Angel killed pornographer Israel Gonzalez and one cop. About a dozen gay performers have killed themselves, including Joel Curry, Christian Fox, Fred Halstead, and Alan Lambert."

- Luke F-rd , from his new book, "A History of X"

U. California-Berkeley: BOOK REVIEW: Luke F-rd 's 'A History of X: 100 Years of Sex In Film' 06/25/1999 By Mark T.R. Donohue , Daily Californian (U. California-Berkeley)

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Most casual moviegoers perceive that a wide chasm exists between mainstream filmmakers and hardcore pornographers. "Real" directors are viewed as artists, bringing our dreams to life on the screen; while "porno" filmmakers are opportunists, misogynists and criminals. Very few people would make the claim that the two industries have similar core motivations, if they even share anything in common at all.

Yet judging by the tales laid out in two new nonfiction works, both mainstream and porn filmmaking are subject to demands of good old-fashioned capitalism. When it comes to scripting, casting and content, the prime concern is always -- always -- getting the biggest box office payoff.

In A History of X: 100 Years of Sex In Film, Luke F-rd traces the evolution of stag films, from silent loops to the cultural phenomenon Deep Throat. Ford assumes an objective stance throughout; he deflates myths about snuff films and child abuse, but he's also frank about the drug addictions and diseases many porn actors fall victim to. He doesn't come out wholly for or against the genre, but he does do damage to many of its justifying myths. Porn, Ford states bluntly, is made for and consumed by males. The notions of "feminist" or "couples" adult films are the fictions of apologists.

All of the major periods in the "evolution" traced in A History of X, from the '70s takeover of the industry by Mafia dons to the early '80s move to home video, are defined by the quest for greater and greater profits. Ford suggests that the reason porn films are so formulaic, representing women as submissive and men as controlling and tireless, has less to do with the beliefs of its producers than the desires of its consumers. The industry is not to blame for the sorry state of its product, but the American male population, Ford would have us believe.

The author's attempts to draw conclusions about the overall American condition from hardcore sex movies are unconvincing, but as narrative, A History of X is fascinating and inherently readable -- who knew there actually existed an "art porn" movement in the late '70s?

Thom Taylor takes on more traditional filmmaking in his The Big Deal: Hollywood's Million-Dollar Spec Script Market, but the players are no less ruthless, or cash-obsessed, than in Ford's tome. Taylor tells of a Hollywood so desperate for new material that ideas -- in the form of independently-written "spec scripts" -- become million-dollar plus propositions...

Hollywood, awards ceremonies aside, is no less dollarcentric than the opportunist pornographers of A History of X.

Paul Cambria: "Be advised that Herald P. Fahringer did not send you the letter last on behalf of Vivid. If you will note at the end of the letter my signature appears. I am general counsel for Vivid and My Partner has nothing to do with the notice I sent you last week pointing out the malicious falsehoods that appeared on your site regarding Vivid and its associates. You can save your defamatory ramblings concerning Fahringer for another day. You or your legal representative can direct all communications to me personally at my offices in Buffalo or Beverly Hills."

Luke: "Fahringer is a partner in your law firm."

Paul: "Yes but he is in the New York City office and has nothing to do with Vivid Video. I represent them solely. I don't believe he has ever met anyone from Vivid and has nothing to do with their representation."

As of October

Martin Brimmer Dies

Veteran porn screenwriter Martin Brimmer (real name Rodger Jacobs) announced his demise for October. He will then quit writing porn screenplays and concentrate on his journalism as Rodger Jacobs (Swank, Hustler, etc).

"After writing over 200 screenplays for films and videos," said Jacobs Sunday afternoon, "I've done everything I possibly could in this genre. Screenplays that would take me half a day to write now take me three days."

I hear that Brimmer's former magazine New Rave/Dirty may be going broke.

'Don't Let Pornography Through An Electronic Backdoor'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole wants to withhold federal money from public libraries that don't close ``pornography-permitting loopholes.''

``We shouldn't let pornography slip in through an electronic backdoor,'' she said in the draft remarks. ``This isn't about First Amendment protection. It's about values.''

Several new public polls suggest a growing concern among voters about moral leadership in America. One survey gave Republicans a lead of nearly 20 percentage points over Democrats when asked which party best represents the values of faith in God, personal responsibility, ethics and honesty.

Jill Kelly's All-Girl Gangbang

Luke attended Jill Kelly's 25 girl gangbang Friday at The Stage in Canoga Park, along with much of the porn media, including five guys from Hustler, and a shy adorable redhead freelancer Devon McCall from AVN.

Luke: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a business like this?"

Devon: "You presuppose that this is not a nice business."

Directed by Jill Kelly with help from Bud Lee, the stars include Asia Carrera, Chloe, XXX, Johnni Black, Inari Vachs, Taylor St. Claire, Gina Ryder, Alexandra Nice, Daisy Chain, Rayveness, Coral Sands, Maya Devine, Kelsey Hart, Melanie Stone, Sydnee Steele, Teri Starr, Rene Larue, Bonita Saint, Alexa Rae, Angel, Lola, Brooke Hunter, and Kim Chambers.

The gangbang was broadcast live over the internet at www.wiredpink.com. Wearing blue jeans and a white top, busty blonde Skye Blue served as production manager.

Melanie Stone: "I just wanted to let you know, that I was not at the Jill Kelly Gang Bang thing on Friday. I was only at the stage to sign a T-Shirt for Pleasure Productions. I did a box cover shoot with Laurent on Tuesday for the movie "Nurses to the Rescue", and Pleasure was doing some kind of promotional thing, but Laurent forgot to get me to sign the shirt, so I stopped by the set on Friday. Gang Bangs, of any knd, are not my thing. BTW, my new series [The Sexual Adventures of Melanie Stone] will be released by Seymore Butts on August 3rd."

I hear that Melanie's series features a scene between Brooke Hunter and Don Hollywood that was cut from the video version (but is on the DVD) by Seymore because Brooke is the boyfriend of Erotica LA organizer Ron Miller. Butts had a falling out with Miller after Seymore's three contract girls (Tushy Girls) were arrested at the 1998 Erotica LA for putting on a live sex show. According to a story, Alisha Klass took a cigar from a guy at the show and shoved it up her ass. She then stuck the cigar in his mouth.

A practicing lawyer, Ron initially took their case pro bono but then had to jump off it because it conflicted with his role as Erotica LA organizer. Miller's concerned that the porn industry might be made a sacrificial lamb for the shennanigans of the Tushy Girls. The LAPD has a huge book of photos of the Tushy Girls naughty behavior at the 1998 Erotica LA.

Friday's Jill Kelly gangbang was initially designed for her former contract girl Devon Davis but Devon backed out. Davis is accompanied on set Friday by her rock singer boyfriend, Johnathan Davis of the band Korn.

Maya Divine enthuses that she's thrilled she can now do sex scenes with her husband Eric who sports a couple of piercings.

Several porn girls arrive late and several other leave early, to Jill Kelly's frustration. A consummate professional, who's courteous, clear thinking and calculated, she demonstrates on set Friday her numerous talents, from sexual to organizational, which have brought her to the top of porn girls.

Girls run to the bathroom around 12:30 PM to wash their dildos before going to work. One girl later forgets but New Times writer Peter Gilstrap does the washing for her.

I run into Al Hanan of Adult Stars Magazine. He's married to nurse Noel LeBlanc who interviewed me for her lengthy article on Nena Cherry last year. Nena, who tested HIV positive in February of 1997, now vociferously proclaims that she is HIV negative and has been phoning all media who will listen to make her case. Nena will not however produce a clear test, in her name and with a doctor's signature, which shows her to be HIV negative.

A few months ago in Houston, Cherry went into Vivid Quest and told the publisher her story. The test she showed had neither a doctor's signature nor her name on it.

Devon: "I only do girls, but there are so many around right now there needs to be a dick..."

Luke: "The fans are crying out for you to do men on camera?"

Devon: "I don't know. It's not even thought about... No boys right now."

In porno a year, Devon appears in four Jill Kelly videos and a masturbation scene for Randy West.

Luke: "Why are you no longer Jill Kelly's contract girl? Did she treat you bad?"

Devon: "Oh no, she did not treat me bad. I love her to death. She made my well. I'm young and wild and I just want to be free right now. But I will be in every Jill Kelly movie. She is still my goddess and she rocks. I will still kiss her ass."

Toshi Gold to Devon: "Kiss my ass."

Devon: "It was fun and funny when Bruce Willis tried to pick us up. Eversince I was a little girl, I've watched Bruce... It was like grandpa hitting on me. I prefer boys..."

With Johnathan for six months, Devon says they're "still on our honeymoon right now..."

Set designer Lee, typically a hair dresser, has set up three podiums washed in pink. One breaks when too many girls clamber on top. Lee says he was inspired by Jayne Mansfield.

Jill Kelly addresses the group, outlining the day's schedule. "I'm a performer myself... I'm trying to make it as comfortable as possible... You guys are not going to get sore... We'll be done by 6PM.

"I want the sex to be hot and nasty... You can call me a f---ing whore if you want... Half will be hardcore and half soft..."

A girl cries out: "Chloe, you're a pervert..."

Chloe asks Jill: "Are you doing any European stuff?"

Widespread laughter.

Jill: "Yes. So Chloe... And anybody who wants to pee for Germany... In Europe, because my movies are so pretty, they're saying they're too pretty. So we're trying to get more nasty... So afterwards, if you want to pee upstairs... But do not pee on my set... So, after you're done, if you want to grab a camerman and go and pee real quick...

"I'm learning the whole other side of the business now...

"I'd like us all to say hello to everybody watching on the internet. They can hear us...

"I don't want the focus to be on me...but on all the girls."

Kelly exemplifies the democratizing impulse of the female executive. It sounds like a line out of Tannen's book "Talking From 9 - 5."

I run into Chloe. She takes fright. Because I'm dressed in a black suit, I look just like her dentist who drilled her teeth this morning.

Jill calls out for some water.

Bud Lee yells: "She doesn't need any. Let's go." Laughter.

Response: "She'll never call you daddy again?"

Bud to his ex-wife Asia: "Will you still call me daddy?"

Clowning around on set, Coral Sands puts a rose up against her anus, and says, 'guess who I am? Mila." She refers to the way Mila's anus opens up under a pounding.

Jill: "Just f--- the s--- out of me and let me hear it because I am jacking off to this later... Call me whatever you want."

Girl: "You nasty slut."

Jill has scheduled various porn girls, from Maya Divine to Coral Sands (July 4), to masturbate at her house's live internet feeds.

Jill Kelly signed with Don Osterholt and Keith Condon's Atlas Multimedia in November of last year to run her website www.jillkelly.com. Sources close to Kelly say that she never received a dime from Atlas, and recently received a $13,000 bill from them for building her site. Kelly recently had someone else takeover her site.

A source says that several more porn stars will be leaving Atlas.

XXX: "The rumor is that they spent too much money on Melanie Stone's website and so all the other girls are having to pay for that. Jill feels bad because she sent people there and she's hoping they don't get ripped off like she does."

XX: "When a girl signs up, they take the first membership money that comes in to pay for the building of the site... That can be any arbitrary amount that they choose. What they're saying is that it is $75 an hour for 200 hours or whatever... Then, after they meet their costs, they supposedly only take 15% of the net, after credit processing fees, and the girl gets the rest. Jill was with them for six months and never saw a check. They claimed she only had 200 members over six months...And they thought her site wasn't pulling, so they wanted to add live sex, which she would have to pay for... Like a Babenet link at a $1000 a month."

Other trustworthy sources tell Luke that Osterholt and Atlas have impeccable integrity. Luke has advertised Atlas sites on his site l-keford.com and Luke was always paid properly.

Don writes Luke Monday morning: "My sources tell me that the emails that you are getting are from Kenny Gallo (Tabitha's second husband). They are pointless and stupid. I have long been a fan and supporter of your web site but I cannot respond to this nonsense. Keep up the good work...."

Hustler features editor David Bookbinder stops by with his fellow Jew David Hollander. Bookbinder is studying a page of Talmud a day and has began observing the Sabbath.

At 5:30 PM, Skye Blue asks 'who does fisting?' Chloe, Lola, and Taylor Moore raise their hands. XXX proceeds to fist Chloe.

Chloe yells: "Fist me you f---ing cunt."

Coral Sands: "She called you a f---ing cunt. Give it to her."

Bud Lee yells: "Orgasms or no pay checks. Let's go."

Jill Kelly after the finish: "I know what we need. I think we got everything we need...but let me edit it first, and then I might change my whole story...

"My old contract girl... I was doing this for her, to get her name out there and to get her going. Unfortunately, that did not follow through...so I had to end up being talent, director, producer...and the bitch on the set.

"Watch out because Jill Kelly is the next woman to rock this industry... Not just f---ing, but directing and producing... Either that or she's going to retire completely. I haven't decide which one yet."

Wearing only tiny blue shorts, a topless Asia Carrera assists her boyfriend Clark put away equipment.

Luke drives away to synagogue. Most Friday nights, Luke joins a group called Traveling Shabbat Singles, which visits different synagogues each Sabbath (Friday) evening. This week we attended the West Hollywood Reform congregation Kol Ami.

When I arrived, I was disturbed the large number of guys. Then I was even more disturbed by chatter about who was out and who was not 'out' yet. Then I was positively revolted by two guys in front of me during the prayers who had their arms around each other. Afterwards I found out to my horror that Kol Ami was a gay congregation. I refused to touch the kiddish (cookies after prayer), and upon failing to pick up this nice straight girl, rushed home to take a long shower.

Saturday morning I attended my normal temple and had the great misfortune to sit behind two guys with their arms around each other. It's time for Luke to preach more aggressively that homosexuality is an abomination before the Lord. Two chicks kissing is cool, but guys doing anything like that is disgusting.

Here are some graphic pictures of the utter depravity going down Friday at the gangbang. How can we fight sin unless we know exactly what it is?

Paul Coder writes: "Paul Coder worked in the adult film business for about 10 minutes and left a equally impressive mark in the adult film business. He was a 1987 Advocate Man discovery and did catch the eye of the brass at Falcon Studios. It took two year's for Chuck Holmes to get Paul Coder and he did (finally) work with Falcon in 1989 on Behind Closed Doors. Catalina video lured him into a deal and he did Undercover in the same year. Amoung other companies he worked with were Vivid, Sea Bag and In Hand. After some initially good exposer in the Advocate Men, including the solo video Advocate Men Live #2, his vidoe stint did not live up to expectatins. It was over before it began. Sad story, not really. I'm more into making love then having sex on que and paired with someone I liked would have made the differnce. Anyone I've ever had good sex with ,would agree that sexually speaking, I'm hot in bed! It has been several year's since I lived the life of a XXX-model, turned porn star and eventually into the world of prostitution. A day in the life of an ex-porn star alive and well with the battle scars of a business that can eat you up and spit you out. Everybody experience is differnt but on average ex-porn star's end up crazy, drugs and alcholism problems or dead. Paul Coder is alive and well not crazy and has never had a substance abuse problem. I did some post porn work over seas in late 1992 and moved back to the states in 1993. I am no longer in the businesss and consider myself lucky to have survived a businee that is difficult at best."

Jim Gunn Replies to The Boss Fella Craig Vasiloff:

I cannot express how much I disagree with your views on Luke's site. I loved the site when he was dealing in gossip and news. It was great reading. Now it is turning it into a vehicle for badly written satire, if you want to call it that, and fictional attack stories. I do not support censorhip- I am a First Amendment absolutist after all. I just think that the site has gotten boring and stupid! I want to read real scooops not Luke's made up stories about people.

[Vasiloff: As do I - I think the value the site had was when he dealt in scoops.]

If THIS is the kind of information you want to portray to the mainstream, then their opinion of us is going to be worse off than it already is. Before they have a vague notion of us a scoundrals, crooks and shady characters. Luke's lies about people and the business he writres now are just confirming all their worst sterotypes.

[Vasiloff: Again - if you read the email I sent Luke - it is HIS information - I stand by his right to write as he chooses. I do not enforce editorial control over his site. You may not be aware but there is no way I would have Luke in XXXgen for example. I do not agree with what he writes. I do however support it.]

I do get the idea of satire - I love Mad Magazine for example. But Luke's site has the (poorly written) satire mixed in with the actual news with no clear cut distinction on the page. Even I have to do a double take once in a while to figure out what is true from what is made up and I'm in the biz. Imagine if someone from the outside is casually reading for the first time. They might actually believe the preposterous s--- Luke is making up.

[Vasiloff: So what!!! Mainstream Hollywood suffers the same thing with their own gossip magazines.]

Take aside the issue of what you can legally get away with and never mind the fact that controversy brings web traffic: Do you still think that the ridiculous, insulting untruths that Luke is spewing are doing anyone any good? I think it is embarrasing for the business. Luke knows he's full of s---, the victims of the lies know he is- but Joe Blow reading the site, the non-porn biz guy who discovers the site, is being fooled in many cases into believing that crap Luke writes.

I like Luke personally, that's not an issue. It's just that the direction the site has taken makes it a waste of time to read. I think that Luke's writing has become "farcical", as you say. That's what makes it BORING! As far as your contention that this makes the players more "real", how do you think that obvious-only-to-industry-insiders lies and insults makes this business any more "real". It's a foolhardy disgrace if you ask me. If "legitamite" money feared porn investment before as you contend, then the final nails in the mainstream coffin will have been driven by l-keford.com after enough people read all the stupid stories he's making up.

[Vasiloff: Well I can offer a very large bank account and several investors who would argue that point.]

Your idea that Luke's site "promotes" the industry is a joke. Does promoting it mean putting it down on a consistant basis? Luke admits he hates the porn biz and would not mind seeing it driven to destruction. Is this promotion? Again, when he did scoops, I loved the site. Now I know it has real news mixed in with juuvenile insults and falsehoods. Your comparison of Luke's site to the gossip newspapers National Enquirer and People Magazine is baseless. Those magazines intend to convey gossip that is based on reality- the people, personalities and happenings in the business. Luke's site has devolved into some spewings of junior-high school nonsense disguised as reality.

Furthermore, I think it is clear why Luke has taken this new tack- because so many dooors have closed in his face in the adult biz as he has alienated people. All he has left to do is lash out with a viciousness. I sincerely hope that Luke gets back to his original hard-hitting news and gossip reporting and drops this new style of fiction writing.

LT replies to Hustler Erotic Video Guide editor Michael Louis Albo: "First, Mike it was an excerpt of Monday night's IRC chat on channel #pornchat. And some of the comments behind my name came from other people and were mixed together under my name. Mike, it was tongue in cheek!. Ever heard of that?, didn't you notice the smiley? Oh, I've done it now...brought up La Verne's arch rivals, the Claremont Colleges :-) I guess you'll have to dig out your Leopards gear and I'll have to get some Sagehens or Stags gear. Mike, I realize La Verne is a respected university, and I certainly don't mean any slight to the institution, but the University of La Verne usually isn't thought of on quite the level of the Claremont Colleges, which aren't quite the level of Occidental in the small L.A. area colleges known as the "Ivy League of the West" (now that I've brought up Occidental, maybe Jack Kemp will contact me). If you are off sober and straight, my congratulations. That is tough to do and you are to be commended. Did you have the same connection that supplied the porn girls?"

The ECCHH Files!

The Life of Christ At-A-Glance

DALLAS TIMES HERALD; 8-6-86

“I grew up on porn”, [Joe] Christ finally says, “and I’m okay.”

Larry Flynt’s CHIC; April 1990:

CHIC: Was your childhood traumatic?

[Joe] CHRIST: My childhood, really, I think of as normal. I once tricked a girl into drinking a glass of piss. I don’t see anything traumatic about it except for a few trips to the state hospital as a teenager. I’d come out and the only people who’d want to hang out with me were other kids who’d been put away...”

NEW YORK PRESS; 21-27 July, 1993: “His [Joe Christ’s] genial grin belies the grisly narrative skein of...genital mutilation...”

Joe Christ; 1995 [voice-over in his video SEX BLOOD AND MUTILATION] (featuring David Aaron Clark): “I don’t expect thousands of men to run out and cut off their dicks after seeing this, but I can tell you it’s a been a great thing for me.”

SCREW; 4-29-97 ["Sex Scene"]: “...Does Joe Christ have a dick? We don’t know. We have better things to think about....”

*All Quotes 100% USDA Prime Truth*

JCJoe on the Asian Monetary Crisis: Stock ANALysts trying to find the reason for the Asian money crunch, may have missed an important clue. Shortly before their financial crisis, Japanese film makers attempted to break into the international porn market and FLOODED the US and other countries with their products. Now, while the Land of the Rising Sun is an acknowledged leader in lens technology (because of poor eyesight), it exercised VERY POOR OVERSIGHT by trying to parlay small breasts (by US and European standards) and even SMALLER penises into VIABLE porn commodities!" (RAME)

Pat Riley on RAME: "Watching Real Sex Magazine #21 the other night and in the last segment there's a cute little light skinned black girl (for those who want the description: 19 years old, comes from MI, very short black hair, pretty face, light skin, poor dentition, tattoo on right bicep, tattoo on left shoulder back, small firm tits, very tight waist, shaven pussy, prominent treasure trail, nice little butt, flat belly, facial acne, down-to-earth) who, in the time-honored tradition of all black girls in porn, has only one name: "Papoose".

"This passes without comment by the interviewer, Witrock, but it made me think that surely this is in the same category as "pickaninny" (Sp?)? My dictionary lists papoose as simply a "North American Indian baby" without comment and I can't find pickaninny (a black infant) at all. Perhaps the latter is archaic?

"BTW, this Papoose claims no Amerind heritage. FWIW, this girl claims she has never sucked dick before but makes a credible (to my untrained eye) effort on Brick Majors' dick before being screwed by him and having an I'm-about-to-pass-out, eyes-rolling, I-can't-go-on orgasm due to the simultaneous use of a pocket rocket. I'll reserve judgement as to the credibility of this performance. Ends in Brick spending a couple of minutes jacking off on her face well after her orgasm."

Max Wallace writes on the University Wire: What is the female lure to the porn industry? It fulfills some need. There is power in being sexually attractive, desirable; even if the end result is that sex becomes drudgery.

Probably, most of the women in the porn industry perceived the body as object before working in porn.

If a woman comes from a background of sexual abuse, it is easy to make the transition to porn. If her body is not hers to begin with, then there is no desensitization to porn. She already has a perception of her body as being equivalent to a chair; viewing herself as a sexual commodity. Her person's self-worth is measured in appearance, rather than character.

It's a let down to find out that people only like you for superficial reasons. Such as people who are attracted to me because I have glasses and Jewish lineage. Porn encourages this. It does this by saying sexy tan skin is paramount. It is like televangelism - solid fakeness, plenty of big hair and garish make-up.

Pornography is similar to having a crush. A crush is not concerned with the other person. It sees an idealized version.

There have been a number of girls I have had crushes on in the past. A crush is placing a person on a pedestal; they are an object of perfection. The object can do no wrong. When the object of the crush does something less than "civilized' to the crushee, suddenly the person on the pedestal becomes evil. Next, bitterness follows. But it can be good, because it reminds us they are human. Like a crush, porn places an idealized women's body on a pedestal. It offers a glossy reality that is impossible. No woman fits this image; they are altered images.

This unreachable aesthetic creates frustration in the viewer, since it is impossible to have these women, much less know them. It generates a misogynist tendency - the frustrated male projects his own inadequacies onto women. The image becomes scapegoat, thus porn becomes more violatory. Eventually, subjugation becomes linked to sex. Unlike a crush, women do not come off of the pedestal, because they are limited to the page. Misogyny increases through impersonality. There is no chance for the image to become human.

Porn is simply the worship of sex above other elements of a person. Sex is on the pedestal. It is easier to deal with a facsimile than a person. People are complex. Relationships are complicated. It is always more work than we think.

Honestly, sometimes, I don't want to care about women, or think of them as people. When you think of women as just being sexual beings, it's harder to be disappointed. Emotional investment means risking people trashing you. Porn keeps women at a healthy arms length, because it does not want to grow up enough to deal with emotional pain head on. To do so, means facing ugliness about one's self.

I hate porn because it encourages me to do something that is so easy - to look at women as bodies. To do that, I have to detach myself from them as people. I don't like that, because it's a dangerous place to live. Not only do women become sex toys, men become f--- sticks. I devalue myself as well. If this is the end all be all of human existence, than life is meaningless.

Rob Long writes in the 5/31/99 National Review: WHEN Bob Crane, the star of TV's Hogan's Heroes, was found murdered in an Arizona motel in the late 1970s, among his personal effects were several hundred pounds of video equipment. Crane had state-of- the-art stuff for the time: a huge video camera, a heavy playback tape machine (roughly the size of four microwave ovens stacked together), and enough lights to form a small production company.

Crane was a porn freak. And back then, being a porn freak wasn't for the casual hobbyist. The airline overweight-luggage charges alone were suitable barriers to entry, and the enormous cost of what was essentially professional television equipment managed to keep the riffraff out. Or in, depending.

All of that changed, of course, with the introduction of the VCR and a camcorder the size of a plump quail. Add to those two items a slim notebook computer for whip-fast editing, and you have a compact kit so small and light that it would barely show up in crime-scene photographs. Twenty years ago, poor Bob Crane had to schlep back-breaking crates all over the country to satisfy his creepy hobby; now it all fits conveniently into the overhead compartment or under the seat in front of you. Golfers have more luggage.

This wasn't a coincidence. New technology relies on "early adopters" to pay more for groundbreaking equipment. Audiophiles subsidized the introduction of the compact disc with their single-minded pursuit of perfect sound reproduction. Computer geeks brought us the Palm Pilot. And Bob Crane gave us the VCR.

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