Thursday, July 8th, 1999

AVN Expo

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The marketing onslaught of big chains such as Blockbuster has forced many small video stores to fall back on films tucked away in their ``dirty little rooms'' - X-rated movies. Retailers at the three-day Video Software Dealers Association convention, which opened Thursday, say adult videos that chain stores refuse to stock are shoring up business and, in some cases, keeping their doors open. With national stores popping up all over, and industry deals that allow Blockbuster to stock big new releases in huge quantities, independent retailers are focusing on more eclectic inventories, with pornographic videos an increasing part of their bottom lines.

Luke: Few non-porners showed up for the AVN Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center today. It runs through Saturday in conjunction with the VSDA (Video Software Dealers Association), one of porn's two main conventions along with the January Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.

Today's LA Times article on AVN raised a ripple among porners.

After 14 months of psycho-therapy, Luke quit today. Then I drove to the Expo, and found out to my disappointment, that AVN's Renee Johnson had refused to issue me a press pass. She suggested I pay the $55 entrance fee. I did.

"AVN did the right thing in denying you," said Jim Gunn. "You're not a real journalist. You just make stuff up."

Luke's recent habit of intermixing satirical fiction with news has generally received negative reviews.

Most persons I talked today were disappointed with the Expo and with the low turnout.

Sin City beauty Josie Snyder (wife of Sin City art director Marc Snyder) hosts tonight's big party in Chatsworth.

I received a lot of ribbing on my nude pics. Tom Byron however said I had a good body and he wondered if I would become an Extreme Associates contract boy. Perhaps.

I felt good about today's LA Times article about my internet war with AVN. I saw AVN publisher Paul Fishbein a couple of times (though we did not speak, and have had cool relations the past 10 weeks) and I felt honored that some consider me his chief rival.

Part of me choked on the LA Times comments on how much people respect AVN. Who? Vivid and VCA and company do and so do some retailers.

I view AVN with as much respect as I view other trade publications like Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. They're all industry cheerleaders.

When interviewed by the LA Times a few weeks ago, I said that www.avn.com had been a failure. But with its redesign, and the addition of www.geneross.com, it's become an important source for industry information. I also told the Times that I believed that AVN would eventually succeed on the internet, and that I expected AVN's publisher Paul Fishbein to go from strength to strength as he moves through life. Paul has built his professional life around nurturing relationships while Luke has lost numerous relationships with porners.

I stopped by the Vivid Video booth and took a few pictures until Vivid sales manager Howard Levine hustled me out.

I asked a source if Kevin Beecham of Midnight Video, Erotic Angel and KBeech would marry his current girlfriend Gina Ryder, with whom he is much in love. My source said that after five marriages, Kevin was wary of getting hitched again. Kevin appears in great shape, and fully recovered from his car accident of a couple of years back.

AVN features editor Mark Kernes moderated a stimulating discussion of controversial issues in the industry. Panelists included Wicked Pictures publicist Joy King, Seymore Butts, John Stagliano, Max Hardcore and Luc Wylder.

Luc: "I have Joey Strange who puts fish hooks in himself and then hangs himself."

Max: "That is sick."

John: "This person is going to another level. This is fascinating."

Luc said that he used to mandate the use of condoms because he so believed in safe sex. Then he thought about the legal ramifications - discrimination in hiring issues.

Wylder now says he is pro-condom, rather than condom mandatory. In his Cream Pies series which features internal cumshots, he uses married couples who have sex without condoms.

Luc would not say whether his mandatory condom policy hurt sales. "Our sales changed," says Wylder. "We sold more to some people and fewer to others."

Joy King, who described herself as the "token chick," (Kernes called her the token features rep), said that condoms do not decrease sales.

Max: "I've used condoms when the girl insisted. I don't think any guy likes to use condoms unless he's sticking his dick into some skank whore. (laughter)

"I'm not here to be a role model for the youth of America. I'mhere to make filthy f--- films."

Max received the most laughter of any speaker.

John Stagliano backed up Luke's opinion that Max is the most influential pornographer of the 1990s. "Nobody did gaping assholes before Max," said Stagliano to titters. "Or throat f---ing."

Max: "Lots of companies taht are condom mandatory have guys splooging all over a girl's face."

Joy to a mocking panel: "Wicked does not have a specific policy on facials."

In other words, Wicked and Vivid and Metro do facials while VCA does not.

Other panelists mocked Joy King, Wicked and company for mandating the use of condoms but allowing facial cumshots.

John: "Why say you're promoting safe sex?"

Joy: "Why are you all bagging on me? We promote safer sex."

Panel calmed down after that clarification. Before, when Joy talked about how Wicked promoted safe sex and had done safe sex PSAs, the panel reacted against her.

There are few more effective ways to make people angry than to claim moral superiority. By claiming the moral high road, Wicked, Vivid and VCA have brought upon themselves tremendous loathing from their competitors. Never portray yourself as better than others if you want to be liked. This attitude of cutting down tall poppies discourages moral excellence.

Seymore Butts releases 15 movies a year. He generally likes to allow a week to elapse from a PCR DNA test for HIV before shooting. Sometimes, however, he will allow persons to work with tests from 40 days previous.

A man from the audience (which was 80% male) asked about porners' legal liability for persons catching HIV on their sets.

Luc: "We're all a bunch of risktakers... We are people who face going to jail for creating adult entertainment... It would be hard to convict a porn company for a girl catching AIDS on their set, when she's been promiscious for 15 years."

John Stagliano decried America's litigiosity - how quickly many people file lawsuits. Stagliano spoke against the Florida jury which asked for a big settlement from Big Tobacco for people dying from lung cancer.

Luc: "I want to create the hottest sex scenes, and condoms can inhibit that..."

Joy: "I've had some really hot sex with condoms."

Panel wanted to hear all about that. It's not easy being the only woman in a very masculine environment.

Seymore pointed out that some porn girls are allergic to condoms.

A retailer commented on Seymore Butts recent movie which featured fisting (inserting a fist into the vagina or anus). Fisting may bring down an obscenity conviction and has been exceedingly rare in US porn since 1980.

Attorney Alan Gelbard: "You can't advertise warnings on a movie, such as "Caution - pissing, fisting, etc" because that can increase your chance of an obscenity conviction."

John: Warnings open you up to liability.

Retailer: "What has changed? Fisting used to be forbidden. Why is it now ok?"

It's difficult to answer that question because there is no specific test for obscenity. An obscenity conviction depends on community standards. Since a 1980 Los Angeles Police Department memo, porners have generally avoided using fisting, bestiality, urination, defecation and other extremely deviant behavior for fear of an obscenity bust. But during the 1990s, porners like Max Hardcore have been pushing the envelope. As porn becomes more mainstream, it must also grow nastier to give the same charge (porn's charge largely depends upon the shattering of taboos).

Adult Stars Magazine has made some changes. David Beck is gone as editor, replaced, at least temporarily, by David Bernstein. And West Coast guy Al Hanan resigned this morning. ASM's July issue features a full page on my new book A HISTORY OF X.

AVN, Fake Tits

LT writes on RAME: Over a year ago, OC Rob made an interesting post title AVN, Fake Tits & Hypocrisy. In it he mentioned AVN's editorial in the March '98 issue which, among other things, decried breast implants. This led to an interesting thread, with response even from a couple of AVN folks.

In the time since, Paul Fishbein explained to Luke how much AVN was against breast implants and how they would soon do features concentrating on how to market natural breasted women, etc... Well, it took long enough, but finally the May '99 issue (March '98 to May '99?...h'm'ok) featured a cover story "Return of the Natural Girl". Mark Logan wrote a nice enough piece, marred only by a broad, sweeping statement that isn't exactly accurate (matter of fact, I've found the opposite to be true) and the inacurracy of laying it all at the feet of the dance biz without addressing the porn biz gleefully lapping it up in terms of hiring and boxcovers featuring the newly boobed...but, other than that commission and failing to address certain issues (gee, what a surprise), it was a fairly nice piece.

The main question I ask is "What took so long?". I know about lead times, but 14 months? They followed it up with a round table discussion on racism in porn, another "hot button" issue (and co-incidentally, another big discussion topic here on RAME). But... The very next month after their issue saluting and tributing the "natural", AVN turns around and does a fluff, infomercial piece FOR one of the cosmetic Mengeles titled "Aesthetically Perfect" written by Ellen Thompson. It starts off "Shay Sweet's new boobs...and you". It goes on to explain how this particular hack did "pioneering" work in lip augmentation, lists the menu of procedures available from the Docktor (TM-voyager) and ends with an offer of free consultations to those in the porn biz. Wonderful!. AVN - the height of hypocrisy. I'm wondering how much money they got for that little plug?...or maybe it was for "services exchanged". Does anyone know if Paul Fishbein has new lips?

LA Times on AVN, Luke F-rd

From the business section of today's LA Times (an article by Scott Collins):

While sales and rentals of adult videos racked up $4.1 billion last year, purveyors are steadily migrating online, where adult-oriented sites offer everything from chat rooms to "live-action" cameras. So AVN is following them--and has run smack into Luke F-rd, an eccentric and self-aggrandizing cyber gossip from Beverly Hills.

On his Web site, which is devoted to porn news, Ford has repeatedly attacked the magazine for ignoring conflicts of interest, coddling advertisers and downplaying major stories, such as an outbreak of HIV among performers last year--allegations that Fishbein vehemently denies. The threat of legal action last month forced Ford to retract a few particularly damaging accusations--but not before he posted the entire demand letter from Fishbein's attorney. The spat has sealed Ford's reputation as porn's bete noire. "If this were a different age, I'd be in danger of having my legs broken," he muses, referring to porn's fabled mob ties.

Luke F-rd has amplified such concerns on his Web site, often without the benefit of fact-checking. The son of a Christian evangelist, the Australian-born gossip has used the Web site to detail his sexual exploits with porn stars and thoughts on Judaism, to which he has converted. While Ford praises Fishbein himself as "credible," he has accused AVN staffers of, among other things, trying to quash his reporting about HIV in the porn industry and tailoring its annual awards show to suit big advertisers. "The stuff I've written has really shaken them up over there," says Ford, who admits to putting unverified items on his site. He adds: "So far AVN has been a failure on the Internet. They've spent a lot of money and it's just been drubbed by Internet people and adult people."

Fishbein calls the allegation of corruption "a flat-out lie" and says that AVN ended up correcting errors in Ford's reporting about the HIV scandal. Although he says he briefly flirted with hiring Ford to do a gossip column on the AVN site, he now dismisses him as "an irresponsible journalist."

"It's sort of like we're the establishment and Luke's the rogue," Fishbein says. "We will always have competitors. . . . I welcome anything like that as long as we're on a fair playing field."

From www.geneross.com: AVN is hardly struggling to keep on top of this war. On a day-to-day basis it continually kicks the ass of its so-called competition. It will always and remain the source of verifiable information. You will neither read fictious reports of chiffon dresses or lame satires to fill space because sources have dried up.

Dirty Bob writes: "Dirty Gene: Just saw Luke on Luke's site - LITERALLY! It seems that Luke has decided to alienate his viewers (or scare them away?) by running NUDE photos of himself on his most recent daily self-indulgence web page. Actually, there can only be ONE REAL REASON why Luke ran nudes of himself: he figures (incorrectly, I hope!) that YOU will do the same to 'keep up" with him and, as everybody in the biz knows, Luke has ALWAYS wanted to see Gene Ross nude! Don't play his game, Gene. Instead, give him shots of Mark Kernes."

Gene sez: "Even as we speak, Kernes is in the works preparing 3D nude studies of himself emulating the great works of art ala Rodin's The Thinker and Michelangelo's David."

Luke Spiritually Does Kendra, Linda and Shelle

I visited Rob Spallone's Best Little Whorehouse on Grimes Street this morning. I knocked on the front door at 8:45 AM. No answer. I pushed it open and walked around inside. I saw nobody. I put down my bag and wandered around until I found Rob. He'd slept in his office. He'd shot a bunch of blacks until late in the night.

Spallone directed me to Kendra's bedroom but I made a mistake and entered Shelle Pearson's room. I woke her up, thinking it was Kendra. Shelle then directed me to Kendra's room. I took off most of my clothes and crawled under the blanket with her. She was naked. And rather annoyed by my posting of Bianca Trump's letter yesterday.

Kendra would give me no loving, no matter how hard I pursued her, and pushed her around the bed.

Rob and his black Rotweiler dog BJ came in. BJ hopped on our bed. Rob took some pictures. Then we woke Shelle, and later Linda Thoren and her 47-year old boyfriend, the Swedish porn journalist Thomas.

Kendra goes to her computer, goes online and checks her email. Immediately a porner IMs her, wanting to dissuade her from going to the Bunny Ranch. He's trying to get her out of porn into something respectable, like stripping at a topless club near him.

I take over Kendra's IM, and tell the porner, in Kendra's voice, "I want to suck your dick." Porner is not amused. He takes his position of responsibility in the community seriously and loudly proclaims that he does not f--- the talent. And that I should not either.

Kendra talks Shelle and I into skinny dipping, the first time I've done that in about 15 years.

4:17 PM: Rob Spallone phones. "I'm going to cut your head off. And put your body in the desert. There's no little whorehouse on Grimes Street. You came up to see one of the girls, and of course, you snuck some pictures. The picture of Rob is to be taken off immediately but everything else can stay because I wasn't around."

NiceJewishGirl writes Luke: "Luke, I don't understand why you even find any of these porn chix good looking! After looking at the pictures of the infamous KJ, the one you are always raving about, I wondered, where's the beef? Really. She isn't very cute and the fact that Jerry Springer had her (snicker!) and you (double snicker!), and the whole thing with her mother, honey you got a problem! Of course you told me just now it's because she gives you good head. I guess it's a mutual using relationship there. She needs you to say good things about her, and you need her to fulfill your oral fantasies or other sex favors. Hey, it's not MY life, it's definitely the way you are choosing to live yours.

"These women really look just like white trailer trash. I mean, fine, that is where most of them come from, and porn is definitely a step up for them from their usual babies/cigarettes/drug/cheating destinies. Alas, the poor white trash of our culture! Come to think of it porn is a natural for them, it's basicly the same life for them. But if you, you Luke Carey Ford, choose to fraternize and be sexual with these women then how spiritual are you?

"I called you only because I was seriously worried about your soul, given those pictures from yesterday. I mean, I was NEVER going to speak to you again, but I get worried about you. The other thing about porn chix is how horrible their fashion taste is. Like the worst malls of America, their hair color is always the same - bleached, or lately streaked, which is so passe where I come from. No offense girls, but most of them look so 70's, but not in a good way.

"Luke, idealizing trailer trash a la Jim Goad has already been done. I realize that you DON'T idealize them, that you are fascinated with their drama and their lives like most underground alternative people. The only difference is that most alt. types don't fraternize, and you do. And it's just sex. Yuck. According to JG if a vagina walked into a bar it would get tons of attention. That's all you need in hard-core working class America and it shows it on these girls. Think of some of those old women with their wrinkles and their flesh hangin', they are still considered attractive in those circles. No offense intended, everybody needs love, I guess.

"And another thing, your taste in movies is horrible. I already told you, why do you go and see those horrible mainstream flicks? INDIE MOVIES are the best, jeez, how many times do I have to tell you? There are a lot of bad indies out there too, especially a few years ago when there were several indie incest movies. I forgot which one, but there was one with a guy and his mom and they showed it on Bravo. It was really sick. Bye, I'm going to see Son Of Sam right now, I'll let you know if it's good. BTW will you put my baby picture up when I see you in a few weeks?

"Love, your bitchy net gf- njg (but she really DOES CARE about you). She is definitely MORE spiritual than you and she is waiting for you to catch up."

Luke: "How dare you speak about my Kendra that way. She is da bomb!"

Wednesday night I went to see a sneak preview of Arlington Road at Sony Studios in Culver City. I hated it with every fibre of my being, from the moment it started. I hate it so much, I hate that type of sinister, nihilistic and pessimistic movie. It was not a good date. It was a lousy way to end an otherwise fun day.

Fred writes: "I was looking at some of the pictures you posted, both of what's-her-name's gang bang (Jill Kelly?), and also some of the pictures you posted today, e.g. Linda Thoren. It occurs to me that many of the actresses, sans makeup, are extremely average looking. Even Linda didn't look all that spectacular. Is it the case that the actresses tend to be average looking, or do they tend to be better-than-average looking?"

Luke: "Average."

Fred: "O.K. In light of your last answer, here is my new theory concerning human behavior. (Warning. I'm taking a break from incredibly tedious work, while simultaneously drinking vodka & diet coke. This theory may not appear coherent at first blush--or second blush for that matter. However, on third blush, it's almost certainly brilliant.) I think that a) society at large tends to put great emphasis on a woman's appearance; and b) for whatever reason, any defects in a woman's appearance in a porno film tends to be minimized insofar as the male audience is concerned. I think women are aware of the fact that their attractiveness is enhanced if they are dealing with a bunch of aroused males, and they have an innate desire to recognize and capitalize on that fact. Therefore, they are drawn to porno. What do you think, oh great expert on this subject?"

FF: i take it xxx noticed your change in the last two months? Luzdedos1: he thinks i have changed for the worst, he's judging by my site FF: heheheh FF: so did you get some from shelle? Luzdedos1: no FF: saving yourself for kendra? Luzdedos1: I just went out... I was raging with hate for the movie Arlington Road... FF: and why get so worked up over a movie? FF: hopefully further doses will calm you down about movies. really, dunno why you got so worked up. and it's time you talked with ... i mean, if this girl is reading your site, she's seen in the past few days that you've banged a few porn starlets and went skinny dipping with another the other day Luzdedos1: she does not read my site FF: i take it spallone's comment about cutting your head off was his way of communicating or did he mean it? Luzdedos1: his way FF: kinda figured, but try to find another way to get to vegas for ces this year. :)

FF: i keep asking, but i'm curious... :) what DID homeopathic doc say today? anything at all? Luzdedos1: she was really encouraged by my improvement Luzdedos1: thought the remedy would last 2-8 months FF: did she say what it was? Luzdedos1: said the gum was probably a mild antidote Luzdedos1: she asked me lots about my emotions Luzdedos1: she will tell me next session, in 2 months, what the remedy is FF: which is where you are getting nastier. :) she doesn't want you to know. not surprising. i was told not to look up the medicines when i first went Luzdedos1: i said i was feeling more assertive, a tad less emotionally needy, more masculine FF:and doing well off all the prescription drugs, right? Luzdedos1: yes, she said i could go off nardil

Fred: "Ok, have you seen Annie Hall?"

LF: "Loved it."

Fred: "Actually, Annie Hall is, I think, one of the best films ever made. (It is generally appreciated by people from the East Coast of the United States. For some reason I can't fathom, people from the West Coast don't "get it." Instead, West Coast people go to Steve Martin films (the Los Angeles Woody Allen).) Anyway, your comment about your date reminds me of the ridiculous argument between Diane Keaton and Woody Allen over which of them is being jejune."

Luke: "Jejune - meager, not satisfying."

Michelle Goldberg's article on me for www.salon.com is due Friday and will probably run next week. I talked Wednesday with the 23 year old San Francisco resident who sounds 15 yo. We both found stimulating the book "A Return to Modesty," by 24-year old Wendy Shalit.

Learned Hand Seeks More Kissing

I would really like for more Porn scenes to feature kissing between the performers. I would like to hear from the performers what they think about kissing in porn and why they do or don't kiss. My feeling is that whether or not to kiss is generally a decision made by the woman. It seems to me that women that are new to Porn generally are more willing to kiss, but that they absorb, as if by osmosis, the fact that kissing is not required or common, so they stop. The men seem not to go for the kiss because they are afraid of rejection. This may be porn, but normal human interactions still are the rule. If a man knows that the women will let him have sex with them but will reject him (and not necessarily by slapping him or telling him off) if he tries to kiss them, he will get as gun shy about it as other men asking for dates. So, speak up performers. Women, would you allow or enjoy more kissing? Men, why do you do whatever it is you do with regard to kissing? Women, do you feel differently about kissing in g/g scenes than you do in male/female scenes? (RAME)

Ramsey writes on RAME:

Rob Black has once again used his butt-boy Gene Ross to tell some bogus story. This time it's a story that should restore Black's dignity and image. It's about some pornfan called "Giuseffi" who supposedly called Extreme on June 30 and got Black himself on the other line of the phone.

Now this pornfan is claiming that he and Black talked about a lot of things like the Van Damage/Tiffany Mynx situation. He also claims they talked about the war between Extreme and The Evil Empire and Luciano's "broken dick". So at the end of the conversation Black asks this guy which Extreme feature he didn't have and the guy tells him Whack Attack 1. Well Black sents him the tape but also some t-shirts and Extreme Brazil 1&2. So Black is answerering the phone at Extreme, i guess he fired his secretary like he fires all of his contract-girls.

Then Black talks to some complete stranger on the phone about the Van Damage/Tiffany Mynx situation, i mean with the lawsuit and everything, very smart. And how nice from Black to sent the poor guy all that Extreme stuff. Man I don't believe one word of this bogus story, this guy "Giuseffi" is made up by Black and Gene Ross, I can't believe Black cares so much about the pornfans that he sents them free stuff.

I'm thinking maybe Black has read some things here on RAME about him and the pornfans and that's why he made the story up just to show the world how much he cares for the fans. Well maybe the story is true but not complete, maybe that pornfan made a deal with Black like working for free for Charley Crow in one of his upcoming movies like Cornhole Armageddon 2 and getting his ass f---ed by Lizzie Borden or Jewel Valmont with a strap-on or something. No Rob Black, you have to do a lot better to convince your haters that you are actually a very nice guy, mission impossible I would say!

Cam replies: I have one question? Why even bother slamming Rob Black? You know, he probably enjoys the Bad Boy attitude. He's probably sitting there loving that people talk s--- about him. All we do is get is name out there even more. As much as I dislike his videos, there are people out there still renting and buying his stuff because everyone talks about him and wants to see what this guy is about. We're the ones making this guy big. He seems to stupid to do it himself, especially if he is constantly talking about his company over the internet. I'm shock not to read about more of the ex-contract girls not suing him since he puts all that s--- on the internet about why he's fired them. He talks to much. Thats not a smart person. if there is any Lawyer out there, read Gene Ross. Com, and find the girls that got fired by Rob Black. Thats the way you go after someone so stupid. Hit him where it hurts the most. Ask all the people who are doing it now. I would say Boycott Extreme Associate stuff but, the only crap that comes out is directed by him or Lizzy.

Director Greg Steel Writes

"I was reading my DAILY dose of porn on your site today when I came across the comments of David Clark. He stated that he can cum at least once watching a Dirty Debs video, but could not watching the movie "Conquest", which by the way I directed. He refered to my movie as crap. It seems funny to me that he feels Conquest is crap, which by the way was made more than four years ago. It sure must have made quite an impression on him since there has been so many other features released since then. "Conquest" was made for the couples market in mind, and it's quite obvious David is SINGLE and is home in bed by himself jerking off (and cumming at least once) to Dirty Debs videos. My suggestion to you David is: Get a date, and then try "Conquest". You might even cum, as well as the person next to you!"

Hank Rose Interviews Jesse Eastern

Q: But have you ever fell in "lust" on camera?

JH: If I said I didn't I would be lying!

Q: Why do there seem to be so many feuds in the industry in the video age? Is it the competition?

JH: During the early 90's when it was safe to enter the industry all the looky loos decided to live out their fantasy. They came in droves. Some as actors and others behind the scenes, they all wanted to get involved some way. Some for the better, most for the worse. One thing they all had in common, They all looked out for #1. It will only get worse!

Q: On a scale of one to ten, how do you grade yourself as an actor/stud?

JH: I could only go by what I've done in the industry. If you add up how much I made and the star women i worked with through the years and the parts I played I would say a Ten. Oh!, and don't forget the age factor, I started at 36. Of course that's my personal opinion. There's a lot of envious people who might disagree!

Q: What's the movie you made that you are most proud of? As actor and/or director?

JH: That's pretty hard to say because there are more then one! In 1991 and 93 I was hired for two of the largest budget adult films ever made. It starred Raven, Rocco and I in the first film and Rocco, me, John Dough in the other film. They were shot on location all over Italy! The budgets were well over $500.000. The name of the first film was called "Scandalous Seductions".

Q: With the way the world is today racked with violence and war, is porn a safe haven for horny minds?

JH: I would say so but if you asked Ted Bundy, he might disagree!

Q: Give us an insight into the mindset of a porn star. What does it take to sell your sexual soul in the spotlight?

JH: I believe all of the guys and girls who entered the porn industry were problematic in some way. In my case, being an actor trying to get legit work was fustrating. I needed to work and so when the chance came along to work I took it. All I did different was have sex!

Q: Was Freud right? Are all social problems related to sexual repression?

JH: I would say ! Give or take one or two!

Q: Explain the guilt factor. Who suffers from it and who does his/her thing on camera despite it all?

JH: My interpretation of the Guilt factor is growing up in a Jewish family! Your doomed right there! Most of the guys in the industry are jewish. They're the sufferers. The guilt is all in their dicks, wanting to be released! I don't know!

Q: Is porn still glamorous like it was in its heyday in the 70s. Or has the chic hit the fan?

JH: The chic hit the fan! Back then something was left to be desired. These days you see everything twice even! Double and triple penitration everywhere. What else could we do! Send in your ideas.

Q: Tell us your taste in women. Do you like the girl next door with a heart and emotions or the drop dead gorgeous variety whose s--- doesn't stink?

JH: If i were a brain surgen I would take the brain out of the girl next door and put it in to the drop dead gorgeous girl and give her a douch and spray her ass hole with jasmin!

Q: What is your major gripe about the industry?

JH: That's a big order! Let's start with the people who are trying to control it.

Q: And what do you propose to fix it?

JH: We'll start with an actors and directors union. A health plan for the talent that's affordable. Free Aids tests paid for by the distributors instead of money hungry people who control the clinics like agents maybe? Pension plans for retirement. Too good to be true? Maybe not!

Q: What effect has AIDS had on business? And what can be done about it?

JH: If we're not careful, Aids will be the down full of the business. I say we must keep out the prostitutes and drug addicts. Show your tests.

Q: Being an actor first, do you think that wetting your wick in this biz is a measure of respect amongst talent?

JH: Why not? it couldn't hurt!

Q: Would unionization help to make this industry more profitable for producers, directors and talent?

JH: Yes! I've always wanted that even back in the 80's.

Q: Are the money men who run the video companies and the writers, reviewers and critics jealous of what you do?

JH: Of cause they are! They don't have what it takes. They don't have any idea what work goes into doing a scene, f---ing on camera! They just watch it and masturbate. If they don't cum great, the scene gets a bad review, or if the magazine doesn't get their advertizing money the scene gets a bad review!

Q: What final say would you like to have for your detractors, your enemies in the biz who have tried to hurt you and tarnish your reputation?

JH: I would say, Your right leg is Christmas your left leg is Easter, Why don't I cum up and visit you between the Holidays!

Q: When you are gone, what adult legacy would you like to have left?

JH: That I was given my worth as a good actor and performer.

Q: Here's lies Jesse Eastern... Finish the epitaph for this tombstone.

JH: Here lies Jessie Eastern in his favorite position, hop on cowgirl and give this guy a ride. His dick has never been so stiff!

Q: Any parting advice to wanna-bes and newcomers?

JH: Yes, Stay out, don't come in. It's easier watching the movie but if you must, make sure you are confident, ready and have a supply of viagra!

Arizona adult organizer Sande Weinstein writes: How's tricks Luke? Something is bothering me. I read you everyday. I consider you a serious journalist, you know I consider you and Gene Ross the paparazzi of the porn industry, The National Enquirer, The Star or the Hollywood Reporter of the porn industry. You tend to find the idiosyncrasies and subtle nuances of this business and report on them. My problem is, and its not only my problem, recently, the last 6-8 weeks or so, you have begun to blur that fine line between fiction and non-fiction, the serious and satire and truth and just plain yellow journalism.

I always thought that you considered your journalistic abilities on a higher level than just reporting on the porn industry. I know you have problems with this industry, taking it seriously is very difficult for you. "Luke: "I chose to write on porn because I saw it as a professional opportunity. There was very little good porn journalism. Most of it is either jerkoff material or simply obsequious ala AVN. I also do lots of unprofessional writing on porno, simply satire or whatever pops into my head at the time..."

The above pretty much says it all Luke. There is a fine line between truth and satire, and you walk that sharp edge everyday. I have noticed that you never disseminate fiction from non-fiction, truth and satire. People take you seriously Luke. You should feel lucky. Journalists need to develop credibility in their careers. Talent in this industry may call you some interesting names, but they are counted as hits on your site everyday. Most of these people take your word as gospel.

Since that fine line has been blurred by your constant neglect of defining truth from satire, many people, myself included, have a problem taking your word as gospel after the past several weeks. Don't you think as a reporter or journalist that your integrity is at stake here? Isn't that the most important thing a journalist possesses?

I agree with you completely about the porn industry. There are many areas where the porn industry needs improvement, to show more integrity in many areas. All we have to do to understand that is to keep reading your column on the internet along with Gene Ross and every month turn to Loose Lips in AVN to see the lack of integrity in this industry. I don't think that it is intentional. I just think that people in this industry aren't as advanced as other high-dollar, high-volume industries that regularly tend to business and consider information and knowledge as the ultimate form of power. You know the mantra as well as I do Luke. I just thought that I would tell you what I thought and what I've been hearing alot lately. I read you everyday for information on the industry but I also read you for the quality of your writing, fiction or non-fiction. Please just inform me where the truth ends and the satire begins.

Vivid's Ad in AVN

Max writes: "After a long day at work, I went home and found that the new issue of AVN had arrived. I read a few pages and then flipped to the back cover of the magazine. Usually, I get a kick out of Vivid's ad but this one was over the top. It had a big "No" and then a picture of a dog. Although it is irrefutable that Vivid does have the best looking women in their movies, the quality of its films is atrocious and the level of sexual content borders on PG-13. Other women in the industry should be appalled that a major studio can make an advertisement like this. But, hey, this is the adult business and the typical porn aficionado should expect nothing less. Luke, if there is anyone who can identify with this it should be you. You have witnessed firsthand and reported extensively on the lack of morals and attention given to human degradation in the industry. Here, we just have another example."

Marcus Killus Writes Luke

I just happen to live in the lancaster area and I've seen Joe Christ on a few occasions including a screening at a local coffeehouse. I've known Joe since the 80's in texas, dallas & Austin we have quite a few mutual friends so I won't have any problem getting him to open up about matters of concern to readers of l-keford.com. Wow I never suspected that the dood with no dick in his films was he. :) See luke you even have your poison tenacles in the very heart of pennsylvaina dutch country. BTW whats with the race thing, like the Nigger stuff (sin city piece) and yesterday's refrence to Yo buddys shooting a bunch of blacks ? You can find a a more creative way in writing on black people in porn. I know a bit of your aussie history and that the dregs of anglo saxon society was dumped there one hundred and 3 score ago and that by the turn of the century ya'll had exterminated every last native Tasmainin. That's quite an accomplishment. The only reason there's aboriginal australians is the fact that they ran to lands that were deemed uninhabitable by humans. I know they live in deathcamp like accomodations today. Also according to dave bowie american racism is only surpassed by aussie and aparthied south africa. so i expected you to be a little diseased but i also beleived you would be trying to transcend it. Is it Lex Steels big black dick ? What? You and i both know this is the white male sex trade and the only reason that males like sean michaels & Lex are there is because white males want to see them f--- white women. Does this even matter to you ? or am i jus playing Jew to your nazi. You've received my 100% support in the past but that race s--- is foul, and i'm pissed.

Golden Showers Over USA

Tak: We have decided to release our All Girl GS Video "Lespiss" to US customers via Mail Order. It Stars Heaven Leigh,Phillysha Ann and Nancy Vee amongst others and features full on Euro style GS scenes with US talent.It might be the only current US made title featuring full GS scenes with US talent. It is available on our watersports website at http://www.ppgirls.com Our European fetish titles are available at http://www.hwvmedia.com

Businesswoman Bianca Trump

Belairboy writes on RAME: Here's the latest from our favorite graduate from the Harvard Business School, posted on her web site: "From here on out I just don't care. You will treat me like dirt anyways so why should I? The site will get updated when I feel like it. Pictures will be added when I feel like it. The cam will work when I feel like learning. And lastly I will be in the chat if I am in the mood. That's it that's all. Charge back if you wish. No big deal. Since I am the one now paying for it, I will do with it as I please. You have the nerve to call yourself fans. HA. I know the M.O. now. Pay, download everything, then charge back. You should be ashamed." Well, she certainly knows how to keep a business running smoothly. Her response to some people charging back is to screw over her other website members! So, there'll be no updates or new content unless she feels like it? All the people should charge back every bill when there's no updates! I'll bet all those loyal website members will be thrilled with that. It makes for an interesting marketing campaign, though. "Give me $$$ and if I feel like it, I'll give you some content." Genius, pure genius.