Sunday, August 1st, 1999

Deconstructing Herald "The Price is Right" Fahringer, Esq

A few week ago, Luke received a lawsuit threat from Vivid Video via the law firm of Herald Price Fahringer. Krash writes about this favorite lawyer of organized crime:

It ain’t easy bein’ sleazy--which is why America’s most mobbed-up pornographers have traditionally turned to Herald Price Farhringer for relief.

“I come across as straight, conservative-looking guy,” Fahringer reflected in a 1996 Time Out New York interview. “That may help me make my cases sound more plausible.” Especially when the clients are crooked, flamboyantly-attired skells with organized-crime affiliations.

Fahringer himself is truly an American original--a determinedly self-created over-achiever who came up the hard way. Wrote Fahringer’s future client Larry Flynt in Hustler, dated December, 1975, “...Fahringer was raised in the coal regions of Pennsylvania where his father worked for a refining company. He worked his way through Penn State University by waiting on tables and fought on the Penn State boxing team. After graduation from college, he became interested in acting and worked in a road show with [popular early-Sixties novelty acts] Dagmar and Arthur Treacher. After that experience, he worked as a radio announcer, a sparring partner in a professional fighters’ camp , took a whirl at doing television commercials and worked as a salesman. Finally he enrolled at the University of Buffalo law school...”

Fahringer received his J.D. 1956. To this day he is one of Buffalo’s favorite adopted sons. In 1966, he was presented the SUNY Buffalo School of Law’s Annual Outstanding Achievement Award, its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1982, and again in 1983 [his alma mater Penn State belatedly conferred its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1985].

During his glory days as a pornographers’ advocate, Fahringer received both the 1975 Outstanding Practitioner Award from the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association, 1975 and the Award for Legal Defense of Freedom of the Press from the New York Press Club in 1979.

With offices in Buffalo and New York City --as well as Beverly Hills to better service the porno industry via underling Paul Cambria, Jr.--Fahringer remains geographically and philosophically outside the silk-stocking orbits of law as practiced on Park Avenue and Wall Street.

“I never cared much for the establishment,” confided Fahringer in the 1975 Hustler interview. “I’ve always been opposed to authority.”

The Fahringer mystique as we know it today is inseparable from an era of colorful courtroom battles, in which the memory of the Manson Family trials and The Chicago Eight courtroom circus was still fresh in the public eye.

By comparison, Fahringer’s spirited yet suave representation of clients like Al Goldstein and Larry Flynt seemed magisterial--if only because none of his clients had to be shackled and gagged at trial. It was a time of American judicial liberalism seen neither before nor since--and Farhringer’s pleasing courtroom demeanor and chiseled good looks did not go unappreciated.

“The Warren Court was in full reign and that time,” recalled Farhinger in one of his innumerable interviews, “so we enjoyed a lot of success.” In front of juries and judges in 27 states, whether championing such mob offerings as Deep Throat in Buffalo or The Devil in Miss Jones in Cleveland, Fahringer has used, according to more than one interview, the same strategem: “I say, “I don’t have this magazine in my home, and I wouldn’t expect you to have it in your home. But that’s not what this case is about.”

Indeed, so fraught with ambiguity and upheaval was the America’s cultural terrain in the 1970s that Fahringer would successfully seize the high moral ground on behalf of America’s most prominent mob-affiliated pornographers--taking 14 cases to the Supreme Court and winning all but two.

Fast-forward to 1999: Herald Price Fahringer--winner of 1995’s Thurgood Marshall Award from the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and attorney of record for what the New York Times, describes as “more than 100 sex shops” [including peep-show czar Richard Basciano since at least 1978]--gets his butt kicked at every level of the nation’s judiciary.

On Jan. 11, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Fahringer’s final appeal--thus sounding the death knell for New York City’s once-profitable jack-booth, lap-dancing, fake-champagne hustle and titty-bar industries. Fahringer’s winning streak was clearly at an end: What happened?

The slippery slope traveled by this once imposing Constitutional advocate to his current role as a practically full-time porn consigliere is roughly traceable to Larry Flynt’s 1981 Cleveland obscenity conviction, which Farhringer argued all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...and lost.

Fahringer has consistently shifted the blame for his mounting courtroom losses on the Nixon Administration’s Burger Court --and the trend of judicial conservatism a la Clarence Thomas and William Rehnquist that has continued right up to the present day.

Meanwhile, despite the squalor and blight that Fahringer’s clients have proliferated throughout metropolitan America, he remains a favorite son in Buffalo, New York. At a recent luncheon of upstate NY’s Bar Association of Erie County, celebrated toastmaster Fahringer offered up this quote from Sir Thomas More: “Yes, I would give the devil the benefit of the law, for my own safety sake."

Unfortunately, the devil is in the details--and the details are inscribed with Mafia blood. See you in hell, Counselor.

Daily Dish

Evan McGuiver writes the Daily Dish for www.jasminesfriends.com:

'SUP WIT' INDIA???

Well, let's see. She absolutely wrecked shop on Playboy's "Helmetcam Show" a few weeks back and she still stands as one of the finest honies in the porn biz. Recently she sat down with Ev of the Dish and gave us the dirt.

EV: First off, on behalf of the many thousands of India fans worldwide, I've gotta say a warm wassup. 'Sup India =)?

INDIA: First of all, I would like to apologize for not responding as fast as I wanted to. My fans mean so much to me, at times I get so busy that I'm out of control with all the work I have to do. I thank all my fans out there who enjoy watching me on film, I love you all.

EV: Alright now, I remember reading in a back issue of Black Video Illustrated magazine that you are originally from Inglewood, Cali'. The land of sun & palm trees one would say. How did you find Cali' throughout your many years of schooling and all that?

INDIA: I enjoyed staying in Cali', it was the place to be growing up. In terms of school, I attended many and graduated from Washington Prep in 1994. Soon thereafter I went to Cal State Northridge (which is also in Cali'). School was the bomb for me. I had lots of friends, and many associates. I was always into entertainment. I grew up in a church family and I started singing and modelling at 6 years of age. I always loved to entertain people, so I later pursued a career in singing which launched me a record deal with an independent label. That was cool while it lasted, but I guess that's show biz'.

* Note: We're all behind her, and wish her all the best with her future endeavours as well. E'body knows she represents to the fullest 24/7.

EV: I've read over at your official website, http://www.sexyindia.com , as well as in your films, that you've also done more mainstream modelling in the past? How would you rate those experiences? Were they pleasant, or was the atmosphere a little bit too competitive?

INDIA: I'm now pursuing my modelling career as well as my own film company. There's so much I want to do.

EV: In your free time, could you list some of your hobbies =)? I believe you've mentioned in the past that you enjoy doin' a little singing, dancing, and being with your friends. Are there any particular songs that you've perfected, any dance moves? Or is it simply spur-of-the-moment?

* I wasn't able to decipher an answer for this question, but it's still all good.

EV: In terms of music you listen to .... any favorites? Are you into the RnB scene, the hiphop scene, easy listening, pop, etc'? I'm personally a big fan of both RnB & hiphop (i.e. - anything from R. Kelly to Redman, Keith Sweat to Canibus, Destiny's Child to the Roots).

INDIA: I listen to alot of R Kelly. That's my favorite. Now let's talk about your films.....

EV: You are so BEAUTIFUL on film =)! Your attitude is always for the positive, your sexuality is always alive & well, and your beauty always represents to the max'. You are one of my very favorite starlets (alongside the likes of Midori & Tyra Butts). You three ladies are 3 of my very favorites. Could you give your fans here a list of all your favorite people to work with in the adult business?

INDIA: My favorites to work with would probably have to be Jake Steed, Mr. Marcus, Sean Michaels, Mocha, Crystal Knight, and Felicia.

EV: Alright...... this is a fun-loving question right here. Say a film producer came to you with the idea of doing a 7-person orgy, and he wanted you to select 3 men, and 3 women to be in the film with you.....who would you probably lean towards selecting? Which 3 men and 3 women do you feel you best work alongside?

INDIA: If I had a choice of 3 men and 3 women, I would pick Felicia, Crystal, Inari Vachs, Sean Michaels, Jake Steed & Mr. Marcus. * Note: It definitely sounds like a hot 7some =)! All the fellas reading this interview are jealous of Marcus, Jake & Sean, as the ladies are jealous of Felicia, Crystal & Inari. LoL. It's all good =).

EV: * Last but not least, I've gotta say I am honoured to have been able to interview you for our website here, http://www.jasminesfriends.com . Believe this India, you are definitely a fan-favorite. The women & men LOVE you. Keep representin' to the fullest, and we'll continue to support you......you are definitely a strong, beautiful, and successful young woman. Any parting words for your many, many fans? A shout-out to your friends, to your peeps back home?

INDIA: I would like to give a personal shout-out to all my fans. I love you all so much; keep watching me and I promise to give 100% all the time. You all can write and join my fan club by writing to: Attention: Sexy India 11288 Ventura Blvd. Suite 428 - B Studio City, CA 91604 www.sexyindia.com

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MIDORI SPEAKS OUT?!? Over at the message board at blackgirl-online (http://www.online-video.com), Midori had been getting trashed over her recent pregnancy and subsequent drop out of the X scene by some (rather cruel, if we do say so) posters. Over the weekend, someone posting as Midori answered, and while we usually wouldn't post this kind of thing w/o direct word, it sounded legit (and M if it's not, please email us and we'll correct as soon as possible).

"I have been having baby fever(again) for a while now. I am 31 yrs old and I'm not careless, I have gotten this far by thinking and planning and just being real. As far as struggling, I have been just fine as a single mom, especially since 96. I never planned on being in front of the xxx camera forever. I needed a break and it really is time to move to the next level, there's more to me than "Midori the Porn Star".

"Read my side of the story!

"As it stands Kid Rock and I are broken up and I am not pregnant anymore. You so quickly came to judge my state of mind and actions while I was in a relationship and that really isn't fair. In response to your comments and the guy who posted before you.

"Kid and I were inseperable in the beginning. we did interviews and magazine layouts and I was with him on several of the MTV tapings. I even went on tour with him as a guest performer. He was the one that would bring me up and the whole Midori thing in interviews and conversations.(check out Alternative Press Music Magazine, with Orgy on the cover). 8 page fashion layout we did together, we also did a song that's coming out at the end of the year.

"Things started to go crazy when his career took off. I swear it seemed like overnight. He basically changed and became a different person. I'm not going to go into deep detail but it got really bad toward the very end and I could not take it anymore and I chose to break it off (jumping the gun ) but the damage had been done.Without warning he just started tripping, became too busy to take a s--- (so he says) and and I require a little more than that. So the drama unleashed itself.

"I did not get that MTV coverage but Howard Stern has been sweating me to come on his show. To talk about all the relationship and the rumors .

"I was not in the relationship for that reason anyway, but that was a valid point you made but then again maybe they aren't ready for the big inter-racial romance, the trend may spread... lol lol we got them sagging and rapping.

"As far as the other black girls being pregnant that were mentioned, don't know about that, but I do know he has a 6yr old mixed son. He does have a thing for chocolate, but I must say for the majority of our relationship he made me feel like a queen and if he was cheating or whatever he never gave me a reason to be insecure. Plus my website is linked to his website and it read: "Kid Rock's Girlfriend". It's still on there but the title has changed to "One hot beautiful girl" or something like that.

"Life goes on , I wish him well(all the way to hell) Just kidding, seriously I'm just fine and I have always had other skills and talents that I earn money off of. I just signed a record deal, and hosted &co produced a new show for BET/action pay per view. I love performing but the sex in front of the camera wasn't fun to me anymore and that had nothing to do with Kid Rock, it's time for me to go to the next level.... Talk to ya'll later-take care Midori/Michele Check out www.mp3.com and search for Midori(aka) Take care and next time you can ask me before you go judging in the wrong direction."

Mike South's Gal in Penthouse

Porner Mike South writes: "Hey buddy...remember that girl I brought to CES...Alexa Lauren? She is the 30th anniversary Pet of the month...I attached a couple of the pix I took that got her the gig." Alexa Alexa1

Luke took these two pics of Alexa at CES: Image:ces99114 Image:ces9935

Larry Flynt likes to frequent gambling joints in Las Vegas, and blows about $500,000 every two weeks.

Rebecca Bardoux

Ex-porn star Rebecca Bardoux writes: Why am I an x porn star, I believe once you have taken that much cock x is not the title. Besides I'm shooting a few movies with Playboy this month. I would love to know how your readers feel about this x subject? If you stopped writing for a few years would that make you an x writer?

Reading your site I see someone has been in contact with [stripper agent and Rebecca's husband] Steve Chase. Luke it you should talk to him have him send me my final divorce papers so I can get rid of his last name, (which by the way is not Chase). Steve can talk about girls that flake but he does nothing good for the girls that don't. Here's the recipe for getting alot of bookings with the Lee Network, BLOW JOB. Maybe if the agents blacklisted these girls that give us all a bad rep things would change. Also, about Misty Rain, if she's an alcoholic so is most all of the other girls, (but then didn't men create that by trying to get woman drunk to f--- them?) So, I say if porn girls want to drink and have fun let them, after all it is the lifestyle, and the only reason you know we drink is because we are always in the public eye. I know when ever I went to a function all the guys and not talent or fans would always make sure I had a drink.... It's so funny when I was messed up on coke for a while everyone thought I was wonderful, now people think I have a drinking problem. I love this industry but don't be silly and think we only get the well balanced people. This is one industry where we should not judge each other but stand together after all look at all the people who judge us.

I was married to Steve Chase and I was under an exclusive contract before he started working there (at the Lee Network). He went there because we broke up. He always wanted to get back with me. He played a big bad game with me, I always told all the girls how great the Lee Network was, I brought alot of girls to them. I always was one of the first girls booked in a new club because they knew I would be good, and make them look good. It's a long story, but Steve told me all his plans, as well as how he f---ed all the girls.

AVN Expo

Porner writes: You've recently written a lot about AVN's Adult Expo. But you see, Luke, in actuality AVN did not sponsor the event. They merely licensed their name to EventStar, the company that produces the VSDA show. You see, EventStar realized that porn companies had become disallusioned with VSDA. And they didn't want to lose the adult contingent as it provides a carnival-like appeal to the many VSDA visitors. In fact, many VSDA members travel to the national show only because of the adult presence. When EventStar realized they were about to lose the adult side of the business, they went to AVN. AVN agreed to let it appear that they were hosting the show, warranting to EventStar that AVN's participation would guarantee the continuing association of the adult industry. In other words, VSDA was still VSDA, albeit masquerading as AVN.

Hart Williams Reviews Luke's New Book

From 1978 to 1988, journalist Hart Williams covered the porn industry for such magazines as Hustler and Adam. He just received a copy of my new book and he writes: Got the book yesterday, and didn't put it down. Frankly, I don't see what all the hubub is. You've done a credible and a creditible job -- nothing that I particularly take issue with. Your opinions are temperate, and certainly your auctorial right; you've done your homework, and were I still reviewing, I'd say that you come to the project with clean hands -- at least as clean as anyone else has. There seem no ground axes, nor any love/loathing of the biz.

I am particularly impressed with your handling of the 'mob' aspect of the business, and the even-handedness involved. You avoided the stereotypes, and, I think, did a decent job of keeping the "compartmentalized" nature of the biz intact. Congratulations. Kirkus must've had someone with a political axe to grind, because I really can't see where the negative reviews came from, save from the nutcase passions of the "ins" and the "haters" both of which I think you handled with aplomb.

All in all, I'm proud to have had anything to do with the book, and will happily engage in light-saber duels with anyone who wretchedly screeches otherwise. Very bests to you, Luke. The book itself shows a tremedous amount of growth, and is one that I'm proud to have in my library.

Porno Pet Peeves

MM writes on RAME: I rented a movie a couple of days ago that had a "practice" in it that I've been seeing and hating in porn since I've been watching it. Now since I'm relatively new to this group, I would guess that it's been discussed before but it can be fun to beat a dead horse. Anyway, so there the scene was, coming to it's conclusion, the gal on her knees, face upturned, mouth open, begging for the guy's splooge and then....you guessed it....we have to endure about 27 seconds of the guy's face contorting and twisting (he's cumming you see) before we get to see the cumshot, the popshot, the money shot. The point is....WHO CARES!!

I'll bet the entire straight porn industry could eliminate this without a protest being heard. Consider: a video store has two genre sections side by side: one has a hundred tapes of facials and oral cumshots that are so ubiqutous these days. The other has a hundred tapes of guys faces when they are cumming. Scene after scene, hour after hour of Dave Hardman making like a salmon; of Steve Hatcher scrunching up his insufferable ferret face and saying oohhhh; Ron Jeremy counting backward from twenty. Now how much business do you suppose that section would do? I'd guess...oh.. around zip. Of course people might rent one for laughs considering that a lot of times it's not even their faces when their cumming but rather their interpretation of what their faces look like when they're cumming....oh my god I know Dave Cummings and Mike South frequent this group, maybe they can tell us if when they became porn makers they were issued porn makers handbooks that said these scenes should be made. I don't know, maybe it's union rules.

Ron writes: Couldnt agree more. Cant tell you how many times I had my money shot interrupted by a close up of some guys contorted face. Now that I'm no longer the young spanker that I used to be, it takes a little while to get back up to speed after a derailment like that.

Porner Dave Cummings writes: I totally agree with you! Who cares about the guys! Hell, we're absolutely nothing but props! Perhaps shooters who need "pop" faces for the cable version should verbally record on film a note to the editor that the face is ONLY for the cable version?!

The only face I want to see during a cum shot is the girl's---and, I prefer a "before and after" situation where she's sensuously waiting for the hot cum, followed by her face receiving the cum (and I want her to look and act like she's enjoying it---I don't want her "dodging" the shot or grimacing!). The aforementioned is what I like when I'm having sex, or whacking off while watching a video!

My absolute favorite thing (which you'll find often in the "Sugardaddy" and the "Sex Fun" series) is when I pull out of the vagina and cum on the clit, then reinsert back into the pussy for some more pounding followed by the girl sliding down and taking my dick directly into her mouth (all of this, of course, with the camera catching the entire happening UNINTERRUPTED!)

Brad from Danber Boy Video replies: "Dave- The way that you just described those pop shots ...it made me, well, want to cry. We love you, and want to adopt you as our foster dad. Your detail is pretty gnarly for a gentleman. We have to have you direct a scene with Mila and one of her little newbies. If you like Elizabeth, you can come up and do that one? I dont know why I always thought that you were so square. You're a dirty little f---er."

Ckong writes on RAME: I actually like it when they try "dodging" or grimacing. I also like it when the cum shoots out unexpectedly and catches them by surpise. I think it's more real than seeing her with a fake smile as if getting cum on her face is the greatest thing in the world. I mean, if I held a squirt gun to your face the natural reaction would be to grimace in anticipation of being squirted (because you wouldn't know when it willl occur). It's not natural to just smile and be unconcerned when the squirting will occur.

Since I've never had sex, I want to see real life reactions in porn. A lot of porn seems too fake to me now (fake breasts, fake cum shots, fake penises, fake reactions). I also want to see more guys with tiny pathetic 4 inch penises in porn. All the penises are pretty much the same size in porn (big and thick as my wrist) -- a little more variety in shapes and sizes would be good.

MM writes on RAME: Anyway, I rented the new Marylin Chambers video "Still Insatiable". Towards the end of the movie, Marylin, a US Senator is tag-teamed and reamed by a couple of black guys (kind of like what US senators have been doing to black guys for a century or three). The set-up is that her driver makes the arrangement and takes her to the motel where the action occurs. All well and good.....EXCEPT....during the course of the scene we cut away from the action to see the driver standing outside the door of the room. Four or five times. That's it...he's just standing there. One second you're wathching a woman senator suck black dick the next a guy is standing in front of a door. And these cut-aways last for 10 or 15 seconds. Oh, one time he turns his head about 78 degrees to the left for 3 seconds. My question is: WHAT THE f--- IS THAT!!

And these type of jackass maneuvers happen all the time in porn. The scene is steaming along and suddenly you're somewhere else as your wood turns to putty. I remember some scene from a few years ago. I was really looking forward to it but all I remember now is that I would like to shoot the director and editor. The action was taking place and a guy was spying from the bushes...so we kept seeing the guy in the bushes. If the scene lasted 10 minutes you spent 2 of the minutes watching the guys impression of voyueristic rapture but it looked more like somebody undergoing a surprise prostate exam. Another graduate of the Jim Varney acting school. Why do directors even make this footage? And why don't editors toss it into the trash can?

I mean it's almost as bad when you're forced to bounce back and forth between 2 sex scenes (a future peeve), but when it's bouncing between a sex scene and a guy with his finger his nose, somebody should pay and it shouldn't be the guy sitting there with shrinking wood and mounting rage.

Lesbian Strippers

Gtel writes: Men almost entirely fund the sex industry and yet what is the number one thing they don't know? That these girls are really into other girls not guys! In other words, the guys are actually shut-out from go! No doubt this means the sex industry is for guys whose fantasies don't include a concept for whatever it is/isn't that their women fantasy objects are/aren't feeling for them. They dumbly choose to assume that the women are feeling the same eroticism they are, which of course they aren't. I personally believe it would be hard or impossible for men to turnon if they appreciated the fact they are simply being taken by bisexual lesbian con artists who have no feeling for them whatsover! Unfortunately, there is typically a long learning curve........years of exposure to the industry and consuming the product before you fully appreciate that the adult entertainment is really a dyke culture. Question, Luke. If you, a heterosexual man, were dancing nude for men for pay, would you give a damn what they look like or who they are?! Of course not, because you FEEL nothing. This explains the indiscriminacy of nude female dancers--any man will do as long as his money is green.

I'd like to give you some powerful tools for exposing the underlying phenomena within the sex industry. If these phenomena are exposed, then everyone will have the insights needed to debunk the industry and strip it of its appeal. Continuing with my questionaire for dancers/adult entertainers: The concept of boundary violations: These girls obviously lack a sense of boundaries when it comes to their sexual behaviors, so I suggest breaking this down to reveal the presumed progression of lost boundaries as they grew up. Here are some questions to show boundary violations they most likely universally experienced:

Age of 1st sexual experience.

Who was their 1st sex partner?

Was father/mother absent or alcoholic?

At what age did they start drinking? doing drugs? smoking?

At what age did they first have lesbian sex? Before or after entry into the sex industry? ( My belief is that they are all bisexuals/lesbians who went into the sex industry as a way of coming out.)

What sexual taboos did they violate and at what age? Before or after their entry into the sex industry?

Did they have to take alcohol or drugs before they were able to perform certain taboos?

I also recommend asking how many have lost sexual feeling---either while having sex, or also in their chests after implants. Many say their chests are permanently numb after implants, but they don't care because of all the money they can make.

I'd also like to comment on something no one discusses. The obvious occupational hazards of working in strip joints: where their job is to get customers to drink as much as possible, and this means the girl also has to drink a great deal (Alcohol has been shown to be far more damaging in small amounts to women than to men--see a recent 20/20 on women's drinking tests.) where the noise level is ear damaging at very high sustained decibels for many hours each week where the secondhand smoke is incredible. These hazards are simply taken for granted by observers--no one cares-- but take their toll on these young women over months or years in clubs. Any thinking young woman who has any health consciousness whatsoever would steer clear if simply advised of these dangers.

Let's begin with a simple but vexing question that is central to the sex industry: What is the purpose of a woman's beauty? No, surprisingly, it isn't to generate the maximum amount of cum for the maximum amount of dollars. The purpose is to attract exotic males from outside the family/tribal population--i,e, from as far & wide as possible to maximize the genetic combinations that may occur when females mate outside their group. Also, if one tribe is destroyed by another, they will keep the beautiful females as mates, so there was also survival value in beauty.

Fast forward ahead to the Internet, where women have been reduced to simple cum generators attracting males from all over the world who shoot their wads straight into the nearest toilet bowl or Kleenex! What is this world coming to? Answer: Women on the net!

Add to this the fact that these women are primarily interested in lesbian sex, and it's obvious that the men are wasting their time and resources away with no possibility of adding anything to the gene pool (maybe this is good---the jerks and Johns will eventually be selected out by evolution since they've flushed all their genetic material down the commode).

I'd also like an insight about big breasts, since they are so vital to the sex industry: Attractive women with big breasts get EQUAL amounts of attention from men and women. They are not only fascinating--they are a way for a woman to signal to other women that she is bisexual and thus invite other bisexual and lesbian women to approach and take an interest in her as a prospective partner. Think about it--outside the sex industry, bisexual women are invisible unless they do something distinctive to themselves/their bodies to invite interest from other bisexuals/lesbians. And thus, big breasts. And you thought they were just for getting bigger tips!

You really should catch Ginger Lynn Allen's next show. Performances are posted on her website. I've seen her twice at the Goldrush showbar here in Atlanta--in 1997 and 1999--and you have no idea! She choreographs her own show (she said). Well, you'd have to see it to believe it! It has really evolved into nothing more than a very transparent dyke show. She has no idea how obvious it is that her show is pure lesbian--that's how out of touch she is.

The central prop for the entire show is a 3 foot long cylinder about an inch wide that she uses as her mock penis. She inserts it in her panties like it's her own penis and then has one of the young club dancers suck on the other end. (She had to tell the last girl what to do! The kid tried to take the thing away from her!) After a good 10 minutes of said mock penis show, she finally hands it to some lucky guy in the audience as a keepsake! Then she brings another young club dancer on stage----this is why she really does these shows--and has her put oils on her cunt as she crotches down on a towel doggie-style first and then spread-eagle on her back. She remarks about how pretty all the dancers are and how there are still some true southern Belles after all! This is probably the reason she is still single---she likes girls! All of which she obviously believes is just what us stupid men like in a real woman. The underlying message to all this deviant behavior? THERE'S A DYKE IN THERE!

Jim Gunn writes: Just to respond to Gtel's comments- although I agree with (and I am all in favor of) his comments on the widspread popularity of quote-unquote lesbianism amongst strippers, I can assure you that based on my vast experience with exotic dancers, not more than one or two of the many hundreds of stippers that I know and have worked with over the years have actually been a "lesbian" or a "dyke".

Most of the girls, if they had g/g sex at all (and most did) were definitely bisexual, that is, they loved cock too. In other words, the popularity of female bisexuality does not and IMHO, cannot replace the penis or the emotional relationship women enjoy with men. They do g/g sex because it's accepted in the clubs as a "show"; for thrills; as recreational sex; to make money on stage by exciting the men; or, back at home, to turn the men in their personal lives on. They may do a "dyke" show on stage; they may do an all-girl porn movie for me; they'll even kiss a strange girl as a whim on national t.v. even though they self-identify as straight or bi-curious. But would they actually fall in love with another woman and leave their man, whether it be boyfriend, husband or suitcase pimp? Very rarely.

Matt writes: Hey Luke. I am an average looking guy living out in California. I am single, and it is frustrating for me to pick up chicks out here. It is always a game, espcially at the clubs. Thus, I am a dedicated porn watcher--I watch it every night. Anyways, I have a complaint directed at the porn industry. What is the up with the industry having to put these guys in the movies that are "above average" in terms of looks and can get chicks quite easily in the real world. I find it very intimidating, because it is these guys that usually hog all the women at the clubs. The women I am interested in are interested in the "Brad Pitt looking" guys that always seem to be around. It frustrates me because these girls shoot me down for "better" looking guys. And there is no denying the fact that women are interested in a guys looks first. If they disagree, it is bulls---.

Porn is a fantasy for guys like me. We want to see guys that are on our level or lower (looks wise), getting these hot chicks. It is all part of the fantasy--to live through these guys. I am tired of seeing these male models getting the hot chicks in porn today. I would love to see Tia Bella getting f---ed by a guy that looks only slightly better than Ed Powers. And no, I am not a "fag" looking at the guys while watching porn. You cant help but notice the guys when you trying to watch the girls. I actually get turned off the guy is above average, no matter who the girl is. It's like the porno is imitating life--the good looking guys always get the girls. That is the way it is with the pretty girls, period. Is it because these porno chicks insist they work with only good looking guys? Or is it the directors, who are gay themselves and need a good looking guy to be in the scene to keep them interested? Mabe there are other readers out there who enjoy your site and would like to comment? What do you think, Luke? P.S--Dee and Tia Bella are the prettiest girls in porn today. I like Dee because she f---s her husband on film alot, and he is kinda fat and not intimidating at all.

Luke: What women most want is a guy with $$$. That's more important than looks.

Fred replies: "Do you really think that women crave men who have $$$? Do you think that is true of porn chicks? After all, the stereotype for porn chicks is that they all have "parolee" boyfriends who clearly are not well endowed financially. Clearly, if they were zeroing in on $$$, they would be a step up from that. It seems to me that such women must actually be drawn to something else. What do you think? (Actually, it would be interesting to interview a bunch of porn chick females and ask them why they have the mates that they do.)"

Luke: I think women crave men with money. Women crave men who radiate strength, and money and success and fame are all ways of displaying strength and accomplishment. Why do so many porn women pick loser boyfriends? I think there's a sickness there. Many porn girls believe they deserve to be punished and abused. And they are secretly turned on by the men who abuse them, because such men radiate a sick form of strength.

Alinfl writes on RAME: Is the actual process of being a "fan" of a specific adult female performer emasculating? I'm not talking about being turned on by a particular woman and wanting to watch he videos. I'm talking about when someone actually joins a fan club, writes adoring letters, stands in line at appearances to get an autographed photo, etc. I tend to think it is.

While most of these women will smile, act friendly, engage in some conversation when they interact with fans and of course, accept their money, you know in their gut they have little respect for them as men. I would bet that few, if any, of these women have ever seriously dated a guy whose introduction to her was as a fan. It's kind of the same as real life- when you try to win a woman's affections by putting her up on a pedestal and being really nice, they see the guy as a wimp and lose interest. It's the same in porn world.....fan equates to wimp.

I bring the date aspect up because I believe that most guys who go to the length of paying money to join a fan club, write letters, and stand in line to get an autographed photo are hoping for a personal connection. I think most guys desperately hope that somehow they'll stand out among the other fans, she'll express an interest, and consider the possibility of getting together with this one special guy. Most guys realize it's an extreme longshot but worth a chance. A few pitiful men honestly think they have a real chance. The problem is - once they've approached her as a fan, the chance is already over.

I once read an interview with the adult performer Anisa at the time she was quitting. She stated that she thought men who watch adult videos are weak, and that she preferred men who didn't watch the stuff. My gut feeling is that most women in the industry feel the same way.

Another example I noticed was Asia Carrera. She writes updates of what's going on in her life on her website. After writing in great length about her breakup with her recent boyfriend and what she is looking for in a man, she specifically states that she doesn't want e-mails from guys interested in a relationship. Translation- "The man I'm looking for would never be a fan of mine. He's not some guy who masturbates to my videos and reads my website. He's either a guy in the industry who doesn't kiss my ass, or he's an independent businessman- a man of the world- who doesn't watch adult videos and would never gush over me the way a fan does."

If I lived in an apartment complex in southern California, and one day I noticed a woman in the business I was really hot for lived next door, the absolute LAST THING I would ever do is let her know that I recognize her from the adult movies. I would act like I've never seen her before and have no idea what she does. Because if I called her by her stage name, gushed how I had seen her videos and thought she was great, I would be immediately relegated to 'nice guy wimp' status with no chance of getting to know her better.

Sorry this post is so long. It isn't meant in a condescending way toward those of you who have engaged in fan behavior, because I am guilty of it myself. While I have never joined a fan club, I have written letters to three adult performers in the past. Though it's embarrassing to admit, I guess when I was writing a fan letter I was hoping for some sort of connection. I realize that all I had really done was emasculate myself in their eyes.

Someone writes to RAME: A friend of mine is a very well-known woman who leads a rock band. Like all celebrities, she receives an enormous amount of fan mail. Most of it gets screened out by her staff, and they pass on only those from people they know she would want to hear from. Plus they have the usual "nut" file where they keep the over-the-top letters that are threatening or from someone seriously disturbed ("you had my baby," "your lyrics were intended to be a secret message only to me," etc).

Anyway, she doesn't view these fans as "wimps." But she does view them merely as scenery on the highway through her public life. All of her "relationships" (including mine) either predated her stardom or came about through some other connection outside the scope of fandom, like other musicians, friend of a friend, etc. As soon as she meets someone who adopts the usual fan jabber, she instinctively keeps them at arm's length because what the fan is associating with at that moment isn't her but, rather, her stage persona.

Sneece writes: Re: performers contempt for fans. It would seem logical. Most entertainers have contempt for their fans be they actors, musicians, athletes. I think this may be true of writers and artists to some degree as well. I am sure most politicians have contempt for their constituents.Why? Reasons are varied.

In many cases they know what they do is phony, talentless and ridiculous. They feel ridiculous and fraudulent but the money is too good to give it up. I think this is particularly true of actors and musicians. With many it is a vicious circle. They despise those who adore them because they know they are a sham yet the money/sex is too good to turn away from. Most pro athletes despise fans because they realize they are living their lives through them. They, however, may have an overdeveloped selfesteem because they see their accomplishments as being "real" as opposed to make believe. A good many, however, realize their skills are very narrow and specific and without them they are joe blow.

Writers and artists sometimes feel contempt for fans; especially if they are genre hack writers or commercial kitsch artists. As for politicians,that does not even need an explanation. I think those in the religious profession often feel contempt for their followers. Those in the sales profession often feel contempt for their customers.

It is my observation that those that have little regard or esteem for what they do, no matter how successful they are, are the ones most likely to feel contempt for those that make their living possibe. Those actors and musicians that believe in what they do are more likely to see their fans in a positive light. Likewise writers and artists and salespeople. They believe in their product and feel respect for those that discern likewise.

As for politicians and religious leaders, those that are true believers in what they say are the most dangerous and I think even those still feel contempt for the rank and file of their followers. I think most pro atheletes fall into this category as well. The most cynical group of people I know are pro wrestlers. I was one myself for a year (1971) and I can tell you that any I knew or subsequently met had utter contempt for any fan over the age of puberty. Anything that is faked is called a work, or working. They believe all pro sports and most other activities are works at one level or another. I also worked as a telemarketer of videos both porn and general and again there was a lot of contempt.

I have for many years written for a couple of bodybuilding mags and I can sure as hell tell you that the manufacturers and advertisers for the products featured in the mags feel total contempt for those foolish enough to purchase them. Bodybuilders and fans? A little more complicated. Most fans work out themselves so there is a kind of bond. But many at the highest levels believe that unless you have walked the walk as they have, risked life, health and sanity to achieve your goal, you are not as they are and they feel no kinship with you.

As for the Gays that support mens bodybuilding and the Shmoes that do likewise for the womens side they are looked upon as necessary evils by those being supported and as most do not even train themselves the connection is strictly sex/monetary.

How does this relate to porn? Performers know that what they do is fake and there is little connection to real life sex. To them it is a transparent sham. How can they not feel contempt for those that get hot over it. The first time I saw porn I put it in a pro wrestling perspective. Most performers are lousy workers. Some are very good. Do think the porn/wrestling connection is an accident? I think there are a lot of the same elements in the porn/rock connection. How many rockers see porn stars as just another groupie and how many porners see rockers as just glorified mooks? However, I do believe there can be a kind of bonding as long as each sees the other as part of a larger circle that is removed from mainstream society and they are mutual admirers of the others craft.

In the early 80's being a writer and an ex pro wrestler got me into the confidence of a number of N.Y. porn people. Likewise recently out here. As with other professions, how performers feel about their work has a lot to do with how they feel about their fans/admirers.Those who take pride in their work feel better about their fans/admirers and usually attract a higher level of admirers. Do you think the fans of performers past and present such as Veronica Hart, Annette Haven, Hyapatia Lee, Nina Hartley, Kay Parker, Eric Edwards etc. are of the same ilk as Rob Black, Max Hardcore or Mila? I don't think so.

LAS: As one who has done a lot of really foolish things, including obsessing for years over an old girlfriend when she and I were both married to other people, were living in different parts of the country, and had no contact, you have my sympathy. But it's really not that we're "emasculated," or "wimps." It's that we're idiots.

However, with all respect, I really don't think you've stated the question properly. As stated, it asks whether writing a fan letter will make your penis fall off or get smaller or reduce your "male vigor. Or the question might interpreted as asking whether porn stars *believe* that fans have no penises, smaller penises, or "less male vigor." Or maybe the question is whether unrequited love (or obsession) is emasculating. [That probably depends on how long it goes on and whether you do what needs to be done to keep your health up in the meantime.] I think there are other relevant questions, such as:

1. What is the best strategy for getting a porn star to go out with me? Given the competition, that's like "what's the best strategy for winning the lottery?" They have a *lot* of fans. If Asia Carrera or any of the major stars actually tried to read emails or letters they wouldn't have time in their lives to get through them. It's not that they're all "wimps," it's just that there are so *many*. That's probably a better explanation for Asia discouraging them from looking for a relationship.

2. If you tell a porn star you love her for what you've seen in her videos, will she think you expect her to act like that all the time? Or maybe join you in getting off on her videos? It seems to me that most women like to talk a lot. They really don't show that in the videos. :-) You didn't really say whether you were just fantasizing getting laid with the three porn stars or whether you were looking for a "relationship." If the latter, I hope you're not looking to rescue anybody.

These women are serious exhibitionists for the most part, I think, in the business because they like it. They *like* having a lot of fans. I suspect that's pretty hard for their husbands and boyfriends to handle. But it's my impression the people in "the business" pretty much just do their screwing around with each other. Actually, I believe there is at least one amateur porn star who's looking for people to be in a gangbang video with her in Portland, Maine at the end of this month. But you have to e-mail her and show up in Portland for a meeting on August 6th. See www.ginatalia.com.

Personally I can think of a number of porn stars to whom I might write letters of appreciation, like "Thank you for the hours of enjoyment, I think you're a wonderful woman, etc." I haven't actually done that yet, but I might. As I think about it, maybe we all ought to appreciate those who go the extra mile to actually join fan clubs, ask for autographs, etc. and show the stars we love them. Hopefully that inspires them, as it does other kinds of performers.

Las Vegas photographer Johnny Castano is furious with Evan Wright, former Hustler Entertainment editor. Johnny says Evan, now with IEG, kept for nine months 12 rolls of films that he took at last September's Exotic Dancer Convention in Las Vegas and cost him $1500. Castano says that the next time he sees Wright he's going to smack him around.

Evan Wright replies: "Johnny Castano is mad because IEG refused to buy photo sets of his butt ugly models. I don't enjoy beating up old people, but if Castano attacks I will defend myself."

Email: "Luke.....My buddies and I were really upset to hear that you were sucker punched by that Starr fellow. However you have to be brave and stick with what got you where you are (wherever that may be). Consider yourself on a par with your journalist brothers and sisters who have been killed or maimed covering wars or whatever. Do not back down. By the way when you converted to Judaism did you decide to only become a partial Jew? Why not go all the way with the black suit, hat and dreadlocks? I bet no one would dare touch you then. It would be like taking a punch at Moses."

Former porn stud Hank Rose writes: "Sorry to hear you got slugged at that LA porn show. Yours is a thankless job. Nobody outside of the biz really cares about the best and worst laid plans of the sleaze set. The anti -porn Christian establishment will embrace you, seeing that you're only reporting what they want to hear. So the only heat you'll take is from insiders. That cute poem I submitted was an effort at a much needed change of pace. I'm afraid you need to balance your style with some good stories. Porn people are human beings too you know. And not just us retired survivors.

"I lost the original. But if my memory serves me right, this does justice to it. Please don't lose it. I offer this in hopes that you will soon turn your image around and become the Walter Cronkite of porn instead of the Geraldo Rivera. You might wanna include some soft core pics with this. I'm sure your critics will get a kick out of it and look at you in a different light. Thanks. Let's stay in touch.

"Stiff"

By Hank Rose

If you can be glad and not sad that you grew up in a broken home.
Nor turn out bad or blow your wad when you're unloved or all alone.

If you can tame your violent raging hormones in a healthy erotic fashion
And love the one you're with, yet still lay for pay with passion

If you can lust and not let love be your aim.
If you can expose your naked soul without fear or shame.

If getting it up and in and out and off for you is a day's play.
If your vote for going to work in the real world is nay
If you can toil for social perverts and enjoy your job to the hilt
And live for them as an X-rated extrovert without moral guilt

If you can find your mojo all about you are losing their own.
If you can lose your ego when gravity fells your bone.
If you can worship sexual mass and yet still know the true meaning of love.
If you need more than one piece of ass but can never get enough.

If you can get it up on cue and live and die by the money shot.
If you can screw no matter who but remember the twat is bought.
If you can thrill the unflinching starlet with kinky pearl drops of facial cum.
Then whores are your world, each and every harlot.
And what's more...you'll be a stud, my scum!

Sunday, 10PM: KendraJXXX: just a quick hello to see if u are ok? Luzdedos1: hey baby Luzdedos1: how r u? off to the ranch soon? KendraJXXX: are u ok? everything good? Luzdedos1: sorry i missed your call, i ran in just after you hung up KendraJXXX: be at the ranch wed Luzdedos1: i'm ok, had a cold for 3 weeks Luzdedos1: how r u? KendraJXXX: i am good. KendraJXXX: what u been up to? Luzdedos1: what's new with u? how did u like the howard stern show? KendraJXXX: i had very much fun with him as always Luzdedos1: he like syou KendraJXXX: he is very kind to me KendraJXXX: how is your girlfriend? Luzdedos1: who do u mean? KendraJXXX: geez...how many are there LOL

KendraJXXX: i meant the one who came out to see u Luzdedos1: nothing... KendraJXXX: are you two dating? KendraJXXX: ummm.is that a yes or a no? KendraJXXX: ok.i think thats a "nevermind\" or a "none of your biz" KendraJXXX: LOL KendraJXXX: well i hope things work out for you KendraJXXX: :) Luzdedos1: :) Luzdedos1: yes, we are dating Luzdedos1: but she is so busy... KendraJXXX: That is wonderful news!lukey has a girlfriend.perhaps this means she will make you settle down, and not be such a meanie. KendraJXXX: uj love her already? KendraJXXX: why is she still dating? Luzdedos1: i don't know KendraJXXX: does she know what eveil lurks inthat brain of yours? KendraJXXX: :P Luzdedos1: :) yes, that's probably the problem KendraJXXX: LOL KendraJXXX: did u cum in her mouth? Luzdedos1: i don't think she's thrilled that i have anything to do with porno etc Luzdedos1: no, no sex or anything KendraJXXX: i could see why luke..mostnormal girls findit repulsive. Luzdedos1: to swallow? KendraJXXX: no.to have involvement in the porn industry Luzdedos1: oh, yes KendraJXXX: most normal girls swallow i think Luzdedos1: thanks for that clarifier

KendraJXXX: LOL.no prob Luzdedos1: :) Luzdedos1: what's goin on with u? KendraJXXX: just preparing for the ranch KendraJXXX: i had kindof decided i was done with porn KendraJXXX: and so it was meant to be my last trip KendraJXXX: but for some reason, i still feel that im not ready to be out Luzdedos1: hmm KendraJXXX: not sure why not KendraJXXX: thats it, really KendraJXXX: a lot of people are making a big deal of me going there KendraJXXX: but a lot of girls i know have been there Luzdedos1: well, it is a shift, for you KendraJXXX: a shift? how so? Luzdedos1: a barrier broken Luzdedos1: from porno to prostituion KendraJXXX: it was probably a mistake, i mean ...this is not me. Luzdedos1: oh well, leap into it, indulge big time, go all out, fully experience the mistake and then leave it behind KendraJXXX: thats what i have to do.i am someone who does not flake.so i made the obligation and i need to follow thru. Luzdedos1: do it with enthusiasm, go all out KendraJXXX: easy for you to say KendraJXXX: well kj alwaystakes care of kj. KendraJXXX: no luke..you can do what you wish Luzdedos1: thanks baby, I will edit it... ru still at same place? KendraJXXX: no. Luzdedos1: r u still with shelle? KendraJXXX: yes Luzdedos1: you guys getting along fine? KendraJXXX: wonderfully. Luzdedos1: i am burned out on porno, i am going to start writingon hollywood KendraJXXX: she has a b/f , she is in love KendraJXXX: not in the biz anymore Luzdedos1: oh great, is he a decent guy? KendraJXXX: oooh.i can help y a with the hollywood stuff...lol KendraJXXX: he is a great guy KendraJXXX: good to/for her KendraJXXX: i only wish i could fall in love KendraJXXX: but im in the wrong biz for that Luzdedos1: yes, LEAVE IT BABY KendraJXXX: when i find something i like better i will, but its been good to me so far Luzdedos1: ok cool KendraJXXX: and you???when are u leaving it? Luzdedos1: i'm transitioning KendraJXXX: well good luck. KendraJXXX: :) KendraJXXX: goodnight luke Luzdedos1: we're in the same boat Luzdedos1: nighty night KendraJXXX: yes we are KendraJXXX: :)

Also Sunday night: TWAndyP: hey luke. how goes? Luzdedos1: still have a cold Luzdedos1: i thought i was over it this past week, and exercised lots, and then relapsed into my cold again yesterday... TWAndyP: oops. :) TWAndyP: did you contact linda at all? Luzdedos1: i emailed linda and she told me to just endure it, TWAndyP: that's something that drives me crazy about homeopaths. they are the opposite of regular doctors, who will prescribe at the drop of a hat to fix every boo boo. homeopaths tell you to ride it out

Luzdedos1: i've had this cold for three weeks or so, so that is annoying Luzdedos1: i feel very much like my life is in transition...so I don't know to what point my health might improve to, what subjects i will write on, etc TWAndyP: actually, one thing homeopaths like to see is how you react to minor illnesses. if you handle a cold better than you used to, that's something they like to hear

TWAndyP: physical health aside, how are you upstairs? how's life off a half dozen meds and a shrink? Luzdedos1: i don't HAVE her, but still see her/talk TWAndyP: you're doing better than me. Luzdedos1: i think i am evening out, more calm, centered, i believe Luzdedos1: my dreams are about the present and future, rather than nightmare about the past TWAndyP: is anyone noticing the difference? TWAndyP: good! write that down and make sure to tell linda that Luzdedos1: I'm not sure, as i've been under the weather for 3 wks

TWAndyP: have you told anyone about your experience? Luzdedos1: yes many people, and have recommended linda to several Luzdedos1: i'm a tad shy though as i've had this damn cold for so long, and really sick yesterday

Luzdedos1: i bought a gun thrsd a 38 special TWAndyP: it wouldn't surprise me if linda has a few potential follow-up medicines in mind for you, but she will wait to see what develops TWAndyP: wow. you scared about the dutch fat boy? Luzdedos1: yes TWAndyP: what prompted this? Luzdedos1: i've been planning it for months, finally got around to doing it TWAndyP: no action prompted it, then? Luzdedos1: well, the death threat in the latest issue of Rolling Stone prompted me finally TWAndyP: oh? Luzdedos1: from eddie w, a big porner TWAndyP: you gonna press charges? if it was a legit threat, and it's in print... Luzdedos1: nah, he made it in cancun, mexico TWAndyP: so? Luzdedos1: no one would be willing to witness that he made it, maybe i should TWAndyP: it's in print. what about the reporter? and what did you do to him to get him so pissed off? Luzdedos1: the reporter heard it second hand, i've written nasty things about eddie w Luzdedos1: too extensive to list here

TWAndyP: you definitely need to find another line of work TWAndyP: question is, what will pay you that kinda dough? Luzdedos1: :) Luzdedos1: yep i will transition out TWAndyP: gonna give hollywood another try, or are you too tainted for them? :) Luzdedos1: yes, but i will write on hollywood, and if acting opens up, cool TWAndyP: you should. drudge started out that way before he became a political monster. as sycophantic as avn is for porn, ET, ent. weekly, and other entertainment rags are worse when it comes to hollywood. of course, if you do to hollywood what you did to porn, kiss an acting career goodbye. Luzdedos1: yes :) TWAndyP: still, it would be highly entertaining to see you turned loose on hollywood. you got off to a good start with marc star. :) Luzdedos1: yes, i think i will go to hollywood Luzdedos1: and kick some ass TWAndyP: oh this should be amusing. but will you stay with the same site, etc? Luzdedos1: dunno, should i start l-keford.net? TWAndyP: if you do, start with two newsgroups: alt.showbiz.gossip and alt.gossip.celebrities and see what goes on there. TWAndyP: see if they'll let you try out a hollywood transition Luzdedos1: Yes, i think hollywood gets overly sycophantic coverage, and I want to sink my teeth into the industry. Luzdedos1: should i keep it on l-keford.com or start a separate site? TWAndyP: hm... TWAndyP: l-keford.com is your brand. why not just do the news there, the way drudge did it? Luzdedos1: ok, i think i will stick with l-keford.com TWAndyP: you could do a daily update where you state what your plan is and how things will change in time. TWAndyP: but i would check with your host first, make sure it's kosher with them

Email: "hey did brad fill you in on all the Katya stuff ... you know that girl you posted a long time ago... shes coming out in like 2 weeks ... and your supposedly banging her before anyone right from the airport."