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Wednesday, September 1st, 1999

Gettingit.com

Luke recommends: www.gettingit.com’s captivating Q&A with MTV sexpert Diane Farr, whose ribald reminiscences include her "weirdest call-in question": “In terms of Springer-esque, I’d say it was the one where a guy called up saying that he’d masturbated into a soda bottle, and the bottle got stuck on his penis and left a purple ring around the shaft. The ring had been there for three months and he wanted to know if it was permanent. And actually it was -- he’d damaged the melanin.” The former Miss New York-turned-bar-manager-turned actress--in addition to teaching acting in a Los Angeles prison--also plays a recurring role on ‘The Drew Carey Show’, and is about to start on the new WB sci-fi show ‘Roswell’ plus a ‘psychological thriller’ flick with Michael Madsen called ‘Sacrifice". Meanwhile, why not give sylph-like sexpert Diane Farr a call? And tell her l-keford.com sent you.

Mila Shakes Up Flagstaff

From the Arizona Daily Sun:

KZGL radio and Flagstaff's newest adult video store are in the hot seat for a live remote broadcast Saturday night that Flagstaff police say got a little too down and dirty.

Police say they have notified the Federal Communications Commission about a live, remote broadcast from the Image adult video store, 620 E. Route 66, that included profane language and graphic sexual descriptions.

Other possible charges could include performing adult entertainment in an area that is not zoned for such use and, if money was accepted, prostitution or performing a sex act. A KZGL official has apologized, saying the broadcast, which featured two porn movie stars, got out of hand.

According to a police report, officers were dispatched to Image at 7:27 p.m. Saturday after an officer reportedly heard a live remote by morning show co-hosts "Rowdy" and "Sage." The officer who heard the radio broadcast reported that the woman on the radio identified herself as wearing a teddy and wanting people to come down to the store for free sex acts. The officer also said that she described over the radio additional sex acts "that could be performed on her in graphic detail."

One officer entered the establishment in plain clothes "in an investigative capacity to see what was going on," said Capt. Bob White. The officer had his picture taken with porn stars Katya Ponomareva, 28, of Plainsboro, N.J., and Myla Shegol, 29, of Studio City, Calif., also known as "Myla, Queen of the Nasty."

Shegol was wearing a white lace teddy with a white zip-up sweatshirt over it. During the picture-taking, the officer reported he was grabbed by Ponomareva in his male genitalia without permission.

When officers questioned the owners of the video store, they reportedly told them they had not seen anything going on except picture-taking and autographs. Ponomareva told officers she did not recall groping the officer and she did not know it was illegal. Shegol told officers her sexual references over the radio were a joke, adding that people came and paid $5 for a suggestive photo of her and to sign a registration form for free oral sex.

Shegol told police that patrons were told there would be a drawing in which the male picked would have to sign papers saying he would not be paid to be filmed while receiving the free service. She said the drawing was fixed and a subject had already been chosen. Shegol also told officers she did not know what could or could not be said over the radio. Live remotes are done via cellular phone.

Eden Rae Raped

Jeremy Steele says about his Sicilian ex-girlfriend Eden Rae: "She's a daughter of the Hells Angels. I've been with her bicycle gang fans. She hates niggers. She was raped by two black guys, she told me, when she was 13. They beat the f--- out of her. So I had some sympathy when she said nigger. Sometimes I say nigger but I am not a racist."

A source close to Eden Rae says that Jeremy is very bitter and lashing out because she refused to take his BS and left him. He ripped Eden and a number of other people off as well. He was arrested for domestic assault, but Eden did not press the charges. He has repeatedly called and left threatening messages on her voice mail (of which i have copies), and threatened to do this s--- to her to f--- with her career. What he doesn't know or tell you is that Eden no longer perform in hardcore scenes. She has made two films since january, and ONE was interracial so that shows what he knows about Eden, in fact, Tina Tyler referred her the job.. The rest of the 'info' he gave you is also FALSE. If you do not remove that crap from your site, Eden Rae will contact a lawyer to sue you.

Shooting With Kid Vegas

Kid Vegas woke Luke up with a 9AM phone call. Kid Vegas invited me to go shoot automatic weapons with him and his friends in the Mojave Desert on Labor Day. If Luke goes, will he come back? Will Kid Vegas pull a Mike Albo?

XYZ: I wouldn't accept an invite to meet Kid Vegal at Knotts Berry Farm, much less the desert , for chrissakes! Take heed, my friend.

Mike writes: Is this a joke? You've been busting this guy's balls for the past couple of weeks and now he wants you to go test automatic weapons with him? They probably asked you because they're bored with shooting cans off of logs and figured you would make a nice moving target (for a couple of seconds, anyway).

By and by, why bother paying attention to Andrea Dworkin? She's married (to a man), but she argues that "all intercourse is rape" (her words). Besides the obvious flaws in logic she consistently exhibits when discussing the male/female dichotomy (at least, as she defines it), doesn't it strike you as strange that she would sleep with the enemy, as it were?

Rabbi Stiffkugel on Thespian Virgins

Rabbi Stiffkugel opines on RAME: The Rabbi Stiffkugel has averted his gaze to Woodman's Private Castings 17. As always, this latest installment of the series features a lineup of mostly young eastern European girls, some of whom are quite striking.

The leggy 18 yr old Irina from Moscow, for example, even though the footage is 6 years old, is a wet "10". At first, the RS thought she was to be the virgin of the tape, but it turned out she had "normal" sex with 2 BF's, just no anal. Looked like a young Za Za Gabor after she got tarted up for a magazine shoot. Since the interviews take place in several languages at once, Pierre is at least enough of a mensch to add English subtitles for his gringo viewers. The RS does notice a suspicious pattern with the virgins. As we know, these tapes always feature an alleged defloration, usually at the end. In #17, it's a somewhat farm-grown Rumanian 18 yr old named Kathalan (Katherine). She's built like a brick s---house, no doubt from bucking all that hay. Her wholesome farmy appearance is also a refreshing contrast to all the platinum blondes, mascara, and lipstick seen elsewhere.

The suspicion of staging comes from the fact that the "virgin" segments all run the same: (1) The girl comes in, naively says she wants to do some modeling. (2) Pierre shows her one of his porno mags, the girl gasps, says no way, and bolts for the door. (3) Usually with the aid of his female translator, the girl is lassoed and sweet-talked into staying just a bit longer to chat. (4) There is then an extended cat-and-mouse seduction in which the girl sheepishly reveals that her initial fright was due to never having had sex. (4) Pierre talks her out of her clothes. Like many of the others, Kathalan has a neatly trimmed bush that suggests something more than a life wearing coveralls and flannel pajamas. Pierre then puts her at ease by by going down on her. She digs it. (This alone is suspicious, as many truly inexperienced girls are more squeamish about this than getting plugged.) (5) The final act comes, in which the girl screams louder than any of the other female performers on the tape. After analing her at the top of her lungs, Pierre than sticks it in her mouth and tries to make her swallow. (6) The girl goes back to disgust mode and runs out of the room going "Bluccchh!" Pierre falls back on the bed and says the equivalent of "Oh, what the hell" in French. End of tape.

Personally, the R S thinks part 6, the A2M throat ramming and hasty exit bit could be dispensed with. I mean we want these "virgins" to have a pleasant memory of their "first" experience so they will come back for more, hopefully with us. As it is, these scenes are just more evidence theyare staged, as someone would probably have charged rape by now if they weren't. In any event this installment is as good as any in the series, and gets an 8 ½ . 9 ½ if Kathalan had smiled lewdly at the end and said "when can I have some more cock?" instead of choking.

Fantastic Shutting Luke's Mouth?

WebSpy writes: I think your column is very interesting, especially of late with your reports of Metro stock news (is this real or memorex?) and you penchant for digging behind the scenes and revealing the sloppy management in many of the top adult industry organizations. I guess what really puzzles me though is your reluctance to bite the hand that feeds? Who the hell is Fantastic ? Are they so squeaky clean you have nothing to comment on? Or do they threaten to erase you if you do? Are they in fact smarter than the rest? Tieing you up and therefore shutting your mouth?

I have been looking into your sponsors and come up with a few interesting tidbits of information. 1) They have offices in Toronto Canada 2) Incorporated in the BVI - Tortola actually 3) My calls to them proved futile - tight with information - but it looks like Vasiloff runs things (secretary alluded to the fact that he is getting other offers). I'm still digging... I have asked for a media kit which may shed some light in other areas and give me a clearer path to follow.

I notice you won't bite the hand that feeds huh? Just as I thought. Talked with someone named Mike Chandler at fantastic - he is supposed to be a talent agent or something. Wouldn't go on record but alluded to fact that the company might be going public. In the middle of all this president Vasiloss is weighing other offers for his services? Could tie in with your other postings? So what do you know Luke? What can you do to fill in the gaps here?

Luke: "I hear that Fantastic is affiliated with the Calamari Family...and that Vasiloff prances around the office like a fairy, wearing pink chiffon nighties and black high heels."

AVN Backs Homosexuality

Colin's Sleazy Gay Friends

Metro publicist Susan Yannetti writes : "Colin Malone, host of Colin's Sleazy Friends, is throwing a party Tuesday, August 31, at The Garage in Hollywood to celebrate the release of his new home video, "The Best of Colin's Sleazy Friends."

"Colin will tape an episode of Colin's Sleazy Friends to air in the next few weeks. By the way, Colin was suspended from TCI after the pot smoking incident with the Kottonmouth Kings (the one David Christopher mentioned and you wrote about it on August 11 or 12), but he has since been reinstated."

A source from the party says: "It was f---ing the douchiest party I've ever been to in my life. When these people have these parties, they call up porno chicks and tell them to come. And they call every guy they know and tell them that it will be packed with porno girls. There were four porno girls. There were six or seven strippers till midnight. They had Channel 11 News there and AVN... I thought it was gay.

"Director James DiGiorgio went around asking the guys, are you gay? It was f---ing unbelievable. Kendra Jade was getting interviewed by Colin and Jim kept yelling, are you plugging this and that... And Colin got mad, cut the cameras and walked away. It was f---ing hilarious.

"I don't go to these things for that reason. They are always full of guys."

Tits and Acid

Spin mag’s upcoming Woodstock expose, dated 10-99, thrusts journalism’s objectifying digit into the sphincter of today’s restless youth:

“...Tibetan monks chanted, and...MC Brother Wease yelled, “Show us your titties!” James Brown requested 30 seconds of silence for JFK, Jr. He got ten...”

“...hundreds of people began to strip down in the oppressive heat. Public displays of affection quickly gave way to public displays of copulation.... At least 100 kids dove into a shallow mud puddle near the row of Porto-Sans....largely unaware that they were slathering themselves in human waste....

“[In the mosh pit] a crowd-surfing woman [got] swallowed up by the pit; when she reemerged, two men had clamped her arms to her sides...[one of the men] raped her, standing, from behind.... By now, a tacit rule had been established: If you were a girl, and you were topless, you were going to get groped...and [if] you weren’t topless, you were going to get yelled at for not being topless....

“There were a bunch of naked dudes, and girls were just taking turns riding them....There were girls having oral sex with one another in the DJ booth. We had a topless girl dance, and people were pouring orange juice on her and she was licking her titties.

"....[Men] would block women’s paths, swarming around them like ants. Some women would laugh and deliver the goods... One woman charged men $20...to watch as she inserted the rolled bill in her vagina.

"....[Another woman] said, “One guy put his hand inside my anus. Another guy was yelling ‘Rip her apart!’....

"....Tops were torn away like tissue paper; girls fought valiantly to keep their pants on as boys tugged them down around their knees....one woman later reported to police that she had been raped, then had [crowd-]surfed out.... [Observed one witness:] "It looked like f---ing “Lord of the Flies”[!].....” That, or an average day on the l-keford.com slimebeat....

LA Times on Porno

Today's LA Times front page discusses the porn industry:

While Hollywood is fretting about a downturn in production and the flight of jobs to cheaper markets such as Canada and Australia, a certain niche of the entertainment world is quietly flourishing: porn.

This summer, grips, gaffers and best boys of mainstream movie-making are marching down Hollywood Boulevard in an effort to save their jobs. But in the San Fernando Valley, where the bulk of the world's adult films are made, stagehands willing to stretch a boom over a couple in bed have zero problem finding work.

It's not an industry that civic leaders embrace, and many people find pornography morally offensive. But the Valley's adult film business plays an increasingly large role in the region's economy and is having its most prosperous year ever, indicators show.

While feature-film shooting in Los Angeles County has decreased 13% this year, adult movie production is up 25% and rising, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.

Luke found several questionable claims in the LA Times story: That average male performers make $500 a scene ($200 is more like it), that there are 1600 working porn stars (100 is more like it).

"An evolving trend among top producers is more couple-friendly porn, graced with plot, shot on 16mm film and often costing more than $200,000 to make." Luke: Baloney.

Mike Albo writes : "Gene: According to an FBI spokesperson in today's front-page porn story in the L.A. Times, "there is little indication today that porn is controlled by organized crime…" Gee, and a certain internet loser with no sources (who, incidentally takes exception to the article-probably because he wasn't quoted) keeps telling us the opposite. I'm confused. Should I believe a well-respected newspaper that checks its facts or some guy with a website who doesn't. Please advise."

Nici Sterling Goes To The Dogs?

Ramsey writes on the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME): It seems that the real Luke F-rd is back. Nici Sterling asked him not to put this bestiality story on his site but he did, see that's the Luke who we all love. Great story BTW, i never thought Nici would go the "Chessie Moore-way". Great to have you back Luke.

Atomic replies: Before I get into this it should be pointed out that Mr. Ford himself, in regards to the E-Mails in question, states that: |> The emails do not seem to me to be written in her style or spelling, which means that they are probably either fake o r written by someone else on her behalf.

Why in the hell he's chosen to publish them I don't know. More on that subject towards the end of my post.

I've checked out the purported Nici Sterling E-Mails. I have my doubts as to their authenticity. The tone of the letters is like something out of alt.sex.stories: maximum freak and perversion, and minimum business and fiscal. For instance, a sample of one letter supposedly sent by Ms. Sterling:

|> When we shoot horse stuff it will be no condom full insertion hardcore f---ing till the horse cums and cums into my w hore cunt, then I will take a second load into my mouth, and if we can do it stick that horse coc k up my ass......Which I think is possible, if we open my ass out with a baseball bat first.

The entire series of documents revolves around Ms. Sterling's supposed desire to fulfill rape fantasies, willingness to get pregnant specifically for the purpose of shooting prego-porn, and having sex with anything that walks on four legs, all in front of the camera. Pissing and fisting are thrown in as well. I would expect that a genuine set of documents negotiating the details of such scenes would be much more along the lines of: "How much will you pay me for such-and-such?" without the pretense of fantasy-fulfillment.

The bottom line: Ms. Sterling is very talented and a damn fine looking woman. I'm sure that she can make plenty of money in mainstream porn without having to resort to the Euro-Extreme option. Chessie Moore's (mainstream porno actress that's done bestiallity) always been a favorite of mine but, let's face it, she's a big girl and, as such, has a limited ability to earn a living in mainstream porn. I'm sure that fact played a significant role in her decision to do bestiallity. I think it's highly unlikely that Ms. Sterling would have to resort to the same sort of porn to earn a living.

I've concluded that the e-mails are a hoax, merely the product of some fan's libido. Now, some of you will say "The E-Mails are too detailed, who would take the time to write something so intricate, so perverse and obsessive?" For an answer to this I suggest a visit to alt.sex.stories. Look through all of the stories in the NG and I guarantee you'll find plenty that will turn your stomach and/or scare the s--- out of you. After a romp through a.s.s. you won't have any difficulty believing someone capable of creating such documents.

The ultimate question: should Luke F-rd have placed the E-Mails on his site? Based on the information that Mr. Ford provides in his preface, I'd say most definitely not. Without some corroboration the E-Mails are worthless as a source of news. They contain no informative value whatsoever. However, once an issue like this pops up it doesn't disappear. The rumor of Ms. Sterling having sex with animals will stick with her from now til the day she dies: she'll never get out from under it. Living with a baseless reputation of that sort must be agonizing.

Mr. Ford should be aware that he's published E-documents that he admits are very likely fraudulent, and yet those documents are potentially extremely damaging to Ms. Sterling's reputation. It's information that's of no value whatsoever, and yet very harmful. What did he hope to gain? Controversy? Notoriety? I wonder if Mr. Ford sees himself as the Matt Drudge of porn? Well, Mr. Ford, even Drudge has his sources and, if he finds a rumor likely to be just that, a rumor, then he won't publish it. Sydney Bloomenthall helped to teach him that lesson. I can only hope that there's a Sydney Bloomenthal in your future and the sooner, the better. Ms. Sterling has my sympathies.

Luke: Ms. Sterling also has my sympathies but that is not going to stop me from publishing emails that have been circulating around the porn industry and talked about for two years. I too think they are fake. And I don't give a f--- if they are. I find rumors and hoaxes frequently more interesting than hard porn news. Rumors, gossip, hoaxes etc give us insight into the porno psyche. It's a gutter industry that creates gutter gossip.

Ramsey: I agree with you Luke, on both cases. I mean you also thought that the Tom Byron-picture was fake but that's ok, the truth will come out soon. But the big question is if the person isn't Nici than who is it? Bowen? if so why? what does he have against Nici? Oscar Wilde? Again why?

DSL1999: Does Mr. Ford hold himself out to be a journalist? If so, then he has a professional [not to mention moral] responsibility of not publishing rumours and hoaxes under the guise of entertainment. That is a basic tenet of journalism.

Atomic: Allow me to put this in perspective. Someone begins the rumor that you're a child molester by creating falsified documents. An acquaintance of yours gets wind of the rumors and proceeds to give copies of the documents in question to all of your neighbors, co-workers, friends, and family.

The acquaintance admits that the documents MIGHT be false, but claims that they're interesting and entertaining and, as such, deserve publication, despite the damage it might do to your reputation. It doesn't take an expert in human behavior to understand what will happen: the rumor that you are in fact a child molester will persist and follow you wherever you go, and will be an issue for the rest of your life.

Of course, you can always point to the fact that your acquaintance admitted that the rumors might be untrue. The genie's out of the bottle: your irresponsibility has damaged someone's reputation and impacted their quality of life for no other reason than to entertain (although I can't imagine who would find those e-mails entertaining).

I would have wholeheartedly supported the publication of such documents if there had been corroborating evidence as to their validity. However, given the facts in this case, their publication is scurrilous, and their publisher beneath contempt.

Ultradamno replies on RAME to Ramsey: >that's the Luke who we all love.

Excuse me, but did something happen to you as a child which resulted in your becoming incapable of speaking for yourself and yourself alone?

>Great story BTW, i never thought Nici >would go the "Chessie Moore-way".

For good reason, evidently, seeing as she still hasn't.

>Great to have you back Luke.

Yeah, looking forward to the next endless, meandering transcript of him shooting the s--- with NJG. Riveting work he's doing over there, to say the least. And it doesn't get any less than this.

Andrea Dworkin Writes

I'm here to say that the war against women is a real war. It's real. There's nothing abstract about it. It's not ideological, although it includes ideology. And people fight on the ground of ideas, yes. But this is a war in which his fist is in your face. And that's real. And that's true. And freedom means that that doesn't happen. You see, we walk around saying it didn't happen today or it hasn't happened yet. Or I've been lucky for the last three months. Or, oh I found a good one now. Nice one, he won't hurt me too much. He may insult me a lot, but he won't hurt me. And maybe it's true and maybe it isn't. But we have to find out how to stop men from hurting women, at all. Under any circumstances.

The brilliance of objectification as a strategy of dominance is that it gets the woman to take the initiative in her own degradation (having less freedom is degrading). The woman herself takes one kind of responsibility absolutely and thus commits herself to her own continuing inferiority: she polices her own body; she internalizes the demands of the dominant class and, in order to be f---ed, she constructs her life around meeting those demands. It is the best system of colonialization on earth: she takes on the burden, the responsibility, of her own submission, her own objectification. In some systems in which turning the female into an object for sex requires actual terrorism and maiming -- for instance, footbinding or removing the clitoris -- the mother does it, having had it done to her by her mother.

What men need done to women so that men can have intercourse with women is done to women so that men will have intercourse; no matter what the human cost; and it is a gross indignity to suggest that when her collaboration is complete -- unselfconscious because there is no self and no consciousness left -- she is free to have freedom in intercourse. When those who dominate you get you to take the initiative in your own human destruction, you have lost more than any oppressed peopIe yet has ever gotten back. Whatever intercourse is, it is not freedom; and if it cannot exist without objectification, it never will be. Instead occupied women will be collaborators, more base in their collaboration than other collaborators have ever been: experiencing pleasure in their own inferiority; calling intercourse freedom. It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

MegaMe writes: First...who the hell is Andrea Dworkin? And what the hell is her point? That has got to some of the most convoluted, unintelligible crap I've read in a long while.

This stuff smacks of a woman who's made some bad choices in her life, or has never been laid...not sure which. Is she really trying to say that women have no choice in who they decide to be with? If someone beats you...get the hell away...have some self-respect! If she is only talking about women in the sex industry...maybe she has a point, but please don't extrapolate that out to include the entirety of womenkind. The vast majority of women, in this country anyway, have self respect, and find perfectly good relationships with men that don't abuse them. And, have really good and satisfying sex lives.

This industry has always amused and amazed me in the way it attracts the lowest common denominator in those who choose to participate. In my opinion most of the women who get into the porn business...and many who get into the sideline businesses like exotic dancing...tend to do so for one of the following reasons.

They're stupid and don't have too many other options to make a decent living. They're lazy and don't want to put the effort into education and making a successful career in another type of business. Or, they're so f---ed up in the head from abuse or terrible past experiences that this is the only way they think they can succeed. If this last reason is what Andrea is discussing, then I agree to a point. But, don't make the mistake of generalizing this to include the entire female or male population of the planet. That's ridiculous!

Let's face it, it is not a natural tendency for an 18 or 19 year old woman to take a 10 inch dick up her ass for money and fame. There has to be more to it. Most of these women have been objectified since they sprouted breasts. Everyone gave them a free pass because they were either attractive, put out, or both. They learned early on to take advantage of their bodies or good looks to get by. Now they're 18, and they have some choices to make. Hmmm....let's see. I can take off my clothes and f--- somebody and make some decent cash, or I can go to school, struggle to get by and then take a job making $25,000 a year and work like a dog for a few years and maybe I'll get somewhere.

I am not saying that there aren't any intelligent, educated and surprisingly well-rounded women, and men in this business. There are numerous examples of this. I've known many women who used the opportunity to dance or perform in the adult industry for no other reason than to allow them to get their education and move on. But, most of the women get into it for the money. It's a relatively easy way to make some good money, and perhaps even make some big money and set yourself up for a long time to come. But it has to warp you if you weren't warped at the start.

I just gotta say that I have a real problem with the nazi feminist attitudes that denounce mankind as the worst thing to happen to women since their first menstrual cycle. Please don't come out and say that my girlfriend is somehow under my control, and that I would beat her if I could...ain't gonna happen. Does it happen? Unfortunately all too often. But that doesn't mean that all men beat women. The ones who do need to be beaten themselves, but you're talking about a minority here.

Now if Andrea means to fix all the problems of the world as it relates to the treatment of women...go for it. I think it's appalling what happens to women in many countries around the world. And, even here in the U.S. by some scumbags, but, again...choose your words carefully and don't lump me in with that crap.

To suggest that there is some type of organized war against women initiated and controlled by men is absolutely ludicrous. It may manifest itself in some industries or in some communities, but it isn't the majority. Andrea, get yourself laid, make a mess on the bed, sleep in the wet spot once in your life and get over it.

Jim Lammers writes: Well, it's obvious that "MegaMe" didn't follow porn in the 80s. Andread Dworkin is a famous writer, political activist, anti-porn crusader, and man-hater.

Andrea Dworkin spearheaded the movement to make pornography illegal in the 80s. Along with her co-conspirator lawyer Catherine McKinnon, they sought to make it possible to collect damages from pornography through lawsuits. In other words, anyone ever raped, harassed, objectified in any way, would collect all the cash they felt entitled to from Metro or Extreme or Max Hardcore by suing them in court.

In the Reagan era, these people made massive progress towards their goal with help from Ed Meese and Pat Robertson and Charles Keating. Under Clinton, things have kind of stopped for them, which is a big part of why they hate Clinton so much.

Another tidbit from their manifesto was that in any sex encounter, the man should ask permission for each and every step taken. "May I now touch your leg?"... "May I kiss your neck" etc. Otherwise it's rape.

Canada bought much of this hoo-ha, and as a result they have a really wierd legal sex situation there where there's really tight controls on visual depictions of sex in any film or video, but the hands-on sex industry (like strip clubs) is completely wide open (no pun intended)... Toronto and Montreal have the hugest, most unrestricted sex clubs in the Americas. I wonder if Dworkin's happy about that outcome.

To me, the overt prostitution of the strip clubs is much more oriented to wholesale sexual exploitation of women than the performance of sex on film by a few. They were also effective in the US in Cincinnati which is still to this day the most anti-sex city in the US (witness the recent trials there). Pity the poor masturbator in Ohio! He'll have to make the whole sex fantasy up in his head. I wonder if we'll see more creativity from the people there as a result? Not anymore, not with the internet available.

Dworkin herself has little use for men - she's a lesbian. So I doubt she'll be "sleeping in the wet spot" anytime soon, MegaMe. She really believes all this stuff! There are jerk-off websites about "female supremacy" and "Gynarchy" for male submissives, but this woman is the real thing. I don't know where we'd be in her ideal universe, but I bet only the lucky ones would keep their testicles. There was a similar mentally disturbed person who shot Andy Worhol.

But Dworkin has had a lot more luck with getting political action and large groups of people to support her cause. I consider myself a feminist and I really, really like women and want them to get a fair shake in all arenas. But Dworkin goes so far that it's impossible to even talk. To her, there is no male/female sex that is not objectification, control and debasement. Always by the man and to the woman, no matter the situation.

In her books (she has written many - see Amazon.com) she of course exempts her own B&D games with her female lovers - she says they can never be objectified by her sex acts because the situation is two women who enter the bed as equals. Right, whatever Andrea - you get to have all the fun assf---ing your tied-up girlfriend with your strapon, and it's politically perfectly correct. Meanwhile the only way you'll approve of myself having sex is if I masturbate in a closet. I'm so glad the 80s are over. In the US, sex and pornography have never been better than now. And perhaps not coincidentally, women have never had more power, freedom and access to all the things they want.

Nashville Porno

DCup writes: Luke, I have never visited your site before and noticed an article about the adult biz in Nashville. I also noticed you are very into the adult industry overall and like information on the subject.

I am a dancer in a Nashville club who once worked for all of Nashville's 7 strip clubs (Deja Vu, Club Platinum, Ken's Gold Club, Regina's House of Dolls, Brass Stables, Showtime and 701 Club). The people in the news article are minors in the showbar industry- Al Woods is a wannabe politician who owns a swinger's club and a bookstore.

The people I am involved with (one man in particular) own most of these businesses. Six years ago, a local Italian family (Vince Formosa) and a local Jewish club owner (Paul Eichel) who are constantly in the news here opened Platinum, bringing in a young italian kid (also a former porn performer) to set up the bar.

After the first year Paul and Vince left under strange circumstances and the Italian kid by the name of Anthony Grieco took over running the operation, with his former employers from another city he worked in. He told stories of the porn distribution world and his past life and why he doesn't do drugs or alcohol and how he lost his daughter to his gangster father in law. Many of us Nashville folks didn't know whether to believe him or not until movies he was in started showing up, and well known porn star Tony Montanna came in one day and they talked about his father and how he financed a movie in 1985 and he met Montana as a teenager.

All the feature dancers knew stories he told and then a guy named James started DJing at Showtime and they talked about his former wife who turned out to be cameo. James Woodward - formerly known as Syd Morrison.

It was then I started realizing my friend was more than he seemed. Later he brought in a family of Italians with a friend named Ron Rheem and his son Robert - who I later found out by accident their names were Ron and Roberto Rocca. They have all moved to Nashville and their partners now own three of the seven clubs in Nashville.

I am very close to Anthony and sit in the office when a lot of events are going on and conversations are happening and just wondered if you maybe knew anything about who mr. grieco really is. I have seen an old business licence that says Antoni Vincente Grecca-Gagliano, with his matching social security number. I am close to this man and still cannot find out what name he is credited with in videos, even though i have "accidently" seen some. He seems to be running away from the old life while still staying in the adult bar business.

He is a very nice man who helps everyone but always seems kind of sad, always having problems with women, etc. I also remember he originally opened up the club with another friend named Bill Vaughn who had a wife who was a porn star named Stacy Vaughn. She did movies with Tiffany Towers and other big bust stars. Bill is a DJ at Deja Vu in vegas now. I actually wrote you this e-mail to see if you could help me because I am sort of involved with this man and am not too sure what is bothering him and I am worried. You seem to know a lot about the porn business and I would like to be able to really know who I am involved with.

Luke Tackles Lesbians

Luke's taken on the Is She Gay Page, suggesting the lesbians there experience some real loving.

Luke writes: "I've been reading this page thanks to NJG's recommendation. Now I like the idea of chicks kissing but you guys take it way too far. I think you should check out l-keford.com and get the real scoop on the big sin of homosexuality. I think if you girls got some real lovin' from a real man like me, it would cure you of your queerness."

Luke's story on the lesbian pairing of Vanessa Vadim and Rory Kennedy drew this reaction:

Saffy writes: "I have seen pictures of Vanessa Vadim since she was a little girl, and she always pinged my gaydar. Amy Carter went to Brown at the same time, I always got that lesbian vibe from her too! Was Amy a "lug" also."

NJG: "I know where you got it, lmao!!! I know this guy PERSONALLY, it's all my fault he's hanging around and stealing too. Sorry to everyone. How did you surf over to his site?

"We've talked about it before. I know HIM WELL, remember I was f---ed up a few weeks ago, the Drama??? You like his site?

NT: Uncommon way of writing, to say the least. But even then, it's better than most puff pieces put out by most other sites of this kind. I swear, if i see one more porn star tell us how bisexual she is, i'll.......probably go to her site to check her out! AAH!

NJG: Ok, this is my humble opinion of porn stars and sexuality and I've only gleaned this from his site, I don't know any IRL, except I've known a few sex workers in my time. I think a lot of them are probably dykes, you ought to see the ugly guys those girls hook up with. Almost every one of those girls, and most have a pimp-daddy, he is usually the most god awful looking sorry thing you have ever seen. I really think it's almost the same as what HotLips said about models. A lot of men are commenting that they think so too on luke's site.

HotLips: do yourself a favor and stay faaaar away from Luke F! There's something very un-healthy about that guy!

NJG: Hotlips, you know him?? I agree, I'm not as strung out as I was. I've cried a river of tears already over him, but I feel my addiction to him is getting less.

Lesbo Munchkin Shocker!

From Luke F-rd Wire Services, Ltd:

“Girls beware!” warns Dr. Jack Hutslar, author of the cult classic “Munchkin Tennis.”

“Mothers of young athletes want to know what's going on out there on the tennis circuit with their children--and what’s going on is homosexuality!

“I’ve heard numerous stories from coaches and others about female coaches and trainers who are lesbian, and the possibility is that a female homosexual coach might also be trying to recruit some of her players into the homosexual lifestyle.

“You’re asking the older professionals to take care of the younger ones--when they often can’t take care of themselves.

“Simply put, there are people out there that you don’t want your kids left alone with.

“If a kid is introduced to a homosexual experience, it affects them,” murmured Dr.Hutslar, “Some may find it completely repulsive and jump off a bridges. On the other other hand....”

Anyone for munchkin-cam.com?

UK Porno Update

Randle writes: I'm in the UK and as you know, pornography is still not legal here (although there are several satellite TV channels which beam the stuff in during the night and there's a black market in n'th generation copies of videos). There's also virtually a 'cottage industry' with people like 'Ben Dover' producing some pretty crap stuff.

Recently there have been a couple of documentaries on TV about the porn 'industry' in the States which, like your regular columns, have been very enlightening. It was particularly funny in one of them to watch the incredulous reaction of a professional BBC film crew who were invited to a a 'shoot' featuring. I think, Randy Spears. Even Ruby Wax (that's her real name) who hosted the programme was shaking her head in disbelief. They all left before the 'scene' was completed.

A couple of things surprised me:- Firstly, I didn't realise just how big the industry was in the States and was amazed to learn that it's now turning over probably more than the 'main stream' film industry. Clearly there's a lot of money being made and probably a very small percentage goes back to the 'actors' (being politically correct that includes actresses also).

That leads to my second surprise:- After watching several 'leading figures' in the industry being interviewed I was surprised at just how incredibly stupid a lot of them were. A lot of performers were talking about condoms and how they didn't like them because they earned more by not using them. When they were asked about AIDS/HIV most of them seemed totally unphased. One male performer said he'd only use them in gay movies. This was despite something like seven performers being diagnosed positive in the last year. The reaction of most of those interviewed was that contracting AIDS would be a 'bad thing' because they wouldn't be able to work any more!

Similarly most of the girls seemed to imply that they were only in the business due to 'abuse' earlier in their lives but then turned around and stated that their families were fully supportive of their chosen career! Very few appeared to be reasonably articulate. Virtually all of them were only in it for the money as I suspect most of them are unemployable elsewhere and certainly couldn't make it as actors in the mainstream movie business.

There are perhaps a few exceptions and perhaps you could either confirm or refute my opinions here? I've seen a few movies featuring Jeanna Fine and she seems to be able to genuinely act rather say two lines before the camera pans elsewhere. In other respects she seems to be a little mixed up but I remember her in a scene (can't remember the movie) where she was supposed to be comtemplating suicide and it was bloody well acted. You could almost sense the emotion. It was so rare to see acting like that that it stuck in my mind. Is she as good as I think? If you happen to be on speaking terms to her perhaps you'd kindly pass on my compliments.

The other is Victoria Paris who people tell me is quite smart as well as being a genuinely nice person. She seems to have all but quit the business and I hear she is heavily into triathlons, surfing and developing a 'dance' act. As I said earlier, there is some serious money being made and most of it isn't going to the performers. No doubt because of the nature of the business a lot of it is going to some pretty disreputable organisations.....

I was, at one stage, a serious semi-pro photographer and I know a few British models who have 'moved on' into the industry like Niki Norman a.k.a Sterling, and Taylor Wayne (who was actually well into the photography and make up side of modelling as well). They are two entirely different characters, as you may well know. I occasionally hear from Taylor who decries the 'puritan' attitude in the UK, but then she knows which side her bread is buttered.

Swedish Censorship Laws

Lattara writes on RAME: I'm not so sure about the overwhelming liberality of Swedish censorship laws. Several Swedish posters have posted to RAME complaining about scenes being cut from porn movies by the Swedish censorship authority as they were adjudged violent or demeaning. In addition, Swedish liberalism on sex is matched by illiberalism where (fictional) film violence is concerned. For example, John Woo's excellent (and very violent) Hard Boiled, which is freely available on video in the UK (admittedly with 5 seconds cut), and the Belgian black comedy Man Bites Dog, also freely available and uncut in the UK, were both banned in Sweden. Visit:- http://uk.imdb.com/List?certificates=Sweden%3A(Banned)

to see a list of 81 films that have, at some point, been banned in Sweden. Note the presence of Andrew Blake's bondage flick 'Captured Beauty' (http://uk.imdb.com/Details?0115827). Be confused as to why in 1974, when Sweden was at the height of its international fame as a centre of pornography, they felt that knockabout cop comedy 'Freebie and the Bean' (Alan Arkin and James Caan) presented a threat to society and banned it. (Apparently it is now available). In the end, the fact that Sweden has a board which pre-censors films is in itself illiberal.

Luke Gets Mail

Bell writes Luke: How do you reconcile Judaism's obviously strict position with regards to morality and your life in the porn industry (whether as an exposer of it or not, because certainly you're "exposed" to it) I'm sure you're often asked this question but I'd love to know what you have to say about it. And yes, I was born Jewish. That is my Dad is Jewish, and so after a stint with the SDA's my dad took his family on a "Jewish tour" for a few years. It was these years of exposure to Judaism that made me realize what a secular religion it is in a way. But I know that couldn't possibly be the answer for you because it seems to me a person in your position would tend to convert to Judaims for "spiritual" that is "Old Testament inspired" reasons. Thus the paradox. What's the deal, Luke.

Gary writes about Sasha Gabor's imprisonment for DUI: "While I feel for Sasha and his addiction to alcohol, we all have choices in this life. Just because we drink, it doesn't mean we have to drive. Someone who has 8 or 9 DUI's in 2 states is, obviously, not learning a lesson. He is a danger to me, my family, my friends, and other people. I live in the West Valley. I frequently travel Topanga Canyon, Topanga Canyon Blvd., Ventura Blvd. and the Ventura Freeway. Thank God I've never run into this nut! (or he's never run into me)."

Randy Kaplan writes Gene Ross: "If Lynne 'I'm not crazy, that's just a flashlight' L-patin thinks that she 'owns' Dave Hardman's domain names, perhaps she could exrercise her Efflexor-fueled imagination, create a cyber version of everyone's favorite blue-collar stud on the site, and then limit her armed forays to cyberstalking her own creation."

Lynne L-patin replies: Who is Randy Kaplan, and why would he presume to know what I do and do not own? Have Panuccio/Network Solutions research who paid for David's sites, if this seems unbelievable. They'll have my VISA card on record.

I've postponed finishing David's movie -- too many bad omens. When my make-up artist ended up in the emergency room this morning with mega strep throat, I said, "Whoa. That's enough."

By the way, I will be doing three upcoming projects with Dr. Susan Block's organization. (Her husband, Max, was one of my mentors back in the '70's at the L.A. STAR.) On September 11th, I'll be a guest. I'm also preparing to participate in the upcoming Foot Fetish salon and am putting together a video installation for the Apocalyptic Porn event. I am actively soliciting any and all videotaped pornography from anyone who thinks they have something special to contribute to the next millenium. Tapes can be sent care of my business partner, F. Concannon, Casino Productions, 4525 Sherman Oaks Avenue, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, to my attention.

Fred writes: Do you think that Eden Rae is full of BS with her degrees, or is Jeremy Steel just a jilted husband? I suspect she is full of BS. I bet that if you posted Steel's comments on RAME, you'd get a reply--she reads the RAME stuff.

Do you think Asia's stories are legitimate? [LF: Yes.] I bet they are, but I must confess, I'm not the greatest person in the world for sifting truth from bulls---. I just don't think she has it in her to put good lies together.

Next question-- Is Astral Ocean a porno video company? [Yes.]

Lastly, some time ago, you alluded to Dennis Prager's column in the Wall Street Journal. If I recall correctly, the column pertained to certain ongoing objections to things like prayer in the public schools, and the growing influence of right wing Christianity in politics by liberal Jews. Prager opined that Jewish people should not object to such things--that type of Christian piety is what separates American non-bigot Christians from European bigoted Christians. Mr. Prager is wrong. Freedom of religeon in America is a home-grown ideological value, which finds its expression in the First Amendment and throughout public life. It finds its origins in the fact that many of the folks who came to this country during the 17th and 18th century were persecuted (Baptists, Quakers, Catholics, Puritans, etc.) and essentially feared everyone else. It has nothing to do with Christianity in America being a different breed of Christianity than anywhere else. Rather, it is a national American ideology that was inculcated into America for historical reasons. It also exists in America because to sect commands a majority. The largest religeous sect in America is Roman Catholicism, and they are nowhere near a majority. Every sect realizes that it is a minority, and therefore recognizes its own interest in religeous pluralism.

To the extent that other countries show religeous tolerance, that is the result of American ideology spreading across the globe. In 1776, the vast majority of the world was controlled by kings/emporers, and religeous freedom in the western world was rare indeed. Over the past two centures, American ideology has grown to hold sway over the most of the world, including its values of democracy and religous freedom. Those are ideological values which originated here. Few or none of America's religeons originated in America. America's Christian sects originated in Europe (with a few exceptions such as the Mormons). America's ideology concerning freedom of religeon originated here. That ideology has origins that have nothing to do with the religeons themselves.

Sha writes: Here at UCLA I'm still trying to put together a major, possibly a double even, Business Economics and Sociology with a minor (called specialization) in computing. I'm getting a different place here in Westwood pretty soon, it's a got a view of the entire campus and a lot of Westwood, it's up high on Landfair off of Gayley.

Have you heard about any of these (supposedly) government funded programs where you get paid to have sex? I've heard different stuff about it, and this company wants people to order their catalog listing the programs and the phone numbers. It's site is www.safesexgetpaid.com. Check it out if you can and let me know if you hear anything about it, whether it's BS or legit.

Luke: I shelled out $20 once. They are ripoffs. Just sperm donor programs.

Nick Adams writes on RAME sentiments identical to Luke's: I like to write. I like the idea that I'm good enough at it that people will pay me to write. But I don't do it for the money. If I didn't need the money, I'd still get up in the morning and write because I'm an egomaniacal bastard who craves attention. I'd write for fan mail. It's a disease. I've passed on jobs because, while they would have paid well, they wouldn't have fed my ego. I'd be willing to bet at least a few porn performers are in the same boat. The money's nice, but it's not the main attraction. Once you've done the pageant thing all your life (there is actually a 0-6 months category in beauty pageants now) being the anonymous bank teller or Wal-Mart greeter doesn't quite cut it for you.

Nice Jewish Girl IMs

NJG: I went to pilates, I am getting better :) then I went and bought a bunch of books at a bookstore. BTW the library told me to pick up your book, it's there NJG: I talked with Cookie tonight by IM and I told her what you are saying about JFK jr. Luzdedos1: :) NJG: don't you want to know what she thinks? NJG: anyways, she doesn't think the JFK jr. stuff is true either. I don't either. No one seems to believe you Luke about this, why is that? But I also know you hate the Kennedys and you really hated JFK jr. so I think it is personal too. Don't you think it's funny that Ultra is talking about me on RAME? I was laughing when I read that! I like how he says "riveting work he's doing over there", and "the next endless, meandering transcript of him shooting the s--- with NJG" I was laughing. HARD!!! NJG: what do I meander?? Luzdedos1: No, you de bomb baby

America's Sex Obsession

Will Jarvis writes on RAME: Marlene Dietrich "In America sex is an obsession; In the rest of the world it's a fact." Maybe that answers the question, or at least suggests an answer. When I look at European porn I get the sense of a more matter-of-fact attitude toward the sex that in the US made product. I've also had the opportunity to work in front of the cameras with a few European and British porn actresses.

One scene in particular comes to mind from "Valentino's Euro-Invasion" that we did a couple of years ago. It's a foursome with Mila, Valentino, a 'Euro' actress whose name I forget -- I think it was Bella Donna but I'm not sure -- and myself. Lots of fun to do the scene. Any scene with Mila is going to be fun. Both Mila and the other actress had a good attitude toward the scene, a straight forward, let's do it kind of feeling. One thing the 'Euro' actress pointed out to me after the scene was over is that the shooting of the scene took less time than she was used to in Europe. The time frame for shooting a scene on average seems to be longer in Europe but I don't know that that guarantees a better finished product.

Judging by this and other experiences with 'foreign' porn stars, I think the matter-of-fact attitude is fairly common, and I suspect that would be true of porn fans as well. The Europeans seem to accept sex, have less hang-ups about it than we USAmericans. Certainly, Private Video has become one of the largest, if not the largest, porn company in the world. So there would seem to be at least as much interest as we have in the States, though the attitude with which porn is made and with which it is viewed is probably a bit different.

Why Kennedys Suck 2.0

From Luke F-rd Wire Services, Ltd.:

Nowhere has the late bisexual John Kennedy Jr. been more gleefully disparaged than in [now-defunct] SPY, dated March '98, written by a trio of heat-seeking anti-John-Johnites consisting of the mag’s top editor Bruno Maddox, deputy editor Adam Lehner and editor-at-large William Monahan].

Here are some highlights: “...George magazine was...John Kennedy’s attempt to make himself seem smarter.... From the moment his first-grade teachers tried to flunk him, the John-is-stupid snowball had too much momentum to ever be stopped.... It didn’t help that his mother had sent him to a psychiatrist his first year at Andover. ...when he was 25 he gave up trying to be an actor and packed himself off to law school.... in 1989, John failed to pass the New York bar exam [and] would fail again in 19990.... Whether he was flaunting the destination of his world-famous chest-hair treasure trail [sic] in Hyannisport---or at the $6,000 a year health club he went to in SoHo--or merely shirtless in Central Park, it seemed a safe assumption...that this was a man for whom the human brain was essentially just another ab[dominal]....

“...in trying to explain to a small child the meaning of the French-derived word “dilettantism”, one could do a lot worse than to cite the example of Kennedy and [George magazine co-founder Michael] Berman....Finally they received an offer from the French-based company Hachette Fillipachi, which is the the manufacturer of Exocet missiles and publishes .... Premier, Elle and Road & Track.... ... a staffer at George would overhear [John-John] confessing that the main reason they had signed with Hachette was that he and Berman had skimped on research and had simply, gratefully, signed with the first company that came along.... ...after months of development, George [magazine] rented out Federal Hall in downtown Manhattan, where George Washington was sworn in, for the launch announcement.... A smitten writer from the Washington Post described Kennedy as looking like a “butch Venus from the sea” and a male reporter stood up at the press conference and asked for his home phone....

“....Described variously as looking like “a telemarketing firm,” and “unemployment office,” and “just plain depressing”, the New York offices of Hachette Fillipach are famed...for their industrial carpeting, dirty whitewashed walls, and endless Kafkaesque cubicles. Worse, George was forced to share a floor with the airheads at Premiere and the mudspattered vagabonds of Road & Track. A steady stream of alien temps would saunter into George on cock-and-bull assignments to take a slack-jawed gawp [sic]... ....”It was very much like a junior high-school yearbook,” said one [staffer]...."I’m talking behavioral problems, too...” TO BE CONTINUED