Friday, December 31, 1999

Gossip

LoreleiNix@aol.com writes: Dear Luke, We can give you "the scoop" and perhaps you can help us out as well. We are in contact with several women who have appeared in Kym Wilde's Virgin Kink series. They say they were misled and misinformed regarding what would occur during the shoots and ended up with some unplanned on injuries, as well as mental trauma. Do you know of anyone who has filmed with RedBoard and had a similar experience? Also, could we put something up on your site asking to interview women who have worked in the Virgin Kink series? (We are not at all down on the industry. We are pro-porn, but also pro-consensuality and pro-safe and sane BDSM).

Talking Blue has updated their site. Here's an excerpt: "Rumors have been flying around saying that the contract girls at VCA were on their way out of their cushy contract gigs. VCA publicist/contract girl Kylie Ireland checks in to tell us that the stories of Russ Hampshire doing a massive house cleaning are overblown. By mutual agreement between VCA and the actresses, Russian porn starlets Nikita and Vicca will be leaving the company in April when their contract expires. Also on her way out is Stacy Valentine whose contract expires January 1, 2000 and will not be re-signing with the video giant."

XXXGen.com's Craig Vasiloff is buying Bianca Trump's used breast implants. He plans on starting a collection of used porn star implants.

Joe Elkin Interview

Friday morning, Luke interviewed by telephone leading porn webmaster Joe Elkin of the Cyber Entertainment Network (CEN).

Luke: "I hear you are suing rival net porner Brad Shaw?"

Joe: "Brad's got a big mouth. Bigger than mine. And he opened it. And he's got people bashing me and bashing us and I just don't put up with that bulls---. First, he started out with the thing Amateur Beaver. And we told him that we wouldn't let him buy it because we're developing a site amateurbeaver.com. It's trademarked, etc... He bought amateur-beaver.com which is stupid because I am going to wind up getting all the traffic from it anyway when people try to type it in. We told him that if he wants to use it [that domain name amateur-beaver.com], that's fine. But keep it quiet. But he opened his mouth about some s--- and I told people what his problem was. He was pissed because he did not want to spend $100,000 and buy the name amateurbeaver.com. And so he had to go out and dig up his own name and program which is fine. Except he's copying something we're doing.

"So JB [Joe's partner] told him that we were going to sue him... They ended up settling... I wasn't interested in suing him. It was JB who was pissed at him for opening his mouth. And then he has people posting this [negative] stuff [at www.condomproject.com]... If I'm a thief, how come I am still in business? I pay everybody. [Joe and his company CEN have a good reputation for honesty.]

"My partner and I had a meeting the other night and we decided not to sue him. We're just going to go about our business.

"What Brad's trying to do to get into the market is expose other people's weaknesses in their programs. Everybody is going to have a weakness in their program. It's not rocket science."

Luke: By program, Brad and Joe are referring to the programs webmasters use to buy hits. Usually, webmasters pay people a percentage, usually around 50%, of the revenue they get when surfers buy subscriptions to pay sites. Probably the most famous webmaster program, and the one that has paid out the most money, is www.cybererotica.com/money by Ron Levi aka Fantasyman.

Joe: "We have 30,000 accounts which could mean well over 100,000 different referring logs. So I'm going to have some password sites [where sites post passwords to access pay sites for free] and Warez sites [where you can illegally download copied software]... And it is not my first priority to eliminate them. My first priority is to eliminate child porn links that we get... And Brad is on a witchhunt about password sites... And these sites only hurt your business if your site is not password protected. If your site is password protected, you should have no problem. And if you've been in the business for the past three years [like Brad Shaw] you should have a program that protects your site.

"We get over a million unique visits a day [CEN's main site is privategold.com]. I'm not going to pay somebody to monitor my traffic for password sites and warez sites. I'm more interested in monitoring for fraudulent credit cards, making sure that we are up and running and paying our bills. If I'm worred about password sites, I'm not worried about business.

"We're releasing the archives of Hank Londoner and Stephen Hicks [leading Penthouse photographers] at CENcontent.com. Hank licensed us exclusively to sell his content. The main [porn] photographers in the world are probably Hank, Suze [Randall], Stephen Hicks, Warren Tang, and Pierre Woodman from Private... We do all Suze's work also.

"CEN's also opened up a studio in Sherman Oaks and is doing about 30 hardcore shoots a month."

Luke: "What are people talking about these days? DMR?"

Joe: "DMR is done. If you have a recurring database with DMR, you're f---ed. DMR just got an infusion of $18 million and they're starting to process [credit cards] again with somebody else [but DMR recently announced they would no longer process VISA credit cards]. But the stuff they've lost is done. They can't process through VISA their recurring database. So if you have 35,000 members, which some companies have with them, you're not going to get that money. I'm sure Ron Levi [at cybererotica.com] over the course of the past three years has lost seven or eight million dollars [due to problems with his credit card processors such as DMR]. Ron's now processing with Epoch. Most everybody is with Epoch now that has any brains. The FTC and VISA are looking at a bunch of different people [in porn internet because of their high chargeback rates] and eventually everybody is going to have to go to paid trials [instead of getting a free week to look at a site]. VISA is going after IBill next, and then in another twelve months, they'll look at Epoch."

Next I asked Joe about this story from the Washington Post: COLTS NECK, N.J. –– Two Internet penny stock promoters found shot to death had ties to "shady" business dealings, which may ultimately have led to their execution-style killings, a prosecutor said. Alain Chalem, 41, and Mayir Lehmann, 37, were found early Tuesday face down on the bloodstained marble floor of the estate Chalem shared with his girlfriend and her 13-year-old son.

Though investigators have not pinpointed a motive or suspects, Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye said the attack likely was at least partly tied to the pair's penny stock Web operation, www.stockinvestor.com, or other ventures. "It was probably related to the victims' business activities," Kaye said, "and the killer or killers feared something else more than the loss of money."

Joe: "I did not know those two guys [killed] but I know somebody who was dealing with them. Those two guys f---ed around with the wrong guys. These stock things are big money and they left a paper trail... It's nothing to f--- around with.

"There's a guy named Jeff Smith in Florida who did business with a company that sells the machines that allow you to trade from home... These three guys finagled $15 million away from that company and they got whacked because of it. End of story. They were stealing.

"Our newest project is non-adult. It is trading cards online. We signed major league baseball, WWF, Nascar, Star Trek and Xena...at cyberaction.com. CEN will do all the marketing for them but it won't be under CEN, it will be under another corporate logo. Because we don't want to mix the adult with the non-adult. We're the only ones who have the technology to do this, along with Upper Deck. We have about a million unique visitors in non-adult every day and we're going to start sending them through cyberaction.com and other projects."

Luke: "Where do you send your non-adult traffic now?"

Joe: "Casinos mostly, Viagra, any kind of health and medicine... We're 75% adult... We hope to make it 50-50%. It's nice to diversify. If you have an adult customer with a credit card, he's a non-adult customer. I eventually want to sell him at a fair price all the convenience, anything from a toothbrush to a car to life insurance. I have a database and I have demographics on him, and I'm selling him a good adult product now, and I am pretty sure the guy will buy anything from me."

Luke: "What's your deal with Private?"

Joe: "We're the only licensed adult internet company to use their content, aside from them. They have someone else doing their feeds. We're allowed to build our sites with their content and pay them a royalty."

Luke: "How happy are you with AVN's handling of IA2000?"

Joe: "Paul's in a tough predicament. He's got to make the video people happy and the internet people happy. I guess he's doing the best he can..."

Luke: "Are you happy with the way IA2000 is being run?"

Joe: "It could be worse.

"My new thing after the millenium is you're to get no comment out of me from now on. We'll see how long it lasts."

Luke: "It seems that profits are going down in the adult internet industry?"

Joe: "Profits are definitely going to go down when everybody goes to paid trials. RB [karasadultplayground.com] is smarter. He's got a very clean system. He's one of the few companies that nobody's looking at him because he's doing all paid trials."

Gossip

Alexandra Quinn is staying with Mad Jack in Las Vegas for three weeks while she shakes her tutu at the Can Can.

Trey: You might wanna post that Teri Weigel is having a free live show today at totallyteri.com.

Kendra Jade phoned Luke from Massachusetts Thursday night. On Sunday, December 19, she set out cross country from Los Angeles with fellow porn star Dynamite. They drove through a huge snow storm, sliding all over the road, until arriving safely in Kendra's home state of Connecticutt where she spent Christmas with her mom, stepmom Kelly Jade, her sister Heather Jade and her other sisters, biological and otherwise. Kendra reports that she's healing well from her surgeries on her tits and lips, etc... Kendra and Dynamite will be driving home next week and plan to be at CES in Las Vegas.

Jenna Jameson has been abducted by aliens and will no longer make porn. If you see her, please ask her to phone home.

Nostra-f---in-Damus writes: Luke - Since your critics often compare your site with that of a common supermarket tabloid why not make some wild ass predictions for the coming year in true tabloid headline fashion? I'll start you out.

Ron Jeremy is Big Foot? DNA tests say Y-E-S

Metro Stock Certificates replace Charmin as America's # 1 toilet paper

NJG signed as contract girl to Vivid's new kosher video series

John writes: The AWA Superstars of Wrestling announced in a press release that adult film star Jasmine St. Claire has signed to appear at Shakedown: Never Surrender; the first AWA Superstars television taping on February 29, 2000 at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada. States the release: "Jasmine will take part in an evening gown match, against a yet-to-be-named opponent. However, there is speculation that Tammy Sytch (formerly Sunny) will be appearing at Shakedown to answer the challenge."

David Aaron Clark disputes on RAME the notion that porn is better than mainstream: "Someone's been spending a LITTLE too much time in the peeps, methinks ... actually, 1999 was a great year for movies. When porn starts hitting the level of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, GO, AMERICAN BEAUTY, RUN LOLA RUN, MAGNOLIA, BOYS DON'T CRY, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, THE LIMEY, THE GREEN MILE, STIGMATA, or even SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, let's talk about it ... as much as I love the genre, and think it can be so much more than it is, at present time it isn't. Now, if you've come to the point in your life where you prefer to see Rocco f--- a girl up the ass rather than engage with some of the deeper or more resonant aspects of the human condition, that's fine, but please realize your tunnel vision! (although as I type this, the irony occurs to me that this year you COULD watch Rocco f--- a girl up the ass in the legitimate cinema. Geez, I think it's time for another Tylenol Plus. This damn flu is really hitting L.A. hard this year."

David has no plans to participate in a gangbang. "I, in fact, AM fat, and I don't wanna be there. And that's spoken as someone who HAS been there. (Though never participating, I hasten to add). Oddly enuff, though, as Ultradamno -- who is almost always on the mark -- points out, the fantasy can be potent. I still love on occassion watching the first GANG-BANG ANGELS, directed by Jane Waters --- excuse me, Rob Black. The gang-bang is a phenomenon generally best enjoyed as a visual fantasy, at a safe distance from the redolent stink of parolee butt-odor."

Pat Riley writes on RAME: Various people in the industry confirm that TT Boy is actually one of the preferred-by-the-girls studs. Maybe you should check out his 18 And Nasty series where he frequently establishes a better rapport with the girls than even Ed Powers at his best.

DMR Stops Accepting VISA Cards

At the beginning of 1999, DMR was the top credit card processor for the porn internet. But because of huge chargeback (people calling their credit card company to say they did not order something they were billed for) rates by many of their clients, they've dramatically cutback their role. Now they say they will no longer process VISA credit cards for net porn.

"Everybody is really pissed off right now," says a leading porn webmaster, "because DMR used to be the leading processor for the adult community. They've dwindled in the past year. But this decision is going to hurt a lot of people.

"I think VISA just got upset with the high chargeback ratios [for the porn net] and just pulled their merchant account."

DMR sent out this letter to manyof its customers: Dear Web800/TIPS Client:

In our communications to you last week, Web800/TIPS informed you we were unable to settle VISA transactions, effective December 22nd. We are pleased to inform you that we were, in fact, able to settle all reported transactions through the 27th of December. Payment on these transactions will be forthcoming as we receive settlement from our merchant bank. Web800/TIPS has made the decision to stop warehousing VISA transactions. We are working to resolve the issues, but remain challenged to find a merchant bank. Therefore, we encourage you to seek an alternate relationship to process your VISA transactions. Mastercard and American Express transactions continue to be processed and are NOT affected by this situation.

Here are some quotes by porn webmasters on http://www.condomproject.com/msgboard/

Bald Guy: Actually that is the third party processors that make the $15 or $25 on a chargeback. They do this to fine you for the time they had to mess with your account. Also this is supposed to act as a way to discourage you from bad biz tactics. Visa basically just warns you when chargebacks get high and if you do not fix this they will shut down your account. If I get a surfer claiming fraud, I can

1. Refund the money
2. Argue with the surfer and Credit Company
3. Break down and credit the account.
4. dispute the chargeback with visa
5. Ignore the mail I am sent and let the CB go
6. Go back to a third party billing and get ripped off more by people that are losing there accounts because with this many webmasters its hard to keep chargebacks down.

Globiz writes: Adult sites on the net aren't the only victims of the credit card company's over-willingness to do chargebacks. There are e-commerce companies with the same problem. Until Visa and Mastercard quit bending over and saying "ahhh" everytime someone claims they didn't order something, we'll continue to have this problem and the credit card companies will continue to use the excuse that it's the merchants' fault.

Toolz writes: I think you just hit the nail on the head why VISA/MC are not happy with our industry, see the following scenarios as evidence:
1. Uneducated surfer meets uneducated webmaster: chargeback
2. Uneductated surfer meets educated webmaster: refund, but more than likely a chargeback
3. Educated surfer meets uneducated webmaster: chargeback
4. Educated surfer meets educated wembaster: refund

So until the whole world is to step 4 chargebacks are inevitable, if the merchant banks continue to chargeback everytime a customer calls and complains, and they will, then we are forced to eat the chargebacks or issue the refund before it gets to that step. VISA and MC are not on our side, they're on the customers, I think it's time VISA/MC were taught a lesson, perhaps by a coalition that if you chargeback everything the companies are gonna get po'd. Case in point: customer buys gifts from EToys, customer Signs for the gifts, merchant back still charges it back, transaction was over the web, WTF? Where do we win...when online merchants control VISA/MC, how do we get to that point? Don't know otherwise I'd be a rich man.

Mark Tiarra, a leader of a porn webmaster group UAS.org, writes: I've generally been the one speaking moderately and not being a "doomsayer" at all - preferring even to present a reasonable position when the doom gets said. I would think my obvious worry over what's brewing with Visa and MC for 2000 might be an indication to some of the "old guys" as to just how real and serious this is becoming.

While I agree that a new billing system would come into play (indeed I have spoken to a couple people who are forging ahead Visa or no), my concern is what it would do to our numbers in the meantime. I doubt most people have the reserves needed to hold out the couple of years it would take for a single system to become as ubiquitous as CCs are now.

The issue is not just how poorly most billing systems monitored their member sites, but also a load of political pressure on Visa and MC that has caused them to continually tighten restrictions to a level that becomes impossible to adhere in ANY non physical signature business.

So... one problem is that we continue to find a way to promote ethical practices in our business (perhaps by not supporting sites that mislead people into joining with your clicks!) and the second problem is that we find a legal way to stop a train that rides on tracks dangerously close to discrinminatory practices from the CC companies with regard to online adult business.

We live in an industry with many quick buck - short sited people that have helped to push us to the point we find ourselves in and it's about time people stopped making it so easy for sites like that to make the quick buck. it's only hurting ourselves in the long run.

I often say that we need to look to history to see what we are about to face (magazine, 900# and video industry history), but we stand on new ground only in that we have here the first adult industry that is so cheap to get into that it can be a cottage industry whereas the mag, 900# & vid - by barrier to entry alone - kept away most quick buck minded businesses with no sense of business practice. The upshot - there is more going on than I can post about without hanging my legal ass on the plank, but suffice to say, we need to get busy or it's going to be a difficult 2000 for many of us.

Viking: My survival tips for the new millennium and CC companies: If you do not mess with the CC companies, then they will leave you alone (no high chargebacks = no big problems) If all CC companies decides not to do bussiness on the net, then wait about 1-4 weeks for a new world wide internet payment system to take over (CC companies started by taking a risk in a undeveloped/unmature market... no matter how bad the conditions might be, there will always be people/companies ready to take a risk... why? bigger risk = bigger profit) If new laws are made to hit CC companies and adult content, then think world wide! People will pay for sex - no mattter in which currency they have to pay...

Netbilling.com: Several of our merchants who have recently switched from DMR to Netbilling Services are telling me that DMR/Tips "MAY" in fact give them their customer databases for import into our system. They are working out the details now, but it may actually be possible. This would be great for you guys if it can be done. I will give the field format and we can do a member import on the same day. We are also offering $95 setup fee to any new DMR merchant in need. We charge only 1.5% and 15¢ per transaction. The merchant bank will charge another 3% approximately. Total will be 6-7% on a average $20 ticket. It's time to take control guys.

Todd writes: Luke, one of the main problems of this VISA chargeback thing is crooked internet porn dealers. They offer you a week at their site for $3.95 or so, then at the end of the week when you cancel, They (the porno site) go ahead and bill you anyway or double bill you, hoping you won't bitch about it since it is porn related. Most porn sites are really fair, but it only takes a few crooks and before you know it all hell breaks loose for everyone, but don't worry, it won't be long til they come up with another way to screw you over. When it comes to Porn, about 80% of the businessmen in it are shady and crooked, so Beware.

Sabrina Johnson Gangbang

A severe theological controversy about the great mystery of how three separate beings can be one being has rent Christendom.

Archbishop Rob Spallone phoned at 1:45 PM from the Sabrina Johnson gangbang.

Rob: "Mother Superior Sharon Mitchell was here yesterday drawing blood again outside the clinic which is against the law. She was told by Father Jim South and Father Russ Hampshire not to do that. And she was handing out pills. She became a doctor? She told the girls to take these four red pills and this one white pill. Before the shoot and after shoot. I want this all over the site, front page.

"It is 100% against the law for anyone to hand out any type of drug unless they are a doctor or a pharmacist. She's handing out ZITHROMAX in 250mg [pills] and another drug called LEVOQUIN in 500mg [pills]. "Directions: take four of Zithromax and and one of Levoquin on Monday and after the shoot."

"I spoke to Sister Porsha and the blonde girl fluffing and they were both nauseous and sick from this. "Any questions or problems call Steve. W. York MD." He has Sharon Mitchell handing out pills for him? I'm going after his license. I have the jar in my hand that Sharon Mitchell handed out. When did she become a doctor? This Dr. York can't be a rocket scientist either. I'm going after his license. He has Sharon handing out pills for him? What is she? Going back to her drug days, she wants to be a drug pusher? Did you ever hear of such a thing? She must have these talent brainwashed for them to be taking them. One of the girls said, 'Do you think I should be taking this?' I said, 'Call your doctor and ask him. Don't just take pills that someone tells you to take.'"

I called Mother Superior Sharon Mitchell at 3:15PM at her nunnery.

Sharon: "I was there [at the gangbang] with a staff member yesterday checking tests and monitoring everything. Making sure we were in accordance with the board of health."

Luke: "Ummmm, ok. I've got..."

Sharon: "Rob Spallone screaming, trying to take medication away from people?"

Luke: "Yeah."

Sharon and Luke laugh.

Luke: "How did you know? What are these pills Zithromax and Levoquin?"

Sharon: "These are standard prophylactics. It is preventative, precautionary. All the fluffers come in and we take a urine sample from them. And then ask them to take this medication. This is also by order of Dr. York and it is also cleared by the Board of Health who have our protocols faxed to them at OAPP. Office of AIDS Policy and Program. They come here and are working with us on several programs right now. So we're in extraordinarily good standing with them and everything we do here is cleared through them under Dr. Steven York's license.

"We give the girls medication and ask them to take it the day before, the day during and the day after. This is just precautionary so they can't get or give [STDs]. Think about how many people they are working with and we only test for HIV. It's an antibiotic. In other words, if they get anything like gonorrhea of the throat or anything anywhere, it will wipe it out and they can't give it to the next guy. And we do it as a precaution during gangbangs because they are inundated with so many partners.

"Now if they were to go into any doctor after the fact that they were inundated with all these guys, they would get the same protocol. We just do it as a preventative. We do it for all the gangbangs and always have. And we probably always will.

"Luke, honey, I don't know why everyone thinks I am endangering people here or dosing them with unknown stuff? We're just doing our job. We're protecting the industry on levels of STDs and HIV. We provided all the condoms and all the lube and we're there to check tests and premedicate the fluffers. That's our job Luke. We're a non-profit organization and we're here to serve. We're being of service. LEAVE ME THE f--- ALONE!

"Are you going to my party on the sixth [of January in Las Vegas] at Spearmint Rhino. It is going to be so much fun. We've got Jill Kelly, Ginger Lynn, Nina Hartley, Ron Jeremy, Randy Spears...Cherry Mirage, Rayne, French Kiss...

"Thanks for calling to get the accurate information. Can I go back to work now?"

Luke: "Yes."

Sergio writes: I find IMPOSSIBLE that someone with a classy background like Miss Sharon Mitchell could be doing something wrong. Her work protecting porner from AIDS deserves all our respect and support.

Andy writes: Bulls---. Absolute bulls---. You can't take these people at their word, Luke. Those two pills are powerful antibiotics. In fact, Zithromax is used in advanced HIV patients who have become succeptible to infections. The side effects can be unpleasant, too. I've read that some people use antibiotics almost like a preventative, thinking it will protect them from STDs. It doesn't, and all it does is make them weaker.

Rob Spallone phoned at 7:18 PM from his house. I hear his family in the background.

Rob: "We called today and no doctor is allowed to give you pills to give to me. Against the law, he's done. Dr. Bonura has a meeting at the f---ing board Thursday. I'm not f---ing around with this. I'm putting her out this time. Is she allowed to hand out pills from Dr. York? She handed the pills out. Who is she to hand out pills? Is she a drug pusher?

"You're not a doctor. You shouldn't be handing out pills. You're nothing but an ex-junkie piece of s---. That's it. She sent me a f---ing Christmas card, Luke. She's on some kick. She called up Greg Zeboray and asked him to be her friend again. She told somebody that she wanted to make up with Rob. Would it be all right if I put something in his clinic telling people that we have these programs. And she has the balls to send me a card. I don't know where she got my address.

"[Sharon writes:] 'Rob, I hope I have seen the goodness in your heart.' I don't know where she saw that. 'I believe that together we can help many people. Please know that I am opening the door for us to be friends when and if you choose to enter it. It's up to you. I hope to hear from you soon. Here is my home number...'"

Luke: "Ahh, that's sweet. Why don't you call her?"

Rob: "Isn't that sweet of her? So she can stab me in the back again like the other three times I met with her? And take the credit for opening the clinic and lowering the price. She did nothing. It was Bill Margold and me. Print it like that, Luke. I wouldn't f---ing call her. Open the door? I'd open the door and slam her head in it."

Luke: "Why don't you call her up and make peace?"

Rob: "I don't deal with junkies."

Luke: "She's not a junkie anymore."

Rob: "Yes she is. Once a junkie, always a junkie. If she wants to take credit for what Bill Margold did and I did? It doesn't work that way. If she wants to apologize, she has to apologize in front of people to me. And tell the people that Rob wasn't full of s---. Rob was the one she called up to thank for finding the test at a much lower price. Rob was the one who offered to help her open a clinic when she went behind my back and didn't say nothing... After all the help Dr. Bonura did for her, she went and f---ing had lunch with me and then two days later there's an article in the AVN that Sharon Mitchell is opening a clinic? After I went to lunch with her two days before with Jeffrey Douglas [outgoing FSC executive director], another bulls--- artist.

"Listen, I get along with everyone in this business if they don't f--- with me. Jim South was a man. He didn't deny anything in that article... When she has the f---ing balls to call up and give the f---ing respect that Bill Margold and I deserve, then maybe I'll talk to her. Until then I will do everything in my power to make her f---ing miserable."

Brandy Alexandre writes: I still stand firm on my opposition to prophylactic use of antibiotics and such. Not to mention they are handed out to people who have not been examined by the "prescribing" doctor for their general health or history with regard to the drugs being administered. As was mentioned, some of the girls felt ill after taking them. I'm sure Mitch's heart is in the right place, but I certainly DO NOT believe she is doing the right thing, nor that she should be doing it, nor that she should be permitted to under any circumstances without a doctor present. It's just so dangerous on so many levels. I don't think they're telling the Board of Health the whole story and that someone should speak up.

I also don't understand the logic behind it all, either. All of the people involved have allegedly been tested. Right? Why only for HIV and not the entire STD panel (which does not include HSV or HPV)? Seems like that would solve a lot of the problem. But if, for some reason, AIM believes there is a credible threat to the fluffers, who are only "fluffing" mind you, then you would think that there is a credible threat to all performers who do blowjobs and she would be handing out pills on all sets. But she doesn't. AIM doesn't require a complete STD panel on anyone because HIV is the only truly deadly one (cervical cancer risk from HPV notwithstanding), so what makes these gang bangs so special? Either HIV and other STDs are transmitted via oral routes or they are not. This hit and miss attitude of AIM seems to be more for show than anything else. I mean, there is more press at gang bangs for this "non-profit organization" to pander to, isn't there.

Former Free Speech Coalition insurance commissioner Greg Zeboray (zeboray.com) writes: Once again, I have no choice but to bring into question Sharon Mitchell's ethics, and the truthfulness of her statements.

First, let me again remind you that every governmental agency (that I'm aware of) continues to state that overuse of prescription antibiotics has furthered the growth of bacterial and viral infections that are immune to current medications. Yet, I quote Sharon (from your site) "These are standard prophylactics. It is preventative, precautionary......... And then ask them to take this medication.....it is also cleared by the Board of Health who have our protocols faxed to them at OAPP."

Well Sharon, prove me wrong: post the name of the individual and their phone number who cleared this procedure on Luke's site - don't do it, and I will have no choice but to consider the above statement to be an outright lie. She has no choice .... her policy of saying anything that sounds good is coming to an end.

As for Dr. York, I can only assume that should the medical board examine his records, he will have a full chart on each person who were provided the medications during this shoot. I would also like to commend Rob for his statements to you (7:18 pm phone call). He was right on the money with everything he said. As for Brandy Alexander, she too was right on the money and I was really please to read her comments.

Rob Spallone phoned at 2PM: "Why don't you ask Sharon what gives her the right to dispense pills? No doctor is allowed to give you pills to give to me. Against the law...

"Sharon Mitchell had this little faggot there [at the gangbang], part of the AIM police. He told Porsha that she wasn't going to get paid because she gave her empty vial to me. And James DiGiorgio told her, 'Whaddya mean you're not getting paid? Tell that little f---ing punk to take a walk.' And the kid left. Because Jim was going to yell at him.

"Sharon Mitchell is full of herself. And just full of s---. A few things. One, she promised in the AVN that she was going to sue Greg Zeboray. She never did it. Greg Zeboray asked her for something and she never showed it to him because she's full of s---. Because she never had it. Papers she said he faxed her, which he never did. Now she's saying that she had permission to hand out pills, which she never did. Because she won't give you the name. And the people who got these pills did not see no doctor. They went there [gangbang], they took a PCR DNA, and an STD [test] and then Sharon handed them pills. They did not see no doctor. I have two of the girls here. They did not take no f---ing urine, no nothing. She's full of s--- again.

"She's telling people she had permission to hand out pills. How's she going to get permission to hand out pills? She ain't no pharmacist or doctor."

Tony Eveready called: "I've got people calling me asking me questions about these pills for Porshe and all the other f---ers. I ain't with Porshe no more. I got a prescription for them on Monday. According to what I know, you have to have these prescribed by a doctor. It's not something sold over the counter. When I went and got my prescription, my doctor told me that the white pill everybody takes, the big one, should take that separate and wait three hours before you take the red one, or it will make your stomach upset. That's why all the girls are getting sick because if it mixes in the stomach like that, you get sick. I guess Sharon did not know that, so she told everybody to take them all.

"Porsha ain't be bothering me so I ain't got no problems. I'm good to go."

Sharon Mitchell tells Gene Ross: "Now, in terms of mobile blood units, we do mobile testing services all over Los Angeles and in some cases Orange County. We are certified phlebotomy technicians. This means we're licensed to obtain and transport blood specimens.

"A lot of the people didn't meet the window period that Sabrina Johnson wanted. Since it was a two-day shoot, and we have a 24 hour turnaround, we drew some blood specimens there on the set just like we do when we go to VCA or Vivid or Extreme. We found that our mobile testing really helps with people that would maybe work without a test or go without work. I did test some people there which is perfectly legal to do and brought the specimens back here and made sure their tests were ready for the next day so they could work.

"This is a practice that we've been doing for a long time. I'm really tired of doing a great job and getting nothing but picked on by someone [Rob Spallone] who I think their feelings are hurt and is taking me on as a target. I know that he, and his dad Joe, and Dr. James Bonura and Bill Margold and myself and Dr. Rosie Lepley and Dr. George Boros and Elena down at the 10 Minute Test Center and Dr. Zablon and Dr. York all put our heads together and worked to choose a test.

"I'm terribly sorry that Rob is bitter and angry and feels that he can't call me and request to look at our policies or our programs and stop these tattle-tale tactics to the press. It's very distressing, particularly at this holiday time when talent members have been overdosing, that have broken hearts or are suicidal. It's the holiday season. We're wading through everything but HIV and herpes. We have real work to do here. When I reach out to him and Zeboray who I call my critics, and try to extend myself for friendship, I get laughed at and called names. I don't want to start the new millennium with enemies. The industry is too damned small. I think we can all work together. When I go to sleep, I know I'm being of service. My side of the street is clean." (From )

Sharon Mitchell phoned Luke at 5:30 PM, Thursday.

Sharon: "I spoke with Greg Zeboray a few minutes ago. And I invited him and Rob to come down and we'd get the person from the Board of Health, that I work with, on the phone... We're all busy and getting ready for Las Vegas but we'll probably all get together the week after CES. That way we can get things straightened out and bridge some gaps.

"I know that Greg posted on Gene's site to post the names of the doctors I was working with, but I don't want to do that. I don't want them barraged with phone calls from the general public."

Rob Spallone phoned at 5:57 PM: "I just ran into brother Damien Michaels who was at the gangbang yesterday. And when he saw Mother Superior Sharon Mitchell, she called him a traitor against Christ when he handed her his [HIV] test, because it wasn't from her clinic."

I hear laughter in the background.

At 7PM, His Holiness Pope Gregory Zeboray the IX issued the following encyclical: Yes, Sharon did call me, and yes Rob and I will meet with her the week after CES. I want to know what is going on and I want to talk with her contact person at the board of health. I'm not going in there with an attitude - I will be my usual self which is professional and polite, but firm.

I need to be very clear on this: I am opposed to any pre-medication and I believe the talent as human beings ultimately suffer from these actions. I will however, acknowledge my dislike of these gang bangs as well - and wish they would end before someone else gets real sick or (even worse) infected with the HIV virus.

Some may not believe this, but my battles with Sharon are not entirely personal - they are in (I believe) the interest of the talent and their well being. Again, I will state that my reason for requesting the end to mail order talent HIV testing was not to battle Sharon - it was to protect the talent pool.

XXX writes: Hey Luke! Happy New Year buddy! Here's my two cents on the A.I.M. thing. The person at the Board of Health must be getting a little on the side to provide the OK for Miss Mitchell to be doing what she's doing. Protocols my butt. Any body doctor who hands a layperson a few bags of pills and says,"Hand them out to whatever chicks are there" would have his license pulled under any other circumstances. Prescription drugs are prescription drugs, anti-biotic or not. Greg Zeboray is right, in a few years those pills aren't going to work because of the ignorant way the drugs are handled and the whole world eventually suffers because some girl wanted to suck a dick for a porn movie. You got to look at the big picture. I agree with Brandy Alexander that doing a complete STD blood workup on the people would settle the issue. Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance, I always say. In this case Pisser and Poon Problems too.

I referred to your site in class again. To show how insecurity makes one seceptible to input, good and bad. About Kendra Jade and her plastic surgery. She asked why these people who thought she was pretty didn't speak up before. Got some interesting discussion out of it. If I'm not careful they'll all know I'm a porn hound.

Joe writes: Still love your site, but whatsup with mentioning Judiasm proclaiming adulthood at 13??? The Bar Mitzvah is a metaphorical event to welcome a child into the "beginning" of his adulthood. This does not mean all rights of an adult are granted at 13. Certainly no religious community allows 13 year olds to move out, live on their own, get a credit card, etc. To simplify the concept does an injustice to the religion. Similar to claiming Christians are cannibals because they eat a wafer made out of Jesus' skin. Most of religion is metaphorical and should be understood as such. I guess my roundabout point is no way jose would Judiasm allow any 13 year olds to make the dumb mistakes we currently allow 18 year olds to make. Hey, I'm still working on my porn article for you! It's harder then I thought and I want to make it great. Should have it by monday. "Why Gonzo Porn is anti-Porn, the fall of eroticism in the 1990's."