Monday, August 15, 2004

Email Luke Archives Photos Stars XXX-Communicated The Producers A History of X Aug 12

PARIS SEX TAPES SNATCHED

Sex videos of socialite Paris Hilton are reportedly among items stolen in a raid on her Los Angeles home last week.

Stills and video clips of her with former lover, ex-Backstreet Boy star Nick Carter were among the haul of jewellery and other personal effects.

Police believe the raid was not a forced entry, but carried out by someone with a spare key.

The Hilton Hotels' heiress recently had to endure the embarrassment of sex videos of her romps with a former boyfriend aired on the internet.

"She's bracing herself for further embarrassment," said a source close to the 23-year-old.

Despite her outrage over the tapes scandal, the millionairess has agreed to sell them, sharing the profits with her ex, reports the News of the World.

Internext Hush, Hush

Confidential: Hooper [Arlo Rosenberg] and Charlo Barbosa [picture] being investigated by the FBI for violation of wiretapping laws re: Illegal downloads.

I hear that Hooper's drunk employee Wiseman (Ryan) pushed or punched Ken Lawson (owner of Flynt Digital and Jettis) at Internext and was hauled away by police. Wiseman spent the rest of the show in jail until he was bailed out by his employer.

Security kicked him out of his hotel room. Threw out all his belongings.

GregTX writes: "Overall the show was much smaller than the past two hollywood shows... less booths, less attendees, less parties, and less webmasters."

Wiseman writes on JBM: "SO I am back from Jail and am at home ready to do some buisness.. Seemed to have woke up in jail from a black out and am not real sure what all has happened. Besides the rumors. I will be dealing with alot of this on a personal note not publically. So hit me up on ICQ, Aim or email. If you got anything to say to me."

Brad Shaw writes: "Ryan I still love you. I am disappointed in your friends for standing by and doing nothing while you were acting like an idiot. There were several people around who could have stepped up and calmed the situation."

Wiseman replies: "Thanks Brad. I am not sure some people didnt try to help out. I in all honestly have no Idea what happened that night.. It is quite strange.. I dont normally black out do to drinking. I am trying to figure out the truth about alot that happened."

Internext Pictures More More More

Labret writes: "A program rep making a complete ass out of ones self in front of said reps industry peers, priceless. this will follow you forever, you rock. If there was a animated smiley giving metal horns, I would insert it here."

"SHOKING" Internext video! (Drama involving Juicy)

I hear the Gigacash party was gigabad.

Supermack writes on GFY:

I havent seen 1 comment from any of the major sponsors. Makes me wonder if they didnt have a deal with the club to profit from the event. They knew the club was charging $10 for drinks, becuase someone from gigacash was walking around handing out drink cards. I still manged to spend over $300 on drinks. They had to have known it was $300 a bottle to be able to sit on the couches, becuase the couches were in the so called v.i.p. area. Someone had posted earlier, that they spent $600 on bottles, and were still made to remove themselves from the couch unless they continued to buy more bottles. Like i said before...There has been talk about how much these events were costing, compared to the amount of business generated from them. It makes sense that a deal was made to profit from "cash filled pockets" of adult webmasters.

Brad Shaw writes: "I see they are throwing a "big" party in Miami. Easy $50k +. What a waste, most companies have smartened up. Funny part is that most of the real businessmen avoid big events, and they are full of free loaders who have 13 clicks.

"B. There will be rockstars tearing up the stages for your viewing and listenting pleasures. And not the kind of rockstars that are now playing bar mitzvahs. This is more like, "don't be surprised if MTV shows up" rockstars:" Old MTV line.

"G. The biggest players in the industry will not only be present, but will also be co-sponsoring EROTICAFEST 2004."

Ron Levi going? Maybe you can invite JohnIP and Serge.

Why cater to the webmasters looking for a cheap free party and free booze? Why not cater to those who really make you money, like me? I am a businessman. Idiotfests do nothing for me. If you want to take me out for dinner and talk real business, I will send Greg.

Dawgy writes: "parties or no parties, i find that many people who consider themselves big business men, elite, or the top dogs, are quite frankly 100% unapproachable."

Brad Shaw writes: "I get approached by 100's people at shows, 99% of them want to sell me something. After a while, it gets old and I end up getting snappy as a few interupt me while I am having a conversation with other people. Some of these people never get over it."

L.A. Mike of Silvercash.com writes: "Brad, as far as the exibiting at the show... Thats a waste too now. I spend well over 100k at the Vegas show and all I do it stand there why people come try to sell me sh-t. I swear I'm going to make a sign or shirt that says "I don't need hosting, content, or a dialer. Go Away" What a joke it is. Yea we do some biz at the shows for sure but no way in hell do we recoup the money we spend."

Pony Express writes: "I saw Jim Brown chillin at the diplomat and, believe it or not, but D Strawberry was seen hanging out at a strip club."

When did Porn become mainstream?

Via Metafilter:

John Walsh asks the question in the Independant. The question might seem silly save for this. People in Buffulo asked to pose niked in public? Why not, American athletes do it, Spike Lee endorses it, and even Matt Damon wants to screw in front of you. Bosnian men don't seem to share Matt's fervor for the camera, but everyone is talking sex, even those icky old folks who frequent online football magazines. Why not have your tittilation in-your-face! Does the line between erotica and pornography even exist any more?

The Rise of the Buff Bunny

New York Times
By DIANA NYAD
Published: August 15, 2004

Selected quotes, esp for you Serena Williams fans:

"SEVERAL of the women in this year's Olympics have posed for magazines like Playboy and FHM."

"I looked at the photo in FHM's "Sexy Olympic Special" of five American athletes who are competing in Athens and was disheartened. The world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke, Amanda Beard, is tugging down her G-string bathing suit, thrusting out her chest, and pouting in that annoying runway pose that says, "Come take me, bad boy.""

"But the stream of Anna Kournikova posters and calendars do not suggest a world-class tennis player: instead they show a demure, even submissive girl with a sly, come-hither grin. The feminist interpretation is surely that this is no longer the athlete Anna Kournikova - no longer the strong subject of the photo, but a mere sexual object. So I was expecting the worst when I picked up the September issue of Playboy, which features the latest of these photo spreads."

"Today, the running-back physique of Serena Williams may be setting the standard for a new femininity. While winning Wimbledon and hitting serves at 130 miles per hour, Ms. Williams wears scanty tennis dresses, showing both skin and muscle."

"Take a look at the photo of Logan Tom, the Olympic volleyball player, that appears on the cover of this section [...] Although the photo is surely meant to convey sex appeal, it seems to me to make a statement very similar to the famous beefcake photo of Mark Spitz with his seven Olympic gold medals in 1972."

Internet Porn Moving Into Porn Shops

Trunigha writes on RAME: "Recently I've noticed KandiPeach, Sub-Vision Films and RectalRooter on the shelves at some of my local porn haunts. Smaller companies come and go but this is something that is new to my area where porners who started on the internet are trying to make a go of it in the harder market of mainstream adult video. I wish 'em the best but it's a tough game out there."

Mike South = The Digital Playground attack dog?

Sportswami aka Chris Connor writes on XXXPornTalk.com:

I find it pretty ironic that Mike South has been hamering on Devon the past month and a half for her problems. Just as Jesse Jane and Teagan are getting ready it seems for a mega push, Mike decides to unload on Devon. For everyone who decides to assault me let me get this out first. Sports writers and adult writers all have their Binky's. Their one guy or gal they suck up to, protect, and shamelessly promote because they are getting something back in return. Whether it is inside scopes, gifts, exclusive interviews, or contacts with hard to get personel. Just look at Ahmad Rashad and Michael Jordan, Kobe-Jim Gray, Howard Cosell-Muhammed Ali, and Mike South and Digital Playground. But for Mike South to keep attack Devon and yet praising Teagan and Jesse Jane is down right bush league. DP loves Teagan and Jesse Jane because they are sexy, young and don't challenge anyone or any policy. DP gets to have them undercontrol and not worry about provoking them because both ladies are not "agressive women". I have known Devon for about 8 months, and while she can be out spoken, and has done some wild things, she is good with interviews, acknowledges her wrongdoings and generally is a awesome chick. But Mike South seems to be hell bent on throwing her under the buss. Well no offense Mike... but I hope somebody tosses your Southern DP Kissing ass under the damn Bus!

Mike South replies:

The reason DP loves Teagan and Jesse is pretty simple. They show up where they are suppossed to, when they are suppossed to. They aren't on drug binges, they aren't out someplace turning tricks and they represent DP well. As for me having favorites, yes I do Tim and Felicia Fox they are my best friends.

OK Now Chris, don't quit your day job at Walmart (Or maybe its Home Depot). Stop proposing to Kiki D'Aire, she has a man with way more future than you. Stop trying to date Vandalia, she doesn't want to date you. Oh ya and tell me...how's the view from under the bus?

Chris Connor aka Sportswami writes:

First off Mike... I haven't proposed to Kiki Diare. Haven't even spoken to her since Last Jannuary at the AVN Expo. As far as Vandalia goes... haven't spoken to her since then as well and have given up on dating her. But Mike once again, you know oh so much about me. But then again you know a lot since you are this highly regarded porn director. Oops... I am sorry, you are not.

You just some pathetic hack who has been riding off on Felicia Fox and Lisa Sparxxx coat tails. You sit on your lil site, shoot amatuer style videos, preach the good word about how you get scoops here and there. Yet all you do is basically use women for your videos, and talk a lot of sh-t.

As far as Teagan being dependable... I have heard from a lot of respected journalists (i.e. not Mike South) that Teagan has a major alcohol problem. And isn't that the same gal who flaked on the KSEX Games? (This is not a slam on Teagan as she is a wonderful young lady whom could be a star if she matures and gets her head on straight.)

Bottom line is Mike South is a hack whom I have been told from a lot of sources is stalking Devon via emails. He seems to be going off on his tired old rant. And bottom line is that he did this whole spiel three weeks ago with John T. Bone and Gene Ross. And yet he seems to suck up to DP and Adella.

For the record...I don't work at Wal Mart of Home Depot thank you very much. But then other job takes a lot more brain cells than what Mike South does (then again so does selling oranges on the side walk in LA.)

Pics From Britney's Snoop Dog Music Video

Britney Spears Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney Britney

The most creative porn actor who invented "Helicopter ----"!

His name is Micky Yanai. He is not American, but Japanese who love America. This is the reason he wears cloth. Yes, His job is ----ing. I think he is very famous in web world. He is the most famous Japanese porn actor in the world. But strangely he is not so famous in Japan.

Micky Yanai He is already old age. He is afraid that suddenly he cannot do Helicopter ----. Please give him oppotunity for Helicopter ----. But don't forget, he is not gay. he need only woman for helicopter f-ck. masamania@hotmail.com

THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM: THE RISE AND FALL OF DISBELIEF IN THE MODERN WORLD

A theologian at Oxford University explains why atheism's appeal has faded.

Time magazine spurred public debate 40 years ago with a startling question on its cover: "Is God Dead?" Some estimate that half the world's population was then nominally atheist. And many in the West were predicting that scientific progress would eliminate religious belief altogether by the next century.

The tide has dramatically turned, however, and Alistar McGrath - a theologian at Oxford University who was once in that camp - charts the shift in currents of thought in "The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World."

In this accessible intellectual history, McGrath explores how atheism came to capture a wide swath of the public imagination as the road to human liberation and progress, and why, in a postmodern world, its appeal has faded. Yet he also makes clear that, despite the resurgence in faith, Western Christianity has not fully recovered from the crisis of the '60s.

Depicting atheism's heyday between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, McGrath highlights the specific contributions of the major philosophers, scientists, and artists who shaped the secular world, from the famous, such as Nietsche, Marx, Freud, and Darwin, to the less familiar, such as D'Holbach, Fuerbach, and Monod.

GFY thread

SexHit/Intergal I got beef with you
The Return of the Australian Porn Mafia

Smut Giant writes on GFY:

I promoted them briefly almost 2 years ago. Made the sales, months passed by without getting paid. I got in touch, they said my payment would be processed. Months passed again, still no payment. I didn't really think it was a huge deal back then but I've been thinking about it and I want my money dammit! I'll post our e-mail correspondence soon if nothing gets done. I've been very nice about this and it's time to get tough.

Harvey writes:

Man, I'd say it's your fault and nothing but your fault, Intergal are between the most known scammers in this biz, they simply said "check is on the mail, your wire has been sent, yadda yadda yadda" until you get bored and say f-ck off. Back in 98 or 99 they owed me a little above 14,000 dollars. not 10, not 100, not 1000, but 14000 dollars. Then they started their games for months until we finally agreed on them paying 7800 or so. I said "what the heck, it's lost money anyway", so I accepted. And then they simply started again with the "check got lost" game. f-ck, they even lost 4 wires!

Finally, I got bored and just forget about it (which I wouldn't do today) Then the TGP2 concept started. Since I was the webmaster at TGP2.net which was the first TGP2 community, and since Sexhit "supported" it, and since people said they were under "new management" (of course, it's amazing how all scammer programs are always under "new management", seems all investors are always looking for bad reputation programs ), I let it go, but of course never promoted nor recommend it, the further I went is when soebody asked me PRIVATELY what to do with them I said "keep an open eye".

Some "friendly guy" was involved with them and "helping" me at the same time, so I thought maybe they'd be really under "new management" and things would be different this time. Guess what? The "friendly guy" stabbed me in the back, Sexhit shown their real colors (again) and I learnt a big lesson: once a scammer, always a scammer, and never trust in so called "new management" if they have a bad rep, there's no such thing.

And why I say it's your fault? Because stories about Intergal and Sexhit appeared in all webmasters boards and webmasters areas of TGPs, link lists, etc. So what did you learn today? Before signing with some program, make some background research. And for this Intergal/Sexhit scammers, follow them and don't let them go

MandyD writes:

Hey Smut Giant.. I'm here - would you like to grab me on icq 177219215 or msn sexhitmandy@hotmail.com and I'll see if I can help you out? Or send me an email to mandy@sexhit.com

For those of you who have memories of the past, I would like to let you know that Intergal and Sexhit were both taken over by new management in 2001 - I started here with the new management late 2002 and I don't think you'll find any complaints in my time Anyway, I can't/won't defend the previous running of the programs as I wasn't here (and truth be known, I was promoting them myself and didn't have wonderful experiences either)...

But, like I said, I'm happy to look into your problem now and see what I can do - but in all honesty, 2 years makes it a little awkward! I'm shooting off for a long weekend, so please try and contact me in the next 18 hours or so, otherwise you won't get a response from me until Monday...

Other STDs besides AIDS in the industry

Gizmo writes on RAME:

What happens to performers who are routinely tested when they are diagnosed with diseases besides HIV? Are they still able to perform or are they immediately quarantined? I'm talking about herpes, HPV(genital warts), chlaymidia, syphillis, etc.. It's big news when a tiny number of performers are exposed to HIV, but rarely do you hear anything when it comes to other STDs. Are there any reliable numbers out there? Does anyone keep track? AIM? I find it hard to believe that the small pool of male actors who've been at it for years have not caught anything. Or is this one of the best kept dirty secrets of the porn industry?

Felicia Fox writes:

Adult performers are not tested for Herpes or HPV unless we request it. It is generally assumed that the majority of performers in the industy have either Herpes or HPV or both -- however, this is not the case. Some do, some don't.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've never tested positive for any STD...although the fact that I was condom-only for my first three years in the business definitely helped.

Gizmo writes:

Basically then, this attitude is just a collective "f-ck YOU" to to the fresh off the bus 18 year old girls? From an outsider's point of view, this would be a cruel and undeserved punishment for anyone that walks into the door of the porn world even if only for a brief moment. Why is there such a trememendous amount of indifference to such a dangerous problem? I know it's a pipe dream, but why doesn't the industry make a serious effort to ban those performers(MALE & FEMALE) that have been known to carry VD?

Felicia responds:

Well, anyone who starts in this industry obviously knows they're putting themselves in a high risk position to begin with -- that is, if they have any brains at all. I mean, AIM does what it can to protect us, but their system isn't foolproof, as we all saw earlier this year. It helps, but it isn't perfect, and it won't ever be perfect. This is a high-risk occupation when it comes to STDs.

I tell all new girls who approach me about breaking into porn: "If you're totally petrified at the thought of getting an STD -- ANY STD -- then don't do porn. Just because I was lucky enough to not catch something doesn't mean you will be."

Is it possible, or even desirable, to ban anyone who has herpes or HPV? Who knows -- obviously not, as the industry hasn't made any steps toward testing for either one of these easily transmittable diseases.

Bill Margold wants the industry to stop shooting anyone under 21. Before I ever shot my first film, I read about the industry, talked to as many adult insiders as I could, and followed the news and gossip sites for six months, trying to educate myself about the business. Did it help me? Absolutely. Does every young girl who breaks into porn do this? Of course not. Is it a producer's or agent's responsibility to educate a newbie about the dangers of STDs? No...it's up to the performer to learn about the business. One cool thing that AIM does is provide these PORN 101 tapes to brand new talent , and the tapes are invaluable ways to learn about how porn can affect you emotionally, physically, and financially.

The diseases are going to be spread, anyway. Look at the incidence of Herpes infection in the general population. There was such an industry uproar when the state of California announced they were going to start testing for ALL STD's (including Herpes and HPV) and that performers found infected would not be able to work...because so many people in XXX are infected. Is that a good thing? Who knows? I think that, like wearing a motorcycle helment or a seat belt, the government needs to stay out of it and let the performers choose their level of acceptable risk. I chose mine, which is why so many of my scenes are condom only. Has that affected my career? Absolutely. Am I glad I stuck to my guns for as long as I did? Hell, yes. Would I do Rocco, knowing he has herpes? Not without a condom, I wouldn't.

Internext is shrinking

50 Cent writes on GFY: Is it me or is Internext shrinking? This year it is 25% smaller then last year. Most people do not exhibit anymore, WTF? Any thoughts on this? And who has the nicest booth? Because I have to admit there are not many to choose from. What does it mean when companies no longer exhibit, does it mean they don't want to spend the $? or does it mean they don't really give a ---- about their webmasters/customers? or what?

BVF writes: It's cheaper to hire a few big titty bimbos to wear cute shirts with the company logo on them... Having a known personality or a cute bimbo wearing your sh-t probably brings the same or better return than having a booth.

Belly Flop Contest Sneak Peak!! ( pics)

Nicole Kidman stands in line to pay her bills!

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman certainly doesn't seem to have too many starry airs about her, as she recently mingled with the surprised customers in the Sydney store "David Jones" and also stood in line to pay her bills.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the store has become a favourite with the "The Hours" actress's family, as her mother Janelle was spotted shopping for a swimming cossie at the store, earlier this week.

Kidman reportedly bought a scarf and a Channel perfume after which the down to earth actress stood in the queue to pay her bills and signed autographs. (ANI)

David Hoffman Update

I'm in Prague [again]. I left in February after the winter hit when I got real depressed (standard thing that happens to all expats - little did I know). I went back to the States with dreams of settling on the Oregon coast. Went to Oregon coast - hated it and became even more depressed - came back to Prague. I am just getting resettled here. Plan to do some anti-trafficking volunteer work with Caritas International.

I also want to do some porn stills. I will need a conduit or middle-man to sell my CDs. I don't yet have Internet an connection so I'm typing from an I-cafe. I got a small but real nice flat in the Mala Strana district of Old Town. stopslavery at hotmail.com.

Devon Wants Mike South Whacked?

Mike South reports:

Devon has reportedly contacted someone she knows and tried to persuade him to send three guys here to beat me up or kill me or some such. Well hell she is blonde and probably too dumb to know theres a law against that....

Thing is this keeps dragging on and on because she seems to have some sort of idea that she can use intimidation tactics on me to keep me from saying that apparently her days at Digital Playground are over. I have left out the most damaging stuff because its really more associated with her personal life and I tend to avoid going there. But when someone threatens me with physical violence, well I take that pretty personal, even if it's an indirect threat, and heres the deal...I actually like Adella and have no desire to cause her any further headaches over Devon, I know DP would love to see all of this fall off the radar, there's way too much positive stuff going on over there to get mired up in this. Ignore it and maybe it will go away....kinda like Nic Andrews.

One final word to the wise Devon, let it go.

Ava Vincent Interview

Last time I talked to Ava, she was in a passionate relationship with male performer Kurt Lockwood.

Courtesy of Fetishbucks.com

I met Ava Vincent in May 2001 on a porn set. We laughed our way through a long interview. She'd been warned about me and did not say anything stupid.

I call Ava Vincent (who entered porn in 1999 from Sacramento) Friday afternoon, October 10, 2003.

Luke: "Did your ex-boyfriend John Decker lose an eye in a fight?"

Ava: "Not in fight. It's funny how gossip gets around. He was changing a tire and a piece of the metal broke and flew into his eye and he'll never be able to see out of it again."

Luke: "Bring me up to speed since our last conversation in May 2001."

Ava: "After [breaking up with] John Decker, I took a year off. I started up again in 2002 and I've worked steadily. Currently I'm with Kurt Lockwood. I'm only working with him and girls."

Luke: "How did you meet Kurt?"

Ava: "I met him at the bank. I was going in to Ralphs [end of 2002] and to pay my bills at Wells Fargo. He was there. He was like, 'Are you Ava?' He knew who I was. I guess I was one of his favorite porn stars. I was a little frightened at first but it turned out to be a good thing."

Luke: "What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a relationship with somebody in the business?"

Ava: "I have someone who understands the business. I have to keep the disadvantages in perspective because now I'm only working with him, while I don't have any problem with him working with other girls. "I'm just moving with him right now and I haven't spent a night at my house since March. We've gotten to know each other well."

Luke: "You've got a toothbrush at his place?"

Ava: "You could say that."

Luke: "That's the first thing I've noticed when I get into a relationship with someone - I have my own toothbrush at her place, and she at mine. Then I leave stuff over at her house and she leaves clothing or jewelry at mine. Marking of territory."

Ava: "I started bringing over clothes and then other stuff. Then I brought over my dog and cat. That's why we moved to a house in Northridge because two dogs and all, it was cramped."

Luke: "What did you do while you were gone from porn?"

Ava: "I left for the better part of a year. I needed to get myself together. I pursued some mainstream things - modeling and acting. Things I'd always wanted to do. I was a theater major and all those things interested me but I just never gave myself the time to pursue them."

Luke: "Why would you come back to porn? Most people would rather work in mainstream."

Ava: "It's not like I was doing a Topgun movie. I wasn't doing anything big or financially successful. I wanted to come back to the industry. I didn't leave it because I hated it. I wanted to show people that I could still work and that everything was all right with me."

Luke: "Why have you been able to last so long in the industry while most people drop out after a few months?"

Ava: "It hasn't been hard for me. I'm always offered work."

Luke: "Will it be difficult for you to grow old in the industry?"

Ava: "I think I will only be in front of the camera for a couple of more years.

"I majored in theater in college. My plan was to come to LA to be an actress, and if things didn't work out, I'd be a drama teacher or work in psychology."

Luke: "Do you have any fears what working in this industry will do to your chances at success in other work?"

Ava: "I understand that this industry has limited my options. I'm never going to be in the Mickey Mouse club. I'm never going to teach elementary school. I will never be an elementary school teacher. When it comes to other realms of teaching like college, I don't think I have anything to worry about."

Luke: "You'd be a popular high school teacher?"

Ava: "If somebody recognized me, I'd be toast."

Luke: "If I were in high school, I'd definitely take your class. I'd sign up for theater for the first time. 'Check out that. Wow. Did you see her movies?'

"Have you noticed any changes in the industry since George Bush took office?"

Ava: "Yes. Vivid, for instance, sent out a list of all the stuff you couldn't do once he took office. Certain fingers in certain holes. No black guys working with white girls. There were certain measures taken to avoid going to court. There weren't any legal changes made. It was just to cover their asses."

Luke: "Do you sense much fear in the industry over further obscenity crackdowns (since Rob Black has been charged with obscenity)?"

Ava: "I do. I hear people talking about it. A lot of companies are taking it into consideration."

Luke: "Did you do interracial?"

Ava: "I did when I did gonzo. And anal. Once I started doing features, people just assumed I didn't do [either].

"I used to work at an adult bookstore. I knew what the different companies did. I knew that when Max Hardcore called me, he was beyond my limit and I told him no."

Luke: "Have you ever been pushed to do anything you didn't want to do?"

Ava: "Yeah. I was in the Rough Sex series [for Anabolic in late 1999]. It was well documented. I worked under the name "Jewel Valmont" then. I had Gene Ross tell me it was worse than the Rob Black movies.

"When I got to the set, they were detailed about what they wanted in the scene. I talked to Linda Thoren's boyfriend about it. I told him there were things I wasn't comfortable with that they wanted and they went ahead and did them to me anyway."

Luke: "I remember the word 'rape' was used."

Ava: "I can't say that happened. I never stopped the scene. The director [Kahn Tusion] could've said, 'Stop, she's not comfortable with that,' but he was more interested in getting a good scene. I wasn't trying to get them in trouble. I wasn't trying to get them to take it off the market. The things I said just happened to come up in an interview. Linda Thoren took it upon herself to have an agenda against Anabolic. She published everything [on the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica].

"I was glad because a couple of other girls came forward and said the same thing happened to them."

Luke: "Did anything like that happen to you again?"

Ava: "No. I've walked off a couple of sets. I was told the scene was for a certain amount of money and then they change their mind when you get there."

Luke: "Has the industry tried to drive you down with your [pay] rates?"

Ava: "I've always tried to be reasonable. I'd rather not ask for money. I don't like to talk about money. Not that I was cheap."

Luke: "Have you had anyone bounce checks on you?"

Ava: "Yes, Sin City. "

Luke: "Michael Raven?"

Ava laughs. "Yes. The only person who has not made it good to me is Alec Metro. I saw him at Jim South's the other day and he says it was because the company did not pay him. I was trying to hunt him down for a long time. I'm sure you've heard the story. He changed his numbers and he moved. He dropped out. I imagine it was not just because the company didn't pay him.

"Paul Thomas [Vivid director and producer] never made good. He hit my car in 2001. It was two-weeks old. It was after John Decker had crashed my previous one. I'd just bought this Mercury Cougar. I paid for it in cash. Paul Thomas hit it on a set while it was parked and I wasn't in it. I came back and my car was all messed up. 'What happened?'

"Paul tried to lie about it. 'I don't know who did it but keep it quiet and see if anyone comes forward.' And as we were leaving on the last day of the shoot, he goes, 'Hurry up and move out of the way or I will hit your car again.' He admitted to me after that. He said he was going to pay for it. 'Let's not involve our insurance companies because my insurance will go up. I'll just pay for it.' And he never did.

"The high estimate was $3000. I ended up paying $1500. I drove around with my car messed up for the longest time. My previous car was an Eagle Talon. I had to trade in my Cougar because the transmission went out on me after the warranty expired. I've had bad car luck."

Luke: "Has Kurt Lockwood crashed any of your cars?"

Ava: "No. I have more faith in him. John Decker was not supposed to be driving my car when he totaled it. I was in Chicago on a radio station interview. I told him specifically not to drive my car."

Luke: "Did you break up with him soon after that?"

Ava: "Yeah, soon after that."

Luke: "What do you like about the industry?"

Ava: "It's an interesting subculture. It's like highschool. It has its drawbacks but it is also comforting in a way. You know everyone. I like going to the AVN Awards. It's exciting.

"You're not working a 9-5 job. Before I entered the industry, I worked at Mervyns. And before that, I managed an adult bookstore. I could barely pay my rent. They had me working 70 hours a week."

Luke: "Do you ever regret that you left Mervyns for this industry?"

Ava: "Not at all."

Luke: "You could've been a women's wear manager by now.

"I don't like the thought of my girl ever having sex before me."

Ava: "You and Kurt have something in common. I don't know how common that [attitude] is. I never encountered that before Kurt. It's hard sometimes. I know he works with other girls and I don't have a problem with that. I can't tell him much about my scenes before him."

Luke: "I'd get so jealous if I were him."

Ava: "[That attitude] has its advantages too. It's romantic."

Luke: "I don't like hearing about how her previous guys were so big."

Ava: "Why would she tell you? I was watching TV the other day. They had Ashton Kushner's [Demi Moore's boyfriend] rules of dating: Don't ever ask a guy if he wants to have sex, because the answer is always yes. Don't ever interrupt a guy while he's watching his game unless it is to have sex. Don't say anything about an ex-boyfriend unless it is really bad."

DUC proceeds to share his deepest darkest secrets.

Ava giggles: "I like that. I like learning people's deepest darkest secrets. When people share their secrets with me, I feel like a little kid. It's a giggly exciting thing for me. Maybe I'd be a good interviewer."

Luke: "Maybe you'd make a good psychotherapist?"

Ava giggles: "I think they'd have a problem with me getting giggly after they tell me their secrets. 'You're not a good therapist, making fun of me.' No, I'm not. It's just exciting."

Luke: "How old were you when you first had sex?"

Ava: "Sixteen. It wasn't that great of an experience. The first time is always a weird experience. At least for girls. It was a guy I was with at summer camp. He was trying to be with me and his girlfriend who was not at the summer camp. He wasn't that nice about things."

Luke: "What are your fondest memories of high school?"

Ava: "It was the later part of high school. I started out shy. I got moved around a lot and I didn't know anyone. My grades were terrible because I was so unhappy. I wanted to be in theater but I was too soft spoken for people to hear me from the stage. About half way through high school, I made a decision to get good grades and to do well. After that, I got straight As and all the leads in the plays.

"I had a great time at my Senior Prom. I had a group of friend - eight girls and guys. We decided we should have our king and queen. We went to the prom for about 15 minutes just to say we went. Half of us went mini-golfing and the other half, that I was in, went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Berkeley. And then we stayed at in a hotel room in Carmel. It was fun but it wasn't particularly romantic or sexual."

Luke: "You mainly hung out with theater people in high school?"

Ava: "Yeah. I was too shy..."

Luke: "What books have you been reading?"

Ava: "I've read all the Ann Rice books but for some reason I've started rereading Interview With A Vampire. I've been reading make-up books. I'm thinking of becoming a make-up artist."

Luke: "Do you practice on Kurt Lockwood?"

Ava: "No, but I could."

Luke: "Does he ever try to dress up in your clothing?"

Ava: "No."

Luke: "Do you ever dress up in his clothing?"

Ava: "Oh yeah. I wear his clothes all the time. I wear his underwear to bed. Do you wear girls' clothes?"

Luke: "NO! I am fascinated with girls' underwear, lingerie. I would never wear it but I like seeing her in it. I'm amazed by all the differences clothing, lingerie, make-up, and hair bring out in a woman. Everything I've got is black.

"Have you always been blond?"

Ava: "No. My natural hair color is a light brown. I wanted to dye it blonde in high school but my mom said my hair would fall out. I dyed the top of my hair red and black before I got in the industry. When I started [in porn], my hair was dark brown. I prefer it blonde. I think it looks more natural on me because I'm fair-skinned. It makes me look younger than dark hair, which can be harsh on white girls like me. I wore a black wig in Euphoria a couple of years ago and many people said it look good. If I could dye my hair a different color every day and not worry about it falling out, I would."

Luke: "How would your best friends describe you?"

Ava: "That would be [make-up artist Red Velvet]. She thinks that I'm a nice person, sweet, kind, and that I work hard to make people happy. That if I need to change, I do. She would also say that I can be argumentative and sometimes more negative than positive. I think the majority of what she would have to say is nice."

Luke: "Do you find your personality changing with your hair color?"

Ava: "Not without me controlling it. I notice that I can get away with a lot more when I'm blonde and that I can play a lot more."

Luke: "Do you ever get speeding tickets, or when you are pulled over, do cops let you go?"

Ava: "I've gotten speeding tickets. I've gotten pulled over and they never let me go. I even had a cop, after he gave me a ticket, start hitting on me. Why did you give me the ticket then, man? I don't have great luck with cars and tickets. I've never had my driver's license taken away."

Luke: "Have you ever spent time in jail?"

Ava hesitates. "I did spend one night in jail. I don't know if I should tell you. It wasn't that big of a deal. I had taken an Ambian sleeping pill. I was especially stressed. It was at the end of my relationship with John Decker. He was not saying nice things to me. He was threatening me. I had taken an Ambian to go to sleep. I had a big day the next day. Then he was threatening me. I felt so unsafe, that I had to drive away. And I feel asleep driving. It wasn't really asleep. Ambian will put you into a trance like sleepwalking.

"The police pulled me over. They understood what was going on. They didn't want me to get into an accident, so they put me in jail for, like, a DUI. But they didn't take my license away."

Luke: "Were you molested while you were in jail?"

Ava: "No. The opposite. I was neglected. I was completely by myself. They wouldn't even give me a blanked. They wouldn't even come when I called. It was horrible."

Luke: "So you wouldn't recommend it?"

Ava: "No. Even though I hadn't showered and looked like hell, there was still a guy hitting on me, wanting to help me pick up car that was towed."

Luke: "Women don't understand when men hit on them [and the women are not wearing make-up]."

Ava: "I get hit on at the grocery store more than anywhere else, and I never have any make-up on. What are you guys thinking about?"

Luke: "Sex. "Do they use any good lines?"

Ava: "I've never had anyone came up with anything clever. It's more, 'You're pretty. Can I have your phone number?'"

Luke: "Do most of them recognize you from your movies?"

Ava: "I don't think so. If they do, they don't say anything to me about it. Usually where I get recognized is Rite-Aid. They will say, 'Do I know you?' I will say no. 'Are you sure? I've seen you somewhere.'"

Luke: "How often do you get recognized?"

Ava: "Every once in a while. They just want to know if I am who they think I am. Then they go on their way, except for Kurt. He was quick to add that he'd been in the industry four months."

Luke: "Have you ever had a stalker?"

Ava: "No."

Luke: "Would you like one?"

Ava giggles: "Would you like to be my stalker?"

Luke: "Maybe."

Ava: "Have you ever stalked anyone before?"

Luke: "No."

Ava: "But you'd make a special exception for me?"

Luke: "Maybe."

Ava: "What would you do as my stalker?"

Luke: "Only if you wanted it. I'd peer in your windows."

Ava: "I think Kurt might get mad. It might be dangerous with our dogs."

Luke: "I'd run in and try on all your clothes."

Ava: "See? You weren't telling me this before."

Luke: "I couldn't admit it before, but now I feel more relaxed."

Ava: "Just because you admitted it, I'd let you try on all my underwear."

Luke: "That'd be a dream come true, as long as Kurt would not mind."

Ava: "It's funny how quick you are to say that."

Luke: "I'm a respectful stalker."

Ava: "I take it you wouldn't mind if Kurt asked your girlfriend if he could try on all her underwear?"

Luke: "I wouldn't appreciate that. I'd find it threatening."

Ava: "I think it would be funny."

Luke: "I don't like guys even looking at my girlfriend. I want to punch them in the face if they look at her for more than two seconds."

Ava: "That's how Kurt is too. I've never worn the clothes I do around him."

Luke: "Oh yeah. I want my girlfriend to wear longer dresses and longer sleeves and looser pants and cover the jewels up top. No peaks for the public."

Ava: "In Iraq or Iran, he would be perfectly content with the dress code."

Luke: "So would I. Keep her in a chador. Keep her at home pumping out babies, my babies.

"I guess bukkake is out for you."

Ava: "Yeah, but it was never in to begin with."

Luke: "That's uptight of you."

Ava: "Not really. Think about what it is. It's awful. I don't find anything sexy about it. I don't know anyone who's done it find it sexy. It's just a spectacle. I find its origins disturbing. [Purported Japanese ritual where a wife caught in adult is ejaculated on by all the men in the village and killed.]"

Luke: "If Kurt caught you in adultery, would he force you to do bukkake?"

Ava: "No. Would you force your girlfriend?"

Luke: "No. I'd blow my brains out if my girlfriend did a bukkake."

Ava: "He'd feel similarly.

"That we're fantasizing about this and putting it in a porn video is disturbing."

Luke: "There's a lot of disturbing stuff in this industry."

Ava: "I find that one especially so. I find the description of Rob Black's movies disturbing."

Luke: "Do you find it disturbing to have fans?"

Ava: "Not at all. I find it comforting. If I think about someone using it, I don't like to think about it. I used to be a fan of porn stars. It's nice to be what I once admired."

Luke: "What do you think about the look men get before they peak?"

Ava: "I get all excited and giggly when I have a secret. That face is a personal thing that a guy makes before he cums. It's different for everyone. I know what you look like when you cum. I tease Kurt about it. He gets a sexy face before he cums. It's always the same. He doesn't even know he does it."

Luke: "What does he sound like?"

Ava: "He's different on camera than at home. It's more his facial expression."

Luke: "Like a wounded hamster?"

Ava: "He just does this thing with his lips. He pushes it to the side and looks at something hard. What kind of looks do you get?"

Luke: "I look like Brad Pitt."

Ava: "Your face magically transforms into Brad Pitt."

Luke: "I used to be very religious when I came - Oh Lord, Oh Jesus Christ, Oh God. Do a lot of guys still do that or is that a thing of the past?"

Ava: "It's a thing of the past. I haven't experienced that. I don't go with very religious guys."

Luke: "I like to immediately gargle after going down on a woman."

Ava: "I brush my teeth after I eat anything.

"Kurt says a director wanted him to kiss a girl after cumming on her face. He said no."

Luke: "Is Kurt so flexible that he can go down on himself?"

Ava: "I don't think so. I've never seen him try.

"Tell me some more secrets."

Luke: "I like to find hot gossip for my website."

Ava: "That's not a secret. It's probably the worst kept secret in the industry. I was warned about you a long time ago. Way before we met. I was never worried about anything while I was with John because he said you guys had an understanding. You wouldn't say anything bad about him and he wouldn't kill you."

Luke: "Don't tell Kurt. I don't want him calling me - 'If you don't take that down, I'm going to kick your ass.'"

Ava: "Well, just don't say anything bad about him."

Luke: "I would never do that."

Ava: "You're not going to write anything bad about me either?"

Luke: "No."

Ava: "You say that innocently like you've never done it before."

Luke: "I'm just misunderstood."

Ava: "I don't keep on the gossip columns but Kurt does. He will be checking on this."

Luke: "I just get taken out of context."

Ava: "I can understand that. I've had that happen. I was on a couple of those TV Fifth Wheel dating shows. I know they take people out of context. I was on my best behavior to make sure nothing I said could be taken out for a snip. I never got to see the shows. Other people told me I looked good. I guess I should ask them for a copy."

Luke: "Just don't let Kurt see them."

Ava: "Sometimes he will see something in Adam Film World or something and he'll say, 'Ah hah.'

"That's one of the reasons I don't get tapes of myself. I don't own a VCR.

"Do you ever tape yourself having sex?"

Luke: "Never. I'm too shy."

Ava: "A lot of people don't believe me when I say I'm a shy porn star. Like acting, the adult business allows you to assume a different character."

A few months ago, Ava and Kurt broke up. He is now with Jill Kelly Productions contract girl Tyler Faith.

There's been some catty remarks about the romances made on Internet boards.

I email Ava and she calls me back Friday, August 6, 2004.

"I was just on the other line leaving a message with Kurt, since he's too immature to pick up any of my phone calls. Even though I care for his two dogs. Every once in a while, he feels neglected by his girlfriend, who I was told was not his girlfriend anymore, and he calls me for an ego boost and takes me out to dinner. He needs somebody to talk to.

"I feel incredibly betrayed by the man in so many ways. He said I fed him to the wolves because I told Tyler the truth about everything. She called me. Apparently, it is Tyler who fed him to the wolves, because I haven't talked to you. I haven't talked to the press.

"Apparently. I just read your email [quoting this thread]. I hadn't read my email in four months. I see yours right at the top."

From XXXPorntalk.com, Sportswami [based on things Tyler and Ava told him in confidence] writes:

"If you want to know of a real feud... Tyler Faith vs. Ava Vincent. Both women dated Kurt Lockwood and each claims that the other is harrassing, deficating, and playing kiddie games with the other. Tyler states that Ava is psychotic, threatens her, and is jealous that Kurt is with her. Ava has stated that Tyler stole Kurt Lockwood away from her while they were together, has embarrassed her in front of JKP people, and tried to blackball her."

"I have a lot of anger at this guy. I tailored that interview I did with you for him and he was pissed."

"You were very sweet to him."

"He sees things differently than other people do. His publicist thought it was sweet too. I called him up. I was worried. That's why I sent you that sexy picture of the Iraqi woman. I was trying to make joke to make him feel better.

"He's broken into my house four times in the last month.

"Now I know why I haven't seen his apartment yet. He has a girlfriend and she's probably living with him."

"Is he still with Tyler?"

"He is still with The Bitch. I call her The Bitch. I couldn't believe that word 'deficating.' Where did that come from? Unless you are talking about cats or something.

"I wasn't even allowed to see my animals because I got kicked out of my house on the date that would've been our anniversary and I was supposed to shoot for a photographer... He apparently forgot because he smoked too much pot and had gone to karaoke that night with her.

"I wasn't working for a year for him. Not softcore. Nothing. He spent all his time on his own Web site. I don't have a Web site. He could've helped me out if he was so concerned. I don't even have a computer.

"I had no money, maybe $8, when he said, either you have to get out or I have to get out... I said, I love this place. I found it for us. But I can't pay the next month's rent. It was a couple of days away. I got thrown out of my own house. I had to sign a piece of paper that said I was off the lease.

"When I found out that Tyler was living there, it made me upset. I told the landlord, I will bribe you. I just want that house not filled with other people... I offered to pay them $5,000 to get another place. It meant a lot to me. He obviously doesn't know what love is.

"I didn't want to picture them kissing in front of my washing machine that they had just f---ed on. Legally, I was still on the lease. He was just bluffing. I talked to the police. I talked to some lawyers. So I've got the house. I'm back. It's mine.

"I'm sure they're living together because I've never been invited to his place."

Ava talks about a prospective movie.

"Kurt's a racist bastard. He can't stand the sight of a black man f---ing a white girl. It was an interracial and with his least favorite actor aside from Randy Spears, Barrett Blade. Kurt's jealous of him. Kurt used to look like Barrett when he was in a band. Before he worked out. Before his ex-wife dumped him. He worked out for three years to get the body that he's got.

"Kurt's good looking. He's a good actor, but he's the biggest prima donna, bigger than Dale DaBone. Bigger than Herschel Savage. He's got it all going for him. He's just got too much of an attitude and an anger management problem.

"While Kurt was loving in the house that I found, saying I love you to Tyler, leading me on that we were going to get back together. I thought Tyler was a roommate, not even sleeping in the same room. I knew nothing.

"I only did gonzo movies in my first year. I didn't think I was good enough for feature movies. I didn't think I was pretty enough. I didn't want to be rejected.

"I remember when I first walked into an adult bookstore... I had never seen a porno. I looked at the boxcovers and thought, they're giving away the plot."

GFY Party

Serge writes on Oprano.com: There are two types of people in this business. Those who have to go to the shows (Lensman on the left, owner of GFY) and those who don't (Yishai, fat guy in the middle).

Cerpacol writes on JBM: "Only 8 dollars a drink.. Way to go Joe, way to go."

Peaches writes: "You must not know anyone - there was an abundance of drink tickets up until the time I left - about 1:30 AM."

WEG Gabe writes: "Lens & Eric were passing the tickets out as well as Bob & BigB from CE. I dont really drink liquor and the beer on tap was free. So now Im staring at 6 drink tickets that I "forgot" to use."

AVN Online

Berg the Red writes on JBM: anybody else all of a sudden start getting a freaking e-mail a day from these folks ?? i probably signed up for it years ago and got maybe one a month or something from `em. worse yet --the un-subscribe makes ya jump through f-cking hoops to get ya off of it. time to just block sender/new mail rule on this one ... grrrrrrr

TOP 10 McGreevey Jokes

10 NJ state bird: The Swallow
9 NJ turnpike renamed Hershey Highway
8 NJ raises terror alert level to lavender
7 We know he didn't like bush, but this is ridiculous
6 Now we know why McGreevey enjoyed "polling" so much
5 What does McGreevey and the Isreali navy have in common? jewish seamen.
4 NJ DMV to now call rear end accidents, a McGreevey.
3 Gives new meaning to stuffing the ballot box
Newspaper Headline.... McGreevey Goes Down
1 Shouldn't take McGreevey long to get out of the governers mansion, he's already got his sh*t packed!

The Mystery Of Britney Spears' Breasts - An Issue Facing The Nation

Britney Spears says that her breasts are real. But according to my studies, this is not true. Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 Pic5

Britney on the run Britney bare-footin' Britney Britney Britney

I believe that breast implants are a consequence of the decline of organized religion. Without transcendent values, people's concerns shift to an animalistic plane. Women begin to compete, not in the sturdiness of their values, but in the firmness of their breasts. This is most unfortunate. I'm thinking of declaring a national fast day for my readers so we can pray about this problem.

Every day I go to shul and pray for the gift of chastity. It seems like such a small thing to ask, yet the Almighty keeps it from me. I suppose that this constant thorn in my flesh reminds me of my fallen state. It keeps me humble and serves as a spur to my spiritual growth.

The Top Fourteen Passover Pickup Lines

1. Let's make this night really different from all others nights

2. What will you do to me for two zuzim?

3. What's a girl like you doing at a seder like this?

4. I like my matzah thin, like my women.

5. Maybe when Elijah comes, we can make it a threesome

6. I hear that horseradish is an aphrodisiac

7. Nice Hagadah

8. After four cups of wine, you look like Cindy Crawford

9. I bet I could make you sing Dayenu!

10. Did that just say we were in bondage?

11. I could never Pass you Over...

12. I'm going to have to search you for chometz

13. Gefilte fish jelly makes for great lubrication

14. Did someone say Staff?

Ginger Lynn Opens Up To Sports Swami

Gene Ross reports for Adultfyi:

"Ronnie [Jeremy] was playing my husband in one of the films that we did. The producer said you owe us this many scenes. You owe us another sex cene. I had not told anybody about the rape. I was scared. I was young. I didn't know what to do. I felt victimized. I felt angered. I felt embarrased. Yet I wanted to do a good job." Lynn said she isn't making any excuses. "I was young- I didn't know what to do. I did work with him after this happened. I don't know if it was the next day or two days later. But I think that a lot of times when things happen that are unfortunate or are plain out disgusting and revolting, for me, I have my defense mechanism and my shut-down face and mode where I pretend it didn't happen."

Swami said he's also heard a rumor that the father of Lynn's son is Steve Hirsch and wanted to know if it were true or not.

"A father is somebody that loves their child," she replied. "I would say that my son's father is the person God chose to put with me to create my son. That's what he is- he's a sperm donor, someone that I cared very much about for a very long time who wasn't ready or mature enough to have a child and found that power, greed and fortune were more important than family. We've very different viewpoints on what's important in life. As to who he is, I am bound and gagged as to who my son's biological father is."

From all reports, Vivid owner Steve Hirsch is now a happily married doting father of two. I don't think he wanted to marry a porn star. So he married the former head of sales for Video Team.

Backdoor To Hollywood

Hollywood Actresses: Their Amazing Tales.

I think that will be my next book. The stories of girls who get off the bus in LA at age 18 or so and try to become actresses. Their harrowing tales. Has anyone done this before?

I think this could be a lot more fun than writing about movie producers and Jewish journalists.

So I was talking to an ex-girlfriend and inviting her to my book party. She was reading My Life by Clinton. Up to page 580. Just 400 or so to go. She said it was good.

"Well, it's no XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul" I protested.

"How long is your memoir?"

"One hundred seventy four pages. Just a quick swallow."

"I'm going to ignore that," she said.

DP Tonight August 10

The porn press crowd into the kitchen. Hardcoresource.com, Ron Sullivan, Devan from Hardcoregossip.com, Carly Milne, Tod Hunter. There are abundant sandwiches, snacks and soft drinks.

Ron has two sons -- Nathan and Jason. Both are rich. Nathan is the richest. He's going to give Ron his gold 1984 Mercedes.

At 6:35 p.m., the press conference begins. Jesse Jane calls us to order. She invites out Teagan Presley, the new Digital Playground contract girl.

Teagan is the first DP contract girl who does anal, though she says she looks forward to taking an anal break to recover from her last seven months doing gonzo porn."

I'm teased about my clothes, particularly my long black socks. I offer my socks to Flower and Mari Possa who are bare in their shoes. They refuse.

7:30 p.m. Kenny B writes in that he worked with Jesse Jane's father in the Air Force. Jesse is shocked. She moves her head in surprise and then laughs loudly.

Flower says, "I can do girl-girl movies [with other companies aside from Seymore Butts, as can Mari Possa]. I'm anal exclusive. I just can't have a penis in my ass."

Nadia Styles (of Spanish ancestry) is the Virgin Vixen. She joins Jesse and Teagan on the couch.

She worked as a secretary at Netvideogirls. She's been performing in porn for five months, done about a dozen scenes, and was recently on the Howard Stern Show promoting Macandbumble.com.

Jesse: "Teagan came to my house. The guards never let her in, even though her name is on the list. I said to him, come on. She's supposed to lay in bed with me. Why won't you let her in? He freaked out."

Teagan: "He said, who are you? I said, dude, you saw me five minutes ago."

Jesse: "I just found out she lives on the same hall as my friend."

Teagan: "I'm always there."

Jesse: "We all get together and party."

Teagan: "We've always passing out."

Nadia: "We like to go to sushi places and drink sake. And then we come back to my house and get naked."

Jesse: "My friends and I like to walk around the house naked. Sometimes, if you have a new friend over, and you don't even think about it, and they're like, whoah... People get the most shocked looks on their faces, like they don't even know what to say. My neighbors get shocked. I'll be wearing little shorts to go get laundry and there will be this family and they'll freak out. Oh yeah, other people might not be so open."

Teagan: "They're not all like us?"

Teagan Presley at DP's Aug 10 newsconference Jesse Jane, Teagan hug Jesse, Teagan Jesse, Teagan Teagan Teagan Teagan Jesse, Teagan Jesse, Teagan Jesse, Teagan Teagan Teagan Teagan Flower, Mari Possa Nadia Nadia Nadia Nadia Nadia Nadia Flower, Mari Possa Flower, Mari Possa Mari Possa, Teagan Mari Possa, Teagan Flower, Teagan Flower, Teagan Flower, Teagan Jesse, Flower Flower, Teagan Jesse, Flower Nadia Nadia Mari Possa, Jesse, Nadia Teagan, Flower Nadia, Teagan, Flower Teagan, Flower Teagan, Flower Nadia, Teagan, Flower Teagan, Flower

DCypher reports for Hardcoregossip.com:

Ron Sullivan is one strange guy, asking Teagan if she has a note from her mom to make porn movies one minute and then making (not so) veiled sexual innuendos at her the next. Go Ron!
Teagan likes girls more than she likes guys, has no boyfriend, and got into porn to piss someone off. Teagan chose Digital Playground because she liked the PR and marketing the company has to offer her.
Teagan will no longer be on KSEX Radio due to Digital owning DP TONIGHT.
Teagan is Croatian and Swedish but was somehow born in Houston Texas, yeehaawwwww!!!!
Teagan took drama course in high school and thinks she will do just fine in features because of her early training. She is considering taking more acting courses to improve her skills.

Preparing For The Day Your Contract Expires

Richard writes MikeSouth.com:

I deal with this same thing in mainstream television. Most on air personalities have contracts ( Katie Couric is a "contract girl"), and as with all contracts, they have a limited time. When you sign a contract with a tv station, radio station or porn company, it WILL run out. Then the company has to decide if they want to renew you, or you may decide to move on. Either way, it seems most folks.male and female.seem unable to accept that their job has a limited period. I've had several talents crying their eyes out when they were told their contract would not be renewed. And they seem unwilling to understand that it may not be about them personally, but that the bosses feel they can do better with someone else. Hell CNN sent a bunch of very talented and well-respected people into TV oblivion when they did not renew contracts of the higher paid people. Moreover, it had no reflection on their ability; they just made more money than the company (AOhell) was willing to pay.

So, I would add to your list of advice for performers that your contract is not indefinite, and that you should prepare for the day when it will run out. You can allow it to devastate or "destroy" you, or you can let it be the springboard to new and better opportunity.

Geez I sound like Tony Robbins.

Movies, television, radio and porn all are limited time careers for on camera/on air people. It will end, and preparing to adapt to that will always put you a long way ahead of the game.

Penthouse Goes Soft

The Penthouse bankruptcy merry-go-round is coming to a full stop - with a new owner who'll convert the magazine to a softer title for mass market newsstands.

A bankruptcy judge approved a reorganization plan yesterday that would strip Mexican investor Enrique Molina from his control of the assets and give it to bondholders led by Florida investor Marc Bell. Bell says he'll clean up the porn magazine and do soft-core video and licensing deals, as he initially planned to do in January.

The settlement came just days after German adult-toy maker Beate Uhse AC pulled out of its joint pact with Molina to fight Bell.

Founder Bob Guccione, 73, will remain its editor at $500,000 a year. Molina's Penthouse International, which owns 100 percent of the common stock of bankrupt magazine owner General Media, won't receive anything.

Adult Internet Law

J. B. Obenberger from AdultInternetLaw.com writes:

Our office has been busy in recent weeks working on appropriate responses to the newly proposed Section 2257 Regulations proposed by the Justice Department. These activities have included consultation with other lawyers, and with many of you, about the catastrophic impact these regulations, if enacted, would have on erotic speech. We have assembled a wealth of historical data concerning the early years of Section 2257, including the first proposal of such a law in the Meese Commission Report and President Reagan's transmittal to Congress, and we are looking forward to sharing with you what we've learned at Internext.*

Larry Walters, Greg Piccionelli, and I were able to meet, collaborate, and jointly prepare proposed comments for use by webmasters* and content providers who wish to tell DOJ about how these regulations threaten to strangle online erotic publishing. *AVN Online will publish an email form on August 13 *through which *you can check* the paragraphs you wish to send to DOJ, and *you can send your objections to DOJ via email*. (This form is no substitute for the serious, careful, individually-crafted comments that should be made by those who have a significant interest at stake in the proposals, preferably with the help of an established Adult Internet legal professional.)

As you know, *these proposals are not the law yet*. For now, they are just proposals, and I take the comment period seriously in this case, because I think that changes to the proposal are not only possible but likely. *If your voice is to be heard, you must transmit your comments to the DOJ on or before August 24*.

A table, prepared by me, *comparing and contrasting* the existing regulations with the proposed changes can be found on my site, here. *More about those changes below*.

Also, on August 13, AVN Online, both print and online edition, will run the *2004 Third Revised Edition of my "Webmaster's Primer on Section 2257"*, which has become a standard work among webmasters since its first publication in 2000. The revision has been massive, but it still is meant to provide a plain-English, practical explanation of the ins and outs of Section 2257 compliance. Inasmuch as we enter an era in which Section 2257 will surely be litigated, I have also added historical reference data to help other lawyers who may be called upon to represent webmasters.

On *Saturday*, August 14, at 1:30 p.m., I will speak at the *Legal Update Seminar of Internext, the AVN Online Show at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida*, together with the same attorneys mentioned above. We have worked together extensively on the issues involved in Saturday's Internext presentation, which will focus on Section 2257 - at least unless some other momentous development in this field of law intervenes between now and the Seminar!

*Some Focus on the Proposed Regulations*

The proposed regulations perpetuate and amplify many of the problems that already exist is the current statute and regulations.What follows is a brief (noncomprehensive!) list of issues adversely significant to the webmaster and producer.

- As they particularly affect small web operations, the proposed regulations require the mandatory records *to be open to government inspection from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.* and whenever the operations take place. This provision works to impose a financial barrier that will be impossible for many; The part-time webmaster, the content provider who wishes to do a location shoot or to shoot in a rented studio, can only do these things if each hires help to man the office during the required hours. These regulations act to put a price tag on some kinds of expression by a large group of persons, establishing by government fiat a price that is practically unreachable by large numbers of producers today.However neither Section 2257 nor the Constitution limit freedom of expression to those who can afford to do it as a full time enterprise.

- The so-called secondary producer provisions (which the proposed regulations perpetuate) impose a duty to obtain or maintain identity records on all persons in the chain of publication, including those with no direct contact with any of the persons depicted. The imposition of such a duty carries with it a continuing and never-ending cycle in which personal identity documents concerning models and performers will be disclosed to ever more numerous and distant persons. This obligation seriously compromises the privacy and endangers the safety of each performer and is likely to lead to such evils as identity theft, stalking, harassment, and uninvited personal sexual solicitation of the performers.

Similarly, The Internet has enabled many persons of limited economic means to publish web sites to a worldwide audience, including web sites with sexually explicit themes. These persons operate websites without any employees from their residence. The "disclosure statement" provisions, as applied to individuals operating web sites from their homes will, in many cases, operate to require these persons to disclose the only address they have, their home address, together with their name. This is an incendiary mix that will lead to the same evils: Stalking, harassment, and uninvited sexual solicitation. - The Secondary Producer requirements may be invalid. The only federal courts to consider the issue determined that the Justice Department went too far by imposing this burdensome set of duties on republishers of explicit material.

- The duty of keeping copies of all depictions is an onerous, impossible burden. Imagine a part-time webmaster trying to make and maintain DVD's for seventeen channels of live, streaming content that his site carries. - Some of the proposed regulations don't make any logical sense at all, including that which requires eleven-point type on a web page disclosure statement. Or that change which requires a webmaster to retain a "copy" of the URL associated with all content. What is a "copy" of alphanumeric address information?

Chanel Chavez

Chico Wang writes on AdultDVDTalk:

Here's an interesting story just from yesterday. I was shooting a scene for Spring Chickens 9 with Joachim and Chanel Chavez.

I know Chanel very well. She hangs out at Boogie Nights from time to time. It was an all-anal scene. Anybody that knows her knows she really gets into the sex. sh-t, I know it from personal experience.

Throughout the scene, from time to time, she says in her way 'no no no' from under her breath. I had to cut the camera to explain to her that when she says no, I can't use it. I tell her to say NO only when she actually means NO. During the breaks, she seems confused and promises me she'll stop saying it. I tell her instead of no, no, no, say yes, yes, yes! She apologizes and we keep shooting. Some knuckehead can read into this as coercive. But it wasn't and can't be read as such.

Now that Spring Chickens 9 is pretty much complete, I'm bringing her back today for another scene for another movie. But this time, I have to instruct her on what NOT to say. Unfortunately, this is just the way she is and she says things during the heat of the action.

NBA Owner In Sex Scandal

From Smoking Gun:

Donald Sterling, the miserly tycoon who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, testified last year that he regularly paid a Beverly Hills woman for sex, describing her as a $500-a-trick "freak" with whom he coupled "all over my building, in my bathroom, upstairs, in the corner, in the elevator."

Sterling's graphic testimony--which came during a two-day pretrial deposition in connection with a lawsuit he filed against the woman, Alexandra Castro--will surely nettle basketball commissioner David Stern, who normally has to explain away the behavior of 20-something athletes, not married 70-year-old club owners worth nearly a billion. During a sworn January 2003 deposition, Sterling denied having a relationship with Castro, though he changed his testimony when questioned again last August. In often explicit detail, Sterling recounted three years of transactions with Castro, whom he met in mid-1999 (below you'll find excerpts from Sterling's deposition).

While acknowledging that, "maybe I morally did something wrong," the Clippers owner was not shy when it came to describing hour-long sessions with Castro, whom Sterling credited with "sucking me all night long" and whose "best sex was better than words could express." Testifying that he was "quietly concealing it from the world," Sterling had a blunt appraisal of his "exciting" relationship with Castro: "It was purely sex for money, money for sex, sex for money, money for sex." Sterling, a Los Angeles real estate mogul, bought the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million and the franchise--one of the most profitable in the NBA--is now worth more than $200 million. Since Sterling's purchase, the team has amassed the NBA's worst combined record and gained a reputation as a stingy operation that will trade an exceptional player before paying him a superstar's salary.

Adult promotions through Contextual & Behavioral Marketing

By $5 Submissions

Most adult webmasters know well enough to use contextual marketing. You may be even using it without being aware of it. It is one of the older methods of advertising.

Example A: you run a link list. In the ANAL section you put your free site anal links or big butt links. You then mix in banners or text links to anal sponsors or other anal-related sponsors.

Example B: Pregnant free site links mixed in with sponsors for pregnant videos, pregnant interracial, and lactating videos.

Operating theory: if a person is looking at content category X, that person is interested in products in similar categories as content category X. There is a vague 1:1 correlation between category/niche and subniche.

The advantage of contextual marketing is that it is passive-ie., you connect the correlating niches with the corresponding sponsors for that niche and related sub-niches. Few webmasters however use behavioral marketing. This may be your trump card when it comes to making more $ for your buck. Unfortunately, this type of marketing requires more effort on your part. It is NOT passive.

Webmasters have to actively read their log reports and perhaps invest in link rotation/auto publication/IP identification scripts to both identify and take advantage of the money-making opportunities inherent in your surfers' clicking and viewing behavior of your site.

Behavioral marketing focuses on targeting your users based not on the content of that pages they are looking at but rather on what they DO on your site. One way to do this is to use individual behavioral tracking to create a group behavioral composite. Individual behavioral tracking involves planting a cookie in your individual user's browser, using the cookie to track onsite behavior, and then expiring the cookie when your user leaves. This results in an individual pattern based on the sequence of pages viewed. Webmasters then find a common pattern and relate the niches that get clicked out to the most.

You can also use LOG files to identify particular clustering behavior. Example : 65% of users that enter category A pages click category B randomized ads or side nav bar items.

Translation: Rotate more of these type of ads/content to category A pages. The end goal of advertising is creating and maximizing sale opportunities. By intelligently using both contextual and behavioral marketing models, Paysite, Free site, bot page, bulk mail page and other operators can fine tune their game using more precise methods than mere trial and error.

Cindy Crawford Hit on Jenna Jameson?

From the NY Post

New York- PORN queen Jenna Jameson tattles on all the horny celebrities she claims have hit on her in her new book - including Cindy Crawford.

In "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" (ReganBooks), Jameson recounts her encounter with the supermodel, whom she met while Jameson was doing a guest-hosting stint on the E! channel.

"I kept getting a weird vibe from her," writes Jameson, an avowed bisexual who's had sex with hundreds of women. "I knew what it meant, because I'd experienced it so many times before, but I kept dismissing it. It couldn't be true: she was Cindy Crawford, after all."

The X-rated icon continues: "When I turned my back . . . Cindy reached over and rubbed the back of my neck. 'Ooh,' she cooed. 'Look at your beautiful tattoo!'

"She touched my neck so softly and sensually . . . It was too much. She was so larger than life that I couldn't even imagine running my tongue along that trademark mole of hers. So I excused myself to get a drink."

Crawford, who once bought a full-page newspaper ad with then-hubby Richard Gere declaring their heterosexuality, has always maintained that she only likes men.)

On another occasion, Jameson had a run-in with "Blade" star Wesley Snipes, whose suave pickup line was, "Do you like it up the [bleep]?"

"Being a porn star, I was used to such questions," Jameson writes. "But Wesley had no idea I was a porn star. Either way, I was offended. I looked at him blankly, stood up, and walked away. That was the first and last time I ever saw him."

Bruce Willis fared only slightly better. At a party once, "He didn't say a word," Jameson recalls, "He [just] pushed me up against the wall and kissed me. After 30 seconds of passionate tongueing, he just walked away without a word."

As Jameson was leaving the bash, she writes, "A bodyguard walked up to me and said, 'Mr. Willis is waiting in his limousine.' 'He's going to be waiting a long time,' I responded. There's a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and he had crossed it."

Elsewhere in the book, co-written by former Times music critic Neil Strauss, Jameson recounts her sex sessions with the "massively endowed" Marilyn Manson and her encounters with Nicolas Cage who smelled like "the distilled sweat of homeless people."

Sticking Up For Luke

Rob writes: I'm stickin' up for Luke. He's spent a decade as his own boss. I don't think he's ever experienced a callus. He'll never have an ulcer. I think he's doing better than some shmoe slaving in some cubicle praying for the weekend. There are worse ways to make a living than munching protein bars at a Rob Spallone shoot.

Every day is a vacation for Luke except, of course, the Sabbath.

Luke, have you submitted your book to Oprah's Book Club yet? I hear her endorsement makes the cash registers sing. Why not comp her one? Ya never know ....

A Question For Nick Denton

I emailed the owner of Fleshbot.com, Gawker.com, Defamer.com, and Wonkette.com:

Dear Mr. Denton, I was chatting with a fellow journo the other day. He said you were out of the closet, that you used to be straight, and that the catty gay mentality pervades your Web sites, which I thought was an interesting assertion. Does your sexual orientation affect your Web sites?

Nick replies:

Hey, -- what a curious email! It's not a particular secret that I'm gay. Though I think Wired Magazine was the first publication to out me in print.

As for the impact that my sex life has on Gawker... Haven't a clue. Introspection has never been my forte. And what does Matt Drudge say to these questions?

Emanuelle Richard writes Luke:

Do you really think this cattiness is necessarily "gay"? Strange Wired description of Nick: "matter-of-factly gay"! Aren't the editors of Fleshbot and Gawker gay too? I don't think it means anything. The ladies love Nick. I remember his 30th birthday party in Budapest (or farewell party? Mmm...) in Budapest at a cool underground jazz club, in a basement: smart babes in micro-skirts were everywhere, including a stunning, curvy Russian Debbie Harry look-a-like. You would have loved it, Luke. Ask Nick to fly for your party next week and to bring his girlfriends.

As for Matt Drudge: some his pals have said that they have no clue about his sexuality, or at least, that they were never given a hint by the man himself. I would be more interested to find out where his sick obsession with abortion comes from.

"With his wife at his side, Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey announced today that he is gay and would resign out of concern over the impact on the governor's office of his disclosure of a sexual relationship with a man."

Digital Playground's Devon

Digital Playground say she's still a contract girl.

Mike South writes:

Digital Playground said the reason Devon wasn't on DPTonight Tuesday was because she had a dancing engagement, presumeably the one Bullheaded wrote about since she was suppossed to start there on Wed, obviously she no showed. Even if she doesn't cry her way back into DP she will still get plenty of work, she is a pretty and very photogenic girl, so don't treat this news like she is gone for good. Devon is notorious for no shows and irresponsible behaviour and I suspect DP just got tired of it. Ray Charles could have seen that DP hasn't been promoting Devon very hard of late and who would blame them....

Bullheaded writes MikeSouth.com:

I see you are the only one so far posting that Devon is leaving DP. I have to admit that she is a favorite, so I went to their site and saw that she just renewed her contract in June, so I was very surprised, but I figure you have the inside track knowing Adella. Devon was scheduled to perform today and the next 4 days at both Club Risque bars in Phila and Bristol, Pennsylvania. They have been heavily promoting it and have had other stars there before. Just today they dropped all mention of her appearance, so I called 215-xxx-xxx and spoke to the manager. She said that Devon cancelled because she has "an illness", but she would be rescheduled soon. I didn't see DPTonight last night, but was Devon there and could you tell if Devon looked sick?

Can the world's biggest porn star go mainstream?

By VANESSA GRIGORIADIS for Rolling Stone

Jenna Jameson has no porn in her house.

How does Vanessa know? Did Vanessa base her assertion on something Jenna told her? Then she should attribute it. Did Vanessa look through every square inch of her home? People routinely hide porn and lie about it.

In fact, the only clue that you're in the house of a porn star is the home office of Jay Grdina, her affable, quirky and not at all creepy husband of one year, the director of her movies, co-proprietor of her production company and Web site, and her only male onscreen sex partner since 1998 ("He doesn't have problems in that department, but still, thank God for Viagra," says Jameson). With surgical steel and diamond earrings the shape of long fake nails that come to a very sharp point in either ear, Grdina, 36, huddles over a warren of computer screens, editing a grainy image of his wife in a latex nurse's uniform bent over a gurney carrying his naked body.

Jameson, in fact, is a very anxious person. She does not like going out in public much these days unless she's promoting something, and in Scottsdale she rarely leaves the house, except to go to a few sushi restaurants; see her horse, which is stabled nearby; and hit one particular tanning salon.

Okidoll writes on AdultDVDTalk.com: "Okay that was really disturbing. It was really sad that she doesn't want to leave her house, and that he has cameras all over the place and doesn't want her to leave or be alone? Maybe she is afraid so he has the cameras? I wonder what they have to say about this article? Does anyone think this was misconstrued by the writer?"

September Details Magazine Profiles Nici Of Nicisgirls.com

She's living in Florida and still pimping girls.

Al Goldstein Homeless

Mr. Goldstein's probation papers officially list him as homeless, and he says he spent much of the last month sleeping in a borrowed car behind a Boston Market restaurant in Pompano Beach and at a shelter for the homeless in Fort Lauderdale.

A large silver cross around his neck gleamed against his chest hair. He has been wearing it for a few months. "I feel doomed as a Jew," he said. "I'll try anything else."

More seriously, his wife suffers from Crohn's disease, a intestinal malady that has left her emaciated. She needs medical treatment that neither she nor he can afford. "I need a job so I can help her," he said.

Stacy Valentine is now an agent

Her friends had a party for her at The Sage Brush Cantina on Sunday. Tabitha Stevens and Nick Manning left together.

Ergi writes: "The Corina Taylor story sounds very true to me. I have no inside information, but Vince Voyeur seems to follow a pattern. The real question is what the hell happened to Vince Voyeur to turn him into the Short-Man-Devil that he is today? I remember one movie from the Anabolic/Diabolic series where Vince and Lex travel to Eastern Europe. According to Vince, he can hear sounds of the war in Kosovo from their location. In one scene, Lex is having sex with a girl who is really in pain and in the end while the girl is wiping tears from her face, a coldhearted Vince is cracking a joke about her lack of intelligence."

Raquel Devine Interview II

"Did sex lose its pleasure by making it professional?"

"No. Being in the adult industry made me appreciate love making as opposed to f---ing. Anybody can f---. Anybody can spread their legs. Women have sex with their brains. If we're not in love with somebody, it's not the same."

"Does the size of the man matter?"

"I don't like it too big.

"I did a ton of anal scenes. I stopped doing it after Jake Steed... I will never do anal again. I don't even want a Q-tip in there. It has never felt good. I'm jealous of girls who have another orifice to have fun with."

"Can you orgasm with a client?"

"Oh yeah."

"You can enjoy your work."

"Oh yeah. Girls who masturbate have a better ability to orgasm. We know our bodies and what we like."

"What did you love and hate about making movies?"

"I loved the freedom. I could choose when I wanted to work and who I wanted to work with. I like role playing.

"I hate bad attitudes. I hate walking on a set with a contract girl who's pissing and moaning because her flowers aren't there. Or, she's going to hold up production for four hours because her boots don't match her skirt. I hate prima donnas. It's porn. Get over yourself. I don't want to hear how beautiful you are and how many awards you have. I don't care what you do for a living but have fun at it. I like what Oprah says, find something you love to do and make money at it. That's exactly what I did."

"How long do you want to keep doing it?"

"I want to be realistic. I don't want to turn into the Michael Jackson of porn.

"I want to be the Brooke Birch of porn. I love cracking jokes. I love entertaining. I want to merge my way out of sexual things. I know guys want to see the newer girls."

"When did you last have plastic surgery?"

"1997. We all do the little botox, but major plastic surgery? 1997. I've never had a face lift or gotten the big lips. A lot of my clients tell me it looks stupid."

"What do you like to do when you are not working?"

"I love to travel. I love to go to Hawaii. I just went to Palm Springs. I love resorts. I love to by the pool getting massages, a tropical drink."

"You love the good life."

"I do. I love anything tropical. Palm trees. The sun out. I don't like crowds. I'd rather enjoy a quiet dinner."

"I wonder how you are going to adjust going back to the real world."

"I'm not going back to the real world. That's why I'm going behind the scenes. That's why I'm directing and producing my own movies.

"I think marriage is a barbaric pre-historic institution."

"Did you like the movie Pretty Woman?"

"I loved it. It's not realistic. You don't have any control in your life if you don't have your own money. Money makes the world go round."

"If you met Bill Clinton, would you be willing to give him oral sex for the good job he did for women?"

"He'd have to pay my rate, or give me a political favor."

A Chat With Homegrown's Lawyer Dave Olsen

By telephone, Wednesday, 10:37 a.m.

Dave: "They're great rulings for us. It was the injunction we were seeking that's been bitterly contested since day one. And we have the ability to hold [Ron] Levi personally responsible. These were our first two goals in the litigation. Now we're going to focus on proving up the damages.

"We're going to have a mediation August 24. If we can't resolve it, we'll gear up on our discovery, on the damage elements and on the alter ego claim to tie Levi in as the alter ego of Voice Media."

"How cooperative has the other side been in the discover process?"

"Not at all so far. We conducted an audit in January. They didn't produce records. We have discovery responses due this week. They've indicated they need an extra 30 days. I have not agreed to that. For the time being, we haven't gotten anything from them. I anticipate it will be a battle but we will get what we need.

"They made a big announcement that they had stopped using the [Homegrown Video] tour and that they had stopped signing up members. We showed Judge Neal that as of July 20th, the day my reply brief was due, that not only were they using it, but they had tour up on one of their sites, I think it was f-ckforcash.com. You clicked to join Homegrown off the tour and you got signed up for Amateur Bitch and one of their other sites. Not only were they using it, they were using it in a way that was egregious not only to the end user, and their supposed partner [Homegrown]."

"Has the Federal Trade Commission gotten in touch with you guys to take advantage of some of the information you've gleaned?"

"I'm not going to comment on that."

"Who do you think owns Trade News?"

"We've done discovery on that. We'll find out when they give us the information they're supposed to."