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My Contributions To Literature

I was interviewed for three hours Sunday morning about my life and my contributions to elevating our national and communal conversation by three journalists from Croatian Playboy magazine.

I was honored by how well they knew my work. They asked me such good questions I've been on a high ever since.

I was describing this to a wise old friend Monday. He asked me for some examples of their searching questions. I gave him some. He wasn't impressed. He thinks the flutterings of my heart have more to do with the beauty of one of the interviewers than the depths of their perceptions.

Luke Is Back?

Khunrum writes: This sentence certainly has a negative air about it. Kinda like "Larry's back on the bottle" or "Lorraine is hitting the crack pipe again."

Models Behind Bars

Laurie writes on La.com:

We didn't get around to reading the cover story of yesterday's Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine about the three-strikes law, but we like the spooky-cool photo on the table of contents of the guy rotting in jail. Not that we would know, but it looks like a real jail cell (though we're pretty sure those are fake cobwebs). In fact, the photo was not taken in a jail cell but in what is known to some people as a sex club Downtown, near the corner of 15th and Alameda St. "I found it on the internet," said photographer Mark Hanauer. (Yeah, right). "I sort of wondered what was up when I got down there early in the morning and the girl who answered the door had fake boobs and short shorts on. She showed me around, and besides the jail cell, there was a fake business office, and right across from it was a doctor's office set-up." The Entertainium, as it's called, bills itself as LA's "premier affordable production studios," but some of the amenities aren't on the website--like the pornographic picture on the walls, which were modestly covered up for the occasion of Hanauer's shoot. Hanauer called a friend to tell her about the location, and she told him she'd been there--for a sex party. The shoot went well, and as the crew packed up to leave, they heard some funny noises in one of the rooms. A photo assistant climbed on a stepladder and looked over a wall to see a couple having sex.

Thank you Klixxx Magazine!

Steve Lightspeed writes on GFY:

Your support of Lightspeedcash has been outstanding!

Thank you for the very flattering articles!

Lightspeed Adventure Weekend
Phoenix Rising
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The End Of Porn As We Know It?

By Robin Bougie for Yesportal

The porn industry is in trouble. Although instead of just fines and an attack on T.T. Boy and his company Evasive Angles, the bomb is being dropped on the entire porn industry in California - and the groundbreaking implication pertains to adult performers being considered employees.

Not since the goverment-fueled legal attacks on Rob Black's company EXTREME ASSOCIATES, has the industry gotten such a scare from a regulator or legislator as it has in the last few days. The word has come down from workplace safety lawmaking body CAL/OSHA that major changes will have to happen to protect the health and welfare of performers in the wake of the recent cluster of HIV infections in the adult film industry, thanks to T.T. Boy and his HIV romp in Brazil.

"... employers must provide, and ensure employees use, appropriate personal protective equipment. Personal protective equipment can include: * Condoms * Dental dams * Gloves * Eye protection

Award-Winning Screenwriter Seeks Eastern European Porn Actress To Interview

There's no money for this. Just a married guy I've known for years who wants to take an Eastern European porn girl to lunch to talk to learn about her life so he can write a better script. He writes: "She should be someone who is fleeing terrible economic problems. if possible, someone who is doing this work because she has no other marketable skills and sees no other way to make big bucks. Someone who is reasonably articulate and is aware that she's doing something that puts her outside the norms of society. Someone who is smart enough to do something else and be successful but for some reason just doesn't do it. Someone who does porn movies and dances. Someone who is not doing it to support a bad boyfriend."

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Manic power: Robert Lowell and his circle

I'm reading this book about a group of self-destructive poets. Reminds me of a friend in San Diego.

Lyra writes:

How could a writer have any good material without going threw turmoil. If your life was perfect I guess your stories would be boring just like your life. I thought you'd appreciate some madness but I guess it's over your head. I didn't know you were so perfect and close minded. Why did it take you two days for your judgmental constructive criticism any how. K.B. may suck your synagogue cock for obvious social reasons but I find you average and predictable like every other conceded writer with boring socially acceptable material that you can barley get published! That must be why you as old as you are and still single. Mabey God can help you get laid! Happy Shabas. I ate pork today just for you.

Dating Advice From Stripper Selena Vallentine

From MarksFriggin.com:

09/20/04. 7:25am

After the break Howard brought in Selena Vallentine who wrote the book ''How to Date an Exotic Dancer: For Men Who Prefer Extraordinary Women.'' Howard read that she used to dance at Scores so he wondered if she ever danced for him. She said she saw him there but he never asked her to dance for him. Howard said he never goes black or Asian at Scores so that's probably why he never had her dance for him. Howard said they used to have a guy that went with them to Scores and he would always have the black chicks dance for him. He's no longer with them but he wouldn't say who it was.

Howard asked Selena about her book and said he's surprised he never had her dance for him because she really is hot. Selena said that 99 percent of her boyfriends have been from the strip clubs that she's worked at. The best way for her to meet guys is at these clubs so why not date them. Howard asked her what guys need to do to get girls like her. She said that girls hate when guys ask ''Are those real?'' so don't ask and just know that you're going to enjoy them. Howard liked her implants and asked her to show them to him. She didn't want to whip them out so quick after coming in but Howard wanted to see them.

Selena said that she went to Toronto and did the Naked News. So many people liked her that she was offered a job up there so she'll be moving up there at the end of October. Howard eventually convinced her to take her top off for them. She was a short girl so Howard asked her how tall she was. She's only 5'3'' tall. She took her top off and he was impressed. He thought they looked pretty good. Artie thought they looked good as well.

Selena doesn't have a boyfriend right now so Howard asked her if her boyfriend ran out of money. Artie asked if he ran out of crystal meth. She's always around guys and she gets naked in front of them all the time so it's going to be tough to have a boyfriend who doesn't get jealous. She said that she used to bring chicks home for her boyfriend and he'd get to have sex with them. She said she wouldn't get jealous because it was just sex. She said one of the rules in her book is for guys not to act jealous around their stripper girlfriends.

There were some other things in Selena's book about what to say to a stripper you want to date. You don't ask them to give you a lap dance but you should tell them their hair smells good and stuff like that. Howard showed Selena how he gets into conversations at clubs with the strippers. He makes the conversation about them and they'll stick with him. Selena says that you should never ask a girl ''Want to go out?'' and that you should romance them. She also says you should never ask them for their number. Just wait for them to offer it to you or offer to give them your number. She says that guys shouldn't ask if the stripper has a boyfriend or kids. Howard went through a few more things and said that you should try to act like you have something going on and not just talk about yourself.

Howard told Selena that he was going to give her an orange name for his bulletin board so she can go on and promote her book. He asked her to give them a sample of her dancing which she did while Fred played some music in the background. Howard then gave her a plug for her book and her web site HowToDateAnExoticDancer.com. He asked her how many guys from strip clubs she's actually dated. She said she dated about 7 guys like that. Howard asked Selena to show him her stripper shoes so she lifted up her leg and realized that her panties were showing. Howard asked her to just show him her panties after that. Howard wrapped up the segment after that and went to break.

Anal Creampie Chickens Coming Home To Roost

David Aaron Clark, Video Team contract director, writes on AdultDVDTalk.com:

I'm not sure what to say about this, Bill ... There are plenty of producers out there who have and still continue to play just as fast and loose with the health of performers ... TT was just the one who got caught. I'm not thrilled about what's going on, but there is no question that the industry as a whole, from AVN to AIM to the companies to individual producers, brought this on by burying their heads in the sand and/or parroting specious rhetoric like LFP employee Ira Levine (Ernest Greene) has been dishing out ... as another director said a while back, the anal creampie chickens are coming home to roost.

You can't leave this responsibility up to the performers. Most of the 18-year-old girls in this business are illiterate, unmotivated to look after themselves -- Jesus, they can't even legally be trusted to drink alcohol, and the industry wants to shove the responsibility for saying "no" to the ridiculous acts the industry itself demands of them into their laps? As to what's gonna happen next, I have no idea.

As to what SHOULD happen next, I'm not sure -- except fleeing to Vegas doesn't seem likely, considering how cheap most producers are already ... are they going to pay for transportation and housing for girls to come do a $150 BJ scene, or a $700 boy/girl? That's a laugh. I don't know whether there's really enough native talent there, or whether people will be willing to move there ... we all know that the porn industry feeds off of L.A. as both a place where an abundant underclass of unemployed youths and starry-eyed immigrants are ripe for the porno recruitment corps.

Kami Andrews Interview

XXXPorntalk thread. ADT thread

Kami writes on her journal:

I was so pissed it was really humiliating. i fly so much and the guy who issued my ($620) ticket puts this big s on it and everyone panicks. so they got me all patted down and they unpack my sequin cheerleader costume, enema,buttplug and cash box and about 20 movies with my face on the box. I wanted to die. as a side not it was thefirst time ive done an enema in an airport bathroom. hahaa I was rushing and it was the only time I had time!

New Miss America is not hot

Gynecologist writes on GFY: "The winner should at the very least be hot. She looks like somebody's mother."

Red Light District/Platinum X Sisterhood

Mgs writes:

Settle an argument for me.....my understanding is Platinum X and Redlight District Video are sister companies, kind of like Anabolic/Diabolic except their business model follows a more Evil Angel concept where the directors get a piece of the profit and ownership of their releases. The real $ and majority ownership of both Redlight District and PlatinumX is Dion Giarussos brother David. Am I right or wrong?

I believe that is true. Dion owned half of Platinum X. Then, when he fell out with his brother, I think he had to sell his share of Platinum X to, I believe, David Giarusso (though some say Jewel DeNyle). I'd expect that David has millions of dollars more than Jewel has. Jewel is the public face of the company but I believe that David is the money behind it and RLD.

Velvet Jones writes:

The RLD agreement between [Lexington Steel and RLD] and their directors was very loose in terms of legality...no real written contracts. Directors were given a budget/advance and paid a % of the # of copies of there respective movies sold. Lex's sh-- wuz the highest demanded product under the RLD label. Dion wuz skimming off the top, taking 100's if not 1000's of copies of Lex joints and moving them out the back door and pocketing the $ off da books. Lex and his biz advisor figured out what wuz goin on mathematically and rooted out Dions treachery. Dion's brother is the real $ behind RLD and PlatX. Dion's bro is into offshore banking and other big $ endeavours. Dion is and was a very talented porn marketing cat, unfortunately he is also a back stabbing scum bag. When Dion's bro found out about it and was confronted by him, Dion attacked his brother with fists and is now been kicked out of the biz (for a while now). Dion is now persona non grata in the jizz biz.

A Weekly Homily From Your Moral Leader

Due to popular demand, I am adding a weekly homily to my Internet publishing. Here's my first.

Luke's Bible Lecture & S-M Video In One

Tom Thumb writes:

I'm not into reading lectures, but I'd pay to get weekly videos of you preaching from the bible. I'd also pay for a series of videos in which you write some essay and turn it in to Mike Albo for him to look over. He gets VERY upset with you and, while wearing some nice leather outfit, beats some editorial sense into your sorry scrawny ass, before correcting your work and posting it on the web with all the changes indicated so that all can witness your humiliation.

Porn Studios Huddle Over Cal-OSHA Ruling

Tricia Deveraux writes on AdultDVDtalk.com:

From what I can tell, most of the studios are talking about this internally at great length, and some are talking to each other. So although it may seem to some that studio heads are taking this lightly, there are a lot of things that are being discussed. I love ADT, but there are some things that are too important and too uncertain to talk about proposed policies and ways to deal with them.

There's a big golf match between a bunch of porners Monday afternoon. I'm sure this will be topic one.

I believe this Cal-Osha investigation was instigated by the complaints of HIV-positive porn girl Miss Arroyo.

I call Rob Spallone. "You're going to set an example out of T.T. Boy?" Rob asks. "He's not a big player in this game. It's not just HIV in this business, I told Caitlin Liu at The LA Times. There's chlamydia and gonorrhea every day in this business. The best way to do this would be no testing, condoms only, and no cum shots. She said that's what they are thinking of doing."

So what are you hearing?

"Some people are flipping out. They think that they can't shoot. Two people that I spoke to. But it doesn't make any sense. They're going to fine TT. Why can't they just fine everybody? Nobody got hurt on his set."

Didn't they catch HIV?

"How can they tell? It's a 90-day window. They can't pinpoint the day that you got it. It's impossible. So how can they say they got it on his set? I got a headache on the set the other day.

"They either come in and make a law or they leave us alone.

"I shot four girl-girl scenes Saturday. We finished at 6 p.m., right on time."

You Are What You Eat: The Pervasive Porn Industry and What It Says about You and Your Desires

Journalism professor Robert Jensen's views on porn are discussed on this forum.

Jensen on pornography and masculinity.

Jensen in Clamor magazine.

Fred writes:

I actually read Jensen's screed. Like many radical feminists, his writting reflects a failure to recognize human nature. He thinks that human nature can be altered if only males adopt his ideology. Nope. Human beings have certain inherent characteristics, and no amoung of left wing feminist pamphleteering will change the biological nature of the specie. Here are some things that trouble me.

1. Jensen purports to be an academician. Is he in a science department? Have the sciences been this warped and perverted by ideology?

2. Is Jensen that out of touch with human nature?

3. Does Robert Jensen wear a dress? Do women bring him flowers? Does he wear perfume?

The notion that certain porn is distasteful is certainly reasonable. But Jensen goes way beyond that, and sets forth an ideology in his pieces in which he proposes to do away with masculinity. He's nuts.

Wake-Up Call To Porn

Dr. Gloria Brame writes:

The argument that they will lose money if they follow OSHA regulations to protect their workers from a fatal illness is laughable. Imagine if Dow Chemical or Monsanto tried to use the "but we'll lose money if we prevent workers from dying" excuse? Wake up, porn people! Protecting workers from occupational hazards is a cost of doing business. If you can't afford the cost, you should get out of the business.

Porn merchants of all kinds should make worker health and safety an integral aspect of their business practices. I'm all for fining and jailing anyone who coerces or even encourages performers to explose themselves to HIV.

Ultimately, if the only kind of porn available depicted safe-sex, adults would settle for safe-sex porn and--wow, here's a concept--may even learn to make safe-sex a part of their own sexual behaviors.

Ernest Greene responds:

After reading Brame's ignorant, hostile and thoroughly unconstructive remarks on the current situation, I have little hope of her understanding the complexities of the matters upon which she pronounces so liberally. But I do appreciate the fine example she represents of the dogmatic rigidity of which some who consider themeselves sex-positive Progressives are capable. She and Professor Jensen would probably get along fine, and that's no compliment to either.

I've never liked Brame's big BDSM opus Different Loving, which I felt was entirely skewed to her fem-dom perspective and in no way representative of the vibrant leather community in which, unlike her, I was an active and out-of-the-closet participant at the time. I'm not surprised to find her equally opinionated and equally uninformed when it comes to porn.

Nina Hartley's Husband Ernest Greene Weighs In

There are a couple of motivated bureaucrats at the LA County Department of Health Services and at Cal-OHSA who would indeed like to use the Cal-OHSA safety standards evolved for dealing with blood-born pathogens in medical situations as a stick with which to hammer the porn biz into the ground. They're unlikely to succeed in this for some pretty good reasons.

The original hope of these individuals (it's tempting to name names, but I'll hold off on that for the moment) was to use the recent 4-case outbreak to panic the state legislature into enacting enabling legislation to give their agencies authority over our industry. However, the legislature wasn't buying. The investigative committee that held a hearing down here listened to testimony from AIM, LADOHS, Cal-OHSA, the ACLU and various community activist types and concluded that no enforceable statutes could be enacted that would materially reduce the risk of STD transmission inside the industry or to the community at large. Based on the experts' testimony (principally AIM's) the committee made some suggestions to the industry regarding voluntary risk reduction programs, which they strongly hinted would forestall further attempts to enlist the State Assembly in efforts to regulate the specifics of porn productions, and otherwise declined to involve the State of California in the dicey business of regulating smut manufacturing.

Unhappy with this result, the zealots at the two agencies involved decided to try what our lawyer termed the egg-at-the-wall approach, as in "throw something up there and see if it sticks." Only by warping the blood-born pathogen protocols out of shape to adapt them to conditions in no way resembling those of healthcare work environments AND casually re-writing existing statutes governing the definition of employment were they able to trump up a one-time application of Cal-OHSA's fining authority to a purported instance of disease transmission on a set.

Their reasoning falls apart very quickly on the most superficial examination, as even Cal-OHSA's posting regarding this case on its Web site seems to acknowledge. By their own admission, Cal-OHSA is not the agency that determines whether or not an independent contractor, which is how all but contract players in the direct employ of production companies are customarily defined, is actually an employee, and Cal-OHSA's standards only apply to employees. They decided that the performer (still anonymous at this writing, though I know this person's identity and choose not to reveal it) who filed the complaint:

A. was an employee of the producer and therefore under the agency's jurisdiction;

B. had contracted HIV as a result of a specific contact that could be positively traced to this particular time and place of employment;

And:

C. that the producer, having been adjudged by an agency not empowered to do so as the performer's employer had failed to mitigate the disease transmission hazard, though possessing both the knowledge and the means to do so;

D. that said producer had failed to report the "injury" to the agency at the time (even though HIV is not a reportable disease under California law);

E. that said producer had failed to pay the complainant's medical expenses resulting from the "injury."

Cal-OHSA, in its public statement, then goes on to warn that it will enforce the same standard throughout the adult production industry, and that while its actions are usually complaint-driven, it does have and will exercise the right to engage in unscheduled workplace inspections at will.

The whole proceeding rests on a rickety structure of supposition, beginning with the definition of performers as employees. They have never before in any previous labor action in this state been ruled to be employees and fail to meet several important criteria under California labor law that would be needed to establish them as such. They do not report regularly, observe a schedule mandated by an employer, work under an employer's regular and direct supervision, have payroll taxes withheld, receive employee benefits of any kind, are subject to regular supervisory evaluation, report to work at a specific location on a specified number of days per week/month/year and on and on from there. By almost no existing standard could performers be classed as employees other than the highly ambiguous status of "transient workers," a class of employee notoriously difficult to identify.

Jurisdictionally, Cal-OHSA has shinnied way out on a cracking branch.

Then there is the matter of the incident itself. In order to assess a fine, the agency must be able to demonstrate that the injury in question was inflicted at the time and place of employment, and under no other circumstances. Since even the most sensitive laboratory testing now available cannot establish with complete certainty how, when and where HIV has been transmitted, the agency's whole case depends on circumstantial evidence that can't be scientifically verified. The claim is that the "employee" contracted HIV from a single instance of unprotected anal sex with another specified employer during the shooting of a particular scene for a particular production.

Though the performer did engage in the high-risk sex-act with another performer who was later found to be HIV+, and though both performers have been found to have similar viral strains, which closely resemble that found in Brazil, where one of them had previously worked, there are many other possible routes of transmission that cannot categorically be ruled out. The complainant engaged in similar activities with other performers, and possibly with unnamed non-performers, both before and after the incident under investigation and there is no medically defensible way of demonstrating that none of the other contacts, on or off camera, could possibly have been the source of infection.

Then there are the subsequent charges of failure to report the injury and assume financial liability for its consequences. Since there were no means by which the producer could conclusively prove that there had been an injury, the assumption of liability the agency insists the producer should have made could not have been justified. Indeed, even if the performer filing the claim had been infected on this particular set, that information wouldn't have been available to the producer, who could not have assumed liability even if he had intended to do so if such an incident had taken place. There was, in short, no way for the producer to have been in good-faith compliance, even if the regulation had applied.

And that is where the Cal-OHSA case truly hits the rocks. The enabling legislation that created the agency was never intended to give its officials the power to shut down whole industries. In fact, the industries the agency regulates have customarily been consulted in the creation of regulations in order to strike a balance between worker protection and employer feasibility. The statute recognizes that work-place risk cannot be totally eliminated and that the goal of regulation is to protect employees without demolishing commerce.

Cal-OHSA has no existing standard tailored to the specific needs of adult entertainment production, has never attempted to create any, has never sought direct employer input in contemplation of such a standard and now attempts to impose a standard written for a completely different industry with completely different levels and types of employee risk. This isn't enforcing laws. This is making laws. That's not part of the agency's mission.

As it is, the blood-born pathogen standard, which is meant to be applied to healthcare workers who regularly encounter infected blood and serum products in the presence of sharp instruments, specifies measures outrageously inappropriate to the STD transmission risks involved in making porn. Not only does the BBP standard require gloves be used in the handling of bodily fluids, it also specifies the use of masks and face-shields. Though no standard exists regarding sexual contact, Cal-OHSA, with much input from the porn-hating LADOH, has extended the regulations to mandate the use of condoms and dental dams for all fluid-contact situations, including oral sex, and to ban outright internal ejaculations in an orifice or external ejaculations on skin without barrier protection.

Clearly, these regulations, if enforced, would make the production of sexually explicit materials essentially impossible. This constitutes a naked attempt to prohibit by regulation, a gambit that has been tried with this industry over and over, and been struck down in every court test. It is a principle of common law that regulation and prohibition are mutually exclusive goals, which is why the marijuana tax was ultimately found unconstitutional. You can't charge sales tax on something that can't legally be sold.

Going even further afield, Cal-OHSA's statement generously allows producers to use "technical means in post production" to eliminate the visibility of barrier methods from the finished product without violating the newly-minted regulations. This clearly addresses matters of artistic content that lie outside the agency's mandate and raises serious First Amendment concerns regarding the intent of the regulations themselves.

And on a related topic, the new standards also specify mandatory testing for HIV, which the ACLU has successfully opposed in many other occupational settings and has stated unequivocally that it will oppose here as well.

AIM's legal counsel has already raised the issues of jurisdiction, applicability, enforceability and necessity in regards to Cal-OHSA's new batch of tablets from Sinai, and he's just offering a casual assessment. The producer against whom the fine was levied has already stated that he intends to appeal through the administrative process, which he has 15 days to do, and if that fails, to take the issue to civil court. In the meantime, much larger production companies are already at work on pursuing injunctive relief to block enforcement of the new regs until all the surrounding questions have been resolved.

In other words, this is just another piece of election-year grand-standing, political theater with no real purpose other than to trumpet the diligence of the public servants who initiated it. They know it won't stand up, but that's not their real objective. Under pressure form elected officials in a conservative political climate, they're attempting to "do something about" all the porn being shot in California. They've just done the only thing they can do, and nobody really expects it to stick, including the officials themselves.

What's truly unfortunate is the prospect that, while all this is being litigated, existing voluntary standards of STD safety, including the informal agreement under which producers will not shoot performers without 30-day-current STD tests, may erode in the chaos of claims and counter-claims regarding responsibility. If asking for tests turns out to be a potential source of liability for producers, many will stop doing so, which could lead to the collapse of the voluntary protocols that have kept the industry virtually free of HIV transmission since 1997. What was an isolated episode could become a much greater risk in an environment of legal ambiguity such as existed in the porn industry before full legalization.

In short, with this misguided, heavy-handed attempt to impose inappropriate standards on the industry, the agencies involved may be putting at risk, not only the community of performers, but the greater community as well, since performers also have sexual contacts with the outside world.

While I don't subscribe to the most paranoid interpretation of these events - that all this was orchestrated directly from Washington by henchmen of the Bush administration - I do understand that bureaucrats don't operate in a political vacuum and believe that these particular individuals may have undertaken their current course of action under the assumption that it would stand them in good stead in the current political atmosphere of hypocrictical moralism created at the federal level.

Whatever their motives, they clearly do not assign the safety of performers or the legitmate artistic or financial interests of producers any priority whatsoever. It's a cyncical show by some truly reprehensible political hacks who couldn't care less about the human consequences beyond their office walls.

The porn industry will survive, right here in California, as it has survived previous assaults, but it's far too soon to know at what cost.

More Cal-OSHA Analysis

Jamie Gardner writes on AdultDVDTalk.com:

Has anyone thought of trying to get Arnold Schwarzenegger to help out the x-rated industry? Schwarzengger is a Republican but he is socially liberal. Arnold has spoken out against excessive government regulations. What CAL/OSHA is doing is a perfect example of government intruding too much into our lives. I would love to see Arnold terminate the jobs of these CAL/OSHA officials that are causing such problems for the porn world. A reason that Arnold might not want to help is that he would alienate many of his conservative Republican supporters. I mostly vote for Democrat and Green Party candidates but I was tempted to vote for Arnold because there needs to be more Republicans that are socially liberal. Some women at Grossmont College talked me into registering with the Green Party. I voted for Ralph Nader in 1996 but I would have voted for Bill Clinton if the election had been close. I knew that Bob Dole was not going to win. The porn industry can't just rely on Democrats to help them. I didn't vote for Schwarzenegger because a friend of mine's Father works in the Transportation Department. My friend was worrying about his Father losing his job because of Arnold wanting to privatize this part of the government. For Governor, I voted for Larry Flynt.

I have been reading what Ernest Greene (Nina Hartley's husband) has been saying about the CAL/OSHA situation. He gives me hope that things are not as bad as they seem. Greene points out that CAL/OSHA doesn't have the authority to decide if an independent contractor is an employee. Greene mentions various criteria that x-rated actors would have to fall under in order to be considered to be employees. Ernest says that CAL/OSHA can not prove that HIV was transmitted during the making of a particular movie. Greene says that CAL/OSHA is making use of circumstantial evidence. Ernest Greene mentions other legal problems with what CAL/OSHA is doing. He says that he knows which performer complained to CAL/OSHA but he won't say who it is.

Porn Star Shawna Edwards

Now booking in Las Vegas.

Digital Playgrounds contract girl Teagan Presley's new breasts

She got implants according to this site. Teagan hits the boards.

Jeannie Rivers in her thinner days

From a thread on XXXPorntalk. She appears to have gained 30 pounds. She used to be Chuck Martino's girlfriend in 2000. Now she's a regular working girl in Las Vegas.

Cal - OSHA Analysis

Ergi writes: "It is really very exciting to hear that the authorities have finally decided to engage TT boy in 'conversation'. He probably expected to kick back and enjoy his money while others were awaiting an untimely death...I believe that man is a menace. I hope his 'conversations' with CAL/OSHA become more vigorous and robust and aggressive. No more nonsense."

Serge Oprano's wife Lady Law writes on Oprano.com:

It was clever of California to use their exisiting employment laws, which protect employees from hazardous exposure to known toxins, chemicals, etc., rather than draft a new law specifically targetting the porn industry.

When an adult indutry employee complained about possible exposure to blood-borne pathogens (HIV and Hep.C) without adequate protection, this opened the door for the California Health Department to legitimately investigate and levy hefty fines for violations.

California will argue until the cows come home there is no discrimination against the porn industry, just a health and safety issue handled routinely under exisiting law.

Jamie Gardner writes on AdultDVDTalk.com:

I feel that people like David Pounder and Tony Tedeschi are the Ralph Naders of the x-rated industry. Ralph Nader claims that he is running for President to help progressive causes but he is helping George W. Bush. Nader is in denial about the negative consequences of what he is doing. Pounder and Tedeschi may think what they are doing is helpful but they don't seem to realize that CAL/OSHA is not going to stop with requiring condoms for vaginal and anal intercourse. Actresses wearing goggles and dental dams being used for oral sex go way beyond what many pro-condom people in the adult industry would advocate. Who knows other regulations that CAL/OSHA can up with to damage the porn world. Months ago, Pounder advocated a federal law that makes condom use mandatory. Pounder was quoted as saying that "Any time you do health regulation, it's beneficial. Only positive things can come from it." The LA Times has Tony Tedeschi's response to CAL/OSHA fining T.T. Boy's companies: "I think it's about time the government addressed work safety issues that have been a problem for a long time, it's a good thing to see the government doing something."

Also according to the LA Times, "Actor Brandon Iron said he also welcomed Cal/OSHA's efforts but doubted they would make a difference." Iron is quoted in the article: "I'm not sure it's enough of a deterrent to other companies to change the way business is done." Brandon Iron's Good Source of Iron movies would be fined under the CAL/OSHA regulations. The movies depict guys cumming into the mouths of women. This is an exchange of bodily fluids. What Brandon said was probably taken out of context. He may not know that Evasive Angles and TTB Productions were given fines for the guys not wearing condoms. Every company could be fined under the CAL/OSHA regulations. Even Wicked Pictures and Vivid Video are in violation because the guys don't wear condoms when the women give them oral sex.

I think that T.T. Boy used bad judgement in deciding to make porn movies in Brazil without condoms. In Brazil, Condoms are mandatory for x-rated movies. It was not the Brazilian government that punished T.T. Boy, it was CAL/OSHA. In Brazil, it's not as easy to verify that someone is HIV negative. In the United States, people can contact AIM to verify paperwork. In Brazil, who would know if the paperwork is fraudulent? I think that this is a slippery slope kind of situation. If people let CAL/OSHA get away with this, who knows who they will come after next. This situation is simular to the government prosecuting Extreme Associates. A lot of people do not like T.T. Boy and Robert Black but if the government can persecute them, other people will nailed by the government later. The likelihood of getting HIV from vaginal intercourse is small. On the average, it takes hundreds of times with the same person to transmit HIV through vaginal intercourse. The Myth of Heterosexual Aids (written by Michael Fumento) mentions studies with couples that backup this information.

John Holmes did at least 2 porn films after he knew that he had HIV. Tracey Adams, Karin Shubert, Amber Lynn and Cicciolina all had sex with Holmes when he had HIV. They have not gotten HIV. Even with anal intercourse, it normally takes multiple times with the same person for the virus to make someone else HIV positive. Rock Hudson's main lover didn't get HIV from him. Herpes is much more likily to be transmitted then HIV. If someone has an outbreak of Herpes, there is a 50 percent chance of someone else getting it. When Holmes was making movies, anal intercourse and creampies were much less common then they are now. As far as sexual practices, I think that creampies are the biggest cause for concern in the industry right now. Anal intercourse is already much more risky then vaginal intercourse, anal creampies make the scenes even more dangerous.

I think that x-rated companies should have voluntary condom use but I don't think condoms should be mandatory. Even if all video companies allowed condoms, I think there are still many people that would not use them. Years ago, I noticed some Anabolic gangbangs in which some guys would use condoms but most of the guys would not have them on. When I was at the AVN Expo, I asked Christopher Alexander about what I observed. Alexander said that he would hire women that were OK with the guys not wearing condoms. Christopher Alexander said that he would let guys wear condoms. After I had my conversation with him, I haven't seen guys wearing condoms in Anabolic movies. Since CAL/OSHA advocates worker safety, why don't they ban stuntmen and boxing? I was watching Supercop again, Jackie Chan was hanging onto a helicopter. I know this was real because the credits showed behind the scenes footage. Jackie could have fallen to his death. Tommy Morrison is not allowed to box any more because he has HIV. Besides HIV, boxing is a dangerous sport anyway. Boxing has people beating each other up for the entertainment of others. Football has dangers too, maybe they can ban that as well. CAL/OSHA is picking and choosing what they consider to be worker safety.

Dave Cummings writes:

Government Bureaucrats can be un-yielding if they have something to hang their hats on (e.g. a "regulation" to enforce) which further expands the bureaucracy and fortifies their own jobs. I think the courts will ultimately decide things, hopefully in favor of consenting adults.

In the meantime, perhaps the Industry should try to get the bureaucrats to back off pending court decision(s)-- as an incentive for the back-off, we might want to consider negotiating with the government to leave us alone if we agree to cease doing anal creampies (and even possibly agree to condoms for anal?)!

Director Guy Capo writes:

Having been a funeral director for a few years, I've dealt with OSHA a lot. Their "universal precautions" standards are unbearable...even for funeral directors...let alone porn producers. One issue never mentioned is that once you start following "universal precautions" (using condoms, gloves, and the like), you must also follow proper disposal techniques. Items such as used condoms, gloves, even towels and wipes, are considered biohazardous waste under universal precautions, and must be disposed of in special containers and then removed by a licensed biohazardous waste disposal service. That equates to a lot of money for funeral directors, who may only embalm 15 bodies a month...What will it mean for producers who are shooting 30 scenes a month, involving 60 to 90 people?

Tricia Devereaux writes:

Quite a few companies have stepped up protecting talent to a more feasible extent than practically saran-wrapping talent before they get out of the makeup chair. Some companies are requiring 2-week tests instead of 30-day tests. Some are requiring that foreign talent go through an AIM-approved chain of custody to send their blood to the States to get tested 2 weeks before they come to the States, then get tested again as soon as they get to the States. Quite a few companies have stopped internal anal cumshots. All of these things seem much more realistic, will protect the talent to a much better degree than before March, and will not simply force most porn producers to shoot outside of California. I'll just say one last thing - I really love Las Vegas.

Nakita Kash Interview

Cindi Loftus from Xcitement Mag sends this:

With the brightest blue eyes and brilliant red hair, Nakita Kash stands out in the crowd! Her expensive costumes, choreographed dance moves and throbbing music will have you cumming to see her over and over. Because when you see her perform on stage, she radiates sex! She's also appeared in over one hundred X-rated movies showing off her all natural assets. When she began her adult film career she did girl/girl scenes. But now a days she has done a few extremely hot boy/girl scenes. You can find her bumping bods with Evan Stone in "Kash" And in Joelean and the Pussycats Nakita shows up naked in two scenes, one a girl/girl/girl and one where she rides Rafe's rod. Both movies show off Nakita's sizzling sensuousness.

AF: I love your website. I went into the free side and its great. You've got a lot of good stuff in there.
Nakita: Thank you. My whole website used to be free, but now I have the members side to pay for the server and the domain name and my web mistress who does a wonderful job.
AF: I have people asking me all the time for the name of a good web person. You always hear the stories about people getting ripped off or never getting their site updated. I noticed that your site is well taken care of. You have one or two updates per week. N: Shari Lauren takes care of the site for me. She is really good at it. And she knows what it is like to be a feature and a performer. She knows what the fans like.
AF: Well I will make sure we mention her in the interview, maybe we can get her some new business. So you are going to be on Playboy radio tonight?
N: I am going on to be on XM radio, channel 205. I don't know how many hostesses they are having, but it is a talk show. We should have a really good time. I'm looking forward to it.
AF: I read on your site that you love coupons.
N: Yes I do. Out in LA they have double or triple coupon days. We don't have that now that I live in Tampa. My boyfriend canceled the Sunday newspaper because he said I was obsessed. (laughs). I have books and books of coupons; most of them are expired by now. Plus as busy as I am these days my boyfriend does most of the shopping.
AF: Do you still have your dog?
N: Yeah my Baby, BB. I take him with me on the road a lot. Then I have some one to hang out with in my hotel room. I can give him lots of attention and love. He's very spoiled. Plus I have someone to cuddle with at night.
AF: You are quite well known for your red hair, but I have seen some pictures of you with brown.
N: Well I had brown hair for quite awhile, but I have had red for the last two years.
AF: Does your top hair match your bottom hair?
N: Well there is very little bottom hair and I keep it so short that you probably can't tell but no they don't match. If I dyed the bottom I'd have to do that about every other day because I keep it so trimmed.
AF: You are also known for your tan lines.
N: Well I don't have tan lines on my boobs anymore. But I do have them below. I tan all the time.
AF: You are a tan-o-holic! So do you go to the beach a lot?
N: No there are no topless beaches here. So I tan topless in my backyard. I'm on the water so it is nice. We live on an island. But I still go to the tanning booths. There is a new machine that tans you more quickly and safely. I use that one a lot. And I also get the Mystic tan.
AF: That's where they spray you right?
N: Yes. You stand in a cylinder and they spray you for 10 seconds and then you stand still for another 30 seconds to let it dry.
AF: Do you hold your breath?
N: Yeah. I do. I cover my whole face with a shower cap. I don't want to end up with tan nostrils. (laughs)
AF: No that wouldn't be good. You have a beautiful natural body. Did you ever get pressured to get breast implants?
N: Not really. For movies I think it's not that important to have huge breasts. It's more expected in feature dancing. I had an agent once tell me that he could book me if I had implants. I told him that if that was the only way he could book me I wouldn't be working with him.
AF: What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you while you were featuring?
N: Well it is funny now. But it was embarrassing at the time. I had been featuring for about five weeks straight, and after three weeks you really need a break. I was getting a little loopy. So I was all dressed in my huge salsa costume ready to go on. I gave the DJ my music. He cues it up. And the music starts playing; only it's the music for my Vegas show act, not my Latin salsa show. I feel the sweat break out all over me. I have no choice. I go out and dance to the whole set. When I finally got off the stage I thought how awful that was. But when I mentioned it to the girls or the customers they said, "Huh? What are you talking about?" So I did my show in a salsa outfit with Vegas music and NO BODY even noticed.
AF: What is the funniest thing that ever happened to you while you were on a movie set?
N: I was doing a girl/girl scene with Cassidy. We were up on a table and she was doing me with a strap on. And we didn't notice, but each time she stroked, the metal legs on the table bent a little more. We were so into it that when we finally noticed we were almost on the ground. We started laughing so hard. So hard that Cassidy couldn't hold it and she pissed all over me! I don't' know if they got that on film because the cameraman was laughing just as hard.
AF: That's hysterical! I love Cassidy. I interviewed her a long time ago.
N: She's retired from adult now. She does mainstream modeling. As a matter of fact, she's in the next room. I live with her when I come to LA.
AF: It's a small world. Tell her I said hi. Where is the craziest place you ever had sex?
N: Well when I first decided to move to Tampa to live with my boyfriend he decided to take me around and show me all the sights. So he takes me to this outside beach bar and introduces me to all his friends. I kneel down in front of him at the bar and give him a blowjob right there in front of all these straight people. It was fun.
You can e-mail me through my site NakitaKash.com.

Porn mogul sentenced to more than five years in prison

Six Austin-area adult video stores will be seized and sold by the federal government after a Texas man was sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison for mailing fraudulent tax returns and selling obscene videos.

John K. Coil, 62, of Highland Village, near Dallas, must surrender Dec. 1 to begin his 63-month sentence, Senior U.S. District Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth ruled.

Coil, who pleaded guilty in June, was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

"Today is a good day because a long-time merchant of hardcore, triple-X rated, sadistic pornography is on his way to federal prison," U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton said.

As part of Coil's plea, he surrendered 45 Texas properties owned by various corporations and trusts to the government - including the six in and around Austin, all named "Adult Video."

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Adult Industry Shocked at Employee Status of Adult Performers

From AVN.com:

"It's really a stretch to suggest that actors who are hired on a non permanent, no-regular hours situation should be considered payroll employees and not independent contractors," Christian Mann, owner of Video Team, told AVN.com.

Yet Mann's statement can be said to represent the thoughts of many of those in the adult industry - including the adult performers themselves, though the vast majority of industry insiders declined to comment on the groundbreaking implications of adult performers being considered employees.