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Article Denise with the latest Hustler magazine

Hollywood Ending

The following story is true.

An over-the-hill, rich but lonely, screenwriter comes to Las Vegas for the AVN Expo in January 2003 looking for redemption. He meets Lynton Appleson and Chaim of VIP Pictures. He gives them $16,000 to shoot two movies. He figures that with his scripts, the movies will earn a huge profit.

VIP gives a black guy $4,000 to shoot one movie. Then Lynton calls the screenwriter. "Our first movie cost $19,000. I'm $3,000 out of pocket. I can't shoot another one."

The screenwriter hires two big black thugs. They go to VIP and throw Lynton around his office. The screenwriter goes soft and doesn't have Lynton seriously hurt. Still, it is all captured on security video. The secretary calls the police.

A Jewish kid runs a ticket-scalping operation. He sells tickets for concerts and sporting events at inflated prices. He rips off half a dozen porn people. He rips off the screenwriter, a degenerate gambler who will bet $20,000 on a football game.

The screenwriter has his two black thugs pick the kid up, tie him up, and drive him around in a limousine. The blacks suggest that they take the kid with them to East LA and if he doesn't get the money owed within four days, they will kill him.

The kid cries. He says he will get the money if they will only let him go. Once they let him go, the kid disappears.

At a weekly acting class, the screenwriter, who's about 70, meets a girl, about 20. Her name radiates danger. He falls in love with her. She doesn't tell him she's a porn girl. She's does extreme shoots for Extreme Associates and other companies.

The screenwriter loses his mind. Every day he searches the Internet for humiliating photos of her. He's out of his mind with hurt and rage and jealousy. They break up.

Now they're back together. She visits him once a week and they have sex. She has four kids. He now has children's toys lying around his pool. He says he's happy. He says she loves him.

He pays her cell phone bills. He can't understand all the two-hour phone calls she places at 5 a.m. It is later explained to him that she's calling her drug dealer. She's a junkie.

I know the girl. She came on to me at Erotica LA 2001. I saw her again in the fall of 2002.

Porn Shooting Schedule Full Steam Ahead -- Gooks And Spooks

I call Rob at 9 a.m, five minutes after crawling out of bed. "Hi."

"What's the matter?" he says immediately.

"I've had headaches the last three days," I explain.

I arrive at Str8-Up Studios at 9:35 a.m.

Rob has a white dog about eight inches long. He brings him out of his van. Rob seems to adore it.

Director Ron Sullivan, production manager Kenny, Nate from Str8-Up are hanging out. The Japanese girl Sami is getting ready for her scene. She's only been in porn for a week.

Ron: "I'm going to get that dog a steel muzzle."

I try to take a picture but the shutter on my NikonD100 has broken a month after my warranty ran out. Five weeks it will take to repair. Late in the afternoon, I buy a Minolta Dimage X31 for $200 and a 256 gig memory card for $37 from Samy's Camera on Fairfax Bl. It's about half the size of the dog.

In most bad situations, there is something good to be learned. Because I don't have a camera, I decide I will work extra hard to write a good story. In Tom Wolfe's view, a good story is 70% about the material and 30% about how you write it. I spend most of my work time looking for good material. Then I write it up in an easy-to-read straight forward subject-verb-object style.

Duke: "It's a little poofy dog."

Rob: "You want me to get a Rottweiler?"

Duke: "Yeah."

Rob: "And call it BJ?"

That was Rob's last dog.

Rob: "It's my watch dog. That's why I call it Rolex."

Duke: "Why did you buy it?"

Rob: "For my kids."

Duke: "No. Because your wife left you and you were lonely."

Rob only gets his kids every other weekend and one afternoon during the week. He got divorced a few months ago.

Rob: "This guy [Scott Lane] has been doing a documentary for a year-and-a-half on Dave Hardman. He interviewed me about ten times. He called me this morning at 7. He needed my address. He's going to send me a screener. It turned out to be more of a story about me than about Dave Hardman."

Rob talks to his dog: "Sit in the water. How does it feel on your ass?"

Duke: "What are you shooting today, Rob?"

Rob: "We're shooting something new today. Asian girls. Black guys. I need a title. They don't like my title - 'Stick it in my Slant.' I came up with it myself. If we don't find a title, they're just going to turn this movie into F--- My Tight White Ass."

Ron: "Bun's Eye."

Duke: "How about, The Asians Are Coming?"

Somebody: "Chink Dick."

"Gooks and Spooks."

The distributor doesn't like that title.

"What Can Brown Do For You?"

Photographer Bill Diehl wears a Superman t-shirt and a Superman beltbuckle with flashing lights. "When I saw that," says Bill, "I thought it was in such bad taste, I had to buy it."

For three years, Bill had regular sex with Hugh Hefner's Jewish ex-girlfriend Barbie Benton.

Rob says he's found three Chinese transvestites over 50. "I don't know yet [what they're going to do]."

Rob's mad. He's left his W9 forms at the office. Rob treats his porn actors as employees and make them fill out the W9 tax form, instead of the one for independent contractor.

Rob talks about Lance, his former intellectual Hungarian production assistant who just became too annoying, even for Rob, who has a weakness for eccentric characters.

Rob: "For the past five months, I've told him I'm out of the industry. So he only calls me every six weeks [looking for work]. About three weeks ago, Wit Maverick calls me up from VCA at 10 p.m. 'You won't believe just called me? Lance. He called me on my cell.'"

Ron: "I heard that too."

Rob: "He thought I gave out his cell. I didn't give out his cell. Three days later, Jim Malibu calls. 'You motherf-----.' 'Who's this?' 'Jim.' 'Jim who?' 'Jim Malibu.' 'What's the matter Jim?' 'You gave Lance my number?'

"He must've copied one of our pages. Ron must've given them to him."

Ron: "The only number I gave Lance was Jim Holliday's. I thought they'd be perfect."

Rob: "I'm playing golf Monday with Jim Nitze [formerly of VCA] and Brian from New Beginnings."

Mr. Marcus drives up. He says AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) told him that they are trying to recuit reality TV and they aren't interested in recruiting porn stars into the union currently.

Rob has seven cute girls in his rental house, including a blonde from England.

I hear that Ari Ovadia wants to wait 90-days to pay his contractors, such as box cover artists.

Rob Spallone has seven anger management classes left. I don't think they've done him much good.

Rob: "Judges have no business issuing restraining orders unless the parent is a threat to the child. Helena got a restraining for me to get out of the house and to stay away from her and the kids. The judge granted that. When we went back to court two months later, he withdrew it."

Rob is on a low-carb diet. He's lost seven pounds. He's promised his kids he will quit smoking in January. He's quit twice before.

"When my father got busted [for obscenity in 1991 with Gourmet], they fought the case. They beat the case but it cost them $300,000. That put them out of business. T.T. Boy will win his case but it will bankrupt him.

"They [Cal-OHSA and company] say that bodily fluids can not be exchanged. If you go to the dentist in California, no matter which dentist you go to, he wears a mask and rubber gloves. It is a law that Cal-OHSA made for them. We're shooting loads in girls. I saw the other day some guy shooting cream pies. Guys shooting loads into a girl. Come on. Of course they have a case.

"I was on a set the other day. A girl had cum in her eye. Seven years ago, I was at a meeting [about AIDS]. The industry had hired some scientists. He said the fastest way to get HIV in this industry was through the tear duct in the eye.

"If more people [get HIV in porn], and they [Cal-OHSA and health officials] didn't do nothing, they will look like the biggest morons in the world.

Out on a Limb

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:

John Stagliano, who made millions as a pornographer, brings an ambitious show to the Strip.

So there's this guy who once failed a dancer's audition for a Las Vegas show. He comes back some 27 years later with enough money to buy his way onto the Strip, producing his own dance revue.

Sweet justice? Yes. But will Las Vegas take the guy seriously when he's John Stagliano and he made his millions as a pornographer known as "Buttman"?

Summer Haze vs Bridgette Monroe, Selena Steele

Gene Ross has it all covered at Adultfyi. And here. Here.

County Health Officials Call for Condoms in Porn Movies

Scott Ross writes for AVN: Mainstream Media Raise Issue of Adult Performer Health and Safety.

Caitlin Liu writes for The LA Times:

Frustrated by the porn industry's continuing unsafe sex practices, Los Angeles County health officials have sent 400 letters to producers and directors urging condom use during sex scenes.

The letters, which began arriving this week, also advise the industry to vaccinate performers for hepatitis A and B.

In August, Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) issued a letter warning the industry to voluntarily begin using condoms or risk facing possible future legislation that would mandate it.

So far, the industry has mostly ignored the government.

Before an HIV outbreak in April - which involved four actors and caused a temporary shutdown in production - 17% of the region's porn performers used condoms, according to the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides HIV testing. Condom use increased in the weeks after the outbreak, but the level has fallen back to 17%.

Tod Hunter Available For Bookings

(SHERMAN OAKS, CA) -- The gorgeous Tod Hunter, former AVN writer, is in town and available for bookings through 10/11. He is 6'4 and presently 260 lbs of solid muscle and extremely well hung. He's done a lot of shoots. Available for: B/G, Anal. Tod specializes in the complete boyfriend escort experience. Contact Pamela Peaks' Talent Agency or book Tod directly through his Web site above. Say that Duke Floored sent you.

Jenna Jameson Disappointed In Serenity's Review

Jenna Jameson writes on www.justjennajameson.com:

The only troubling thing that has happened this week was reading Serenity's review on my book. She gave me a less than stellar review... not for how it was written, but for the content. I think she doesn't realize I wrote this book about MY life, not my PORN LIFE. I wasn't trying to brag about how many shopping sprees I go on, or how extravagant I am, I was trying to convey my struggles and triumphs. I guess her review may be a little personal, since we didn't really ever get along. I think she should have been able to put her jealousy aside and given an unbiased review.

In the grand scheme of things her little jabs don't matter, but, I expected the mainstream world to give me bad reviews, not my peers. Oh well, I guess being on the NY times best sellers list for 9 weeks in a row is enough for me...

What's Going On With The Performers' Union?

Mr. Marcus calls me back Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Marcus: "We got picked up and shut down by AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). Bill Margold turned me on to it. I was told that the director of the West Coast office, he's also their lawyer, was a big supporter of adult product. I thought we had a chance.

"Hang on one second. This is them [AFTRA]. Speak of the devil."

The More Things Change

My friend wrote that she is considering plastic surgery.

Considering? I ask. Didn't you have some already?

She called me the C-word. "God you're a bitch. Of course I haven't had plastic surgery. What are you talking about....my imaginary boob job as portrayed on your site? I'm very sensitive about my radiant good looks."

I had a 3 p.m. lunch Wednesday with two porn stars at Canters Deli on Fairfax Bl. It is kosher-style but not kosher. All the kosher restaurants are closed in preparation for Shemini Atzeret which began shortly before sundown Wednesday.

I was quiet and subdued. I had a raging headache. I shouldn't be eating in this trafe place.

I see a Chabadnik waving his lulav and etrog and offering Jews a chance to do a mitzvah.

Helpful advises:

Use the following matrix to determine if you will "etc." them:

If they have received Lexington Steel, Mr. Marcus or any other porn shvartze in their keisters - Run!

If they fully support the unconditional right for Israel to exist - They may orally gratify your staff.

If they accept as reasonable that a man may live in a converted garage and sleep in a sleeping bag until age 38 - Then they may proffer their vagina for your amusement.

If they are willing to support said 38 year old slacker while he self-publishes himself into bankruptcy - Skip directly to marriage without a prenup.

They wanted to know about my sex life. I said I didn't have one. I was saving myself for marriage.

They wanted to know why I had never married. Why do most women my age or younger want to know why I have never married? Isn't it obvious that there is something very wrong with me? I suffer from severe vaginaphobia. I ain't never getting my face down there.

I ordered a salad undressed. One girl got chicken matza ball soup. The other got vegetable soup.

"He really is a virgin," said one. "He doesn't even have dressing on his salad."

"He's just kidding," said the other.

One porn girl had a five-year affair with a preacher. He was married with kids but he never told her that. They used to go to a sex club and publicly perform sex. He was the best lover of her life.

She hasn't had sex since December when she last did a scene. Unless she's doing porn or in an exclusive relationship, she doesn't have sex.

I went upstairs with her to the bathrooms. While I was whizzing away, she poked her head in the door and yelled at me to hurry up. How did she get so fast at these things?

At age 38, I take longer to relieve myself than a woman does. I'm falling apart.

They paid for my meal and tipped $8. "I used to be a waitress," she said.

Thursday morning. I was stuck beside a bunch of old people at my house of worship. They were making weird noises and crowding me. They looked like they were about to keel over. I wanted to go sit in the balcony but figured that would be rude. So I left early.

On my walk home, a busty Persian woman in a black Mercedes stopped me. We had dated a few times ten years ago but we didn't kiss or go further then or now.

She's put on 40 pounds. She used to be hot. She's never married.

She patted me on my stomach. Said I've gained weight. Only about 15 pounds. All due to lithium.

She demanded to know why I hadn't married. Was I still chronically fatigued? Why did I look so tired? What was wrong with my life? Where did I live? What was my phone number? Why was I carrying The Russian Debutante's Handbook to a place of worship? If I am going to be religious, I should go the whole way. I should be wholehearted. Consistent.

We should get together for coffee, she said.

My head aches.

Summer Haze, Craig Valentine Interview

Thursday afternoon, October 7, I begin with Craig. He and Summer are on the road in Connecticut.

Craig: "I had one of my glass blowers rip me off and I had to have him killed. People need to realize that you don't steal money from us."

Craig and Summer hosted a contest (Miss Nude Connecticut or somethiing) at Stagedoor Johnny's last week.

Craig: "The fiasco? I care not to discuss that. That was a nightmare."

Selena Steele and Bridgette Monroe discuss it negatively here in this Adultfyi story.

How did you get into the adult industry?

"I was a DJ in a titty bar 15 years ago. The feature entertainers decided that they wanted to use me as a little sex toy. They figured out that I had a talent. A couple of years later, one of the features that I was banging, told me that I could get paid for what I do. So, 300 sex scenes later, my dick pays my bills."

When did you do your first scene?

"Shiiiiit. We're going back to 1992. Shannon Rush."

When did you hook up with Summer Haze?

"She featured in my club in 1995. She wasn't 'Summer Haze' yet. I was the DJ at the Crazy Horse Too in Pompano, Florida. I've never owned a club. My stepfather owns Trapeze, the swingers clubs.

"She thought I was a f---ing a------.

"We ran into each other again [in August 1999]. I was doing the Exotic Dancer show. I went to work for Pure Platinum. We got selected as the club of the year. She'd started doing porn. We met up again at Internext (then IA2000) in the Fall of 1999. I'm famous. I'm the one who rented the Sea Escape and did the porn cruise.

"My ex-partner fell in love with her. He told her I was a broke loser and she took off.

"About two years later, somebody told her the truth. Everybody had figured out that I was a millionaire. We wound up getting back together. We got married last year at the Exotic Dancer convention. We just had our one-year anniversary in Las Vegas."

I know you've banged a lot of porn star. Did you have any relationships with any?

"Not really. It's just a job."

Did you have relationships with civilian girls?

"Here and there. I really didn't have relationships with anybody."

Has this been your life the past 15 years?

"Basically. And I owned the third-largest concert tour company (Mystery Lighting and Production Arts) in Florida. We own an Internet company. We own a production company. We own a glass sex toy company.

"We lost the touring company September 11 [2001]. We got stuck in Brazil. Our equipment got robbed. They wouldn't allow the cargo planes come back in. When our wonderful president declared war, war invalidates my insurance.

"We licensed Summer's name out to a company called Glass Pleasures [in January 2004]. They ripped us off. We went after them and took possession of the company. She designs it. My guys manufacture it."

How is it different from all the other companies that make sex toys?

"All the other companies have guys owning everything and guys manufacturing everything. One, you've got a porn star. Two, you've got a woman. Women know what women want. If we had to figure out what a woman wants, we'd go nuts. All her little girlfriends come over to my house. It's like a pornfest and a f---fest over at my house every weekend trying out the toys."

I believe porn star Serenity owns Las Vegas Novelties, a sex toy company out.

"We were distributing directly. We just started distributing through RSK Distributions out of Baltimore, Maryland. We have a downside. Everyone thinks that Alex is god because he's the only one who's been around but Rick's got some competition."

Who are the Alex and Rick in this quote?

Craig Valentine does most of his scenes in Florida and New York. "I know Jim South very well but he doesn't get me much work. I can go to New York or Florida and work five or six times in a day. The theory is that I am unproven LA talent. I don't give a f---. I get $500 a sex scene in Florida.

"I used to be the head MILF-seeker for MILFseeker.com. I did almost 20 episodes. Until the photographer, Photogregg, got jealous because he couldn't f--- my wife. 'I'm sorry dude, but I take this strictly as a business. She's gotta f--- you for me to keep my lead role? Kiss my ass.' He ended up losing a filming contract when they moved MILFseeker out to LA."

Pornstar2pac writes: PhotoGregg's house burnt down again. Try back Monday.

"I was going up to New York for Magnum Productions. Bob Magnum. Shannon Rush's ex-husband. CV Productions. Paul Howser. Greg Gregory. There's anywhere from 20-30 scenes a day going on in Florida. The problem is that they don't adhere to the testing rules like they do in LA.

"I don't classify the testing as meaning s---. But there are enough problems in our business now. You don't need to throw any wood on the fire.

"My wife eight months ago came up with a bunch of restrictions. She only wants to perform with women or me. I can do what I want.

"She got hurt the last three times on a set [with a guy]. She got put in a hospital on a set."

I hear Summer talking in the background.

"Then she had a photographer for a major release stalking her. After putting a decade into the industry, she should be able to work with who she wants, not who they tell her to work for."

How did she get put in the hospital?

"Somebody went ahead and did what she asked him not to. They come up with these guys with monster dicks. She had ovarian cancer real bad three times. She said, if you are going to do doggie, do it real easy. He did whatever he wanted. She wound up with bruised kidneys and everything else. He put her in the hospital.

"Then we had a shoot offshore of Florida where the guy put her in dangerous positions. It went to DVD. It was released at AVN Expo [January 2004] -- Sexy Outdoors. We had it yanked because he was shooting in a National Wildlife preserve with kids around.

"The photographer (Adam Redford) was going around -- 'oh, you're such a good f---. Throw your husband out and come over to the house.'

"He almost caught a beating at AVN. He tried turning around and play little scumbag when I was picking up our AVN Awards tickets. Somebody had to stop me from throwing him a beating.

"He said, I've got a client. Here's how it works. After she kills the snake in the Everglades, she lies down in the grass with the cameras off and the client f---- her. I said, dude, she's a porn star. She's not a hooker.

"Another one was that he takes her to a cabin in South Carolina, slits a pigs throat, and lets it run around the cabin dying while he's f---ing her.

"He didn't know I was her husband. When we were going to shoots in Florida, nobody knew we had anything to do with each other. When she was doing her sex scene four miles off shore... I said, I've got a gun. He tries shoving a fish in her pussy. He says, I've got my cameraman. Well, I'll shoot both of you [with the gun]."

Ira Levine Reacts To LACDOHS' Letter

Ira Levine writes on Nina.com:

So far, still no reaction from the major production companies, although it has been announced that TT Boy will appeal his fine from Cal-OHSA and the agency appears to be backing away from one or two particulars having to do with specific ownership of the "employing" companies, while letting the larger and more costly penalties stand. The outcome of these proceedings is very much in doubt, but LACDOHS clearly intends to continue its all-condoms-all-the-time crackdown efforts while whatever appeals and/or litigation arising out of this specific complaint eventuate.

I remain somewhat puzzled and perplexed at the evident lack of concern among producers faced with this very direct and very real threat to their ability to do business in LA County and ultimately in the State of California. Fielding and his friends are not bluffing. Nobody who had spent an hour in Fielding's office, as I have, and heard him talk about his refusal to tolerate "lawlessness" in the porn industry could mistake his grim resolve. He really does not like us and really wouldn't mind if we took our business elsewhere. And he really does not give a rat's ass about the unintended (?) consequences of his actions to the health and safety of performers, dismissing notions of underground and/or runaway production as "the kinds of excuses always made by industries that don't want to be regulated."

In fact, some of the off-shoring and underground shooting has already begun, possibly related to the looming menace of the Kounty Klap Krew here at home. An already existing trend to shoot more of the hardest material, such as Ariana Jollee's 65-guy anal creampie vid, in Europe and Brazil appears to be accelerating, though the risks of shooting in places without continuous and reliable HIV testing should be pretty obvious after last spring. And I can't help wondering if Private USA's decision to essentially close up shop in America has something to do with owner Berth Milton's expressed willingness to blow off the entire US market rather than conform to government-imposed standards he regards as completely unacceptable.

The fact that Fielding's office had such a complete list of producers to whom to send his friendly missive suggests that a data-base has been compiled from the LA County Film Office, which issues shooting permits. Armed with such a data-base, it wouldn't be difficult for inspectors to figure out which companies were shooting where on what days, paving the way for on-set inspections at will. As an immediate result, a number of companies may downsize their productions in order to shoot without permits, putting themselves in the way of additional fines and penalties should they get caught. These are the incremental steps that lead to underground markets and the ultimate undermining of porn's legal status.

Meantime, I am more than a bit suspicious that Fielding's department, hit hard by funding cuts, having to pay out millions of dollars in civil damages for all its deadly f-ck-ups over the past couple of years and deeply embroiled in the mess at King-Drew Memorial, is looking hungrily at AIM's testing services as a possible revenue stream, if they can shove AIM out of the way. Problem is, the County cannot provide services remotely resembling AIM's.

They can't do PCR-DNA testing, conduct industry-wide monitoring or report test results to performers in a timely fashion, much less to porn producers on active sets, as AIM does now. A combination of legal restrictions and limited resources make it impossible for Fielding's operation to do what AIM does. The best they will be able to offer will be monthly ELISAs, on the assumption that the barrier methods they intend to enforce will be observed, so testing will become less crucial. That is a very, very dangerous gamble with the lives of adult performers, but then again, the lives of adult performers don't mean a whole lot to an agency that regards the ten-percent HIV infection rate prevalent in the gay bath houses they regulate as more or less acceptable.

Should LACDOHS succeed in instituting their leaky and potentially lethal approach to testing as the industry standard, individual performers will still be able to get PCR-DNA tests from AIM and require them of other performers before working with them - something producers will lose the right to require under California law if ultimately deemed employers, as a small but determined cadre of bureaucrats are working diligently to insure they will be. Inevitably, newer, less-experienced performers would find themselves confronted on sets with situations in which voluntary PCR-DNA tests weren't available and face a choice between accepting the producer's assurances that "we're following the County's testing rules" and losing employment. Those same producers are the ones most likely to then ditch the same set of rules when it comes to condoms, and the vulnerable performers involved are the most likely to accept that as well.

The good doctor is writing a prescription for disaster. At this point, having seen him in action, and been in the ring with him directly on two occasions, I darkly suspect that disaster is exactly what he and his allies desire for this business. They make no secret of wanting porn out of LA County in private (though they make more soothing pronouncements in public) and if their new "standards" fail to prevent (or even precipitate) yet another HIV incident, even harsher measures will certainly ensue. The alarm is ringing off the wall, and the big dogs of this business still slumber. Their rude awakening is not far off.

I most explicitly and vehemently reject the Cal-OHSA-LACDOHS approach and the type of regulation they seek to impose. And while I am comfortable shooting with condoms for vaginal and anal intercourse, I am most definitely not "fine with working with these restrictions," which include nonsense like barriers for oral sex, gloves and goggles, and don't think other producers should be either. And, unlike some folks in and out of porn, I would never attempt to impose my personal standards of safety on anyone else. I would never suggest that all companies must play by the same rules, or believe that they would. That's part of the point I'm trying, evidently without much success, to put across here.

These newly-created regulations are clearly intended to put us out of business and have nothing to do with performers' well-being. I've already acknowleged the very considerable evolution of my own perspective since the events of 1993. In no way am I interested in playing into the hands of those who are trying to intimidate us, and frankly I don't care much for that suggestion, since I'm the one who has been fighting these guys off hand-to-hand for the past six months while getting generally dissed and carped at from within the business I'm trying to shield from crushing government intervention.

The alarm I am raising, unlike DAC and some other recent safe-sex converts in the industry, is about the threat to our work represented by government officials trying to prohibit hardcore shooting under the guise of worker protection. This represents a deadly-serious challenge to our right to operate legally in this state, and I will continue to sound the alarm such a challenge should raise for as long as I need to. The suggestion that in doing so I "aid in their quest to get what they want..." is truly painful to read here. I hardly suggest bowing at the throne of state power in this matter. I don't remember anyone else from ths business standing next to me when I was trading brickbats with Fielding at the big public meeting at the West Hollywood City Hall a couple of months back when he was pushing for his new scheme, and that is what is bothering me. To call attention to this obvious peril is hardly running around proclaiming that "Now all the sudden the world is coming to a end." This is a common-sense response to a clear and present danger.

It is not a matter of spreading irrational fear, and it has nothing at all to do, one more time, with the whole matter of appropriate STD precautions for the industry, of which I take a generally confident view. This is about the legal and economic consequences of allowing these bureaucrats run amok to proceed unopposed. The major producers need to get off their well-padded asses and take these agencies and their rules before the nearest judge who will give them standing.

The situation we now face has much in common with that existing in LA County prior to the Freeman Decision. A small group of bureaucrats are misapplying the law and misusing their authority to try and drive porn production out of this community. That is the threat I am addressing, and so far, I'm not seeing much will to do so on the part of those who have the most to lose. They seem to think this is merely some trivial inconvenience that will just go away.

Porn Star Hookers

Eyeman writes on AdultDVDtalk.com:

I was recently looking for info about past porn stars and found a thread that claimed that one of my favorites was now doing escort work. I went to exotica-2000.com and was shocked at what I found. Not only was my fav available for hire, but what seemed to be half of the female porn industry as well. You can even check a calendar to see what, and when stars will be in your area who are available for hire.

What's the deal? Are porn stars turning to escort work, or is this website just full of sh-t? Has anybody actually used this service?

I consider myself to be extremely open minded, but feel that this kind of undermines the legitimacy and respectability that porn has worked hard to achieve.

RC7394 writes:

These are not fakes. Read escort reviews of porn stars at theeroticreview.com. You can find tons of reviews for Miko Lee, Tabitha Stevens, Nina Hartley, Keisha, Kianna, Blake Mitchell, Jeanna Fine, Annie Andersin, etc. They charge an arm and a leg. Cynara Fox was in Philly last week charging $600 I think. A lot of the busty porn stars also escort: Tara Moon was also in Philly last week @ $1000. There's also a yahoo group (inside_her_info) dedicated to porn escort information. You can check numerous cities in US and the world for escorts local and visiting every week at eros-guide.com. I check it every week to see who's in town.

Al20 writes: "Tons of pornstars are escorting as it is another way for them to make money. Many of the lesser known stars or "washed up" pornstars can make more money escorting rather than doing a film. In the end it does not matter as whether they are escorting or making porn they are essentially f--king for money."

Porn star Kimi Lixx writes:

RE: porn trying to be legitimate and respectable.

Yeah, that's a cool idea, and yeah, I would say everyone gives it a nod or two within the industry.

Back to the real world, porn has snuck in under the legitimacy header of "art and freedom to do stuff", which no one really argues with, but no one believes, either.

We all understand that the PURPOSE of porn is not art or freedom to do stuff, it's material intended to stimulate sexually. It's prurient, and that is somehow not good. It is not a legitimate business, not a decent way to earn money.

What would be nice is if everyone would stop dancing around trying to say how sweet and lovely porn is, and just take the whole donut, stuff it in their mouth, and swallow. Sex work is acceptable. There is nothing unrespectable about selling your sexual skill and sexual attractiveness - On camera, off camera, to strangers, to a select group of strangers who are related by paperwork, to one man until he dies 25 years before you do, or to one woman so that she'll keep your house and raise your kids.

I am tired of seeing things like "just having sex for money". Yeah, well, you just bang on a nail with a hammer for money, you just answer the phone all day, you just type stuff your boss says, you just aphebetize files, you just collect trash bins, you just make change and swipe things slowly at the grocery store. EVERYONE is just a cog in the machine.

The job I want/perform has been declared illegal in most of the USA. That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it. Up until quite recently in the history of this grand nation it was illegal for darker skinned people (and not JUST blacks) to do the same things white people could do. It wasn't just frowned on or prosecuted during election years, either. It was so freakin' illegal and horrible that people died over it. It took a while and LOT of people speaking up and taking some serious risks to get the idea of equality for all to be accepted. (note; I said the idea, not the reality) I don't see many people standing up to say "hey, give sex workers a chance", so I don't see any bright shining light in our near future. It begins in your mind, though, hey? Quit marginalizing me.

Porn star Kami Andrews writes:

I think a bigger black eye on the porn industry is when a girl is injured on set,when a girl feels like she was raped, when an actress kills herself,or when an sweet 18 year old becomes a dumb ass meth head and becomes a hero. The fact is this is a short ride for most,it's like being an athlete you have to get in and get as much money as you can before you reach your sell by date. Be smart and invest or buy a house and make the rest of your life easier. I am always amazed at the amount of hypocrisy in porn, it's like there is strata, with some people thinking they are better or know whats best.

Kimi Lixx writes:

Kami, don't be guilty of the same thing you're accusing someone else of. Let's face it, some will bank 100$ and risk throwing away 10,000$ the next week. Yes, some porn star escorts can be talked into going bareback - and some can't. Some non-porn escorts go bareback ALL the time, and some NEVER do. Escorts are only people, just like any other people, who make good and bad choices and are sometimes swayed by instant gratification. Office workers look at porn sites at work and risk losing their jobs, some people indulge in petty theft at work and risk their jobs, some people turn in inflated expense accounts, some turn in dirty timecards - hey, people are people, right? In general, I believe porn star escorts to be a slightly more conscientious batch of prostitutes than others, simply because they have more on the line. They may also be somewhat more educated on the real risks. Nothing more, nothing less.

Monkey Power writes:

Try and keep them on the TV. Once they climb out of the television and start gyrating on top of your coffee table, that's improper pornstar placement. Try to usher them back into the TV at that point. If they don't respond to gentle nudging, threaten to call your wife into the room.

They were set up to be our fantasies, so of course I fantasize about them, and even keep tabs on which ones escort, because that's part of the fantasizing. But if starlets are going to start being havable, then why did I waste all that time and energy fantasizing? Because much like President Bush I "work hard," and watching porn has always been "hard work" for me. That's a lot of labor I've put in.

When pornstars become attainable, all that does is remind me of how other people besides pornstars are attainable locally and--dare I say it?--for free! Or for a negligible fee. Plus, with pornstars you've often been treated to visual proof of their reddish STD breakouts, whereas with a local mall girl there's at least some chance you'll emerge unscathed. .......What?

I'd like to apologize for the writing of this post. To my doctor, my preacher, my "ATF", my father, my cats, and my legal counsel--I'm sorry. But most of all, I apologize to you, gentle reader.

Update On That Letter

I call Rob Spallone at 12:30 p.m.

Rob: "I got a couple of calls from two lady reporters. I gave them 20 minutes."

So how are people reacting to that [LA County Health ] letter?

Rob: "All people I know who are smart called their lawyers. They're going to make the talent sign certain stuff and they are going to make people like me sign that I'm responsible. They're just buying a finished product from me. If a company makes a car seat for a baby and a year later they recall them, the people who that selling them are not in trouble. It is the people who making them. In this case, if I am shooting a movie for a company and they pay everyone, then they are responsible. If they pay me for the finished product, then I'm responsible.

"Everyone says they're [porn stars] not employees. They're employees. If they're working for you today, and you're paying them, they're employees."

Paris Hilton's New Boyfriend Simon Rex Has A Porn Past

Paris is apparently seeing Simon Rex, a former MTV DJ.

Slick writes on GFY: "He was in a movie called - "Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth" and his character name was Slab O'Beef."

Gynecologist writes: "Scroll up to look at the photo I took of his dog. Don't you think that dog is an indication of being gay?"

Kimmy Kim writes: "We really need to know how many pairs of shoes he's got before we can make the final call on this one."

The Tao of Steve

While I have always believed in saving physical intimacy for marriage, and have long sought in my potential mate a true fervor for God and goodness, I have come to realize over the years that the desires of many men, such as my friend Robert, are for baser things.

Robert writes: "Given the "relationship troubles" concerning this girl I'm madly in love with* -- unrequited, I might add (thus, leaving me most days to feel emotionally wasted, gouged, and eviscerated) -- I was reminded of this amusing, diverting little flick. Perhaps something I ought see again."

Memorable Quotes from The Tao of Steve (2000)

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Dex : Do you want to have sex with this woman?
Dave : Definitely.
Dex : Okay, then you're violating the first rule of being Steve.
Dave : Who?
Dex : You must learn to eliminate your desire.
Rick : It's Buddhist.
Dex : I think the Taoists said it first.
Rick : Hey, are we gonna have a seminar or are we gonna play golf?
Dex : Just a short seminar on the elimination of desire, okay? If you're out with this girl and even THINKING about getting laid, you're finished, cuz women can smell an agenda like sh-t on a shoe.

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Syd : What do you look for in a woman?
Dex : Uh,... Low Standards.

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Dave : Okay, so if I'm not a Steve, then what am I?
Dex : You... You're ... a Stu.

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Dex : Look at me. Look at me, okay? Technically, I shouldn't be getting laid, but I do. And do you know why, Dave? Because when I'm hanging out with a woman, that's all I'm doing is hanging out, talking, listening. I'm not sitting there thinking about how to get in bed with her. And this completely confuses them because they're saying "Wait a minute. I'm so much better looking than this guy. Isn't he attracted to me?" The basic principle: We pursue that which retreats from us.
Rick : It's from Heidegger.
Unnamed Guy Playing Poker: Groucho Marks said the same thing. "Act like a woman can't join your club, and she'll do almost anything to get in."

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Julie : You have so many great books.
Dex : [Mumbling] The better to seduce you with.
Julie : What?
Dex : The better to deduce the truth with.

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Dex : Dating's so tricky, that's all. And you're really cool. You have a great personality. I just don't wanna... I just don't wanna mess up our friendship.
Julie : Friendship? We just met!

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Syd : I made a schedule on my computer.
Dex : How Marcia Brady of you!

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Dex : How can you not love a British rock band consisting of four teenage bumble bees.

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Rick : Can I talk to you second?
Dex : I'm blanching the butter.
Rick : Okay, Martha Stewart. When you're done?

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Dex : But I think seriously that most people want a composite of the opposite sex. Ya know, cuz you gals aren't ever going to find Antonio Banderas with the personality of Fred MacMurray. And I'm never going to get Rachel Welch with the personality of Lucille Ball.
Syd : What's wrong with just Lucille Ball?
Rick : What's wrong with just Rachel Welch?
Dex : Amen! I mean my biggest fear is that I'm gonna marry the woman that I want to hang out with and talk to in my golden years and then die in a fiery car crash when I'm forty and I miss all those years of having sex.

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Maggie : [to Dex] But you've never been happy with any women you've dated.
Dex : Well, that's Male Insanity Syndrome. Ya know, that is just you're with a woman and no matter how cool she is, you're always thinking "Maybe I could do a little better or I could trade up somehow.
Syd : "Trade up?"

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Rick : Dex is just bitter because he's never been in love.
Dex : [Offended] I love my dog.

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[Dex takes a substantial hit off a bong at 7:30am]
Syd : Would you describe this as a typical morning for you?
Dex : [Trying not to exhale] Hell no. Usually I spend this time cross-training.

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Syd : So, you smoke pot for breakfast, you work part time, and you ...
Dex : ... have limited potential.

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Dex : Doing stuff is overrated. Like Hitler. He did a lot. But don't we all wish he woulda just stayed home and gotten stoned?
Syd : Oh, I see. So you're only options are to get stoned or commit genocide?

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Dex : I'm serious. If you're hanging out with women as friends, your doing your research in the wrong library.
Dave : What's wrong with being friends with women?
Dex : Nothing, but getting out of that category of 'friend' is harder than like getting out of Alcatraz.

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Dex : And this takes us to the second rule of Being Steve: You have to do something excellent in her presence, thus demonstrating your sexual worthiness.

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Syd : Don Giovanni slept with thousands of women because he was afraid he wouldn't be loved by one.

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Dex : Steve is the prototypical cool American male. Y'know, I'm talking about Steve McGarrett, alright? Steve Austin, Steve McQueen. Y'know, he's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living, man. He never, ever tries to impress the women but he always gets the girl.

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Dave : f--k you, man. You're all Steve's and I'm Gomer f--king Pyle, man? f--k that. Screw you guys.

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Dex : Awwww, dude, there's a certain order you're supposed to do things in, and telling someone you love them is definitely last in that order.
Dave : Well, when are you supposed to tell 'em?
Dex : I dunno. Maybe your 40th wedding anniversary or something?

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Dex : I'm gonna tell you this one last time and maybe you should tattoo it on your dick so you don't forget, okay? "We pursue that which retreats from us."

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Dex : And that takes us to Part III of the Tao of Steve, okay? Alright, after you've eliminated your desire, and after you've been excellent in her presence, then you must retreat. Okay?

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Dex : You couldn't resist my powerful penetrating stare, could you?
Syd : No, I wanted to tell you, you had a huge glob of guacamole on your shirt.

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Syd : Okay, so, if you're falling in love with me, then why are you with all these other women?
Dex : Oh, come on. Am I supposed to remain celibate while I bask in like the warm glow of your annihilating contempt?

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Dex : You think it's more honest to pretend to listen to a woman when you're just thinking about getting laid.
Dave : I think it's more honest than pretending I don't wanna get laid, ya know?
Dex : That's the whole point. Don't pretend, man. Just really let go of your desire.

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Dave : I'm not looking for enlightenment, Dex. I'm looking for a girlfriend.

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Rick : There'll be walking.
Dex : [Unimpressed] Yeah?
Rick : And climbing.
Dex : I know.
Rick : Outdoors.
Dex : Shut the f--k up.

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[At night, in their tents]
Dex : Good night, Rick!
Rick : Good night, Dex.
Dex : Good night, Maggie!
Maggie : Good night, John Boy.
Dex : Goodnight, Syd.
Syd : MY GOD DO YOU EVER STOP TALKING!?

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Rick : This is almost as ridiculous as your sleeping diet.
Dex : That time I lost 30 pounds.
Rick : You also lost your job.

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Dave : I'M A TAOIST!

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Dave : [Paraphrasing the Tao of Steve] "Be desireless. Be excellent. Be gone."

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Dex : The Tao of Steve isn't about picking up lots of women. It's about being the best person you can be, and I'm not.

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Dex : You think all Buddhist monks are like the Dalai Lama? I mean, you don't there are guys in Nepal, right, who are like, "What should I do? Should I carry packs of heavy sh-t for Westerners up to the top of the base camp on Mt. Everest, or should I stay down here in Katmandu and maybe just chant all day and check out chicks and pretend to be holy?"

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Dex : Both men and women want to have sex. It's natural, except we're on different timetables. Women want to have sex, like, y'know, fifteen minutes after us, so alright, if you hold out for twenty she'll be chasing you for five.

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Dex : Y'know, no one ever says, "Hey, God, how was your day? What can I do for you, God?" Or, "Hey, God, did you catch Letterman last night?"
Syd : Oh, and I suppose you talk to God like that?
Dex : Always. All the time.
Syd : And what does God say?
Dex : He says, "You know what? I saw Letterman and it sucked."

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Dex : You can't just go up to a woman and say, 'Hi! I'm Dave! I like smoking pot, reading the sports page on the john...wanna have sex with me?'

LA County Health Department Sends Letter To Porn Producers Recommending Condoms

Porn producers got a letter from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Monday recommending the use of condoms in all sex scenes.

On Tuesday, I repeated what I heard from Rob Spallone, and later read on the web site of James DiGiorgio, that this letter came from Cal-OHSA and that it said that Cal-OHSA would fine porn producers who did not use condoms and employ safe-sex practices.

Gretchen Gallen from Xbiz.com writes me Wednesday morning, October 6: "We spoke to Cal-OSHA just now about that letter you referenced on your site this morning - they have issued an official statement saying that they did not send the letter."

What porn producers received was a much milder version of what Rob and Jimmy refer to. This letter only recommends the use of condoms. It says nothing about fining porn producers who do not use them. And it did not come from Cal-OHSA.

I retract and apologize for the inaccurate information I published on this site.

JimmyD rightly takes me to task for spreading misinformation. He publishes the letter in question:

Dear Sir or Madam:

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of the recommendations of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LAC DHS) on workplace practices to prevent transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD) among adult film industry performers.

The recommendations include consistent condom use, routine periodic STD/HIV screening, hepatitis A and B vaccination, and worker education. While condoms cannot be considered 100% effective in preventing disease transmission, the correct and consistent use of latex condoms will greatly reduce the risk of HIV and STD transmission. Condoms used in conjunction with the other recommended measures will significantly reduce occupational risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV or another STD.

Based on our investigation of the March 2004 adult film industry HIV outbreak in Los Angeles, we recommend that you enact the following: (1) condom use for all penetrativesexual acts, including oral sex; (2) frequent medical monitoring, that includes routine screening for HIV and other STD's; (3) vaccination of non-immune performers for hepatitis A and B; and (4) ongoing education and training for all adult film industry performers, producers and directors on work-related exposure and risk of acquisition of HIV and STD.

The LAC DHS is currently working with Cal/OSHA, the California STD and AIDSprograms, National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a model exposure control plan. When this has been finalized we will make it available to the adult film industry. In the meantime, the LAC DHS is available to provide technical assistance to the industry. Please contact Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH, Director, Communicable Disease Control and Prevention at (213) 989-7161.

Sincerely, Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H. Director of Public Health and Health Officer.

While by no means compromising my retraction and apology, I still hold that Cal-OHSA's fine of TT Boy's two companies for unsafe sex practices, and this letter from Dr. Fielding, along with the recommendations of Assemblyman Paul Koretz that pornographers use condoms and other safety measures, portend a significant threat to porn-as-we-know-it in Los Angeles.

If TT Boy can get fined for $30,000 for unsafe sex practices, why can't other porn producers who employ similar practices also get fined?

The letter from the LA County Department of Health Services is four paragraphs. It does not mandate the use on condoms or goggles. It makes no mention of fines.

It recommends condom use for all penetrative sexual acts including oral sex, worker education, testing, and Hepatitis A & B vacinations.

The letter from Jonathan Fielding says the County is working with Cal-OHSA and the Center for Disease Control and other agencies to develop a model exposure plan.

I publish below the information as I received it. It gives insight into the industry's fears. Pornographers are reading into the information given them the type of threat that they fear the most.

Rob Spallone says on the phone Tuesday afternoon: "I got a letter. You're going to die. From Cal-OHSA yesterday. Condoms during the blow job. Condoms during sex. Goggles. Rubber gloves. They sent it to everybody. It is not a law but they are recommending it. If they come on set and you're not doing this, you're going to get a fine. This letter is unbelievable.

"I'm going to make them [talent to] sign a release that they weren't sick before the set. That they weren't sick after the set. If they don't want to work, they don't sign it.

"Companies buy the movies from me. They don't have employees [on Rob's shoots]. I have employees.

"Everybody got this yesterday. Some companies got 20-30 of them because they go under different names."

James DiGiorgio writes:

I'm hearing about the letter CAL-OSHA sent out to porn producers. Apparently, it says condoms are now required, although the requirement has not been codified into California law. The letter, I'm told, informs producers that fines will be issued to those caught employing and shooting talent who are not wearing condoms.

So let's say you're shooting a skinflick and CAL-OSHA shows up on your set. How'd they get there? How'd they find out where you're shooting? Only one way I can think of other than a rat--and there are a few loudmouthed, cheese-eating rodents in this biz--or you're shooting at a well-known porn stage: They were tipped off by the L.A. Film Permit office. That's how cops and firemen often end up on porn sets. Hmmm... Seems to me less producers will be pulling permits. That'll cost L.A. some bucks in permit fees and send more producers underground or out-of-state to shoot.

All porn shoots, like regular shoots, have to get permits from the EIDC - Entertainment Industry Development Corporation. So Cal-OHSA inspectors could just check in with the EIDC and find out who is shooting and where.

If people shoot without permits, and they get caught, they face heavy fines.

XXX says: Could you imagine all the gonzo companies like Red Light District who shoot ATM (ass-to-mouth), there is no way they are going to shoot condoms. Will this drive gonzo porn offshore?

Cal-OHSA took their time to do their due-diligence and now they're acting. This is good for the Internet business. How is Cal-OHSA going to regulate a shoot done in my house where it is just me and a girl sucking my cock? Or at any webmaster's house?