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From October 12:

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Terri Summers Interview

* What did you want to become when you were a little girl?

"Too many things! I wanted to be an actress, a supermodel, a pilot, a photographer, and open my own bar. I also always wanted to write a book, or a column. Not to much different then what I still like!"

* What was expected of you by your family and friends?

"My friends and family always knew I wasn't really the office type, even though I have done all my way trough college. They never ever expected me to do anything nude, but they are not surprised about the things I still want to do, and that I love being in front and behind a camera. I was always the happy poser as a kid, and always the one that gave everyone directions, and ended up taking the picture myself!"

* Why did you get into adult entertainment?

"Until I was 21 I never even looked at nude magazines, and my then boyfriend moved in with a big box of porn! So I started buying it myself, and one day there was the Penthouse competition for Pet of the Year. I entered, and then after the finals they called me to say it was a toss between me and another girl, and I won! After that I did bits of catalogue modeling, soft video clips for tv, and worked in a voyeurhouse, and slowly started to do more and more. I always kept my job in the bar, or did promotions for discos, but the modeling was a nice extra!

"The past year I started working full time almost with my website and doing movies and modeling. I started with movies years ago, wasn't ready, then started again past December, I love doing it, but I am taking it slowly again as I was moving to fast!"

* What do you love and hate about the industry?

"I love all the attention, I love the way you get dolled up and look beautiful, the freedom between people, and the laughing on sets, the great friends that I have made. I don't like to see how a lot of people seem very lonely, and yet be total bitches to people who are just as lonely and just want to make friends. I also don't like how it can change certain morals that you have, where for example a gang bang seems extreme before you enter porn, after a while five guys don't seem that many. Its very easy to get caught up in the life, and forget who you are. Other then that, I love porn!! It's a great business to be in!! You can make your money doing what you love doing the most!"

Mary Carey Files For Divorce

Mary Carey writes: "Just wanted to let you know that me and Erik, better known as no-neck, are over. I filed divorce paperwork yesterday.

"Definitely a relief, but stressful since he took my new Corvette and my two dogs and drove to Florida. I should have left sooner but every other time I went back to him, but this time the paper work is filed and it is definitely over for good. I'm single now, and I'm gonna do boy/girl again."

Lensman Asks on GFY: Will IBill release my recurring database?

Lensman, one of the ten biggest pornographers, writes on GFY: "I have my lawyers on it, and want to move it to an IPSP. Do they want to burn that bridge?"

Giorgio writes: "While I am small potatoes, I have 300+ rebills that are in total limbo. It sucks donkey balls."

Porn Webmasters Give Kudos To XBiz World On Debut Magazine

The debut issue of XBiz World magazine devoted to the online porn industry arrived in the mail boxes of webmasters this week.

PornKings writes on GFY: "Xbiz world looks great. Top-notch."

I wonder what this competition will mean for AVN Online. Will the company need to cut costs, lay off more people? Is XBiz World a money-maker from the getgo?

Chris Mallick, CEO of Epoch, writes: "Agreed. Nice work Lori, Alec and Company!"

D-Money writes: "I love the look and feel to it. I actually read this one. The other magazine I used to just read who's advertising and not the articles."

Gary Kremen says Sex.com is advertising in the next issue.

Updated - Digital Playground Tonight

TUESDAY, October 12: Jesse Jane, Devon, Brooke Hunter, Julie Night, and Virgin Vixens Sophia Sandoval and Brooke Haven were all on DP Tonight.

I arrived at 6 p.m. and helped myself to hearty portions of sandwiches, chocolates and trailmix in the kitchen.

I ask Jesse who her latest celebrity is. I've read so much press on her I can't keep up.

"Which one?" Jesse asks.

She's recently dated Tommy Lee, Kid Rock and actor Shane West.

Kid Rock met her at a concert in Las Vegas. I overheard her say she kept him up all night. The next day he had to fly to LA for a concert. They've been together about the past week.

Kid Rock wanted her to fly to Las Vegas tonight to have dinner with Elton John. Jesse said she had to do her DP Tonight show.

Jesse says that Tommy is the biggest of her celebrity lovers.

From Southern California, Julie entered porn through DK. She's done over 100 movies in her more-than-two-years in the industry. She's assembling a web site but it has yet to go online because of the iBill crisis.

She speaks softly. I ask her if she's shy. She says no. She says she's tired. "I wish I had a good reason." She wears glasses. She munches on candy.

I interrogate her in the kitchen. She says she's done a couple of BJ scenes with her glasses on. She did a movie (Pink Eye) where her eye was held open to receive the man's spray.

I thought that was horrible. Julie said it wasn't so bad. "You just put in some visine. It's not the worst thing to get in your eye. Have you ever chopped up hot peppers and gotten some in your eye? That burns."

I ask Julie if she's ever smoked a crack pipe. She says no. She doesn't think so. Though there was her fling with Robert Downey Jr a year ago. She was at the Rainbow Room. She met the Kevin Dillon, the brother of Matt Dillon, and their friend Reed, who knew a lot of celebrities and set her up with Robert in Huntington Beach. They took a bath together.

Jesse and Devon begin the show discussing Jesse's trip to Splash Mountain at Disneyworld in Orlando, FL. Jesse thought it was gay.

Jesse: "It was totally a gay ride. 'Show me your balls.' There were so many gay sexual innuendos. Ann Marie (Metro girl) didn't believe me. We rode it with Joone. They had [something] trying to stuff a carrot up a bear's butt."

Devon and Jesse try to pronounce Sophia Sandovar's last name. She yells out the correction pronounciation.

Jesse: "These girls are not only hot, they're into Erotica Boxing."

Jesse was in the tickling chair on Howard Stern. She had a blast. It airs Tuesday night on E!

Jesse did not enjoy Germany. She hated the food and how much people smoke.

Jesse and Devon boast that Island Fever 3 is the best selling DVD.

Jesse and Devon look forward to the AVN Awards. They want somebody to design their outfits so nobody else will be dressed like them.

DP contract girl Teagan Presley does not make the show because she supposedly has a cold.

Devon and Jesse are asked via email what most surprised them about the industry.

Devon: "By how many companies used condoms."

Jesse: "I had a big shock. My first opening door to the industry, after I signed with Digital Playground, we went to the AVN awards, where you see the extreme stuff. There was so much. If you go to Europe, they have some crazy little fetishes that are gross. That shocked me. But nothing else."

Devon says she likes to be dominant with women but submissive with men.

Brooke Hunter, Ron Miller's wife, is the first guest. She has a lot to promote.

On the floor before them is three awards from the Nightmoves awards in Tampa Bay.

Jesse says she freaked out the one time she was completely wrapped in rope. She prefers to tie others up and dominate them.

Julie Night joins the couch. She says her favorite time in the industry was when a pregnant Belladonna [verb] in her [object] and the overflow was caught in a funnel which Julie then [verb].

Julie is asked if she would like to run her own company. "I don't know that I could," she replies. "It would be a lot of work."

Julie says she lost her virginity at age 13. "It wasn't good."

Larry emails for Britney Spears gossip. The girls say that Britney's husband is neither hot nor rich. Jesse says her management company dropped her because she wants to be a wife and mother more than a performer.

Devon: "She bought her own wedding ring, right?"

The girls scoff.

Jesse: "I don't think dancer boy is that good looking. He doesn't have a good personality. I hope he twists good. I don't think he looks like Justin [Timberlake]. I'd [expletive] the [expletive] out of Justin."

Devon says that while she has never had sex with a black guy, she is attracted to a certain black rapper.

Brooke Haven, her birthday is July 16, says she's from Sonora, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. She now lives in Phoenix. She will do her first scene Wednesday. She doesn't know who with. She's repped by LADirectModels.com.

Brooke says the strangest place she has had sex was in the back of a movie theater and her best sex was with a girl on the East Coast.

Digital Playground's sales guy Val is producing his first movie - a feature that will be distributed by DP.

Porn Site Claims It Pleases More Black Men Than Welfare

White girls - black men.

Seeing An Angel On Pico Blvd

I was walking down Pico Blvd towards La Cienega Blvd behind two women. One I thought I recognized. She had a short skirt, tanned legs, and puffy blonde hair.

When she turned, we looked at each other for a few seconds. "I think I know you," I said.

We had met in Rob Spallone's office next to World Modeling five months ago.

Angel is LFP's talent coordinator. Beautiful young women come into her office all day, undress, and pose for photos. Angel then books the girls into Hustler's ten strip clubs as well as for LFP's magazine and movies.

Angel was with two other LFP employees including Chris, who works for Mark Hamilton.

I called Mark the other day. He returned my call at 9:30 p.m. Friday. Amazingly, I was not home.

Whenever in public I see people associated for Hustler, I always tactfully ask, "Do you work for LFP?" That way if they are a civilian, it won't shock them. Not that I've ever been wrong with my question.

Brianna Banks Interview

From DCypher on Hardcoregossip.com:

I had custody of my little sister and I needed the money to get into a new apartment and, believe it or not, I had just lost my job, got into a car accident, and got evicted, all in the same week. I saw an ad in the paper that said I could make a thousand dollars in a day, so I called and there I was. I walked on set and I saw these naked people doing it, I almost turned around and walked right back to the car. I was scared and finally I got the guts to walk back up.

Yesterday's News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism

My latest book has been published and is available for purchase -- $35:95 for hardcover, $25:95 for paperback and $6 for the ebook.

If I were to allow myself to be sucked into worldly pleasures, my keyboard would not be as productive. My fecundity and my sex life are inversely proportionate.

Yesterday's News Tomorrow: Inside American Jewish Journalism is the first book-length examination of contemporary American Jewish journalism.

"The history of Jewish journalism in the United States presents something of a challenge. Traditionally, historians like to recount the story of progress: development onward and upward from primitive origins to flourishing contemporary success. The history of Jewish journalism in the US, by contrast, represents, at least until recently, a story of marked decay." -Dr. Jonathan S-rna, Brandeis University

"Jewish newspapers would be more compelling if Jewish readers wanted a more compelling paper. I can't tell you how many times over the years that I've heard readers say, 'I read your paper on Shabbat. I don't want to be disturbed. I just want to read nice Jewish news. I don't want things to make me angry.' That makes our role that much more difficult." -Marc S. Kl-in, editor of j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California

Ron Sullivan writes this foreword:

While most of us don't like controversy, some of us must endure it. But then there are guys like Luke F-rd who not only endure controversy, they thrive on it. And when it's not around, they'll stir it up.

As a writer, Luke specializes in controversy. He loves crime, sexual sin, corruption, cowardice, and human weakness in general.

I endure controversy. I don't love it. And I didn't love it when Luke pushed me about my alleged connections to the Mafia and what my Judaism means to me.

I'm a converted Jew - which, as with organized crime - I could care less about. When you get to be my age, 65, any faith is a given. I do business with both the righteous and the wicked.

So when Luke asked me to write something for his new book, I had no idea what to write. Most writers want "qualified" people to say something about their books that will help to sell more books. But after thinking about Luke some more, I realized that Luke really doesn't care if he sells his book or not.

The only thing Luke F-rd cares about is truth. And very early into his work, he comes right out with it: "Most American Jewish newspapers (the Forward is the big exception) suck. They're controlled by the Jewish Federation and their idea of reporting is reprinting press releases. I'd rather be sodomized by ten of the surliest inmates of the California Penal System than praise such crap."

[LF notes: I plagiarized that line about being sodomized by surly inmates in the California Penal System from sentences Mike Albo wrote in Hustler Erotic Video Guide. I'm sorry.]

Luke happens to be known by more people than I am these days; even though he's not liked much. I don't expect that many of the people in this book are going to like him either.

But I happen to like Luke F-rd; and up until now, I didn't know why.

Now I know: Luke F-rd doesn't care whether I like him or not. What's important to Luke F-rd is that he likes the truth.

Chaim Amalek writes:

One of the advantage of writing under a pseudonym is that one can say pretty much whatever he damn well feels like saying without fear of the consequences of offending others. It takes a man with tefillim (read "balls," for the unchurched amongst you) of steel to use his true Christian name to do otherwise and, as became clear to me years ago, Luke F-rd is that man.

Just consider this: here before you is a Jew who more than anything else in the world, craves acceptance by the Gedolim of American Jewish life, followed only at some remove by his desire for acceptance as a journalist among journalists. So what does he do? He writes a book that is guaranteed to piss off exactly these groups, and all for the greater good of each. How can you not respect that?

Likely the Gedolim of American Jewish life will not. I first became dimly aware of them when I was a yeshiva bachur (student at a Jewish Madrassa studying Midrash), working a day joy in Mendal Slutsky's Coital Clothery on New York's fabled Lower East Side. My job entailed drilling holes into the boards of wood then favored by the hyper-Orthodox as a means of introducing modesty into the marital bed. Less religious Jews favored mere cloth; the genius of my boss was in realizing that in the endless struggle to prove oneself more observant than the tzadik next door, Orthodox Jews would move past billowing cloth to more rigid, modest materials like plywood. For this to function, holes had to be drilled (and oh but their size was a contentious matter!), and I was the man with the surest means for drilling such holes into coital modesty shields.

But the work was, of course, nothing if not boring, so I started reading the old Jewish newspapers that were lying about. I began with The Jewish Press out of Brooklyn, and then graduated to the more mainstream papers based in Manhattan. They were all the same: worshipful of power, boring, afraid to tell the truth to the masses of generally ignorant Jews. Luke F-rd is none of these things. He tells it like it is no matter what the consequences. But don't you take my word for it - turn the page, and see for yourself.

"Chaim Amalek" is a Jewish apostate living on the Upper West Side.

S-M Fantasies

I'm investigating a man who is alleged to put women into a trance and then rapes them. He guides them on these vivid imagined journeys where he cuts off their neck and then has sex with the hole that is left. I ask Ira Levine if this type of fantasy normal in the B-D world.

Ira/Ernest replies:

The type of behavior you describe is exaclty the opposite of what's considered normal in the BDSM world. The leather community's entire ethic is built on informed consent. No situation in which an individual is drugged, hypnotized, coerced or otherwise made incapable of granting such consent and then subjected to sexual abuse is considered anything but criminal by any community standard.

Criminality of this kind is rare among BDSM people, who tend to be wary and alert with strangers and quick to call out what they regard as inappropriate conduct. This is supported by a close-knit social culture in which secretive activity is difficult. BDSM players don't tolerate predators and don't make good victims.

Not to evade your direct question, however, I think the kind of fantasy you're talking about is extremely rare, but not inconceivable. A younger generation of BDSM players in particular seems to enjoy some fantasy input from Clive Barker, et al, as a feature of their more goth-leaning conception of kinky eroticism. I have to say I don't get it myself, and I suspect some of it is affected for shock-value, but there is some overlap between the younger kinksters and gore-hounds.

None of these characters, however, has anything in common with a sociopathic rapist such as the one you're talking about. He's a Ted Bundy type, and that has nothing at all to do with BDSM.

Jill Kelly Announces Divorce

JKP publicist Scott Hoover writes: "Jill Kelly, Adult Superstar and President of Jill Kelly Productions, has announced her impending divorce from husband Corey Jordan after a year of marriage. Miss Kelly has decided to announce the divorce proceedings, after hearing rumors swirling that she was getting back together with her former husband. "I have decided to move forward with me life and get back to the business of living my life - on my own terms, and taking care of me! JKP keeps me incredibly busy and I could not be happier at this point in my life," states Kelly."

I always thought Jill was primarily attracted to women so this divorce is no surprise. It is difficult to sustain a relationship in porn.

I hear Lexington Steele and Vanessa Blue are breaking up too.

Gene Ross writes: "This morning Howard Stern chided the Jill Kelly press release about her divorce that apparently circulated all over the world. Stern read the release and made light of the entire situation. "I'm sure this is a press release that everyone in the world's got and I'm the only one paying attention to it," he laughed."

Please Stop With Nina-Loves-Ernest Stuff

Phil writes: "Please stop with the Nina-Loves-Ernest stuff. I'm about to go into hypoglycemic shock. She writes: 'Ernest has a good insight into the vampire thing. He sees it as a metaphor for incest: the loss of innocence, the transmission of "knowledge" by blood, the initiation of the younger person by the older one, the idea that it never dies. It made a lot of sense to me.' Huh? Seems like the prasite/host analogy would make more sense. And it would definitely apply to these two psuedo-spokespeople for the 'alternative' generation."

Ernest/Ira replies:

Flattering as it's been to see Nina and myself quoted so extensively on your site in recent days, I've been troubled by the lingering suspicion that, sooner or later, somebody among those who dislike one or the other or both of us for whatever reason would be inspired to ventilate long-held resentments. Clearly, that concern was not unjustified.

Personally, I'm largely impervious to invective after so many years in this business, but it's never pleasant to see one's spouse defamed in a public forum. What interests me about "Phil" and his slam is the familiar tone and style of his venomous comments. Since he considers us "psuedo (sic)-spokespeople for the 'alternative' generation" (whatever generation that might be), I find myself wondering who he would consider an authentic spokesperson for the group in question.

I have a hunch his reply to such a query might prove extremely revealing. I'd also be curious to know upon what grounds he sustains the accusation that the parasite/host analogy applies to Nina and me. Is he suggesting that this characterizes our relationship with one another, or is he attempting to frame some grander metaphor?

One can only wonder.

IRS Raids Home Of Escort Brazil

Brazil, the high end escort, got her house raided by the IRS two weeks ago. She also married one of the founders of AskJeeves a few days after the raid.

Anais Leaves Porn For Escorting

DCypher writes on Hardcoregossip.com:

So the official word on the street is that Anais from Pure Play is taking a "hiatus" from porn to work on other projects...

Out of curiosity I then cruised to Exotica 2000, and what to my wondering eyes should appear? A brand new listing for porn star Anais, Ninnworx contract girl, with a full schedule. Exotica 2000 pretty much has the tastiest menu for Porn Star Escorts available, so it is no big surprise that she would chose them.

Bonds man writes: "How many Lucky Smith girls end up as hookers?"

Doc Johnson Releases Bondage Rope

Doc Johnson has just released its newest addition to the fetish market with its Japanese Style Bondage Rope. This new, titillating product is made of the highest quality cotton rope and will never burn or irritate your skin. Doc Johnson's Japanese Bondage Rope is a generous 32-feet-long, and comes in three playful shades of red, purple, and black.

Did Nina Hartley Teach Ron Jeremy How To Go Down?

Bonnieboi writes on Nina.com: "I just watched a Showtime biography on Ron Jeremy. They said it was rumored that Nina showed Ron how to perform cunnilingus the right way. Is Nina responsible for all those happy women that Ron went down on?"

Nina replies:

I do remember giving him a strict lesson in how to eat pussy about ten years ago, at least. It was for my own protection! I was still working with him on a fairly regular basis, and I wanted to enjoy myself more. I had no hesitation in telling him exactly what was what, and he had the good sense to listen to it! I'm sure he's added some improvements of his own in the intervening time.

Ron is 25 years past being able to suck his own dick. He never really liked doing it, but it did get him in the door, so to speak, and launched him on his quest for fame no matter what. His full name is, Ron Just-Spell-My-Name-Right Jeremy.

Jenna Jameson's True Hollywood Story

Nina Hartley writes on Nina.com:

A deal will be made, certainly, as Jenna's life is like a Hollywood movie. Drama, perserverance and success on her own terms makes Jenna's story compelling. However, knowing biology as I do, the chances of Jenna getting pregnant while under the stress and strain that come with producing such a big and important venture, would go down significantly. Her odds of starting a family are much better if she dials down her schedule and committments and focuses on her health. Her story won't get old, and she'll be beautiful for years. There's time for that, and a limited time when prenancy is likely.

Jolly Pornographers

Ernest Greene aka Ira Levine writes on Nina.com:

The people I know who have the most extreme tastes in erotica are, by and large, jolly, kindly and perfectly harmless. I know both artists who create this kind of material and kinksters who symbolically act out these scenarios and, to a one, they couldn't be nicer. I could say the same about writers of horror fiction I've met, such as my pal D. Cypher over at hardcoregossip.com. Stuart Gordon, director of the outrageously sexual camp-horror classic Re-Animator is one of the nicest, funniest guys in Hollywood. Indeed, I have a suspicion that sexualizing these fearful aspects of human experience and tucking them safely away into the realm of sexual fantasy helps some of us square ourselves with the reality of living in a cruel and violent world whose cruelty and violence have roots in genetics we share with every other living thing. A gentle person with no direct experience of violence and no concern about being somehow drawn into it enjoys the greatest lattitude in imagining it without shame.

Some interesting sub-genres of erotica have grown up around these most perverse impulses. The technology of 3D modeling has enabled the creation of some amazing Web sites devoted to "pretty" presentations of acts of ultimate violence, with hanging and crucifiction seemingly especially popular themes. I'm a little hesitant to post urls at this location, but a bit of searching will turn up some impressive examples.

Nina Hartley writes:

As Ernest said, he and I enjoy looking at illustrated porn before we play. The themes are dark, certainly, centering around forced sex, with bondage and whipping as strong sub-themes. I'd not like to see any of it in a photograph or video, even if I knew it was faked, since what I like to fantasize is so extreme. Things can go a lot farther in a drawing than they can in a photo or movie. When I look at the images, I imagine being in the positions, and that triggers an emotional response in me. It's similar when I look at the facial expressions of the women in the drawings: they help me get into the head space I like.

It took me a while to become comfortable with what I liked to look at. I like milder images done as photopraphs, including David Steinberg's work, but the really rough stuff I prefer to see done as illustration. When I understood that liking to look at certain porn doesn't mean I endorse cruelty in real life, I relaxed and got into it a lot more. As I said, adults know the difference between fantasy and reality.

As much as I like rough sex, I've never been inclined to get into S/N-type role play. I did, once, play with a guy who wanted me to "pretend to be asleep" the whole time. It had overtures of a date-rape scene. It was fun, but not interesting enough for me to want to do it again, as I like to be more active when I f-ck.

The faces a woman makes when she comes are similar to the ones she'd make if she stubbed her toe, was being killed, having a baby, or was angry or crying. The expression of extreme emotion is very compelling, no matter what the source may be.

As a woman who is usually very controlled, it's exciting to get to a place where I feel out of control (in a safe environment, natch), my body stimulated until it takes over and shuts down my cerebrum for a bit. So, fantasies of forced sex, being "taken," etc., appeal to me a lot. My enjoyment of it has a lot to do with the skill level of my partner. If he isn't good, I can't go there at all, and would prefer a more traditional, "vanilla" time with him.

Ernest has a good insight into the vampire thing. He sees it as a metaphor for incest: the loss of innocence, the transmission of "knowledge" by blood, the initiation of the younger person by the older one, the idea that it never dies. It made a lot of sense to me.

Sex/love/death/life/food/mate are all parts of our "lizard brain," that deep, most primitive part of ourselves. It's hard to know how/why certain things get connected in some people and not in others. For those who are not this way, all the discussion in the world won't help them to understand these drives. For those of us who have them, we can't imagine life without these interests.

Cal-OHSA Page For Sex Workers

A recent cluster of HIV infections in the adult film industry in Southern California has drawn attention to health hazards in these work places.

Workers in this industry need to know there are laws written to protect them from injury and illness on the job, and where to go for help if their employer doesn't follow those laws. Employers in the adult film industry must know how to protect their employees from health and safety hazards and understand the consequences of failing to comply with state regulations.

Call Girls, Updated

From The NYT:

In the highly competitive world of paid companionship, Mae Lee knows that a string of disappointed clients can hobble an enterprise that thrives on reliability, discretion and customer satisfaction. The disappearance of Rachel meant that seven men that day would have their hourlong sessions canceled, turning their putative business meetings into aching voids of unrequited need.

"I hate to disappoint," said Mae Lee, who agreed to open up her business to a reporter on the condition that her real name and those of her employees be replaced by their workaday identities. She also insisted that the name of the escort service be kept out of print.

There are no official gauges of the sex industry, but if the Manhattan Yellow Pages is any guide, it is thriving, with more than 30 pages under the heading "escorts." (By comparison, there are fewer than half as many pages devoted to psychologists, plumbers or real estate brokers.) Even publications like New York magazine carry advertisements hawking "Hot Asian Sweeties" and "Busty Blondes."

Paying For It

Taliesin aka Will Jarvis writes on RAME:

I was in San Francisco on Friday for a book signing at Valencia Street Books for Paying For It, a book on sex work for which I had written a chapter. Other porn stars, strippers and prostitutes also wrote chapters. Nina Hartley, Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Monet were among the authors, and Veronica was at the signing. We (the authors and those who came to see us) has a great time. The editor of the book is going to arrange a signing in Los Angeles.

David Aaron Clark Replies To Tricia Devereaux About Brooke Ashley

David writes on ADT:

This is the last I heard of Brooke's situation, and it is well-documented in newspaper articles in the LA WEEKLY and other legit news sources. If her situatution has indeed changed, would you enlighten me and everyone else, rather than just say my facts are out of date?

And would you actually claim that she wasn't in fact threatened out of suing the company on whose set she most evidently contracted HIV, while the guy we all seem to think is responsible for it has been constantly employed by VCA, Simon Wolf, etc? Is this the "companies that DO care about the talent" you're referring to?

Or to everybody's fave, TT, who recently managed to come inside a girl during her very first scene in the business, not let on to her but show it off to the cameraman with a wink and nod, and leave her to the unpleasant surprise of discovering she was one of the stars of his latest creampie epic? In terms of responsible behavior by gonzo companies, one doesn't have to do very much looking around to clearly see that Evil Angel is the primary exception (there are a few others) rather than the rule of the day.

That Darren [James] could in fact infect three girls in LESS THAN A MONTH before any alarm bells went off points towards a real problem not necessarily with AIM but with what the industry that it tries to monitor has grown into: There are lies, damn lies, and statistics, and pointing out that the transmission rate in porn is not sky-high compared to the overall population ignores the moral question of the increasing number of producers who push uneducated young women (and men, for that matter, though we all know transmission is more difficult in that direction) into HIGH-RISK acts the human body was hardly designed for.

As to your thinly veiled "fat joke" snipe, I certainly haven't attacked you or your physical appearance on any level, and I have not dragged you personally into any of my arguments ... I see no other reason for you to bring up obesity as a disease, since it is not a communicable disease, and it doesn't retire an expensive drug cocktail to combat on a daily basis ... I can lose weight, and am constantly struggling to do so, but once HIV is in your blood, it doesn't go away ....

Your existence as a statistic has nothing to do with the complex reality of "who Tricia Devereux is," and I have never suggested anything of the sort, nor meant to personally offend you ... I'm sincerely glad things have worked out as wonderfully well as they have for you, but they certainly haven't for all the HIV victims of that last outbreak, and somehow I doubt they will for most of these ones, either. My only reference to you in this whole business was a personal email I sent to you during the moratorium asking your position on what was going on and for your and John's opinion on the public statement I was about to make in a movie I was about to release. You chose not even to acknowledge my email, so I shrugged and moved on. Between you and Nina's webdroid's fatuous attack on my own career, I'm beginning to feel like the unwilling guest of honor at a bukkake -- which, by the way, under OSHA's rules, would still be an acceptable sex act as long as safety goggles were employed.

Ira Levine aka Ernest Greene (Nina Hartley's husband) replies to David:

Nina's webdroid. Nice. Think that up all by yourself?

For the record, I never attacked your career. As you acknowledge, I've done what I could to support it, despite your repeated attempts at self-immolation of the kind you're clearly trying to commit once again. In fact, if your memory can still clank into gear, you might recall that it was you who went on the attack in the first round of our whole exchange.

For a man of such noble purpose, you certainly devote a great deal of your time and energy to petty, personal grievances. If it's really performers and this industry you care about, perhaps you should commit some of your boundless energies to actually organizing the kind of support for your intentions that might produce some results. Otherwise, it would appear that you're principle motivation is making yourself the center of attention, per usual.

Brisbane Net Porn Baron Greg Lasrado Fleeing Australia?

Swami writes on GFY:

Greg made it mainstream here in Brisbane for a while about 5 years ago. Got respectable like and accepted into society especially when he paid millions for a prime block of land at Kangaroo Point. He denied that he was ever involved in porn but said that porn companies had used his patent. Never built on the land and then couldn't sell it.I think it went into the hands of bank. Paid top dollar also for a mansion in St Lucia but looks like losing that. Looks like porn doesn't pay.

Porn Paranoia

I heard a report that the industry's biggest company was busted today by Cal-OHSA for shooting without condoms. As I can find no substantiation for this report, I put it down to the paranoia floating around porn.

Golf With Rob Spallone

I was a late replacement Monday morning in an 18-hole charity golf tournament at the Calabassas Country Club (next to where Rob Black, Paul Fishbein used to live, though not together, for Paul was with his now ex-wife Kimberly and Rob was with his now wife Lizzy Borden).

I played with Rob Spallone (who donated about $600 and paid for my $200 ticket), and Brian and Jim Nitze from New Beginnings.

Jim was the best player but even a third of his drives were duffers.

It was my first game of golf in 20 years. The group was kind to me as I floundered.

A third of my drives (using a three-iron) went 150-plus yards as intended. I sunk a 15-foot putt (all my other putts were long while almost all of Brian's were short) and our group (playing best ball out of the four of us) purportedly ended up seven-under-par.

I can't believe how much we cheated. God must be displeased. We were allowed two mulligans (make-overs if you made a bad shot). Rob shot about 100 mulligans, and the rest of us combined shot about 40.

At times, we scooted our drives up to 50 yards further and on to better grass.

When Rob hit the ball square (about a third of the time) he was as good as anybody. At times, he outdrove Jim Nitz.

I ate five donuts while the others chowed down on the meat. Somebody smoked a joint. Brian and Jim enjoy cigars. Rob smoked cigarettes.

I thought I was going to an industry golf event where I would get scoop. Instead, our foursome were the only industry people and I got zero scoop.

Trying to get a lot of backspin with a nine-iron, I hit a good shot but then fell over from swinging so hard. Simultaneously, Brian was trying to swallow a moutful of beer. He laughed so hard at my fall that he snorted the beer out through his nose and started retching. It was the highlight of the day. From that hole on, whenever Jim would hit a bad shot, he'd fall down too.

Jim ran into a volunteer in his twenties who Jim used to coach in high school baseball.

At the charity dinner afterwards at the Calabassas Hotel, Rob won a free vacation in Mexico and a cruise to Canada.

Porn Stars Dying Penniless, Sick And Miserable?

David Aaron Clark writes on ADT: "Or would Brooke Ashley not be dying penniless, sick and miserable in Hawaii."

Tricia Devereaux of Evil Angel replies:

David - I would suggest that you get your poster-pity-girl facts straight. Brooke is not dying. She is not even sick right now. She is not penniess. And guess what - she is no longer even in Hawaii. And don't even begin to suggest that I'm dying or sick or miserable. Because guess what? Brooke and I (and the other girls) are no more dying from our disease than say, oh, a person who is medically obese is dying from what their obesity is doing their body.

I am sick and tired of people who are pushing for drastic immediate changes using the "poor defenseless" girls such as Brooke and Kimberly and myself and recently Jessica and Missy and Lara as excuses for the supposed horrible statistics of HIV transmission in porn. Porn can claim much lower per capita HIV transmission rates than the general US population. Check the CDC figures for percentage of HIV+ adults in the US. It's a lot higher than whatever the number would be if you divided 7 by the amount of people in porn who have had sex on camera since 1998.

In 1998, Marc Wallace infected 4 girls over a period of MONTHS. Why did it take so long to discover that Marc had HIV? Well, lots of reasons, but I'm not going to get into that here. But my point it, with the Elisa tests, even if Marc had been getting tested every 30 tests with the screener, it wouldn't have surprised me that he could have tested negative for that many months after he was indeed already infecting people. (I don't believe him of course, but that's for another day.) In the cases this year, Darren James infected 3 girls in a matter of LESS THAN A MONTH. Because of changes which Ernest had a lot to do with back in 1998, the industry switched from self-regulating itself with the Elisa screener to the PCR-DNA test. If that change had not been made, a lot of people coming in to the industry may have slipped through the cracks with an Elisa which didn't detect their HIV+ status, and certainly I believe that Darren James would have passed the virus on to many more girls in the additional weeks it would have taken for the Elisa to detect the virus. For this, Ernest, I thank you. I do not question your motives, and I wish there were more people like you and Nina in this industry and in this country in general.

Do I think that porn producers need to constantly be aware of making sex as safe as possible for the people in the scenes? Yes, I do. But making it as safe as possible means dealing with the situation in a real world environment. Mandating condom-only (especially for non-realistic things such as BJs) or banning sex acts would indeed drive the production of videos out of state and potentially underground. In 1998, after several of the girls in porn were infected with HIV, a lot of the companies went condom-only. It wasn't illegal to shoot without condoms, and a lot of companies did. In fact, many of them advertised NO CONDOMS! on their boxcovers. Some other people have posted in this thread basic libertarian principles of why the war on drugs does not work. And I believe that there is a direct analogy to porn from that. If you stop the companies that DO care about the talent from making the porn that the majority of consumers actually want to buy, there will be other companies that DON'T care about following rules or helping to keep people safe that will be more than willing to fill the gap in demand. I don't know the solution, but this is not a black/white issue.

David - I find it interesting that you seem offended by Ernest because you think that he is trying to speak for everyone. I don't see him doing that. However, I do see you taking some of the same tones as him in regards to acting as if you know the solution that will magically work for everyone. Continue to make the porn that you are comfortable with. Continue to do what you believe will protect the performers. But whatever you do - do NOT use me as an example in your agendas or pretend that you would have known better than I did how to run my life or make my decisions. Deal with your own life and make your decisions, and I'll continue to make my own, thank you very much.

Ira Levine aka Ernest Greene writes: "I deeply believe that individual performers and producers must tailor their own standards of safety to their particular situations. There is no simple, one-size-fits-all plan that works for everybody, or that can be imposed from the outside."

Summer Haze Interview

We talk Friday by phone.

Summer: "I'm tired. I'm tired of being on the road...for almost a month now. I go home in a week for four days. And then I'm on the road again.

"I started dancing in Philadelphia when I was 16 years old [in 1988]. I lied [about her age]. Back then, you could get away with saying you were 18. Nobody really asked."

Like Jenna Jameson.

"I remember Jenna when she was young. I remember seeing her at Al Diamond's Cabaret in 1991. She was just getting popular. You would say 'Jenna,' and everybody would say, 'Yeah, Jenna, wow, Jenna.'"

Were you surprised by how popular you became?

"Oh yeah. She was one of those girls who was always at the right place at the right time. Her [first] husband was good at marketing. He was just a jackass. He treated her crappy."

You didn't have any trouble dancing when you were 16?

"Not really. I ran into a lot of weirdos. I had a few stalkers. I knew that eventually I wanted to do something better than just dancing. I was bar tending. One of the girls didn't show up. They said, do you know how to dance? I said, I don't know. I dance at home. I dance in the mirror.

"They said, you've got to take off your clothes and dance. I gave it a try. I made a couple of hundred dollars a night. That was good money. I had a 36B. My body was proportioned. I was thin.

"I've had my implants now for about eight years. I'm a 40DD. I like 'em fine. I don't even notice them anymore. They're not heavy. I'm a big framed girl. I was professional wrestling for a while with the ECW and the AWA and some independent federations. I go to the gym. My body is a good body weight to hold my boobs. They look natural."

What were your first impressions of [her husband] Craig [Valentine]?

"I thought he was a prick. He was one of those young arrogant long-haired rock 'n roll guys who thought he could get any girl he wanted. He was a popular DJ. He was getting magazines and awards and keys to the Doll House [a famous Michael Peters strip club]. Michael Peters thought he was the s---. All these porn stars were coming in and because he was so young, they wanted to do him. Every porn star coming through there was staying at his house and stalking him.

"He was telling me about all this crap and I said, I don't really give a crap."

The next time you met him, in 1999, it didn't go any better.

"No. It was in Las Vegas. The guy who [Craig] was working with had a crush on me, which I didn't know. I believed everything he was telling me. Hold on a second..."

Summer talks to Craig: "Do you have everything for the clubs? Because if I forget something, I'm going to freak out.

"This guy did whatever he wanted to do and f---ed up my life and Craig's life and told me that Craig was a loser. That he didn't have any money. In the meantime, [Craig's] walking around with tens of thousands of dollars in his pocket. He owned one of the biggest concert tour companies out of Florida. Here I'm thinking he's some poor schleppy shmuck living with his mom off the street."

So what convinced you to give him a chance?

"I did three tours of the UK. I figured I was going to try to make something of myself. That was going to work better than over here. You can get more popular overseas than you can over here for some reason. I went over there and got a whole bunch of titles and awards and worked for all these companies. I came back here and there wasn't anything for me to do. People were trying to drill it into my head that I was a has-been. That I was nobody. I was never going to be anything.

"I ended up in these people's house [Photogregg], living there for free [in Florida in March 2003]. I made sure the house was all cleaned up, cooking for everybody. Photogregg is a scumbag. There were always wacky people running in there. I minded my own business and did my own thing. I didn't have to pay rent.

"Every time I would wake up, Craig was over there doing s---. He was sticking his face in my face at 7 a.m. Get the hell out of my room. He said, it is time for you to get up. I said, don't tell me it is time to get up. Go away.

"In the matter of a year [since hooking up with Craig Valentine], I have had Hustler layouts. I did the cover of Australian Penthouse. All the s--- I have going on with my glassware, this has all happened within a year. Craig does all my marketing and promotion. I don't think I could ever have done it myself because when I tried to do it myself, it didn't happen. I ended up being nobody."

Was there a falling out between you and Photogregg?

"No. He really didn't care. He said, go ahead and do whatever you are going to do. Craig is not going to be able to do anything for you. You're not going to be anything. You're not going to be anybody. You're still a loser. He called me a fat ass every other day. My self-esteem and ego was down the drain.

"When my cover for Screw My Wife, Please for Wildlife #28 came out, Gregg said, 'You are even a bigger loser now. You are doing a Screw My Wife Please series.' I said, yeah, but I got the cover. It's one of the biggest selling covers.

"I did my first porn movie in Australia in 1998. I shot for Dementia, Aussie Media."

What was the show case you did last week?

"That was a showcase at Stagedoor Johnnies. It turned into a disaster."

I hear Craig's voice tell Summer not to talk about it.

Summer: "Craig suggests we don't even discuss it. It was that bad.

"Ontheflop Productions are into the swinger conventions like Hedonism. They decided to put together a DVD with couples competing against each other to see who is the hottest couple. A bunch of couples live out the fantasies. I was contracted as a porn star to make their fantasies come true."

How did you get involved with the glass toy company?

"I was at an expo. Glass Pleasures said we need a spokesgirl. We've heard a lot of good things about you. Do you want to be a spokesgirl for us? They dished out a lot of crap about what they were going to do. What they did was take my designs and run with them. I wasn't getting any money for the use of my name. They were trying to screw us over.

"Craig asked a lot of questions and couldn't get any answers. Then one day the glass blower called the house. Jason at Glass Pleasures had claimed to own the glass blowers but they said no. Craig had a long talk and decided to buy the Glass Pleasures company."

How is your company different from all the other sex toy companies like Serenity's and Doc Johnson?

"From what I've seen, I don't think they do a lot of glass. I have a lot of crazy ideas of what people would like...to have as a novelty. I have people who buy pieces to put on their book shelves because they think they are cool. Heidi [Pike-Johnson] from AVN likes the smoke-and-poke."

It's a combination dildo and bong.

"We don't constitute drug use. We have one that is in the shape of a gun. We call it a gangbanger."

Do you try all these out yourself?

"I have parties at my house and all the girls come over and when we get something new, we all try them out to see if we like them. That's how we can tell if we are going to push them out in our line or not. If the girls don't like 'em, we drop 'em from our line. I don't want to hurt anybody. I don't want anybody saying that my stuff sucks."

What do you love and hate about being in this industry?

"I love meeting new people. I think the nice people overpower the crappy people. I hate all the jealousy and animosity. People always trying to get over on somebody else. People are always lying and scamming people. That seems to be a big thing now in our industry -- to see who can outscam somebody else. The money used to be good but it's not great anymore. But at least if you own your own company, you have the ability to make a lot of money.

"The features [strippers] used to make a s--- load of money in the '80s and early '90s but now it is hard. One, people don't have the money anymore because of all the crap going on in the world. Two, or you are not doing enough stuff to keep them interested to make them want to give you money. I'm the hardcore performer of the year right now. The s--- that I do on stage is pretty hardcore, whereas someone else might get on stage, do a cute little scene, you dance around, you do a slow song, you shake your boobs in somebody's face, and that's your show. That's bulls---. People don't want to see that anymore."

On Set With Rob Spallone Friday

Production manager Kenny Carolina says: "They are going to come up with a list [of required safe-sex practices]."

Rob: "There's going to be a list of rules you have to abide by. The same as construction. If the rules say you have to wear a helmet on the job, and they come in and you aren't wearing a helmet, there's going to be a fine.

"I had a topless bar. You are not allowed to touch the girls. You are not allowed to show the nipples anymore when you are serving liquor.

"I leave the bar one night. Two weeks later, I get a letter that I have a $2,500 fine or close from a Friday to Monday.

"What was the fine for? There are only seven inspectors in NY. An inspector came in and put his tip in between the girl's breasts. He wrote us a fine and left. I paid the fine.

"Look, I've been saying as long as I've been doing this -- these f---ing people are crazy. They're out of their minds."

Kenny: "OHSA is complaint-driven. Once the talent realizes they can complain to OHSA..."

We hear moaning from the set. An hour after the scene has finished, Mr. Marcus and Sami, the Japanese girl, are still going at it.

Rob: "Last night, this girl came in to see Jim for the first time. She was broke. Jim said, we'll call Mr. Marcus. You'll blow him and he'll pay you. So Marcus comes over. The girl runs in the office all proud: 'He wants to f--- me in the ass!' She's all excited. Like he's Don Corleone.

"Ron Jeremy is 50 years old. He's a 100 pounds overweight. And he still gets to f--- these girls.

"Jim South tells me to call this guy Antonio. He has a girl for me [for the black guy-asian girls movie]. I call him. He calls me back. Antonio says we have a problem. 'You know how these girls are. The races...blah, blah.' The girl [Sami] didn't want to work with a white guy. Is that new?

"My brother Roy called me the other day [from Costa Rica]. 'I just got two blowjobs and a massage from two different girls and I gave them a $5 tip.'"

Ron laughing: "That stupid f-----. He just spoiled them."

Rob: "He's been there for two years. He thinks it's the greatest place ever."

I call this porn chick. We're going to have coffee. I ask her if she's a nympho. "Well," she says. "If I'm with a guy I like, I like to have sex five times a day."

I'm lucky if I can have sex once a day. Rob Spallone says he can do it three times a day.

12:30 p.m. Rob and I meet porn salesmen Marty Turkel (Juicy) and Ed Kail (Elegant Angel) at the Lamplighter Family Restaurant on Nordhoff and DeSoto in Chatsworth. It's a favorite hangout for the porn industry.

To get our conversational juices flowing, I start pumping them with a list of made guys and connected guys.

"How's Marty Tacetta?" I ask.

Marty Turkel flips. He's been friends with Tacetta for 35 years. Marty Turkel used to shoot loops in New York in the early '70s. There's a good chance that Tacetta either funded that or had his hand in the business somehow.

Tacetta is now in prison for murder.

Kevin Beechum told me 6/28/01: "We used to do business with Marty Tacetta. He's a good guy. He's in prison and I don't think he's ever getting out. Like I said, they're all locked up. They're ain't no more [Mafia]. Everybody's either dead or locked up."

Marty, Ed and Rob order meat. I order a fruit plate with cottage cheese.

Marty says he's selling 2,000 copies out the door on Juicy's gonzo line. He says that when VHS sales account for less than 500 pieces per movie, it will be no longer profitable to offer them. Marty's currently selling 700 pieces of VHS per movie. When it drops below 500, Juicy will stop offering VHS. DVD sales may increase by 50, but overall sales will be down by 450 pieces. This equation will apply across the industry. "A lot of people are going to get hurt bad," says Marty.

Juicy doesn't make movies. It only distributes them for directors. Juicy takes a 30% cut for providing this service.

Juicy directors include Van Damage, Rob King (son of the former owner of Las Vegas Video, Marty Pike).

I hear Javier's company DVSX is doing phenomenally (partnered with Alex Ladd). Javier is Russ Hampshire's former son-in-law.

Marty offers Ed and I these candies that activate the saliva glands. We're suspicious but he persuades us to try them. They're good.

Marty says Juicy needs a warehouse guy. Rob says he has the guy (Wayne Crews). He did Gourmet's warehouse for years. He ran the warehouse for a guitar company for four years and just got laid off. "He's got three kids," says Rob. "He's honest and he's white."

Mike Rubinstein of Devils Films was distributing all of Patrick Collins' Elegant Angel product. Mike eventually gave it back to Patrick, who asked Ed Kail to come to work for him.

Ed tells me how great the Elegant Angel boxcovers have been the past four months.

Rob eats pork chops and then orders a big plate of whipped cream with nuts. It's his diet. There's no sugar in the cream, he says.

Marty digs into his bacon and eggs and potatoes.

Ed: "This is the worst bacon I've had in this place."

Rob: "He's going to write that."

Ed: "They have great bacon in the morning. It's perfect. When the grill gets greasy, this is the way it comes out."

He holds up the bacon and drops it on his plate. I feel queasy.

We get a free dessert. Two pieces of pie, two scoops of ice cream, and whipped cream. We all share the same plate and dig in with separate spoons.

The check comes. I get up to go to the bathroom.

Rob: "He always does that when the check comes."

Duke: "It's a Jewish holiday. I can't touch money."

Rob picks up the check. I never have to reach into my pocket when I'm around Spallone.

Marty tells me my column is "too Jewish."

Keith Gordon of Bizarre Video who now runs JKP split with his a wife a couple of years ago. He now owns a home in Los Angeles. He also owns a bunch of parking garages in New York.

I hear Star Distributors in New York and the Rothstein brothers (Teddy and company) aren't doing much anymore.

Ed Kail says I look like Leonardo DiCaprio. Marty says Ed is losing his eye sight.

"This is the routine we follow every day," says Marty as he and Ed and Rob walk outside and sit down and have a smoke.

I remember when a couple of company owners in 1999 were convinced that Marty was a source for me. They conspired over the phone to set him up with bad information to confirm their suspicions. Marty has never given me a story. He just likes me.

We talk about porn. There are other porn business people around us and they join in the coversation.

Harry Wouldn't Have Met Sally

Mr. Shmeckal writes: "In regards to Mr. Calzones statement that since porners are shooting cum into girls and this is a bodily fluid and bodily fluids are OHSA no-no's, then i guess Cal-OHSA needs to fine Warners, Paramount, Sony, Fox and any other studio in Burbank or Culver city for kissing in movies. A list of deseases you get from kissing far outways any list of deseases you get from sex. I guess is OHSA had their way Harry wouldnt have met Sally."

Tiana Lynn Interview

I call her Friday at 6 p.m. about a report that she has Hepatitis C.

Tiana: "I think there are a lot of ignorant people out there who have no idea what they're talking about. They fear things that they do not know. I am not contagious. I carry an antibody that I will get rid of. But I've already grown out of the Hepatitis. It was two years ago. My past drug history. I've already grown out of it. Therefore, I carry no viral load, nor will I ever. All I've got is an antibody that can not be contaminated to another person.

"The way everybody handled it. I'm having a hard time dealing with it as it is. It's a mistake that I made when I was young and stupid. Everybody thinks it is a problem for them and they don't even see how it is affecting my life."

What happened between you and Tim of Naughty Modeling?

"He just decided to stop giving me work. Again, they don't know what it's really about. He wasn't even concerned about his girl was having a hard time dealing with it as it is, let alone to completely change her life. There are a lot of people out there who are supporting me. Sharon [Mitchell]. I can talk to her anytime. I am most likely going to switch to condom-only if people have a problem with it.

"A lot of people who are former addicts know about this. They know how you get it and how you don't get it."

When did Tim drop you?

"He didn't really drop me. Every day I called to see when I was working and all of a sudden, I wasn't working.

"This was nobody's business to begin with. If this was something I knew could harm the industry, then obviously I am going to take myself out of it. But I knew it wasn't going to affect anybody else. Then his brother Chris, who helps him with the agency, thought I needed to take some time off.

"That's what makes things worse. When you stop your daily routine, that makes things worse. Then all you do is sit around and think about it."

Tiana Lynn has been shooting regularly for seven months, appearing in almost 100 movies. She's shooting her own movies. She's shooting her sequel next week to Tiana Lynn's Cum Rain, Cum Shine. The new one will be called Swallow My Squirt.

Duke: "Sharon Mitchell doesn't have any problem with you working in the industry because she understands it is not contagious?"

Tiana: "Yes. Exactly. If anybody has any questions, they can call her directly and she can explain my case.

"This information is confidential and should not have been out in the first place."

Rejoinder From Tim At Naughty Modeling

I call Tim at 6:15 p.m. Friday, October 8.

Duke: "I heard you dropped Tiana Lynn from your agency because she has Hepatitis C?"

Tim: "No, we didn't drop her from our agency. I didn't tell anybody that she had it. She was letting people know herself. I was not booking her for anything. As an agent, I have to wait to see what is going on. If she is working with other people, I can't feel comfortable booking her and knowing that."

She says that it is not contagious.

Tim: "She can say that. That's coming from somebody who's had problems with drugs and alcohol and in the past month has been kicked out of the place where she was living for punching another one of my girls. They were roommates. She got drunk and flipped out and started punching her. She's been in a care home for a while because she had some problems.

"I don't know anything about that kind of life, the drug life, because I don't live it. I'm not going to take something from a 21-year old girl and go by it. You've been in this business forever. You know this.

"I haven't talked to Sharon Mitchell yet.

"When [Tiana] does the right thing, when she's on her medications, when she doesn't drink, she's a really good girl. She becomes a different person every time [she drinks and/or goes off her medication]. All she does is go back to and blame it on -- I don't know what I was doing.

"She should've checked up on this a long time ago.

"I have a pacemaker right now. I've had five heart surgeries. I don't feel comfortable booking somebody who could give somebody else..."

Gene Ross writes: "I saw the woman in question this week. I remember in an interview how she told me she kicked drugs, however she was practically walking into walls."

Tiana Lynn READ THIS!

Mike South writes: "You have been diagnosed by AIM as having Hep-C. Go to a REAL DOCTOR NOW! I know 2 girls who were diagnosed as Hep-C positive by AIM and neither of them had Hep-C. One pretty much retired from porn only to learn almost 5 years later that her diagnosis was WRONG! The other immediately went to a real doctor who ran extensive tests and told her she did NOT have Hep-C.. Go Now!"