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Teri Weigel Interview

I call her Friday afternoon, October 29, 2004.

"I do my shows across the country 30 weeks of the year. I sing and dance in adult clubs. I do a Sam Kinison-tune of Wild Thing with a comedy skit. I put my own words to it depending on who is on stage. I put a pair of panties on them and then we go into the YMCA song.

"When I get burned out, I take a week or two off and do normal things like cook every night and bicycle ride. That rejuvenates me. After two weeks, I've had enough of that normalness, and I'm ready to go back into that chaos, working, being in the spotlight. Entertaining is what I do the best.

"Sometimes it will get frustrating because you get someone up from the audience who is drunk and a jerk..."

What color is your hair these days?

"I'm dark. I was blonde. Then I was two-toned with the blonde underneath and the dark on top. About two weeks ago, I switched and I'm completely dark.

"I'm 36DD-22-33. I weigh about 117-120 pounds. I watch what I eat. I don't eat any sugar. I eat one meal a day. I drink a ton of coffee in the morning. Then about 4 pm is my meal. I have a piece of lean meat and a baked potato, pasta and a green salad.

"I've been married about 15 years [to Murrill Maglio]. Whatever I'm feeling, I'm able to express to him. He does the same to me. I don't hold anything back. If I dream about f---ing somebody, I just tell him."

How do you guys deal with jealousy?

"When you're married so long, I don't think there is such a thing. In the first seven years, there is that jealousy. You're afraid that other person is going to leave for somebody else."

How's your neck and back?

"Halloween marks the tenth year of the [car] accident. I just had another surgery. The fusion has worked. I'm still healing. The lower back is fine. The scars are minimal. For ten years, I was in so much pain. That's over.

"I feel good. I've got a really good attitude. I'm very humble. I'm at a happy part in my life."

When did you last have a breast job?

"January 2003. My third. I went up a cup size to DD. I felt that seven years had passed [from breast surgery number two] and I was a little concerned that jumping around on stage, what the sacks would look like. I took them out for safety reasons. I didn't need to. The sacks were in good shape. It was just a worry that I had.

"Now I have silicone jell implants. I had saline the first time, after I did my layout for Playboy [in 1985]. I had a leak in one. My doctor was Michael Jackson's doctor. He worked for Playboy. I had one side that was bigger than the other. He put two used breast implants in there and one was leaking.

"So after the second one was done, and six years passed, I thought it would be the same thing. But they were in great condition. I've kept them. Yesterday I pulled them out and pinched them to see what it would take to pop them.

"I'm putting out my own line of movies -- Teri Weigel from Pyro Entertainment. I took a whole-page out in AVN next month [to promote the line]."

How has your sexuality changed as you've grown older?

"It's slowed. It's hard when you're working so much, you're so tired... When you're younger, at the flip of a hat, you'd jump it. As you get older, it's more quality than quantity."

How long do you want to work in front of the camera and on stage?

"That's a hard question. I ask myself that every day. I'm happy that I've kept my looks and my body in good shape. If I still keep my weight down, I could go another ten years."

Have you noticed a change in the general public's attitude towards adult entertainment?

"It used to be just guys coming in. Now we've got couples and girls. It's more accepted. We fought hard for that. When we came into those clubs, the dancers hated us for being porn stars. Now when we come in, we are looked up at -- by having great costumes, being professional, setting examples for the girls..."

What do you think of the phenomenon of porn star escorts?

"I don't think it is that big of a deal. Sometimes you do movies with people you don't even know. When I first got into doing adult stuff, it [escorting] was so frowned upon. The more you would talk to the girls, the more you would hear that they were doing one-on-ones and they'd ask you to do this guy. Now it is where they all do it. If they say that they don't, they're lying. Because they all do. Every single one of them.

"I'm on the road almost every week. I've never heard of these girls before. I don't know who they are. Ten years ago, when they said, Amber Lynn was just here. Or Racquel Darrian. You knew them.

"These girls [today] do everything so there is no identifying them with anything. So many of them lie about how much money they make. One girl says she makes millions of dollars a year. The top girls make between $200,000 -- $750,000 a year."

Are you going to write a book one day about your career?

"I am. I just haven't found the person yet to ghostwrite for me. I had a week. I went grocery shopping and to the bookstore, because I like to read. I was reading some Sydney Sheldon and authors I really like. I came across this journal and I picked it up and I thought to myself, I'm going to start writing every day exactly what I do.

"I started by going to a Whole Food store. I made all the natural ingredients to make pizza. I made the pizza dough. I made the sauce from scratch. It took me five hours. I wrote it in the first entry in my journal.

"I figure that when I come across somebody that I really like and who knows me, I'm going to let them write the book."

Has the attitude of family and friends towards you changed over the years?

"I think so. They didn't know what happened to me and why I chose to do what I did. I'm such a sweet person. I'm very nice. I have schooling. They didn't understand my choice. Through the years, it has not been a discussion. They know that I am still the same person and that whatever decision I've made must be good, because I'm good. My mom still doesn't like it but that's my mom. My dad passed away last year. We never had conversations about it. My mom would always cut it off. 'I don't want to talk about it.'

"Through the years, I've tried to tell her certain things about when I go into clubs and table-dance...just to broaden her perspective. I want her to understand. What I do is help a lot of people. I show a lot of love. I've got a lot of patience. I sit with people. I talk to them through their problems.

"I get involved with the girls in the back and try to help them. It's totally different from what she knows about. She's a schoolteacher. I feel like I'm a sex teacher. But she doesn't understand that. She won't accept that."

Australia has the number one test cricket team in the world

By Robert Craddock in Nagpur
October 30, 2004

THE wait is over. Australia yesterday stormed the barricades to the final frontier and plundered the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with one of their biggest victories in Test cricket history.

The 35-year drought since Bill Lawry's team triumphed here against considerable odds was broken with a devastating 352-run third Test win sealed with a day to spare when deep mid-wicket Damien Martyn capped a sensational match by taking a lofted swipe by tailender Zaheer Khan to end a 52-run last wicket stand.

Captain Adam Gilchrist did two star jumps and the Australians engulfed each other in a ball of passion as the monkey on their nation's back disappeared forever.

Set 543 for victory, India were decimated for 200 as Australia recorded their biggest overseas win in 47 years and took a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series.

Martyn, following his first innings 114 with 97, and Michael Clarke (73) romped along at five runs an over in an opening session century stand that made Indian heads drop before Australia's rampant pace attack dug their claws into India's desperately out of form top order.

Richard Botto Update

He was the brain behind the MaxCash.com empire with his brother Robert. Now he publishes Razor magazine.

"Media buyers are realizing that they can take a huge chunk of their budget for one page, one month, and get a diluted audience--or they can get into six other books that deliver that guy they are trying to reach," said Razor Publisher and Editor in Chief Richard Botto.

This year, Razor has been persuasive to such buyers, adding new advertisers such as Ford, State Farm, and BMW, while boasting 130 percent year-over-year advertising growth.

Botto believes titles like Razor, which he says can deliver a much more dedicated and concentrated audience, are what the magazine business excels at.

Meanwhile, the high-reach driven "laddies" are top-heavy. "[They are] priced out of the market," Botto said. "The numbers don't lie. They are losing newsstand."

Nautica Thorn Interview

Melissa Lauren interview Selena Silver interview Denis Marti Cytherea

Brianna Banks Looks Nasty On HBO 'Thinking XXX' Special

She talked about her rough life. GFY thread

David writes: "While I've never been a big Jenna fan, I though she looked great - soft and pretty. Sharon Mitchell looked in great shape. Wish they had spent more time with Ginger Lynn and Janine."

Ajaxx writes: "Speaking of Tera Patrick, do you know anything about the "...terrible incident on the set with a male star" that made her stop doing porn for a while. It was so traumatic that she stopped having sex altogether for a period of time."

Tera and her husband Evan Seinfeld allege that Devon's ex-husband Barret Blade raped Tera on the set of Island Fever 3 but none of the people who were on the set at the time can substantiate this allegation. On the contrary, they say it was impossible for anything like that to have happened on the set. Barret strongly denies the allegation.

Is it normal for a stripper to kiss on the lips when giving a lapdance?

I Feel Vindicated

Thanks to years of intensive therapy, I have slowly been recovering some of the more traumatic memories of my childhood. It was the summer of my 7th year, and my dear old Da decided to take the whole lot of us on holiday to see how the poorer peoples of the earth live. At first we went to the outback, but seeing that I was not suitably impressed, he left my siblings in Australia and sent me to an even more primitive land: Borneo.

We were meant to be together, of course, but my dear old Da decided that I ought to rough it a bit and sent me to wilderness camp for six weeks. I begged him not to, but he turned me aside and forced me onto the primitive looking DC-3, the only transport scheduled to take us kids to Camp Dayak. I sucked it in, got on board, and soon enough was in the air.

Several hours later, the plane developed engine trouble, and crashed into a densely vegetative swamp of sorts from from the civilization of the Dyaks. I was quickly pulled from the wreck by tiny hands of a strange tribe, a tribe that spoke only in weird clicking sounds. For the entire summer, I was forced to subsist on a sweek milky liquid excreted by one of them. More than that, I do not wish to say.

Eventually, I escaped, and made my way back to civilization. I tried to tell my Da what had happened to me, but he laughed it all off and called me a liar. The memory receded into my subconscious for many years, to be teased out only slowly, thanks to my jewish therapist. But even she, I think, had her doubts.

No more. You can see for yourself right here what these creatures looked like. Mine may well have been the last contact any human being had with them. Shortly after my arrival, they all took sick and died by the time of my escape.

Bill Margold On AVN Publisher Tim Connelly

Gene Ross writes:

"One of the most loathsome things I went through this year," Margold continues, "was listening to Tim Connelly of Adult Video News tell me that he had never been more famous in his life after all the attention he got during this AIDS controversy, the AIDS horror story. I sat there across from him at his desk and almost threw up on him- listening to him tell me that now he's famous because people just call him and call him and call him about the HIV problem. That's the kind of fame I would never want to admit to having. He doesn't have a clue."

Porn Stars As Contributing Editors

Mike Albo writes:

When I was serving time at a Major Men's Magazine, the company would occasionally tag porn chicks to be "contributing editors" or some such nonsense. The chick got the credit. The chick got paid. And all the while some poor schmoe on the staff had to do the actual work. Here we go again...

Montreal Has The Best Escorts, Strippers, Swingers

Go anywhere in the world and all sex connoisseurs will tell you that Montreal has the best escort services, swinger bars/parties, great sex shops, horniest gay bars, lap dancing dancers that can melt your brain cells and the hottest porn starlets/stars in the business. The Quebec sex industry generates an estimated $350 million a year, and growing at a rate of 4% a year. This is not counting indirect services, as Motels/Hotels, Alcohol, Drugs, restaurants, taxi services, etc. Here is a small taste, very small, of the sex scene in Montreal . Montreal has so much sex to offer.

Swingers

Montreal, having a more French European mentality about sex, has seen the swinging lifestyle (exchange of partners) grow in popularity over the years. The Quebec Swingers Association [AEQSA] and swinger bars, like L'Orage, have fought for years to make this lifestyle respected and accepted by the population. Montreal is proud to be one of the top 10 cities in the world for swingers.

Escorts

There are over 5,000 escorts and 200 agencies [source: sexwork.com] that confirm Montreal's amazing sex appeal. The development of the escort industry has a lot to do with the law allowing 18-year-olds to drink; across Canada you have to be 19 or 21 and in the USA, 21. Due to this, Montreal is home to every horny USA teen and bored workaholic Ottawa/Toronto citizen. Girls are beautiful, very discreet, offer competitive prices and a vast choice of sexual delights. Also, the great number of international festivals taking place all year long attracts visitors just wanting to relax and have fun. French-Canadians have a reputation of being sexually open-minded. and of course you can't forget our weak Canadian dollar, where customers can double their pleasure!

Rob Spallone Goes Bankrupt

I like to get my work day rolling by calling my friend.

Today was no exception.

"Anything new?" I ask.

"Nothing," Rob said. "Just paying the bills, baby. I've got to go bankrupt. I'm so pissed. I've had credit since I was 17 years old.

"My credit is shot. I was an 860 [credit score] a few months ago [where 930 is best]."

Why is it shot?

"I haven't made a mortgage payment in four months."

Why haven't you made a payment?

"Because I don't live there. The house has sold. I can't pay rent and child support and a mortgage payment."

Rob has been going through a messy divorce.

"So why should I pay any of my other bills? The bank has ruined my credit. There wasn't enough left over after the house sold to pay the credit cards. So I called the bankruptcy lawyer.

"I got my first loan at 17. I got 20 cars, a boat. Everything paid off. Now I'm screwed."

Papillon Reflects On Life

Papillon writes on Papillonxxx.com:

I have been taking some time to myself, to reflect once again about my life...LOL. What it boils down to is this... People are crazy...LOL. I just needed to get away and not do anything but take care of me and my kids... I haven't felt like writing because my journals have been real boring to read and I didn't want to make you fall asleep :) Anyways, I hope everyone is doing good... I'm feeling great and I am so much happier now than I have been in recent months.

OK... So, I quit dancing again...LOL... What else is new right...LOL. Away... I don't want to tell you what I'm doing for work because it is embarrassing...LOL...Ok, ok... You got it out of me...LOL... I have been working in Downtown L.A. as a Hostess at a club called Club Fantasy... OMG, I share this with you an you laugh...LOL... That's just not right :) Well, I like it and I guess that's all that matters right.

I forgot to tell you that I'm freezing to death...LOL... I hate the weather, it's just too damn cold...LOL. My house is falling apart too, probably because I'm just to cold to clean the damn house and my little slaves...ummm, children (j/k) won't clean up either...

Fairy Tales Come True

James DiGiorgio writes on www.simplyjimmyd.com about my interview with director Dick:

Guy goes from making coffee, making deliveries, and working in the warehouse to Adult Film Director in one fell swoop. And how does a fairy tale like this come true?

Well, as Director Dick explained, a company owner simply needed someone to shoot a movie, Dick was in the right place at the right time--the warehouse, it seems--and he told the company owner he wanted the job! That was it! No experience needed and no specialized skills required (like camera or editing or whatever)

All you need to do is speak up at the right time and the company owner hands you a camera and tells you to go shoot some porn.

Ya gotta love the jizz biz... or maybe I should call our little magical kingdom, "JizzneyLand."

(A jimmyD quote for the day: "It's hard to soar like an eagle when you're penned up with all the turkeys.")

Alexander the Poet Update

He replies to my email:

How am I?

Well let's see... I'm without a job (since March).

I'm without a car (since August, got flooded).

But recently my website got an amazing positive review at Janes Guide and my site's been getting hits like crazy. Things couldn't be better! LOL

So while I'm unemployed, I've been writing poems daily. Wrote many new ones on Adult Stars, Internet Models, Cinemax Babes, etc. I email the stars the poems and most of them approve. Some, I don't hear back from.

I'm still calling in to The Wanker Show on KSEXradio.Com weekly on Monday nights.

That's basically what's up with me. I'm doing my own thing, and hoping the world will notice, and slowly and surely it is.

Eating AVN's Lunch

My source Trevor* calls: "A company is coming in to take all AVN's business away from them."

I've heard that three dozen times before.

"Not to mention their tradeshow business. There's another magazine in the works. These are people who don't like AVN."

White Wife Black ---- #4

Stuart from Smash Pictures emails:

We're flying out one of the members of Adultdvdtalk.com (Bono) to play the part as the white husband who gets cheated on with a black brotha: For this volume of "White Wife Black ---- #4" we found horny cheating wives from all around the world. This proves that woman from Germany (Katja Kassin), France (Melissa Lauren), England (Poppy Morgan), to the U.S. from New Jersey (Yazmene Milan), and as far down south as Tennessee (Nicole Brazzle) all crave some black ---- while their white hubby's are away at the office, playing golf, or whatever they're doing since they aren't giving these horny housewives what they want! Bono's dream was to be in a movie with his love, Melissa Lauren, and we here at Smash make dreams come true, ha ha ha.

I call the director, Dick, Wednesday afternoon.

How did you get into the adult industry?

"It was about twelve years. I needed a job. I answered an ad in the paper. It was Scott Taylor at National Video Supply. I worked there for a few years making coffee and doing deliveries.

"Then I went over to Rosebud, owned by Alex de Renzy and Mike Rubinstein. I was still doing deliveries and warehouse stuff. One day in 1999, Mike Rubinstein needed somebody to shoot a movie. I told him that that was what I wanted to do. He handed me a camera and told me to do it.

"Then he started Devil's Films and I started shooting for Devil's Films."

Dick's shot about 150 films.

Which one are you most proud of?

"That's like asking somebody which of his children he loves more. I love all of them. You make dinner. Sometimes people love it. Sometimes they hate it. But making dinner is the fun part.

"I stay under the radar. I don't play up the publicity end of the business as much as people want me to. Attention is not why I do it. I like making the movies. Having this conversation with somebody like you is not something I would've considered a while back but now I'm excited about it because I understand it can help me make movies."

What do you love and hate about the industry?

"What I love about it inspires something I hate about it -- that it is the last bastion of American capitalism. It's free from the political and corporate influences of the malling of America. Ma and Pop businesses can compete. If you try to open a hardware store, Wallmart is going to put you out of business within a year. You have a chance to start a company and let the marketplace decide whether you are successful. You have a lot of rebels, people who like to put on that mantle and wear it like a badge of honor. They're really not.

"It's under the radar. Because of the moral issues, the large corporations stay out of it, which makes it more attractive for somebody like me, bohemian-looking.

"What I hate about the industry is how it is treated by the people who want to control it and can't... The Cal-OHSAs..."

What are your some of your best-known movies?

"The Gangland series for Devils Films. Mike Rubinstein bought a Ferrari. It must've made him some money. I did a lot of trannie stuff. I worked with Skintight at Legend. We won an AVN award for Chunky On The Fourth Of July:

Ripped from today's headlines, Chunky on the Fourth of July is the true story of veteran's return home after serving a tumultuous tour of duty in war-torn Iraq. Once a young, pretty All-American f**khole with a bright future as stripper, Roxy Blaze returns from the war as a hooked nose heifer with a broken foot and a busted hymen. Expecting a warm heroes welcome, she instead discovers that her country has turned her back on her. Not for political reasons, but simply because she's a fattie.

"I go for the specialty stuff. As John Waters said, life without obsession is meaningless."

Are any of these fetishes yours?

"No. A lot of people turn their perversity into cash. My sexuality is normal compared to my movies. I'm boring compared to my work. I've been seeing the same girl for five years. She happens to be asian. That's not necessarily a fetish for me.

"I have to be honest with you. I guess I have no oral fetish. I'd have to admit to that."

Dick says he's never dated a porn star. "Dipping your hand in the cookie jar can affect the kind of movie you make. I can't afford to alter the relationship I have with them while making a movie by having a personal interest."

What do you tell civilians about you do for a living?

"I don't bring it up. I find that it is a fork in the road. It is the beginning of a conversation or the end of a conversation. I try to suss people out. I was golfing with some strangers. One guy sold plumbing supplies. I looked around at who I was talking to. Typically, I tell people, whether they are in or out of the industry, that I make dirty movies. You can get a vibe from people about whether or not they... Sometimes I'll tell them just to f--- with 'em.

"I was in Ohio at my grandmother's funeral. I'm sitting next to a mid-level manager at the [local] GM plant. I was sad. He was like, so, what do you do, pal? I looked over. He had a white collar on. I said, I make porno movies. In his face. That ended that conversation. Sometimes I use that as a bludgeon to make people go away. But that was when I was younger and more angry. I'm over that now.

"Now I don't say anything. I don't need to have the same conversations over and over again about the public's perception about what I do. If somebody has an open mind, some perception of humanity, and I think we can have a conversation based on that, I'll always engage them. But most of the time you're dealing with perception and I'm not here to fight that fight. I don't have the patience for that changing people's minds thing."

Have you noticed any change in people's perceptions of the industry in the twelve years you've been in it?

"I've noticed a change in the people who are involved. It's gotten more personal. When I started, they were businesses. They were trying to fly under the radar and not attract too much attention. They were happy to be left alone. The old timers are still like that. Now I see people getting into the music like a rap music video. Look at my car. I've got a big dick. Look at my bitches. The last six years people get involved [in porn] to get noticed."

Nina Hartley Wants To Lower Age Of Consent

On Ginger Lynn's Internet radio show, Jewish philosopher Nina Hartley said that 18 as an age of sexual consent in America is "ridiculous."

Hartley says in Europe the age of consent ranges from 13 to 15. "Women are coming into puberty earlier than ever, 12 and 13. To say to them to be celibate for five or six years is just unreasonable." (Credit Gene Ross)

Alexander the Poet writes:

Lowering the age of consent will just give the government yet another reason to try and shut down the adult industry. To have sex, one must not be just physically ready for it, but emotionally and mentally as well. With that said, I think the age of consent should remain 18. I mean, come on now, 12-17 year old girls idolize Britney Spears. So obviously they don't have the capacity to make good judgements at that age.

Sharon Mitchell Comments on the Tiana Lynn Hepatitis C Case

Sharon writes for AVN.com:

I was approached by a client who, like most new people in the Adult industry, was tested and vaccinated for Hepatitis A and B, and tested for Hepatitis C by her second month in the biz. She explained to me that she was a former IV drug user, and that she have been clean for more than two years. She also knew she had been at risk for HIV and Hepatitis C some time ago.

As it turned out, she had been exposed to Hepatitis C and tested positive for the antibody. This did not mean that she was a carrier of Hepatitis C, or that she will transmit Hepatitis C sexually. However, the childish behavior and gossip mongering in the porn business turned this person into Typhoid Mary in about two days. It ruined her career, and turned it into a panic situation just short of HIV transmission.

Phil writes: "Dr." Mitchell comments that Tianna Lynn was "...tested for Hepatitis C by her second month in the biz." Her SECOND month? How many scenes did this chick do by that time? What if she turned out to be "a carrier" of the disease? Talk about childish-and negligent-behavior. I guess that's what happens when you get your doctoral degree off the back of a matchbook."

Penthouse Launching Hardcore DVD Division

Penthouse plans to get some of its Penthouse Pets into making hardcore movies under the Penthouse name. There will be offices in New York, Boca Raton, and Los Angeles.

Penthouse is looking for twelve contract girls. The plan is to shoot four high-budget movies a month.

Here's the thing about Nina Hartley

Carly Milne writes:

I first met her years ago when I was living in San Francisco, and I interviewed her for a now defunct website I used to run and then sold the article elsewhere later. She was dancing at a club on Market Street and I met her there, then we walked back to her hotel where we talked for over two hours about porn, sexuality, feminism, and how the three either do or do not tie together. At the time I knew Nina was a legend, but I was also such a neophyte that the only porn names I knew were hers, Jenna's and Ron's. You could say times have changed. But on that day that we chatted Nina and I exchanged numbers and e-mail addresses and idly kept in contact over the years, mostly when I went to the Expo and ran into her at the Adam & Eve booth. It never ceased to amaze me how well she remembered me and every little detail that I had told her about my life even though it would sometimes be nearly a year in between visits.

Jack Lawrence, Annie Cruz Engaged

Annie Cruz writes on her site:

Ok, so Jack proposed to me tonight! It wasn't what I was expecting. When Jack was still in Hawaii, shooting for HUSTLER, he told me he had a HUGE surprise for me. Well, today was our little mini anniversary, and he told me that he was saving the big surprise for *next* month. I spent the rest of dinner all bummed out cuz I was expecting a huge surprise. We had dessert...then the waiter came by with this candle and *huge* box...I looked at Jack all confuzzled. How he managed to sneak that box to the restaraunt with me by his side is beyond me (he swears he had it hidden under his coat, but I hadn't noticed...). Anyway, I opened the box, and inside was this monkey...

Kami Andrews On Howard Stern

Kami posts to ADT: "Monday Nov. 1 I'm being sent by meatholes.com so I'm sure its gonna get wacky, there are a lot of other girls on also."

AC Cream writes: "Either Howard is gonna bash the company (not the talent) and cut out the cancer for good. OR Howard is going to proclaim to be a fan of meatholes and 15 more websites of the meatholes "style" will pop-up within a week."

Sandra Romain Thread

Lance writes on ADT: "Sandra Romain... and Melissa Lauren did and incredible G/G scene for Platinum X over the weekend. Jewel said it was the most incredible girl-girl FIGHT scene she has ever scene. Yes, I said FIGHT scene."

Melissa Lauren replies: " NO.NO.NO.NO. It wasn t a FIGHT scene. It was a really rough girl/girl scene. And it was great! The most agressive GG i ve ever done, but not considered as a fight. Even if we ere both bleeding at a certain point...lol."

Lensman Endorses Adult.com

Lensman, who operates adult.com, GoF--kyourself.com, and Playboycash.com, writes to key webmasters:

We appreciate the great response from all of you during this week's announcement of Dollars.com, and we look forward to helping everyone maximize his revenue on the exchange.

GFY is giving us this one more opportunity to shamelessly plug our wares, and we're using it to address a few questions many of you brought up about Dollars.com and how it works to increase revenues for both webmasters and sponsors alike. As always, the Dollars.com Support Team is ready to help you with any questions you have, and are available to help get you started:

Processing - The system is integrated primarily with Epoch/Paycom, and includes CC Bill as a back up processor. If you own a US paysite and wish to join Dollars.com, you will need either an account with Epoch, or your own merchant account. You may also use only Epoch's gateway, if you'd prefer.

Payouts - Dollars.com functions as a centralized payment outlet, allowing webmasters to withdraw their money from their accounts via Epassporte or wire transfer 14 days after the transaction is made. No more waiting on checks - get your money now.

Advertisers - Presently, 10 sponsors are advertising their sites through Dollars.com: Lightspeed, Porn Kings, Traffic Cash Gold, Sex Money, SoCalCash/Naughty America, Epic Cash, Capital Bucks, MegaPornBucks, OxCash, and CJ Bucks.

We're in talks with many other sponsors - large and small - about adding their sites to the exchange, so expect to see announcements in the near future. If you own a sponsor program and are interested in joining Dollars.com, contact Rick Latona (rick@dollars.com).

All-in-all, this has been a great opening bell for the Dollars.com exchange. We've had to iron out a few bugs with the glut of new publishers joining the system, but hiccups are expected when dealing with a unique new system like this. We appreciate the patience of everyone who has helped us sort through the upstart issues, and look forward to helping the many new publishers begin adding zones and maximizing the value of their traffic in the upcoming weeks.

What Should A Man Do When He Is Softening?

I fear that I am softening. For a number of weeks now, certain stern moral positions that I have maintained throughout my journey before God have been twisted into hitherto unrecognizable shapes by the physical positions She-Woman has imposed on me. I feel that I am on the cusp of sin so great that only a Moses or a Spielberg could get away with it in the eyes of those whose respect I covet. I turn to my friends for help, and get none. Cathy, why hast thou forsaken thy Duke in his hour of moral weakness? If only you had sought to fix me up with one of your brainy Jewish friends, I would today be a contented man, bound by laws both Oral and Written to my challah. And what of you, Chaim, why dost thou seek to counsel Duke into temptation?

How to Talk to Women Over the Phone The Top 10 Reasons Why Very Intelligent Men Fail with Women

On Set With Gen Padova, Brooke Hunter, Ron Sullivan

I drove up to Santa Clarita Tuesday to Ron Miller's house. A storm threatened.

I stepped on to Rob Spallone's set at 11:45 am. He wasn't there. Ron Sullivan was shooting the movie. One scene for a young girl - older woman line and three scenes for the lesbian gonzo Chick Flick.

I wanted to try out my new camera (DiMAGE X31). I took some snaps then got home to find out that I had shot in movie mode. So enjoy. I think these clips need Quicktime.

Brooke Hunter, Ron Sullivan

Gen Padova

Ron Sullivan with Candy Ellison on his knee

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy

Ron, Candy, Brooke Hunter

Charred hillside near the shoot in Santa Clarita Hillside

I walk in on Ron Sullivan directing a scene between Brooke Hunter and Candy Ellison. It's for a young-woman older-woman line. Candy is 20yo and Brooke, Ron Miller's wife, is 36.

Candy is blonde. She has several tattoos and small natural breasts.

Candy has custody of her 16yo brother, so she can't go to college (and work) for another two years.

Gen Padova walks in. We meet for the first time.

On July 18, a fire raged all around Ron Miller's home. About 400 firefighters massed to protect the 28-homes of his community.

"The fire created its own weather system," remembers Brooke. "It swooped down like a tidal wave. We couldn't even touch our windows they were so hot.

"We were evacuated on a Saturday night. When the fire seemed to be moving in a different direction, we came back to check our home. As we were getting more things, they said, wait. It is going to get mandatory again. Be prepared.

"They said, charge the line (a firefighter expression meaning to get your hoses ready to fire) and get in your house. You can't get out. There's only one way in and out and that was blocked.

"The sun was only a red dot in the middle of the afternoon. Embers the size of your fist were falling.

"I was entertaining. I was telling them to save the porn.

"They told us not to get in the pool, because things could fall, but to get in the middle of the intersection and they would put their shake-and-bake blankets on us. These are metal-type blankets that keep you safe.

"As quick as the fire came, it went. They didn't think they were going to be to contain it. They expected to see every structure leveled.

"Afterwards, when we walked around the neighborhood, there were no sounds. There were no crickets, no birds, no electricity."

Brooke says various TV stations came up to her community yesterday because a major storm was coming in and there was a threat of mudslides off the denuded hillsides.

I first met Ron Sullivan in early 1996. He was living with Nikki Sin.

Still living in Southern California, she's been married for five years. She works as a stripper. Ron introduced her to her future husband.

Ron's shooting vignettes. Instead of just cutting to the chase, he invents scenarios for each scene. He doesn't write them out. He just wings it. He said to Brooke, "I want you to be amused by her. Hide that feeling and just exploit her. Take advantage of her. Then get rid of her."

Production manager Kenny Carolina is like Martha Stewart without the insider trading as he slides frozen pizza into the oven.

Wanting to beat the storm and threat of being shut-in by mudslides, I fled the shoot at 12:30pm.

A few minutes later, Rob Spallone arrived. As the rain poured down, the final three scenes of the day were shot. There was a delay to get a confirmation from AIM that Gen Padova tested negative for gonorrhea. The day's work ended by 5 pm.

Gen writes: "The shoot went awesome. Candi really rocks and knows how to have fun with another girl. One of my favorite girl/girl scenes so far."

IBill's demise was good for CCBill

CCBill got a huge spike in traffic.

Epoch had a smaller gain.

JBM discussion thread.

AVN Nominations Meetings

Here's what's going on at Porn Central: Twelve people in a room watching 60 sex scenes a day and ordering in Chinese food. Paul Fishbein. Tim Connelly. Mike Ramone. Et al.

The Philadelphia magazine profile of Paul Fishbein should be coming out any day.

Reform Judaism's Position On Masturbation

The tradition has considered masturbation as a sin and strictly prohibited it. Any seed which was brought forth in vain involved a sin punishable by God for every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good. If a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate.

Delusions of grandeur

Tod Hunter deconstructs his old boss Tim Connelly, who took over as publisher and editor of AVN (succeeding Paul Fishbein who moved up to AVN president) over a year ago and then started clearing house for his guys. Tod got laid off. Jared Rutter was brought in to AVN.

Tod writes:

The new guy [Tim] at AVN is certainly setting his sights high.

First, he wanted to be Paul Fishbein. Started calling himself "Publisher." But you know ambition, it needs new worlds to conquer.

So he set his sights on Frank Pierson. In an October 10 press release, AVN called its Plastic Prism "The Oscars of porn" by unattributed quote. This is fatuous for a couple of reasons: The Oscar® ballots are counted by staff members of a certified international accounting firm, and only two people know the results until the envelopes are opened. The Plastic Prism ballots are manipulated counted by AVN brass, need I say more.

Also, you can't win an Oscar® for buying a lot of ads in the Oscar® program.

But, worse, calling the Plastic Prism "The Oscars of porn" also violates section 19-a of the Legal Regulations For Using Intellectual Properties Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences which clearly states:

"...neither the marks "Academy Award®" nor "Oscar®" may be used to describe awards given by organizations other than the Academy. (An award may be described as "the Uruguayan equivalent of the Oscar Award," but not as "the Uruguayan Oscar.")"

So not only is associating the Plastic Prism with the Oscar® ridiculous, it invites the wrath of the Academy. You wanna f-ck with an outfit that has an eight-story building in Beverly Hills, you do that.

But he isn't finished yet.

Now, he wants to be God.

Take a look at this listing on Journalismjobs.com that a fellow member of the AVN Alumni Association found:

Company: Adult Video News
Position: Managing Editor of Top Adult News Website
Sought Location: California
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Ad Expires: November 22, 2004
Job ID: 427539 Website: http://www.avn.com
Description: Adult Video News and AVNOnline, the trade Bibles of the adult video and adult Website industries, are seeking a top-notch managing editor for their Website, avn.com. Duties include assigning, editing and posting news stories, and some writing. The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of the adult industry (both the video and the online sides), a strong journalism background, excellent journalistic writing and copy editing skills, and familiarity with HTML. As this position needs to be filled quickly, Los Angeles-based candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Cover letters and resumes should be e-mailed to tim@avn.com or faxed to 818-718-5799 (and attentioned to Tim).

Ignore, for the moment, the tortured locutions like the "Position" being "Managing Editor of Top Adult News Website Sought" and the instruction that faxed résumés should be "attentioned to Tim." Ignore all that, and look at this: "the trade Bibles of the adult video and adult Website industries" Bibles. And the Bible is the word of...?

Running Into Bill Margold At The Post Office

I was sending off review copies of my new book. I saw Bill Margold walking in. He said I got most everything right in my transcription of our interview Monday, except that the Freeman case was in 1988, not 1986 as I wrote, and my mistake made him look bad.

He talked about his appearance on Pervert Radio.com tonight. He got looks from women in the post office line. Bill says he couldn't work out how to listen to Pervert Radio on his computer.

We reminisced about his days at Vista Del Mar juvenile hall and how his juvenile record kept him out of the Marines and the Navy.

Bill's looking for an apartment complex to manage. He seems a tad melancholy these days.

Life is hard when you grow old and you are not married and you don't have money in the bank. I know. I see so much of myself in Bill. He's a surrogate father figure.

The End Of A Porn Career

She went to Jim South's World Modeling. She'd done a dozen movies. She got recommendations to visit various companies and shooters. One guy was drunk. A former porn star, he was now a director. He told her that if she slept with him, she could have a role in his new feature. She refused. She felt like the industry was degrading her.

On her third visit of the day, she was asked to pose while on her knees. Suddenly, the white guy in his 30s for the small company, put down his camera and slipped his unsheathed penis inside of her. She was appalled. He pumped three times, pulled out, and ejaculated on her back.

She was stunned. She cleaned up. She left. She decided to never do porn again.

She drove home. She took a long hot shower. She didn't leave her apartment for days. She'd told herself that if porn ever made her feel like s---, she would quit. It has and she has.

When World Modeling hears about their girls getting treated this way, they reprimand the shooter and/or stop sending him girls.

What Are My Sexual Fantasies?

We watched Lost in Translation. We ate five-layer bean dip warmed over in my microwave. We ate a bowl of salad. I ate strawberry cheesecake icecream.

After the end of the movie, we cuddled on my floor on top of one duve and under another.

Her arms circled me. I knew that we should not get too close as she was unclean.

"What are your sexual fantasies?" she asked.

"I don't really have any. In theory, two women at once sounds hot but I don't think I'd ever like to do it. Too emotionally disturbing."

"For you?"

"No. I'm capable of meaningless sex. It would be disturbing, I think, to whatever relationship I was in.

"I like sex. Vaginal. Oral. But that's about it. I've been writing about porn for a decade. I don't have any fantasies left. I just like to do it in the dark under the covers."

"You need to get into better shape," she said. "I need to work you out."

Too Bizarre

Khunrum writes: "If I recall the incident Albo quickly became winded chasing Duke up the avenue. That must be a horrid sight. Duke, what are you doing? I agree with Robert...you are too in touch with your "feminine" side..."

Albo still managed to catch up to me and slap me around. As I well deserved.

Robert writes:

Duke check your lithium. This sounds too faggy, even for you.

Gentlemen, As you know I am married and therefore must forsake all openings, however, if said event is converted to a bukkake I may attend as that is not true sex and my marriage vows will remain intact. I hope you understand.

This whole double penetration as hospitality thing is too bizarre even for Duke. Where I come from we are happy when our host offers us Fritos and a Dr. Pepper. This whole "mi vagina es su vagina" thing shows how over the edge Duke has gone. Duke needs another trip to Israel to reinvigorate his righteousness.

I pledge the first five dollars towards Duke's moral rejuvenation journey. Anyone else willing to pony up?

Duke, why don't you set up a PayPal account so your readers can contribute to the Israel fund? Working is beneath you so why not beg?

Fred writes: While Duke is off in Israel, I offer to look after this new woman of his.

Shayne Shiksa writes Duke Floored:

Your Chaim Amalek has an answer for everything. I didn't get to read his email before I visited you, so I was regrettably not able to share his wisdom with you. Chaim Amalek, you see, is advocating entrapment and trickery. He suggests I tamper with the condoms during ovulation--and that I do this surreptitiously. Are these the kind of folk with whom you normally associate--those who would compromise your values of Truth and Morality?

Anyhow, I enjoyed your company once again last night. I love talking and laughing with you and probing your mind. I finally decided that when you, all of a sudden, leap up and blind me with the lights, it is because you want to type up the evidence of revealing conversations before they fade away. Is this true?

Scott Fayner Interview Critiqued

Melissa Lauren writes on XPT: "Regarding to Scott...I've never met him. Hope this interview doesn t really reflects how he is. If yes, sounds like re-hab would be a good thing."

Scott Fayner writes: "THIS IS A REAL INTERVIEW. im no junkie, though, for those judging me as one. Im just being honest about my life. try it some day and you might find some of the realities less than perfect."

Smelly Monkey writes: "Fayner let me ask you this and you don't have to answer it to the board but more to yourself. You're dead broke, don't have a penny, you begin to sweat, your hands shake and your stomach churns, you are at a train station, you just need something to hold you over, but you need the money, would you blow a guy for a hit? If the answer is yes you're a junkie and if you even find yourself asking yourself this question you're a junkie. Its all good, i just want you cleaned up and out of swami's mother's basement by Tuesday."

If you're using 3rd Party billing, better start looking for a job

xibillx writes on JBM:

Epoch is killing crosses based on a new visa formula, which uses billing descriptors to identify fraudelent transactions. So with paycom.net showing on all these billing descriptors, visa is throwing a fit at them. I would recommend signing up for your own merchant account, A.S.A.P. It is the R.I.S. system, I am sure someone else here can provide further info. Plan for the future before you become the past.

If you think this is bull, there is a reason the business has gone from 4 billing company's to 2 in about 7 weeks. Get a merchant account as quickly as possible. 3rd party billing has months left at best.

Epoch Says No Across-the-Board Cross Sell Withdrawals

AVN.com reports: "LOS ANGELES - Looking to squelch speculation that hit the Adult webmaster message board community over the past few days, Epoch Transaction Systems says they are not pulling away from cross-sells as a whole. They have, however, canceled a very small pocket of cross-sell options for a very small pocket of clients."

Hungarian Cream Pie

Ren Galskap, a celibate Buddhist, looks at desire:

I've just read Grant Michael's statement on your site about Miss X, who shall not be named but performed a sixty five man anal creampie scene in Hungary and then is rumored to have returned to the US and worked again three days later.

I understand Michael's outrage, and in fact I think it's a good thing. This is pretty serious. However, outright condemnation might not be the best route. Girls come into the porn industry at age nineteen or twenty, they sit down in front of a TV screen and watch the Porn 101 tape at AIM, they've have little past exposure to the topic STDs, and probably retain about half of what they see on the video. The problem is not just getting information to people, but reinforcing it so that they remember it and use it to protect themselves.

In addition, there are rumors that Miss X broke up with a boyfriend recently and slit her wrists. I have no way of knowing if any of these rumors are true, but they suggest that Miss X is not only not as informed as she needs to be about testing, but also going through a period where she's not thinking clearly. If someone who knows her or has worked with her were to look her up and have a friendly but serious heart-to-heart talk with her about HIV, tests, and risks to herself and her fellow performers, it would probably have more effect than ostracization and condemnation. Kami Andrews at xxxporntalk.com has said that she thinks Miss X is nice and she's going to pray for her. That sort of friendly peer pressure will probably do more to educate Miss X and alter her behavior than attacking her.

LA used to be sufficiently isolated from the rest of the world that it was possible to protect performers in LA with a local testing program. That isolation is rapidly disappearing and the odds of an STD, including HIV, being transferred from Eastern Europe, Brazil, or Asia to the LA porn industry are increasing. It only takes one person who is careless, or doesn't fully understand the testing program, or who's just incredibly unlucky to create a new HIV outbreak. The AIM testing program does a good job of setting up a barrier to infection from within the LA porn industry, but it can't create as effective a barrier to infection from outside LA. There are always going to be people who are careless or uninformed.As long as there's a risk of infection outside of LA, there's a risk of that infection spreading to LA. The long term health of the LA porn industry depends on the health of the porn industry elsewhere. It's going to become increasingly difficult to protect performers unless performers are protected wherever porn is produced.

The men that Miss X performed with apparently used the ELIZA test, which leave open a wide window for a false negative. Even the PCR test used by AIM has some risk of a false negative, as Darren James showed. In addition, there's an increased risk of forged results when testing outside of LA. AIM reduces the risks involved through a regular, formal testing program administered by a single organization. The porn industry in Hungary intends to go to a testing program starting in November. It's in the intrests of the industry in LA to encourage and support that, and to do whatever is possible to help it spread to other countries. There isn't a lot that LA can do, because the impetus and organizational effort has to come from the local performers. But some sort of coordination and support across national boundaries is going to become a necessity.

Bill Margold Interview

I call Bill at his PAW (Protecting Adult Welfare) office at 3p.m. We haven't spoken for about three months, and only a few times in six years.

I first met Bill in January 1996 and he was an important source for me for the next three years. Then I burned that bridge.

Bill: "We're preparing for the Legends of Erotica show [conducted with help from Ray Pistol] in Las Vegas January 7. The real hall of fame. The concrete blocks of cement. Rocco Siffredi is going to be inducted this year along with Johnny Keyes, Angel Kelly, Mai Lin, and possibly Lynn LeMay.

"Rocco is coming over to represent a mainstream film -- Anatomy of Hell."

It's another ugly film by Catherine Breillat. Here's the plot from Imdb.com: "Unpleasant people have unpleasant graphic sex with one another to prove that men and women are unpleasant to each other."

Johnny Courageous writes on Imdb.com:

It is fair to say that Catherine Breillat is a serious director, who is serious about exploring aspects of sexuality via the medium of film, and from a female's perspective. This is why I guess many people take an above average interest in what she produces. Perhaps even more so with this work - only those of the 'French New Wave' could produce films like this! Yeah right. It is apparently drawn upon her own writings and her own observations of the supposed rampant misogyny within all men, gay and straight, and the tendency for men to be more or less repulsed by females and/or their genitalia. But there are three words I found particularly apt when describing the plausibility of Breillat's 'message', as proffered here, and as it relates to this apparent misogyny. Those words are: suspension of disbelief. There are some minor spoilers here by the way, and if you were wondering what some of the more explicit elements of this film are, then read on.

Picture this if you will. The film immediately opens with a medium close up shot of a man fellating another man out in the open. Oh okay, I get the message. This film obviously depicts explicit sex of a generally non-conventional nature, so I can choose to flee the cinema if I want or need! Thanks Catherine. We shortly cross to a forlorn-looking woman who, for some unknown reason, is hanging out in a gay bar prior to her sauntering upstairs to the bathroom to slash her wrists. Saved by a very 'straight' acting and looking 'gay' man (Siffredi), upon leaving the bar and getting herself patched up, our 'gay' man is fellated by her out in the open. He somehow manages to produce an automatic erection. At this point the film has just lost me. This man is gay, no? The absurdity continued.

Our depressed female offers the man money, primarily to invite him to observe her 'femaleness'. She spends most of the time naked prior to the 'gay' man engaging with her sexually. She's out to test her theory, that all men are misogynistic. Is this for real? He seems such a natural heterosexual for a supposedly gay character! He experiences no trouble obtaining an erection with her around. He experiences an orgasm so quickly that I just cannot believe he is not actually attracted to women. He is more than happy to drink half of a reddened glass of water, after our female dips her bloodied and used tampon into it. He cannot control his urge to digitally penetrate her, and then lick her menstrual blood from his finger. The process of inserting a stone dildo inside of her vagina fascinates him, as does the ejection of the same. And he just cannot help but insert the wooden handle of a long, no doubt heavy garden implement inside of her while she sleeps. All the while we are subjected to these tedious, pretentious monologues of men's deep-seated hatred of women. It is surely the fault of the vagina!

We endure a flashback of a girl and three boys playing 'doctors and nurses', in order for us to obtain a supposedly greater understanding as to the origins of such repulsion for the female anatomy. There is even a brief shot of the little girl's genitalia, surely likely to draw consternation with censors somewhere in the world. Moreover, we are unfortunately subjected to close up shots of what could possibly rank as the foulest looking adult vagina and anus in celluloid history. But the erect penises look fine; perfect in fact. I suspect any man with a slightly confused sexual preference would surely jump to the gay side of the fence after watching this. Maybe some straight men will find the image of a naked male just a little bit more attractive after enduring these ugly images of female genitalia.

I realise that some films can be so far fetched that one is required to suspend their disbelief, for the sake of entertainment at the very least. But when a film as blatant and as occasionally explicit as this is offering forth the sweeping notion that all men are inherent misogynists, it has to be outright plausible. No depiction of sexual activity in this film is plausible. In fact, I found the 'message' downright implausible. This is not entertainment at all. It was made deliberately ugly, almost to the point of disgust. This is one hellish depiction of female anatomy that is for sure! The title is perfectly apt - it was never titillating and could not really be labelled as pornography. I did not like the way this deliberately confronting film tried to portray its message. It was ugly, pretentious, silly, implausible, and utterly sickening in parts.

Phil writes Duke: "From what I understand, this is a crappy, pretentious, chick/Euro-fag movie. As such, you would probably enjoy it immensely given your taste for films like Legends of the Fall and other girl-oriented fare. Probably best to bring a box of tissues for your tears. Hey! Maybe you could do a triple date with Bruce David and Mark Cromer. Just a thought."

Duke replies: "I happen to be having regular sex with a beautiful 24yo woman...and we're going to watch Lost in Translation at my hovel tonight. You can come over and join us in a threesome if you like? Sometimes I need to go the bullpen and bring in a closer, if you get my drift."

Phil replies: "No offense, but there's got to be something dreadfully wrong with her...if, indeed, she is actually a real flesh-and-blood woman. I have my reservations. As for your invitation, thanks, but no thanks. First, it sounds pretty gay. Second, "she" would leave you in a second after meeting me. Third, it sounds pretty gay. By the way, Lost in Translation is another chick/homo flick. Maybe you should start watching movies made for guys, not gays."

Another time perhaps?

Phil replies: "You are definitely a dense one. I think I was pretty clear on the "no thanks." Emphasis on "no," by the way. However, I'm sure Bruce David wouldn't mind a relaxing evening with a lame-ass movie, you and your, uh, "lady." Give him a call. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear from you. He's a real progressive, you know.

"Anyway, good luck with your date. May your tighty-whitey briefs and mullet 'do carry the day."

..................

Bill Margold says: "It's wintertime in the X-rated industry. Rain is coming. It cuts down on attendance everywhere.

"I had started a modest campaign stating that porn needed more bush. I was trying to promote the reintroduction of fur into fornication. That didn't go far. I'm the proverbial pessimist. I believe Bush will win.

"We know nothing about Kerry. Has anybody asked John Kerry how he stands on adult material? At least Bush is a visible enemy. I'm not even sure he's that much of an enemy."

How busy is the industry?

"It's as busy as it has ever been."

We talk about the quality of the product. "If the audience would dare to complain about the quality of the material, maybe it would get better, but as they don't admit to watching it, they get what they deserve."

Anyone panic over the Cal-OHSA fines of T.T. Boy's companies?

"No. T.T. has decided to contest it. He could be the new Hal Freeman [referencing 1988 CA Supreme Court decision that porn performer are actors, not prostitutes]. You won't see the man running away from the fight. That's why he's a legend in his own time."

What do you think about the Yankees? [They are Bill's favorite baseball team. They lost four straight games to Boston, who are now leading the World Series 2-0 over St. Louis.]

"As soon as it happened, I said tomorrow is April and everything begins again.

"Once the Red Sox win this, they'll have nothing more to complain about, and next year the Yankees will win 120 games and the Red Sox won't even make the playoffs. Sometimes it is better never to have won and complain about it. Once you've won, what are you going to do about your next act?

"I have that same strange worry about the [Detroit] Lions [who have never won a Super Bowl]. Now they're 4-2. If I ever win a Super Bowl, is my life complete at that point? What will I do for my next act? It's a dangerous thing to get what I really really want. Then I'll have nothing more to complain about."

What did you think of Shawn Green's decision not to play on Yom Kippur?

"I totally agree with it. You have to believe in your god."

Did you ever refuse to have sex on Yom Kippur?

"Absolutely not. The High Holidays always fall around my birthday -- October 2nd. For the first five years of my career, I always made sure I worked on that day."

How are you doing personally?

"I'm here. I miss Rob. The excitement of the first half of this year is some of the best fun I've ever had in this business. That [Lowdown Productions] office was just a joy. It was like ten merry-go-rounds crammed into a little room. I couldn't wait to get down here to see who we would get to deal with next. Now it's quiet. It won't get busy again until after the convention. It's cold and slower. We get people in Jim South's office but the other offices are empty.

"I'm very sorry about what's happened between Rob and Mike Davis. I thought one of the nicest days of the year was when we were sitting up at that house [owned by Mike] on that Sunday afternoon [April 25, 2004] thinking about the future. You had just lost your position. There was something tranquil about that. Everybody was happy. Now all they do is fight and they get it out on the Internet... It hacks away at their soul.

"I miss that constant turmoil that was here the first half of the year. No matter what was going on, there was always something you could laugh about.

"I just hope nothing bad happens to Rob in the long run. The law moves in mysterious ways and the law has no soul. I worry about him. He's a little too blase."

Bill wants to run for the board of the Free Speech Coalition. "Dissent is not disloyalty. Dissent is the essence of free speech.

"I'd like to create a union [for performers]. I can't figure out six strong performers to put it together. I have approached Mr Marcus and asked him if he'd like to be nominated for the board of directors of Free Speech. He's one of the people that the other performers look up to. We need talent representatives on the board.

"The talent are looking to the outside world [such as AFTRA] to help them, but I do not believe that the outside world is our friend.

"Back in 1993, we had better leaders [from amongst the talent]. Sean Michaels, Hyapatia Lee, Nina Hartley, who was the best of all of them.

"Tony Tedeschi is cool. After all these years, we seem to be on the same wavelength. Part of that is our mutual adoration of the Yankees. He was talking about the Yankees and found out that I could talk about them on an even more knowledgeable plane, having been a fan of them for 50 years.

"Free Speech is planning a general meeting December 2nd to introduce the new executive director -- Michelle L. Freridge. I had two hours with her. Of course, it was more my telling her about everybody on the board and the history that she needs to learn. And I am very happy to be the teacher. Who better than a person who has been through all of this?

"I do not refer to myself as a historian, but as a practorian.

"I did a major interview with Pervertradio and I'm doing the second half tomorrow night."

Do you stay in touch with Adam Glasser aka Seymore Butts?

"He's having his own demons right now because he's a St. Louis Cardinals fan. He's also an Arizona Cardinals fan. I'll see him for sure the day the Lions play the Arizona Cardinals. We'll watch it up at his house.

"One of the proudest moments of my career was when I inducted him into the XRCO Hall of Fame [August 19, 2004]."

Do you think success has changed Adam?

"No. I think the pressures of business have flustered Adam. He may be overwhelmed that there is a price for fame and glory.

"Adam walked out on the football field in 1980 at [age 18 at] Coldwater Canyon. He was still in high school. He was introduced to me. He said he wanted to get into the business. I said no. I tried to keep him away as long as I could.

"Then he opened up a gymnasium [where John Stagliano shot]. I helped Adam. I made introductions. I directed him in his first scene (Immorals, 1990). His name was Bubba Brando. I directed him in the famous credit card scene where each person was dressed like a credit card who came to collect from Lee Carroll, a fate worse than death. Having sex with Lee Carroll is like climbing into a washing machine.

"Within a year, he called and we talked about the concept of Seymore Butts. In January of 1992, we began to make 'em."

What are the talent complaining about these days?

"The proliferation of the STDs. They never seem to be totally healthy before they go back out to work again. They're so impatient that before they have a chance to repair, they break down again.

"If I had a shot at every person before they entered this business, I think the mental health of each person would be more stable."

Bill wants to raise the minimum age for porn to 21 and to separate porn from the escort biz. "I have this pipe dream of a porn tax. If this industry is so anxious for respectability, a porn tax would give us the same validation as cigarettes, alcohol and gambling.

"The people who want to keep this business off balance are the lawyers who've made their livelihoods off this business preying on misunderstandings..."

Mondays With Lyra

Monday mornings always go better with Lyra.

I called KB in San Diego. Lyra answered the phone.

Lyra: "What are you doing?"

Duke: "Thinking about you."

Lyra: "You want me to convert?"

Duke: "I do."

Lyra: "I'm ready. When are you coming to San Diego?"

Duke: "What's going on in San Diego?"

Lyra: "Jack. But I'm going on."

Duke: "Where are you and KB going?"

Lyra: "He's taking me to work. We missed my train because he was bitching and moaning about girls."

KB: "The 'B' in 'KB' stands for 'benevolence.'"

Lyra: "I don't know what he means by that.

"I'm a loan officer now."

We all bust up laughing. "It's kinda like my old job.

"Refinances and mortgages."

Duke: "Did you have to sleep with anyone to get the job?"

Lyra: "No. I just said I had a preternatural nick for sales."

I bust up.

Lyra: "That was the largest Jewish laugh I've ever heard."

KB complains that girls he likes are sleeping with guys who like trannies.

Lyra: "He tried to get roadhead for the ride to work. I told him I'd give him $8.

"I'm not giving it to him. I don't suck dick.

"He freaked me out at the bagel shop. He came up behind me and squeezed my ass because I'm wearing tight pants. It really pissed me off."

Duke: "Normally you like that."

Lyra: "Not today. I'm sick today. I shouldn't even be going into work.

"I just woke up with a sore throat."

Duke: "Ask KB to massage your tonsils."

Lyra, audibly disgusted: "Oooooh. Yuck."

KB: "I could massage your kidneys if you want."

KB wipes the phone off before he takes it.

KB: "It's take a former dealer to work day.

"Once she was getting people hooked.... Now she's getting everybody hooked on refis."

Duke: "How can she be a loan officer? Don't they have moral standards for that?"

KB: "You would think.

"She told me she got a job at a mortgage company.

"I said, do they know about your felony?

"She said yes. Do they know what it is for? Kevin, I look up on the wall at my boss's office. He's got two posters of Scarface. I don't think it's a big problem.

"Needless to say, I'm going to get a job where she's working."

Duke: "Is this place legit?"

KB: "I don't know."

"Is it legit?"

"I don't know. All I know is that she's got a place where she goes every day and claims that she's working. She calls me and tells me to buy a mortgage. I explain to her that I don't have a steady income. She says, that's ok. Just buy a house and you'll have money."

"Does she know what she's talking about?"

KB: "Can you spell equity?"

Lyra: "E-Q-U-I-D-Y."

Duke: "Did you read the series in the San Diego Tribune about the sex industry revolution?"

KB: "I don't need to read it, bro. I live it. I went to my friend's strip bar the other night, the place that I'm banned from. I have a self-imposed ban. I have three chicks in there and two of them are huffy and puffy. They hate me because I went psychotic on them last week. I just told them that they were white trash and beneath me and that they should lick my ass."

Duke: "Why did you say that?"

KB: "One stood me up last night and the other one is a whack job.

"When I pulled into the parking lot the other night, I said to the door guy, are Heather or Claudia working tonight? He said yup, they're both working. But you don't want to go in there anyway. Vice [police] just raided the place.

"Then I went to another club. They just got raided. They're cracking down bigtime."

Duke: "How long did Lyra last with her waitressing job?"

KB: "A few days at the Japanese steak house. She went home with the bartender one night. He takes a corner too fast and gets into this horrific car accident that blows her fingernails off. It f---- up her finger. She's going to physical therapy for her little finger. She thinks she's going to be collecting $10,000 in a couple of weeks from his insurance.

"I am currently seeing one chick. That's all."

Duke: "What were you complaining to Lyra about?"

KB: "I need more time to write my book. I'm unfocused. And I'm stressed out because I need to plug mensniche.com as much as possible."

Duke: "Why don't you have Lyra ghostwrite your book?"

KB cracks up.

Duke: "Did you ever sleep with Lyra?"

KB: "Once. No sex. My boss was too busy trying to have intercourse with her. We were in a castle in the Hollywood Hills. She was so scared that she had to crawl in bed with me as a last resort. We were in a bed with no covers and a talking parrot that was screaming, 'Whose coming up?'

"At 4am, she yelled, 'Shut up you stupid f---ing bird.' The bird said, 'Whose coming up? F--- you. F--- you.'

"The bird died later. It got eaten by a coyote."

After dropping Lyra off at work, KB calls me back: "She has no idea what she's talking about, but it makes her cute. There's no doubt in my mind that she has an office full of guys that love watching her walk in all sexy-looking. She's so cute, they just tolerate her."

I hear KB is talking to some major porn companies to do their marketing. He might even get a Vice President title and a secretary as cute as Lyra.

KB consults for mensniche.com, Hollywoodpop.com, the playersball.com and baycouples.com.

Chaim Amalek writes Duke: "Your ready access to such women presents a two-fold problem for you. From your perspective, how can you possibly date civilians when you have access to that sort of woman to satisfy your baser instincts? And on the other side, how can any regular woman who knows what you have access to ever think she can compete with this self-refreshing pool of pulchritude that is never more than a few keystrokes away from you?"

An Orthodox Jewish woman can satisfy my soul in a way these porn girls never can.

Chaim replies:

Men don't marry women for the chance to be satisfied along those grounds. Be serious. With access to porn chicks, you experience no sexual pressure to do the menial work of finding an orthodox jewish woman to marry you, which is a good thing, as none ever will.

Best bet? Make a Jewess of your own out of shiksa material. And to that end, I will extol your virtues to that exporn chick you are copulating. She is of prime marriageable age (24, right?). Why don't you pop the question to her and settle down? Just think how more efficient you would be with an understanding woman by your side to help out in your work. Think of all the time, energy, and money you have wasted trolling for women. You could focus on being a breadwinner, a husband, and a father. And if it does not work out, you can always get a divorce and claim religious differences.

If I were you, I'd marry her, have a few kids with her, and see if it works out or not. What do you have to lose?

A few months ago, I had a flirtation over the phone and online (never in person) with a beautiful shiksa Lyra (girl on the right). She was 22 and she told me she was majoring in "media studies" at a community college.
I thought she had a lot in common with my friend Cathy Seipp and that we'd all get along like a house on fire.
Cathy, however, had a more skeptical view of Lyra than I did.
As the weeks passd by, Lyra and I talked a lot about Judaism and spirituality.
I asked her opinion of Dennis Prager's essays on "Why young women are exposing themselves." Part Two.
She replied: "Hmm, Bassicly that guy covered all the basis. I myself am self contios and hate getting in a bathing suit and try to hide my tits so if I hade the body I did when I was 16 I would tastfully wear less clothes, and I hate when girls show there stomach. But I think Its all over thought, you should dress how you feal without embarassing yourself, you know! Some girls just have no stlye or class and the kind of attention they want they will get. Being a parriniod hermite I prefer no eyes on me most the time. Anyways, how are you, I am in Ixtapa, the pretures of everyday life forced me to once again flee the country. The good news is I went to a very spirituil city for Samana Santa and went to a very nice church to pray. I also went to a rodeo and a cock fight, I plane to go to an Island today because Its getting boring. What have you been up to. Oh yah I wrote a great little story on the city of Petatlan and I have pictures."
I asked her what she was passionate about. She replied, "Luke, I really don't open up for most people but I like you! I am passionate about making love, I mean really being hate f---ed, chocked out, smacked around and verbally abused. I also love Jesus Criste and every morning I wake up and cook me some Farmer John honey baked ham with a side of yeast. It taste so good in my mouth, It makes me just sooo horny! I am also ma----bate to Woody Alan movies."
Lyra wanted a paid position in the L-ke F-ord Media Empire. I thought she should start off as an intern, and upon showing the proper initiative, she could work her way up the pole like my other interns.
We talked about her visiting me at the hovel. I'd take the day off and we'd go to the beach. It would give us an opportunity to better gauge Lyra's skills and enthusiasm.
Perhaps we could work side-by-side, taking journalism to heights never before scaled.
I imagined that I would guide Lyra's conversion to Judaism and that one day she would have my twelve Orthodox children.
It made me sad that this girl was so pressed by her need to get a job that she didn't have the time to fully develop her writing abilities.
Today I found out she's locked up. She could get ten years. At least now she will have the time to recollect in tranquility and make a contribution to modern American literature.
Our wild and crazy relationship began Monday, February 9. I call my friend KB.
Luke: "How was your weekend?"
KB: "Excellent. I had a lot of girls over to the house."
Luke: "For what purpose?"
KB: "To entertain KB, why else?"
Luke: "I hear girls in the background right now."
They're eating breakfast at the Calypso Cafe on the beach in San Diego.
KB: "Yeah. KB's turning into Hugh Hefner."
Luke: "I hear a lot of girls in the background."
KB: "Yes, I had a cute weekend. We all cuddled and watch movies."
Luke: "Did you have ---?"
KB: "Plenty."
Luke: "Are any of them girls I know?"
KB: "No, I'm staying out of the ---- realm."
KB turns to one of his girls, Lyra, a dark-skinned, dark-haired, busty Italian-American. "This is the reporter."
(Photo of KB with his arm around Lyra, and two other girls)
Lyra: "The ---- activist. That's him?"
Lyra comes on the line. "I just guessed that was you on the phone. I was thinking, it's that guy with the accent on TV, the ---- activist.
"One day I said to KB, 'Do I have a chance with that guy on TV?" He said, 'Nope. No way. Not at all. Not a chance in the world. Because you're Italian.' But I look Jewish. I could pull off being Jewish. I could wear one of those stars around your neck if I meet your mother."
Luke: "Would you come to temple with me?"
Lyra: "I'd come to the temple with you and everything. Oy ve, baby."
Lyra is a student at San Diego City College.
Luke: "How does KB get so many girls to his house?"
Lyra: "Every time I go over there, he's got girls at his house. He's got model girlfriends bending over for him. I brought girls over for him the other night and they're arching their backs and stuff."
KB comes back on line.
Luke: "Do you really think that spending the night with two girls in your bed is conducive to your spiritual growth?"
KB: "Absolutely. Every good Hindu should have two women with him at all times."
Lyra lived in Gary Kremen's mansion for two months.
Lyra: "I was in between houses and I needed somewhere to stay. I knew him through Kevin."
Luke: "Did you date Gary?"
Lyra: "I'm not that type of girl. I can support myself. I don't even like people buying me drinks. It freaks me out."
Luke: "How do you support yourself?"
Lyra jokes: "I have rich parents. No, I have money saved."
KB: "She's a good girl."
Luke: "Tell me about your hot tub experience with Gary Kremn?"
Lyra: "Gary is always in the hot tub. I had my 22nd birthday party there. About 200 people came. He comes out naked and jumps in the hot tub and freaks all my friends out. And then Mark, his maintenance guy, gets naked and jumps in too. And then they kicked my friend Ryan out and then they tried to hit on all my girlfriends. That's it. I don't have any good slander."
Duke: "Did you know that Kevin is in the Industry?"
Lyra: "I know. I accompany him to his parties sometimes. I like the Jews. They're all meshuganah [yiddish word for crazy] but I like them.
"I don't know why I'm in such a good mood today. I'm sick. I have to move today. I move a lot. It's a chronic problem of mine. I have bad ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). I flee the country a lot too. I just went to Tahiti, [four exotic locations I could not catch] and Miami in two months.
"KB's doing this wrap-it-up thing because he's a cheapskate and he doesn't want anybody using up his minutes."
KB: "I have to make a phone call."
Lyra: "He gets all nervous and anxious when people are on his phone too long."
I've noticed the same thing. It's like me around bacon.
Lyra: "He's sweating right now. He's turning white."
KB: "You love it."
Luke: "I do."
KB: "She's so cute though. If you saw Lyra, you'd love her. She's your type. Dark hair, dark sin, brown eyes, big natural -----."
Lyra: "You're so bad."
KB: "We're having breakfast. It's the most important meal of the day. I need to make some money. Find somebody who will pay me some money.
"The girls think I should do a reality TV show, KB TV. If you put a camera on my head, you wouldn't believe what goes on."
Lyra photo Lyra photo
I call a friend June 29.
"Our friend Lyra is locked up."
I start laughing.
"I thought she had cleaned up her act and wasn't doing this anymore. I'm bummed out by it."
"It sounds like she is better off in jail," I say. "She's so self-destructive."
"I guess she was on the way to Lake Tahoe. She got on the plane. She realized she shouldn't be flying to Lake Tahoe without talking to her probation officer. She got a bad feeling and decides to walk off the plane. She's asked if she is Lyra... She says yes. About 20 agents storm her. She didn't have anything on her.
"I got two phone calls from a federal prison last week. Scared me. She gets on the phone and the first thing she says is, 'It's prepaid, you Jew!'
"She hasn't been arraigned yet.
"She says that her phone has been tapped for the last eight months. They took her phone and all her numbers.
"I remember she kept telling me she wanted a job."
"The last I spoke to her, she was asking me to spell certain words for her resume. She was looking to interview. She'd moved to LA. I don't think I'm ever going to see her again."
"It was probably for your good."
"Her friends that I knew, two, went down too. I had no idea they were this big."
"We were having all these talks about spirituality."
"She's going to need it now. You can always write to her. She says she's going to have time to write her book now. Can you imagine? Book spelled b-u-k?"
Amalek writes Luke: "YOU ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS WOMAN'S FALL. Look at what she offered you: she spoke of her love for making love, Jesus Christ, Ham, and yeast. What did you offer her back in return? Nothing. Result? One more white woman not making Jewish babies. Another victory for the other team. Had you responded as she most clearly signaled she wanted you to respond, perhaps you would have purified her to the point of leading her to Judaism, and thence to the chuppah."
Janey writes: Whoa, that sweet top she's wearing in the first pic, black with cherries all over it, is meant to be worn with the matching panties -- they're underwear. I have been looking at the top every day for the last week, in a shop near the place where I work, thinking how cute cherries are.
Lyra is very pretty, which makes her life even more tragic. It's one thing to be an uneducated, ugly criminal -- who cares? -- but there's something very sad about an uneducated, pretty criminal. It didn't have to be that way. She could be working in ---- or mother to Luke's children. Luke, would you marry an ex-con (post-prison) if she converted?

Luke says: Yes, if she was hot like Lyra.

"Robert (my new relationship guru) has been telling me about being shomer negiyah. I think I want to find a guy who's into that. Have you ever considered going down that route?"

Certainly. I do every day in every way.

My Conversation With Rob Spallone

DukeFloored: hey pal
RobSpallone: ha bud
DukeFloored: where do you shoot tomorrow?
RobSpallone: up thev 14teen
DukeFloored: exact address
RobSpallone: not shore

San Diego's Sex Industry

Old-school massage parlors, peep shows persist

Concerned About Ariana Jollee's Creampie

Grant Michaels writes:

I take the safety issues in the adult industry very seriously. Recently, a well known female performer (with my same agency) made a 60 guy anal cream pie movie in Hungary. She apparently swallowed the "deposits" from the guys just for good measure. I am sure you know the story, as it seems common news. The reason it was done in Hungary was that the male talent there is dirt cheap. However, the guys supposedly only had Eliza tests, many of them photocopies!

I called AIM to discuss it with them and they claimed to be aware of the situation. I am wondering why so little has been said about this incident? Why did AIM not issue/suggest a quarantine for this girl? After the Darrem James tragedy I thought the industry was going to tighten the noose on foreign excursions of this nature?

I, for one, will refuse to ever work with this girl (regardless of what her tests say) as her ethics on safety are clearly in question!

Dan Miller writes for avn.com:

PRAGUE - The S Club is bustling with activity when I arrive for Ariana Jollee's 50-Man Creampie for Devil's Films.

The soon-to-be 22-year-old from Long Island, N.Y. flew 16 hours to the "Golden City" and journeyed about 30 miles from her boutique hotel room to this exclusive country club today. It happens to be the only place available that's big enough to host the 60-plus guys who will f-ck Jollee and cum in her ass.

That sounds perfectly safe to me. I don't know what all the fuss is about.