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What Was Up With Rob Black On Nightline?

The consensus seems to be that Rob (putative owner of Extreme Associates) looked like he hadn't showered in a few days and was high.

MikeSouth.com writes: "Rob looked exactly like the uneducated fool that he is last night on Nightline."

Tim Connelly writes: "...[Anti-porn crusader Patrick] Trueman looks like he'd be happy watching Gladiator movies with the host and a couple of pre-schoolers while Rob shoulda' spent an hour with Lou Sirkin working on his speech and maybe next time take a left at the sporting goods store, veering away from Hot Topic and careening into Bloomingdales where a discreet DKNY t-shirt and blazer would have made him come off like a spring conscious pornographer who knows that black is the new blue..."

Desus writes on GFY about Rob:

His lawyer should have coached him on how to handle this. I mean look, when they put him on a split screen next to the old dude, the old dude has a tie and suit on, he's speaking clear and coherently. The other guy [Rob] has on a sean john jacket, he's barely getting his points out and he looks high as a kite.

Evil1 writes: "Well that would have looked better if he didn't smoke a half pound before going on national tv."

DIH writes:

Rob looks like an ass here, he should have had his lawyer with him... I mean I hate his videos and "content" but they are trying to lump all this s--- in with regular porn. Then they try and act like we are giving out porn for "free" Why not bring forth the facts you need cc's to buy and that PARENTS need to be more responsible for their kids and not give them internet in their rooms, prepaid cc's if they arent checking them, and let their kids rome the world and internet unsupervised. Search your kids rooms and quit passing the blame.

From the ass end off the show that I saw (last 10 mins) was straight BULLs---! Looks like they didnt get into any REAL issues just that regular right wing christian b.s they normally spit. funny stuff from a so called family channel that heavily promotes and beams at the recognition of their damn near xxx rated desparate housewhores err wives show showing sex with a faux "teen" , non protected sex, promiscuousness, murder, backstabbing...

Escort sites, who owns them and how do they make money?

Kard63 writes on GFY:

These things are everywhere. They are poorly organized and ugly. I feel like making some just because they really suck dick. The very few that don't look like they were thrown together by an assclown rank very very low in yahoo and google. So someone explain to me how I can make money doing this.... no seriously, I mean it.

Flashfreak replies:

I can say I'm an escort sites pro, I work for a guy in the biz for like 2 years... I designed few "ugly" sites, feeder pages etc.. trust me: it's different than paysites.. few people care about designs, they just want to f--- good looking women.

Abyss_al writes:

They make pretty good money if done right... my buddy has a few.. There's two ways of making money with them:

1- the surfer sees all the girls, but to get contact info, they must join
2- the escorts pay to get listed on your site.

Second one makes good money, anywhere from $50-$300/month, upselling dating does well too... if you're smart you'll use your database and build 2 sites and get both crowds.

Hooper summarizes on JBM:

right wing nut job talking about how his films impact the "community"... weirdo scary pornographer slurring and talking about people's rights to view what they want in the privacy of their own home... reporter who doesnt want to appear that he supports porno and actually looks like right wing nut jobs twin brother makes occassional comments.

Quasarman writes on ADT:

Rob was about as eloquent as a homeless person on NIghtline tonight and though I'm glad that this case was tossed out by an "activist" federal judge my fear is that the DOJ is now more deterimined than ever to take this industry down. Rob's opponent on the show, Mr.Truman from the American Family council or whatever the hell it's called went as far as to say that the DOJ made a mistake going after only the most "extreme" product on the market. He suggested that the Bush administration target ALL producers of pornography. Once again, Rob dodged a bullet in this case and is presently carrying about 400 pounds of horseshoes up his ass but this isn't over. In fact, it will probably get a whole lot worse. I'd like to remind everyone that I have no desire to see Rob go to prison despite the fact that his movies are perhaps the worst thing imaginable short of a beheading video from Baghdad and that he himself is an arrogant little prick who never wrote a check that could be exchanged for actual money. Still, this big-mouthed egomaniac put porn back on the Fed's radar. This is a battle that did not need to be fought. Rob asked for this fight and in doing so has put our entire business in jeopardy.

Though it's my sincere belief that Rob Black is a simpleton who is in way over his head, it truly angers me that we are wasting a seond thought on issues of obscenity when Bush is so quick to point out that " freedom" is God's gift to the world in justifying the death of close to 2000 GI's in Iraq. Musilm fanatics are probably exporting radioactive material into the U.S as I write this and our Justice Department somehow has the manpower to worry about a poorly dressed egomaniac screaming about his right to make the worst movies currently available. Christian fundementalists love to talk about freedom so long as it meets their criteria. As soon as porn or gays or abortion enters the equation suddenly freedom is as unwelcome as Democracy to Muslim fanatics or sensible portions to Star Jones.

Jewel DeNyle writes:

Anyone who dares the fed's to come and get me should be punished they are asking for it and for him to bring it down on everyone else and then expect sympathy is bulls---. I don't sympathize with anyone who plays Russian roulette with their business. I refuse to be put in the same category with scumbags like him who ruin it for the hard working people of this industry. He makes us all look stupid and uneducated like himself in fact I'd love to have a spelling contest with him as I know he has a hard time even spelling supreme court. Sorry no support on my end as far as I'm concerned he has it coming to him sooner or later and I'd be more then happy to see him fall and extreme fall out of the industry all together. And how long can someone go on writing bad checks before that's a crime? He never supported anyone in this business and would s--- on anyone if he felt it was going to save his skin. He's a rat and the low of the low when it comes to business.

Alien writes:

The opinions on the webmasters and industry folks regarding Rob Black and Extreme Associates seems to have a frightening lack of not only enthusiasm but a complete lack of understanding of what there rights are. Its people like Rob Black that everyday industry people should model themselves after.

Why do Industry people portray themselves as a bunch of pussies, terrified that the government is going to come get them? The right to privacy and the right to create adult movies should be aggressively moving forward not always playing on the defensive and waiting for the G men in black to come to there offices.

F--- fear, f--- defense, the assholes in government that want to take away inherent American rights have to be put away or dragged out into the publics eye as destroyers of the first Amendment. The aim to block and shame our industry by the DOJ is a challange that the industry should not have to face. PERIOD.

I applaud you Rob Black and I thank you.

While We No Longer Have Johnny (Carson) and Ed (McMahon), We Still Have Lensman and Ron

RRRed, an adult.com employee (owned by Lensman), writes on GFY about the online porn industry's auction to raise money for tsunami relief:

Lensman is donating a trip to Maui for one week to start off things tomorrow. Lensman offered 20K and Levi 10K to close out the rest of the items for today so the amount would be well over 250K.

Porn Star Book Signing and Workshop

Taliesin writes on RAME:

Nina Hartley, Greta Christina, Liberty N Justice, Vic St. Blaise and I will be doing a book signing and workshop at Grand Opening in Los Angeles on January 30. Each of us wrote a chapter for Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. For those interested, details can be found on the Grand Opening website.

An article and photos of the San Francisco Paying For It book signing of a few months ago appears here.

AVN's online review by Mark Kernes of Paying For It is here.

Taryn Thomas Remembers That Crazy Hawaiin Shoot

She tells Gene Ross: ""Billy Lee did walk out. Then they fired two girls because they took Ecstasy on the beach, and they couldn't work. Billy Lee quit and refused to sign any papers for Roy Garcia. After Billy left, then whatshername, Goldie Cox left and some girl named Annabel left. They replaced them with me and Kylie Wild. We went out there. My name was Brin Rhodz at the time. But that was the only major thing I did under that name. Then I did my first boy-girl."

Wherein Montreal's Chris Barry Is Mistaken For Me At A Beauty Pageant

My Iranian friend is in attendance taking pictures of Miss Ontario, who also happens to be of Iranian heritage, hence his Web site's interest in the pageant. He spots me in the crowd and excitedly rushes over to tell me that he's finally figured out where he knows me from.

"You're the guy from the movie! The journalist in that documentary I saw who wants to get in to the porn industry, that's you, right? That f---ed up guy!" I tell him I don't know what he's talking about, because I don't, but he's sure he's got me pegged and can't understand why I don't want to cop to my true identity as an aspiring pornographer. He thinks I'm pretty cool. Several times that night I see him pointing me out to parents and people from the pageant as the guy from the porno industry. I decide to discreetly ditch my new Persian pal and go hunting for Dahlia, this year's Miss Montreal and my excuse for being here. I find her at a table with her family, daintily slurping up pasta.

Notes From Las Vegas

I'm still transcribing my notes from early January's conventions.

* Saturday, January 8. There were people selling trade badges to the AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo) for $100 in the Venetian.

* Sin City had its former contract girl Shay Sweet signing for them. Rob Spallone and Shay seem sweet on each other.

* Rob complains: "I go out to dinner with millionaires and I pick up the tab. Is that sick?"

* Rob complains: "I'll never be rich because I know too many poor people and I'd be buying them cars."

* Nine employees are left at VCA from the days when Russell Hampshire owned the company. That number will be dropping soon. They complain that it has gone corporate since Larry Flynt Publications took over. That it is no longer a porn company. Break times are strictly regulated.

* I hear Ron Levi owns 70% of porndollar.com.

* I walk down the Venetian to the AVN Awards Saturday night, January 9, with Spike Goldberg and the Timlake brothers of Homegrown. I ask them if they've moved offshore. Spike says no. That would be unpatriotic. I suddenly realize we are walking behind Larry Walters, an attorney who specializes in moving porn and gambling clients offshore to reduce their tax and litigation liability.

Behind us is Taylor Wane and her husband Laurent. He tells the AVN staff that he is a concert promoter and that he knows how to handle these things better than they do.

AVN VP Darren Roberts gets down on his knees and tugs the red carpet until it is straight.

* AVN.com's blog is taking off, largely thanks to the charming and debonair Acme Anderson. He writes: "You want a lead? Follow your nose on the rumor that several girls signing for one company at AEE were picked up for prostitution, only to be promptly bailed out so that they could sign the next day and nobody would ask questions."

* Acme writes: "Word on the street is the company let one girl go last week (Vegas likely being the last, uh, straw), or maybe it was that she's suddenly appearing on a popular escort site. Hey, New Yorkers, busy Feb. 6 - Feb. 9? I hear she'll be in town and rentable for the low, low price of $2000/hr cash ($2200 if you want to use your credit card)."

Well, that girl sounds like Devon of Digital Playground. But she is due to shoot for Digital Playground this week and seems to still be with the company according to my contacts within DP.

* I hear that Penthouse Australia sells about 60,000 copies a month. Playboy Australia went out of business a few years ago. It refused to go hardcore. Penthouse Australia puts out about six different editions because Australia's different states have different laws about sexual content.

* Shawn Ricks has been coming to the AVN Awards for 13 years. He says it is all bull----.

* Johnny Keyes (Behind The Green Door) pushes to get a photo op with rapper Lil' John. Lil' John's security guards try to push him out of the way after a minute. Johnny protests, "I'm a legend."

* Dick Delaware sits happily with Layla Rivera. They had a tempestuous break-up a couple of months ago.

* Jim South Jr sits with his girlfriend Holly Wellin. Jim Sr. is not at the show.

* A source near Wicked Pictures says he loves to see owner Steve Orenstein twitch every time I look in his direction.

Steve has always been nothing but affable and friendly to me, though I haven't had a substantive interview with any of the key players at Wicked since 1999.

* David Joseph Giarusso gives a wooden acceptance speech for the best selling tape of the year.

* Katie Gold is in tears. She sits between Dick Nasty and Katie Morgan. She rests her head on the table and then on Dick's shoulder. Then Morgan cradles her. Katie Gold cries out, "I feel so bad."

She's drunk and mourning the death of Jim Holliday.

* Paul Thomas says this is his 30th awards show. The main difference between then and now is that then he used to get paid in cash by Italians and now he gets paid by check by a Jew.

* Cytherea is the most overwhelmed by an AVN Award (for Best New Starlet). "I'm shaking so bad," she admits from the podium. She thanks her mother.

* Transsexual Vanity was busted at the show last year for giving blowjobs in the back. This year she sits at my table and bitches about other transsexuals. At the end of the show, she jumps on stage, opens up her top, and puts on a more energetic and erotic (if you didn't know she had a penis) performance than any girl.

* If porn is now for couples, why are the overwhelming number of people who line up outside the AVN awards male?

* 1am. As I'm walking out, I spot Johnny Keyes haranguing somebody just like the first time I saw him this evening.

Just imagine spending six hours telling people that you are a legend. Ain't fame (and the lack thereof) a bitch?

Wankus vs Kurt Lockwood

Tony Malice writes: Jeff Steward wanted me to put out word that he is willing to pay for the location and put up the prize money for this bout.

Jewel DeNyle On Rob Black

She writes on ADT:

I don't agree with rob throwing his bulls--- in everyone's face and then expecting everyone to back him when all he's done is burn bridges and himself along the way. He makes this industry look like a bunch of jerk off scam artists, sorry I'm not one of them and as far as I'm concerned Rob had it coming when he starting thinking he was above the law and challenged the fed's etc...He shouldn't even be alowed in this industry or supported for his behavior and tatics,all he's done is make it harder for any of us to do business he didn't win he's a loser and always will be. A guy who still bounces checks left and right and f---s his talent over should not even be allowed to have a company. The only reason he does is because hid daddy wipes up his messes and his ass. Rob put the spotlight on something that didn't even need to be in the light.

Mandatory Drug-Testing For Porners?

Sportswami writes on ADT:

On the heels of everything that has been going down in the industry and in sports I was wondering if the adult performers would ever consider having mandatory drug tests?

I understand that this is a touchy subject but I personally believe that all adult performers should be subject to drug tests. Just like athletes, they should be tested to make sure that their are no more overdoses or performers with drug problems.

I am not a hater of adult perfomers as I have had the honor and pleasure of dealing with them in interviews. And in some rare instances become friendly with a few. So I guess now is the question I am posing to the fans and the industry members.

Melissa Lauren writes:

Everyone should be able to do whatever they want. You know that if the talent was drug-tested, 90% of the tests would come back positive... But on set, just come sober. I hate when i have to do a scene and it s obvious that the talent i work with is high or drunk. Sometimes they can t even stay still, or stand up.

Quasarman writes:

If you're a pilot you should be drug tested. If you're the assistant manager at the 99 Cent store, do all the drugs you want so long as you show up for work on time and do your best to make sure that the surplus green beans are stacked properly.

It's funny that alcohol is responsible for more human misery than any legal or illegal narcotic but no one proposes that we "test" for that. If they did, I'd be living under a bridge.

If we made clean drug tests the criteria for hiring talent in the adult biz I'd be pointing my camera at a vacant sofa or bed on a daily basis.

Ron Levi Backs Sponsorchat.com

Sponsorchat.com is a new webmaster discussion board started by a kid with no background in porn but he's secured the backing of industry legend FantasyMan aka Ron Levi. Oprano criticisms.

Strip Club Manager Charged with Racketeering

From Las Vegas Review Journal:

Las Vegas- The pregnant wife of strip club manager Robert "Bobby" D'Apice was allowed to surrender Thursday in her tax evasion case, but relatives expressed outrage after learning she would have to spend the night in custody.

D'Apice, a shift manager at the Crazy Horse Too topless club, was arrested Wednesday at the business after a federal grand jury charged him with racketeering, making false statements and tax evasion.

After the couple's initial court appearance later in the day, their supporters accused authorities of using the pair to catch their real target: Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo, who has been under investigation for at least a decade.

Court records indicate that authorities have been investigating links between the Crazy Horse Too and organized crime, but the indictment against D'Apice focuses on allegations that he and others at the strip club have used force to compel customers to pay disputed charges.

The racketeering charge against D'Apice accuses him of extortion, robbery and kidnapping.

I Want My Internet TV

Regina Lynn writes for Wired.com:

Adultinternet.TV officially launches with a lineup that includes reality shows, news, sitcoms and cartoons -- all with an adult twist. That doesn't mean that every host or actress is going to take her clothes off, but it does mean that adult pioneers are once again developing technologies that will change the landscape of entertainment as we know it.

When I pointed out the numerous typos and misspellings on the site, which do not make for a good first impression, I could almost hear him fidgeting through the phone. With all the focus on the backend, they haven't been able to give much thought to the front end until now. He promises to try to have the site copyedited before launch. Meanwhile, "everything is still in beta," he says.

Straining For Novel Positions

Regina Lynn writes for Wired.com about Internext:

I'm writing this column from the Internext convention in Las Vegas, surrounded by booths of adult webmasters and the services that support them. "50% to 60% Rev Share: initial and recurring" says one banner. "Earn more. Learn more. Get more," says another. "Bang Bang You're Rich," promises XBangCash.com.

The KSEX radio booth is playing a porn DVD so loudly that I can't hear the conversation taking place on the couch next to me. The booth girls shiver in miniskirts and miracle bras as they hand out fliers and candy.

Money is the focus here, not fans. The porn consumer is represented as an almost unlimited revenue source that can make you rich quick; all you have to do is join this affiliate program or subscribe to that billing service.

Author Violet Blue Vs Porn Star Violet Blue

Regina Lynn writes about why she changed her name from "Gina Lynn":

Violet Blue is the author of the bestselling The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio and The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, among several other sex books. She founded the Good Vibrations Magazine and for the past eight years has helped build the most dangerous robotic shows on earth with the Survival Research Laboratories.

A few years ago, it came to her attention that a porn actress was performing under the name "Violet Blue." At first, she didn't worry too much about it. The majority of adult actresses don't have long careers, whereas the real Violet Blue -- which is her real name -- already had a strong following.

"The problem for me has been that [the porn actress] did a few interviews in which she expressed homophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks," says the real Violet. "That's when I realized I needed to make sure people made a distinction."

Violet increased her efforts to keep her web presence strong, and to make sure her site ranks high in the search engines. "As a sex-positive sex educator who values diversity and equality, I'm naturally concerned when you Google my name and it says 'Violation of Violet Blue.' I have a lot of things out there on the web that let people know we are two different people," she says.

Working A Wank-Fest

Tristan Taormino writes for the Village Voice:

LAS VEGAS-When you walk into the 2005 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, you get the idea that the adult companies are engaged in a not-so-subtle pissing contest of my-booth-is-bigger-than-yours proportion. Who's got leather couches and neon signage? Who spent the most cash to erect a mini-mansion? Whose contract girls look the best enlarged to five times their actual size? Players in this business-as in any other whose sales hover in the $10 billion-a-year range-are absolutely competitive. Exhibitors at the event-which started as a section of the Consumer Electronics Show in the mid '80s and became its own entity in 1999-have two goals: to woo distributors, retail buyers, and salespeople and to create a space where fans can meet their favorite stars. These promotional goals merge at the sales level: Get more product in more stores and sell it to more consumers. Titillating stuff, huh?

More than 13,000 industry members and upwards of 17,000 fans composed a group that was more gender- and race-diverse than ever. On the studio side, things also seem a lot less like a white-man clusterf---. The number of performers of color has increased, and there's a noticeable explosion of African American porn titles, thanks in part to the successful merger of rap music and porn (a natural pairing-rap music videos already seem pornographic). Hopefully, this signals an evolution of the representation of ethnicity in adult, one of its most problematic elements.

The XXX Factor

David Uborne writes for the Independent, a British newspaper:

Inside the standing-room-only ballroom of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas four words echo from the stage over and over: "And the winner is ..." This is an awards night with all the requisite ingredients - a paparazzi-lined red carpet welcome for the nominees and accompanying stars, music from bands like Smashmouth and a host firing one-liners to sustain us through the three-hour marathon.

There are easy clues that this is not exactly the Oscars or Golden Globes, however. Heidi Fleiss, the infamous Hollywood madam, is a celebrity guest. So is Mary Carey, a former candidate for Governor of California, and, more importantly, a porn performer whose response to a reporter about her imminent professional plans was nothing if not pithy: "Cock, Cock, Cock!" Among the pre-recorded snippets that show up periodically on the jumbo screens overhead, one dispenses cheeky tips on care and maintenance of the male sexual organ while another offers a comedy sketch featuring one of the night's nominees, Cytheria, enjoying a special sort of orgasm the likes of which we could not describe on these pages.

Nicole Brazzle Bounces Back From Jail

Nicole Brazzle replies to my email: "Jail is jail sweety, nothing fun. But like I said, the only difference between me and all the other girls is I got caught. No big deal."

Nicole writes on XPT:

To all yall dumb asses that cant do nothing but talk s--- and enjoy all the rumors and soap opera going around,I just want to say enjoy talking all the s--- you want, it igoes in one ear and out the other.

She starts another thread here:

I just did the ad for two weeks and that was it. I tried it because another girl told me about it and hell I did it to. Difference is I and Sanjana AKA jasmin got caught. People can say whatever they want, cause I know im not the only one ya know. I am a good person in and out and anyone that ejoys all this Bull S--t drama can say whatever they want. No One will bring me down. I will always keep my head up.

I posted a thing telling the girls to be careful, and I go many responses from the girls asking me how to screen paeople. I let them know so I can help them before they get caught to.

Diary Of A Porn Publisher

Charles Proctor (Sexxxxpics.com) of Reed City, Michigan, has bought an ad on the prestigious blog Instapundit for: "It's like a political blog/personal diary written on Viagra."

Mike South Tells Industry To Wake-Up About Rob Black

Let me point out Rob Black, scumbag of the year and no friend to porn, has NOT made history.

The industry has not dodged any bullets. This case can go a lot of ways from here, some are highly unlikely others are almost a sure thing.

The first is the decision to appeal, lets look at that. Should the DOJ choose NOT to appeal this decision then there is effectively no law against obscenity in the third US District, porners should understand this, its why it is legal to shoot in L.A. but I digress.

If the DOJ chooses not to appeal then Rob walks, plain and simple. Should the DOJ choose to appeal this ruling by judge Lawrence (they have 30 days to file) then the third district court of appeals will hear the appeal and three judges will decide if Lawrence was right or wrong in his ruling.

If they decide he was right, then the DOJ can appeal that ruling to the Supreme court. If they decide he [ Lawrence] was wrong, then Rob stands trial as planned. and if he loses Rob may appeal again to the third district court of appeals then to the supreme court.

Should this case make it to the Supreme Court then both Mary Beth Buchanon and Lou Sirkin (Robs attorney) will argue in a very limited amount of time as to what they think the Supreme Court should rule regarding the constitutionality of the case.

If the Supreme Court does decide to hear this case, no matter what stage it comes in, it is likely that they will attempt to define obscenity, in constitutional regards, once and for all, which could be very bad for porn, or very good.

Once the Supreme Court defines obscenity then the game is over and that's that, obscenity is NOT protected free speech.

So in short, the decision by the DOJ is do we let the decision stand and essentially have no law against obscenity in the third district or do we appeal it and risk losing on a broader scope?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is likely to go. What the industry needs to remember is that Black is no friend, he has brought this upon us all. Just because he is the enemy of the justice department and the justice department is thought to be our enemy that doesn't make Rob our friend, Rob could, theoretically, single handedly bring the entire industry to softcore only, and that is not a stretch when you look at the make up of the Supreme Court in three years, it will almost certainly be very conservative with two or more new Bush appointees.

Inside Deep Throat Blog

The Brian Grazer-produced documentary premiered at Sundance this weekend.

An Interview With Jody Maxwell, The Singing C---Sucker

Jody Maxwell appeared in about 15 porn films from 1974-1981, including Portrait, Outlaw Ladies, and Satisfiers Of Alpha Blue. She was best known for her oral abilities, including her aptitude for singing while her mouth was otherwise engaged with her work.

She's now published a book entitled My Private Calls.

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- It looks like phone sex operators have at least one major hang-up -- customers who hang up right after their climax.

That's the naked truth from former porn star-turned-phone-sex-worker Jody Maxwell, star of movies like "Thrilling Drilling" and "Bucky Beaver's XXX Dragon Art Theatre."

She spent 12 years in phone sex and says all operators hate getting hang-ups because they often keep talking for several minutes before they figure out their client is gone.

Maxwell says she understands why the guys do it but says it's more polite to say "goodbye" or "thank you" afterward -- otherwise, the phone sex worker may try to ring up additional charges from the call.

Besides hang-ups, Maxwell is constantly surprised at her customer's kinky requests. For example, one man told her his fantasy was to spy on his son having sex with an older man. Maxwell discusses the ins and outs of the phone sex field in a new book, "My Private Calls" (Stealthcat Publishing).

I interview Jody by phone Friday, January 21, 2005:

Q: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

J: "A trail lawyer. I come from a long line of attorneys. My grandfather and father were famous attorneys. I know the day I decided I wanted to become a lawyer. It was when my father threw a fraternity party at our house."

Q: So how did you get into porn?

J: "I got married at age 18 while in college. He decided to become a lawyer. I got tired of going to school. I got my degree in Theater and Speech [at age 19]. In my senior year of college [1974], my marriage broke up [after two years, though divorce took another four years]. Gerard Damiano of Deep Throat fame came to my college to speak on a morality panel. They showed an erotic film. I was going to interview him.

"During our conversation, I told him my father was a prosecutor. He said, oh.

"When I met him, I was starring in Death of a Salesman on stage. He asked me what I did. He said he'd like to talk to me about doing one of his films. I said, I don't think so.

"He took me to dinner that evening. He persuaded me to come to New York to do a screen test after graduation. I called him the day after I graduated.

"Meanwhile, I went home and discussed it with my father. He said he no problem with it."

Q: Your father had no problem with you doing a porn film?

Jody: "If that was what I decided to do, no, he didn't. Not with Damiano. There had just been a story about him in Playboy. My father subscribes to Playboy. They were talking about how he was the king of porn. My father said to go for it if I felt good about it.

"Damiano said he didn't know if he was going to do a straight film or a porn film."

Q: What did the screen test involve?

J: "It was very straight. I was fully clothed the whole time. I said different lines. They shot me from different angles. It was G-rated.

"When I was in New York, [Damiano] decided to make [his next film] X-rated. Portrait. He decided to write me my own movie. Between the making and editing of Portrait, he got busted [for obscenity]. He got paranoid. He took all our names off the credits (and put a statement instead), even though we had done all this press. Roger Ebert interviewed me.

"Because of that, people don't realize that's me in all the character roles. I play a woman with multiple personalities."

Q: What was it like to do your first adult film?

J: "He was so high-class, it was cool. He hired Jamie Gillis to do several days on set while I was doing non-sex stuff. So we could get to know each other and I would feel comfortable around him. Obviously this is not how these filmmakers generally work.

"I loved making love to the camera. I really got off on it.

"I turned down many hundreds of adult films. Early on in my time in the business, I became friends with somebody who was the editor of an adult publication. And he told me, don't overexpose yourself. Don't make all the films. You'll get screwed up.

"I turned down films that I later wished I had done, such as The Opening Of Misty Beethoven (but the money wasn't there).

"I'm a graduate of the Young Republicans National Leadership training school. I got to meet President Nixon (circa 1973). It's the best picture I've seen of Nixon. He's happy. He's smiling. I did the parties for both his daughters.

"I was in office for Young Republicans when I got into porn."

Q: Are you a life-long Republican?

J: "Yes [in the sense that she has always been a member of that party]. How do I vote now? I vote all over the place. I've always voted a split-ticket. I try to vote for the candidate. The Republicans who rule right now, such as the ones in California, are way too right-wing."

Juliet Anderson got Jody into doing phone sex in 1983 and that was a large part of Jody's income for the next 12 years.

"My main stage show... Do you know anything about my oral abilities?"

Not really.

"In my private life, I was a creative person sexually. When my marriage split up, I got into swinging. I developed singing and f---ing. With words and all. I made a Christmas record for Cheri [magazine] one year of singing and f---ing. No one had ever sucked two people at the exact same time. I had tried that in my private life.

"I was quick-witted. I would go on stage and I'd have a bowl of water. And I'd get a volunteer to come up and sit in the bowl of water and I'd suck their fingers.

"The manager at Show World says I was crazy. No self-respecting New Yorker would ever go up on stage and sit in a bowl of water to get his fingers sucked. I said, watch me!

"I got up on stage. I'd show my breasts. Dance. I'd try to amuse them. It was nothing hardcore. And then I'd ask for a volunteer.

"It was lunch time. The first guy wore black slacks. He took off his pants. He was wearing a black tie, black socks, black shirt. He climbed up and sat in the bowl of water. I sucked on his fingers and he got an erection like you wouldn't believe.

"The man who managed Wendy O. Williams wanted to take me to Las Vegas [to do shows] because the show is funny. It is sexy. It's hot. Sometimes people took it too seriously. I just wasn't ready to take it to Las Vegas. I regret that."

Jody says she's never worked as an escort.

"I would never fake an orgasm on-film or in real life. It's insulting."

Since 1995, Jody has worked as a public school English teacher.

Q: Did any of the kids figure out that you had been a porn star?

"No. I never gave them a clue about that.

"I relate well with kids."

Jody says nobody in porn tried to get her into bed when they offered her roles while that happened to her frequently in non-adult productions.

"My least favorite [porn] film, even though I made lots of money on it, was Gums. The reason was that these people were Hollywood people who tried to make an X-rated film. It cost over a million dollars. It took four-to-six weeks to make it. They shot in New Jersey, New York, Miami, Key West. It's a satire of Jaws. Brother Theodore is in it. But the filmmakers were strange. They didn't know porn. It was an attitude thing. There were people on the crew having sex with different actors and actresses right and left. It was just goofy.

"I always like that the [porn] crews were so professional. I did get involved with a cameraman.

"The pay was outstanding. You made thousands of dollars a day. They insisted on eight-hour days. You got paid overtime for even a minute over. One day I did 30-minutes of work. It was all talking."

David Moye Wants To Write Music For Porn Films

David Moye (moyemail at netzero.net) of Wireless Flash writes:

Hey, I am a musician as well as a writer and would love to get jobs writing film themes for all types of movies. A few years ago, I did some music for Universal Islands Of Adventure theme parks. They wanted songs based on Marvel Comics characters. I just put them online for the first time. The songs run the gamut from punk, 60s pop and even a little bit of swing and blues.

Username: david
Password: 11mph

Maybe some of your readers in the industry might figure that if I can write for the Incredible Hulk and Wolverine, I can write for Ron Jeremy or Teagan Presley.

Ashlyn Gere Update

According to Bridgette Monroe, Ashlyn lives in Texas and works as a real estate agent.

Where's The LA Times?

During the HIV-breakout last March, The LA Times was about the last news outlet on earth to report the news. Now obscenity charges have been dropped against Extreme Associates, and while the LA Daily News covers it, The Times doesn't. The Times also dropped the ball on doing a Jim Holliday obituary. You could argue Jim has general significance because he led the way in the serious study of porn and because of the role he played in Dr. Robert Stoller's book Porn.

When five porn performers tested HIV-positive in 1998 (after four tested positive in 1997), The Times ran one brief story (in May 1998) about certain production companies going mandatory-condom and only finally covered the story in depth in January 2002.

Obscenity Charges Dropped Against Extreme Associates

David Aaron Clark writes on ADT:

While you're all rushing to congratulate Rob, don't forget all the performers, vendors and other companies he burnt, putting some out of business. Don't forget the constant stream of racist, mysognynist and misanthropic websites, products and invectives everybody from Lexington Steele to Paul Fishbein have had to put up with over the last few years. Jules, if you really think Rob and Lizzie's "vision" of porn is what comes next, I'm ah .. quite surprised. Are you thinking about shooting some incest-themed pseudo-kiddie porn, too?

Jules Jordan replies:

David, I never said rob and lizzies "vision" of porn is what comes next, whether you agree with the content or not, I do think that adult producers that push so called "limits" can continue to do so in the name of free speech, whether pushing the limits is "interracial", "anal", "object penetration" or possibly something harder etc.. without thinking twice because of impeding indictment.

Smiling Arab Reaches Out To Nicole Brazzle

Smiling Arab posts to XPT:

Having spent most of Wednesday--from 5:00 am until 5:00 pm--babysitting a big client arrested for the deuce (drunk driving), I would at this time like to offer my sympathies and tender thoughts to Adult Superstar Nicole Brazzle. When the facts of this case come out, I'm sure you'll realize she was only charing $75 for the companionship of the penis in her mouth, and nothing sexual, you dirty minded pervs. Jail is the house of the poor and the stupid, and no woman who looks like Nicole should be poor.

'Tis The Season To Threaten Scott Fayner

Fayner posts to l-keford.com in 2002:

Woke up very late on Friday, late afternoon, and checked my messages. Wayne Lewis, AKA Wankus of KSEX Radio had left me a message, which I didn't listen to. I called him back instead. The following is a loose version of our conversation.

"Fayner, did you listen to my message?"

"No."

"Okay, well, here's the deal. I ran in to [porn guy] Kurt Lockwood in Colorado the other day, who said you wrote that he is gay and that he's pissed off and is going to beat the living s--- out of you for it."

"I wrote nothing of the sort. I simply posted an email that asked if he was gay, and if I remember right I actually said that I believed he wasn't a member of the dick-sucking society."

"Well he's really pissed off."

"Great. That's some really great news."

"He's gonna be a guest on my show tonight, and I want you to come by or call in and give your side of the story."

"Okay."

Here's a picture of Kurt having fun on KSEX with Quasarman and Wankus, two people he later threatened to kill.

The Jews' Worst Enemy - Meet The Fokkers

Rabbi Daniel Lapin writes on TowardTradition.org:

The movie causing me deep distress is a Rosenthal/Tenenbaum production starring Dustin Hoffman, and Barbra Streisand.

I was sorry to see Barbra Streisand involved in the flagrant defamation of Judaism found in this, her latest movie hit. While she was making her film Yentl, for which I served as a consultant, she studied Judaism regularly and diligently with me. She was a warm and gracious guest on the occasions she had dinner with my family. Yentl's nostalgic, if not altogether authentic glimpse into 19th century Jewish life in Poland, evoked a feeling of fondness for the characters, but like many ethnic Jews, Streisand is largely isolated from her religious roots. In the new film to which I refer, she plays not a role, but a heinous caricature of a Jewess.

I am reluctant to name the movie on account of the implied vulgarity of its title. If you are reluctant to part with good money for the privilege of seeing the Jewish people being defamed, you should abstain from this movie. In spite of having several Jewish producers and several Jewish stars, this film's vile notions of Jews are not too different from those used by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

I may be unsophisticated but I am not just a grouch with no sense of humor. I'll fess up; I really enjoy funny movies. However you should know a little about this offensive excuse for entertainment. You might recall that in the first movie we followed Pam Byrnes as she introduced her very Jewish and nerdy boyfriend, Greg, to her parents. This sequel shows the Byrnes visiting their daughter's future in-laws. The movie depicts Greg's conspicuously Jewish parents as sexually obsessed, constantly concupiscent degenerates. Nice people, but depraved. Their home is filled with bric-a-brac that juts with anatomic suggestiveness.

Along with their son's bar mitzvah talit, or prayer shawl, they have preserved the foreskin from his circumcision. To add to the hilarity, this souvenir makes a distasteful reappearance at an awkward moment. In reality, Jews treat the foreskin with reverence and bury it rather than turning it into a scrapbook joke. The hosts, who never miss an opportunity of exuding Jewish ethnicity, boast of their son losing his virginity to the gentile maid and they keep their guests waiting while they themselves practice what they preach in their bedroom upstairs. There are many more vile examples of Jewish people being defamed in this horrible excrescence. I am not sure that labeling it comedy excuses the defamation.

I do not particularly care for dark, socially significant films. Give me funny movies like The Blues Brothers and Hopscotch. However I really loathe movies that perpetuate hideous stereotypes about racial, religious, or ethnic groups, no matter how funny they may seem. What is more, I cannot see how racial bigotry is lessened if perpetrated by blacks or that anti-Semitism is diminished if delivered by Jews.

This movie defames Jews in a way that I haven't seen since the worst that Woody Allen dished up. And Woody at his worst was breathtakingly hostile to Judaism. One need only recall how many of Woody's films portray Jews, not to mention rabbis, as loathsome liars, desperate psychotics, pathetic perverts, and ridiculously lecherous losers. If Woody Allen were not Jewish, surely every Jewish organization would have roundly denounced him. And they would have been right. The problem is that he is Jewish and they don't denounce him. Instead, we self-destructive Jews celebrate Woody Allen Week at Jewish Community Center film festivals.

It is not only in movies that Jews besmirch Jews as sexualizing the culture. Ruth Westheimer told The New York Times of her love for Judaism, Israel, and the Jewish people. Meanwhile, as Dr. Ruth, with her grandmotherly appearance and her high-pitched Jewish accent, she titillates her audiences with shockingly explicit sexual advice.

Radio shock-jock Howard Stern intersperses his displays of dehumanizing depravity with a constant stream of "Oy veys" as if subconsciously compelled to highlight his Jewish ethnicity. Jerry Springer, widely known as the Jewish former mayor of Cincinnati, normalizes depravity by projecting a deviant sub-culture and its cheering hooligans right into America's living room.

A few years ago, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal gushingly profiled a Jewish pornographer whose stage name is Ron Jeremy. The piece praised the huge sums he's been paid to "bed more gorgeous women than James Bond." Jeremy, who proudly admits to have acted in or directed over 1,500 porn videos, cited the preponderance of Jewish men in porn and explained, "Jewish families tend to be more liberal than Christian ones, they aren't obsessed by the fear of the devil or going to hell." As if to eliminate any lingering doubt about Ron Jeremy's Jewishness, the Jewish Journal breathlessly assures us that Ron Jeremy plans to marry in a synagogue.

Laurie Holmes Vs. Denise LaFrance

Laurie Holmes, President of John Holmes Enterprises, writes: "Do you know if Denise Lafrance has published her book yet? Loop Holes my ass, I worned her specifically that I was not granting her the right to use John's name and image in her stupid silly art book. Clearly her talent is not worthy of The John Holmes Brand Name. I don't care if she draws a picture of Jesus, frankly, if she references it to my late husband physically or in typeset I will take her to court. The funny thing about it is that after I thought about it for a while I was going to give her permission, but then she bad mouthed me all over that stupid Wonderland Movie Chat Site. She clearly doesn't understand the law, intellectual property and trademarks. Is she looney or what? God, I even sent her the ruling numbers and spelled it out for her."

Denise LaFrance writes:

Thanks for the breaking news Luke. I hope you didn't waste your time mentioning anything regarding my book to this raving lunatic. I am sorry to hear the grand wizard czar mistress of the Art World deems my art as "un-worthy" of the good household name of John Holmes...

Many of Holmes' fellow legends would beg to differ. I wish I could muster up the energy to care about this woman's blathering but I really must continue to create the logo I have volunteered to design for the orphanage's charity run I am volunteering for.

John Holmes or no John Holmes, my book will be made and you know that as well as I do. The reason for his absence will be published, if need be--which I doubt it will. This woman needs to stop the all-consuming hate. It is detrimental to one's health to be so obsessed with negativity.

With the state of disarray the world is in today, I choose to focus on the positive things in Life...a practise I recommend to anybody.

There is no evidence anywhere on any message board of me ever having "badmouthed" Laurie Holmes. The point should be made that the entire reason why she refuses to "allow" me to use the portrait I painted of John Holmes is because I refuse to cough up a huge percentage of my book's profits to line her pocket-book...(15% of which I am already donating to Protecting Adult Welfare).

No OTHER legends are demanding a "fee" to have their portrait in the book and so why should I give John Holmes any favouritism? The legends I have painted have expressed gratitude to be honoured in my art book. Also note that EACH legend is receiving their ORIGINAL painted portrait ($1000 value) for FREE as a "thank you" gift from me along with the permission from me to use the portrait for any FUTURE endeavours they see fit.

I am asking NO residuals from this privilege, only that I be credited somewhere for the art work on the product/book-cover, or item they choose to reproduce the image on.

Here are photos of Denise's watercolors of Eric Edwards, Ron Sullivan, Candida Royalle, Herschel Savage.

Joe writes:

Laurie Holmes's claim to own everything related to her departed husband reminds me of Caroline Kennedy's claim that Rush Limbaugh couldn't quote JFK's statements in favor of tax cuts...because it's the family's intellectual property. And both claims are equally nonsense.

Laurie, you were cute in the movie where you met John. The world has moved on and you need to get a life.

A Black Day?

Mike Ramone, AVN managing editor writes: "How ironic that a certain porn gossip proprietor took the day off today [Jan 21], leaving as his lead headline, "A black day," a reference to yesterday's Bush inauguration, not today's dismissal of obscenity charges against Rob Black, about which said site has not a word."

Tod Hunter responds:

So, like, I take Friday off - which Ramone noted - and then he takes me to task for not covering something that happened on the day I took off? Say what? It's interesting that Mike has enough time on his hands to not only cruise my site, but send poison-pen letters to you about it.

Surprisingly, Mike managed to concoct a rather complicated sentence without embarrassing himself, although I wouldn't want to diagram it. (I guess after all those years of reading my copy he finally learned something. Good for him.) Even better, he managed to avoid his usual clichés like the hoary "timber-tossing" and the continual use of the word "fare" as if porn were something you eat, not watch: "Highly-strokable timber-tossing fare from the always-reliable Mason..."

I was following my own advice and just came back to Burbank from a screening of the restored Greed, Erich von Stroheim's 1924 masterpiece which was truncated from its original 9 1/2-hour rough cut to two hours. The current restored version runs four hours, and includes much of the original tinting as ordered by von Stroheim (they can do it electronically now) and the original titles, meaning that the risible "Let's go sit on the sewer" line is finally gone. LACMA is doing a tribute to Erich von Stroheim for the next couple of weeks, and the fetishism and outré sexuality should be right up Ramone's alley. If nothing else, he'll like von Stroheim's lines in Sunset Boulevard like:

Max: She was the greatest of them all. You wouldn't know, you're too young. In one week she received 17,000 fan letters. Men bribed her hairdresser to get a lock of her hair. There was a maharajah who came all the way from India to beg one of her silk stockings. Later he strangled himself with it!

Max: The walls of my office were covered with black patent leather.

Max: You must understand, I discovered her when she was sixteen. I made her a star and I cannot let her be destroyed...I directed all her early films. There were three young directors who showed promise in those days: D. W. Griffith, Cecil B. De Mille, and Max von Mayerling.

Joe (cynically): And she's turned you into a servant.

Max: It was I who asked to come back, humiliating as it may seem. I could have continued my career, only I found everything unendurable after she had left me. You see, I was her first husband.

I expect to see Ramone there, waiting for the timber-tossing when Gloria Swanson gives it up to William Holden. Ramone will probably be disappointed, though. No anal. They had faces then.

What's Going On Between Wankus And Kurt Lockwood?

Mike South says Lockwood is angry that Wankus has hooked up with Kurt's ex-girlfriend Tyler Faith (Jill Kelly Productions contract girl).

I asked Wankus about his relationship with Tyler. He replied: "Tyler and I have become very close."

Wankus has not bashed Kurt on the air. In fact, he introduced Kurt to his cohost Michelle Lay, who has a crush on him. Kurt and Michelle had sex on the air and Michelle has subsequently hired Kurt for many of her productions.