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My Email With Penthouse Pet Crystal Klein About Her Howard Stern Appearance
I email Crystal:
Hi Crystal, How did you like your time on Stern? How many lies did you tell him? You have a boyfriend... He got so many more things out of you than I did. I guess he's the king. I am on lithium, clonidine and clonazepam. You have too met a Jew -- me.
Crystal replies from Maui (after two weeks in Los Angeles and a day in New York for Stern):
Hi Luke, don't be disappointed - I would have told you but you asked the wrong questions. I am just on Seroxat hehe... Not too many lies - but I agreed with danni.com (who I went to promote) not to mention my boyfriend. Rich was actually the one who suggested it. here is the thing: I am not a pornstar, and for pornstars it doesn't matter if they have a boyfriend or not, they f--k other guys all the time any way. But I am a centerfold model, and the whole thing is about being a "cyber girlfriend" for them... Take it as a compliment - you got at least that out of me - and howard didn't hehe! Oh yeah, you are a converted Jew, aren't you???
Oh, it was good fun...If you know how to approach Howard, you can only win. And I sure am no dumbass hehe... It seems like it was a huge success, everyone whose opinion is important to me (and even those whose aren't) was raving about it. Don't know why, I guess I didn't take any s--- from him. But saying that, he didn't really give me much s--t, he seemed to absolutely love me. So, what I'll do next is becoming really big headed and thinking I achieved something that will change the world and not talk to any of my former friends and interviewers like you...
Crystal's appearance on Howard Stern will air on E! channel on the 8th and 9th of March.
The Man Who Would Be King
By Richard Pacheco aka Howie Gordon
This reminds me of porn star Jazmine. I met her at the AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo) in January. She was eager for publicity. I was eager to write about her.
While I was putting together my AEE report, I linked to her bio and quoted a few paragraphs from it. The next day I get a snotty email from her manager saying I had published their copyrighted material. I promptly removed the content and the link and swore I'd never write about Jazmine or her manager again.
You can go through life insisting on your rights, or you can pick your battles according to what is most important to you. Maintaining good relations with people should be far more important to people than the publication of four paragraphs of their writing.
I remember another industry news site wanted me to link to their stories. One day I found a story of their's I found interesting. So I quoted three paragraphs and linked to them. I got back an email asking me to restrict my quote to one paragraph. I did that but I haven't linked to them since.
On the other hand, people who are nice to deal with (such as Hardcoregossip, Adultfyi, ADT, XPT, AVN, GFY, and JBM) I link to all the time.
Argentinians In Porn?
I was talking to an Argentinian journalist who wants to interview some Argentinians in porn. I can't think of any.
Jack writes:
There is a porn starlet named Poison who claimed to be from Argentina in an internet video she did for Creampiesurprise.com. Here she says she's from Argentina. She's also done a few pregnant/plumper movies, and also below are the listings for her at iafd.com.
Lynn (lynnlemay1 at yahoo.com) writes me Friday morning, March 4: "Oh Luke, Why o why did you put that old f--king interview on your front page? Why did I give you a new one to replace the one I hated..."
She calls an hour later. "So I read it. I think I know what makes me so mad when I read the stuff you write about me. It's because you clip little things. You don't do full paragraphs."
We make a few additions and corrections to her Tuesday interview.
Lynn: "You can f--- up my life but don't get me in trouble with my kids."
She repeats something I wrote nine years ago: "LeMay grew up in the state of Washington as an unloved child of a poor family..."
Lynn: "That is cruel."
Luke: "That is what you said."
Lynn: "I would never have said that. That gets the bristles up right off the bat."
Lynn lists the professional occupations of her parents. She says she wasn't unloved as much as ignored, being the eldest of ten daughters.
"Nobody paid much attention to me. I was always the one who was left out because I was the oldest and they thought I could handle it. The younger ones always needed more attention.
"I have a new half-brother. We just found him. It was an Oprah moment.
"Some asshole on Yahoo, a member of my free fan site... This escort site in New York said I was coming. But they never told me about it. They fully booked the schedule. And then brought some other girl in. I started getting emails from guys who had come up from Washington D.C. and got hotel rooms. I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about.
"This one evil bastard...He said that if I didn't fly to Washington to make retribution, he was going to delete everybody out of the fan site. He wrote a message on the site, your kids go to this school in this town.
"They can find your name, your address. There are sites dedicated to your real name. Isn't that too weird? Fan should only know me by Lynn LeMay. They shouldn't have access to my real world. Some fan found me through my Post Office box.
"There are evil bitter men with a lot of time on their hands. They probably had an ex-wife who left them. That's the only explanation I can think of. They are very good at torturing somebody and we're just open targets.
"This interview is a teddy bear compared to the last one [nine years ago]. It was like you were trying to make a name for yourself with that last one. Some of the little jabs you made at me.
"I'm getting attached to video games. I always think I can do better. Just one more game."
Luke: "Which game?"
Lynn: "All of them. Puzzle games. Mindless junkfood.
"I bought myself a domain name - ClubLeMay.com. I don't know what to do with it.
"I've hired four different people to make me a website and everyone has ripped me off."
Luke: "I'm sure you can find a fan who would be glad to do it for free."
Lynn: "It doesn't have to be for free. Just somebody who won't f--- me without kissing me for it first.
"Hans Rudelstein aka John Dragon, photographer, just did it to me. Jeannie Peppers' ex-husband. He said, I found a domain name. I bought it for you. When I get back from Las Vegas, I'll hook you up with my webmaster and we'll make sure you get a website. By the time I got back from Vegas, it was already up and a portal to his site."
Luke: "Did you talk to him about it?"
Lynn: "No. There is no mistake.
"The guy from LynnLeMay.com takes the cake. In Vegas, he walked up to me and handed me his business card and said, 'You have time to do a 15-minute photoshoot? I'll pay you a couple of hundred bucks.'
"I looked at him and every name I could think of went through my name and it was everything I could do to bite my tongue."
Luke: "Find a friend to help you."
Lynn: "I don't do friends. I have acquaintances. I have this problem now of looking at somebody and believing what they put themselves out there to be. I've been told it's because I need to think that there are people like that out there. But I've never failed to be disappointed. I find out that they are not the people I thought them to be.
"You know when you meet somebody they put their best [self] out there? Everything is glossy and colored in pink. I'm a sucker, gullible, sucked right into it. Then I find out they're backstabbing and vicious and evil. So I just have acquaintances."
Luke: "That's not healthy."
Lynn: "It's more healthy than constantly being hurt."
Luke: "No. It means you don't have good judgment."
Lynn: "I have terrible judgment of character. Why do you think I'm still single?"
Luke: "You need to work on that."
Lynn: "Nah. I keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
"To look at a normal person's face when you tell them all this stuff. You, it doesn't phase. You've heard all these stories from these whacked out porn girls. When you're sitting across the table from somebody who has no clue about your world... They go home at night with nightmares. It will open their brain to a whole other world out there with evil men who write bad interviews."
Luke: "Why do women do porn?"
Lynn: "Sex wasn't a big deal to me. We never talked about it. My mother is a prude. At 43-years old, if I say f--- around my mom, she looks at me and threatens to get the soap out.
"I didn't [have sex] until it was [with] the guy I married.
"I didn't cheat on my first husband and I didn't cheat on Frank Marino. [As for the others,] it wasn't really cheating. I dated disposable men. Bartenders. Doormen. Directors. I was in the porn business. It wasn't like cheating."
Luke: "That's what they [Frank Marino and company] thought."
Lynn: "It's different when you go behind someone's back and sleep in their bed...
"It was my house. Frank moved in with me. Then Lacy, who lived out in bumf--- with her kids, would stay with me because she would be so f---ed up she couldn't drive home after a movie. When I'd be out of town on a dance tour, and she'd answer my phone at home, I didn't think about it. I don't think bad things about people.
"Henri Pachard said to me, we should get together.
"I said, aren't you married?
"Oh yeah. Apparently he's got a beautiful black wife now. I'm glad he could find somebody. Hopefully she will ground him."
Gina Lynn's site is number one, followed by Keri Windsor, Rebecca Lord, Syren Spell.
Jody, the singing ----sucker, writes:
I'm in Kansas City right now, doing all kinds publicity things including interviews by the mainstream press...
The columnist from the Kansas City Star, Hearne Christopher, checked into my comments in the book about swinging at Brookridge Country Club in Kansas City (well, Overland Park, KS, actually, a suburb of KCMO)- in the Clubhouse no less - and verified it from ther current GM, who wasn't thrilled with admitting it, but did finally nonetheless. (He was not involved with the club in those days). I never said what Country Club in the book, but I finally admitted to which one to Hearne. Don't you love it when you can get past the hypocrisy of some people and some places?
I also enjoyed being back in KCMO, my hometown, a great trip. Found a good club there, Bazookas Showgirls, whose proprietor is a standup guy, I've know for 25 years, Dick Snow. They have house girls, and porn stars, too, about once a month.
Hustler has a piece coming out on it in the July issue which will be out end of April. I'll try and find link for the Star story. Another 3 hard copy mags (and a 4th one for sure during the summer) are coming out with stories in next couple of months, including a mainstream one. These I know about. I am going to write my autobiography after getting so many pushing me that way, including fanmail. There will actually be a smoking gun.
Alex Arden Retires From Escorting
Alex asked me to let everyone know that she has retired. She wanted to thank the many great guys she met while she was touring... in her words, she had a great time and it was fun while it lasted, but she's decided to move on with her life and pursue different interests. She also asked that for those of you who have met her and have her private phone number, please respect her decision and do NOT call her.
Genesis Sky Returns From Surgery
I have returned and everything went great! My boobs look amazing and I can't wait to show everyone. I'm probably going to have a cam chat or something to show them off once the bruising is gone. Trust me tho, they look good. I picked a really good doctor. I went through the armpit and went to only a full B cup. They still look totally natural. I think you'll be suprised!
Hustler Video Sucks?
You know I may end up in a dumpster behind LFP, but I've never seen a good video from this company. Granted, I've not seen them all, but take Clive McLean's Barely Legal series. Is this blighter for real? He sounds like that lifestyles of the Rich & Famous clown and asks the gayest questions. His porn is trying to be tasteful yet he'll pop in a piss scenario and despite the zillion dollar digital cameras the action is droll as hell. How can porn be so tepid w/ some of hottest stars? Don't ask me, ask Hustler Video...
Jack Wrangler has gone from skin flicks to directing theater shows. And he's not apologizing for his past.
He starred in some 85 skin flicks with such titles as Raunch Ranch and Heavy Equipment in the 1970s and early '80s. Then, he wrote a cheeky autobiography about his porn career that landed him in an off-Broadway one-man show and eventually led to his unlikely reinvention as a director of concerts and cabaret.
What's that got to do with Johnny Mercer? Well, Wrangler co-conceived a retrospective to the classic American songwriter called Dream, which flopped on Broadway in 1997. It was an expensive lesson for local car dealer-turned theater impresario Bob Cuillo and other Palm Beach investors in the show.
But some Dreams just won't die. Wrangler is now directing a slimmed-down version of the show, opening Friday at the Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, with both the director and Cuillo, its chief investor, hoping for a second chance in Las Vegas or even New York.
Daytime porn show angers viewers
Britain's Streets of Vice, presented by Sally Magnusson, featured interviews with several people who make a living from the UK's porn industry.
The programme included workers in the porn industry describing aspects of their jobs in graphic detail, as well as footage of porn films and explicit websites, and sex shops in London's Soho.
New Destiny's Final Comment?
Homegrown Video/New Destiny attorney David S. Olson writes:
Luke, this is my final comment on the recent denial of Voice Media/Ron Levi/et al.'s motion to continue the arbitration hearing in the New Destiny matter. You quote Mr. Rothken as stating:
"If New Destiny's obligation under its agreement with Trade News was to stream videos to consumers, and they weren't allowed to do that because they were infringing on someone's patents, it wouldn't pass the giggle test for them to run to court to try getting damages for something they couldn't do."
First, New Destiny did not sign any agreement "with Trade News." New Destiny claims the agreement between it and Voice Media was in fact unlawfully assigned to Trade News without consent or even knowledge of New Destiny. Apart from that, since when was New Destiny (or anyone else for that matter) prevented from streaming video due to the patents at issue in Acacia? Last I checked, the Acacia litigation was still pending. It is yet to be determined if the patents Acacia acquired are even valid, let alone whether New Destiny infringed. The complaint in our case alleges, among other things, that respondents failed to pay New Destiny its proper share of the revenues that were in fact received from the homegrownvideo.com site, including long before the Acacia litigation even commenced. So it doesn't pass the "giggle test" to suggest New Destiny is seeking damages for something it was "not allowed" to do.
Whatever Happened To David Schlesinger?
Former head of marketing for Vivid was summarily fired for some scandalous reason a couple of weeks ago. David has been hanging low. He's not posting on the boards nor answering his phone nor looking for work. His personal and professional life has fallen apart. Maybe he's in rehab?
"When Laurel Canyon ripped her anus and quit the business, Lynn flew to Hawaii to do the Hawaiian Vice series. "
Who Let The Dogs Out?
Reason editor Nick Gillespie... is smart, accomplished, logical, and (as we shall see) incredibly patient, while Luke F-rd, as everyone knows, is often insufferable, as well as basically out of his mind. Still, I have to admire Luke's reporting skills in his long, faintly deranged interview with Nick. Because say what you like about Luke and all his insanity, he will not let his subject off the hook, which has become something of a lost technique these days.
Most interviewers would have granted Nick that clever "ask the dogs" comeback and backed off at that point, and I salute Luke that he didn't -- especially because pointing out "but you can't" embroiders the point of weakness in pure libertarianism; if everyone can say and do whatever they like in all circumstances, then only the strongest and richest and noisiest have a real choice, and the whole world becomes like Times Square 20 years ago. Also, Luke isn't just blowing smoke here, because I do believe he knows people who've had sex with dogs, and I'll bet the dogs didn't like it.
I've often wished that some editor here in L.A. would have the imagination to assign a regular feature, "Ten Rude Questions From Luke F-rd." It would be a must-read!
My Holly Moss Interview
We chat Monday afternoon (February 28) by telephone while she's driving to Pasadena.
Holly: "How do you make your money?"
Duke: "From advertising."
Holly: "Who are your major advertisers?"
Duke: "Sex.com, Homegrown Video."
Holly: "They've been with you for a while."
Duke: "How astute of you."
Holly: "It's hard to keep up these days. We've been around a long time. Now everybody is so spread out. As far as the webmaster world, there are so many niches. You have the companies that are very corporate."
Duke: "I remember when I could get a $1000 a month for a banner on my front page."
Holly: "Now it's all about ROI (Return On Investment). What can you do for me?
"So what do you want from me?"
Duke: "I have questions. When you were a girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Holly: "I always wanted to work in an office. I always loved the whole corporate takeover thing. From about age ten, I loved to go into my dad's office and photocopy.
"I'm originally from Iran. We came here when I was seven. Over there, it was all about surviving. Here was the land of America -- Apple, Nike... Remember the '80s?"
Duke: "Is there a large Iranian Porn Mafia?"
Holly: "There's an Armenian Porn Mafia [Adultcheck, TriTech, CyberAge, and the whole diminishing world of AVS -- Adult Verification Service]. Alec Helmy from XBiz is Persian [and the co-owner of a high profile video company]."
Holly's younger sister Bonnie worked for CyberAge for three years.
Luke: "When did you first start using a computer?"
Holly: "When I was 12. My dad is a programmer. He forced it upon us. Then it became easy. My dad used to make me do these little programming languages. It wasn't fun. It was just how I spent time with my dad. When graphics and Photoshop came, that was fun. I made imitation cards and stuff like that."
Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Holly: "I was straightlaced. I had to be in. I couldn't go out. I had strict parents."
Duke: "Did you mainly hang out with other Persians?"
Holly: "No, because we live in the Valley and most Persians are on the West Side.
"I'm not really a traditional Persian girl though in some regards I am.
"I studied marketing at Cal State Northridge [graduating in 1994]."
Duke: "At what age did you leave home?"
Holly: "Ohmig-d, you're going to die. I only left home two years ago.
"My parents are totally cool. They know what I do.
"HMossConsulting is going to be PR and marketing. HMossProcessing I'm just going to be the broker for. First I was doing more alternative billing. Now it seems like everybody wants merchant accounts [to do their own billing]. I'm setting up people offshore. That's what I like to do. It's easy. It's not porn related. It's numbers and helping people find a home and educating them. PR is good. I just want to work with a couple of good companies. I don't want to do porn PR."
Duke: "When and where did you start in adult?"
Holly: "Babenet from 1996-98. I started out in customer service and switched to marketing. No hanky panky was going on there."
Duke: "What do you mean? Babenet has always been scammers."
Holly: "Not in the beginning."
Yeah, and I'm sure Pablo Escobar was a nice kid who made some bad choices.
Duke: "They were installing stuff on people's computers."
Holly: "Not in '96.
"Because there were too many owners and nothing was consistent..."
Duke: "When did you realize they were pulling a bunch of scams?"
Holly: "You know what? Back then they weren't."
Duke: "Oh, come now, Holly."
Yeah, and IGallery was on the up-and-up.
Holly: "What was it they were scamming? They hardly had any [customers]."
I remember I signed up for their reseller program in the summer of 1997. I was due several thousand dollars when they sent me an email and claimed I had violated their Terms of Service and I would not be paid a penny. I hate Babenet. I hate the men (Andy Garoni, Nolan Quan, Robert Gould, Sanger Robinson and Justin Hirsch) behind Babenet. I hope they all rot in prison.
Holly: "Then we launched content [live feeds etc]. Then I got good selling content. Back then, nobody sold live video feeds. Ron Levi gave us the idea to sell our video feeds for $1,000. A single girl dancing in a room. He would get a cut of that.
"That's when I started posting and chatting on YNOT. I thought, damn, this stuff is easy. I didn't even get a commission.
"Greg Dumas at IGallery had a meeting with me. He said they were going to start a non-adult division. Then obviously when I got there, we never had a chance to do non-adult.
"IGallery was great for me. I worked there for five-and-a-half years. At the end, I was VP of sales and marketing. You knew me from then, right?"
Duke: "Yes."
Holly: "We saw each other at a party, right?"
Duke: "Right.
"Have you ever been arrested?"
Holly: "No. I'm plain Jane. I'm like you, the voyeur. You like writing about things and hearing about things but probably you live a boring life. I like to lead a sane life. I don't do drugs. I do get drunk fast. I'm a one beer girl."
Duke: "Do you get drunk often?"
Holly: "NO."
Duke: "What side of the plate do you bat from?"
Holly: "What do you mean? Am I left-handed or right-handed? I don't understand. Is that sexual?"
Duke: "Oh no, no, no, no, umm, yes. It's an American metaphor. Do you prefer guys or girls?"
Holly: "Of course I prefer guys. I love men. Men are hot.
"So what do you think of me, Holly, overall? The things that come to your mind?"
Duke: "Bubbly, friendly and professional?"
Holly: "Ok. Do you think she makes decent money? Do you think she likes what she does?"
Duke: "I'm sure you make good money."
Holly: "Yeah, we haven't dealt with each other. How do you make money? What else?"
I sell my body and soul on Santa Monica Blvd.
Holly: "What's your relationship to AVN?"
Duke: "It's tended to be fractious. They are the industry trade magazine and I am the maverick. I enjoy picking on them."
Gossip About Internet Consultant Holly Moss
Holly Moss, founder of Women in Adult
I call my source.
Duke: "I had a lovely chat with Holly Moss Monday."
Deep Throat: "You've been dying to tell me about this for three days already."
Duke: "She was lovely. She was so nice. She didn't give me any scoop, but..."
Deep Throat: "Of course she's nice. She doesn't know anything. Holly is good at what she does. She is a personality. She is very dingy and a real ditz and a lot of people question how she got as far as he did. She really doesn't know a lot of the mechanics. She worked at IGallery for about four years. She had no idea how filthy the company was that she worked for. She was so in the dark, like Aly Drummond was at Python. She had no idea they were spamming. They were just girls who were never going to get inside information but at the same time they didn't believe what they heard from other people. They were company people."
Duke: "She was so nice."
Deep Throat: "She's very nice. She's at all the functions. She's always sweet and bubbly. Her sister Bonnie is sharp as a tack and incredibly sexy. You like that look. You'll find them both very sexy. You want a Persian, but you want a Persian Jew. That's one thing that Evan Horowitz (Xpays) and David Schlesinger (Vivid) had."
Bonnie Moss Marketing Director
Excellent Nick Manning Interview
Excellent interview with this porn hunk by Luke.
Can anyone suggest a Manning DVD? There are too many to know where to begin.
I'm surprised that Luke didn't ask him questions about his porn work. I'm guilty of reverse prejudice. You know how men assume beautiful blondes are brainless. Well, Manning is both sexy and intelligent which I haven't found to be the case with most male porn stars. Big dick, small brain!! Manning proves the opposite to be true.
I thought Nick Manning was just a body. He comes across as a very well-rounded open-minded sexy man who just happens to be quite the stud.
Brad Shaw Gives Up Cristal Hosting
Brad Shaw buys and gives away a lot of Cristal champagne. A few months ago, he posted on JBM that he was starting a hosting company at CristalHosting.com. He quickly got a legal fight from Cristal Champagne, which won its case.
Brad writes on GFY: "Cristalhosting.com was a joke. We rode it, got the play we wanted, and not worth spending $3 to fight to keep."
Writing a sex column for your newspaper may be cute on campus, but how does it play on a resume?
The bumper crop of Sex and the City-inspired sex columnists that surfaced in college newspapers several years ago is now infiltrating the work force - and wondering how their racy campus personas will play in the buttoned-down professional world.
Most say the notoriety they developed on campus paved the way for a variety of careers, particularly in publishing, where the hunger for younger readers and chick lit is great. But they've also slunk into the stodgiest professions, some in disguise, others as brazenly as literary Jezebels - with mixed results.
Nothing had quite prepared Katie McDowell for the professional opportunity that landed in her lap this fall. Two years after graduating from Cornell University, she got an e-mail from a pornographic film director who'd enjoyed her sex column.
"He said I could make a couple of thousand dollars for a couple hours of work," she said.
Lara Roxx Update
Kristian Gravenor writes in the Montreal Mirror:
One afternoon last week I was surfing porn in a Laval café. Sitting with me was Lara Roxx.
We were trying to figure out if she was in the movie Split That Booty 2. Neither of us had seen the original Split That Booty.
I'm sure it wasn't a fish-out-of-water story starring Ray Liotta and Helen Mirren.
Lara was curious if she was in the sequel, because it was while shooting that film that she contracted the HIV virus.
Paul Fishbein Responds To Gossip
Paul Fishbein, AVN president, writes on the AVN blog about stuff posted February 4 on Gene Ross's site Adultfyi.com:
On the web site of porn's notorious bottom feeder (a man with few solid contacts and who is universally hated in the industry) comes an entry that proves he still cannot stop writing about us 4 1/2 years after leaving here. Still obsessed, but without any connections here (nobody will talk to him), the bulls--- continues. I mean, there are plenty more interesting things to write about than our boring old office.
But, for example, this was just e-mailed to me:
"I'm also told that though it's not a known fact, Darren Roberts is now the owner of AVN."
Um, news to me. I just congratulated Darren on his new ownership and he looked at me dumbfounded....perhaps exhausted from running the company that we are partners in, Teddy Communications.
And then there's this: "Strong rumor has it that D Money, the husband of Jennifer Rosenblatt, the former senior vice president over at AVN, is organizing some big daytime events at next year's AEE Expo which might serve to pull the crowds off the convention floor. Gee, it wouldn't have anything to do with Jennifer's alleged wrongful termination over there, would it? Of course, all of that is still to be sorted out. I keep hearing whispers in the hallways about some violation of California labor law and someone supposedly telling Jennifer, you want your commission statements? Subpoena us. "
My comments, although because it's a legal case I can't really comment, is that you have no f--king idea what you are talking about. As for D Money's plans, more power to him. Everybody has a right to do business. But competing with AEE? Probably a bad idea. At night, before or after...that makes sense.
Ozzy Osbourne stuns photographers by grabbing daughter's breast
Ozzy Osbourne astonishingly grabbed his daughter Kelly's left breast while being snapped in Australia yesterday.
Catching up with Teri Weigel
By Cindi Loftus Courtesy of Xcitement Magazine
Teri Weigel has had a long career in the entertainment industry. Being drop dead gorgeous helped. She started her modeling career in ads for Saks and in Seventeen Magazine. Teri appeared in several scary movies including Predator 2, Savage Beach and Return of the Killer Tomatoes. She had a reoccurring role on Married with Children as Jade, Al Bundy's dream girl. Teri started at the top of the adult biz with her appearances in Playboy. She performed in a Vegas style variety show with other Playboy Playmates, singing and dancing. Then Teri made the controversial move to hardcore triple X vids. She has made many top rated Adult movies. She also feature dances all over the country. She's been in love with the same guy, Murrill, for over a decade.
But her life hasn't all been wonderful. Several years ago Teri was in a very bad car accident and was seriously injured. Many surgeries later, she's finally all better. Through good and bad, Teri has had one major thing going for her, her happy positive attitude.
Adult Fun 411: Tell me about this Vegas show you are going to be doing?
Teri: Twelve years ago I did the "Playboy's Girls of Rock and Roll." We
had a variety show with three female singers, a comedian and a musician
in the show. We had a band and back up dancers that did nudity, topless
in the show. And we're trying to put that back together again. I'm looking
forward to standing still, meaning staying in one location. It's going
to be at the Westin.
AF: I can't imagine your life. You travel so much. You've been in a different
place every week for the last ten years.
T: Every week. Forty-three weeks a year. More weeks then any feature.
As you can tell by my voice.
AF: Well when you answered the phone I didn't know if it was you or Murrill
because the voice is so deep.
T: It was so crowded at the club that with the smoke and screaming over
the crowd I lost my voice. That usually happens; if it's been a good week.
AF: If you can't talk on Monday morning you know you did good.
T: That's it. I really enjoy it. I can't wait to get to the next city.
Over the ten years these people are like family. It's like visiting relatives.
I just love being on stage. It's not like working at all. And get a paycheck
on top of it and tips and then to see people that I've loved for ten years
and how we've grown is just wonderful. I get so excited. I can't wait
to see them. I've got family all over the country!
AF: You have such a positive attitude.
T: That's the good thing I have to share with people. You don't really
hear me talk about the bad stuff because nobody wants to hear it. It is
just a part of life that happened. I made it through it and I am on the
other side. And I am SO happy!
AF: I heard you were producing a horror movie!
T: Right now we are looking at scripts.
AF: And you are going to star in it?
T: Yep. We have a big enough budget that we are going to put in a really
big name. I used to do a ton of horror films. So I went on line and looked
at the budget for "Cabin Fever" and it was 1.3 million to produce the
whole movie, in the long run they grossed 30 million dollars. So if you
put one out that the kids go see and does good in the box office.
AF: Perfect summer release.
T: I know a lot of people on the straight side. I did over fifty films.
So I've got great people lined up. And you know my back is doing great
which really helps. I don't have to take any medication anymore, it's
been over four months now. I'm clear of pain pills. I think clear and
I'm strong. I've finally got a great bill of health.
AF: You've been through so much. I am so glad that everything is going
well for you now.
T: It really is. I've helped so many people through the years that I finally
feel like it is my turn.
AF: The good karma is coming back to you. I love you with brown hair too,
by the way.
T: I love it. It's so much easier. And luckily I have no gray. I color
it every five months, just because the sun puts some color in it. When
I was blonde I was doing it every ten days.
AF: That's no fun. Tell me about "Core."
T: I met this band. They sound like Creed. The guys are super cute. They
are young. So they linked up to our site and they got so many hits coming
through to hear the band that they wanted to do something together. So
Murrill and I sat down and listened to the songs, and they are really
good. They needed some production work. So we are going to re-track the
music. I am going to do a duo with them, and we are going to be producing
the band.
AF: How many more things could you have going on at once?
T: I am the hardest working person. I will do work in between work in
between work.
Voice Media Attorney Ira Rothken Responds To Homegrown Video Press Release
Ira Rothken, who represents Ron Levi, Voice Media and Trade News Corp in their defense against New Destiny Internet Group/Homegrown Video, calls me back Thursday morning.
Ira: "There's always two sides to every story. New Destiny, about 60 days before the hearing date, had served the respondents [Ron Levi, Voice Media, Trade News] with over 1300 written requests for discovery. Each one would take 10-30 minutes to do.
"The respondents [Ira's clients] moved the court for both a protective order and a continuance. A protective order to prevent from having to respond to 1300 requests within 30 days and a continuance, in the event that we had to...
"The judge decided to grant the respondents [Ron Levi, Voice et al] a protective order. We don't have to respond to a single one of those 1300 discovery requests. He found them to be unduly burdensome and abusive and beyond the amount allowed by the rules of civil procedure in CA. That reduced the need for a hearing continuance.
"I'll get you the written order once the judge comes out with it, if I am allowed to.
"There is no written order yet. They're doing this from what they claim is an oral order. Once the written order [from the judge] comes out, it will be clear what happened.
"Before the judge ruled, they [Homegrown] said, judge, in our second amended complaint, there's an allegation that we're suing the respondents over an Acacia issue, namely, the respondents doing a deal with Acacia to get a license to cover the Homegrown site. They said, judge, so you will not continue this case, we are going to remove that allegation.
"They, in essence, gave us a victory by dismissing with prejudice their Acacia claims against Trade news for unfair competition. But they don't mention that in their press release.
"The last thing the judge said, which is quite telling, was that if other parts of the Acacia issue arise during the arbitration hearing, he will deal with on an issue-by-issue basis at that time, and nothing about him not granting a continuance precludes us from raising it as a defense.
"If New Destiny's obligation under its agreement with Trade News was to stream videos to consumers, and they weren't allowed to do that because they were infringing on someone's patents, it wouldn't pass the giggle test for them to run to court to try getting damages for something they couldn't do.
"What's most telling about this press release is what it's missing. My clients look forward to defending themselves at the arbitration.
"Normally people don't issue press releases until a judge has given a written order. The judge is allowed to change his mind up until the time of the written order. He takes the matter under submission. He does give his tentative rulings."
Homegrown Vs. Ron Levi Update
PRESS RELEASE:
WHO: New Destiny Internet Group/Homegrown Video
WHAT: Arbitrator Denies Motion to Continue Arbitration Hearing Filed by
Ron Levi, Voice Media, Inc., Trade News NV, and Internet Business Services
WHEN: March 1, 2005 On March 1, 2005, the Honorable Richard C. Neal (Ret.),
JAMS, denied a motion previously filed by respondents Ron Levi, Voice
Media Inc., Trade News, and Internet Business Services to continue the
New Destiny Internet Group arbitration hearing for six months. With this
ruling, the hearing remains on calendar as scheduled for the week of April
18, 2005.
Respondents sought a continuance based, in part, on the notion that the pending litigation filed by Acacia Media Technologies against New Destiny and others in the internet industry could impact New Destiny's legal action against respondents, as to both liability and damages, and should be decided first.
New Destiny vigorously opposed the attempt to delay the hearing and contended that the Acacia litigation was irrelevant to any issues to be decided in the pending arbitration and to damages.
New Destiny's attorney, David S. Olson of Kulik, Gottesman, Mouton & Siegel in Sherman Oaks, stated that "the hearing date was agreed to by all parties last June, as Justice Neal noted. We have been litigating this case in federal court and the arbitration forum for over a year now and we are ready and very anxious to put on our case for Justice Neal. One would think the respondents would also be clamoring for the earliest chance to put on their defense if, as they claim, they have done nothing wrong and have fully paid New Destiny its share of revenues generated by the homegrownvideo site."
Spike Goldberg of New Destiny attended the hearing and stated "Justice Neal articulated that he thought the motion was a 'concoction.' We were not surprised that respondents tried to delay the hearing. Fortunately, this effort failed. We look forward to having the hearing in April, as planned."
Before Sunset With Lynn LeMay
We met at the FOXE Awards at the Mayan Theater on Hollywood Blvd in February 1996. Over the next few days, we spoke for about eight hours on the phone.
Then we didn't speak again until Tuesday, March 1, when we sat down at Barney's Beanery near Santa Monica and La Cienega Blvds.
Deja vu.
Deja vu
Could
you be the dream that I once knew
Is it you
Deja vu
Could you be the dream that might come true
Shining through
I keep remembering me
I keep remembering you
Deja vu
Lynn, 43, wears jeans, a white T-shirt and running shoes. She's the oldest of ten daughters.
Luke: "What have you been doing since February 1996?"
Lynn: "I took a break for a while, after I fell in and out of love. I went off to Europe and stayed in Finland for eight months. I liked being different. Over there, you were a celebrity, no matter what. Film stars are huge. Porn stars are just as huge. They had a press conference at the airport. I was impressed with myself. It was cool. It was not like anything we ever did here.
"I did a few movies there. They were interesting. They shot in churches. I wore a nun's habit. Big ol' candles. Hot wax. They did different kind of movies. It broadened my horizons. I'll try anything once or twice."
Luke: "How were the movies different?"
Lynn: "They were bigger. They shoot in locations we wouldn't even think of, such as an 18th Century Catholic church. There are bigger casts. The movies take a month to make. They don't look much different. The quality comes out about the same as ours. They just do it different.
"I did this Sexhibition, which was odd. I thought it was the language difference, but there really isn't a language difference in Finland. They speak English as well as we do. It was a mad dash of five days of every kind of sexuality. There were girls on stage."
I order a pitcher of supposedly fresh-squeezed orange juice and Lynn orders coffee.
Lynn: "They showed how to apply a condom to a cock and then they had sex. Live show. Open to the public. It was a teaching of sexuality. They brought me in as the headliner and it taught me a lot."
Luke: "What did it teach you?"
Lynn: "It taught me openness. How uptight we are. Every little line has to be covered on our chests or we go to jail for prostitution. Over there it's just balls to the wall. If people accept it, then it's ok. It's all about broadening everyone's horizons. Topless is no big deal."
Luke: "Then you came back here."
Lynn: "I figured I was done. You can only be in another country for so long. Eight months seems to be my thing. Every time I leave, I come back eight months later. I get lonely. I want people that I've known for a while."
Luke: "Did you have a long relationship?"
Lynn: "About three years. You just want to get right to the relationship part, don't you? I'm over all that. I understand what I don't want now -- men that want me as badly as they do. I want a challenge. I don't want them to attach themselves to me and their whole lives revolve around me and they suck the blood out of me. They turn into me. They know all my friends. They know my world. Then, when we break up, everyone has to make a choice. I don't want to do that anymore."
Luke: "You sound like you did nine years ago."
Lynn: "Some things never change. Now I'm sticking to it. I've been single for three years. Since March 1, 2002 [when Lynn broke up with the producer of the E! True Hollywood Story on Scott Schwartz.
"I did a few movies last fall. The first one was so tragic."
Luke: "Why did you return?"
Lynn: "I was getting the reward of being a legend and I wanted something further to say that I've done. I was getting into the Legends of Erotica [Lynn was inducted by her middle daughter, 23, at Ray Pistol's sex shop in Las Vegas in January]. I wanted to be in three decades. I did my first movie on Easter Sunday 1988."
Luke: "What was it like doing movies again?"
Lynn: "I was so disappointed in myself. It was horrible. It wasn't like it used to be. I thought I knew what I was doing. I thought I was a professional but it is not about being professional anymore. It's about showing up and getting f-----. They film you from everything from brushing your teeth to going to the bathroom. This isn't from my world. I was off guard from off the bat.
"It was a little girl named Layla [Rivera]. She looked 12. She was so young and so tiny. I'm not the pretty little thing I used to be. I'm older now. I don't want to be the tiny thing I used to be. Starving myself into a size five isn't my idea of a good time. I'm comfortable in a pair of nines. Standing next to a zero, your ego [falls]. It was Henri Pachard, who I love more than life. He's giving me this stroking about how great I am and how glad he is that I am back. I was too much in my head. We did it all in less than an hour.
"I did two scenes with Dino Bravo. We get along great. He entertains me. We shared a room in Las Vegas. We hardly ever saw each other."
Luke: "Why did you quit?"
Lynn: "I didn't quit. I just don't need them anymore. They're doing stuff out there that I just don't believe in. Things that aren't sexual. When somebody comes up with something sexy, maybe I'll think about it."
Luke: "Tell me about being inducted into the Legends of Erotica by your daughter."
Lynn: "Oh, my tummy hurts so bad. For months my tummy hurt. I was nervous. I've still got stage fright."
I chuckle about Lynn's 23-year old military daughter inducting her.
Lynn: "She was really cool about all this."
Luke: "What did she say to you? 'Mom, I'm so proud you are getting inducted into Legends of Erotica.'"
Lynn: "We have an agreement. I don't agree with what she does. She doesn't agree about how I got to where I am. But she's proud that I was the best at what I did. And I won't say anything to her as long as she doesn't kill anybody. She's in the Air Force. She's a mechanic for F-15s. I don't agree with the fact that she's gung ho over being a marksman... She doesn't want to hear the details of what I do. She tells everybody who I am. It doesn't seem to bug her. She's a child of porn. She was standing up there when I got inducted, boobs and all. I was wearing an A-line skirt with a low plunging top down to my navel.
"I don't know. The whole thing made my tummy hurt."
Lynn says her middle daughter doesn't look anything like her [but like her father]. Her eldest daughter looks just like her. The youngest one doesn't look like anybody. She's her own person."
Luke: "How did it affect your kids?"
Lynn: "Apparently, not very much. It didn't stop them from having kids. Over the past three years, I've been playing grandma. I'm the proverbial GILF (Grandma I'd Like to F---) now. Don't laugh. Most of the girls my age are MILFing."
Lynn has five grandchildren and another one is on the way. "I turned 40 and all my kids were pregnant. People like to do things to me all at once.
"I am a normal person. I lead a normal life. This is my attire -- jeans and T-shirts. I've worked at Fantasy Island [as a publicist to the strip club] for 11 years. I'm not as crazy as people think.
"I had a guy who said to me, 'I can't go out with you. You're too wild.' It wouldn't have meant a lot except it was [porn director] Roy Karch.
"We were going to go out for coffee and reminisce. It was more than I could handle. That made me look in the mirror."
Luke: "How many men have you had sex with this year?"
Lynn: "On a personal level, none."
Luke: "On a professional level?"
Lynn: "A couple."
Luke: "You looked great on that E! True Hollywood Story on Scott Schwartz."
Lynn: "I ran into Scotty at Erotica LA. He said, I should've had them talk to you.
"I didn't think he meant it. I said, sure, have them call me. The next day they called and booked the interview for the day after."
Luke: "You were given to him in the back of a limo?"
Lynn: "Nothing happened in the back of the limo. Buck Adams gave me $100 to follow him around. It was about six months later that [Scotty and Lynn] started going out. He was 21. We last about four months."
Lynn stands 5'10 while Scotty is about 5'2. "He just broke up with his wife. I didn't call him back. People still remember who he is. I can't believe it. Don't ever hang out with him around Christmas. He has his own action figure at Tower -- with his tongue stuck to a flag pole.
"He lives with that photographer Dr. X."
Lynn dated the producer of that True Hollywood Story for three years. He came to her house for the interview and never left, spiritually speaking.
Luke: "How do you like fame?"
Lynn: "Fame has its benefits. I'm not as wild with it now. I was the first girl to walk into a bar and go, ahhhh, you! I don't do that anymore."
Lynn and Kassi Nova used to do that around 1990. "She still works in a grocery store around here. She has a nice girlfriend. I was her best friend and I didn't know she liked girls."
Luke: "I remember talking to you for about ten hours in February 1996."
Lynn: "That was my breakup phase. I was lonely."
Luke: "You talked and I wrote."
Lynn, bitterly: "Boy, did you! I regret a lot of that. A lot of it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It makes me look bad. It was the last time I spoke openly with people, particularly guys who have pens. Now I'm more guarded."
Luke: "It was the best profile of you ever written."
Lynn: "Bulls---. You made look like an asshole. But I'm here to make up and give you another chance, so be nice to me this time. Everyone told me that I was a fool to come here.
"I went to KSEXradio.com last night and a few people I know were there. They said, 'You're doing what with whom?'
"I'm doing KSEX on the 11th. I wanted to see what it was like first. Some of these things I'm walking into are blowing my mind. Now when I get booked to do something, I go look first.
"I wanted to see what it was like. Immediately I picked up the phone and called Rhonda Jo Petty and said, do you want to do this with me? I don't think I could handle the Wanker by myself.
"This girl was beating him with a rope and tying him up and stepping on him and smothering him. That's not my world anymore. An interview show I could do, but I'm not going to perform for him like that.
"Rhonda [JO Petty] is like a mentor for me. I see that you can come through this business... She's got a gorgeous husband. She has a good life. She raises horses. I like being around her. She stabilizes my thoughts."
None of the Lynn LeMay websites are her's. "Everyone in the world has cyber-squatted me."
She says she gets hundreds of emails. "If someone describes how they want to f--- me, I'm not going to exactly answer them back, but if someone asks an honest question, I've got no problem with that.
"Rhonda and I and Mai Lin and Johnny Keyes, we're all putting a [website] together. That will be a house and each of us will have our own rooms. There's a difference between porn and shock porn, and everything out there seems to be such shock. It's not the kind of porn we did where a guy would sit with his girlfriend on the couch and she'd say, oh honey, let's try that. Now it's, oh honey, did you see that? It's totally different porn."
Lynn usually goes to the FOXE Awards. "That is where the fans are supposed to be and I always go for them."
This year Lynn says she was stood up by her date -- porn accountant David Bider. "It reinforced my anti-men [attitude]. He said he was tired, but he didn't call me until 10:30PM. I haven't spoken to him since. I'm not going to date for a while."
The date was scheduled for 7PM. So Lynn took a taxi. She threw the after-party for Marilyn Chambers at Fantasy Island.
Luke: "Do you do interracial?"
Lynn: "Not anymore. I've got kids. I can't do anything that will totally freak them out. It might freak them out."
I laugh.
Lynn insists: "It will. To have their girlfriends say, I just saw your mom in this movie. I've got to think of [her kids]."
Luke: "How did your kids deal with your being a porn star?"
Lynn: "I didn't want them to know until late. They told more people... This is a different era. When I was going to school, if someone had found out that my mom was a porn star, I would've been on the outside. Now, that means you're on the inside. They use it to their best benefit.
"What? You've got this smile on your face."
Luke: "Did you ever date any of their friends?"
Lynn: "No. But they got a lot of -- G-d, your mom's hot. I've been making movies since I was 26. They don't know the difference between old and new. They don't know how old I am. I'd like to keep that timeless era going on."
Luke: "How do you like growing older?"
Lynn: "I can deal with it. I don't look my age. I'm Indian and I'm Swedish, so I have good blood lines. I sleep a lot. I go to bed early. You have to give up drinking. You have to give up drugs. You have to give up all the fun stuff if you want to stay cute.
"How do you like getting older?"
I shrug.
"Go ahead. Put it into words."
Luke: "I'm more sure of myself. If you were to start screaming at me right now... Ten years ago, that would've frightened me. Now I just make sure I tape it."
Lynn: "You just hide behind the power of the pen. That's not being more sure of yourself."
I talk on.
Lynn: "I think that's called cocky.
"Getting older makes you not react. You sit back and know that you have the power to take care of it.
"Bill Margold has made me the keeper of the new child. Four of these girls have never made it into the industry. It's not right for some people. These are girls who will ruin their lives. They have real jobs and they think this is cool. When I talk them out of it and they disappear, I feel better about myself."
Luke: "Do you wish that somebody would've talked you out of it?"
Lynn: "Nobody could've talked me out of it. I started dancing at 23 in Seattle. The windows came up and the windows came down. I lasted a month. They offered $7 an hour which was a lot in 1981. I was the mother of three with a husband who wasn't paying child support.
"All my exes live in Florida. My first husband is married to a Bible beater who felt it her need to hire private detectives to see if I had a criminal history. Nope, I didn't."
I ask Lynn if Frank Marino hurt her the most.
Lynn: "Yeah. Frank really bothered me. How he could be f---ing my best friend (Lacey Rose) in my house really pissed me off. For eight months. In this business. Jesus Christ. I heard he got someone pregnant again and moved to Florida."
Luke: "Who have you loved the most in your life?"
Lynn: "The same guy I've hated for much of my life, Frank. Would I ever go back? No. It changed everything. For always. Most of my memories involve coming up to that point [where she found out Frank was cheating with Lacy Rose] and from that point. It wrecked me. It wrecked what I thought I was. I thought I was this untouchable, gung ho, everything I did turned out right... Afterwards, I became this meek, mild, withdrawn, unsure of herself...
"Before, I had my balls than any one I had I ever met. Nothing stopped me. I'm the guy who left Hawaii, got on a plane, went to New York, became a porn star, and traveled the world. I never blinked when I ended up in a country all by myself. I got on a train and went to a different country.
"That destroyed all of that. I sat at home and wondered what people thought of me. I never thought of that before. Now it is the first thing I think about before I do anything. Now, after I do things, I think, why did I do that for? I never thought that before."
Lynn slept with many directors in the business including Cameron Grant, Ron Sullivan and his son Jason (one right after the other), and Nic Cramer. She never slept with a journalist.
"When we [Ron and Lynn] faded out, he said, you should go out with Jason, who was 18, probably. I was 27."
In Finland, Lynn, at age 32, dated a 19-year old. "He told me he was 23. I found out he was 19 when I found his passport. It doesn't make you feel younger. It makes you feel older. Hanging out with their friends, it makes you feel older."
Luke: "Which other directors did you sleep with?"
Lynn: "I don't think I want to pour this out. But I'll give you one more -- Scotty Fox. I f---ed most of them. It was a power trip. You should never f--- a director because then you never work for them again."
Lynn says she's slept with about 20 porn directors. "I'm a home body. Look where I live. I live in the middle of everything. Every nightclub in the world is within walking distance of my house, but I never go out. I don't have the desire.
"I was a 40-year old Hollywood bimbo parading around in mini skirts, high heels, platforms, going to clubs. Now I'm a grandma. It's a shock to the system. In the world I grew up, grandmas don't go to clubs.
"When I go to parties, I wear evening gowns rather than miniskirts.
"I should probably move. This is a neighborhood for young people. I should find a man and settle down. I don't want any more kids. They spend two weeks of every summer with me. It kills you.
"I was dating a regular guy. I took him to the Night of the Stars [thrown by the Free Speech Coalition]. He sits back and says, 'Which one do I get to f---? You've f---ed everybody here.' That's what I don't want. Somebody that arrogant... I want a nice guy who wants me, not because of who I am or because he gets to f--- my friends. I want someone who is not in it for the cheap thrill."
Luke: "Do men use your porn star status against you?"
Lynn: "Oh yeah. It's the first fight, the last fight and every fight. What do you do about it? How do you find a real guy?
"How do you find a nice girl? Do they use porn against you? You're hanging out with all those porn sluts."
Luke: "Yeah. None of them like it."
Lynn says she wants to live a nice quiet life and not talk about organized crime guys she used to live with in New York. "Don't put that on tape," she says.
I put it on tape.
"You're an asshole," she says. "Put that on tape.
"What's the best story you've heard about me? I've been around for 17 years. I've got some knowledge about some things. Some things I've forgotten. You'll have to prod me. Bring back some cool memories for me. I'm guarded but... I've learned my lesson with you. I thought you'd at least have some good questions."
I don't. I'm tired and empty.
Lynn: "He's looking at me with these big green eyes, nodding his head. He's thinking."
Luke: "How did it make you feel to see all those long conversations we had end up on the Internet?"
Lynn sighs. "Do you know when I saw it for the first time? Somebody printed it out and handed it to me in Finland [in 1997]."
Luke: "What was it like when you read it?"
Lynn: "I called you a few names."
Luke: "How did it feel?"
Lynn: "Violated."
Luke: "Did you feel like you had been raped on the Internet?"
Lynn: "No. A lot of it had been taken wrong. You talked to other people and intertwined what they said with what I said, which didn't match. It made me look one way when you talked to them and another way with what I said. It made me uncomfortable."
Luke: "Did you recognize yourself in the portrait?"
Lynn: "Some of it. Some of it made me hate you a lot."
Luke: "Why?"
Lynn: "It's taken me until 2005 to volunteer to do this again."
Luke: "Why did it make you hate me?"
Lynn: "Because a lot of it was taken out of context and it made me look more bad than good."
Luke: "Do you think it revealed some uncomfortable truths about you?"
Lynn: "I'd already been knocked down. I didn't know who I was anymore. Before all I knew who I was was what people wrote about me. I made Lynn LeMay up. I went from being this shy little nobody to a girl who put on her high heels and became a star. When I talked to you, I was teetering. It made me, once again, wonder what people thought of me. You weren't very nice to me while everybody has always been nice to me. You were the first person who wasn't kind, out of everybody I had ever known. That has become your reputation.
"I never wanted to do the counseling thing. I was never any good at talking to a stranger and letting them into my world."
Luke: "You did with me."
Lynn: "That was different. You were an industry person. Being interviewed is different. You expect what you say to be taken and glossed over. You didn't do that. Everybody, everybody else did.
"A lot of my good friends in the industry have died -- Trinity Loren, Cal Jammer, Woody Long. I did Cal's first scene. I remember him sitting and crying after his first scene.
"The Internet has been good and bad. It tells too much, more than you want to know. Some things are better left in the grey area. There are no boundaries. Whatever you say goes out. People in porn are sponges. Whatever is out there, people believe. You don't know if it is true or not.
"My mother and I made an agreement: Never do anything that will hurt anybody. Never do anything illegal. Never do anything that you don't want to do. And don't bring who we are into it."
Studio Policies for STD Testing
As an executive producer, I am financing production for an independent studio in Seattle. I asked the producer to send a message out, saying that we will be utilizing the services of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, and expect all performers to be tested at our expense prior to arriving on set.
He asked, can you tell me why you are doing this?
I responded by saying that this is a standard requirement for working in the adult industry. As producers we have an obligation to abide by the industry standards. Failure to do so could leave us open to litigation. Should a performer contract a sexually transmitted disease on set, we could be held liable. He said that he does not agree. It has never been his policy and never will be. One applicant asked, "How do I know I will stay clean?"
His response:
"We demand that all of the sex that happens on a shoot be safe and responsible sex. So, to my mind, the risk a performer takes in working with us is no different from the risk that individual takes in having sex with his/her partner(s) in his/her private life. Indeed, the case can be made that the confines of the sexual activity on our shoots may actually be more stringent than those practiced by any one individual in his/her private life.
"That being said, allow me to address the issue of HIV testing. My perspective is this - A negative test result means that no virus was detected in a particular individual at the particular moment when the test was administered. I've been a sex therapist and educator long enough to know that anyone who assumes a test means anything more than that or that transmission couldn't happen sometime after a test is administered is utterly foolish. My philosophy, particularly as it concerns work in this industry, is this - one ought assume that all one's partners are HIV+ and act accordingly. That's how i live my personal life, my professional life is no different.
"Safe and responsible sex works. I stake my reputation on that every day."
I agree with this statement, however, condoms can break. Is it safe and responsible to have unprotected oral sex with someone whose HIV (and other STD) status has not been verified? Even if all the performers are put in touch with each other well in advance, is it prudent to expect a cast of 8-10 people to work out HIV status, etc. on their own?
With all the hoopla that followed last years HIV incident, were there any legally binding mandates set down by OSHA, health departments or other agencies? I'd like to hear from other production companies for their take on the legal issues. By placing the burden of responsibility for safe sex on the performers, and only requiring condoms for penetration, does this somehow minimize the liability of a producer? If a producer requires or offers to pay for testing, does this open them up to possible litigation should someone contract an STD on set? Or does it protect them?
Tricia Devereaux, who's HIV-positive from an unprotected anal sex scene she did in late 1996, writes on ADT:
Well, I have a question of my own first. Does this mean that that director won't be shooting any facials at all, and there will be no sharing of toys, and there will be dental dams used? I've heard the logic of "a test is only good for the day the blood was drawn" argument. It's a copout.
With PCR-RNA testing, it is highly unlikely that a male would become infected AND have his viral load become so high within the 30 days that he would be infectious enough to transmit the virus to a sex partner. You have a question to ask yourself. Is this director guy rationalizing, because he wants to save money and hassle... or is he making these statements because he believes SO genuinely that HIV PCR-RNA tests are such a crock.
In answer to a couple of your questions... unfortunately, there are very little, if any, precedents set for many of your questions. Government branches are writing laws as they go, and your director would be operating in Seattle, not Los Angeles County, so he would be subject to Washington government health branches and their decisions.
Is unprotected oral sex risky? With a person who has a LOW HIV viral count - it is VERY low risk - almost negligible. However, without testing and simply relying on condoms, you would not know that they male didn't have a high HIV viral count. And the higher the count, the more dangerous even a blowjob becomes. The amount of HIV in precum from a male with a high viral load could indeed be enough to infect a sex partner - especially if they had compromised integrity of their gum tissues (from something as simple as brushing their teeth).
On a personal note, I'm not sure if all of your questions should be from a "could we get sued" standpoint. Maybe a couple of them could be from a "could I sleep at night if I financed a project that I suspected was dangerous and someone ended up getting infected?" standpoint.
Maria writes on GFY:
Freeones pornstar Toplist February based on the amount of searches.
1 (1) Jenna Jameson
2 (2) Briana Banks
3 (3) Tera Patrick
4 (4) Krystal Steal
5 (7) Catalina Cruz
6 (5) Crissy M
7 (8) Devon
8 (104) Taylor Kennedy
9 (10) Silvia Saint
10 (14) Jill Kelly
11 (12) Brittney Skye
12 (67) Rachel Aziani
13 (16) Lanny Barbie
14 (20) Nina Mercedez
15 (27) Kelly Madison
16 (11) Aria Giovanni
17 (13) Sophie Sweet
18 (17) Tawny Roberts
19 (9) Veronica Zemanova
20 (41) Jesse JaneBetween brackets is their position in the list of January.
What is the age demographic of most porn subscribers?
30-50 males? I'm just throwing these numbers out. I don't know if they're correct. Also, has it changed at all in recent years? With the ease of access to porn on the net as soon as a kid gets a hold of a credit card, he might join a porn site with it. Are males in the 18-29 cohort buyers too or free loaders? Is the demographic changing for women at all? Going on anecdotal evidence, more women are buying porn than ever before.
Psili writes:
Out of 5209 subscribers to our channels who filled out the survey: Average age was 36.6. 93% were male, 7% female. 32% married. 18% married w/ children. 10% divorced. 40% single.