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It ran Nov 16-19 in Universal City and over 500 people attended.
A friend reports: "Friday night's Playboy party was off the hook. There were about 400 people there, about half of them were webmasters. The sponsors paid out a lot of money. There are some funny threads on GFY. Check out Lars's thread. He's pissed off because somebody jumped on the bus and crashed the party. This happens all the time at other parties, but because there was so much money at stake (sponsors were paying out $40,000), and all the sponsors were seeing people get into the party who shouldn't be there, were flipping out on GFY."
Legendary Lars, a powerful internet porner, writes on GFY:
Some people paid $5000-$10000 to get into this party... A certain person who was not invited to the playboy party just kept on hopping on busses and gettting booted off cuzz he did not have a wrist band. Eventually he must have in the frenzy boarded a bus who did not check his wrist and he was able to get into the party with no invite. After the huge money we laid out to show our friends and affiliates a good time its a shame this peice of self dilusioned cock fuck managed to weasle his way onto the bus and party at the mansion, uninvited. Had I known while I was at the party that he had no invite, I would have had him thrown out on his sorry broke ass.
Drinking Harder writes:
Well this thread is starting to rub salt in a wound, I don't know about you Lars but I turned away alot of big clients because we simply did not have the invites. To hear that Playboy had a standby list and US THE SPONSORS did not have the ability to get to that waitlist first is a big piss off. I turned away 2 big clients at the last minute because I was told there was simply no way I could get them in. Turning those clients away has possibly cost me tens of thousands a month in potential revenue. Then we go to the Mansion and some guy who just waits around long enough gets an invite? That's bullshit. I was quite happy with the party and had a great time, but to hear all this stuff now is certainly not making me feel good about the amount of money I spent for an "exclusive" event.
Fetishblog writes: "I don't think the guy that got in with a wristband is an idiot. I think the idiots are the ones that spent $5000-$10000 to attend this so called party."
WarChild writes:
So let me get this straight, you're surprised somebody pulled a low class scummy move at a webmaster event?
News Flash: This business is full of the lowest common denominator. From chairs flung off balconies, to groping models, to blowjobs in the hot tub ... Is there any wonder people get the impression about this industry they do?
More Federal Obscenity Busts In Next Few Weeks
Friends of our's are likely to go away for a while.
HollywoodMafia.com will have scoop on Belladonna and more porn girls, as well as on Kevin Beechum and Frank Barbarino.
A source who works with law enforcement calls me: "Hundreds of law enforcement people read your site every day, from Washington D.C. to New York to Los Angeles. All the people who badmouth you and say you print anything -- you write the truth. You write how it really is."
Rocky "Bigfoot" Zangari. Michael Esposito. A Sitdown At The Sportsmans Lodge Russell Hampshire
Joseph Abinanti, Mafia Cops, Death
The Lucchese Family that Anthony Dilapi was inducted into in the late seventies was not the same family in 1988. The family was now being run by two of the most unqualified men in the family history. They were known on the streets as Vic and Gas. Victor Amusso and Anthony Gaspipe Casso made most of their money in the dope trade, They were a long way from former family bosses Tommy Lucchese and Tony Ducks. These men took over whole industries and corrupted unions until the cash was rolling into their pockets. The FBI assault on the family had degraded the leadership until there was nobody left to take over the top spot. Vic and Gas began their reign as the boss and underboss by killing anyone they deemed unworthy. Gas called in Anthony Dilapi for a sitdown and Anthony decided not to come. The rules are clear on this and to refuse an order means death. So Anthony Dilapi packed his bags and flew to Los Angeles California and disappeared.
There was a Lucchese loyalist who was already in Los Angeles in the San Fernando valley porn business. That man was Joey A [Abinanti] and he ran a videotape duplicating company by the Van Nuys airport. It was long rumored that his father had been a made guy with Capo Paul Vario. I hear that Anthony was around Joey A, after he fled New York. The main problem was that could not get a fix on where Anthony was living. So Gas turned to the two men he called his crystal ball. They were both highly decorated NYPD Detectives, [Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito]. They had already proved their worth to Gas by helping him murder a Gambino Capo. So when a computer check failed to turn up an address for Anthony, one of the Detectives made a call to the LAPD. The LAPD Detective who came up with an address had no idea he was signing Anthony's death warrant. Gas sent a four man hit squad out to Los Angeles, that was assisted by Joey A. They waited in the underground parking garage of Anthony's apartment building just off Sunset Blvd. Anthony had just exited his car when a masked man fired five rounds into his face and another four into his body. Anthony Dilapi was fifty three years old on February 4th, 1990 and at the time of his death the LAPD had him down as a used car salesman.
The killing of Anthony spawned three more deaths because of fears of informants. The acting boss Little Al D'Arco flipped and even testified that Joey A should have been made into the Lucchese Family for his work on the Dilapi hit. Vic and Gas live out their days in Federal Prison, the two NYPD Mafia cops are free on five million dollar bail. Joey A continues to be a major player in the billion dollar a year porn business.
I will introduce you to the world of the LA Family of La Cosa Nostra. I will not only provide insider information from the Time of Family Boss Jack Dragna, but also of today's Boss Peter "Shakes" Milano. I will uncover the myths and the realities of the Family that was once called The Mickey Mouse Mafia. I will list current members, deceased members and also Associates. Those who came from the East Coast and lost it all in Hollywood. The broken suitcases who were chased by their families back East and found a new life as Hollywood Mafia.
I hear Joseph Abinanti is going to be arrested soon and charged with murder.
There's audiotape coming on the site with Bobby Hollander talking about Joseph Abinanti and his business partner Trez and their criminal hikinks.
I hear that a few years ago, Mark Carriere had to pay a couple of million dollars to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Teddy Rothstein. Carriere called Rothstein a gangster.
Teddy's not a gangster. He just hangs out with gangsters.
Hollywoodmafia.com is going to have a lot of information about various murders connected to the porn industry.
Tony Sposato
From the Hollywood Mafia blog:
I put up some stuff about his pal Tony Sposato on the site today. Tony is piece of work. The guy never smiles maybe because he has no back teeth. The guy is institutionalized, he wears white t-shirts like he is in the joint still. I guess that is how he is because a guy told me that he used to be a soda guy at a vending company. A real mutt who was Mike Marquezes bitch. Then he got popped for drug dealing. Ahhh Uncle Mike and Ronnie Rome.
I was thinking of Ronnie Rome lately, his name just keeps coming up. This guy has nine lives and then some! Shakes Milano wanted him dead. The Angiulo's of Boston wanted him dead. He beat up a Larry Baione, Whitey Bulger friend. He stole from so many yet he still hustles on the streets of LA.
People if you are ever in Westwood try Enzo's Pizza and you will see Limping Lenny Montana Jr. A pizzaman/bookie with his polished nails. Lenny what did you do to your good friend Joe Dente? I remember you looking for hand outs from Jerry Zimmerman or when you were hawking that Boom Boom Mancini workout tape!
The Orange County Sheriff's Department
From the Hollywood Mafia blog:
They took money from Crazy Horse Rick, the owner of the Ritz in Newport Beach. Rick who let the club Cosa Nostra boys rob and kill. Rick who was pals with Bonanno man Vinny Faraci. Then there is a guy who was able to get a badge and a gun from the sheriff.... Gabriel Nassar? This guy was close to murdered restaurant owner Joey Avila. Joey was not just a restaurant owner. I was there when Gabriel bought cocaine from my friend and used to share it with girls at the Red Onion. Gabriel and his bodyguard Roman were always around Promises in Newport, Tavila's, Pompeii.
'I’m Glad You’re Coming'
A friend writes:
What’s the source on your guy-that-doesn’t-finish info? It kinda blew me away because I just split up with one of these guys this Monday (not because of sex issues, for other reasons…) , and your description fits him perfectly. Is there some web source/book where I can read more? What’s the DSM-IV name of this affliction?
On another note: Do you have plans for Saturday night? I’m throwing a party. Would you join us?
When I replied yes to the party invite, she wrote: "Great, I’m glad you’re coming."
So am I, sister. So am I.
A Few Words From Thomas Jefferson
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks." --Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. ME 5:85, Papers 8:407
Former porn actesses speaking out against porn
Do people have difficulty watching porn scenes of actresses that have become anti-porn? Today, I was reading on lukeisback.com that Trinity James has turned against the x-rated industry. She is now involved with the XXXChurch anti-porn pastors. On "Life Today," a Christian TV show, Trinity said that she only did porn for the money. She also spoke negatively about guys watching porn. Trinity said that porn is addictive and that "I wouldn't want my husband spending his days watching porn." Aspen Brock is someone else who has been on TV and denounced the sex industry. I actually liked watching porn videos with Trinity James and Aspen Brock. The main attraction with Aspen Brock was that she is good-looking. Trinity James came across as enthusiastic and sexy. Considering what they are saying now, it's going to take away some of the enjoyment of watching their scenes.
Since Trinity James appeared in Brandon Iron's Good Source Of Iron 2, I wonder what Brandon Iron thinks of Trinity now speaking negatively of the porn industry. Many people in the adult industry viewed Traci Lords as a traitor. I wonder how Trinity James and Aspen Brock are now viewed by people that work in porn? I wonder how many people view Trinity as sincere in what she is saying?
Gia Jordan writes: "Jezuz Kee-rist! The only reason why they have disdain for the industry is because their phone stopped ringing."
Brandon Iron writes:
I worked with both Trinity and Aspen. They are great people who were a pleasure to meet. If Trinity has had a change of heart towards porn, I can accept that. Aren't we all different people now than when we were in our late teens or early 20's?
I am sorry if anything I do contributes to a bad memory for someone but in my world, she will always be remembered as a confident young woman who had no idea how many guys were going to drop a load in her mouth. She didn't really care, either. She just was going balls out with her mouth, so to speak, in a crazy, cum-filled evening at an office in the San Fernando Valley.
Most people have some sort of wild streak in their youth. Thank God that pornography allows us to document some of it.
NelsonX writes: "I find their scenes more strokeworthy when I know they hated every minute of it. I like knowing that every time Byron Long's cock entered Aspen Brock's asshole a little piece of her soul died. Is that wrong?"
Where is US porn going?
MensWorld & Mayfair writes on ADT:
Hi. My name's David Spenser, and I edit two adult magazines here in the UK: Mayfair and MensWorld. I've been in the industry for (my God) 17 years now, and have covered the US porn scene for almost as long. I have a question about the direction the US industry is taking, and I hope you'll give me an honest answer.
In the UK, adult video is split between cheap gonzo, expensive plotless porn and pseudo feature. In amongst that, there are obviously sub-genres, but nothing to match the scale of your market. What we don't really have here, at least not in massive quantities, is some of the stuff I've been seeing lately, namely extremely rough hardcore.
There seems to be a shift in the industry, whereby the big companies make the pretty-pretty features, and a number of others are trying to seriously push the envelope in terms of what's legal and, to my mind, acceptable. I'm talking about scenes where the camera seems more interested in capturing the look of fear on a performer's face as she chokes on some guy's cock, rather than any sort of shared submissive/Dom experience. And then there are flicks like JM's "Swirlies". Now, I haven't seen the movie yet, but flushing a girl's head down the john on the box cover? Doesn't anyone just f--- anymore?
So my questions are: Am I alone in wondering whether the market is going out on a limb at a time when your Attorney General has his beady little eye on us? Didn't anyone learn any lessons from the vom and choke movies of a few years go? Is it really acceptable to treat female performers that roughly and not expect criticism from federal agencies?
Only a few months ago, everyone was running around like headless chickens over 2257, but some of the product I've been watching lately has left me wondering whether that's the least of our worries. Yes, there's definitely a place for submissive girls being dominated in adult, but personally I think some people are taking things too far in an attempt to set benchmarks. I'd appreciate honest opinions, because this might form the basis of a feature in one of the magazines.
Pagoda writes:
Porn is a reflection of all U.S. media. Everything in the last 5-10 years has been marketed to American young people as Extreme. Extreme sports, extreme reality TV, extreme video games, extreme cereal, extreme snacks and even extreme fruit juice. Just watch children's cartoons any Saturday morning in the U.S. and pay attention to the commercials. For the last 10 years, American kids, teens and young adults have been bombarded with this bulls--- marketing and they've bought all the hype. The messages in a lot of the music in the last decade have been misogynistic and violent, and entertainment as a whole is all about shock. Jerry Springer, Fear Factor, Jackass, and all the like are about people humiliating themselves for the sake of entertainment. Combine that with a generation of young American men that have been watching their music and sports idols treat women like s---, and you've got consumers that demand more and more extreme behavior in their porn. Even people that get off seeing a woman take two cocks in her ass have to acknowledge that it's a circus sideshow, not erotica. I think that it will run its course.
I think America will grow out of this Extreme Reality phase. As far as the amazing feats of rectal and esophageal endurance go, I think people will tire of it within a few years. However, there will always be some consumers that hate women and get off on seeing them humiliated, injured and intimidated. I just hope that stuff returns to the fetish genre where it belongs at some point. It is mainstream now. You're right about that.
One thing I feel compelled to point out is that erotic fiction, and even romance fiction, has become rough too. These are book genres that are purchased mainly by women. The current "romantic hero" is now what we writers term an "alpha male." He ties the heroine up, he spanks her ass beet red, he pulls her hair, he wraps his hand around her neck and even "makes love to her" in the ass. This is fiction written by women, for women, and it's selling like crazy. A lot of women want to see rough sex too. We think it's erotic. That's why I like a lot of rough gonzo porn. I think it's hot, depending on the spirit with which it's performed. When it takes on that ugly tone; when the vicious name-calling, the vomiting, and the toilet dunking come into play, I turn it off. There's nothing sexually arousing about that to me, even though I know it's all make-believe and that the performers have all consented to it.
So is this the direction U.S. porn is going? The real question is; is this the direct all U.S. entertainment is going? Yes, and it's been going that way for several years. What bothers me is the complete shift in the attitude of the male "character" in porn movies. A decade ago, the guy in the porno was some lucky bastard that some beautiful woman chose to grace with her sexual gifts. He acted fortunate and (dare I say it?) grateful to have such a sexy, beautiful, nasty woman suddenly f--- him for no reason. You know what attitude the male "character" displays today? Entitlement. That bitch better swallow his cock, if she knows what's good for her, and she better make him believe that she loves it. Then, the male lead took what the sexy woman offered. Now, the male lead inflicts himself on the young girl. Complete paradigm shift.
Another thing to consider is the changes in male/female relations in American society lately. It's no coincidence that the mainstreaming of misogynist porn began a couple years after Anita Hill exposed the ugliness of sexual harassment to the light of day. A lot of men feel powerless now. They can't express even the slightest interest in a female co-worker without fear of getting fired. A lot of women are getting promoted past their male peers. A lot of men are managed by a woman at work, then come home to a household managed by a wife. The lives of many men are ruled by women from morning til night. And since women often call the shots about sex, it's no wonder that a lot of men fantasize about a woman that will simply do whatever a man tells her to do, or that they fantasize about being a man that simply makes a woman do whatever he wants. I understand the fantasy and the popularity of it. Regular men--good men, not woman-haters--have this fantasy from time to time.
That said, I wish there were a middle ground. I love rough sex. I like watching it. I like writing rough sex scenes and I like reading them. I like physical restraint, I like spanking, I like choking (yes, I like seeing a man wrap a big hand around a woman's vulnerable throat and subdue her while fucking her, without hurting her), and I like hard fucking. I hate forced gagging, I hate name-calling and I hate humiliation. I get turned on by a man that's dominant, not domineering. And I can say the same goes for most of my girlfriends. Unfortunately, there's very little porn that's simply rough. It's either diluted couple's fare (yawn), or it's stupid human tricks. I'd like to see more hot, animalistic mating in porn. Trouble is, that doesn't fit in gonzo nor in features. In features it would be considered too rough for female viewers (which would be wrong, btw), and in gonzo it would be considered too tame.
But considering that social mores swing on a pendulum, I know it will eventually come to that middle ground. It has just about reached its far end. It can't go much further without getting downright illegal.
I don't know if men feel emasculated (although Fight Club would have you believe that), but women are certainly more empowered. When one person gains power, the other person often feels they've lost theirs. It doesn't have to be that way, but people tend to fixate on what they don't have, rather than what they do have. With female empowerment comes two things. 1) Women are more confident sexually and more willing to experiment. I don't know a single woman that won't give head. We all do it. Most of us like doing it. Most women I know are at least interested in trying anal sex. If porn is supposed to provide a fantasy and portray sex that men don't generally experience, then delicate blowjobs and gentle anal aren't going to cut it. 2) Women bear the weight of what was traditionally male responsibility, along with all the responsibilities that always fell on women. When a woman makes business decisions all day long and manages a dozen adults, then comes home to make domestic decisions and manage a couple kids, she's fucking tired when it's time for her to jump in bed and suddenly become a raging sex machine. Sometimes she doesn't want sex at all. And sometimes, she wants her man to take charge, make the decisions for her, and call the shots. If he wants her on her back, she wants him to just toss her onto her back, not politely request that she roll over. Sometimes women don't want to think, and sometimes women want to feel fragile and feminine. That's why rough sex appeals to so many women.
Hell, do you know how many episodes Oprah has devoted to the art of strip-tease? Average women are installing stripper poles in their bedrooms. A lot of women aren't willing to be good girls anymore, because it's fucking boring and unfulfilling. So, if some average guys are actually getting blowjobs, anal, and rough sex from their wives, what do they want to see when they jerk off in private? The same things their wife already does? Performed by women that might or might not be sexier or better looking than their wife? No. They want something different and more extreme.
Patricia Kennedy Update
Wigglestick2002 writes on XPT:
She's NOT dead, or at least not last Christmas. She was posting on her Yahoo Group for a few months this Spring pimping her new website and dancing schedule. She also escorted for a few months and hinted about maybe thinking about the possibility of doing scenes again (don't we all wish). Apparently someone found all of her personal information and either started stalking her or made remarks that made her very uncomfortable, enough so that she decided to disappear again, probably never to return. She closed her yahoo group one day and didn't even say goodbye.
You may find it interesting that she was somehow in the fashion industry in New York. I forget what she said exactly she was doing but she had some absolutely gorgeous pictures of herself in these retro 20's outfits (and nudes with hats) that I believe she had designed.
Beautiful, sexy Patriucia Kennedy was around and thinking of a comeback and some stupid fu**ing piece of sh*t had to fu*K it up for the rest of us! Anyone want to join me in a little huntin' for a slimy psycho?
hollyrandall: sunny lane just came in for polaroids
hollyrandall: with her mom, LOL...i guess i'm not the only one who works
w/ their family
hollyrandall: she's so energetic and funny, i really liked her
Lukeisback: yes, I like her too...in a professional journalist-subject
way.
hollyrandall: she likes you too, she said you were very nice
hollyrandall: which made me laugh
Lukeisback: she has such a sunny attitude.
hollyrandall: i know, especially since i've been hearing so much to the
contrary about you, no matter how much i stick up for you
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Gram Ponante reports the awards were short and full of snacks.
Brittany Andrews With LA Direct - Meet Brittany Andrews
Joe writes: "Do you know why Brittany Andrews is back with LA Direct Models doing Solo, B/G, + B/B/G, Interracial, plus fetish? Obviously, she needs money, but she was one of the top girls for a good while, so its not like she made peanuts. She ought to have some sort of savings to live on."
The Hustler Tattler writes:
Sources on the 3rd floor at LFP tell the Hustler Tattler that tough-guy Bruce David is thoroughly whipped by his wife Wendy. It’s hard to believe that the thuggish Editorial Director of Hustler has to answer to a skirt, but Bruce reportedly must get prior approval for all major and minor purchases from wife number three, whom he deeply resents.
Bruce has been overheard in his office referring to his wife as the “biggest liar in the world,” but the moment she calls, he quickly goes into yes-man, or more accurately, yes-dear mode: “Yes, dear. Yes, dear. Yes, dear.”
Some theorize that Bruce channels his anger for his wife towards the helpless Hustler staff which has no choice but to take it or lose their jobs. Bruce’s deep resentment towards his wife might also explain his reported obsession with bondage, i.e., women gagged and in pain. Bruce’s bottled-in anger might also account as to why his kids are so scared of him.
One of the funnier quotes about Bruce’s married life came from Larry Flynt who reportedly once told the editorial staff, “Bruce David is the most difficult person to work with. I hoped when he got married, he’d finally change. No such luck.”
"I have been selling ornaments at craft shows in the Midwest, still trying to get back to the farm town. On my time off back here in California, I have been working doing construction, doing movies both sag and Adult."
Wankus: 'Oh My God! She DIDN'T Get 300 Girls!'
Everyone's talking about the Summer Haze All Girl Gang Bang. While most of it isn't very supportive, the good news for the Haze camp is...everyone's talking about the Summer Haze All Girl Gang Bang.
Twelve years ago, they were the first couple of pornography. They made many of the funnest, funniest and most popular reality porn videos.
Then they broke up. Today they both make porn and they seem to be friends.
Shane writes on page 161 in the new book Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry:
Seymore had a different job when I first met him. He was only doing porn part-time when we first got together. So as the relationship progressed he quit that job and got into porn full force, and this industry is not the easiest to survive in. He had both business and family issues going on, and he just started getting meaner, and meaner, and meaner. We didn't have a joint bank account. He didn't pay me for any of the work that I did. I kept waiting for the good guy to come back, but it became apparent that it just wasn't going to happen that way. I moved out and he freaked out, but only because of work issues between us. I was the cash cow. He asked me if I would sign a contract and continue to work for him, and like an idiot I said yes...
So I came back from vacation and I told him I was sorry, but I wasn't going to work with him. He lost it. He said, "Well, what do you think you're going to do?" I panicked. I don't know how to explain it, but I always felt like I owed him an explanation. So I just pulled something out of my ass. "I'll do my own line."
...[H]e laughed at me... Right in my face. And he told me I'd never be able to do it.
...Before I left Seymore I was smart and made copies of all his contracts, address books... I copied everything I could find so I could study it.
Seymore Butts calls me back Thursday morning.
I read Seymore the bad stuff about him in Shane's chapter in Naked Ambition.
Seymore: "When we met, I was in porn fulltime. I had done seven movies. It was the sole source of my income. Yeah, we didn't have a joint account. It's difficult to explain. One of the problems I had with Shane was that she didn't want to look at this as a job. If I said to her, 'Do you want to work on Thursday? We have Mark and Chris coming over.' She would say to me, 'I don't know. I don't want to make it so it's scheduled. I just want to jump in if I feel like jumping in.'
"That was hard to run a production... I thought our relationship went bad because Shane didn't want to commit to it being a business. It was impossible to run a business trying to make it all fun.
"The money point of view? We lived in a beautiful house and basically got anything she wanted. She certainly did a lot more shopping than I did.
"I don't know why we didn't have a joint bank account. It was twelve years ago. I just know that it wasn't a case of poor Shane, she has nothing, and look at Adam, he has everything.
"She was able to go off and start her own company. I couldn't have left her that high and dry.
"When things broke down between Shane and Jenny (who owns Shane's World), I was called in to be the mediator. I sat with them for hours trying to talk them through it.
"Our kids play together. They go to each other's birthday parties. I don't know why she would seem bitter."
Luke: "Were you surprised she was able to run her own production company?"
Seymore: "Not only did she surprise me, but she made me proud. She was the first [woman] to do it. She took a lot away from our relationship, aside from contracts and phone numbers.
"When people are in love, it changes everything.
"To this day, Shane is a friend of mine. I think so. She calls me as much as I call her. I care about her still."
Luke: "How come she doesn't appear on your show?"
Seymore: "We did take a trip to Chicago and do a radio interview together. She was filmed for the show. The producers felt it was too much to explain. They cut her out. But you can see her in the interview."
Luke: "Whatever happened to Alisha Klass?"
Seymore: "That's a good question. I would love to know. She's done such a good job of staying out. I've heard everything from that she lives in a cabin in Big Bear with her husband to she married a music executive from BMG and they spend time between their houses in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara."
Luke: "Whatever happened to Taylor Hayes?"
Seymore: "She's still the mother of my son. She's not married, though she did have another baby in May."
Luke: "What does she do for a living?"
Seymore: "I don't know. I don't worry about that. I just worry about the money I have to kick over, but now that I have 100% custody, I don't have to pay..."
Nina Hartley On Alt-Porn
It was lovely to have Joanna Angel (burningangel.com) on my show last night. She's sweet, but passionate about her desire to make porn that spoke to her sensibilities. That's an important quality in any pornographer. She mentioned Eon several times over dinner, but I didn't know of the unusal spelling until I read it here today.
It takes an alterna-person to make good alterna-smut. Bean-counting suits can't do it, as evidenced by the lead-balloon reception to the Hustler Taboo video series (don't even ask why Ernest isn't directing it). Good luck to Eon, and may he forever ignore those who want to rain on his parade. If it's selling, that says more than polemics ever could.
Don't fear that you are not turning this man on sexually - the penis never lies. If if he attained an erection with you and was able to maintain it for hours on end, then he's very aroused by you. So why doesn't he "finish?" There are several possibilities. Sometimes a man cannot orgasm if he happens to be taking certain medications to even out his moods. (Yup, we men get them all the time!) If that's the case, then patience is in order, for eventually he'll come around. But another explanation is that he might be holding back.
Why do men hold back? Typically, a man will hold back if he has some internal conflict raging in his mind. This, typically, is an affliction only of the intellectual, so you might want to determine if your man is an intellectual, which can be difficult, if he is in the closet about it. Does he read The Atlantic Monthly, or does he have copies of OK! lying about? Examine the walls and bookshelves of his home: does he own more books than he has photographs of himself having fun? Is he religious, or talk about religious matters a lot? Is he Jewish? Does he spend suspiciously much of his free time talking about duties and obligations and sin? Does he refuse to eat certain kinds of food? Then he may well be an intellectual, and thus very sensitive. (Another sign: intellectuals fear going down south to visit Dixie, due to their . . . sensitivities.)
Often these delicate types have abandonment issues (is he the product of a broken home? Did his mother leave his father when he was a young boy?). They fear being hurt, and they fear hurting others. And very often, they fear falling in love.
What you need to do is to spend more time talking about your relationship with him, and where he is willing to to let it go. Encourage him to discuss his inadequacies with you before letting him inside, and demand to know what he is thinking. (Okay, okay, "demand" is too strong a word. Invite him, but accept that perhaps he would rather not.) Once the air has been cleared and you both know what the other is thinking, there will be so many of his sperm marching on your eggs that you will feel like a young Germman woman living in Berlin circa April, 1945.
Do you have questions? I've got answers. Just_ask_luke@yahoo.com
Ta Ta Torah, Hello Love
Lukeisback: Holly came over last night and brought me flowers, guava
juice and hot soup
ChaimAmalek: She loves you.
Lukeisback: yeah yeah yeah. I love her.
ChaimAmalek: Congratulations. I'd say "Mazel tov", but those words and
that language are not for you. ChaimAmalek: They point to the false path
in life, the path selected for you by a long dead rabbinate that sought
to preserve its power and prerogatives by imposing hundreds of idiotic
rules on its followers.
ChaimAmalek: Torah Judaism or happiness: you know you cannot have both.
But there is no need to choose now; in the coming months, the choice will
be made for you by Holly's love.
ChaimAmalek: And whenever you waver, just think of all those Jewesses
who had the chance to step up to the plate in the name of the Rabbinate,
but instead looked down their noses at you. Think of Rabbi Putzkin, abusing
you when you were weak.
ChaimAmalek: Think of...who is now in her forties and barren. Soon she
will be running ads in the paper for the eggs of women like Holly, and
offering 25K for them, too.
ChaimAmalek: Derech Torah will lead you to death. In Holly you will know
life. And like it or not, you ARE coming to agree with me. My logic cannot
be faulted. Contrast and compare: your time with sweet loving Holly vs.
all the time you spent on JDate or at Jewish Singles Events. Contrast
and compare: being with your porny friends and their families, versus
listening to lectures at Jewish temples on the proper length of one's
fringes. Contrast and compare: living with Holly in her home, taking baths
in a real bathtub and sleeping in a real bed, puttering about in a large
yard with your kids, versus life in the hovel, immersed in torah. Contrast
and compare: being a physically and mentally healthy man, a true Son of
the Southern Cross, versus being the sickly soul who turned to Judaism
in a time of terrible physical and emotional weakness. Your torah purports
to demand of you that you choose life. But Holly IS life. Remember to
take your zinc and follic acid tablets like I told you. They make your
sperm swim harder.
ChaimAmalek: I am giving Holly on-the-spot guidance on how to wean you
away from Judaism. I've instructed her on the erotic uses of all of your
religious paraphernalia, and together we are planning to put the Talmud
on trial for hate crimes. By then you will serve as prosecutor.
Porn's Objectification of Women
David Aaron Clark writes on ADT:
Yes, it's too bad that these valid concerns are not ever seriously addressed by any of the prominent spokespeople & "authorities" within the industry; perhaps then the industry would not be quite the sitting duck it is for such attacks.
Seems to me that the situation bears a few resemblences to the overall political situation in this country, where the collapse of the Democratic party into timid, moribund hackdom provided no small assistance to the far-right coup that took place in our federal government six years ago.
If this adminstration is losing popularity & power now, I would say it's only because they're tripping over their own shoes, not because of any intelligent or concentrated effort by the politicians in power who supposedly represent an alternative & opposing set of values & beliefs to do anything but protect & enrich their own careers.
Me, I've learned over the long haul to question the rhetoric of anybody who makes their buck by claiming they're "doing the good work for us all." Such rationalizations tend to be transparent no matter what the issue or political affiliation.
"Well-raised, well-educated young men don't watch "BangBus" and come away with the impression that it portrays acceptable offscreen behavior."
Oh, please. Charles Haidl & his privileged young cohorts were just checked into their new digs, courtesy of the state, for failing to discern the difference between Bangbus & what was appropriate to do to a fellow high school student they got drunk & videotaped while they gang-banged & physically abused her while she was in a semi-comatose state. & they're just the ones who got caught.
"BangBus- as much as I personally dislike it- has no particular implications for the span of pornography as an overall genre."
Anyone without an agenda who has actually paid attention to the evolution of American pornography over the last several years -- whether they're in favor of that evolution or not -- realizes this is a fundamentally incorrect statement. WIshing something is so does not make it so.
"Are men not also objectified? They are meat on a stick, wanted only for the size of the stick and the size of their load (sometimes). They are breathing props that are the source of the objectionable HMAs."
I'll take that point seriously when it becomes popular for hetero porn scenes to include the guys getting conned into having sex, strangled, have toxic genetic materials ejaculated into their eyes & stretched-out anuses, & laughed at & called names while the girls high-five each other. LOL
Nina Hartley's Guide to Sensual Submission: How to Submit to a Man
I'm buying this for Holly.
Leon writes on Amazon.com:
To all of those who are into power exchange, bondage or a Master/slave relationship, this will be a sad addition to any movie collection. You may well get a laugh (only a chuckle?) out of the actors "playing" at our beloved topic, but that would be the best you could hope for. Otherwise, if you even THINK you know something about this topic, go ahead and avoid this film, there is better stuff out there.
Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry
Shane rips into her ex-boyfriend Seymore Butts. She rips into the people to whom she sold her "Shanes World" series: "I hate the fact that they're preying on college kids for their movies."
Now that Shane's back shooting porn, "I feel like a predator... I have a daughter, so I'm really battling this internally.
"...I definitely have a love/hate with the industry... [M]y most recent experiences have been negative.
"...I would never want my kids to be ashamed of me."
Jane Duvall writes: "I ended up working closely with the Federal Trade Commission to help shut down a couple of particularly egregious adult companies that had swindled people out of tens of millions of dollars back in 1998 and 1999."
Joanna Angel writes:
BurningAngel wasn't feminist, and neither was I. The Web site was one big cry for attention. I wasn't fighting the patriarchy, I was giving it blow jobs and letting it break my heart.
...Interviews with me have appeared on TV, Web sites, and in print magazines, all with the angle of demystifying a "porn revolution" that I've apparently started.
Joy King from Wicked Pictures writes:
I have been fortunate to work for some really great men who treat women with respect. But trust me, they are the minority. ...I was faced with more sexual harassment doing sales than in any other position I have held in this business.
...[M]y twenty years in the adult entertainment industry have been a mixed blessing... As the main support of my loving and wonderful son, Greg, I often put my career first and justified it in the name of supporting him, when all he needed was for me to be home. I have missed family gatherings, funerals, weddings, and other events because I was working.
Jewel DeNyle writes:
I started PXP instead of fully retiring off the money I made so that I could give my parents a job. My father had lost everything, as he was a politician, and porn and politics go together like oil and water. I remember when the FBI showed up and raided their home for child porn just to smear my father's name because he had a famous porn daughter and someone wanted his seat in the legislature. It was a total setup. Nothing was oever found.
...Porn cost my family everything. But after all the madness, it gave back everything and then some to me and my family.
...[Porn] cost me my marriage.
I started PXP with my then-husband, Michael Stefano. Working together and being married took its toll over time, and my marriage failed. Michael and I were a dream couple, the powerhouse couple in the business. I got him out of a bad situation at another company and put all I had behind him to help him build his name and reputation so he could ride to the top with me. But lo and behold, I created an egomaniac. All of a sudden I lost my husband. The man I loved became a man obsessed with himself and his money.
...Michael had to be left from PXP for the good of our company.
Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes:
...I really don't care about the pornography itself. I just love the women and the business. I'm like a drug dealer who doesn't touch the stuff, making me able to achieve a longevity.
...[A]t the age of thirty-six...[Lainie] is still single and childless but very maternal, using these skills on porn stars and centerfolds.
I've finished this book. If you like the title, you'll like the book. One disappointing thing about the book is that the writers rarely portray themselves as the bad person. They're victims of bad men. That gets boring.
Porn's Objectification of Women: Hall vs. Sun
Clearly, a new effort is underway by a certain retro-feminist faction to undo the work of people like Nina, Tristan Taormino, Carly Milne, Violet Blue, Joanna Angel, Carol Queen and other pro-sex feminists who have defended porn's right to exist and women's right to enjoy it, participate in it and try to shape it to their own sensibilities.
These new-wave bluenoses are blatantly taking advantage of a conservative political climate to get media attention, all the while declaring loudly that they make no common cause with James Dobson, Sam Brownback, Alberto Gonzales and the CWA, when they clearly share the same ultimate objective, which is to create as hostile an atmosphere toward porn as possible.
Catching Up With Ashley Blue
Ashley: "I am on the set of The Violation of Sierra Sinn and there's no set. We were told we could have the studio for free. We were like, 'We'd rather have a set.' Whatever. They're building a basketball hoop. I got pens and markers so we could make banners.
"There are six of us. Sasha, Leah Luv, this thing in front of me with the beautiful mane of hair, Demi Rose...
"I guess Rob Spallone denied saying he was losing money [on Saturday's Summer Haze gangbang]. There were people standing around who heard him. He's been calling Playboy getting all mad and saying [that Ashley's XPT post] must be taken down.
"He's an angry guy. I make jokes about things that are funny in porn, but I like it. He seems to have complete contempt for all the girls especially, maybe because they won't ---- him. If he had a better attitude, maybe he would get a free blowjob every once in a while instead of having to pay for it.
"We were covering it for Nightcalls. The topic was lesbians. We show up and there's not 350 girls. There aren't even 20 girls. There are 12 girls and they turn into 350 penetrations. We've been calling it the 350-stroke gangbang. The girls were ugly.
"I don't know what Rob Spallone was doing. He was talking about how he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. We turned it into hundreds of billions of dollars.
"You don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars. You don't have a thousand dollars.
"We look around and say, 'There's no way he spent $10,000 on this whole budget.'
"Rob Spallone, Summer Haze and her husband are calling up Derek from Playboy and going off about stuff and saying how they are never coming there again.
"Isn't that what you wanted? You called Playboy and begged them to come.
"Today is going to be way more fun. We've got basketball uniforms and basketballs and a basketball hoop. We're going to be separate teams. Our team is the Chatsworth Violaters. It's like highschool."
Rob Spallone calls: "I loved your story. Playboy is not going to be able to use any footage from Saturday now. I had no money invested in the movie, so how could I lose money? She has a contract with JM Productions? We'll see what happens to that. And we'll see her at the show in Vegas if we don't see her before that."
T.J. DiReda (AmericanHardcore.com) Fires Photographer/Art Director Rick Shameless
T.J. brought in Rick and his wife Tory Lane Monday and explained why he was firing Rick.
I've emailed Rick for his side of the story.
DiReda calls me at 12:48pm. "We just fired our art director/photographer. We were shooting a movie Friday, one of which was one of his scenes. This is the second time we've given him a chance. We caught him using his model releases (giving him the right to publish, copyright and use the pictures) that he was trying to get talent to sign. He claimed it was some 2257 absolution of responsibility.
"What baffles me is that he tried to do it with seven of our partners in the office, weighing in at about two tons of muscle while we're shooting at the studio.
"He had asked me not to tear the top page off because he thought it would be confusing. He had written the names of the talent on there already.
"Two days before, he had asked me to help get his wife Tory Lane a job in production. I was genuinely interested in helping.
"Because he had asked me to help his wife, I thought I'd call them both in here on Monday and explain to her why I was going to fire him so she would understand that I wasn't a dick and that we weren't good guys.
"He had kept her in the dark.
"As I explained it, I said to Rick, 'Am I fabricating? Have I lied about anything?' He said no. She stood up and screamed at him, 'You're shady. That's absolutely wrong. I have nothing to do with this. I apologize. That's terrible.'
"His own wife did not take his side.
"He was very upset. He said, 'Don't go out there and ruin me to people.' I said, 'Pal, you ruined yourself. This is the second time you've done this.'
"When we were at Vertigo, and he was shooting pictures before he shot on a digital camera, we were using his lab. He's a good photographer. He was having his lab print up duplicate pictures that he was sending in to magazines to try to get work.
"He's the ultimate in dishonesty and not trustworthy.
"I told him I was going to have to call other people he works for and make sure that he's not slipping in his own model release. He was very concerned. I told him that I hope you're not handling any of the paperwork for CherryBoxxx, because Kevin [Beechum] and Rick Davis aren't going to stand for this."
Pornmonger writes: "I just read the story on your site about Shameless
and at the same time I get an email from LA
Direct that Tory is back doing ANAL and DP scenes. I guess they are
hurting."
Jenna posts: "AJ (aka AmoreItaliano) is no longer a part of my myspace activity. I have been having major issues with this guy, asking all of my friends to add him, and mooching money from friends of mine. So, I know my site is a little behind... I mean I still have 12,000 friends that I haven't added yet! It takes forever. Anyway, I will have the site redesigned soon and make sure no one takes advantage of you guys again! Thanks for your ear biatch!"
Jenna writes me: "I had become friends with this guy, and he ended up taking advantage of me and my girls, spamming everyone on my friends list andtrying to recruit girls into porn, using my name.... NOT COOL!"
XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without A Shul
Chaim Amalek writes:
Finishing sminishing. Credit where credit is due. With that one pic, Holly has boosted Luke's standing in the world so much that he now must be regarded as a serious player who it is pointless to mock. With her by his side, he could become the Howard Stern of porn journalism. I've no doubt that his mother in heaven is praying to the Heavenly Father that Luke's faux-Jewish heart be permitted to melt before the warmth of her womanly virtues, and remove him from the purgatory of both hovel and yiddishkeit.
So the bottom line is this, gentlemen. No more jokes at Luke's expense. Clearly he is doing damn well for himself.
PS to Luke: you will never do better than her, never.
PPS: American medicine is a wonderful thing (at least if you've got money/insurance). Feeling depressed? Here, take these pills. What's that bunky, you can't get it up when you take these pills? No problem, sign up for some Levitra/Viagra at ten bucks a pop. NOW WHAT - you can get it up but you can't climax on those pills? Just wait for this new stuff pending FDA approval. (The slight delay has been due to an unexpected side effect: depression. But we've got another pill for that...)
Rob writes: "When I was on antidepressants I had this "issue." Needless to say, I was not very popular at bukkakes."
hollyrandall: i just got a very interesting email
hollyrandall: about how nobody knew who i was until you came along
hollyrandall: he wants to know if it's a publicity
hollyrandall: i also just got an email from my cousin in Perth asking
if i was really seeing an Aussie
hollyrandall: my uncle wrote to me: at last I see you have woken up to
quality
The Prince of Alt-Porn Director
Eon McKai leads a new generation of smut makers
By Tristan Taormino
It's like watching Debbie Does Dallas on acid. And crystal meth.
Ashley Blue: 'I Met An Angry Little Man'
I went to the pathetic attempt of a lesbian gangbang last Saturday. It was sad, but to be expected, that only 12 girls showed up. Just imagine the last whores in a bar at 2a.m., and then 10 times less attractive. The biggest retard there was Rob Spalone. He stood around by his "ninja" style motorcycle (probably leased) ranting about how much money he lost... Then jumped up, to shout to my face "I hope evey porn-girl gets AIDS..." I guess I'm lucky that he didn't whip out his knumbchucks.
Rob Spallone calls me at 8:45am: "Who's Ashley Blue?"
Luke: "She's a porn star, a contract girl with JM Productions."
Rob: "What does she look like?"
Luke: "The girl next door."
Rob: "Black hair? She's also a reporter for Playboy TV.
"Ashley Blue is not one to talk about anything. She's a pathetic little mutt who was [Luke: I know of no evidence of this and present it purely as Rob's conjecture] sucking three black cocks at the lesbian gangbang. She came to be a reporter but she was sucking three black cocks at the lesbian gangbang of the help. Rob Spallone told her she could get AIDS like that. Who is she to say that the girls are ugly? Is she a beauty?
"Rob Spallone did not own a ninja motorcycle and he does not lease anything."
Luke: "Were you ranting about how much money you lost?"
Rob: "I didn't put 10c up for anything.
"Listen, you stinky smelly little [bad word]. Your mother should get AIDS. Your father drives a ninja motorcycle. The other girls who were there from Playboy told me that [Ashley Blue] took the short bus to school."
Luke: "What does that mean?"
Rob: "She's a retard. The other girls from Playboy were like, 'I can't believe she showed up.' Who is Ashley Blue to call the other girls ugly? Is she some beauty queen?
"Since Playboy wants to be wiseguys, all the footage they took, they are not to show it anywhere, because I am in charge of all model releases. They had some people there who were very nice. But for their stinky little reporter who wants to write bad, they have no releases and they can show the footage nowhere. If they have a problem with that, they can contact me."
I thank you for your invite to PSK, unfortunately due to the filming of the fourth Stormy directorial feature, I am unable to allow time for frivolousness, being it is my job and duty to bring my readers onto the set via my perspective and give them a first hand look at the making of what is to be a tour de force presentation by the Princess. I do, however, plan on attending PSK at some point in the near future. When said plans come to fruition, I will make you aware.
Side Note: I saw a mention of my use of Hot Wax Cosmetics make-up... ""What is up with Monstar having more makeup on their your girl Holly? Holly's got some competition there." While I am aware the fans are curious as to my Glam Rockerness, I began the night wearing only foundation & eyeliner. Clearly less than Hol, who appears to be wearing Lipstick & Eye Shadow in addition. Whatever make-up appeared after was not mine. I cannot help that girls leave lip prints after kissing me. But it is flattering that I am scrutinized by fans, I guess it comes with being very prolific and well received by the stars of adult entertainment What can I say...some chix dig me.
Side Note #2: Are you sure you wanna trust me with Holly? Inside 5 minutes I'm trying to talk her into posing nude. Later inside, I damn near get her connecting tongues with Naked & Famous director Kimberly Kane. ...I am a bad man. Fun...but bad.
Side Note #3: Did you refer to Holly's breast as "tits"? Dr. Luke, I expect more from our Moral Leader and author of such books like The Producers, XXX-Communicated & Yesterday's News Tomorrow, than that. I was gunna get you a Thesaurus for Xmas but you're Jewish...I'll just separate it into 12 parts and give you a piece everyday for Hanukah.
Pornmonger writes: "Not only was Monstar wearing foundation and eyeliner, he was wearing mascara and lipstick. If other women kissed him as he said they did, the lipstick would be all over his face. But instead the lipstick is perfectly around his lips."
Defiance Films to Unveil She-Male Title
This probably has as much to do with the sexual preferences of one of Defiance's managing partners as anything else.
Naked Ambition: Women Pornographers and How They Are Changing the Sex Industry
A few highlights of what I've read:
Regina Lynn writes: "I rarely saw anything on the Web I would call degrading or damaging to women."
That probably says more about Regina than about Web content.
Regina writes: "While women like Danni Ashe and Tristan Taormino began to turn the porn world upside down in the 1990s..."
If neither Danni nor Tristain entered porn, the industry would be unchanged.
Regina writes: "I concluded that "adult" is merely a code word for "sex"..."
This is a favorite delusion of porners. Almost nobody is opposed to sex, yet most people believe that it is something that should be done in private.
Saying that porn equals sex is like saying that prostitution equals sex. Sure, it is a form of sex, but who would argue that visiting a hooker and cementing bonds with one's wife are equally good?
Regina writes: "I don't know why more people aren't writing about technology and sex together in a positive light."
Because somebody who seeks to write about things in a positive light is a shill.
Regina writes: "In my teens and early twenties...I'd find any excuse not to have sex, and I deliberately gained weight to keep myself "protected" from sexual behavior."
Violet Blue (the writer, not the porn star) wrote a book about porn movies:
I had high hopes when I sent the galleys of my book to the senior female editor at the adult industry magazine [Adult Video News] that was formative in my beginnings as a reviewer. I was shocked to get an angry message stating that she would never endorse my book, in any way. When I called her for an explanation and to get feedback before the book went to print, she was livid. She said there were problems but wouldn't tell me what the problems were. The ones she specify seemed off. She said I should have included movies that (when I checked at print time) weren't available for consumers, and complained that I mentioned her magazine's Web site's pop-up. But she told me what really bothered her about the whole book, the big main problem, was that it was directed at female consumers. She told me to take out everything that spoke to women as viewers.
Who is Violet referring to? Heidi Pike-Johnson? Rebecca Gray?
Lisa Massaro, the ornery obese (mirror image of Andrea Dworkin) managing editor of the Club magazines, writes:
...[W]e publish a magazine that is available to adults 18 or older. If you don't like it, don't buy it. We don't stand on street corners giving it out for free and we don't force anyone to look at it.
Couldn't you say the same things about drug dealers and pimps?
Lisa writes: "...ATM will never be just a cash machine to me."
Is this semantic pollution good? What's good about losing the innocent meaning of terms such as "facial"?
Why is it that the overwhelming majority of writers on porn are not the people the ordinary person would want to have sex with? I find it disturbing to read their sexually explicit musings.
Lisa writes that porn is "like a large, dysfunctional family..." Isn't dysfunctional a nice way of saying bad? Heroin addicts are a large dysfunctional family too.
Lisa writes: "...[W]e are a microcosm of society, and through our work we contribute to that society."
On what basis does she believe this? I don't believe that porners are a normative microcosm of America.
On page 67, Juli Ashton writes: "...[T]here was a story about how a guy was fired from his job for talking about masturbation at the water cooler!"
Sounds within the realm of reason to me.
The best chapter in the book is by Variety reporter Dana Harris:
So I followed Mickey [G.] and Joy to the dance floor. Joy disappeared with Stephanie, leaving me with Mickey.
I started dancing. Mickey started dancing.
Then Mickey started grinding.
I kept dancing, but took two steps to the left. Mickey took two steps to the left.
..."Hey, you're a really good dancer," he said, white teeth gleaming behind what now seemed like a vaguely satanic goatee. "We should get together when we're back in L.A."
...[Joy King:] "Yeah, I've been hanging with Stephanie, you know, and she's just so clingy and it's starting to drive me nuts. I mean, I wanted to dance with you guys and she just wouldn't let me." My face must have twisted at this point because she said, "Oh, now that I've told you I'm bi, you probably won't dance with me."
...I ran all the way back to my hotel, where I called Doug and told him I'd had enough. "They were like vampires," I said. "It was like because I wrote an article, they thought I might be one of them."
...I like Stormy Daniels, a Wicked contract girl who gives strip-club bouncers a picture of her mom with instructions to keep her out. "Believe me," she said, "there's nothing more disturbing than standing buck-ass naked and looking between your legs to see your mom standing at the edge of the stage holding a dollar bill."
Trstian Taormino, the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, says John Stagliano is the Steven Spielberg of porn.
Right, and Adult Video News is the bible of porn.
Tristan writes: "I was frustrated and ultimately depressed that one actress drank on my set, and it definitely affected her performance. One performer was very guarded, an impenetrable (and protective?) shield around her no matter how she got f-----."
Tristan concludes: "I do believe I can change the world. One feminist porn video at a time."
Tera Patrick writes on page 111: "Then there were nameless, maladjusted assholes who choked me unconscious while having sex with me, and never paid me."
Who did this to Tera?
There's no union like the Screen Actors Guild for sex workers, to protect girls from malicious creeps whose only shot at a second of false self-esteem is to hol da girl's orifice open with speculums, defecating in her throat, while having a dozen different guys rape her bleeding ass.
Who does that? Max Hardcore isn't one-tenth that vile.
Mason writes about directing her Dirty Trixxx series: "More than documenting, I was spiritually and sexually evolving. It was amidst this perpetual flow of adrenaline, excitement, and creativity that I knew I'd found myself for the first time in my life."
Mason describes her heartache at parting with Patrick Collins.
In the span of a month [after signing with LFP], my world was turned upside down. From signing my best contract ever and beginning to shoot my first movie for Hustler, a corporate reshuffle took place. The direction of the company was redirected, and I was call in for a meeting at the Hustler building in Beverly Hills.
In that meeting two men in suits I'd never met before, and who'd never seen any of my movies, took turns lecturing me about why the videos I produce are morally wrong and degrading to women.