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We Need An Interview Magazine For Porn Stars
Crossed with Biography magazine and Vanity Fair.
Porn magazine publishers want porn stars. Unless the girl has never been seen and will never be seen elsewhere, they don't want her. They'd rather feature a known porn star because that will help sell their magazine more efficiently than a so-called amateur model who three other magazines have.
What's With The Middle Finger?
Sooper writes on XPT: "Question for you longtimers/insiders. What's the deal with all the porn whores giving the middle finger in photos, is it code for "I take it in the ass for $$$" Where did it start? Is it the porn equivalent of Kilroys painted on overpasses?"
What Will Gail Harris Bring To LFP Internet?
Sexycity writes on JBM: "That's a blessing. Hustler's site tours are wretched for a company that has so much amazing content in its vaults. They just got hosted galleries this year, fancy that."
Best I can see and from what tattlers have told Gail Harris is acting as something of a business development and clean up consultant to Larry Flynt. She has been a behind the scenes player for years. Her own company Falcon Foto is one of the largest suppliers of images to the web and to magazines.
Gail has been rumored to be going through the company finding ways for Larry to make more money and grow out the business.
She floated a list of ways to trim fat in the Internet division and its now making more money. Rumor has it that next year will be even bigger. Gail was the one who originally brought Webquest to Jim Kohls to design the sites; Webquest must have convinced Kohls to let them run the whole thing instead.
She is currently working with the video division. Gail has been around since the beginning of the Internet and has a history of knowing who to put in business with each other. She created Barely Legal and Hometown Girls and knows what she is talking about when it comes to knowing what sells and who can best sell it.
Her bio found in an old Internext guide says:
GAIL HARRIS - Gail Harris was rated the 12th most important person in the adult industry by the UK’s Arena Magazine and who USA Today ranked among the Web's most innovative and profitable entrepreneurs, is an icon having created, developed and produced from conception the Larry Flynt publication Hustler’s Barely Legal, one of the most prolific publications and brands standing second only to Hustler Magazine by outselling all but one of Flynt’s 50 or more titles. The launch of Barely Legal revolutionized the industry with 22 copycat titles appearing, as well as format changes in established publications and in the video medium. Gail proved her vision again with a second title Hometown Girls published in partnership with Flynt and equally coveted in the men’s magazine world, currently Flynt’s 3rd top earner. Falcon Foto’s third announcement of a new title Virgins Magazine created a bidding war before the concept was even released. At the same time, Gail founded Falcon Foto, which today stands as one of the world’s most prominent providers of soft adult entertainment material to the publishing and Internet industries with a library covering a vast diversity of models in over 17 main niches. Today, until Ms. Harris’ management, Falcon Foto serves as the major licensor of adult material to the print publishing groups contributing approximately 50% of all content in the industry and as one of the largest providers of adult photo content on the Internet.
Jack writes:
Nicisgirls.com is not working now, and it seems that instead she has launched this site www.bellamodels.com . Does this mean that Nici's girls escorts just transfer over to a new entity and that the Nicisgirls name has to be thrown away to avoid something legally?
Why sell the domain like that and why doesn't she just say it's her on the site instead of putting "Mona" and "Alexa." It's a nice site though. I got sidetracked doing searches on your site, and it says Nici aka Michelle has had plastic surgery! Wow.
That site is clearly her though. The text.. what also what gave it away, Look at the blue panties and blue gloves on the reservations page. That's the same photos she used on her old site but cropped. I need to pull myself away from the computer, I've been reading tons on your site and two hours have gone by.
Where Are All These 'Loose Women' My Pastor Keeps Warning Me About?
I'll bet I could resist a loose woman, no problem, if I could ever find one. Sometimes, I imagine myself resisting as many as three or four at a time. Abraham was commanded by the Good Lord Himself to sacrifice his own son as a trial of his faith, and Abraham almost did it, too, before the Lord stayed his hand and told him he'd passed the test. Well, if Abraham's faith was as strong as that, you'd think the least the Good Lord could do is send me one loose woman and see how I stand up in a real-life test of faith.
Just a couple of loose women, leaning lasciviously on the hood of a sports car or something, like in my cousin's hot-rod magazines, would be more than enough for me to feel my faith had been adequately proven before the Lord.
Steve Hirsch And His Younger Brother Brad Organize Dramatic Intervention To Save The Lives Of Heroin Addicts David Schlesinger And His Nude Model Girlfriend Kaylyn Lyman
Last week, Steve and company got them into separate rehab houses.
Kaylyn (a former stripper) escaped from her rehab house last night but turned herself back in today.
As an incentive to David to go into rehab, Hirsch promised him a job if he cleaned up his act.
Steve Hirsch flew David Schlesinger's best friends from around the country into Los Angeles to make this intervention (Steve was not there).
Schlesinger was on a dramatic downward spiral and appeared headed for death.
I do not believe that Schlesinger is divorced from his Persian wife Tali, but he's been together with Kaylyn for over two years.
Kaylyn's family want her to get her act together and to sever all contact with porn and with Schlesinger.
Gary Kremen says Schlesinger ripped sex.com for over $100k several years ago. Gary wonders if David have used the money for drugs.
Around 1990, Steve Hirsch and some of his porner friends went to rehab to get clean from cocaine addiction.
Someone who knows Kaylyn Lyman emails me: "Please keep my email, and if you ever get in touch with that bastard [David Schlesinger], let him know that there are alot of angry family members of Kaylyns and it's in his best interests to stay away from her."
LFP Leaving Webquest
[Dec 27: Webquest Demands A Retraction]
Webquest (one of internet porn's most prestigious and respected companies) has handled all of LFP's online ventures for the past five or so years. Now I hear they are parting ways.
A source writes: "Have you done any write-ups on the reason why LFP is leaving Webquest? There is a juicy story there, a web of lies and deception. Larry gets f---ed part II."
On LFP's side, they certainly believe they've been screwed by Webquest and its owner Ken Lawson (company is run by Bruce Bonaventura and Kjell).
Many people at Webquest are nervous about their jobs.
LFPers are convinced that Webquest has ripped them off. I don't think many, if any of the Webquest people, will catch on at LFP.
Only now is Larry Flynt catching on what a crummy job Webquest has been doing for them.
If LFP leaves Webquest, I suspect that Steve Hirsch and Vivid will leave Webquest too.
LFP used to display incredible incompetence with the Web (under Tony Tang and Jonathan Donner). Larry Flynt may have no idea what he's doing here. He's had various people running his own Web programs and they were awful. Ken Lawson and Bruce Bonaventura are known as straight-up honest guys. There may be misconceptions on LFP's side.
According to Pornogossip.com, Gail Harris will be brought in to run LFP's internet operation and there will be a ton of layoffs at Webquest.
I guess it would make sense with the Hustler party being thrown at AVN / Internext. It is my understanding it is for business partners/clients of all of the hustler businesses - online, print, dvd sales ... etc.
Either way I don't think it's that interesting or that it will have that much effect on anybody - the company will continue to be run well either way. Only real difference is - that if it is real news - that maybe some of the webquest people that work with the hustler product line will move over to the new entity.
Hooper writes on JBM: "Would that mean hustler moving away from Jumbo? That would be a lot of link codes to change, and they have their own back-end ready?"
Webquest employees have noticed strange things happening in the past few days as the company prepares to retrench.
EleganceandChaos writes on Holly's new blog:
Your comment about feeling isolated when you were young is totally contrary to the person I envision when I see your photographs. Your work suggests that you would be very outspoken and have a strong personal vision. Either you out grew your introverted nature or you found an outlet for it in your work.
I asked a model at a recent convention what it was like to work for you and your mother. She said your mother looked like the quiet Grandmother type (I guess the knitting gives that impression), but she had the most explicit and outrageous things to say during the shoot. An outspoken lady to be sure, but the british accent made it all sound charming and funny.
She said you were a great fan of English literature. It would be great to see those historical references reflected in your own work.
It will be interesting to see how your work evolves in the next few years. I am big fan of shadow and contrast. I find that it is what you don't see and have to imagine that is more erotic than what you see. It is something I am trying to get better at in my own work.
Rita Cosby - LIVE! From Porn Valley
Gail Dines droned on and on about the exploitation of vulnerable young women, drugged-out, sexually abused, too dumb to make the right decisions, willing to submit to violence--physically, mentally, and sexually, too immature to know they are perpetuating the misery women suffer at the hands of men day in and day out. Most women in the porn industry are feminists, believing in equality, just not the ones foaming at the mouth in hysteria so you'd swear they had rabies type of control freaks like you find with Catharine MacKinnon, Gail Dines, and the late, great Andrea Dworkin.
Skronker writes:
Serious shilling for Vivid, wow. If they spent less time promo-ing the next 10 minute segment in the show they might have covered some ground, but it was amazingly shallow and chirpy. The "Katya" wasn't even Katja. It was more fun watching Melissa Lauren in a dildo fight on "Stern" later.
The "angry feminist" [Gail Dines] was the only person who actually had a goddamn thing to say. How funny that after 3 years of hardcore ADT'ing ... I agree with her!
Lindi writes: "They also left a general impression that Vivid's work conditions are the norm, and when discussing how much porn performers earned, they skimmed over the whole thing with a comment that some, like Jenna Jameson, make millions every year. It was interesting, but pretty sloppy journalism."
Veronica Mars writes:
Rita (aka Husky McHuskington)is so annoying, it's a good thing so few people even bother to watch MSNBC.
But the story was terrible. If you are mildly interested in porn all the way to Bono-One into porn, I can't see that you got anything out of that 1 hour infomerical for Chi-Chi, Monique, and Vivid. I wouldn't mind sitting down with Chi-Chi one day for lunch, "he" seems very nice.
I never like to diss any of the girls in the business, but I just don't get how Monique is so special to be a Vivid girl. If you're a very hot woman, wouldn't you be nuts to pass up Vivid money and not having to work as hard? Yet, Monique wouldn't even be close to being in my top 10 most attractive women in the business.
She and the show really left you with the impression that there was "classy" porn like Vivid and that the rest of the girls in the business were idiots who were being used and abused by slimy men who only live to degrade women.
Quasarman writes: "I have no solution to offer. I just think that many of the girls who enter the biz are immature and naive and maybe they don't understand that they can say no if they're uncomfortable being donkey punched or spat upon or choked etc."
TonyC writes: "As long as there's an audience sufficiently devoid of a conscience to buy whatever it is that gets their rocks off, regardless of how questionable the circumstances of it's production, their will be people who are in sufficiently desparate/vulnerable straights that they will appear doing whatever on camera, and people sufficiently devoid of a conscience willing to video tape it."
Ernest Greene aka Ira Levine writes:
Does anyone but me find it amusing and slightly ironic that Dines, an outspoken leftist of the type who usually can't get three seconds of airtime on any national network, rates expert status when it comes to porn?
Anti-porn feminists furiously reject the charge of carrying water for the religious right on this issue, but if any of them tried to espouse their views on, say, the Iraq War, they wouldn't get past the security guards at the studio. Only when they provide some semi-respectable intellectual cover to the anti-sexual agenda of the fundies do they merit national media access.
If these miserable, self-seeking party hacks took a moment to subject their own conduct to the rigorous scrutiny they prescribe for the rest of society, their blatant pandering to the prejudices of retrogressive reactionaries who bitterly oppose them on every other issue that concerns the status of women would cause them to vomit from their own hypocrisy.
I guess some people will do just about anything but fuck to get their mugs on America's TV screens. I suppose they consider their form of prostitution more noble for the worthiness of its cause.
TonyC responds: "Ernest, relax. It's just a cable TV news show. What's that next to the $57B/year porn industry?"
Ernest Greene replies:
I wouldn't underestimate the usefulness of Dines and her friends to Alberto Gonzales and other, more powerful forces that favor censorship. It was Catherine MacKinnon who dragged Linda Lovelace in front of the Meese Commission for the - pardon the expression - dog and pony show that we always hear about whenever "victims of porn" are trotted out to inflame the right-wing base. Of course, MacKinnon and friends dropped Lovelace like a hot rock as soon as she'd served their purposes, but that part seems to have been forgotten.
There's a whole new generation of leftie porn-bashers writing books like Pornified and Female Chauvinist Pigs with the intention of reviving the bitter divisions among First Amendment supporters that arose over porn twenty years ago.
So far, they've done pretty well for themselves when it comes to getting attention from mainstream media outlets, and that is not a good thing for anybody who wants to continue to make or enjoy porn of any kind.
One thing we don't need is new enemies, or old enemies in new drag. It's dangerously complacent to assume the mighty economic engine of porn commerce can't be gummed up by dedicated fanatics of whatever persuasion.
TonyC writes: "There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans!"
Ernest replies: "You don't think there is?"
Skronker responds: "The whole show was a joke, but Dines was the only one with anything coherent to say. Unfortunately, since it was (as she accurately portrayed it) an unpaid infomercial for Vivid, there was no chance of any actual debate or insight about or into the porn industry."
Ernest replies:
Oh yeah, Dines is coherent all right, and consistent too. If you want to know what she and her pals envision for our future, check out this URL.
Not like anybody's out there plotting or planning anything bad towards porn.
Nah, sheer paranoia, right?
TonyC responds:
Don't you know how it works, Ernest?
MSNBC did a 60 informercial for porn in general and Vivid in particular. Why? Because they want to put tits and ass on the TV and call it news. One of the narrative demands of this form of "journalism" is to present the opposing point of view.
Dain's got her PhD (from a very respected university no less), published her books, and taken her stand. In short, she's earned her right to play opposite Chi Chi Larue and do her shtick. You don't want to see her on TV anymore? Then tell your buddies to stop accepting MSNBC's invitations to go on TV. No more porn producers on TV, no more anti-porn crusaders. It's as simple as that.
In the meantime, relax and enjoy all that porn has given you (I find counting my money helps). It's no more dangerous to be a producer of pornography that it is to be a performer; which is to say that in the last ten years, the number of producers charged with obsenity is not much bigger than the number of performers that have contract HIV on porn sets.
Take some simple steps now against the possiblity that the hammer comes down, and be ready to cash in. There's no more profitable time to be a distiller than during prohibition!
Ernest Greene responds:
We just shut up and the opposition team politely retires to the locker room. Obviously, it's self-promoting porn producers who power the fevered efforts of Focus on the Family and the Department of Justice and Sam Brownback to continue to pursue censorship.
I have no problem with Dines and her comrades having their say, though media opportunities for porn bashers are far more common than those for porn defenders, but that doesn't immunize her from criticism anymore than it does us.
If criticisms like hers go unanswered, it's assumed by neutral readers that there are no answers, and that is not the case.
I wouldn't be so complacent about the ill-effects such "expert testimony" can produce. People like Dines get cited at obscenity trials all the time. Should you ever end up facing a hostile jury in Podunk, you may not find these little exercises in rhetoric quite so benign.
And don't think such a situation couldn't arise. During the Bush administration, only two big names in the Porn world have thus far had the boot through the door. But around the country there have been over 60 prosecutions in the past four years, mostly of small web sites whose content was considered over the edge. The longest sentence in memory, five years, no parole, was just given out to a small operator in that category.
Given that the the edge moves unpredictably depending on which Federal DAs are handing out the indictments, I wouldn't assume there is such thing as safe content. And the feds have much less hesitation about picking on small producers who they know lack the money for long legal battles and are therefore likely to plead out to some lesser charge, enabling the government to claim a conviction even if the defendent never saw the inside of a courtroom.
Frankly, you have a lot more to worry about here than I do. I make mostly instructional films for a big, conservative company with plenty of legal resources to defend itself.
As a producer who makes more daring pictures, and who seems to regard himself as an advocate of alternative approaches that don't conform to anti-porn feminist stereotypes, I would think you'd have more interest than most in challenging the crticisms of Dines and her allies, left and right.
This is a long, long battle that will still be going on after we're both gone. I wouldn't necessarily expect either of us to remain above the fray indefinitely.
Roxy Jezel discusses Descartes, Aristotle, stuff!
"For example, the image of a chair. How does one know that it is a chair?"
Did you know that Roxy Jezel has a degree in philosophy and ethics, with a specialization in political philosophy? No kidding. Watch her expound on the stuff she studied in this video interview. By the way, she's naked.
I recently realized that Roxy is an insanely cute piece of ass and an awesome perfomer. What I didn't know is that she's also well-read, articulate, charismatic, and funny. Totally doesn't fit the porn girl stereotype. She should be in grad school or something.
I love how she describes her Aristotle studies as "this bo-ring, bo-ring thing" and gives "big ups" to east end London.
Lost Horizon writes:
I'd be more impressed if she hadn't entirely confused Plato (proponent of the theory of forms) and Aristotle (rejected Plato's theory of forms).
I do like when the guy asks her "What is your concept of God?" I'd love to see a documentary made up entirely of porn professionals' responses to that question.
Katja Kassin writes: "I try to stay away from certain discussions. I might talk about my opinions in a private environment but I don't think that the world needs to know what some porn starlet has to say about religion, politics, abortion, death penalty and hard topics like that... I show my tits every day and I get f---ed in the ass on film, it just feels kind of inappropriate for me."
MorbidThoughts writes: "There was this one bit that Dave Chappelle did in one of his standup comedy routine where he would answer the question, "So who did you vote for?" with a "Whoaa whoaa whoaa don't you think that's personal? So I f---ed my wife in the ass last night..."
XrickyromaX writes: "Dave was making a joke about white people being secretive about their politics. He said black people will tell you, loudly, how they're gonna vote. Compared to white people, who tend to act like it's very personal information. He thinks it's funny that some guy around the water cooler will tell you about the sex he had last night, but won't tell you how he voted."
Rogue writes: "Ever wondered why there is a number of people with humanities degrees involved in porn? Roxy offers the reason right there: those degrees don't lead to jobs which make good money."
T. L. Tycoon writes: "The last thing a porno consumer wants to know is how book-smart these girls are."
Dec 19. Tall slender blonde Aaliyah Jolie says she's been in porn since August. She's done about 20 scenes.
Luke: "What prompted you to get into it?"
Aaliyah: "Nadia Hilton is from my same home town."
Luke: "What are your plans?"
Aaliyah: "To do porn for four years and then go back to New York. I'm a cosmetologist. I'll have a business there. Build my house. Invest. I have a baby. I take care of my son."
I didn't realize that Barrett Blade has been married to Kristen Price for over a year.
Barrett appeared in all the early Digital Playground features but they haven't used him for over a year.
Tory Lane's mom tells her to get out on the dance floor. "There's no point in coming to a party like this unless you dance."
I walk into the bathroom. It makes me nervous to urinate in front of other guys. Unless I can find my own private stall, the adrenalin pumps and I can't pee.
I find my stall. Silvio standing up to the urinal and repeatedly sings, "Luke, don't write anymore bulls--- about me." It plays havoc with my release.
I run into Tony T and ask about the director Mason.
Tony: "She's been in the company [Anabolic] for nine months and she got fired three weeks ago."
I ask Chris, the owner of Anabolic, if Mason has been fired. He says no. He says Mason is still with his company.
Tony: "She was at another company, in the office, to get a job and she got rejected. She doesn't know what she's doing and she's a ruthless bitch. She's dumb to use my name [as someone who threatened her over the Delilah Strong affair]. She offered me $2,500 to perform in scenes. She can go f--- herself."
Luke: "When you called her about Delilah Strong, what did you say and what did she say?"
Tony: "She used my name. He [Chris Charming] was there that day when the s--- happened."
Chris, from Germany, nods. I don't think he wants to get into the middle of a controversy.
Luke: "Mason says you threatened her."
Tony: "I did threaten her. That wasn't a threat. I was going to do it. I keep my word.
"That dumb motherf----- Yani [a friend of Mason's who was on set for the Delilah Strong incident], she's running around with. She uses my name."
Luke: "What shape was Delilah Strong in when you saw her?"
Tony: "She was f-----up."
Luke: "How so?"
Tony: "She was crying."
Luke: "Was she swollen?"
Tony: "She was bruised, swollen, crying like crazy.
"We do porn, man. We're not trying to kill people. On top of all of that, [Mason] brings my name into it when I had nothing to do with it.
"Mason will never go anywhere in this business. Everybody knows who she is and everybody knows who Tony T is."
I turn to Charming. "Chris, you were on the set where Delilah got hurt. What happened?"
Chris, in stumbling English: "There were two scenes. In the first scene, I got only that her toe was hurting her. I don't know how it happened. They didn't know it was broken.
"The scene was long. It wasn't easy. It was a hardcore scene. We were laying in dirt. Sawdust was flying around.
"When she left, she was in pain.
"I didn't recognize what happened to her until after the scene. And it didn't happen in my scene [with Delilah]."
Charming has been in porn for ten years.
The Hot, New Adult Trend
Hate to disappoint the... tight asses of the world, but what all three mothers have in common, besides having daughters in the porn business, is that they are tremendously proud of those daughters. The family that porns together, stays together.
Which porn families would Mike Ramone consider good strong healthy families? Which relationships where at least one partner is a porn star have lasted? There may be exceptions, but overwhelmingly porn relationships don't last.
So no, the family that porns together does not stay together. How many people truly believe that it is just peachy for a mother and father to be proud that their daughter gets f---- up the ass for a living? How many healthy parents dream that their children will grow up to be porn stars?
If one's loved son or daughter gets into porn, and you want to maintain your relationship with the kid, then you are not going to criticize their porn choice (or the kid will reject you). So parents whose kids are porn stars and come around industry events are unlikely to tell reporters they hate the industry.
If you polled parents whose kids got into porn, I suspect you'd find that 98% of parents were disappointed. Even porners rarely want their kids to get into the industry.
The Hustler Tattler Gift Guide
The Hustler Tattler writes:
With the holidays almost upon us, the Hustler Tattler presents some lovely gift ideas. Whether you’re Christian, Jewish, or Other, these Hustler-inspired presents will warm the cackles of your heart, the sub-cackles, and maybe even your colon.
LA Direct Model's Party Update
I run into Vince Voyeur. "I published something bad somebody wrote to me about you," I say. "What are you doing now?"
"I'm directing features for Zero Tolerance," since Vince.
Silvio and Billy Banks get a hold of me and correct my report on last Thursday's shoot.
Silvio: "Silvio's a businessman, not a penitentiary man. Fix that s---. Silvio's never been to the pen. I was just talking s---."
Luke: "You said you were."
Silvio: "I was just talking s---. I was just having fun with Tony Eveready, making the black man feel good."
Billy explains that he doesn't talk to anyone before a scene. It was nothing personal against me.
Silvio: "Take that s--- off about Silvio. And I don't have no kids, dude!"
Nick East says I'm like Gorillas in the Mist ("The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them"). "We converted you to become one of us," says Nick. "Instead of you just watching from the outside, you became a part of it. Now you are one of us. And you're much happier."
JMT writes: "Gorillas in the Mist is the wrong movie."
I chat with Tory Lane (still with her husband Rick Shameless despite rumors to the contrary), who introduces me to her mother. They say they're best friends. Before Tory entered porn, she told her mom, "I'm going to get my slice of the pie." Her mom said, "Get the whole pie."
They cheer when I repeat the story into my taperecorder.
Losing My Religion At LA Direct Model's Party
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Monday afternoon, Holly Randall asked me via AIM if I was going to the LADM party that night.
I was so taken aback (after not having heard of the party) that I had to drive to Ralph's to buy ten pounds of orange, eight pounds of bananas and 100 feet of mint dental floss before I could answer her.
Still, I felt empty inside. Insecure. Needy.
So off I drove to the drug store and bought a Black & Decker Crush Master to make my smoothies.
Getting and spending, I laid waste my powers.
"Where's the party?" I finally asked Holly.
"It's invite only," she replied.
I didn't want to crash. I had too much pride to go uninvited.
"I guess I'm not going," I told Holly.
Holly agreed to give up dope if I gave up listening to Debbie Gibson. Perhaps if I gave up Air Supply and Barry Manilow, she'd quit drinking.
I emailed LADM and asked for permission to come to their party.
Lisa Ann said sure. I called her for the location. "Are you bringing someone?" she asked.
"No," I said.
"Bring Holly," she said.
"That's a good idea. OK."
Holly calls at 5:32pm.
"Your moral leader," I answer.
"Pfff...At least one of us knows what we're doing.
"Our baby horse was dying when my mom came down. By the time the vet came there, she was dead. [The horse was worth about $10,000.] It was an illegitimate horse."
Luke: "The parent's weren't married?"
Holly: "The mother was still a yearling. One of the young stallions boinked her..."
Luke: "Without a condom?"
Holly: "Irresponsible horses."
Extremely refreshing candor and honesty from Holly...We all know Luke demands and actively seeks out a woman with strong moral fiber and a functioning moral compass...his patience and integrity have been rewarded with just about the closest approximation of a perfect woman today. Luke is a role model for all of us here who only vicariously practice perversion through the pornography we watch, but who in real life are decent, upstanding and respectful males who open doors and pull out chairs for ladies, kiss ladies on the hand, and throw their $500 coats in 3 feet wide puddles of mud to allow a lady to cross unsullied.
And Holly, the concerned progressive pornography prodigy with an old world personal values index ...who wants her girls to be happy with their bodies, who lovingly practices minimally invasive lube procudures during dildo shoots, who prefers to avoid potential conflict of interest sex with talent, and who likes the natural order of things (cock) as opposed to the unnatural...Holly and Luke are the older brother/sister role model couple for the porn industry, for both talent and fans alike.
(Is it just me or does Holly continue to produce as much, if not more heat/wood as any cum guzzling chick who frequents this board?)
At 6pm, Derek emailed me back: "You can come if Holly comes with you. The Port, 12430 Riverside Drive."
I called Holly. She's booked to go to the party with her ex-boyfriend and coworker Chris.
She said to print Derek's email. She laughed that I can only get into the party if I go with her.
After a decade of responsible porn journalism, I'm debased to the point where I have to ride a beaver photographer into a party. Combined with the Cowboys late-season collapse, my life is grim.
Holly called me at 9:38pm as they wee pulling away.
They beat me to the party in Valley Village by 20-minutes.
That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight. Losing my religion. Trying to keep up with you. And I don't know if I can do it. Oh no I've said too much. I haven't said enough. I thought that I heard you laughing. I thought that I heard you sing. I think I thought I saw you try. Every whisper of every waking hour I'm choosing my confessions trying to keep an eye on you like a hurt lost and blinded fool. Oh no I've said too much. I set it up.
I run into Holly. She's leaving a message on my cell phone.
The slip that brought me to my knees failed. What if all these fantasies come flailing around. Now I've said too much.
The ratio of "Happy holidays" to "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Chanukkah" greetings I receive are about 8-1-1.
In 100-minutes, I take more than 200 in-focus photos.
12:16pm. Holly's had a few shots and a few beers.
Chris asks her back to the dance floor.
I leave.
That was just a dream.
XXX writes: "Apparently a lot of girls have a beef with Tiffany Taylor. Too bad no one threw down -- that would have been fun. I think they should all duke it out in pillow fights. How hot would that be?"
Jane writes: "Luke, have you got a therapist? You are really weirding out on your site about Holly Randall. You should talk to someone about it."
Vilnii writes:
You guys have already broken up? The relationship did not survive a second fight? Duke FLAWED...I repeat hopeless hopeless Duke FLAWED! What have you done?
That's my last Shiksa painted on the web,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now:
Worked busily a day, and there
she stands.
Chaim Amalek writes: "Make her name Rivka Toussant, and your name Leon Slutsky. She will be black, you will be white, and your respective families do not approve. Romeo Juliet, that sort of thing, over the race issue. Other than that one change, I'd keep everything the same."
Boy Vey!: The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men by Kristina Grish.
What Makes Holly Cry?
Holly Randall writes on her chatboard on Suze.net:
Just to get to know my members better, I've devised a short but interesting poll for those who wish to be involved to fill out. I've given my answers:
* What makes you cry?
Reading lukeisback. It's just so heartfelt.
Sappy Disney movies and sad dogs.
* What makes you angrier than anything else?
Lukeisback. He's just so mean.
Littering. And that includes throwing your cigarette butts on the street!
* If you could live anywhere else in the world, where would it be?
Jerusalem.
Capri, Italy.
* What is the one accomplishment in your life that you are the most proud of?
Absorbing all Luke has to give me.
Graduating from UCLA.
* If you could be anything or anyone else in the world, who would it be?
Mother of Luke's 12 children.
My parent's dog Oscar-- that animal has the best life ever.
* What one thing would you like to do that also scares the hell out of you?
Going down under.
Shark cage diving.
* If you had any other job in the world besides what you do currently, what would it be?
Escort.
High school English teacher.
* What is one of the most magical moments in your life that you will always remember?
Meeting Luke at the AVN Awards in January 2005.
Buying my first album -- Debbie Gibson.
My first time scuba diving. A baby sea lion swam up to me and playfully tugged at my flippers with his teeth, and then came directly up to me face to face, it's eyes about 6 inches from mine, and stayed there staring at me for a while. It gave me what seemed like a smile, and swam off. I'll never forget that.
Obscenity Sentence Called the Stiffest in Recent Times
BILLINGS, Mont. — Adult distributor Sanford Wasserman, who sold such videos as “Physically Raped,” “Anything Goes” and “Rape and Sodomize,” has been sentenced by a federal judge to five years in prison without the possibility of parole for conspiring to distribute obscene videotapes.
Where There Is No Torah, There Is Interspecies Breeding
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
Next time a porner says this, I'd like to him consider that humans also routinely rape, murder and pillage.
That people routinely do something does not make it morally ok.
Child rape, for example, is just one form of sex. Consensual marital sex is another form of sex. Pornography is another form of sex. These various forms of sex have nothing in common with each other aside from being sex.
Context is king in these matters. All humans defecate, but those who do it in public are perverts and threats to society.
AVN Editor Mike Ramone replies: "My response: to equate consenting porners having sex with rape, murder and pillage is ludicrous. I would also remind my Aussie, God-worshipping acquaintance of the millions of innocents throughout the centuries who have been raped and murdered in the name of religion. Again, religion is way more obscene than porn could ever hope to be. And hence, religious critics of adult are hypocrites of the worst kind. They should concentrate on cleaning their own house."
Jack writes:
I was wondering how pierre woodman protects himself and his women participants against aids and other std's. sometimes pierre wears a condom, but sometimes he does not. he performs anal sex on most of the girls. His films imply that shortly after his interview with the usually naive girls, that he has sex with them. the quick timing seems to not allow for a hiv test which would protect him and her. Do you know whether pierre is being reckless, or whether the Private / Hustler films he did or does provide some assurance of disease-free sex?
Dave Pounder Interview
He calls me back Monday night, Dec 19. "I never left the business. The press release I originally sent out said that I was retiring from performing. But I was still executive producing and consulting for various companies."
Are there any other Executive Producers in porn? How about Associate Producers? Or Senior Producers?
"All these websites said I was retiring.
"You can't be in grad school [he was studying to get his PhD at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University (IU)] and doing scenes. That would upset the university. At the same time, I have so much distribution just built into the business, it would be stupid to walk away from it.
"I'm still with my fiance.
"I decided to leave IU after one semester because I didn't see value in getting a PhD in telecommunications. The only way a PhD adds value is if you want to teach and do research and be a professor. My background has always been in data analysis. Getting a PhD, all you're doing is reading hundreds of books and writing papers. You're not really analyzing data. It was more of an academic process than a research process.
"An entry-level professor in telecommunications doesn't make that much money, about $55,000 a year.
"My goal in going to Indiana was to become Dr. Porn and be available as a consultant to both the government, Adult companies, and perhaps the CDC (Center for Disease Control), people who wanted an expert to give them advice.
"The regular industry doesn't value PhDs. If you have a PhD in anything, they don't care.
"I'm sending money back to LA and having my directors shoot for me while I own all the rights. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays in the business for 40 years and that's all I know.
"I prefer to have a regular job and have porn just be a side income through executive producer. I'm going to be the Jerry Bruckheimer of porn."
Luke: "You wrote in today's email: 'I am available as a producer, director, or talent for your projects.'"
Dave: "Everybody wants to book me for talent because I've done tons of scenes. I've only directed about 40 scenes (Cybernet, Dane, Day Dream). You know how car dealerships advertise a car that's not available. I mention 'talent' as a way to build a relationship and then say, 'I don't do that now, but how about shooting content?'
"I do a lot of stuff on the side -- real estate investing, stock investing... I'm concerned about the longterm viability of being in porn, both socially and professionally. I'm making porn my hobby."
Luke: "How does your fiance feel about you shooting porn?"
Dave: "She doesn't like it. When I was doing porn before and working at the bank, that was ideal. There was no stress. I had my regular job and if I felt like making a couple of hundred extra bucks, I'd jump into a scene.
"The only reason Daydream is still going because I'm able to consult with them because of all the knowledge I have of the business. People don't realize that 95% of new Adult businesses fail. Look at huge companies like Jill Kelly. I've heard stories about distributors going out of business [Lava Distributing for instance]... DVDs are going to be obsolete. Everything will be digital and on-demand. Most DVD distributors are going to go out of business.
"I'm doing a phased-withdrawal [from porn]. I'm not going to be hanging around on sets. I know people in the business who are screwing around on their wives. I'm going to be faithful and committed. I've never cheated on my fiance and I don't intend to, and the best way to do that is to not put myself in production environments where there are all these hot 18-year olds walking around, many of which come on to you. It's difficult as a guy to say no to that.
"All the mainstream stuff I did. When I went on Blind Date, I know when it airs because I log-in and I have all these sales on my website. There's so much content out there... But if you can sell the customer before they walk in the door, if they say, 'I want a Dave Pounder video,' then all those other titles don't matter.
"The way to do that is to go on mainstream television as the porn guy and get your name out there. The business model worked out well. I could do it indefinitely. I don't want any government change or technology change to stifle everything."
Luke: "What price have you paid socially and in interpersonal relations because of your participation in porn?"
Dave: "Nothing. Once you get to know someone, all that stuff doesn't matter. Take a woman who has a child. Most people say, 'I would never date a woman who has a child. I'd have a constant reminder of the other guy.' But so many girls with kids still have boyfriends. It still baffles me.
"It's not like you killed anyone. People have sex. Who cares?
"Once you're in porn and you make friends, you don't know if they like you or if they are trying to use you as a tool to get around porn. Like any other quasi-celebrity, you're going to be suspicious."
WTF Penthouse? December's Pet is Bella Star?
Mutt writes on GFY: "Bob Guccione is spinning in his grave and he's only got one foot in it. This is how you rebuild and reposition a dying skin magazine that was once a titan? With Penthouse Pets like Jamie Lynn and Bella Star - wtf - these are girls who have been nude modeling for 3 and 4 years - ATK, Karups, MattsModels and probably 100 other websites have had these girls in them for years. How friggin lazy can you be?"
Inthestars writes: "Bella is a magnificent Penthouse Pet of the month. She wonderfully kind and sincere with fans as I've noted on two occasions (AEE and Adultcon 8). To many people, she will be a new girl because she's exclusively G/G in porn films."
DeanCapture writes: "I've worked with both of those girls (as well as other Penthouse girls) and I'm thrilled for both of them. Jamie is an amazing girl with an awesome body and a wonderful personality. Not only that, she's one of the most professional girls I've ever worked with. She's always punctual, always prepared and always gives 110%. The fact that she's modeled for a few years doesn't both me in the least. I can't say enough great stuff about Bella either. Both of those girls worked hard for their recognition and they deserve it."
Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes:
These are photos from the Pet of the Year party in NYC and I think anyone would agree, all of these Pets are gorgeous.
The “WTF” person obviously doesn’t know his Penthouse history because towards the last years Mr. Guccione was picking hard core porn stars as Penthouse Pets whom everyone had seen every which way. Examples: Briana Banks, Ava Vincent and Tera Patrick whom he also made Pet of the Year Runner Up 2002. Other Pets that I personally adore like Sunny Leone (Pet of the Year ’03), Victoria Zdrok (Pet of the Year ’04), Linn Thomas and Aria Giovanni had been in literally hundreds of magazines/websites before becoming Penthouse Pets. These were all “Guccione Girls.”
Jamie Lynn our current Pet of the Year has actually been in limited magazines, definitely more on websites and our Pet of the Year Runner Up Cassia Riley had never been in a magazine before, she didn’t have a website either.
Heather Vandeven the 1/05 Pet of the Month has never posed for any adult magazine before Penthouse. She’s gorgeous, smart, fun and striking. A great choice for Penthouse. Here she is at Howard Stern’s final show on terrestrial radio with Victoria Zdrok and Courtney Taylor. The woman in the glasses is Wendy the Retard from Stern’s Wack Pack.
Again, I don’t know what that guy is talking about. If anything under new ownership we’ve been getting models who are pretty exclusive to us.
Porn Withdrawals - A Chat With The Ex-Gangster
Luke: "What's it like hitting on civilian girls?"
Gangster: "It's a big let-down. You know what it's like."
Luke: "The sex is not as crazy?"
Gangster: "It's not as easy either. They think they have something special. Come on, it's the same. What's hard is for me not to act like that, like I had anything to do with porn.
"This girl said, 'Let's watch a [porn] movie.' I didn't tell her why I didn't want to watch it, because I knew everybody on there. But I can't bring it up. I never go to strip bars anymore."
Luke: "What do you tell your girlfriend about what you do for a living?"
Gangster: "That I'm a writer."
Will Academia's Loss Be Pornography's Gain?
On August 12, 2005, I got this press release:
Adult film producer/performer Dave Pounder has been admitted to the Ph.D. program in Telecommunications at Indiana University to study the social and psychological impacts of mediated sex and sexuality. “This is a tremendous opportunity to use empirical research methods to finally understand how people respond to sexual imagery in media and their effects on family relations, sexual perceptions, crime rates, and other related psychological and sociological factors,” said Pounder.
On Sept 17, I got this email:
Dave Pounder, adult film producer turned Ph.D. candidate, was profiled in the Sunday edition of the Bloomington Herald Times newspaper. Reporter Mike Leonard interviewed Pounder on why he made the transition from adult to academia and what he hopes to accomplish while in school.
In the article, Pounder says his content site [bikinibanger.com] gets half-a-million hits a day. "I was making a lot of money. A lot of money. I was living in a place with perfect weather (Irvine, California) and a great lifestyle, but the thing is, everybody I know in the adult industry isn't happy. Everybody who stays in the business, down the road, isn't happy. So why would I think I would be happy if I stayed in the business?"
These quotes are typical quotes of people leaving porn.
"What I'm trying to do is take what I've done in the business world and in the adult industry and leverage that to work for me rather than against me."
I love the euphemism of "adult work." In Dave Pounder's case, it means that among other things he ejaculated in women's faces for a living. How does one leverage that skill? How does one leverage one's on-camera porn work? How does one leverage the ability to shoot double-penetration?
I don't think many people have been able to do that. Overwhelmingly, porn work is going to hurt your social prospects more than it is going to help. For the majority of the planet's population, you are no longer going to be a real person. You are going to be the porner. That single fact will overwhelm everything else about you in the eyes of the majority.
Pounder says in the Herald-Times: "I have an MBA, but if I went and got a job at a bank, eventually people would find out I had a job in this business and it would create a major political hurdle for me."
Porn-using men may envy men who work in porn (and desire attractive young porn women) but they usually don't respect them to the point where they want to introduce the porners to their families, and tie their fortunes to those of the ex-porners.
"Believe me, no one in the business actually looks forward to the scenes. There are so many things to worry about it's more of a headache than anything else. The swinging lifestyle, that was fun."
Mike Leonard writes:
Pounder said he actually was a relatively conservative figure in the adult film industry. He believes that condoms should be mandatory and suggests that if they were, it would send the signal to viewers that unprotected sex is not cool. He believes that actors should be at least 21, not 18 as current laws permit. "They called me the Mr. Rogers of porn," he said with a chuckle.
I've never heard Dave Pounder called the Mr. Rogers of porn. I've heard that label applied to Robert Lombard by James DiGiorgio.
Also this fall, I got an email from Dave Pounder about him delivering a lecture at the Kinsey Institute.
On Nov 10, I got this reply from Dave when I asked him if he was still available for escorting: "Hey Luke, no I am not really doing anything at all while I am in school, aside from consulting and executive producing. I was on so many different sites for performing, escorting, etc. that it would be too time consuming to track them all down."
On Dec 19, I got this email from Dave Pounder:
I recently moved to Miami (Aventura/Sunny Isles area). I am available as a producer, director, or talent for your projects. I have several years of experience in the adult industry, having performed in hundreds of scenes (primarily in Los Angeles), directed for several companies (Daydream, Cybernet, Dane, etc.), and produced for both Dave Pounder Productions (my own company) and Daydream Entertainment. If you are interested in discussing ways we can work together, please contact me at your convienience. More information about me is available at the websites listed below. I plan to continue shooting for my bikinibanger.com site, so if you shoot camera, please let me know your rates.
Holly Randall Launches Her Blog
I dreamt of one day being famous, happy and beautiful, with a wonderful husband and gorgeous, intelligent children. I was so secure in my youth, I was so sure I was going to have the best life ever, and that I would always be so happy. I was a very solitary kid, I had almost no friends, and so indulging in these fantasies were a theraputic release from that current reality. That tree was my best friend.
....I'm not into girls. I realize it's a shame with all the beautiful women I'm surrounded by, but they just don't do it for me. (Plus I don't have sex with talent. It's just my rule.) I'm not particularly interested unless there is a cock involved. I've been with a woman twice in my life-- and both times there was a man involved. I'm very shy with women, whereas I'm very comfortable with men.
Holly on MySpace. Holly's website.
HollyRandall: oh god now people are actually going to read my blog
HollyRandall: sheesh i haven't even linked it to my site yet
Lukisback: I've made you and I can break you too.
HollyRandall: you can't break one who is already broken
Lukeisback: brokenness can make for some great writing...suffering for
your art.
HollyRandall: yes, that's probably why all the guys i date are totally
f---ed up
HollyRandall: no offense
Don't be leave Religion (not to say I don't believe In God, or what not, but religion it's self. I hate anyone or anything telling me how I should, act and feel about certain things).
"Seriously, I tell them exactly what I'm about to do and ask if they are OK with it, and I use all baby wipes, and touch them as little as possible. I am the lube queen. You have to put a lot on for it to show up in the photos."