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Vilnii writes:
Luke: Whomever you are dating - shiksa or no shiksa, you need to be exceedingly complimentary of the person whenever you refer to her. ...and I mean blatant praise not compliments couched in satire.
ALL I repeat ALL women are the same. If you are the man in their lives, they expect constant unvarnished praise and flattery. No woman has a thick skin in this respect. You should be willing to supply this if you wish to have a relationship with anyone.
Once you begin to criticize their cooking, their business etc, resentment builds slowly and simmers under the surface like a time bomb and regardless of what she says, will be vented upon you somehow. This is not new or unique, it's simply the nature of the game.
Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine By Allan MacDonell
I'm reading an advanced copy of this fascinating book that I've been looking forward to reading since I first heard about it three years ago.
Now that I am halfway through it, I can say confidently that it is the best porn-related book I've read in years.
MacDonnell writes:
Private sex videos never intended for public consumption crossed my desk, souvenirs that purported to show Ted Turner in a manic kinky mood with Jane Fonda, young Pam Anderson satisfying the singer from Poison, Chuck Berry despoiling a string of anonymous partners...Anna Nicole Smith playing the nude, inebriated seductress in a hotel bathtub, Mick Jagger captured by a crafty, spread-eagle stripper barely one-third his age, and Courtney Love cavorting with Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots.
Allan writes that after starting his car every morning while working for LFP, he'd "sit behind the wheel for 10 minutes debating whether or not to open the garage door".
It's embarrassing how much I love MacDonnell's writing (his stuff as Christian Shapiro in Hustler Erotic Video Guide was side-splitting). This book is the summit of his literary accomplishments.
I'd love to read a memoir by fellow ex-LFP Editor Mike Albo.
Mike knocked me around once and banged my head into a lamppost. MacDonnell just sliced me up as Hustler's Asshole of the Month for the holiday 1999 issue.
On page 115 of his memoir, Allan meets Cora, a junior high teacher sneaking out of NA. "You work at Hustler?" she said. "That's my students' favorite literature."
Allan writes: "My one-sided infatuation with Tori Welles was typical of the emotional fiascos that befell me."
Unfortunately for MacDonnell, a dog named Akita had a better chance with Tori than he did (no, Tori and the dog do not get it on).
Allan goes on a set where various porners are quoting his devastating film reviews under the name "Christian Shapiro." Ed Powers berates him for his hurtful comments.
Allan describes Marc Wallice as a "preening libertine."
"Sunny Foxx...claimed Jack Nicholson among her clients -- but then, what L.A. hooker doesn't?"
Sharon Mitchell taught Savannah and Sunny Foxx how to shoot up. "In the next millenium, this born educator would be a leading campaigner for safe-sex working conditions among blue screen talent."
I average a laugh a page of MacDonnell's book. I haven't had this much fun in porn since skinnydipping with Kendra Jade's friend Shelly Pearson in 1999.
In 1987, Allan, 30, spends a weekend at a whorehouse. He doesn't want to bang the owner's wife (near 50). He gets a gift certificate to do one of the working girls. She detects an STD on his penis (and refuses to have sex with him). All the hookers want to see the bump. "Somehow, their scrutiny -- nonjudgmental and sympathetic -- made me feel comfortable with my penis and my sexuality and myself -- with who I was at my core -- in a deeper, more profound way than I ever had before."
Stuck Between My Friend And My Reader
A friend writes: "Oh sure... you had to throw in... It brings to mind the parable about the scorpion and the frog."
Friend, I faced a dilemma between being nice to you and being truthful to my reader. There was no personal malice intended. I could not love you loved I not honor more.
For most of this year, Robbye stopped making public attacks on Norman. I thought they had settled their divorce and they were each moving on with their separate lives.
I spoke to her the other day. She sounded mellow. She'd been working out. She was moving in new directions.
Now she returns to war. I guess she feels that Norman burned her recently, not paid her, or something bad.
There were some shots taken at Robbye earlier in the thread, and this must've provoked her.
On Robbye's XPT profile, she writes: "My former husband and I started MATRIX CONTENT, and I shot the majority of their content library. My work has been published in playboy, mayfair, mens world, club, club international as well as other adult mags. I am here to take over the world."
Jackie from Matrix writes me:
Luke, We haven't met, but I am Norman Bentley's fiance.
I sent you a brief e-mail when Robbye's employment from Lake Manor Productions was terminated. I understand that your livelihood revolves around reporting the news, but normally I wouldn't get involved in public gossip. I am writing to you because I'm hoping you can discourage Robbye's attacks on Norman, Matrix, Defiance and me personally.
I met Norman last August, and fell in love with him the first day. Over the past few months, I have transferred schools, left my house empty, and moved across the country away from my friends and family. I have no doubts or regrets. Norman is a great man and we are so happy together.
He and Robbye had a rocky relationship, and much of their past has been quite public. I didn't know Norman then, and I am sure that they both made a lot of mistakes. They have a legal separation date of March 8, 2005, but in reality were living apart since 2004. I do know that Norman has tried to be fair with Robbye. She seems to be upset about their divorce settlement, but her spending left them in debt. Norman is borrowing money to give her a more than fair settlement. The papers have been signed by both parties, and are awaiting a judge's approval.
Norman and his company suffered greatly from he and Robbye's breakup, and both are regaining strength.
Robbye first contacted me in November after finding my myspace page (www.myspace.com/jacks742). We exchanged a few nasty words, but I really didn't think much of it. I don't pretend to understand what she and Norman went through, and I think it is reasonable for anyone to be angry at their x-husbands new fiance. But, lately she has taken it a little too far. She has begun threatening me physically, and her lies and insults on industry boards are getting worse.
We are exploring our legal options for the statements that she has made and will be reinstating a restraining order against her.
Norman and I have a happy, healthy (I wear the heels - contrary to allegations) relationship, and just want to live our lives. Please encourage Robbye to do the same.
P.S. If you or anyone you know is a real friend to Robbye, someone should tell her that all this public ugliness is bad for everyone involved.
Porn Stars: Why they make bad life decisions
I'm not satisfied that there are not other factors involved:
Mental health - particularly mood disorders such as depression
Combined mental health and substance abuse issues
Hopelessness/Helplessness
Impulsive and/or aggressive tendencies
Barriers to accessing mental health services
Loss (relationships, health, identity status)
Physical, emotional and sexual abuse
Legal issues/arrests/incarceration
Sexual identity conflictDoes anyone else think that these might be contributing factors?
Oh, my bad. These are actually the factors that contribute to suicide. Sorry.
Mook writes about Hillary Scott:
By "Max," I assume you are referring to a certain aged paedophile popular with the latently homosexual. I have also seen images of my beloved Hillary with one Brandon "My dick is longer than average but I have no prostate gland to expel my septic sperm so the recipient of my 'money shot' must be directly beneath or behind me to receive my dribble" Irons, and I'm seriously reconsidering if, in fact, Hillary is marriage material.
Miss Hillary, I have no desire to "drop a load on {your} face;" rather, I wish to make sweet love to you and show you how the love of a good man might finally satiate your baser desires and transform you into a suitable carrier for my offspring. Holla back...
Hillary, mo cushla, If 17th century British poetry cannot steal your heart, perhaps my game is not as tight as I thought. I had hoped to make an honest woman of you, but, honestly, a "f--- off competition" of any kind might be a deal-breaker for me. Just thought you should know.
A pornographer for 20 years writes me: "I couldn't agree more with what was written. This is a business that eats up and spits out people by the thousands leaving them with empty lives and broken promises. There are only a very few that can move on and forget or forgive themselves. It is that fact that I have moved on. When I left a major porn company I didn't know what the hell I was going to do. I decided to go into the business myself, after carefully looking back at what I had witnessed over the years, I said F--- no and am very happy doing other things that have nothing to do with porn. Thank God, He directed me in the right direction. The porn business is the last business a performer should ever consider, take it from one who has been in it for many years!"
A Porn Girl Scammed
Mook writes on XPT: "When I first arrived in the Valley, I was a naive, young meth-addled stripper who was looking for legitimate work only such as gangbangs, bukkakes, anal creampies, and Max Hardcore scenes. I, too, fell into the clutches of such a rogue, whom I will not name, and was an unwitting victim just as so many before me. If only someone had warned me that men in porn could be so unchivalrous. Who knew? This man took something precious (whatever the "industry standard" is at the moment) from me, and no matter how hard I scrub, the feeling of violation will not wash away."
Skeeter Dating Kelly Wells
"Audacity. I am one audacious whore."
Who are you, Kelly Wells? The fact that you can use the same latinate word correctly as a noun and an adjective is way hot.
Mary Carey Seeks My Advice On Porn & Politics
The Legend contract girl calls me at 2:57 p.m. "It's about going to the National Republican Congressional committee dinner [where she will get a Businesswoman of the Year award for her Mary Carey Productions, which hasn't produced anything]. I went last time with Kick Ass. I guess it was a Bush fundraiser. Raising money for Bush while they're trying to crack down on my livelihood isn't necessarily a good thing for me or the industry.
"I want to go to show a face of porn, a happy blonde woman.
"Legend doesn't think I should go because the dinner supports people trying to shut down the industry.
"I haven't have been following stuff as much as I should be, so could you explain to me, is it true that they are trying to get rid of the Adult industry altogether?"
Luke: "It's not clear. I think you should go."
Mary: "I think I should go. You know me. I love publicity. But I'd hate to do something that could hurt somebody's livelihood."
Luke: "Whether you go or not is not going to make any difference to somebody's livelihood."
Mary: "I'd hate for Legend to be mad at me if I go.
"The [federal government] wouldn't come after my little website [MaryCarey.com]? It's hardly hardcore."
Luke: "I doubt it."
Mary: "You're my voice of reason. I asked Legend if they wanted to pay for me to go and they obviously don't want to give their hard-earned money to something that is trying to ruin their livelihood. I had somebody else offer to pay for me."
Luke: "Whatever you do is not going to affect the industry or public policy. Just do what you want."
Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes me: "I am proud to present my April ’06 Penthouse Pet to you. I discovered her at Webster Hall where she works as a Go-Go dancer and was overwhelmed by her smoldering, exotic good looks. I chased after her with my card and glory be she was into the idea. This is her bio and photo. She went to Catholic school of 14 years and is probably the most “normal” of the young ladies in this industry."
I call Krista, who grew up in New York, at 12:15 pm Monday. She steps off a busy New York street and finds a quiet place. She says that as a kid, she wanted to be a veterinarian. "Once I was in highschool, I didn't know what to do. I went to college for a year-and-a-half but I just wanted to continue modeling.
"I thought Catholic school was great. It's a love/hate thing. I loved the rules. I hated the rules. I loved the uniform because it made life easier. I'm religious. I thought it was important to be taught that. We were taught religion every day. It was a small, very warm, school."
Luke: "How do you reconcile your religion with posing nude?"
Krista: "I try not to put the two together. What I do is my job, my art, and my passion. It has nothing to do with me being Catholic. I still have my morals and my beliefs.
"I've been modeling and acting for five years. I met Penthouse at a Penthouse lingerie fashion show I went to. We exchanged numbers and pictures and took it from there."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a nude model?"
Krista: "The only thing I hate is that people automatically judge you and put you into a stereotype. But this is my job. It doesn't have anything to do with who I am.
"The reason I love it is that I think the magazine has become very tasteful. The girls are very beautiful. I'm happy to be part of it.
"I have a boyfriend. He's very supportive. The only way it could affect my love life is people wanting to be with me just because of what I do. With the nude pictures, people could not take as much time to really get to know me and just judge me by what I look like."
Luke: "How have all your years of modeling affected you?"
Krista: "It's made me wiser. It educated me. It showed me how to trust people and to be aware and educated on the business. Sometimes it is not about the money, it's about the exposure and the networking."
Luke: "How has it affected you that you make your living from your looks?"
Krista: "I am appreciative that I am able to make my living off my looks. It's also personality. You still have to be a businessperson. You have to know how to play the game. A lot of companies don't only want a pretty face. They want somebody who can represent them."
Here's Lainie publicity release:
New York, NY, February 20, 2006-She's sexy, she's sultry, she's sweet and luscious, she's Krista Ayne, April '06 Penthouse Pet from New York City and Krista wants you to know she's just a nice, Italian Catholic girl from Staten Island.
"I go to my parents house every Sunday for dinner, even if I've been out all night, I hardly ever miss a week to enjoy a long, old-fashioned sit down meal out in Staten Island. I definitely do believe in tradition," say Krista who currently lives in Manhattan.
The smoldering 23-year-old was discovered at the New York City nightclub Webster Hall where she has been employed as a Go-Go dancer for the last eight months. "I've been dancing all of my life though. This is the first time I've danced at a club. I love it because I get to walk around in pasties and a g-string with sexy accessories like angel wings or a fun electric blue wig. Sometimes I'm a Geisha and other times I'm a Vampire. Sometimes I'm a burlesque queen, it's whatever the theme of the club is that night. Its like a weekly costume party, that's how I look at it."
One look at Krista's breathtaking shoot and one can't wonder if international stardom isn't too far away, but in typical Staten Island Girl Next Door fashion this charming young lady is taking it in stride. "I'm proud to be on the cover of Penthouse, my photographs are so classic and high fashion. Everything is happening so quickly I have to stop and think about it because I can't believe it."
Video Team - Metro Announcement Coming
I figure that Metro is going to take over distribution, if not buy the film library, or the whole company, or Video Team is going to move into Metro's headquarters. Metro is the big dog. Video Team is the little dog that's had some cashflow problems.
Courtney Simpson - From ASU Cheerleader To Porn Star
I will wear my cheerleader uniform because I am bitter at life and my parents because they were too strict. Sorry, but like many typical immature teens they tend to do (wearing ASU during her movies) what feels good for the moment and face the consequences later. Click the link to hear how upset she is about the unwanted attention. I like Courtney too, but you can’t tell me that Courtney and/or the company or companies that shot her wearing her outfit did not think that doing so would not bring a little extra attention and profits. If you think they didn’t please respond because I can give you a great deal on six US shipping ports that desperately need for someone to operate and provide security detail for.
MyAdultGroups writes: "Courtney is confident about her decision. That sound byte is from my podcast. I would have liked to ask her more, but her agent and publicist looked annoyed."
Veronica Hart's 'Socially Responsible Exploitation'
The second disc of the new DVD release of Cecil Howard's Neon Nights features rather long new interviews with Jamie Gillis, Eric Edwards, Veronica Hart, and C. Davis Smith (the film's cinematography), each one with their own set of notable moments. There are notable moments I found from Veronica's 30+ minute interview:
I always had a real social conscience when I was acting, believe it or not, because I felt that I represented women, and I never wanted to present certain things in a bad light. Like I didn't want to portray "a woman getting raped and then enjoying it because we all know that women need to be raped". I mean I didn't want to put across negative values, and that was kind of tough. You know, because, it's gee, I'd really like to be able to pay rent or pay the telephone bill this month, and somebody's asking you to do something and you're not so sure if you should do it. I tried to basically make films-be in films-that I was okay with their message. A lot of people in our business just churn out whatever type of pornography without thinking of any kind of repercussion. Even as a filmmaker now, a director, and a producer, I try and associate myself with projects that I feel are socially responsible. I know it's funny because you say, "Socially responsible in an exploitive nature?"
Hopefully, in the films I've made-that I've directed-if it is a bad guy and he does have rough sex it's because he's an asshole and you know it. Or it's a game they're [presumably the lead characters] playing and they enjoy it. I did a film called Edge Play (2001), and that's where women live out their roughest fantasies-such as gangbangs or whatever-but they still are able to maintain control because it's a sheltered environment. So, I'm saying yes it's okay to live out your fantasies, but the woman should be in control. Don't think that if she has a rape fantasy she necessarily wants to be raped. Check it out with her first. Maybe she'd like to keep it a fantasy.
I did another film, actually shot on film, and it was called Taken (2000). It was that same thing. The woman does get kidnapped in it, and she does fall in love with her kidnapper. But what's the story really about? It's a story of basically telling guys to take care of your wife at home; even though you're married and have kids, she still needs love too. That was the message behind it. The way to do it was this kidnapping thing, and it turns out it was all a dream...
We used to be paid by day. Now, the actors and actresses are paid per sex act. So, when you're paying for a blowjob or for two people to be together boy do you shoot it. I mean you shoot it from 25 ways to Sunday. The thing that we've done better in the last 25 years is that we've perfected the angles. We know the best ways to shoot the angles of sex, whether it's the under or the up and over or the side we've got it down. And as result a lot of our films kind of went clinical. Maybe that's why gonzo did so well because it broke out of that [though one could argue that gonzo has now fallen into the same trap, just that it is also the lighting, costumes, boxcover concepts and designs, titles and circus act themes, etc. as well as angle that has become overly clinical]. But now a script, a good script, for one of our movies is probably 25 pages. Back when I was making movies we had 90 page scripts. So, the formula is pretty much changed. Before it was 15 minutes of acting with maybe 5 minutes of sex. Now, I'm lucky if I get 5 minutes of acting, set-up, and story for a 15 minute sex scene. So, it seems a little reversed. It was much more about acting back then, and now it's less so--depending on who you work for. There are directors who still like actors. There's Michael Raven, uh, Nic Orleans, James Avalon...myself of course. We're all still interested in doing movies. Movies, that's it. I'm not really interested in reality TV, reality sex. I might be interested in filming my guy [makes the motion of holding a camera while looking down] while we're fucking, but that doesn't interest me as a filmmaker. So, I think my days in the business are pretty outdated.
Kelly: What do you think of her take on the change from per day to per sex act and the effect it had on filming techniques? Plus, do you agree with my own personal assessment that the clinical argument could made for gonzo now? Her talk of socially responsible porn is in a storyline context, and for the most part so is her need to make sure that the woman is always in control to some degree. So, does that mean it's completely outdated?
Cage Questions For Jenna Jameson
First off..I know Nikki Tyler's Coke habit sky rocketed when she was with digital playground... Didn't receeve any watches this year (my popularity must be on the downslide) TTBoy has been my friend for years... He has always been good to me, and I stick by my friends. Jewel has a fiery temper, I'm glad I haven't ever been on her bad side... she would ram her fist up my ass!
Sweaty lez sex in a burka, that's hot.
Jenna Lewis approached me prior to the release of her sex tape and wanted to do a porn with me!
I quit smoking December 2nd, and haven't smoked since. I find EVERYTHING tastes better now!
Nikki and Jenna used to live together and be in love.
There was an episode of Howard Stern where Jenna admitted that when she lived with Nikki Tyler and her husband, she'd have sex with both of them.
I call him Sunday afternoon. He seems to get more traffic than any other side of its kind (way more than suze.net and earlmiller.com according to alexa.com).
Matt: "How are these porn sites shooting twins [having sex with each other]?"
Luke: "Isn't that against the law?"
Matt: "That's what I thought. They've got these chicks doing hardcore together, miltontwins.com."
Miltontwins.com is owned by a Dutch company and but is hosted in the US by National Net. It's legal in Holland, I assume. The twins that they are using are the check fraud twins from the US. Cailey and Cherish are their names.
Luke: "How did you get into Adult?"
Matt: "I was working at a small ad agency. Our clients were for phonesex. I did that for five years. I developed relationships with [photographers] like Steven Hicks, Earl Miller.
"In 1996, I went to start an online ad agency for Adult but suddenly everybody needs photos. I went to Steven Hicks and got together a CD and we sold it to people on the internet. I realized I needed to produce my own stuff. I was one of the first online content providers (1997)."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about working in Adult?"
Matt: "I love the freedom of being self-employed. I don't like the drama."
Luke: "Is there a part of your work that you enjoy the most?"
Matt: "I like the marketing. Originally I was just a producer and a shooter. I like learning about the internet. I like making money. I like tweaking things to increase conversions and retain members.
"It's always exciting to me to see a new girl who's smoking hot. You see dollar signs."
Luke: "When did you shoot Paris Dahl?"
Matt: "I saw you guys had a big stink about that. I'm looking at her model release. We shot her boy-girl December 1, 2005."
Luke: "You were definitely the first."
Matt: "Absolutely I was the first. I don't lie about that s---."
Luke: "Well, almost everybody else does lie."
Matt: "I don't. I've always tried to keep my site as real as possible. I shot her when she first came to town in early 2005."
Luke: "What is it like working with Paris Dahl?"
Matt: "Paris is one of the greatest girls in the industry. She's a goofball. She's sexy and funny, a rarity with good-looking women. She's not afraid to look stupid. She's charming. That girl is going to be hosting shows.
"We were going to shoot her doing a guy in early November. We had more assistans than usual because the guys wanted to see her having sex. But the male performer couldn't perform."
Luke: "How often do you have sex with the girl on camera?"
Matt: "Never. I've used toys and fingers."
At the AEE show in Las Vegas in January 2006, Paris told me she hadn't done a boy-girl scene yet.
Luke: "How often do girls cry on your shoots?"
Matt: "I've done a thousand shoots. I don't remember a girl crying. Most of my shoots have been solo."
Luke: "What part of your work do you find most meaningful?"
Matt: "It's good when you see girls who've come from a bad place and they've learned how to conduct themselves professionally and they build something through the Adult industry.
"When I go to the shows and see the girls signing for some guy in a wheelchair and see how much it means to those guys for the girls to hang with them and take photos with them, that is meaningful."
Luke: "What percentage of girls benefit from doing porn?"
Matt: "It's easier to calculate what percentage of girls end up regretting it and I think that's less than the people who did it and moved on. Out of a thousand girls I've shot, maybe two or three come back to me later on and say, 'I regret that. Would you remove the photos?' That's a decent indicator."
Luke: "What do you say when they ask that?"
Matt: "It depends on who it is and what the circumstances are. If they have a serious situation and I believe their story, then yeah, I'm taking their photos down. I've done that. If they worked for a bunch of people, then forget it."
Luke: "How has your work affected your dating life?"
Matt: "I've always had girlfriends. I've dated a couple of models. Nowadays I'm single and it's a little weird. I'm out in the dating world and I have to tell people that I am a pornographer. If you tell people that, it normally opens the conversation up to a more interesting place."
Luke: "Have you lost any relationships because of it?"
Matt: "No."
Matt was in a relationship from 1982-1992. He was married the last three years before the divorce.
Luke: "What year did you graduate highschool?"
Matt: "I never tell anybody my age."
Matt says he played drums for Kenny Loggins in the eighties.
In highschool, Matt was shy. He had a girlfriend. He hung with musicians. He got laid at age 18.
Luke: "Ginger Jolie was your girlfriend?"
Matt: "Never. Who told you that?"
Luke: "She did."
Matt: "Well, we dated."
Luke: "What are the joys and tribulations of dating models?"
Matt: "I'll probably never do it again. First of all, they're too young for me. I'm too old for them. It's impossible for both to have a meaningful relationship. If you want to have some fun, great.
"My family knows what I do. My dad was an LA cop. Nobody cares what I do. I am outspoken, outgoing. They've seen me bring girls around. They don't make anything about it.
"I became friends with a lot of the girls over the years. Erica Campbell used to stay at my house."
Luke: "Has being around models spoiled you for real women?"
Matt: "No. It's the reverse. I see a beautiful woman and I just look at her and think, 'Ohmigod, that's going to be somebody's problem.' I'm looking for beauty on the inside."
Luke: "I'm with you."
Matt: "The bigger the tits, the bigger the problems."
Luke: "The better looking the woman, the more they've been able to get by on their looks."
Matt: "They don't have to experience real growth."
Luke: "How do you think working in porn has affected you?"
Matt: "It's wised me up to a lot of the ways of the world. I don't judge people for what they choose to do with their lives. It's made me more open-minded. If girls are doing double-anal, or if someone wants to watch a 50-guy creampie or be involved in a 50-guy creampie, even though I don't like it, I don't judge.
"I think I'm a little jaded. When I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'She's a problem.' That they are relying on their looks to get by in life and that that's a bad thing."
Luke: "What are your ambitions?"
Matt: "To have a nice house in Hawaii. I can be there and out of porn and go surfing."
Luke: "How do you spend your spare time?"
Matt: "I do a lot of exercise. Mostly I work."
Luke: "What do you like about getting older?"
Matt: "I don't like it."
Luke: "How do you feel about the direction the industry has been taking the past few years?"
Matt: "We've wised up since the HIV-scare. Before the scare, the industry was going in a ridiculous direction. Everybody was trying to one-up everybody on how hardcore they could be. The 50-guy creampies and the double-anal, they were just asking for it.
"When that happened, Sharon Mitchell is a hero in my eyes. Without her and her organization (Adult Industry Medicine), who knows how far that would've spread.
"Now the industry has levelled off."
Luke: "How often do you have to deal with models who are on drugs and do you still shoot them?"
Matt: "I don't shoot them. I've sat models down and said, 'You're definitely on something.' That's rare. The girls come to us through agents. If he's a good agent, he's not going to bring a f-----up model to a shoot."
Luke: "How often do they freak out?"
Matt: "That's rare. I've only had one model show up to a shoot and couldn't do it and left.
"I've gained a reputation for being nice. I've always told the models that they have power. They are the reason we make money. If you get to a shoot, whatever you are not comfortable with, you tell them.
"The guys I work with are laid-back. When you come at them with that approach, they'll open up. I've had tons of girls come in lately who say, 'I'll do a solo masturbation video, but I don't want you touching me.' That's fine. By the end of the shoot, they say, 'That's fine. You can touch me.'"
Luke: "How do you get so much traffic (with an Alexa ranking below 8,000)?"
Matt: "My site is average. It's been online since 1999. I gained a good following when I had less competition. Now we have to work at it. We have to get affiliates to promote us. If you have a quality site (we have almost 700 models shot by us), you can join for $4:95, word of mouth on the internet is a big plus. The photos get shared, stolen. Your site speaks for itself."
Luke: "Which models have you shot first? I get a kick out of sites such as Suze Randall making big claims to have shot various models first and it just was not true."
Matt: "They're trying to be like Matt's Models."
Luke: "How do you get these girls so quick? Because you have a good relationship with the agents?"
Matt: "That's it. We get a lot of girls who submit themselves. I developed a good reputation with agents and with girls. Girls refer me other girls. I'm easy to work with, so agents bring girls to me first because it was easy. We weren't going to shove a fist up their pussy."
Luke: "Do you guys shoot ATM?"
Matt: "No. I think we've shot one anal thing in our whole life."
Luke: "How often has a girl gotten injured on a set and what type of injuries?"
Matt: "Never. If we're shooting boy-girl, I've always tried to line up people who are comfortable with each other and like each other. I was one of the first guys to hire James Deen as male talent. He's an unassuming guy, a skinny guy who is not threatening. The girls liked him. That's why I used him. It's important to not bring in some huge Hulk Hogan and throw him in with some petite girl who's scared.
"My site has become the benchmark site for new porn girls. I see the girls at the show and they come up and hug me and say, 'You were the first guy who ever shot me.'"
Matt writes later:
I ran through some models. 100% means I'm 100% positive I shot their first shoot. On the other models, I was the first, or very close to it. I included only models I know have gone on to other work or working Porn Stars. There are many other first timers on my site, but many never shot again or disappeared, so I didn't include them. There maybe more girls I'm missing but this is a good start.
I was one of the first guys to shoot Amy Ried.
Avena Lee 100%
Monique Alexander 100%
Kaylani Lei 100%
Holly Morgan 100%
Bella Star (first or first in LA)
Paris Dahl
Violet Blue (first, or very close to first to shoot her)
Amy Ried under Devin
Swan AKA Justina Jolie Swan
Charlie Laine (first guy in LA to shoot her)
Layla
Megan
Natasha
Penthouse publicist Lainie Speiser writes me: "Ginger Jolie was living with Matt for years but she broke up with him early this year. I met him at several Penthouse parties, I have no idea why he said that to you. I’ve heard very nice things about him from Jamie and Charlie. I believe Jamie knew him before he even met Ginger. When Jamie and Cassia were in NYC early last month, we called Ginger to say hello. She told me she’s officially left the business and is taking her website down. She’s going to school and trying another way of life, she’s a smart, resourceful, clever girl and I know she will do well. Ginger is also one of the most popular girls I’ve represented. “The bigger the boobs, the more the trouble,” said Matt. Well, Ginger was blessed with large, beautiful breasts made by nature not the silicone factory, I bet Matt misses them terribly!"
Matt responds:
#1 my personal life is nobodys business other than my own and I what I choose to talk about.
#2 Her facts are wrong. We split last Oct.
I met Lainie once.
Actually, I've never had a problem finding large natural breasts to play with. And I'm actually 100% positive that Lainie and Penthouse miss Gingers breasts much more than I do.
A porner emails me about Matt: "Before dating Ginger Jolie, he was Alicia Silver for almost three years. They lived together in Laguna in Orange County. While dating Alicia, it was suspected he had a side thing with Erica Campbell."
Matt responds: "Ha ha ha. That is hysterical. I dated Alicia. I NEVER dated Erica Campbell. She was (and still is) a friend."
How's Gen Padova's Battle With Leukemia?
She replies: "I've been in remission for a year and 8 months."
Luke: " Are you taking the drugs you are supposed to and doing what
your doctors tell you or have you gone your own path?"
Gen: "Nope, I'm not on any medication. Don't need to be. They just wanted me in for regular visits for blood work. That's all. I take pretty good care of myself. Eat healthy. Mainly my own path. I know whats best for me."
Jenna Presley Interview
Jenna calls me Sunday morning. "I've worked 35 days in a row. This is my first day off.
"I'm finding that with less drama, I get shot a lot more.
"I went to a party Friday night at Cinemax and met a lot of B-list actors. I know a lot of A-list people who are cool, but hanging out with B-list people, they think they're huge. They made sure they told me what they do for a living. This one guy is reading two lines on CSI tomorrow and he wants me to watch.
"It was the first time I had gone out in a while and I had the worst headache."
Luke: "In real life, are you loud in bed?"
Jenna: "In my real life, I like to make love, but right now I'm f------ a guy who f---- like a porn guy, even though he's not in porn. He makes me really loud because he f---- me. He doesn't have sex with me. I don't typically f--- a guy unless he's my boyfriend. This is the only guy I make an exception to because he's a really good friend of mine. He's married.
"It's his choice. I told him I didn't want to. She doesn't know.
"He's hot. Down-to-earth. Cool. I'm all about personality, it doesn't matter what you look like. If you can make me laugh. He's hilarious.
"If you're sweet and confident, it doesn't matter if you are a 500-pound fatman.
"Steven St. Croix invited me to the Cannes Film Festival. I thought it was in Oklahoma."
Luke: "What percentage of people in the industry do you think have a drug or alcohol problem?"
Jenna: "Huge. I think that 90% of the business does drugs or alcohol but maybe 70% have a problem. I include pot as a drug. I know people who come on set stoned and they can't perform. A drug problem to me is when it affects your work life.
"There was a director who got really drunk on set the other day and he started crying for his mommy.
"I drink every now and then. I rarely smoke pot because I will just binge for two days after. That's how pot affects me.
"I know that if I take shots, it's a problem that runs in my family. I can have one Malibu and Pineapple and then be cool the whole night. I smoke cigarettes. That's all I do.
"I smoke half-a-pack a day of Capri. At least I look like a lady while I'm smoking.
"I did the whole drug and alcohol thing. I'm over it. I danced in Tijuana."
Luke: "How many friends do you keep up with from highschool?"
Jenna: "None of them. There's one girl in my top eight and my sister is my number one.
"She's a nice girl, but when I got put in the hospital for anorexia, not one person called me. They all have their excuses. But at least she drives up to see me regularly. I think she's trying to make up for not calling me.
"I don't know if that is because she's very into the Hollywood scene and wants to be famous. She can't live that through me. I'm not in the Hollywood scene and I'm not famous. I think she thinks it's cool that I've met people in Hollywood through this business. She considers porn an option.
"I tell her, 'If you want to get into mainstream, don't get into porn.'"
While I was suffering from anorexia senior year [at Hilltop High School] I wrote a journa entry on you all. Its a little harsh but I thought you should know that I WAS in tears. NO ONE Called me, and it hurt! Why do you want to talk now that I am making money? You WILL NOT be getting any! SO HERE is THE JOURNAL ENTRY:
*****I BLANK OUT MY WEIGHT FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, PEOPLE FIND IT OFFENSIVE, THIS JOURNAL ENTRY MAY BE OFFENSIVE, SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! May 17,2005 ASSERTIVE WITH PEERS: When I was in Kindergarten I remember being the leader and so many wanted to be me. What happened? Ever since 1st grade, I have become the follower. I always do what me peers tell me to do, I always have to be the "perfect" friend and in order to do so I have to be a pushover. I only wish that I could find the leader in me once again. I wish that i could say, "no" and stand up for what I truely believe instead of doing what everyone else does. I have become such the copy cat in an attempt to be (once again) the "PERFECT FRIEND" BUT it obviously had not worked because ever since I have gone to an inpatient center NOT ONE of my friends has called me except for this girl from my outpatient center I previously attended which makes me feel as though I can only be friends with other anorexics because we can truely realte and understand ones feelings.
ANYHOW, if I could build courage, I would call ALL of my "so-called" friends and I would tell them to "f--- OFF". I was NOTHING but nice to them and they can't even pick up the phone and f---ING CALL ME? You know, I had a "friend" that was stabbed, I believe senior year right before I was hospitalized, and I CALLED HIM IN THE HOSPITAL TO MAKE SURE HE WAS HEALING. NO he never called me! It really pisses me off and Its NOT like I can call any of these people because my mother erased ALL of their numbers off of my cell phone. With this said, I am SOO Nervous for my High School graduation on June 18 because this means that I have to see all of the f---heads that I USED to consider my friends. What will I say to them? "Hi how have you been? JUST incase you were wondering, I was suffering from f---ING anorexia, I was (blank) f---ing Lbs, I weighed less than my 11 yr old little brother, I was having Kidney failure, I had heart trouble, I lost my period, I could have had a stroke and you never called ME!! f--- OFF
WELL That was almost a year ago, but I AM NOW more assertive with peers which was MY goal. So i thought I would post an OLD journal entry. This Still bothers me, its been on my mind.
Luke: "Have any of your fans turned into friends?"
Jenna: "No. I don't meet anyone on the internet. I tried to but this guy told me he was an agent in mainstream and he turned out to be my biggest stalker.
"Highschool is hard for me to remember because I was so malnourished the last two years. Studying for a test was a bitch because it was so hard to remember everything.
"My mom bought me a car at 16 and she wants it back. I'm not driving it anyway because I don't have a license.
"When I had anorexia, I had my driver's license taken away because I was passing out in public places. I passed out in food stores. I haven't passed out since June but I'm having a helluva time getting my license back.
"I call my brother all the time but he's always busy. He's always BMX racing or doing homework.
"The last time I talked to you, I told you he was ten. He's 12. He read the interview and said to me, 'I'm not ten, you idiot!'"
Luke: "He's reading your stuff?"
Jenna: "He always does. I told him you made a mistake.
"I got an email from him last month. He said he got in a fight with the principal's son and punched him twice and gave him a black eye. 'I got suspended.'
"I've never been in a fight in my entire life. I got a little teary-eyed.
"I'm reading my friend Dave Navarro's book Don't Try This At Home. He's a former heroin addict."
Mary Carey Fears The End Of Time
Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary, Harold movie
I had lunch Sunday (1:45-2:40 pm) with Mary and Harold and their driver Dino at Jerry's Deli on Beverly Blvd.
She'd just got off the plane from North Carolina. Her luggage was lost both ways.
I walk (a mile in both directions to get free parking and then in the door and) past actor Ben Kingsley.
Almost six years ago, I was walking out of here with my civilian love and we ran into Ron Jeremy.
Today I order a fruit salad. Mary gets a couple of mini pizzas and some mozarella sticks. Harold has a meaty sandwich and Dino a meaty bowl of soup.
Carey flew back first class while Harold was glad for a four-hour break from Mary and slept in coach.
The problem is that when Mary is on her own, she starts picking up guys.
Mary and Harold joke about how Mary has threatened suicide to get a seat in first place. She's supposed to leave for New Zealand Tuesday night for six days but she doesn't want to go. She wants to do Jerry Springer on that day.
Mary was once talking to an operator and Harold walked off for an hour. When she returned, Mary was chatting to the same woman.
Mary befriends people everywhere she goes, but then gets annoyed when 98% of them call her.
She wants to make a video about the political process.
I didn't push the right button on my tape recorder and lose most of my notes from the meal.
Dino also drives Tawny Roberts and Jessica Jaymes.
Mary and Harold say that Jessica tried to drive them apart by claiming Harold was hitting on her.
Mary says that girls who hook gradually lose their minds and try to drown their troubles in alcohol and drugs.
I ask Mary if she had to shove one book of the Bible up her bum, which one would she choose?
"Revelation," she says. "It's scary."
She talks about her ten days as a Christian. One night she spent three hours with a pastor and his wife and she and Harold got baptized. She spent hours a day reading the bible and watching videos about the End of Time. Mary became convinced we're living in the time of the fifth trumpet (only two more to go before it's all over).
Carey did one grumpy book signing in Portland while a Christian. The store owner flew in a bunch of his friends to party with her but she wouldn't party. She was mad that the flight back was late and she couldn't make it to church.
She also did a dance booking while a Christian, but simply put herself in an unChristian mindset for those hours to pull it off.
Mary says she'll become a Christian or Jew when she leaves porn and then condemn the industry and get tons of publicity. She wants to become a pastor or rabbi.
Mary talks about going to a national Republican convention in two weeks. "I watched how Mark [Kulkis of Kiss Ass Pictures] did the press. I got all his contacts. Now I just sit there and send out emails and faxes like Mark did. I have such good relationships with Fox and MSNBC and Mancow is great. I have to get up at 4:30 am every day. Harold doesn't think I can.
"If I do a good job for a week cohosting, I'll get my own radio show. I'm very entertaining."
Mary does great accents. She imitates the strip club owner in North Carolina who told her she had to be a good girl because the local laws were so strict.
Mary says a lot of people have stolen the "exhausting" tag that Holly and I put on her. She says she'll be calm. She wants to see my crazy side come out.
I enjoy my lunch with Mary. She doesn't act out. She's sober. She's fun. She's bright. She's funny.
She was on time. I was 10-minutes late.
Mary's emails are correctly spelled and punctuated. She writes me at 3:40 pm: "It was nice to see you today. Are you exhausted? I was reading about you, and you are very interesting. I am going to buy one of your books. I like the one reviewer that says you are like Brad Pitt [XXX-Communicated]. I'm always fun, what do you think of Harold?"
I like him.
"Really? I guess because he's quiet and calm, its a good contrast to me. He's a lot more rational than me too. Maybe I just make him crazy sometimes."
Kendra Jade replies to me: "I don't hate Mary because she has my clothes. That's stupid. I have more clothes than any one human being should own. In fact, I don't hate her at all. She just is exhausting me of all energy, she flakes on everything and it's annoying. I don't dislike her. I just can't have her in my life when she acts like that. It takes too much of a toll on me and stresses me out too much. Mary is a good girl with a good heart, but she makes the world's dumbest decisions and I can't just sit around watching and biting my tongue. I'd rather just have nothing to do with her."
Whatever Happened To Shyla Foxxx?
Justin writes:
I appreciate the fact that you don't sugar coat things in the world of porn. It seems like the people who finance the porn world and the directors don't want us to see the manipulation of women that goes on because it's their cash cow and the women don't want to admit that they are stuck in a bad situation most likely due to drugs. I was reading some stuff about Shyla Foxxx who is long retired but was one of my favourite stars at one point. It appears that she is suffering from hep c ... very unfortunate. I look at some of her pictures on the net and she looks like she is high in all of them, one set was particularly bad where she had bags under her eyes and they were bloodshot. What did you here about Shyla and her use of drugs ? ... that's one thing I like about Tom Byron .. at least he admits to being high most of the time and doesn't try and make the porn world out to be a great breeding ground for University graduates and leaders of tomorrow like the stars try and tell us .. I swear every one of them is planning on being an astronaut.
I'm just curious because it really seemed like Shyla was strung out in the photos and to do the scenes she did for John T Bone you'd have to be flying.
Jenna Presley's First Hate Mail
Cordell says he doesn't post a picture on his MySpace profile :so people can't hunt me down and kick my ass for bashing them and making them want 2 kill them selfs."
In her profile, Jenna writes: "I party like a ROCKSTAR not a PORNSTAR!!!! * I Direct Produce and Perform In PornoLAND * YES I am REALLY only 18 until April 1. ARIES * I started stripping at 15 so NATURALLY I began stripping in college and Lennie and Phil from Astrux spotted me and got me into this wild and crazy life that I am now living in."
Watching hardcore porn for a living has a lowering, deadening effect on the mind
I resigned as an examiner in June after six months, wearied by the relentless viewing of hard-core pornography and its lowering, deadening effect on the mind. I felt like a gatekeeper to the sex industry. A sex worker.
Talking to friends was interesting. The smirks on their faces soon turned to slack-jawed bewilderment when I answered their questions about porn viewing. I could have given a lighter 18-cert touch to my replies, but their expressions of disgust confirmed to me that it is troubling to watch degrading stuff - even if you do get paid for it.
My friends and I are neither prudes nor puritans, but porn liberals who imagine hard-core tapes - those available only in registered sex shops and given the classification R18 - as liberating and exciting, rather than the joyless, graphic genital fests that they are, should consider the relentless debasement of (mostly) young women involved.
zomb1egirl: oh yeah, crap, i gotta make a banner for you for my asian
pornstars
Luke: keep it clean, no peeing
zomb1egirl: oh ok, i thought u'd be opposed to pushing the pee site but
i guess not. how does it feel to be one of the top 20 most interesting
ppl in LA? do you think u deserve it?
Luke: yes, I'm not into that peeing thing, it would be too embarrassing
to advertise
zomb1egirl: YOU'D be embarressed???
zomb1egirl: OMG, how do you think I feel when I have to ask the models
to do it, knowing that THEY probably know that THIS is MY secret fetish
Luke: I'm sure you just think of the money
Luke: but I'm more spiritual than that, I just beg for it.
zomb1egirl: haha. no, i'm just thinking about getting the pee cascading
through her jeans & down her legs while walking backwards & not tripping
into a puddle of mud... I think of the money so I DON'T get embarrassed.
zomb1egirl: this
pic of you turns me on so much
Luke: what about that pic does it to you?
zomb1egirl: that it looks like you're being humiliated
zomb1egirl: & the type of underwear you are wearing.
Luke: heehee, you have not lost respect for me because of that pic?
zomb1egirl: the whole pic just totally does it for me in some deep emotional
way. I'm going to blow it up & put it on my bathroom wall across from
the toilet so I can see it everyday during my quiet time
zomb1egirl: No, of course not! it just turns me on tons.
Uncomfortable Pairings: Hustler Honey & Child
PerezHilton comments: "Jordan shows off her new hairdo in OK! (British version) and poses with her son - the one that she didn't cause brain damage to due to rumored drug use while pregnant."
He died from a speedball, which means injecting coke and heroin.
Frank Vette with Brittney Skye on August 12, 2003.
I've never had a threesome in my life
And never will. I'm too moral. And too insecure.
I Thought Suze Randall Was The First Pornographer To Shoot B-G Of Amy Ried, Paris Dahl? I Guess Not.
That's what Amy told Suze but it turned out she'd done several boy-girl shoots as Devin Valencia.
MattsModels.com shot Paris Dahl (now pregnant and out of porn) doing boy-girl December 1, 2005. He was the first to shoot her boy-girl and I think he was the first to shoot her solo (in early 2005).
What kind of perverse world do we live in where people rush to publicize that they are the first to ruin a young girl's life?
Yes, I know they all consent (when is it OK to profit off someone's consensual destruction?) and that some girls appear to thrive in porn.
Khan Tusion (and many honest pornographers) would say that the prospect of a girl destroying her life by performing in porn only increases the erotic excitement of her scene.
SportyOne reports Feb 10, 2006: "Super cutie Paris Dahl just completed her first boy/girl scene for Suze.net yesterday. This is the second top model the Suze team shoots in exclusive boy/girl action the last couple of months. Paris Dahl was crowned with a Penthouse Pet title in August 2005, and has never done boy/girl work previously to yesterdays layout. SportyONE is proud to be the first site to publish the exclusive samples from the event!"
Matt writes Feb 25, 2006: "This is the first boy/girl video of Paris ANYWHERE! Like so many of my nearly 700 models, I was the first to shoot her nude and now I'm proud to be the first to shoot hardcore of her."
Matt writes on his photo journal Mar 1:
We had new girl Caprice come into town. She's never done any modeling at all. Wow does this girl have an interesting story. She had a car wreck which put her in the hospital for 3 months and left her with a messed up foot and a metal plate in her face. I did an extensive audition interview with her - so I'll let her tell you all about it. It was a gruesome car wreck and she is lucky to be alive.
Suze's Sneak Peeks: Amy Ried's 1st HARDCORE Scene. Coming Soon! That's right! Amy Ried - the gal with the hottest body in the business - is letting it loose, and only for Suze.net. Enjoy these teaser pics, and swing by Suze.net to see the web's biggest collection of Amy Ried photos. Only Suze has shot Amy Ried hardcore - don't miss out!
Job writes: "Amy Ried has shot hardcore Boy/Girl scenes [under the name Devin Valencia] with other producers. The films have been on the market for many months."
David writes: "Devin/Amy 1st boy/girl scene was actually shot for Vince Voyeur's Ripe Young Mellons 6. She was in the movie with her then boyfriend. It was heavily promoted with her in it. Actually she's a very boring performer. Besides having nice natural breasts, her performance is dull. Hopefully her scene for Holly is better."
Holly Randall replies to Job: "Wasn't actually my idea but I did warn against it -- actually when we put it up Amy had obviously lied and told us it was her first boy/girl, and we just didn't change it. I'll have it changed tomorrow."
So porn girls lie to try to turn a few extra bucks and feel special. And those of us in the business profit off of their delusions and insecurities.