Frequently Asked Questions For Lukeisback.com
* What is the point of Lukeisback?
It illuminates man's search for meaning.
* Why don't you seem to allow profanity in your site, or at least in your interviews?
I don't like it.
* Will you help me get a job in porn?
No.
* Will you help me meet a certain porn star?
No.
* Will you give me contact information for a certain porn star?
No.
* Will you help me in any way?
Probably not. Certainly not if you don't spell and punctuate correctly. I tend only to answer email that is spelled and punctuated correctly. I have no personal interest in porn. That was exhausted years ago. If you are an interesting person who's well-read, then we can hang out and talk about things aside from porn.
* Are you on MySpace
Yes.
* I'm a hot young chick and I'd really like to hook up with you.
I'm sorry but I don't find that spiritually nourishing.
* Why is there a www.lukeford.com website?
It was once mine, but I sold it August 8, 2001 when I left the industry for over a year.
* Have you published any books?
Yes.
* Do you hate porn?
I feel many things towards the porn industry and hatred and love are among them. There is no human emotion that is foreign to me, including emotions towards porn. My main attitude is that of a reporter trying to describe what he sees and hears.
* Do you write about anything aside from porn?
Yes. Lukeford.net.
* Do you have any friends in porn?
Not really. Porn friends are rarely real friends because so few people last in porn.
* I am a male/female - how do I get into the biz?
* What does your religious affiliation have to do with your website/reporting/commentary?
It's probably not appropriate but I stick it in there anyway.
* Who is Chaim Amalek?
He's like a part of myself that I want to deny.
Dan Kapelovitz writes in the April 20, 2006 LA Weekly:
Often called “the Matt Drudge of Porn,” Web gossipmonger L-ke Ford is trying to distance himself from his triple-X past. “My life will forever be associated with the writing I’ve done on the porn industry,” laments Ford. “I still do everything I can to build up a name writing on other topics.” Ford’s other writing obsessions include the Mafia, the media and the mellow sounds of Air Supply.
Ford moved to Los Angeles in 1994. Three years later, after failing to become a successful actor, Ford became famous (at least in smut circles) for his porn-gossip Web site, LukeFord.com.
He quickly earned a reputation for his willingness to post almost anything about anybody, fact-checking be damned. He thrilled to print controversial items, and pissed off porno people when he revealed the real names of blue-screen thespians. The climax of his porn-blogging career was breaking a story about an actor infected with HIV.
“I interview pornographers,” explains Ford. “It’s kind of like a grad student sticking a stick into a cage of insects and seeing how they react.” Unlike most grad students and their insects, however, Ford has had sex with some of his subjects.
Born in Australia 39 years ago to the son of a Seventh-day Adventist minister, Ford has since discovered the joy of Orthodox Judaism. His religious conversion originated from an unlikely source: annoying talk-show host/moralist Dennis Prager.
Ford keeps kosher, observes the Sabbath and attends synagogue every day, but admits that his behavior often falls short of what his adopted religion requires.
After learning of Ford’s Web site, various rabbis banished him, an ordeal he details in his self-published memoir, XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul.
Ford gets death threats, and often sleeps with a loaded gun under his pillow. No one has murdered Ford yet, but he has been physically assaulted twice. One porn journalist repeatedly bashed Ford’s head against a light pole.
Ford’s fast-and-loose blogging has also brought him some legal woes...
To move beyond porn and get in good with his coreligionists, Ford sold his Web site for $25,000 and created LukeFord.net. What he did to pornsters, he now does to journalists, clergymen and Hollywood producers, one of whom is in the process of suing him.
If that’s not living dangerously enough, Ford is working on a book about Orthodox rabbis who are sexual predators.
God help him.