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I'm getting email about who is this Judy in my photos. She is a North Hollywood bartender. Her blonde friend is also a civilian.

The female LA City Beat writer likes to feel the porn girl's breasts as she interviews them. The girls don't mind.

Rob Longshot and his wife Keiko are moving back to Florida February 1. Keiko says she'll study Forensic Anthropology. Rob has a "great job" and will try to finish his Engineering degree.

"You've heard about Donkey Punch, haven't you?" asked Keiko.

"No, I have not."

"Someone thought it would be a good idea to make a film about punching girls in the back of the head as you are about to come.

"OK, if we are going to keep catering to the wanna be serial rapists and serial murderers, then I'm out of here."

"Have you gradually grown disillusioned with porn?"

"Yes, and not all that gradually."

"Was there a time when you realized you had to get out?"

"I have no regrets about what I've done.

"I think a lot of the things came to a head with the Eon McKai debacle."

"Did you and Rob take this journey together [they moved to LA almost three years ago]?"

"We have this bizarre psychic connection where we make the same decisions at the same time."

"How many friends are you going to take from the porn industry into your real life?"

"About two or three. The sober ones. The ones that will remember me in two months."

Tara: "Eon McKai has been the hot topic in porn."

Keiko: "Considering I called him that ['the hot topic in porn']. He's about as edgy as a butter knife."

"Do you think Donkey Punch is edgy?"

"I think it is disturbing, disgusting and says something about the climate in this country and the way we're raising our children."

"What disturbs you about porn?"

"That the only thing they try to do to expand into other markets is to go into disturbing niches where it's all about vomiting, pissing, and bizarre crap that is not erotic."

Keiko says porn has "not changed me at all. I'm more addicted to caffeine that when I started.

"I've considered myself part of the porn community, but because there's such a drastic difference between myself and most porn stars, not really... Most of them are so high, they don't know which direction is up. Most of them bleach their hair so much, they don't have any brain cells left. They're doing [porn] to support their habits and their dead-beat boyfriends."

"You bleached your hair a lot."

"I didn't bleach my hair to be blonde. I bleached it to dye it red. And I only did it four times in six months."

"What percentage of porn stars would you estimate have a drug problem or alcohol problem or an unhealthy relationship problem?"

"About 93-95%. There are 10-15 of us who are all right."

"What have you learned from your time in porn?"

"That it is not as glamorous as it looks in the finished product. And even the finished product isn't all that glamorous."

"What have you learned from your time in porn?"

"In the last three years, I've learned that this isn't a good place to be for an extended period of time, especially not if you want to have a family and raise kids."

"Could someone have told you this three years ago?"

"I would've believed them but I would've said, I've got three years to spare, so I'm going to go ahead and do this and see what it is like and make my own mistakes and then be a homebody."

"Can there be such a thing as a pornographer who is a good person?"

"It's possible but highly unlikely. Just to be a part of this business, this childish juvenile bulls---, dealing with it makes you want to hurt people and be a bad person. The way you're treated, you're just scum like everybody else. Eventually you become what you've been acting like.

"Pornographers are capitalizing on lives that have already been ruined. If the market is there for you to take people whose lives have been ruined and make a profit off of it..."

"Do you think that is honorable?"

"No more dishonorable than selling alcohol or cigarettes or guns to people who will use them to hurt people."

Rob Longshot: "The evening news does nothing but make money off of people's ruined lives."

Keiko: "Good news doesn't sell. If there's not a body or a fire or thousands of dollars in damages, people don't want to hear about it."

Rob: "All forms of media feed off of people's misery."

"Was there a moment when you realized you had to get out of porn?"

"When I realized that everything I said I was not going to do, I was doing. Before I came out here, I wasn't a believer in the rough stuff. Then I found myself shooting it. One day I took a look at myself and said I can contribute more to society than this. This happened a while ago."

"Was it the Eon McKai thing?"

"No. It started before then.

"I'm a big fan of erotica, but the people who are currently making it don't have the creativity to make erotic art. So they go for the lowest common denominator, which is what sells. It takes a lot more [effort] to sell something that is not degrading. The degrading stuff is already sold.

"The moment I decided to leave LA was when Donkey Punch came out."

Keiko laughs: "Future serial killers."

"How did you find yourself making nasty porn?"

"It all comes down to the almighty dollar, and in LA you need a lot of them. That's why I'm going to [Florida] because you don't need as much of it there."

Luke: "Did you lose any illusions during your time in porn?"

Rob: "Quite a few."

Keiko: "None of those girls are really that hot."

Rob: "I found myself more attracted to the real world. It grounded me. It made me appreciate the real world more.

"My creativity has been sapped the past three years. I haven't written a song in three years. In the past few weeks, since we've planned to go back, I've written an hour's worth of music."

I interview Captain Bob.

Luke: "Do you regret your 15-year excursion into porn?"

Captain: "No. I regret my 20 years in the ministry [as a Christian pastor]. The only good thing about that is that my daughters [the youngest, Red Velvet, is a make-up artist in porn] are not all f---ed up. They don't do drugs. They had a stable family life."

Luke: "You don't think that having a father in porn screws up a daughter?"

Captain: "Some of the most screwed-up girls I know have fathers who do other things. For instance, I had sex with Kelly Van Dyke three months before she died. Her father [Jerry Van Dyke] f---ed her up. He was not in porn. There was another porn star, Diamond [Lisa Canary]. Her father was David Canary from One Life To Live. She hated her father. These people were totally f---ed up."

Luke: "But how has it affected your girls to have a father in porn?"

Captain: "The only thing that has affected them is that they've fallen away from the Church. I was their pillar of strength while I was in it."

Luke: "How disorienting was that for them to go from having a father who was a pastor to having a father who was a pornographer?"

Captain: "Well, yeah, that was a big change for them. It was a big deal when they found out I could have sex with other women aside from their mother. We'd gotten into swinging before we got into porn. It was incidental that I got into porn. I just happened to be at the right place at the wrong time.

"My kids still love me just as much. I spent a lot of time with them when they were growing up.

"My kids love me to death, even though I became a pornographer. They don't like what I do.

"I have no problem with anybody being in the porn business as long as they know what they're doing. I'd be a hypocrite if I thought otherwise. Here I am banging other guy's daughters... I was doing this girl in the Young Chix, Old Dicks series. She looked up at me while she was sucking my dick, and said, 'I know your daughter. I'm the same age as your daughter.' I said, 'You're not my daughter, so shut up and suck.'

"I get along with the [porn] girls. They'll let me do things behind the scenes... They'll sit on my face because I get along with them."

Captain Bob says he first had sex at age seven and then organized an orgy with the little kids in the neighborhood.

Luke: "Why do you swing to such extremes?"

Captain Bob: "A lot of people are like that. In swinging, many of the people come from strictly religious backgrounds."

Luke: "Where do you find the meaning in your porn work?"

Captain Bob: "I like interviewing the girls and finding out what makes them tick. Some of them started masturbating when they were three years old."

I introduce Tara to Captain Bob. I use the word "pornographer" about Captain Bob.

Tara: "You say that like it's a dirty word. You're a pornographer too. You have links to porn sites. You're going to hell too. You hooked up with a stranger in Vegas."

Luke: "She was my roommate."

Tara: "She was a stranger and a roommate. You didn't even know her. You're not supposed to boink your roommate."

Luke: "I'd talked to her on the phone. We'd exchanged email. She'd been reading me since 1998. She knew my body of work."

Tara: "She was a groupie."

Luke: "She wanted to know my body of flesh. Is that so wrong?"

Captain Bob says he's slept with about 700 women in his life. "It's not about numbers," he says. "A dozen of them were really good."

Later in the night, I have a long chat with Puerto Rican porn star Estella Leon.

"I was studying TV production at [Puerto Rico University]," she remembers. "I'd worked as a dancer for five years. I wanted to combine both of them."

Estella moved to LA and entered porn 18-months ago and has done over 100 movies.

As a kid, Estella wanted to be a singer. She was a straight-A student and a popular girl in highschool.

"My mother is a Pentacostal pastor and a nurse. She's very strict in her religion. I'm still very Christian. I still believe in God. I have my own relationship with God. I was so secluded from the world."

She lost her virginity at age 14. "It was to my neighbor/boss/friend. He was in his thirties, married with three kids. I was very attracted to him.

"He had a yoghurt business. I was working for him under the table. He came in one night while we were closing. I went to the back to change to my school uniform. He came to the back and stuck this big huge cock in my ass.

"It wasn't [traumatic] because I wanted it so bad. I didn't know what I was doing.

"I used to watch porn when I was nine years old because my brothers were like 32. They had porn and I'd sneak a look. My mother was oblivious. Then she started finding out."

Luke: "How did your mother react to your becoming a porn star?"

Estella: "She respected me a lot. She cried for three hours. I love my mom. I flew to Puerto Rico [after six months in porn] to tell her what I do.

"My dad is very quiet. He's an old fashioned man. He's sixty-something. My mom talked to him and he got used to it.

"I'm a dominatrix. My boyfriend is very passive."

"Do you have a bad temper?"

"I have a terrible temper."

"Have you ever encountered a man who can make you submit?"

"No."

"What type of men are you attracted to?"

"White boys. Americans are mostly submissive. I can not date a Latin man. We'd be fighting over who's got the power in the house."

"I have a bachelor's degree in TV production and an associate's degree in music."

Estella says she hates the cattiness among porn girls. "We're all beautiful. We're all the same. We all f--- for a living."

Estella's writing a book about her life.

Luke: "How does God feel about you doing porn?"

Estella: "He's happy because I get to give testimony about him. I pray before every scene. I say, 'God, thank you for the opportunity to share myself with someone else.'

"When someone tries to degrade me [in porn], I degrade their ass back."

Cam writes: "I actually had a pretty funny conversation with your webmaster friend (the black girl) about her--I said something about Estella being a "sit-n-spin girl." The other person [Luke] in our conversational circle didn't get it but your webmaster friend was rolling."

Estella Leon tells Keiko: Hey, I want to f--- you!
K: (reaching for paper to write down her contact info...) OK
Man: (incredulous) Wow--that really works for women?
E: Most of the time, yes.
Man: Must be great to be a hot girl.

Gia Jordan writes on XPT: "When I was brand, brand new, someone told me PSK would be a great way to network in the business. Network my ass! I guess if you're dying to be in a Dave Pounder production, sure. I've been there a total of 3 times and maybe once every blue moon, someone from a good company is there. I'm not much of a drinker anyway and I'm not much of a karaoke person in general, so just because it includes the word porn star..."

Gen Padova writes: "I've been to PSK a few times a little over a year ago. If you're not big on drinking or tolerating a wild drunken irritating crowd of people that are trying very hardly to land a spot in the biz, its not for you. I'd have to say every time I've been there I never felt comfortable to be myself. I was very shy, reserved and well kept to myself because I was so freaked out by the weirdos. The only cool kat there was being able to sit with Stormy."