Seems a bunch of folks just found out that LIB is now run by a GIRL! They had some not so nice things to say about Luke, I’m still waiting to see what they have to say about me. Here are some quotes from the thread at AdultDVDTalk.com
All Forums -> The Porn Pool -> What’s up with Luke(Luke is Back)
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I can understand liking things that you may morally object to on some level. I watch skanky reality shows but I don’t respect it as art or anything of high class. However, I am not interviewing skanks on reality TV. Luke from Luke is Back has been mentioned to have religous objections toward porn but he still interviews porn stars. I don’t get it and for that reason, I refuse to listen to his interviews. Look I can somewhat get an 18 year old frat boy who goes into the porn store to watch some vids and talk crap about porn stars. However, I find it disturbing and puzzling if you find our indsutry debasing, why you would interview porn actresses. Maybe it’s me but that is weird.
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Luke has been gone from the porn interviewing biz and the porn community for quite some time, for the very reasons that you mention above.
The site Luke Is Back is now run by Cindy Loftus.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe Luke has converted to a rabbi. He now runs a Jewish forum (forget the name) aimed at advising young Jewish folks against the evil forces of the world… including porn, LOL!!
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killbillvol69 wrote:
Luke has been gone from the porn interviewing biz and the porn community for quite some time, for the very reasons that you mention above.
The site Luke Is Back is now run by Cindy Loftus.
Okay. That’s a good thing!
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I don’t think the sites associated with Luke have any point without Luke. He’s a true original wacko.
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IMO, Luke Ford was just like the porn industry he wrote about.
Excited by the open sexuality, but full of guilt; a user of others, and used by others; rational one moment, wacko the next; sometimes truthful, sometimes not. Luke, like many performers, was never able to reconcile the two sides of his personality. So leaving the industry was his way of choosing one Luke Ford over the other.
What was "good" about Luke Ford’s column was his willingness to expose the "dark" side of the industry–and not just the performers. He was willing to write about the business side of porn–and the inequities between companies and performers–long before other porn writers. IMO Luke also felt compassion for performers, even though he often "tough loved" them–by exposing their weaknesses and embarrassing them by reporting their actions in his column.
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I agree with your assessment of Luke. I am not sure what you mean by user. I really don’t like people with those type of views in the porn industry. The same standards I hold for entertainment. Chris Brown singing love songs after going gangsta on Rhinnna is simply unacceptable.
Yeah, I hear enough about the dark side of the business by the mainstream media. They give me enough of an education.
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There’s nobody like him on the scene today.
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You can read the whole thread here- http://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/forum
He just found out now Luke left? When I came here January of last year, I thought Luke was still here but only found out later he left months earlier. I only came to LIB because I thought he was still here. Aren’t you all happy now? lol
“There’s nobody like him on the scene today.”
Ditto!
ADT talkers are a bunch of pathetic fanboys, morons, punks, retards and industry scumbags. Their importance in the adult industry is like the importance of fart jokes in the literature. You wanna know how much those assholes suck? I give you a clue: they think Christian XXX is cool and Sasha Grey is intelligent. Go fucking figure.
“even though he often “tough loved” them–by exposing their weaknesses and embarrassing them by reporting their actions in his column.”
On the list of girls in Luke Ford tough love list:
Taryn Thomas, Sophia Lynn, Teagan Pressley.
In all case Luke was very hurting to their careers, but oddly was because deep inside, he did cared for them as he revealed in some e-mail exchanges we had.
He was trying to get them kicked out of porn because he cared about them.
Luke is a strange man. I did not know why he choosed sme girls for tough love and others (Mary Carey, Kendra Jade, Dillian Lauren, Crissy Moran, Cayton Caley, Sierra Sin) for softer, Rabbi/councelor like love.