Sunday, April 9, 2000

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Odds And Ends

This past week, Buck Adams walked into Jim Lane's office and apologized. Buck and Jim had been feuding for months.

Tim Evanson writes on RAME: I see that the Erotica USA show -- which last year was held in New York City at the Jacob Javits Convention Center (much to Rudy Giuliani's horror) -- will be held in San Francisco this year. There's an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about it at: http://www.sfgate.com.

Now, will any gay porn companies be there? I see in the article that Tom of Finland -- the fashion house, not the dead author -- is rejecting the show because it wants to be more "mainstream." (How appalling!!!!!!!! The guy catered to sex for decades, and now they wanna forego that? f---ing bastards!) Falcon and Titan Media are both in SF, but I'm betting they won't be there (just as gay companies are never at the LA Erotica show, or at last year's show, or...)

Laval writes: Just wondering if anyone knows why pissing/fisting/lactation videos are now legal to own and rent in Canada? The porn shops are now flooded with german fisting vids and stuff.

From the British newspaper, The Guardian: Britain's film censors yesterday launched a high court battle to ban the sale of explicit hardcore videos in licensed sex shops. In a test case that could clarify whether or not videos featuring shots of sexual penetration are legal in Britain, as they are in many other parts of Europe, the British Board of Film Classification yesterday argued that such videos should remain banned until more is known about the possible harm caused to children who might watch them.

Mad Jack Vs Regan Senter

Mad Jack writes: I think this time Regan Senter bit off more than he can chew. This bottom feeder finally f---ed with the wrong person. To make a long story short, he asked to take on my girl, Tia, who reluctantly agreed to fly out to LA for bookings he'd promised. 1 hour before she as due at the airport, this un-kept, stinky piece of s--- calls and cancels with NO explanation. She had already purchased her ticket and is now out the $90.00. Not a lot of money, but all the same, a s---ty thing to do. This is all for the best as being on Regan's roster is like the kiss of death in this business anyway. I had a girl call me last week claiming that she couldn't work for him any longer as he's a paranoid control freak who just wants to f--- her at every opportunity. She said that he doesn't shower, brush his teeth, or clean his s--- hole of an apartment. He refuses to buy food for any of the model's he hustles into staying with him when he attempts to find them work. He personally told me that he bulls---s Ed Powers about girls that have done scenes in the past figuring that Ed is just a rube with no time to check these things out. To me, that's no way to do business. Regan has a handful of producers that use his services every now and then, but for the most part, he worries more about getting laid than he does about finding work for these girls. Not only will I NEVER use ANY GIRL that he represents, but I'll do all in my power to steer them away from this low life. PS: he has 24 hours to remove Pamela Peaks picture form his web site(he has no model release) or the proper authorities will be contacted!!! THIS IS NOT A THREAT...IT'S A PROMISE

Kid Vegas Declares War

Kid Vegas writes: A war was started today. Words were exchanged between Michael J.Cox & Kid Vegas. Reports of vulgar language were used against Kid Vegas for him making a simple polite call to a girl in the industry who was at his house, by the wife Shelly, Michael J.Cox's wife stating that "you are mean to women, & that he was not allowed to call their house." In fact the only reason Kid Vegas called, was because he was paged by a girl several times thoughout the day, he was planning on picking up, she was house sitting, watching their cockerspanual, & 3 cats they have in their main street apartment on Coldwater Canyon Blvd. The conversation esculated by the insults given to the Kid by the dozens. So the Kid shoveled out some of the psycological defence he learned back in boot camp with the Prevedello Training, since the situation became quiet verbal. You may ask yourself, who won part 1 of this war? The answer is those who are wise, KID VEGAS, King of Gen-X Porn! Some quotes taken from Kid are: "No one is going to wreck me, bother me, or talk in that type of language to me, especially when I am nice to them, without a fight of some sort, weather psychally or mentally, I WILL WIN...People call me, I return calls, I do not care for insults, especially from low-life scum who do not even know me! f--- you Michael J.Cox, you may have 4 AVN Awards, but I have 1 in my first year, plus I have my own line fag, & I have a better house than your dingy main st. apartment. I live south of Ventura Blvd., you live north. Watch in the weeks to come, I have a feeling that a Hammer may come down on your parade, much like a steamroller if you talk to everyone that way. Peace out fans..

Life In Amsterdam

Peter Hayes writes: Now I don’t say this among my paying customers (editors), but I’ve never quite "got" the Dutch. Not even a basic understanding of their language and a couple of long-term Dutch friends has helped me out.

Sure they have liberal values and a high levels of tolerance, but who actually wants to see royalty riding bicycles and drugs being openly peddled on the street?

Holland isn’t a police state it is simply a country run by the police. They decided that they were not going to enforce prosecutions for the personal possession of drugs or prostitution and so it came to be.

The law - as it stands today - says these things are illegal, the police say they have better things to do with their time. A new draft of laws is due on the 1st of October that will put prostitution on some kind of legal footing, but what does that mean in a country that the laws are enforced and ignored at will?

I seek guidance from an Amsterdam police liaison officer, Simon, a youthful guy in his mid-twenties with a short stand-up haircut, a small ear ring and an understanding of the English language that many natives could learn from. I ask what the official line on drugs is.

"We treat the situation as a medical problem, not a legal problem," he says in a manner that suggests this the answer is rehearsed. "We do allow people to have small amounts of drugs on them for personal use...... We go after the dealers, but we are not in the harassment business. We could spend all our days arresting people, that is not how we operate here. "

But the line on drugs means that people come from all over the world to live here? Prices on the street are lower than elsewhere? The city supplies fixing shops - one of them is based on a canal boat. Does this not send out the wrong message?

"Holland is an open country, we are in mainland Europe people have always come here to live. We have always been a trading station. We cannot do anything to stop them, we are about controlling the situation and dealing with things on a day to day basis." He says before descending in to vagary and double talk.

What about prostitution? "We allow girls to work if they have a European passport (Holland is part of the EU and people can work anywhere) or have a work permit. They will be processed if they do not have these. Girls are deported all the time, but some of them are brought over to work in night-clubs as waitresses and bar keepers and then coerced in to prostitution. We have a unit that deals with this - we will help them get home if they come to us."

Later in the day I meet Hans who is a Dutch tourist guide and one time local soap opera actor. He speaks most of the European languages and knows the Amsterdam like the back of his hand. His rather unique job is to show people around the red light district as tourist guide - his main clientele are women and middle aged couples that are curious as to what lies behind the neon fronted shops and bars. but wouldn’t go in themselves.

"People are curious about what goes on here, but I tell them straight away that you have to be open minded. A lot of women are never been in a sex shop before and they curious what they look like inside. It is a whole new world to them. Sex is what the Amsterdam is famous for and they want to see what goes on as well as the windmills and the canals."

(The thought of buying a dirty magazine and suddenly being surround by a group of pensioners in macs, doesn’t bear thinking about. But Amsterdam is a place where you need to suspend a bit of belief.)

"The Dutch never force things on people, they never say, hey you must have a prostitute or you must smoke dope, but if you do people will be understanding. When you check in to the hotels they will give you booklets that have the numbers of the local escort agencies and strip clubs - here it is no big thing. They are concerned that you don’t get ripped off by going to the wrong people."

I discuss some of the drugged out prostitutes that I saw earlier in the day. Do people really have sex with women that look like death warmed up? "Junkies are desperate people, they work cheaply and a lot of guys like them because they can do what they like with them - they are easier to control... Some times teenage boys, that are like 14/15 will use them, most girls would say "clear off", but junkies HAVE to work. They cannot afford to turn work down, they are the bargain-bin end of the market."

Having got the guy off propaganda soapbox I ask whether there is much criminality here. "Naturally you get some gangsters. They bring girls in from the third world to work as dancers or whatever, they take their passports and only pay them at the end of their contract so they are trapped. They are encouraged to go with customers - some (of the pimps) are quite violent, but that is true all over. They like Philippine and Thai women because they are passive and subservient - some of the guys marry them rather than lose their meal ticket at the end of their visa."

"A lot the best pimps here are women, they know what men want and how to supply it. They know how to deal with the police and how to not get on the wrong side of them. They have this little tour that goes around Holland, girls that work two weeks here, two weeks off, two weeks there. You have a problem with someone like a boyfriend or the police and you can quickly move on. They are quite organised - they have their own little union!"

Later I wander over to the Casa Roso the live sex club in the city centre for a prearranged chat with the manager. The American door-spieler Mike is already out trying to lure those passing inside. I mention the manager’s name and he calls out to someone inside to show me through. Rather than ponder the dirty canal water I ask him about the secrets of the game.

"You have to judge people quickly. If they are couples you have to persuade them the place is safe. Some of them don’t believe that the place is for-real, while others I don’t want to let in because they won’t like the place. It all about having the right pitch for the right people."

I step back so as not to get in the way of him calling out semi-insults to the passing crowd, although rejection is the name of his game. Ushered inside I find the place is rather like a cross between a funeral parlour and a mini-cinema. About a 100 red seats rise to form an amphitheatre - the place is mostly empty and the small audience sit quietly waiting for the next act listening to the low muzak.

My guide, a unspeaking guy with a tight haircut, leads me through a multiple of doors to the managers’ office. Sammy is a quiet spoken man in his mid thirties who speaks English as perfectly as my policeman friend. He welcomes me with a weak handshake and an even weaker smile and I start with those softball questions that get any interview going.

"We only employ couples for real sex", he states as the interview gets in to full swing. "We have had people offering all kinds of things such as children and dog acts, but we tell them we are not interested. It isn’t easy finding the right people and they come from all around the world to work here. This is a real theatre, we have costume designers and choreographers, we take what we do very seriously."

But in this atmosphere how do you know that you are going too far? " We are always open about things. If a TV crew comes down we say come in look around we have nothing to hide, same with you, we say take a look this is what we are - this is what we do. You come from a country where people want to hide behind net curtains. Sex is very natural, we show it as natural. We Dutch are open minded and we don’t believe in hiding things."

I’m shown through to the large communal dressing room that the performers use to chat to with the acts. While hardly luxurious it is at least clean. It turns out that Sammy’s boast that people came from all around the world to work at the club was true, interestingly no one seemed to be Dutch. Pascal and Eve are from Northern France and do a double act based around a cybersex act. They have known each other for over five years and have been working for eighteen months. Is it hard to perform - on cue - three times a night I ask Pascal in French?

"You have to block out the audience and think only of your partner. I have a job to do and that is all I worry about. For me the audience isn’t there. If I had an erection problem Eve helps by giving head and I have only had one problem when I was feeling sick. I just went doggy style and faked it."

I ask Eve how she reacts to the biz: "I am OK with sex, I like it and being female I have the easier job. I communicate with the audience more and show that I’m enjoying it. He doesn’t ejaculate inside me."

But doesn’t the work hinder your home sex life? "We are like all couples we have sex when we feel like it... We have sex at home just as much now as before we started this job." They went on to state that they want to open up a small hotel in France with the money they are saving.

The club is not all couple sex, there is a couple of single strippers and a she-male from Budapest working at the club. She is very convincing and the end of her strip often brings a bit laugh from the audience. "I am the comedy relief" she told me.

I watch the surveillance video of the stage as Eve and Pascal rub on body oil and mentally prepare for the first outing of the night. A single stripper is going through a very slow strip on the revolving stage, I can here the music in background mode. The plastic dildos turn out to be more than cheap props.

On the way out I waylay an American couple from Baltimore and ask whether they thought that the show was shocking. "I enjoyed it...." the male said, "certainly a lot more than we get at home."

But wouldn’t be drawn on whether it remained within good taste. I ask his partner whether it was tasteful and she seemed basically upbeat. "I liked the way the couple worked together they were very gentle with one another."

Nevertheless the exit seemed more appealing than a drink at the bar, even though I offered to pay.

Renegade writes: Luke, I really enjoy reading your site, but I beginning to wonder whether Peter Hayes is an idiot. I'm surprised that he has editors who are willing to pay to for his opinionated dribble. He's never written positively about any of his interview subjects (at least that I’ve read), but to trash the Dutch because of their liberal attitudes towards sex...well, what can I say. Is he a shill for the right wing?

Luke Does Not Have Brain Damage

The results from my EEG and MRI tests are back, and I do not have brain damage. Just a personality disorder of the narcissistic kind. And I need five to ten years of insight oriented psycho-therapy.

And my Aussie psychiatrist writes: Mr. Ford completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). This is a well researched psychometric instrument that is designed to assess current psychopathology and personality functioning....

...Mr. Ford endorsed itmes which resulted in elevations on three of the clinical scales... He endorsed items suggesting that he views his home situation as unpleasant and lacking in love, support and understanding. Individuals who endorse such items tend to complain that their family are critical and controlling. He did not, however, endorse items suggesting that he feels particularly alienated from his family. He endorsed items suggesting that he appraises himself unrealistically and individuals who endorsee such items tend to be prone to grandiose thinking and they are usually resentful of the demands made by others. He also endorsed some items relating to overactive thought processes, and individuals who endorse such items tend to be restless and excited. They often commplain of being bored and they tend to seek out excitement. He endorsed items relating to unusual thoughts, but he did not endorse items relating to bizarre perceptual disturbance. He endorsed items suggesting that he has, in may respects, conventional attitudes to antisocial behavior, although he may seek to shock others. He did not endorse items relating to marked anger or irritability, anxiety, fears or phobias, or depression. He endorsed items, however, suggesting that he may be prone to some self-deprecatory thinking. He endorsed positive attitudes towards treatment and work. He did not endorse items relating to alcohol or drug use.

Overall, his pattern of responding indicated that he was not reporting marked psychological distress and that he regards himself as having some resources to deal with any problems that he does encounter. This pattern of responding was reasonably consistent with his presentation at interview.

Goddess writes: So you're narcissistic and think your parents don't love you. Welcome to the club, Luke:)

Hey, Luke, I've re-thunk my whole position on this wiring your home with a video camera thing, and I think you should go for it. It'll be cool to watch you schlepping around the house in your Winnie-the-Pooh footed pajamas and your Superman underoos:)

Curious: What are your thoughts with regard to your impending return to Los Angeles? You must feel some homesickness by now, but I imagine that you must be saddened to leave your family. Overall was your visit what you expected it to be?

Luke: I had a pleasant, low-key return to Australia. I rarely get excited anymore. I've become so apathetic, I just don't care. Unless it is when I get myself on TV, which I have not accomplished down under. It is with a heavy heart that I ponder my return to psycho-therapy, and the heavy dent that will make in my bank account. I do look forward to returning to Los Angeles, and working harder on my site, which I have neglected these past weeks.

Spending time with my family was pleasant but I look forward to establishing one of my own.

Brooke Senay aka Andy Lace

David writes: Hey Luke, Say it ain't so. I lost my one of my favorite sexy black girls to the world of professional wrestling at least that is what I heard. Is it true? luke call her and tell her I need 1 more scene of her. She was one of the classiest black girls around while not the prettiest she had the best figure by far of any black girl around. And recently she had really softened up her shape a lot. I met her at CES this year and she was very nice. So luke wish her luck for me and the rest of the guys.

Body Double Nudity

Lattara and Pat Riley mixed it up on RAME.

Lattara: >BTW you really haven't grasped the new-fangled technology of the >kinematoscope yet, have you? There are no little dots making up a >cinema picture - the picture is a projection of a smaller picture - it >is made up of analog not digital light. (You also don't get pixels on >an analog video either, but let's not get bogged down in that).

Riley: Sheesh, lattara, you really want to beat this one to death, don't you? Of course there are little dots making up the cinema (film) picture; they're known as molecules at the very least...clusters of silver halide IIRC and I believe the technical term is "grains". Unlike pixels the grains vary in size depending on the speed of the film but there are still grains (or in my layman's terms, dots). When the film is projected on the cinema screen there are also little dots: molecules of whatever the screen is made which reflect the image back to your eye, the retina of which of course is composed or rods and cones each of which sends back a tiny fragment of what you are seeing--jeez sounds just like my little "dot".

In any event it's not the technology that's important. The idea is that the image you are seeing on the movie screen or TV screen is just a composed representation of something unreal. On one level it exists but only because you're (one) insisting that the rules--the composition of the image, the technical photograph, lens, camera, development, projection, reflection--are all followed religiously. But we know they're not and we know that those rules introduce distortions of their own and, most importantly, we want them to lie and we want the cinematographer to break the rules because that makes for a better movie--a more artistic film or in the case in point a more perfect female. Mug shots are about the closest we have to accuracy throughout the process and who would really choose to watch mug shots--even Ariel probably looks ugly .

>I'm sorry I just can't understand where you are coming from. Are you >seriously positing that an image of a person (which may admittedly be >moderately altered by lighting etc.) is totally divorced from the >person so that I can make no equation between the image of the actress >(mainstream or porn) and the fact that she really exists in the real >wotld with a real body? >If someone were to say to me "Say, have you ever seen Kate Moss >naked?" (hope you appreciate my choice of naked woman) I wouldn't say, >"No, I have never met the underfed english model." I would say, "Sure, >I saw a jpeg on usenet." If my questioner were to ask had I seen her >naked in the flesh then obviously I would demure, but the line of your >argument would seem to suggest that I have no idea what Ms Moss looks >like in the buff because I have only seen a photograph.

Riley: Would you like to have a quick look at Roxanne Hall in Woodman Castings #15 and say Sodomania #8 (about the same time) and tell me they're the same girl. They are but they look very different due to primarily (IMO) to makeup. The Castings movie shows a girl who is close to my definition of ugly (you'd probably see her as a scrubber) and in Sodomania she looks quite attractive. A little more than just "moderately altered by lighting". The real Roxanne Hall is probably a lot closer to the Castings movie than Sodomania but so what... I'm looking at a set of pixels (please don't be pedantic again) that happens to be backed up, maybe, by a real image at some point in time. If I like the image, I'm fantasizing about screwing that set of pixels, not the girl as she really is.

Science fiction note (although I'm sure eventually it will happen): Randy West is locked inside some little cabin in the backwoods of Oregon with a 600 gigahertz processor, hundreds of terabytes of storage and a programming language that allows him to create from thin air an image of a gorgeous little 18 year old and a modified version of a young surfer dude with long blonde hair in a ducktail, bulging muscles, and the face similar to Brad Pitt #3. By inserting the right commands he'll have them copulate, take facials, defecate on each other, have Brad #3 punch out the girl's teeth and shove his 25 inch tree trunk down the gaping wound while calling her a slut and a whore (or whatever the then-current fashion dictates). We (er...maybe Patrick #3) can all sit back and smirk as the SFB's write off their love notes (or brain transfer them) to the 18 year old and Randy mails off another set of used panties.

The point? At present the pixels on the screen bear some resemblance to the real person but as time goes by technology is making that connection more and more tenuous. Even today, what you see is not what you get. And don't get me started on the screen/public persona versus the private/real persona.

God's Law

Url Turner writes: Dear Mr. Ford: We have followed your hejira from your earliest USENET days to your exile in Australia. It pleases the heart to hear of your gradual return to biblical sanity. Soon, we hope, you will be well enough to begin your true mission in life.

For now, regarding the lifestyle of your housemate and the question of race mixing, the bible is clear: "Do not plant your field (i.e., your women) with different species of seeds (i.e., the semen of other races): Lev. 19:19. Do not wear a garment that contains a mixture of linnen (the white race, whose hair is as straigth as linnen) and wool (clearly an allusion to the negro race). Levi. 19:27." Sodomites and miscegenators are wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly (Gen. 13:13), are violent and doom nations (Gen. 19:1-25; Jgs. 19), are abominable to God (Lev. 18:22), are worthy of death for their vile, depraved, unnatural sex practices (Lev. 20:13; Rom. 1:32), are called dogs because they are filthy, impudent and libidinous (Deut. 23:17,18; Mat. 7:6; Phil. 3:2), produce by their very presence in society a kind of mass intoxication from their wine made from grapes of gall from the vine of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah which poisons society's mores with the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps (Deut. 32:32,33), declare their sin and shame on their countenance (Isa. 3:9), are shameless and unable to blush (Gerbil. 6:15), are workers of iniquity and hated by God (Piss. 5:5), are liars and murderers (Jixtra. 8:44), are filthy and lawless (2 Peta. 2:7,8), are natural brute beasts (2 Peta. 2:12), are dogs eating their own vomit and sows wallowing in their own feces (2 Weiner. 2:22), will proliferate at the end of the world bringing final judgment on mankind (Lk. 17:28-30), have been finally given up by God to uncleanness dishonoring their own bodies among themselves, to vile affections, and to a reprobate mind such that they cannot think straight about anything (Rom. 1:23-28), have wholly given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh (Jude 7), must be pulled as faggots from the fire (Jude 23), and have no hope of Heaven unless they repent (Rev. 22:15). They need to hear this truth if they are to have any hope of penitence, faith in Jesus Christ and salvation (I Timothy 4:2-4; II Thesolonians 5:1-9; and Perturbations 17:1-21).

Mr. Ford, you would do well to guard yourself well for the time you dwell in the house of the fornicator who has given himself over to strange flesh.

A Responsa Regarding Miscegenation

Chaim Amalek writes: I was going to write up some commentary based only on a few verses of torah. By now others have chimed in with the allegorical biblical prohibition against the mixing of seed (genes) or the crossing of varieties of animals within a species, and for the literal bible minded (damn few of your readers), that should suffice. But really, the issue of miscegenation [sex between the races] demands much more serious treatment so that even the secular jew and deracinated goy can see why this biodiversity-destroying behavior is wrong.

I write these words while watching a TV show on Fox consisting of video footage of dangerous police chases on America's highways. I am struck by the preponderance of male Negroes among the ranks of those who use their vehicles with depraved indifference to all in or along their chosen path (ala the drunk Rodney King) and wonder why it should be thus. Clearly this is not the world the liberals promised us when they contrived to end apartheid in America. At the same time, I cannot shake the images I saw just a few days ago on display here in New York City at a museum exhibit entitled "No Sanctuary", about the wave of lynchings of (mostly) black men in the South during the first few decades of this century. It appeared to me that the sexual fears of whites, namely, miscegenation, were at the root of a disproportionate number of these criminal attacks.

And there is a sexual component to such mayhem, both then (by whites - it is unclear just how violent black men were at that time) and now (disproportionately by blacks). Men are, by nature, violent animals, and some societies of men have always been more violent than others. What helps keep men in line are women, bound to men via marriage, and the community of like people that that arrangement usually creates. One sees this in societies as diverse (but, tellingly, racially homogeneous) as Japan's and Iceland's. This is God's plan for man.

Miscegenation throws several monkey wrenches into God's plan. When I use that word, what I really mean in this country at this time are black men copulating and impregnating white women. (While I concede that things may have been very different in the ante-bellum South, White men nowadays are much much less likely to settle for a negress than a black man is to want to reach up for a white woman.)

Now let's be specific here, as only the internet permits. Since individuals seem to favor miscegenation, what is the harm in it? Let us look beyond the selfish desires of the individual to the social needs of the communities to which they belong, beginning with the putative beneficiary of liberal attitudes, the Black Man. The average black man knows that he does not plausibly rate the higher-status white woman (I am speaking of averages here). So as he sees the most exalted of his own kind, the professional athlete and the entertainer disproportionately choose white women over black, he may come to feel that, in marrying the Black Woman, he is settling for the rejects of his and every other race. (Again, one seldom sees white or chinese or Brahmin men marrying black women.) He grows angry and comes to devalue the black woman, rejecting her as his mate.

The white man of course is not too keen to see women necessary for the propagation of his own race betray their genetic history for what he dismisses as a series of moments of purportedly big-dicked pleasure. And the white woman suffers estrangement from most of her own people.

Like it or not, these are the actual consequences of miscegenation in the eyes of most people. Truth be told, the visceral reaction of white men to the sight of the male negro with a white woman is second only to the unfortunately disproportionate rate of Negro crime as a source of white racism. And as we all know, this racism further degrades the racial climate of the nation, and leads to a climate of hatred and violence. (It is telling that the career and assassination of Martin Luther King, a notorious miscegenationist, was accompanied by an explosive upsurge of black criminality and social chaos in the 1960's. These things are linked at a very deep level.)

Finally, and saddest of all, the very act itself betrays the legitimate marital aspirations of black women who cannot compete with their fairer white primate cousins. She is cut off from an institution which, while imperfect, is the best there is for raising children (sorry, gays), which she most certainly shall have notwithstanding the desire of her men to fornicate with caucasian women. (After all, sperm is always cheap and available.) And the children that she has in this environment are more likely to grow up without the benefit of a father, without the advantages of a nuclear family. "Daddy" is out hunting for or fornicating with white women instead of at home with his own kind.

Miscegenation is a crime against nature of the very sort the torah warns against when, first speaking to a primitive audience that did not know of Mendelian genetics, it preached against reducing what we know as "biodiversity" by prohibiting the interbreeding of cattle otherwise capable of interbreeding.

Please do not accuse me of racism and let your counter-argument stand on that. In fact, proper legal prohibitions against miscegenation affected black and white equally, and were intended to protect each from the destructive desires of the other and to preserve the white race and the negro race for future generations. (With a heavy heart, I acknowledge that such laws were unequally enforced.) It really is sad that this prohibition was not written into our constitution, whereas the evil institution of slavery, for which we are still paying, was. Better that we have been born a wholly free nation of different races, each assured of its own biological survival, than as a nation half free and half slave, meeting at the point of miscegenation.

Finally, to return to the Jewish Torah, I choose to believe that ours is a Just and Loving God, who does not want his children to suffer by engaging in foolish conduct. Therefore, just as he does not want us to suffer by jumping off of cliffs in defiance of the laws of gravity, so too does he disapprove of other modes of conduct that, like miscegenation, lead to needless suffering.

Chaim Amalek (Equally the Friend of ALL Races)

Lynne L-patin

Lynn writes: Bryn Prior or Pryor or some such nonsense -- anyway, misspelled (not that I care except for your credibility). This is the man who told me that "Indigo Moods" was a BAD porno and that he would refuse to submit it for AVN award consideration.

The best argument against a "God" is the behavior of "his" so-called "creations." There seems to be an inverse relationship between religion and ethics: the more one spouts religious beliefs, the less ethical one's behavior becomes. Thus my retreat into atheism -- I force myself to be ethical, with no excuses and no contradictions. Many Secular Humanists are agnostics. They want to believe, but find organized religion offensive and exceedingly unethical. This term I have no time for essays on religion and ethics, but maybe next term....

You, on the other hand, need to get back into school if you want to pursue this. One of the qualifications for intellectual debate is documentation of your understanding of your position -- the appropriate degree(s) are academic shorthand for an informed background.

I think your fans are going to like this even less than they like me. I don't joke with you about religion. I like the idea. I attended Unitarian services during the year before I met Bruce. I don't know anything about Dennis Prager and not much more about the Books of Moses.

As to your friend, there are only two questions: 1. Do you practice safe sex? (Yes, the condom is on the fridge as a reminder, like the ring on the finger is a reminder). 2. Are YOU happy? That's the end of the discussion.

Opting out of the genetic pool might have been a problem in a small tribal group, but now, with overpopulation a real concern, it is an acceptable ethical choice. ETHICAL monotheism recognizes that the Books of Moses are just the earliest attempt to codify human behavior, and that they originate from a particular culture, time and place. Just a starting point. I noted dozens of books and courses on the ethics of various aspects of human behavior in the library.

Get out your lamp, Diogenes, and go to work!

Steve Neece writes Luke: Your postings distress me.You are regressing in terms of logic.Why should you need to rebut your Gay friend?His formula seems a solid one that harms nobody.If all else fails ,Christians always take the stance..."you'll be sorry in the afterlife." if they can find no logical reason not to do something in the here and now.It is the reasoning of small minded people of inferior intellect and character.Mental illness is more common among the profoundly religious ,as is child abuse and domestic violence ,lower I.Q.s and educational levels.Any number of studies have shown atheists to be more law abiding and better educated than their religious counterparts.Religious believers are far more common in prisons than atheists.About 20 years ago a study that showed that children of Baptist and Catholic mothers scored lowest on intelligence tests.There was a huge furor and I'm not sure if they were forced to retract.Wonder how many porn starlets are from those very backgrounds.You can be sure they far outnumber educated atheists such as Nina Hartley and Asia Carrera.

Re:Andy Lace.I wish you well but I think it is sad that you feel the need to tear down the well toned body you have worked for and get a boob and nose job and change your hair to blonde!!!!!Only you know if it is worth it to you and people have sacrificed far more but I hope you can live with this compromise to your integrity as a person.Somehow I think the old Andy Lace will be far more desirable than the altered model.Think of Michael Jackson.

To Lynne L-patin;keep up the good work.Have to find a copy of your video and let you know what I think.I,too,long for the bygone days of passion and intelligence.

Mikes writes Luke: What is the deal with all of the references to religion on your site? Is it a joke? Do you really think that porn and religion can go together?

Luke: Porn and religion are totally incompatible.

J.D. Considine Skewers Chaim Amalek

J.D. Considine, music critic for the Baltimore Sun, writes Luke: A few days back, Chaim Amalek wrote: "Lobby the Tribune company to hire you as the Roger Ebert of porno video (the comparison is more apt than most people realize). Tell them there is a real need for your work in a major paper." Actually, Ebert works for the Chicago Sun-Times, not the Chicago Tribune. That was the late Gene Siskel's gig.

ELASTIN2: "The power of word sometimes can be rather disturbing to the mind. Especially when you have a small mind."

Chaim writes: A jew asks: "can you tell me if LA Bust and Dakota Kelly are real or augmented?"

What is the casha (question - not buckwheat)? Is it "Rebbe, do these specific women (who I assume appear in pornographic movies, as you never write about any other sort of woman who is not related to you), whose breasts are large enough to raise the question of their authenticity, have real breasts or augmented breasts?" But that is a trivial question that answers itself. The better question is "Are the large breasts of an arbitrarily selected woman who appears in pornographic films real or are have they been augmented by surgery?"

The answer to this question is to be found, with a very high degree of reliability, in the so-called Copernican Principle, which was discussed in an article by Princeton Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott III in New Scientist magazine a while back. To be succinct, there likely is nothing special about these two women. If most of the women in porn who sport large breasts have had surgical augmentation, then it is likely that these specific women, about whom you have your doubts, have had such surgery as well.

Mila's Asshole

Lava writes: Is anyone amazed at how unreal Mila's butthole looks? She pushes her intestine almost out of her body causing it look like a bloody volcano..Could this be from too much anal?

Redrubber: My understanding is that it's called a prolapsed rectum...usually when you get older(like senior citizen)your body starts to disfunction and sometimes you can push your colon out of you sphincter....when this happens its time to pull out the depends diapers.

Real: It's probably from years and years of straining while on the toilet. Years ago my mother knew a guy who strained so hard on the toilet that he busted a blood vessel in his brain, fell off the toilet, and died. His sister found him a few hours later, and said that his asshole was very prolapsed. She said it looked like a s--- covered purple baseball.

Chaim: You really need either to a: Find a new way of earning a living, or b: Jump all the way in and at least get to have sex with these women and make porn. Nothing good can come of asking the world to comment on the tail end of anyone's digestive tract.