Sunday, March 11th, 2001

Internet Fuels Demand For Child Pornography

NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet has fueled the explosive growth of child pornography and pedophile networks, a Newsweek investigation reveals. As part of a special report in the current issue, Newsweek has learned of a planned sweep against consumers of child pornography in the U.S. within the next few weeks.

"Child pornography was pretty much eradicated in the 1980s," says Kevin Delli-Colli, a U.S. official who runs the Customs CyberSmuggling Center, a unit that combats the imports of child-sex photos and films. "With the advent of the Internet, it exploded."

In the March 19 cover story and special report, "The Darkest Corner of the Internet," (on newsstands Monday, March 12), Correspondent-at-Large Rod Nordland and Senior Writer Jeffrey Bartholet examine the expanse of the networks, how they've grown on the World Wide Web and what law enforcement agencies, governments and Internet companies are doing to help eradicate it again.

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Father Fortunato Di Noto counts himself as having once been among the innocent, or at least the blissfully ignorant. He is everything you might expect an Italian priest to be: portly, balding, popular among the local kids, prone to passionate bursts of indignation. He wears a floor-length black cassock, and sometimes props his glasses low on his nose, so his blue eyes gleam over the rims with added intensity. His parish church, the Madonna del Carmine, occupies a square in an old part of Avola, a small coastal town in Sicily. The neighboring buildings, chipped and peeling, have empty holes for windows. The outside of Father Fortunato's church is drab concrete. Inside, overhanging the pews and altar, is a garish modern painting portraying the seven deadly sins. A group of children has gathered in a small wooden alcove for a Bible class. Beyond them, in a small back office, two boys are playing Super Mario Brothers on a computer.

It was here, by grim happenstance in 1996, that Father Fortunato experienced an epiphany. He had begun to offer an Internet course to parish children, believing it was a vital learning tool. During one of the first meetings of his informal study group, a little girl said she wanted to search for "lollipops." Using an Italian slang word for lollipop -- "slurpy" -- Father Fortunato punched the letters into the search engine. But slurpy is also slang for a sex act; what came back was a connection to an outfit called the Pedophile Liberation Front, which defends the lifestyle of pedophiles -- people who are sexually attracted to children. Through that link, Father Fortunato found other sites, and discovered letters addressed to kids attempting to lure them into relationships. "I'm lucky because I have faith," says the priest. "If I didn't, I'm sure I would have gone out there with a machine gun and taken justice in my own hands."

Father Fortunato did seek justice of a different sort. Four years and thousands of Web searches later, he and three colleagues have uncovered evidence of mind-numbing atrocities, including photos of child rape involving children as young as toddlers and infants. The priest traced a criminal trail linking distributors and users of such child pornography with those who molest children or worse -- many of them like-minded spirits who have created a subculture in the dark corners of the Web. "In the beginning, it was photos of nude children," he says. "But progressively, I began to discover tortures." Various clues led his mouse around the globe -- to sites and peddlers of child porn in Russia, Europe, America. Eventually, he helped investigators break a major international ring of pedophiles, based in Russia, leading to a series of crackdowns that is expected to continue shortly in the United States.

Within the next few weeks, the U.S. government plans to announce a wide sweep against alleged consumers of child pornography in more than a dozen cities across the country. Customs agents have already secretly executed search warrants on several targets of the investigation, who are alleged to be customers of a Moscow Web site called Blue Orchid. Sources told Newsweek that the American targets of the Blue Orchid investigation may be involved in trading photos with other pedophiles. Some of the targets may also be charged with actually molesting children. One of the most distressing aspects of this investigation, law-enforcement sources say, was the discovery that Blue Orchid was peddling a tape to American suspects in which a molester was depicted severely beating up a child.

This kind of material makes most people turn away with profound revulsion. Other people will dismiss the problem as one of lone perverts trading dirty pictures. But that very instinct -- to turn away -- serves the child pornographers well. "The problem is that these kinds of things aren't very well known, and since they're not well known, people have a hard time believing them," says Father Fortunato. "Silence is what allows pedophiles to win." The fact is, thousands of children around the world have been brutally abused to create these images, and demand for the pictures is burgeoning, fueled by the Internet. That in turn encourages more abuse. Child pornography comes in many forms, ranging from photos of kids in baths to the terrible images that Father Fortunato discovered. Some are old images that have been scanned into computers; others are new. Many pedophiles never act on their urges, while others commit acts of cruelty that are, simply, unthinkable. Yet the thousands of children in the photos, tapes and videos pinging around the Internet never had the option to turn away.

Fifteen or 20 years ago, law-enforcement officers in the United States figured they had child pornography under control. They cracked down on peddlers and buyers -- who were using overland mail and neighborhood photo labs -- to such an extent that it was hard for pedophiles to find and interact with one another. A lonely and hunted breed, they often resorted to crossing national borders to places like Sri Lanka and the Philippines that had more available victims and less strict law enforcement. "Child pornography was pretty much eradicated in the 1980s," says Kevin Delli-Colli, who runs the U.S. Customs Cyber-Smuggling Center, a unit that combats the import of child-sex photos and films. "With the advent of the Internet, it exploded."

Suddenly, pedophiles could use their own computers to make instant copies of pictures -- grabbed from an Internet club on a Web site located in, say, Moscow -- and send them to like-minded friends around the world. Men who had fantasies that they were once ashamed to admit or afraid to act upon now found a "community" in online clubs and chat rooms devoted to preteen sex. No longer did pedophiles have to prowl the seedier sections of the city for photos or films; they could meet friends and download, in their living rooms, child pornography made with film-free digital cameras (no need to risk exposure at a photo store) and home-made CD-ROMs. Nor did Americans believe they had to travel to lands where sexual laws were milder. Scarier still, sexual predators interested in older kids no longer had to lurk near a school or neighborhood hangout. Via the Internet, they could enter a home, introduce themselves to a teenage child and carry on a long process of seduction.

Today, international pedophile rings sell and trade hundreds of thousands of images. When police in 13 countries, including the United States, broke up the Wonderland Internet ring in 1998, they discovered computer files with three quarters of a million images of child pornography in Britain alone. (The 200 members of the Wonderland Internet relay chat group each had to provide 10,000 images in order to join.) Collating the photos and extracting head and shoulder shots, police in the United Kingdom working with other specialists identified 1,263 different victims, all of them under the age of puberty. In the Netherlands, when activists broke up the Apollo ring of child abusers led by Gerald Ulrich the same year, they discovered CD-ROM duplicating facilities in his home; on the first Ulrich disc alone, Dutch police identified more than 200 victims -- and 16 more such discs have yet to be fully cataloged. Many of the images on the Ulrich CD-ROMs and Wonderland computer tapes showed children as young as 3 months subjected to explicit sex acts.

A number of recent cases illustrate how global these networks are. When authorities last year took down a child-porn Web site run by Wayne Camolli in Palm Beach, Fla., they were acting on a tip from Belgian police. They found that confederates of the notorious Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux had sent pornography to Camolli, who was later sentenced to 16 months in federal prison after being convicted on one count of transmitting child porn. In Dutroux's dungeon-equipped house, police had found 500 videotapes, many depicting the rape of children, according to Belgian police investigative files obtained by Newsweek.

In Italy, police with the help of Microsoft Italia last year ran a sting in which they "mirrored" a Russian Web site -- believed to be connected to the current U.S. investigation -- that was offering all manner of child pornography. Italian police have started criminal proceedings against 1,700 Italians for actively purchasing the pornography, and passed on to police in eight other countries details on other nationals who did so as well. Documents filed with Internic, the Internet registration agency, show that one of the Russian child-pornography Web sites -- which was in English -- was actually registered to someone in Tuscaloosa, Ala. A Ft. Worth, Texas, couple, Thomas and Janice Reedy, last year were charged with providing access to child-porn Web sites with names like "Child Rape" and "Children Forced to Porn" through hyperlinks on their own home page, making more than a million dollars in fees from it, prosecutors said. A bulletin board on the site included ads from parents offering to swap their children for sex to like-minded parents. They now face sentencing, having been convicted on more than 80 child-porn-related counts. Charged with them were two Indonesians and a Russian, the apparent producers.

An investigation of a child-porn Web site by U.S. Customs agents in the summer of 1999 reveals the appetite for photos of sexually exploited children. The Web site, known to Customs as the Tajik Express because the Web address was in Tajikistan (although the actual computer server was in Massachusetts), recorded 4,107 hits from different Internet user addresses in the first month, as well as 95,450 downloads of images. In its third month, the site recorded an astounding 147,776 hits from individual users, and the download of 3.2 million images. The site was later shut down at the request of Customs, and six people were arrested.

Many law-enforcement officers worry that the spread of child pornography, as well as the easy access to like-minded people via the Internet, has a "legitimizing effect" -- making the pedophile believe that his own impulses are OK, because they are shared by so many others. That feeds appetites for this material, meaning more kids will be victimized. "They're all looking for fresh stuff," says FBI agent Peter Gulotta. "They're all looking for photos they haven't seen before."

But how many consumers of pornography actually cross the line to soliciting and abusing children? Overall, the evidence on child molestation in the United States is mixed... And American law-enforcement officials generally agree that there is a link between voyeurism and abuse. In 36 percent of investigations undertaken by the United States Postal Inspection Service since 1997, for instance, pursuit of child pornography turned up actual child molesters. Some of them were known pedophiles with criminal records; others were found, during the course of the investigation, to have been abusing kids.

For those who do act on their urges, computer technology has also become a powerful vehicle for preying on potential young victims. Michelle Collins is an online analyst for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a nonprofit agency that gets government funding and which serves as a clearinghouse for tips about online sexual exploitation. With a few clicks of her mouse, she demonstrates how a predator might use the Internet. First she goes into America Online, then pulls up a window to search AOL "member profiles." She punches in the name of a town and types "student" under the "occupation" category. Just from one midsize town in New Jersey, up pop more than 100 personal profiles of AOL members who have voluntarily provided personal information about their interests and hobbies. To narrow the search further, Collins keys in kid-friendly search words like "Britney Spears." One girl notes that "My life sucks." (AOL spokesperson Nicholas Graham says that the company always advises members not to post personal information they want to keep private, and provides parental-control software free. "We also don't allow children under 13 to create a member profile," he says.)

Now the would-be molester can punch a button that will alert him whenever the target kid comes online. When he or she does, the predator sends an instant message, and begins "grooming" the child. If she has mentioned an interest in soccer, the predator might ask what her jersey number is, so he can check her out at the local playing field. He'll play on her insecurities. "Girls in their teens can be very vulnerable," says Collins. "They may not think they're pretty enough or popular enough, and the predator will say 'You're beautiful on the inside,' and provide a relationship. The girl will think: 'He knows me for me'."

A few more clicks, and Collins is out of AOL and into an Internet relay chat channel for people interested in preteen sex. The creator of this group, clearly aware of the laws on child pornography, has written warnings not to post photos. But, as Collins explains, people who meet here can then make separate arrangements to trade illicit materials via the Internet. Some of these methods are extremely difficult to monitor. Many of the same kids appear again and again in the graphic photos posted on the Web or seized by police from offenders' hard drives. They turn up so often that Collins and her analysts have classified several "series" of photos: the Amber series, the Marion series, the Cindy series, the Kevin series and so on.

One group of recent photos involves two blond girls, aged roughly 4 and 7. Collins is trying to identify a man, who presents himself online as a married, middle-class American marketing agent, who has been disseminating the photos. But, she explains, the subject she is trying to locate is certainly not the man who made the photos. The chances of locating that person -- and helping the two girls -- "are slim to none." "It's so, so big," she says of the amount of pedophilia on the Internet.

Jasmine St. Claire Going Mainstream

From Craig Whyel: Since the east coast wrestling promotion, ECW, went belly up, Jasime St. Clair has been reduced to working for small wrestling promotions and no doubt taking a major pay cut. She still travels and works with her alleged significant other: The Blue Boy. If in the off chance anyone out west gives a s---, Jasime is allegedly claiming that she's got a role in Martin Lawrence's upcoming: "Big Momma's House 2."

Alisha And Bruce

Voltaire writes: I can't believe you haven't got to the Alisha Klass and Bruce Willis story yet. It's on the cover of the GLOBE magazine. I think it's great and I really like Alisha. But the magazine barely hints at Alisha's lovely extreme movie work: massive amounts of assf---ing, lots of direct ass-to-mouth blowjobs, peeing in the air like a geyser (to let it splash in her face on the down fall) while large objects dilate her asshole, and fisting (in both fister and fistee roles). What a resume!

She's the greatest. I hope they get married and live happily ever after. They call her "Ali" instead of Seymour/Adam's pet name "Lish" but they do show her ass tattoo with the Seymour Butts logo on there. They say she's a little hurt because he's timid about being seen with her. Maybe now that it's on the cover of the Globe he'll let it go. Then again he's probably fighting with Demi for parental custody and is worried about some old judge.

And, by the way, a big f--- you to all those dumbass catholic types that I see on your site that always put porn girls down as "used up whores" or whatever in the same breath that they talk about how much they liked jerking off to the same girls movie. These guys need to move forward a century or two. The earth revolves around the sun, and women are neither madonnas or whores. These guys are so full of s---, they probably have a wife they won't f---, a girlfriend they meet at a motel, and they probably think of themselves as "Good Christians". Like this bulls--- in this month's playboy about how a Mafia Mook in that HBO show Sopranos says he won't let his wife blow him, only hookers: "that's the mouth that kisses my kids" - what, is his dick poisoned? Attitudes like that are why so many guys are so f---ed in the head about sex and women.

Fred writes: Contrary to "Voltaire", the line about oral sex and "the mouth that kisses my kids" is from the movie "Analyze This." Further, the copy of the Globe on sale at the 7-11 this morning had no such story about Bruce Willis and Alisha Klass. This is precisely why I choose to get my news from Rousseau, and not Voltaire.

The NJG: Fred is wrong, he's looking a last weeks tabloids, his local 7/11 has old ones. The new ones have Alisha and Bruce all over it.
The NJG: I bought it already...how come you didn't break the story? It was all over Gene's.
Luzdedos1: it is tawdry
The NJG: how?
The NJG: this is from www.dictionary.com taw·dry (tôdr) adj. taw·dri·er, taw·dri·est. Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. See Synonyms at gaudy1. n. Cheap and gaudy finery.
The NJG: Um, please explain why that is more tawdry than...the discussion you and Natureboy were having
The NJG: or anything else you publish, please explain why that is more tawdry than anything on your site, ie, your love of anal sex, your thinking that women are smelly...etc. Why is that more tawdry?
Luzdedos1: umm, i can't argue with you
The NJG: I'm not asking you to argue, don't play that game, I'm wanting to find out your motivation here. Why is that more tawdry? What is your explanation that the gossip about Bruce and Alisha is more tawdry than anything on your site, since, in your words you said that "it's tawdry", everything on your site can be considered tawdry. So why are you making a morals exception in this regard?
Luzdedos1: I'm not. I linked to the story days ago and left it there. It frankly does not interest me much. Such tawdry gossip. Now this Logan girl coming in to town Monday, she is hot.
The NJG: so explain how that goes along with your views on tawdry and morals?
Luzdedos1: My attraction for Logan, the buxom busty Las Vegas stripper, is an instance of my not living up to the highest of Torah values. But you should see her jugs, and you'd understand.
The NJG: We all choose the paths we take and the people we choose to take on those paths.
Luzdedos1: Oooooh, that is good.
The NJG: It's true though, no? What you associate with and follow is what you ultimately become. Whatever path you follow, no amount of prayer can sustain you until you choose to follow a different path.

The Great Rob Spallone Shakedown - Life Imitates Art?

My friend Rob Spallone was taken away by the FBI on Wednesday from James DiGiorgio's office and presumably flown to New York for questioning. I think it's related to a New York Mafia stock shakedown.

DiGiorgio says Rob called him collect Friday. Rob didn't say much except that he was in New York and should be back in town Monday or Tuesday.

Federal authorities describe the stock fraud as a cross between "The Sopranos" and "Boiler Room."

I found some frightening parallels to the real life story in some AVN coverage of Spallone over the past few months.

From the November 2000 issue of Adult Video News magazine, Gene Ross writes: "Rob Spallone, along with two other goons, waved a three-part harmony of roscoes in my face recently. Spallone threatened reprisals unless I gave him a good review. There was also talk of a bribe. A rather substantial one. So it was either the big mazuma or the big sleep. My choice. Convinced that I had received the message loud and clear, Spallone and his gunsels slunk back into the sewer from which they came.

"Of course, we're talking about a scene out of Sopornos 2, which Spallone and director Jim DiGiorgio just wrapped up. For the record, Spallone's thugs were Herschel Savage and Tony Tedeschi. DiGiorgio, was getting Sopornos 2 finished for an October release. The bribe scenario was an elaborate pick-up shot. The dialogue was improvised, and if truth be told, I was absolutely spectacular playing myself."

Tod Hunter reviews the DiGiorgio-Spallone movie "The Sopornos" here: "There's a lot to like in this pastiche of every Mafia movie cliché in the last, oh, 30 years. There's Herschel Savage, in purple-tinted glasses, very Alex-Rocco-as-Moe-Greene as the boss of the Soporno family casino/whorehouse. Rob Spallone is all East Coast vitality as the new guy who moves in to take over the family business right under Savage's nose."

Luke says: In January in Las Vegas, Rob won AVN's Best Non Sex Performance award for his work in The Sopornos.

Mob, Rob On Wall Street?

Is the questioning of my buddy Rob Spallone connected to the following story?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal authorities on Thursday charged 20 people with bilking investors out of $50 million in a stock fraud scheme hatched by mob-infiltrated brokerage firms in Manhattan and elsewhere.

Two defendants, Hunter Adams and Michael Reiter, were identified as associates in the Gambino organized crime family. An indictment accused them of funneling illicit profits to their mob bosses from First United Equities Corp., a now-defunct brokerage that had offices in Manhattan, Garden City, N.Y., and Woodbridge, N.J.

From the Wall Street Journal:

NEW YORK -- Two reputed mob figures and 18 others have been charged with cheating thousands of investors out of more than $50 million in a stock fraud case that federal authorities likened to a cross between "The Sopranos" and "Boiler Room."

The scheme, which involved the artificial inflation of at least five small-cap securities, was run through three corrupt brokerages in the New York City area, according to U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch, who announced the indictment in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday. She said brokers at the firms used high-pressure or "boiler-room" sales tactics to push stocks on customers, and verbally abused customers who resisted advice to buy or hold the securities. In addition, some of the brokers threatened bodily harm to those who were short-selling the stocks and causing prices to drop, she said.

Among those charged are Hunter Adams, 33, and Michael Reiter, 31, who authorities say are associates of the Gambino organized crime family. Other defendants who allegedly played a large role in the fraud scheme include Jonathan Winston, 35, Jason Cohen, 48, Gregg Adams, 26, and Robert Mangiarano, 27.

Authorities said the scheme centered around the activities of brokers at First United, which underwrote initial public offerings of at least two of the stocks involved. Principals of the firm would maintain control over large blocks of the stocks while using a variety of misrepresentations to push the securities on customers, according to the indictment. In one instance, brokers drove the price of Ashton stock up to $15.25 a share before allowing it to plunge to less than a dollar, authorities said. Similar patterns were seen with some of the other stocks.

In the end, thousands of customers throughout the U.S. - some of them sophisticated investors - lost tens of millions of dollars because of the fraud, according to Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney. Lynch called the case "a striking example of the rigged investment 'opportunities' that are presented to the unsuspecting investing public by 'boiler room' operations."

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who announced the charges with Lynch at a Brooklyn press conference, said: "This is really a case of life imitating art - it's a combination of 'The Sopranos' and 'Boiler Room.' Unfortunately, this isn't the movies or TV."

Winston, Cohen, Hunter Adams, Reiter, Gregg Adams and Mangiarano also were charged with money laundering...

Other defendants charged in the case are: James Bila; Christian Blake; Steven Cohen; Louis Facchini, Jr.; David Hirsch; Joseph Mannino; John Gremmo III; David Margules; James Pellizzi; David Passo; Michael Pugliese; Chris Russo; Howard Weinstein and Robert Winston.

Anabolic's Latin Spice

Emmett writes: Adrianna is appearing any Anabolic film that is being produced these days. Nasty Nymphos 28, Initiations 3, Nasty Girls 22-24, Up Your Ass 16, Bring'um Young, and Anabolic's new title; Balls Deep. Adrianna appears on the box cover with Lexington Steele in Balls Deep. The box cover is amazing. But anyway, Vince Voyeur was not kidding when he offered Adrianna a contract after he and Marc Davis pounded s--- of her in Nasty Nymphos 28. I have seen about 30 Anabolic films and I have never seen Vince cum in inside of a woman until Adrianna Sage in NN 28. What ensued afterwards was beyond nasty... She also changes her name so many times that it is hard to keep track of; Alana Moreno, Rosa, Adrian Sage, Adriana, Adrianna Sage, Adrianna. The Latina is hot and the Anabolic boys just love sticking it to her.

Flashman Calls

Flashman says: My 13-year old daughter is starting to get developed and she wants to dress like Madonna and hang out on Melrose Avenue. Should I let her Luke? A beautiful Jewish girl. And all of a sudden she is putting on lipstick and is trying to look like some model on MTV. It scares the hell out of me. These gorgeous girls at the Beverly Center and they're only 15 and from Beverly Hills High School, with cell phones, driving daddy's Mercedes Benz on Learners Permit. It bother me a little bit, buddy boy. But that's the problem when you're a daddy. Especially a sugar daddy.

I want people to know about Phyllisha Anne's fantastic new boob job. Now her hair is blonde and she looks better than ever.

This girl Mia Smiles. She stands about 5'7 and weighs 100 pounds and she's got the great D-cup. She's got the great boob job.

Luke, you know that most Jewish guys don't like girls with boob jobs. They like natural tits. I'll take a great boob job any day. I'll look at old pictures of Jill Kelly and Jenna Jameson before, and I think they look better and more attractive now than when they were 20-year old starlets. These porn stars look better as they age as they become more Hollywood and they get better surgical enhancements. And they find out how to use makeup and hair better on the set.

Booking Kendra Jade

Cheetah Bites writes on BigDoggie.net: i posted a few days ago that nici was setting up an appointment for me with a girl coming to my town. there is no mystery who the girl is. it is kendra jade. i have recieved many e-mail inquiries on who the girl was. i didn't mention it before because nici had posted that kendra was travelling. i also said i would let you know how things go as many people have questions about nici's service. well so far things aren't going to well. we talked on line three days ago and she said she would call me the next day (2 days ago). i never got a call so i called her but she hasn't called me back. there seem to be 3 general conserns with nici. 1 she doesn't return calls and e-mails. that appears to be the case. 2 her prices are high. they are for the service i have goten so far. 3 she doesn't have the girls she claims she has. right now i'm wondering if she can even book kendra at all. if and when she replies and if and when i see kendra i will let you know how things go. i said i would keep you posted. you would think nici would see this as an opportunity to get a good review and silence her critics.

Nici@Nicigirls.com writes Luke: I am talking to Cheetah right now. I have been sick for three days, I told him I was sick the night that we talked. The appointment that he wants is not even until May and I already confirmed it with Kendra three days ago! (remember Luke, i talked to you that night when I was sick) Give a girl a break!

Domonique Simone - Rumors A Flyin'

GregB writes on BigDoggie.net: Has everybody heard all the stories flying around the internet? Does anybody believe anything/everything they read on the Internet? There's two ways to learn something: you can be told something, or you can be told something and then find out for yourself what you know to be true... which kind of person are you? Sheep, go stand over there, keep reading, keep believing the hype... the rest of us? As if i had to tell you what to do (or would tell you what to do; or you would do/act/believe what someone else told you...) I know that Domonique left BM [BodyMiracle.com] (that shi**y group... is it a coincidence that the initials are BM?) for a very good reason: you shouldn't be attacked in your own home, by your own "family", by those that claim to "love you" and "want to help" and Dom is smart enough to trust herself and her intuition, experience, and is able to separate the BS (from BM) from the other kind of stuff... I mean, I don't believe anything that's written about me... In fact, when i meet someone new, i ask them to go out there and tell a lie about me, and make it a big one... those that know me know to discount stories they hear, and spread other ones, too, and please folks... MAKE IT A DOOZIE...

Porn Star's Earnings To The Penny

Asia Carrera writes: LOL!! I don't know about "to the PENNY", but you're not too far off - I just finished doing Clarke's taxes, and I'm about halfway done with my own right now. Clarke's taxes took me about 15-20 minutes. But MY taxes always take a good two days, because I'm so anal about itemizing all my (carefully documented) deductions and properly accounting for (nearly!) every penny of income and expense. I guess I could hire someone to do my taxes for me, but then I'd have to kill them - before that Luke F-rd guy finagles himself any copies... Hahaha... :)

hugs, asia p.s. There is a good reason why most pornstars 'don't know/don't talk' about their annual income. Dancing on the road, polaroids with fans, fan club merchandise, escorting/bachelor parties/private shows, etc... primarily cash. 'nuff said.

Fred writes: You do Clarke's taxes???!!! Oh, life is not fair. I used to think, gee, Asia's pretty cute. The sex is probably great. She has a nice house. Life is really good for Clarke--he's getting a great deal. But you do his taxes too? Geeze. You charge him for this, right?

Love Luke F-rd Style

Chaim writes: So you sly dog you, how goes the Logan romance? Word on the net is that the two of you are going hot and heavy. Are wedding bells in the offing?

Luke says: I was talking to a new girl at shul Friday night, and before she gave me her number, she asked if I was a serial killer.

Fred writes: What did you say? And by the way, what is the correct answer?

Chaim writes: Luke, exactly which jewish features do you loathe in a woman?

Lynne writes: Logan, I am sad to hear that you want to pull away from posting on lf.com. Watching your entrance into the adult video biz has been an education for all of us, including perhaps some other women who are thinking about doing the same. Sharing your correspondence with Kid Vegas is valuable -- he exposes his true colors to you, and you pass them on for all to see. Obvously anyone who bills himself as "Kid" is of questionable maturity; Legend is NOT a big company, and you are hardly a "fat pig." You are a wonderful addition to Luke's cast of characters and, regardless of your ultimate decision, it's been a pleasure meeting you via the site. Best of luck to you.

The reason I stayed away from AOL for so long was the amount of crap I'd find when I opened my mailbox! Obviously the content of said crap being adult didn't bother me. It was sorting through the garbage to find the legitimate mail that did. One of the cardinal rules about distributing pornography used to be that, to avoid prosecution, you let the customer come to you -- you don't wave porn in their faces. Paul Wisner would rant on that subject if he had the chance....he felt that porn videos selling in liquor stores marked the beginning of the end for the business...

Luke says: I'm falling in love with my new shul... I am getting closer to many people, but only a handful know about l-keford.com... People are starting to get more friendly to me, ask me to their homes, and ask me tough questions... I've told some untruths to protect myself, it's as though things are coming to a climax and some things might have to change in my life... My therapist says I should not accept shiduchim (matchmaking) from acquaintances at orthodox shuls who do not know about l-keford.com....which is true... but then on shabbas, when people wanted to set me up, I lacked the courage to tell them no...

Putative Marc writes: a year ago, when i first started corresponding with luke, i figured there *could* actually be a context where LF.com wouldn't make him a pariah in these shidduch circles. now that i've spent more time around establishment jews (incidentally, few are under 40) i know that ain't so. your therapist is right. but you've gotta be polite to these chicks, don't give them some subtle hints that you're involved in something illicit or weird. cuz then it spiralls back to the people who set you up ... and then you're back to square one, an outcast on the shul scene. (i really don't discuss the details of my labors ... but at least i can drop the names of a couple of credible publications, even if i'm not necessarily working for them most of the time.)

Chaim Amalek writes: For how long do you think you can pull this off? Do you like writing about porn more than you think you would enjoy being married to a jewish woman and having children with her? Well, that must be the case, since you have chosen one over the other. And make no mistake about it, for the average jewess is no Logan, willing to put up with it all. Since you are not going to leave porn, you ought to make a woman like Logan your wife. Don't worry, Marc and I will be there with you under the Chuppa.

Luke Gets Mail

Amos writes: Hey Luke, What's up with Seymore Butts? Has he been sick or something? I just saw him in the latest issue of AVN, and he didn't look so good. Is he still making movies?

Luke The Betrayer

I was jolted by the second hour Friday of Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show. Prager usually devotes his second hour on Fridays to the subject of happiness.

Dennis discussed something said to him by a friend, "How can you trust people? After all you were burned by so-and-so."

DP replied to the friend: "Yes, I've been burned by two people in my life. But so what? I was hurt. So what? My life has been vastly enriched by all the people I let into my life."

I believe that one of the two persons Prager believes has burned him is me. And how did I burn him? By publishing this site - DennisPrager.net - against his will.

DP: I am a big believer in trusting whenever possible. And if it doesn't work, I get hurt. But the benefits of trusting as many people as I can will be far greater than the hurt if that trust is betrayed.

You need to have enough confidence in yourself to be able to handle it if you get hurt.

I feel that I can get knocked down and spattered by my mud. Then I can get up, take a shower, and move on with my life.

For instance, I don't gamble because the joy I get in winning is not as great as the hurt I feel from losing.

A caller wanted tips on demonstrating gratitude to his wife.

DP: My friend Dr. Steven Marmer says that if more men would realize that to women carrying out the garbage is foreplay, more men would carry out the garbage.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Prager believes profoundly that we develop moral bank accounts. And if he, DP, has accumulated a large bank account with someone, as he surely has with most of his listeners, then it is wrong to dismiss DP, or anyone, over one thing.

If you are never prepared for a friend to hurt you, you will never have a friend. If you are never prepared for a spouse to hurt you, you will never marry or stay married. People will inevitably hurt you. But why assume the worst when people have earned your trust over time?

DP first wrote about moral bank accounts with the Clarence Thomas vs Anita Hill. Thomas had a wonderful record with the women who worked with him. So why would DP wish to besmirch the man who's developed a large moral bank account?

Axle writes: Luke Could you give a brief history of your relationship with Dennis Prager? I was not aware that the two of you actually ever personally knew each other. I thought you just maintained a fansite. Please elaborate on how you think he thinks you betrayed him.

Luke says: I was friends with Dennis Prager until December of 1997, when I decided to write an unauthorized biography of him. Then he, and some of our mutual friends, terminated their relationships with me.