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Captain Kangaroo Lookalike Eddie Wedelstedt Indicted
The indictment is laced with titles of porno flicks too racy to print and detailed allegations of how Wedelstedt dealt in cash. On one occasion, he is accused of flying to Dallas in a Learjet and going to one of his regional offices with an empty black bag. When he left, it was filled with cash, the indictment said.
The indictment detailed how the businesses, supported by arcades where customers could watch pornographic movies in private booths, dealt in significant amounts of cash.
Wedelstedt also kept large amounts of cash in a safe at his home and in safety deposit boxes, the indictment said. He is accused of conducting transactions in such a way that the enterprise's true revenues were obscured.
When I interviewed law enforcement sources about the porn industry, from the FBI to vice cops to ex-prosecutors, I was routintely told that Eddie W was the most dangerous American pornographer and that I should not mess with him.
Mark Kernes writes for AVN.com 10/24/03:
Ford Allegedly Slanders Eddie's Kids
Gossip columnist Luke F-rd, under his current pseudonym "Deep Under Cover," used the recent bust of Wal-Mart stores by federal immigration agents to take a jab at adult entrepreneur Eddie Wedelstedt, his company Goalie Entertainment, and — most importantly to Wedelstedt — the Eddie's Kids Foundation, the charitable organization which Wedelstedt founded to arrange for poor and abused children to attend sporting and other events.
For his article, titled "Porn Raids Catch 300 Illegal Workers," Ford copied an Associated Press story dated Oct. 24 from the national newswires and did little more than change the names to make it appear that Goalie rather than Wal-Mart had been raided, though he added material implying that Wedelstedt was a cocaine addict and that the Eddie's Kids beneficiaries were "retards."
The only clue within the story to indicate that the entire piece was a complete fiction was the fifth paragraph, which read, "Contacted for comment, setgo.com's Deep Under Cover said the whole story was satirical."
Apparently, Ford's half-hearted attempt to shield himself from a defamation suit was lost on many of Wedelstedt's supporters and contributors to the Eddie's Kids Foundation, who reportedly deluged Wedelstedt with calls of concern.
"My phone's been ringing off the hook from people who can't understand why I'd refer to these kids, whom I love and whom I've devoted so much effort to, as 'retards,'" Wedelstedt told AVN.com. "It's a good thing they know me well enough to know that I'd never even think something like that, but when they saw this article, they were confused and outraged."
"We in the adult industry have finally got a program that is so wonderful for children across the United States," Wedelstedt continued, "Literally, 70,000 kids a year are taken care of by the Eddie's Kids organization, and it's good for these kids. It's something that we care about from our hearts."
"This has nothing to do with the adult industry except for the fact that the wonderful owners of these companies put their money up with me for the benefit of these kids, and to see something like this happen — for that man to call those kids 'retarded,' it's just gone way too far. We're going to have to get our lawyers involved in this thing; it's as simple as that."
According to the Ford article, "In addition, 2300 of Eddie's Kids were hauled away in shackles, their young innocent handicapped faces pressed against the wire meshing of huge black trucks. Eddie's Kids will be flown to Guantonomo [sic] Bay, Cuba, along with Al Qaeda terrorist suspects."
The Eddie's Kids Foundation has the support of nearly a dozen major sports franchises in the western United States, all donating time, money and tickets to the effort to bring some enjoyment to the children, many of whom are from broken homes or orphaned. Eddie's Kids provides the children with free tickets to major league sporting events, transportation to and from the games, and refreshments. It also throws parties for the children during the Christmas/New Year's holidays and sponsors other activities in which the children would otherwise have no chance to participate.
"For this guy to try to tear all that down — I just don't understand it," Wedelstedt stated angrily.
From the August 19, 1999 issue of Rolling Stone:
When the leaders of the top adult video and Internet companies gathered at a secretive conference in Cancun, Mexico, in the spring, Ford was a prime topic. The owner of a chain of adult stores [Edward Wedelstedt] was reportedly heard saying not only that Ford is a "menace to society" but "no one should worry about him anymore - Luke's going to end up as a spot on the pavement."
I spoke to Wedelstedt just once, at the July 29, 2000 Free Speech Coalition dinner dance:
I spot Edward Wedelstedt walking out. He is perhaps the most powerful man in porn. I'm scared to introduce myself. I'm scared to take a picture. I stand dumbly then approach him.
Luke: "Hi. Mr Wedelstedt."
I extend my hand.
Luke: "You may not want to shake my hand..."
Wedelstedt shakes my hand.
Luke: "My name is Luke F-rd."
Eddie W moves away. "You've written a lot of nasty things about me. I've never done anything to you, son. But you've got the right."
Well, just checked my bank account this morning, and low and behold, there was unexpected money in there... Hmmmm, I wonder where this came from, I say to myself.. Well it appears to be from IBill, not even CLOSE to what they should have paid, and not enough to even buy a nice dinner for clients.. I'm not going to say "Hey, atleast they paid".. f--- that, either pay me what you owe, or don't pay me. This little bulls--- "token" payment does nothing.. Yes, I'm one of the suckers, who has left old rebills with them.. Wasn't a whole lot in rebills. The money they owe on rebills is nothing compared to what they owe from when they simply stoped paying.. Call it a (crack) pipe dream.. At least I was smart enough to be using other processors at the time, so the hit wasn't that bad, just take them out of the cascade, and poof, no more Ibill signups..
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
This novel contains the secret story of Mr Marcus.
In chapter, one, the black protagonist "delivered an oration [on graduation day] in which I showed that humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress."
Then he and nine black men were led into a large room and told to change into boxing outfits:
A sea of faces, some hostile, some amused, ringed around us, and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde-stark naked.
My teeth chattered, my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Yet I was strongly attracted and looked in spite of myself. Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. The hair was yellow like that of a circus kewpie doll, the face heavily powdered and rouged, as though to form an abstract mask, the eyes hollow and smeared a cool blue, the color of a baboon's butt. I felt a desire to spit upon her as my eyes brushed slowly over her body. Her breasts were firm and round as the domes of East Indian temples, and I stood so close as to see the fine skin texture and beads of pearly perspiration glistening like dew around the pink and erected buds of her nipples. I wanted at one and the same time to run from the room, to sink through the floor, or go to her and cover her from my eyes and the eyes of the others with my body; to feel the soft thighs, to caress her and destroy her, to love her and murder her, to hide from her, and yet to stroke where below the small American flag tattooed upon her belly her thighs formed a capital V I had a notion that of all in the room she saw only me with her impersonal eyes.
LA Weekly On The Other Hollywood
Within a culture of Paris Hilton tapes, College Girls Gone Wild TV spots, and Britney Spears videos directed by Greg Dark, a sort of pornification has spread throughout the culture and shows no signs of abating. For the koom-by-yah sex workers, porn isn't just a living; it's a cause. We (as in the collective voice of some hypothetical, un-uptight "we") all love supporting pornography. Ever since the porno revival of the mid-'90s - when sex work became less white heels and acid-wash jeans and more (frankly tiresome) Bettie Page-banged burlesque performers - sex workers have cast themselves as warriors in the fight for sexual freedom. Do strippers demean themselves? No way! That's outmoded feminist jive - it's the men under their spell who cut the truly pathetic figures. You say the porn world is hard on women? Consider the fact that, in the aggregate, female performers make five times as much as their male counterparts. And if you watch Margie Schnibbe's "home" video Pornstar Pets, while you may be disappointed to learn that it's not about pets who work in smutty movies, you will learn about how porn stars love little critters just like Grandma does.
I'm all a twitter as the 30th anniversary of Air Supply's founding approaches and I work in its honor on an essay comparing and contrasting Air Supply lyrics with the Song of Songs.
I'm a little off my rocker this morning... Got kangaroos loose in my top paddock. Can't drink my wallaby squash like I used to...
Let me Abos go loose, Lou,
let me Abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Lou,
so let me Abos go loose.
By Air Supply:
Close your eyes
I want to ride the skies
In my sweet dreams
Close your eyes
I want to see you tonight
In my sweet dreamsI'll think of your kiss as the days roll by
And I'll write the words you love
And what I can't say in a letter
Will just have to wait till I get home
How will you celebrate May 12, the 30th anniversary of when Graham Russell met Russell Hitchcock and formed the greatest pop group ever? Email Luke Who would be the perfect porn star girlfriend escort for such a night?
Oh dear, the experience we have while wanking to porn is just a simulcra of the true joy that awaits us when we unite our lives with someone else in a ceremony hallowed by state and religion and come together in connubial bliss (at least that is what I've heard).
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred,
tan me hide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
(Spoken) And that's it hanging on the shed.
How Often Do You Think About Somebody Else While Having Sex?
Aside from watching the complete collection of the greatest TV series ever, Fawlty Towers (I like to think of myself as the Basil Fawlty of porn journalism), I've been absorbed in Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow. It's about Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey. The protagonist is a Westernized-poet named Ka.
When he finally beds the woman he loves Ipek:
Details from the pornographic films to which he'd become addicted in Frankfurt rushed through his head, creating a poetic aura that seemed beyond logic. But he wasn't imagining these pornographic scenes to arouse himself; he was celebrating the fact that he could at last enact such fantasies as had played incessantly in his mind. So it was not Ipek herself who was arousing Ka but a pornographic image; and the miracle was less her presence than the fact that he could imagine his fantasy here in bed with her... Ka worried that Ipek was not as fragile as he wanted her to be. This is why he pulled her hair to cause pain, why he took such pleasure from her pain that he yanked her hair again, why he subjected her to a few other acts also inspired by the pornographic film still playing in his head, and why he treated her so roughly... But when his mind was somewhere far off he could seize the woman with a passion verging on violence; at such a moment he wanted to hurt her.
Much later, it would occur to Ka that he had cut short the happiest moment of his life because he couldn't bear to be so happy.
It saddens me sad that this fictional character Ka had never read the works of the great rabbi Shmuley Boteach, particularly Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, so that he could rid himself of the great sin of thinking about someone else while making love.
It saddens me that I have never been entirely free of this particular sin, particularly when I'm doing the deed with a homely woman.
It saddens me that commercial images have cheapened and perverted the way we love each other.
It saddens me that Ka gets to have more fun than me. Maybe I should've been a poet. They are accountable to a different moral law than ordinary humans. Just look at the life of Lord Byron.
Ka had a particular affection for the work of an American porn star named Melinda:
Whatever sort of man it was she was kneeling before -- Melinda always responded to his moans of ecstasy in the same way: Her pale face softened with a compassion unique to mothers. No matter how provocative in costume (whether as an impatient businesswoman, a frolicsome stewardess, or a housewife tired of her ineffectual husband), she was always fragile and vulnerable when naked.
Which porn star most resembles the fictional Melinda?
Pamuk is fascinated by suicide girls. But not these suicide girls. No, his suicide girls are Muslim girls who commit suicide after they're thrown out of school for wearing a head scarf.
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A Rising Star In The Porn Star Escort World Is...
MDT writes: "BECCA BRATT!!!!! In anticipation of a tax refund (which I better get because I just spent it), I booked a session with Becca through E2K today. She is super sexy, super friendly, and super eager to please. She does a great job with the GFE alphabet."
Wankus has edited clips of his interviews from Thursday night. Interviews begin with Britney Rears, followed by Austyn Moore, Tyler Faith (Tyler says Wankus is not forcing her to make career changes), Missy Monroe, Courtney Simpson and Nicole Brazzle...
Metro contract girl Kelly Erikson says former Metro contract girl Ann Marie has disappeared.
Wankus says Ann Marie disappeared from KSEX too.
Courtney says her parents don't know about her new career.
Alicia Rio says about herself: "The legendary latin queen of erotica. The star of over 1000 XXX movies."
Alicia Rio says she is having sex on camera again for her website www.aliciario.com.
Nick Manning is at the party along with two of his ex-girlfriends -- Tabitha Stevens and Shay Sights.
Gia Jordan says she did an amazing scene today and just washed all the --- out of her hair to come to the party. "There was lots of spitting, slapping and fighting over the ----."
Lexxy Foxx says she's dating Nick Manning's roommate.
Paul Fishbein should have kept mum?
Paul Fishbein of AVN sings Vivid's praises in what appears to me to be pure promotion of Vivid. I just wonder if this is appropriate, especially considering the fact that AVN reviews movies that are put out by Vivid. I think Paul should have kept mum on the basis that singing Vivid's praises may compromise the notion that AVN's reviews are impartial.
If AVN has this relationship with Vivid, then it should be made clear in both AVN's website as well as its magazine that such a relationship exists. It's called putting your cards on the table so that the consumer knows where he stands.
As for the notion that Vivid is the closest thing porn has to the mainstream, I think that's really quite an airy fairy notion. Straight porn will never achieve mainstream status unless it gets rid of the bisexual double standard. In the intellectual mainstream, people won't accept the promotion of female bisexuality and the neglect of male bisexuality.
In the great big world out there, where reason reigns, there is no way the public is going to accept images of bisexual females without also accepting images of bisexual males. Accepting one and not the other is an exercise in flawed logic, and the mainstream knows it.
I would say that the straight porn industry is as prejudicial to male bisexuals as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks. And it uses almost every excuse in the book to exclude male bisexuals from the mainstream. I'm staking out a moral position here by saying that the mainstream SHOULD NOT accept straight porn until the industry gets rid of its selective homophobia. This is non-negotiable.
As for the notion that some people find two men kissing disturbing, I don't doubt that. However, let me pass on to you a recent incident. I was in a mixed gay/straight bar and two guys were kissing each other passionately next to a group of straight women. The straight women were looking at them with a mixture of awe, fascination and huge smiles on their faces.
Maybe the Forbes reporter didn't have a clue what he was talking about and only asked Paul softball questions?
Hardware writes: "AVN is a promotional organ of the industry. It is not an independent news organization. It's biggest supporter is probably Vivid. I'm sure you aren't the only one annoyed that it isn't impartial but nobody else seriously expects it to be."
Bill writes:
AVN is a trade publication. A significant portion of its purpose is to promote the trade. If the article had been written on Wicked, Evil Angel, Anabolic, Digital Playground, etc,... Paul Fishbein would have had said wonderful things about those companies too.
Hardware responds to Arthur: "What part of 'promotional organ for the industry' didn't you understand?"
Baronorca writes: "As a retailer, the only real use I get from AVN is to see what the cover of a video looks like. The news is stale, the reviews outdated & the editorials boring. Then again, it's free (to retailers)."
Gram Ponante On Heidi Pike-Johnson
I emailed Gram Ponante (former fulltime journalist at AVN, now writes for them freelance, his wife Rebecca Gray wrote for AVN for years) Friday about rumors I'd heard about misconduct on the part of AVN's Heidi Pike-Johnson. He replies:
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be true, but Heidi never spoke or hinted to me about that sort of thing. Like all of us, we have/had our favorite companies and personalities, and the pay is abysmal (even for people who believe they deserve to be paid so little), but the potential for that situation blowing up in someone's face is very big. So I guess the real question is, How dumb and/or desperate do people think Heidi is?
(I'm trying to be helpful, because I think these are good questions to ask, but I don't know how helpful I'm being.)
My feeling was always that perks of that variety landed higher up the food chain than Heidi, but I also think, since AVN has been cast, by default, as a necessary evil and only a few people there are thought of as having real integrity and zeal for the trade (M. Kernes, of course), that it wouldn't matter if Heidi took bribes, or if anyone or everyone did. I never did. Would I if given the opportunity? Probably not, but I also managed to get paid more than a lot of people who'd been there much longer. Another injustice that apparently still goes on.
Tall G-ddess Interview - The Triumph Of The Will
Ron Sullivan writes me:
Tall Goddess, aka Lorraine, is the director of "Super Divas Diaries", the high-end "women in control" adult video that's being released by Venus Girls Productions, this month.
I work for Venus Girls and am involved in its marketing.
Here are some pictures of Ron and Tall G-ddess [Porn Valley's answer to Leni Riefenstahl] before the AVN Awards Saturday night, January 8: Tall Goddess Ron Sullivan, and director Tall Goddess Ron, Tall Goddess
I call Loraine, 26, Monday afternoon.
Duke: "So what's up with Super Divas Diaries?"
Loraine, who stands 6'1", speaks with a German/British accent: "I wrote and directed Super Divas Diaries. It had a high production budget. It was filmed last October on location in LA. We had a cast of 14, including Britney Skye, Nicki Hunter, and Penthouse cover model Daphne. It's a whole new concept in adult entertainment.
"Do you hear a noise on the phone?"
Duke: "Just your voice."
Loraine: "There's a weird disturbing noise going on.
"It's a whole new concept in adult entertainment. We're trying to combine strong women in porn and hardcore sex. We're reversing the classic roles. The women in my movie are very hungry for sex. They use men as sex toys."
Loraine has never performed boy-girl sex on film. She was on the cover (in a black wig) of the last Andrew Blake movie.
"I was born in Britain. I have a German father and a British mother."
The father can teach discipline and the mother can instruct in dental hygiene.
"I was raised in Germany. I moved over here two years ago."
Duke: "Do you think democracy is going to last in Germany [or are there other forms of government better suited for the German soul]?"
Loraine: "I hope. Germans are chickens---. There's nothing going on over there. They have their head up their butts."
I strive hard during this interview not to bring up the war. I don't want to cause offense.
Duke: "I thought you had more freedom to make pornography in Germany than here?"
Loraine: "We do. If you watch television in Germany, you will see '70s softcore porn at 8pm on a regular channels. Films like Toyko Decadence. If you find such films on television over here, they are so censored..."
Duke: "What's up with the extreme German porn?"
Loraine: "I've never solved that riddle but Germany and Japan are intense BDSM [bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism] countries... It probably results from the culture. In Germany and Japan, they obey hierarchy and officers. They are structured and repressed cultures.
"In Britain, they are into fetish and bizarre latex [not to mention spanking and bad teeth].
"I worked as a pro dominatrix in one of the most known dungeons in Germany for two-and-a-half years. I got my fair share of German BDSM people."
Duke: "Did you have to dress up like a Nazi?"
Loraine: "That was never requested. But when I came over, American photographers wanted to dress me up as a Nazi."
Duke: "How did you get into doing sex work?"
Loraine: "I went to school like everybody else. I had that interest years back. I tried to find movies late at night. I watched all these '70s pornos very young.
"When I was 17, I got to know people who worked for the dungeons. I didn't know what I was getting into...but once I took a closer look, I decided to leave school. I have never regretted that decision."
Duke: "Did you learn to obey the hierarchy in school?"
Loraine: "Yeah. Living in Germany, you learn to deal with all that. It's not as intense any more. Germans have loosened up a lot."
Duke: "You don't think that a surrendered wife is a happy wife?"
Loraine: "It might, but not for me. For a lot of submissive women, once they've found a master, they can be very happy."
Duke: "Have you ever found a master?"
Loraine: "No. Never. You are welcome to introduce one to me. I'm interested in the experiment, but there have never been any men convincing enough."
Duke: "Have you ever been to Australia?"
Loraine: "No."
Duke: "Why aren't you a porn star?"
Loraine: "I'm too old. You should start between 18 and 20. If you look at the Jenna [Jameson] ideal, you have those ten years between 20 and 30 to expand your career. At almost turning 27, it's a bit late. Besides, I really like directing. I'm very influenced by Andrew Blake."
Duke: "When you were a girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Loraine: "I wanted to be a professional horserider. My whole family are professional horse riders. That went on for generations. It stopped with our generation. My cousin became a bio-chemist."
Duke: "How has being tall affected your life?"
Loraine: "It's affected it a lot. When I started growing taller than everybody else (after age ten), I didn't like it. Every different-looking person doesn't like it as a child.
"I love it now. There are three common reactions in men. There are those who really love it. Others who are intimidated and hate it. And the third ones don't care."
Duke: "Could you love a man who was shorter than you?"
Loraine: "Absolutely. I was in love with a very short man (about 5'5")."
Duke: "What was it like when you guys had sex?"
Loraine: "In the horizontal, you really don't notice. I didn't care [about the height difference]. He did."
Duke: "How do you think it has affected you spending ten years in the adult entertainment industry?"
Loraine: "At a certain point, I couldn't imagine doing anything else. This is my life. I intend to spend the rest of my life in this industry. You hear that from a lot of adult people -- once you're in, you're in. What else are you going to do? This is my dream job in my dream industry. I'm happy.
"I think it has affected my relationships. I don't like relationships. I do not have relationships. I prefer one-night stands and all sorts of stuff. That probably results from there.
"There are a lot of girls in the industry who have boyfriends. As soon as the next tattooed boyfriend comes up, their whole life changes. They don't do boy-girl anymore. It's nothing I could ever consider doing. For no man in the world could I change what I'm doing. Relationships are ludicrous to enter. I'm meeting men. I'll hook some people up with women. I couldn't imagine having a boyfriend."
Duke: "Do you prefer to date men inside or outside of the industry?"
Loraine: "Outside. I'm into Mr. Marcus. He's fantastic. Great sex. Apart from Mr. Marcus, there's really not male porn talent that I find attractive personally."
Duke: "What makes Mr. Marcus so attractive?"
Loraine: "He's a man who knows how to handle women."
Duke: "How should a man handle a woman?"
Loraine: "I don't know. It's a deep understanding... He's very mature and sure of himself and he knows how to touch a woman and how to move and how to have sex. He is the best at having sex of anybody anywhere. I would write him a letter of recommendation."
Duke: "How do your family and friends handle your work in the sex industry?"
Loraine: "They love it. My mother was just here in November. She knows everything. My mother is a big fan. I think she's proud. For her it is important that I'm doing exactly what I want to do. She knew that when I was 17 and taking off for the industry that I wouldn't return."
Duke: "So your mother tells her friends, 'My daughter is a porn director.'"
Loraine: "She does and they say, that's cool.
"My mother is unconventional and cool and very young."
Duke: "What do you love and what do you hate about the porn industry?"
Loraine: "I hate that we have health trouble. That is a risk.
"What I don't like about it comes from the outside. I don't like the way we as an industry are looked upon. That has nothing to do with us as an industry. It's just a negative fact about being in the industry. People are so cliche. Even if you work hard, have intense creative input in your work, you have goals, but it is looked down on.
"Porn is an art form. What really is art? Art is an expression of a feeling. When we make porn, it is all about the expression of sexual feelings. Therefore it is an art form. I don't understand that other people don't understand that.
"What I love about it is the incredible creative freedom you have, especially as a porn director. You can do everything you think of. If you look at Andrew Blake, everything he thinks of he can put on to film. He's not going to ask anybody for any permission or opinion.
"I love the people. My whole life in Germany I've been sitting around thinking I'm the only one that way. I didn't meet any other people in Germany who thought like I do and had that passion for the adult industry. Here there is nobody who doesn't think like I do. People in the adult industry are so much more willing to accept others even if they are not into it. I may not be into Toilet Bowl Bitches but I respect Henri [Pachard aka Ron Sullivan] for shooting it. The respect and openness in this industry is amazing. People connect easily. There's no arrogance.
"Henri came in here and said in that voice of his, 'Duke is hard.' I said, 'Cool. Bring him on.' I like that you have freedom of speech on your website."
Duke: "So you're in Arizona?"
Sunny: "No, I'm not in Arizona. You got me mixed up with someone."
Duke: "I got you mixed up with Sunny Leone [former Penthouse Pet of the Year]."
Rob Black, Vinny DeStephano Stories
XXX writes:
Rob Black owed money for duplication to Vinny DeStephano (Video Images in Van Nuys). Vinny called Iggy, a Gambino in New York. Iggy (a heavy involved in the Paul Castellano shooting) called Jimmy Caci, a Palm Springs mobster who once marched into Reuben Sturman's office on an unrelated matter.
Fred Lincoln knows Butchie (Deep Throat producer). Butchie had a son who was killed in jail in 1991.
None of the mainstream films and TV shows about porn have done big business -- The Girl Next Door, Skin (Fox TV show), Inside Deep Throat, Wonderland. Boogie Nights did best because it was a good movie.
Farrell Timlake vs Rick Latona
Rick, call me a doubting thomas, but I don't necessarily see you as a paragon of ethics. If you are so ethical why did you take Thrillhammer mispells and direct them to other sites when www.theThrillhammer.com is your partner? Is that any way to treat a partner? Is that what you call being ethical? Thrillhammer folks are my friends and there are two sides to every story. Maybe I am just not getting it so if you have an explanation how it is ethical then I would love to hear it.
Rick Latona (Dollars.com) replies: "Don't be a tool. I didn't know the redirection didn't get transfered when I moved the domains to a new registrar. I just fixed it. What would I have to gain by not pointing it to the site with an affiliate code? Seriously."
LFP-Hustler Executive Changes
MEMORANDUM
Date: March 10, 2005
To: All Employees
From: Larry Flynt
RE: LFP Video Group/Management IntroductionsFirst of all, I want to thank everyone of you for your efforts and cooperation during our recent move to 8484 Wilshire. Now that we're settled in, I wanted to give you an update regarding recent management changes at LFP Video Group, LLC.
Already on board for the past few weeks, Dustin Flynt is our new Vice President, Administration in the Video Group. Also in place is new Creative Director, Christina Peters. Finally, this week we are also welcoming Noel Bloom, who will be heading up LFP Video Group, LLC as Executive Vice President.
I am very excited to have such a strong team in place and I hope you'll all join me in giving Noel, Dustin and Christina a warm welcome!
JJ writes: "I was interested to learn the LFP has moved into the building at 8484 Wilshire. I used to spend alot of time in that building. My girlfriend used to work at Ecuador's Consul General on the 5th floor. That place was a wild scene with tons of young, hot Latin women running around. Maybe some of them will now find their way to LF!"
Investigating Heidi Pike-Johnson
I contacted different sources inside and outside of AVN and none of them alleged anything improper in the way Heidi Pike-Johnson, the managing editor of AVN.com and AVNInsider.com [LF: whoops, I was wrong], does her job.
On the other hand, I got calls to the contrary from a couple of ex-AVNers. Here are my notes of their comments:
"You want to deal with the AVN Awards and how they really work? The AVN Awards can also be called the Heidi-Pike Johnson Awards.
"She is in total command. Heidi has an enormous amount of power at AVN. She decides who gets to review what. She knows who's into what and who's not into what. She can't fix the awards but she can stack them for or against you.
"Heidi likes to have people right underneath her where she can manipulate them. The woman is power-hungry. She can see to it that you are barely mentioned in a review. She can reward or hurt you.
"[A particular publicist] has told potential clients that he can get any of his clients nominated for an AVN Award. He leads people on to believe that there is more going on to his relationship with Heidi..."
This particular publicist replies: "HAHAHAHAHA... Oh good Lord, no! Where did you hear this?! This is something I wouldn't put past me, but Heidi's way too straight-laced for it. Her personal mantra is Spiderman's: "With great power comes great responsibility.""
These two ex-AVNers say, in effect: Heidi is in a position of so much power, that you'd have to be a saint not to take kickbacks. Maybe she's a saint and only uses her power for benevolent ends.
"She doesn't like to have surprises in the reviews. She likes to control all the elements around her.
"The only reviewer who doesn't get edited is Mark Kernes, because most of the stuff he reviews is stuff where he's been on set when it was shot.
"She does her job too well. It would take at least three people to replace her. She does so much. She's a control freak. She controls who gets their name in the magazine, who gets their face in the magazine, pictures. She's in charge of the art department.
"Heidi is probably the ass that everyone in the industry should be kissing.
"Houston phones in her AVN Insider column."
AVN President Paul Fishbein responds:
Heidi is the review editor and does an excellent job of assigning reviews. Power hungry? She has a huge job, logging 10,000 products a year. I think she's very organized and works hard to keep things straight. She does try to match the reviewer to his or her tastes so the producers/companies get a fair shake. She is one of about 12 people involved involved in the nominating process so if you are going to kiss ass, and you kiss Heidi's, you are kissing approximately 1/12 of an ass.
As far as ex-reviewers, ex-employees or whatever. I don't know who they are but often ex-employees have sour grapes. Since they're off the record, I can't take them too seriously.
Mike Ramone, AVN Editor in Chief, writes:
Must be a slow news day Luke.
Sour grapes, indeed. I can smell their rot from here.
Listen, people are free to have their opinions, but there are several flat-out factual errors in your post that need to be corrected. Must be the journalist in me. In order of their appearance in your post:
- Heidi hasn't been the managing editor of AVN.com for about two years and hasn't been the managing editor of AVNINsider.com for at least a year.
- The only reviews Heidi edits are the freelancers', who she oversees. She does not edit any of the staffers' reviews.
- "She controls who gets their name in the magazine, who gets their face in the magazine, pictures." This is news to me. Here I thought that was the job of Tim, me and the rest of the staff. I can see now why whoever made that assertion is no longer here. He/she is clueless.
- Heidi's "in charge of the art department"? Again, news to me. Last time I looked, which was about five minutes ago, Creative Director Jesse Dena, was in charge, as he's been for roughly the last two years.
Good credible sources Luke.
Listen, Kernes tells me Eddie W has been indicted. Now there's a real news story you can write about.
So, like, is "reading the websites" Mike Ramone's job description? He can't write worth a s--- - come to think of it, that's exactly what his writing is worth - but he sure can read.
Heidi is a serious climber, who is excellent at redefining her job upwards. She was originally hired as a coordinator when Jeff was doing avn.com all by himself and I was doing the daily-news column. She was introduced to us as a "supervisor," which follows the AVN model of adding layers of bureaucracy on top, instead of adding people who can actually do the work.
Now she's the "reviews editor," according to Paul, who has the credibility of Ari Fleischer with me but make up your own mind, which could possibly make her the most powerful person in the industry. It was Heidi and Ramone making such a big deal over director Mason that made her such a hot property, don't forget.
I heard some unsavory rumors recently about why Heidi wasn't fired years ago and I won't repeat them, (1) because they're libelous, and (2) I only heard about it second-hand, but it could explain why Heidi-and-Mikey are still drawing AVN paychecks and the competent writers are elsewhere now.
Mike Ramone replies: "It's very flattering to have someone hang on your every word. Also a little scary. That clown really needs to get a life."
Tod Hunter replies:
Funny, I thought I was just responding to your posts, Luke. All I said about Mike Ramone is that he seems to spend his work day reading porn Websites - which he confirmed. I may have been too hasty saying he could read well, because he thought I was reacting to him.
Anybody who wants to determine who's a clown is advised to rent the Houston gangbang and make their own decision.
Sharon Mitchell and the ABC Blunders
Network news these days is sloppy and you just cannot trust any TV news oraginzation, whether it's CBS, Fox News or CNN. But Friday night's "20/20" program on ABC hit a new low. Not to mention all the mistakes (identifying Stormy on a Vivid set when it was a Wicked set, for example), the reporter made the claimn that "just 10 years ago, pronography was illegal."
In the meantime, Mitchell did a great job, looked and sounded professional and made the industry look great, despite the sloppiness of the piece. Fred Lincoln also did a nice job, teling stories in his distinctive homespun style.
Eddie Wedelstedt Indicted In Texas
Edward J. Wedelstedt, owner of Goalie Entertainment, which in turn owns a string of adult retail stores in several states west of the Mississippi, was indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, on 23 counts including interstate transportation of obscene material, conspiracy to defraud the government (a tax charge) and racketeering.
UK TV Ratings For Sex Specials
Channel 4's evening perked up once its programming turned to sex after 10pm. A documentary about the history of sex on film, from an 1896 striptease onwards, had 2.1 million viewers tuning in, a 13% share. And the film Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, about a student who had sex with a record-breaking 251 men in a 10-hour stint, appealed to 1.2 million viewers, 23% of the audience from 11.40pm to 1.25am.
Sylvester Stallone Tried To Make A Movie Of The Deep Throat Story
About 18-months ago, Sylvester's people contacted Louis Peraino, the son of Deep Throat producer Butchie Peraino, and tried to secure the rights to make the Deep Throat story. Louis flew every few weeks to Los Angeles to talk to Sylvester's people. Sylvester could never make the meetings. Nothing came of it.
Since 1994, Brian Grazer has wanted to make the Deep Throat story. He made a couple of deals with Linda Lovelace, then she died of a car accident last year (just before her life story rights option came up again). Brian met with Louis (and optioned his life story rights) but then Louis had a nasty car accident (about a year ago). It's enough to make one wary about making a deal with Brian Grazer. Bad things seem to happen to such people.
Brian Grazer and Steve Hirsch are friends. Steve helped out with the Inside Deep Throat project.
Butchie Peraino wrote a book about his life before he died 7/26/99. His son Louis Peraino owns the rights.
Sharon Mitchell on 20/20
"The industry didn't seem to take any sense of responsibility, medically and socially," says Tim Connelly.
John Stossel hosted the segment noting that because of AID's, the sex business has become "riskier" but that the sex workers have found an advocate in Mitchell who's on a "mission" to protect them. "The reason she cares so much is that she used to be one of their co-stars," Stossel says. From there, reporter Juju Chang does most of the commentary.
The report, narrated by Chang, goes on to state that Mitchell is an unlikely hero that started a clinic which is now "the gold standard for sexual health care throughout the world."
Porn Is Forever
I spoke to a couple of porn stars recently. They said: Once you get into this business, you're trapped. You know that. What are your odds now of winning the Pulitzer Prize or running for political office?
Once you put your hand in there, it's always going to be in there. If I had known then what I know now, I would never have gotten involved in porn.
Porn is an addiction. Once you're caught, you're addicted to the attention and power. You're something in that small pond.
Missy Monroe Missy Monroe Missy Monroe Missy Monroe Devinn Lane Keiko Jon Dough, wife Racquel de Moan Kelly Taylor Kelly Tylor Kelly Taylor Kelly Taylor Kelly Tylor Kelly Tylor Cassie Courtland Courtney, Taylor Curtis Taylor Curtis Taylor Curtis Britney Rears Britney Rears Britney Rears Roommates Genesis Skye, Missy Monroe Wankus, Brett Rockman, Genesis Skye Wankus, Brett Rockman Austyn Moore Austyn Moore Austyn Moore Wankus, girl, Nicole Brazzle Wankus, girl, Nicole Brazzle Nicole, girl Nicole, girl Wankus, Kelly Tylor, Cassie Courtland Kelly, Cassie Julia, David Wankus, Renee Pornero, Hillary Scott Wankus, Renee, Holly Monica Mayhem, Selena Silver Dean from Sineplex, friend, Nick Manning Taylor Curtis Courtney Taylor
* Tyler Faith says she is still doing guys on camera, still living with Jill Kelly, and that she is not pregnant and not getting married.
* Missy Monroe, 20, a nice girl who does nasty things on camera, is on the cover of the latest Adam Film World. The headline reads: Porn's biggest slut. The opening sentence in her article says she has a heart of gold.
She says she did a bukkake with 52 guys Wednesday. "I was laughing the whole time. The guys were really funny, standing there in a big circle jerk. You're in ecstasy and then you come down and your eyes hurt and your ears are full of cum and I washed my face about 40 times."
* Nicole Brazzle has an Arizona college girl with her (Courtney Simpson). They (Nicole, Courtney) met in January in Las Vegas. Nicole was flying out and this college girl was flying in and they started talking on the airplane.
Courtney did her first scene with Max Hardcore. She says he was nice to her.
What are her motivations for entering porn? "The money. And I like being on camera."
Courtney plans to move out here after college. She has a full academic scholarship to her university. Her highschool GPA was 4.2. She plans to either major in marketing or broadcast journalism.
I ask her if she's thought about the consequences to her career from doing porn? "They'll probably like it," she says. "It'll be hot."
Nicole and Courtney laugh and move on.
* Fashion TV has an LFP connection.
* Longtime Hells Angel Chuck Zito (now claims to no longer be an Angel but he still hangs with them) can be seen in Women R Wild Clubstyle Las Vegas.
Zito likes to hang out with mobsters. You can see him at the Mafia-affiliated New York strip club Scores, where he beat up Claude van Damme. Zito also hangs out at the Rainbow on Sunset Blvd in LA.
Zito is friends with Vivid contract girl Savannah Samson.
* Missy Monroe says that a guy who says he founded Playboy TV's Nightcalls show gave her a $100 bill because she was so beautiful.
* Monica Mayhem says when she goes back to Australia, people say she's a Yank. When a cabdriver said that to her rudely, she told him she wouldn't tip him. Selena Silver says that when she calls home, her friends tell her she sounds like a Yank.
* Julia notes how respectful the men are. When they ask the girls to pull their tops down, they say, "Thank you," and "please."
AVN Associate Editor Heidi Pike-Johnson's Castaway Porn Pics
I have a weakness for heroes. It's a stupid vice and it has gotten me in a lot of trouble. It has also made me spend way too much cash on comic books. Double anal penetration and Rocco Siffredi pummeling hell out of a Euro chick may not rack up thoughts of heroism for a lot of you out there but the souls who dance on the edges of what is "acceptable" as consensual sex and what is "standard" as a life, always get my attention. Solo on Porno Island, I would want to remember what balancing on those edges feels like and all of these would do me well for that.
On Channel 4 In Britain Sunday
Kevin Blatt and I were separately interviewed for this November 21, 2004.
Peter Hayes writes: "A load of what we already know -- quite explicit for non-encoded TV. Even John Holmes (limp) dick got on the screen."
Sarah Web-Inc writes on GFY: "The sex.com story seemed to turn a corner on the way that these type of UK specials dealt with the internet side of porn. Prior to that it they were always talking about it in some abstract way in which modems and things called 'web sites' were things of some wacko underground culture that would never really bother right minded people. Everyone interviewed was always some person with a book about sexuality that was published like a decade ago that probably only ever accessed the net at the public library. Atelast now they have come to find real people currently in the industry and treat it as a buisness. Pity though, sort of hoped when I finished my book I could join the masses of those sexuality 'experts' that were on all those shows."
The Channel Four network in England will air a 90-minute documentary (minus 16-minutes of commercials) in a few months on the history of sex in film. They will concentrate on randy films that have been banned.
Toby Dye is the producer from the Visual Voodoo production company in London. He's in Los Angeles with his director Simon. They made the documentary on Gary Kremen's sex.com saga, which aired a few months ago.
Today they interviewed Luke F-rd and Kevin Blatt. Jonathan Silverstein and Rick Salomon flaked on their appointments.
Luke and Kevin were mystified by various British slang they were supposed to say such as a "pay-and-spray" booth and a "hand shandy."
After Luke's interview, Toby said: "It's unbelievable, KB. After I interviewed Luke today, I finally realized that he doesn't like porn."
KB's experience with the taping: "After every other word, Toby said, 'Cut. Let's say it this way.'"
Toby asked KB what he thought of Abby Titmuss.
KB: "Whos is Abby Titmuss?"
Toby: "She's a British celebrity with a porn tape out."
KB: "I don't know who that is."
Toby: "Cut. Could you look in the camera and say, 'Who the hell is Abby Titmuss?"
KB: "OK. If this works for you."
KB felt like a puppet.
All afternoon, KB made fun of the Brits. "The one thing that separates American porn from British porn is dentistry."
KB came home drunk Saturday night and put in the first of five tapes that Toby had asked him to watch. It was a nudist documentary from more than 50 years ago. KB felt like he was tripping on acid. He liked the one where the apes were beating up the women.
Source: "They seem to have a template for how they do all their specials. Same narrator. Same cross-cutting. They are up for awards for their sex.com one. Their network made them stick heaps of gratuituous sex into the sex.com one. This one won't be like that."
Kevin appears on "Jackie Collins Presents: Scandalous" tonight at 10.
Earlier in the week, Toby interviewed former Russ Meyer girl Erica Gavin, who seemed coked out of her mind. Kitten Natividad seemed nuts.
Before LA, Toby and company stopped off in New York and interviewed Al Goldstein, who's living with the Salvation Army. Then they flew to Florida and interviewed Bill Kelly, former anti-porn FBI agent who masterminded MIPORN (1979). Bill was sharp and fiery.
David Friedman (porn pioneer) was supposed to do the interview in New York but he was sick. He's in his eighties. David is supposed to fly into LA to do the interview.
Jim South kept working during his interview. Girls walked in to talk to him. Jim answered phones. Documentarians are often surprised by how open and unpretentious Jim is.
I got an email Sunday about this program: "X-RATED: THE SEX FILMS THEY TRIED TO BAN Channel 4, 10pm Channel 4 concludes its Season of the Banned. After the banned ads and the banned television programmes come the banned films, which is another excuse for contributors to make droll remarks and introduce titillating clips. It charts the history of sex films from the first cinematic striptease in 1896 to the exploits of the former nurse Abi Titmus, who now has over 37,000 web pages on the Internet devoted to her talents. Sadly there were no preview tapes available for this programme, but then it probably doesn't need much in the way of publicity."
Sex on film has come a long way since the first striptease was immortalised on celluloid way back in 1896, and has become big business ever since. X-Rated: The Sex Films They Tried to Ban is a history of sex on film that started in France a few years after the birth of cinema with the first stag films. It wasn't long before the rest of the world succumbed to the lure of cinema's forbidden fruit. Hollywood's casting couch produced risqué gems with starlets like Marilyn Monroe, the no-nonsense Scandinavians built an empire on clumsily dubbed skin flicks, and the Japanese filled the niche market with robotic penis superheroes. And mainstream Hollywood's attempts at sex repeatedly failed to deliver anything but giggles. Britain, meanwhile, had a completely different contribution to the industry, producing some saucy classics, many of which have been long forgotten. X-Rated: The Sex Films They Tried to Ban also examines the recent celebrity sex tapes phenomenon, in which many famous faces, including Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, release footage of their most intimate moments for the world to see. Prod: Toby Dye; Dir: Simon George; Exec Prod: Tony Moss; Prod Co: Visual Voodoo
Peter Hayes reports:
Luke F-rd interviewed in grey suit and losely knotted red tie with "History of X" logo on the bottom left of screen. Appears from the first third of the programme onwards, talking firstly about I Am Curious Yellow (1968). One of those adding closing soundbytes over the final credits.
Also featured. Ben Dover (UK gonzo porn maker. Interview) Robin Askwith (interview about UK softcore. Interview) Ron Jeremy (Interview.) Lassie Braun (Danish/Swedish (?) historical sex film maker. Archive sex clip) Al Goldstein (Ex Screw publisher. Interview.) Linda Lovelace (Deep Throat. Archive clip.) Henri Pachard.(Porn director. Interview.) John Holmes (Archive clip.) John Landis (Hollywood director. Interview ) Veronica Hart (Performer/director/producer. Interview.) Tracey Cox (Aussie Sex Expert. Interview.) Columbo crime family (Suggested connection to Deep Throat.) Marilyn Chambers (Interview) John Mortimer QC (Author of Rumpole of the Bailey books/TV series. Barrister involved in sex related cases in the UK.) David Sullivan (UK publisher and porn producer. Interview) Traci Lords (archive footage.) Kevin Blatt (Internet entrepreneur. Interview) Ginger Lynn (Interview.) Jim South (Porn agent: Interview.) Deep Throat: (Clip.) Caught from Behind II (Clip. Shown to illustrate the arrest of the actors). Tommy and Pam video (archive footage) Jim Silverstein (Club Love: Interview) Rick Solomon (Hilton tape: Interview)
Sex, Lies, And Fishing
I call Mike South Sunday. He's three miles out to sea on a fishing boat with a married couple and 20-year old porn model - secretary Ashley aka Butterfly. She's 5'7", 110-pounds, and measures 34C-22-34. She's a size zero.
Mike: "We're about to start fishing."
Duke: "You got some girls?"
Mike: "Yep, but they're fishing. We're not out here for sex, dude. We're out here to fish. You know me better than that. When I'm finishing, I don't care nothing about girls."
Duke: "The entire time you are on your boat, you are not going to have any form of sexual expression?"
Mike: "Not at all. I'm fishing."
Duke: "Who are the girls?"
Mike: "Danny and his wife. And this little girl I shot about a year ago [for Southern Bukkake]."
Duke: "So you've got a porn girl on the boat with you, but you're not going to have any form of sex with her?"
Mike: "Of course not. I'm out here to fish."
Duke: "What about when you get back to land?"
Mike: "That's a different story."
Duke: "Why is being on the water so sacred?"
Mike: "Because I'm out here to fish. I don't mix the two."
Duke: "Why not? Why don't you fish and have some form of sex at the same time?"
After all, Mike is not a religious man. He can do what he likes.
Mike: "Because I don't want to be disturbed when I'm catching fish.
"You've probably never met anybody quite like me, have you?"
I have to think hard on that one. Some guy who likes to fish and who likes to have sex, but not both at the same time. Hmm, I can't think of anybody.
Duke: "I admire your commitment to your ideals."
Mike talks to Ashley about her pictures on his site: "You were all teased up but you looked good. Duke is looking for you right now. You wanna talk to him?
"Hang on, here she comes. She's a good fisherman too."
I surf the tour on MikeSouth.com until I find Ashley's picture. When I move my browser over it, it reads, "Butterfly wants you to see LOTS of cum on her pretty face."
Butterfly did two X-rated scenes. Her regular job is as a secretary. Her boss knows about her X-rated adventure.
Duke: "Why do you want to fish so much?"
Butterfly: "It's fun pulling them in. You've got this big-assed thing fighting you. It don't want you taking it out of the water, but g-ddamnit, you're going to do it."
I hear drunken laughter in the background.
Butterfly: "Mike says that we want to take you out here and drop you off."
Duke: "You wouldn't want to do that to me, I'm a Southern gentleman."
Butterfly: "Really? How long can you tread water? The swells are pretty big out here today."
Duke: "Is your hair all teased up like it is in the photo?"
Butterfly: "Right now? No. I have my hair in a ponytail."
Duke: "You don't find bukkake disgusting?"
Butterfly: "I find it terribly funny."
I tell Mike: "Wouldn't it be funny if all her office workers did the scene with her?"
Mike: "You perv."
The Reason I Moved To The Czech Republic...
"...and the reason I'm going to kill myself, neatly rolled into one," David Hoffman writes, as he sends along eight photos from this Czech dating site. Girl Girl Girl Girl Girl Girl Girl Girl
I email David: Have you had knowledge of these women?
He replies:
Yeah, yeah, yeah... just like me... you have to get right to the point!
No, I'm playing a personals here called www.libimseti.cz
These girls are from all over the country. Many are very young: 15, 17, 20, so on. I obtained three phone numbers, but haven't used them yet. I'm waiting for my dick to grow looooooooooonger.
How are you (I suck)? How's your search for a wife commin? You know, there are plenty of beautiful women in Eastern Europe would would like to be your wife. Will cost you a few thou to go back and forth, and for the papers, etc. though. And I don't think they'd appreciate a tiny apartment decorated with soiled underwear and empty Bud cans, but... (been toying with the idea myself, but the CFIDS [which, as you probably know, can lead to serious depression] kinda' keeps me still shying away from the idea of presenting myself as "THE HUSBAND". (Christ, you should hear the screaming and fighting of the two Russians across the courtyard. I even got threatened: "Zyou be careful, commrade."
I reply: I have no money, like you, and much fatigue, so the wife search is not going anywhere... I can barely keep myself going let alone hunt down a wife.
David, lasting happiness is not to be found in the pursuit of beautiful women but rather in the pages of Holy Writ.
The Glamorous Life Of A Mob Whore
XXX writes:
How does she support her over $1000 a month pill habit? She "works" as an escort. She tells anyone who might see her pictures on the websites that they just put her picture up without permission. When a john pays for an hour, she get him in and out in 35 mins. She is so nasty that when doing multiple appointments she does not even shower.
She had this boyfriend down in Orange County who she kept at home while she was in New York turning tricks. While in New York she was not only a escort, she was a Mob whore. She was like a newpaper that everyone read. She was at the Bayridge Street Fair with Nicky Glasses and Craig Marino. She was with John Goggles. She was even at Keith Gorden's apartment doing the deed. She had alleged Colombo Mobsters call Las Vegas-based alleged Mobster Vinny at the Crazy Horse Too so she could get a good shift.
Confessions of a Call Girl's Friend
'Toni' made no secret of her occupation when I interviewed as a roommate, but even though she never brought her tricks home, there are some parts of any job that can't be left behind.
Why Isn't Jenna Jameson In AVN's Hall Of Fame?
She entered porn in 1993, landing on the cover of AVN that year.
Jenna Jameson posts: "I wish I had never had my boobs done. It was just something a silly 19-year old did without thinking it through!"
Sean from Pornlegends.com writes:
In posting your question about Jenna Jameson not being in AVN's Hall of Fame, you should ask why Bobby Hollander isn't in their HofF as well.
Also, one should ask, why are the following people IN their H of F. Britt Morgan? Tami Monroe? Bunny Bleu? Savannah? Taylor Wane? Houston? Bambi Woods?
Well, I guess Jenna can hang her hat on the fact that she in a member of the Porn Legends' Hall of Fame.
SimplySkylar.com vs NikkiGrinds.com
They are the same girl.
A couple of webmasters are fighting over her in this GFY thread: Donovan Phillips and Steve Jones of Lightspeed.
Webmaster Brad Shaw recently announced he was no longer fighting with Steve Jones (famous for promoting girls who look underage even though they are 18 and above).
A few months ago, after Gary Kremen at sex.com referred searchers for "Lightspeed" to the anti-child-porn organization ASACP, Gary was forced to resign from ASACP. I don't think Steve Jones ever joined however, as was expected, nor do I believe he ever came through with any donations.
Punk writes on ADT: "I remember not very long ago, Teagan was the most popular pornstar here. Now, I never hear anything about her anymore. I like her and I think she's still one of the hottest girls in porn, but I only watch gonzo movies so I don't get to see her in action anymore. Keri Sable seems to the favorite at ADT now."
Naughtia Childs Coulda Been A Contenda
Why did she have to kill herself? Why did Savannah have to die? Why do porn stars off themselves? Are their souls too sensitive to last in this greedy, hung-up society? Their perceptions of truth too keen?
Proud Husband Skeeter Kerkove
Skeeter Kerkove writes on ADT:
Every shoot I do is a party! We are all drinking and having a ball! I just talked to Bridgette on the phone, it is 1:11 p.m. here in porn valley. She is almost done with her 4th sex scene of the day! As always, every scene is anal, the scene she is directing right now is a D.P. with Kat. There has also been fisting in every scene. Bridgette has fisted 2 girls already herself today! Nobody in porn can produce and direct more efficently then Bridgette Kerkove. Bridgette has now produced and directed and cast over 60 movies. Every sex scene anal, set ups, some dialogue at times, she dresses every girl, she has never taken longer then 9 hours to do an entire movie. Yes, there are group scenes in every Bridgette Kerkove movie. I am very, very proud of Bridgette for her numerous accomplishments.
Joke of the Day
Lewis Adams emails:
Bob the pornographer is on his deathbed stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. He's lived everyday in agonizing pain for the past five years and can't take it anymore so he pays a visit to the recently freed Dr Kevorkian.
After an examination Dr. Kevorkian agrees that euthanasia will end Bob's pain and suffering once and for all.
After hearing this, Bob mumbles to the good doctor, "Can you give me net 90?"
Am I Too Picky?
Gents,
I hung out with this nice girl at the Britney Rears party Thursday night.
One thing. Wednesday she did a bukkake with 52 guys...on her face.
Am I being too picky? What's a few gallons of semen on the face of the one you love?
Khunrum writes: "I believe so... So long as she toweled her face off, I'd say it's perfectly ok to give her a peck on the cheek. A small one."
Is there a pre-ordained limit of the amount of seed that falls on your beloved's face before she's tarnished?
Frankly, for my taste, more than 20 guys in a bukkake is too many.
Ren Galskap writes: "So 20 guys is your limit? Instead of thinking of it as a 52 guy bukkake, think of it as two 17 guy bukkakes and one 18 guy bukkake. Then think about how wonderful it would be to share your life with someone with sucha a lovely complexion."
Perhaps I may have too many hangups. After all, I come with my own baggage.
Maybe we could rescue each other from our mutual degradations?
I need to go wash my soul in the wellsprings of sacred text. I'm starting the new seven-and-a-half year cycle to read all the articles in Playboy magazine by doing just one a day.
"Britney Rears." What a clever satire on the way our society sexualizes teenagers. Can't wait to tell my friends: "I went to the Britney party Thursday night." "Britney Spears?" "No. Britney Rears."
I arrive at 9:15PM. None of the stars have shown up yet but there's a crowd of 20 photographers waiting beside the red carpet.
Devinn Lane walks in with party promoter Brad Thomas.
Brian (a bounty hunty) from TheHardcoreSource.com tries to get a picture. He tells a big fat guy blocking him, "Move! If you don't move, I'll move you."
Big guy: "How are you going to do that?"
They eventually reach an amicable resolution.
I don't recognize Sandy Bunz because he's in a blue Hawaiin style shirt.
Later on I see Dino Bravo. I wonder if he and Sandy stepped outside and settled their differences.
I meet built blonde Taylor Curtis, two of her non-porn girlfriends (Courtney -- a busty blonde who likes to flash -- and brunette Rebecca), and her boyfriend Josh.
Taylor and Josh have been in porn since December. She's done about 15 films.
I ask Taylor, "Did he drag you into this kicking and screaming?"
Josh: "She dragged me."
Taylor: "I got started through Nicole Brazzle.
Taylor, who only does boy-girl with Josh, got breast implants about two years ago.
Josh: "She wanted to do print so I introduced her to Nicole. I knew Nicole because I throw music industry parties. Nicole said, you should do girl-girl. I said, I won't let her do boy-girl. Nicole said [to Taylor], you could do boy-girl with him.
"That's what we do now. She lets her freaky side out. She's definitely an item at the parties."
Taylor and Courtney have pasties on their breasts because there is a law, I think, in LA or Hollywood that you can't have revealed nipples and alcohol in the same establishment.
I meet German porner Conny Dachx. He hosts a show for Beate Uhse satellite television, which he says has 300 million potential viewers.
Conny: "Three times Venus winner for Best Actor in Brussels."
He reckons he's done about 1500 movies in his career, mostly in Europe.
Duke: "What's the premise of your show?"
Conny: "Every show I have a new job. It's a comedy. I get a new job to try to get new girls. Mechanic. Stripper. Whatever. But I'm too stupid. Most of the time I get [rejected]."
Fellow German Drew Berrymore walks past.
I start thinking about the German soul. The German body. Its national aspirations and history. National Socialism. Uniforms.
Why do the Nazis have the coolest uniforms? That black leather thing. Germans have that look down. Hells Angels are pretty cool too. Why must evil be so appealing?
Why do the things I will, I do not? Why do the things I do, I will not? Sinful wicked man that I am.
Thursday night, I met a Jew who did a PhD in theology proving that Jesus was not the Messiah.
Thursday night, I met a Jew who worked for Larry Flynt Publications for 15 years.
Thursday night, I met a Jew who spent 31 years in the Hells Angels.
Not such a big deal, you say. Britney Rears has a big tent. She embodies compassionate conservatism.
But it was the same Jew -- David. His tall beautiful date is Julia, who just got her divorce last month from some Italian prince. She's filthy rich and lives in a big beautiful house. A couple of years ago, she was a world-class pistol shooter. She's written cover stories for Guns & Ammo magazine.
My type of girl.
She's been to six red-carpet parties in the past two weeks, including ones for Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. She says this porn one is the friendliest. Girls are winking at her all over. The guys are respectful. They always say please and thank you when they ask the girls to drop their tops.
If Julia thinks this is cool, she should see the level of etiquette observed in a bukkake line!
Julia posed nude for a sculptor named Robert.
Gil Reavill: Parents Should Be Censors
Gil has a positive article on MrSkin in the April issue of Penthouse.
...[S]ome parents are ambivalent about playing the role of censor. That's one theory of Gil Reavill, the author of "Smut: A Sex Industry Insider (And Concerned Father) Says Enough Is Enough." Mr. Reavill's compelling book--coming in April from Sentinel--charts the ways that children are bombarded by sexualized imagery and messages, most of which he recognizes as migrants into the mainstream from the porn industry. Although he sees this exposure as a form of sexual abuse, he is a libertarian who believes that the main control has to rest with the end-user who decides what gets into his house, or what doesn't.
But Mr. Reavill thinks many parents have bought into the prevailing argument that resistance amounts to a form of Big Brothering, which will put them into the camp of the uncool. "Parents are caught in an ideological bind," he says. "They're concerned about the content, but our society hasn't given them any kind of model in which they can do restraints without being censors."
For parents who want hand-holding, a clearer content-ratings system could help. Let's hope a call for industry cooperation from Sen. Clinton will go down easier than a similar one, directed at music, from Tipper Gore. Twenty years after the fact, Mr. Reavill observes, you can still play "Beat the Hell Out of Tipper Gore" on a Web site that lets visitors give Ms. Gore a black eye, broken teeth and a bloody nose.
Excited Out Of My Mind At The Britney Rears Party
Many seemingly superficial things can have a tremendous affect on a man's sense of masculinity such as the car he drives and the beauty of his woman.
I didn't realize how much my junky vehicle was bringing me down until Thursday afternoon when my mechanic, free of charge to me, rented me a brand new Kia until my vehicle was fixed.
The only reason I needed it was to get to Thursday night's Britney Rears party in Hollywood.
When I drove out of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, I suddenly felt like a million bucks. I saw that for the past few years, my sense of my self had been profoundly influenced by the ageing, rusting, hiccuping, hard-to-start and difficult-to-accelerate vehicle I've been driving.
My new Kia even had an AM/FM CD player with quality speakers.
No porn I've seen in the last eight years has made me this excited.
As I zipped (I haven't had this much fun without doing something that violates my conscience in years) along La Brea ten miles over the speed limit (my van won't do that unless I'm going straight downhill), I had fantasies of picking up a woman tonight and driving her up and down Mulholland Drive, just as I had done during an earlier and simpler part of my life.
My libido raced with my engine and suddenly I was 17 again and blasting rock music and looking forward to a party.
I parked near Santa Monica Blvd, and in my excitement, got confused about the address of the party. Instead of hiking to 1340 Cahuenga Blvd, I walked to 1940 Cahuenga only to find there was no such place.
Then I remembered the party I had glimpsed when I had first passed 1340 and ran back in the opposite direction.
Crossing Sunset Blvd, I reached into my pocket for my ever-present paper towel, and wiped the sweat off my face.
When I ran into Shira the publicist, I apologized for my tardiness and asked her how long she had been working for PurePlay.
Only then did I realize she worked for X-Play, which had no connection to PurePlay.
I spent much of the night talking to Missy Monroe trying to get my mind around what she had done Wednesday - a bukkake with 52 guys.
Yes, my reporting has become softer and more conventional over the years, and that does suck for my readers, but it makes it easier for me at industry functions. I no longer worry much about people attacking me.
I left the party after midnight and on the drive home entertained fantasies of taking the 10 to the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and just driving north until I got tired. But it seemed pathetic to do such a thing alone, so I went to my computer instead and then my bed.