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Gary Kremen Gets A Retraction
In the July 1, 2005 publication of the Courthouse News Service Web page, in an article titled "Dueling Pornographers Wage War Over $65 million Judgment", Courthouse News Service incorrectly asserted that Gary Kremen is a "pornographer." While Mr. Kremen owns the domain name "sex.com", the site is a search engine that links to pornographic sites and Mr. Kremen does not maintain any of its own content. Mr. Kremen has a final judgment against Stephen Cohen for $65 million (not an alleged judgment as previously stated) and Cohen is a felon and is, currently, a fugitive from the law.
JC's Girls
James DiGiorgio writes (and he's serious, this is not satire):
Christianity has a new weapon in its anti-porn arsenal: JCs Girls.
Take the group's leader, Heather, for example. (Pictured above and left and below... photography by your's truly, of course.) If you ask me, Heather ain't gonna have any problem competing with most porn stars in the eye candy department. In fact, Heather might just get enough attention, if she were hawking Jesus at a porn convention (which she plans to do), to cause a few porn stars to take notice. No telling what pranks the porn stars might feel compelled to engage in to compete cuz, IMHO, Heather could compete with any of porn's girls as eye candy-- and she'd probably be a front-runner for taking home the eye candy trophy if such a thing were given. And if Heather suddenly got some sympathy for the devil and decided to take the porn-plunge, you'd probably see a clamoring of companies like DP, Vivid, and others all vying to sign Heather to an exclusive contract.
Heather says she believes, since God gave her attractive looks, why not use God's gift to spread his message?
Jack Pearl - The Man The Business Passed By
He calls me back late Tuesday morning.
I first heard about him from Mika Tan Sunday. She said he was her first porn shoot.
Jack: "I discovered her at an AM/PM station. I got her into this business. The only reason she's mad at me is that I shot her [$75 for a BJ]. At one time I asked her, 'Why don't you send me some girls?' She looked at me as though I was crazy.
"I wish I would've known she was in it for the long run. We would've made a great team. She was good at recruiting. She could've taken my stuff to the next level.
"I've been around [since 1997]. I'm just not a big name unfortunately. The only reason I'm not is that I didn't see the big picture. I never promoted myself. I'm not a web guy."
JackPearl.com went up October 6, 1998.
"I went to take my stuff to the next level, but to do that takes more money. I just don't have it. I stopped shooting a year ago.
"At the beginning, I was just shooting for fun. Then I thought of [starting a website]. I didn't do TGP (Thumbnail Gallery Post) webpages. I had some web people working for me but they didn't know anything. If I would've had somebody who said I should've done mass emails and an affiliate program... I never did anything like that. Just word of mouth.
"Ed Powers was my inspiration. When I got into the business in 1997, people used to call me. Joey Silvera, Ed Powers, had heard of me and were almost pleading with me for talent. Then a year or two later, it just stopped."
Jack says he's shot scenes with about 200 girls though this hasn't been his main way of earning a living. "I should be a millionaire."
Pearl's face doesn't show up on camera and he's unknown in San Diego and elsewhere. Nobody has recognized him from his porn work.
"I'm different from any person you've met in this business. Most guys are like -- Look at me. You know how many girls I've been with?
"I have no idea of how many girls I've been with in my life."
Jack says it is rare for him to date a porn girl. "If a girl is halfway normal, she's going to say, this guy is doing this for a living. I don't think there's much future with him."
He never tells civilian girls he dates about his porn work and none have ever found out. "Only a few people in the world know about what I do.
"I've had a couple of girls who had people find out about them and asked me to take their picture down and I have. I don't want to ruin anyone's life.
"I've had people on the outside world who've followed my stuff and would find out about somebody and maliciously tell everyone. A couple of times I've had girls call me: 'People are calling me a slut. Everybody's talking about me.'"
About 90% of the girls who work with Jack do not become porn stars. "I remember one Japanese girl who was totally into this. I sent her up to LA. She did any thing any time. I asked her why. She said, 'In highschool, I wasn't good looking. Now I'm modeling.'
"One day her family found out and she [quit porn]."
Crystal Waters Accident
Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting Chrystal Waters my heart almost stopped when I got the call this morning from Jack Pepper. Crystal was about to start a booking a decided to go for a boat ride, unaware to her she dived into shallow waters of only three-feet head-first. She snapped her neck crushing her 6th vertebra, she is only able to move her baby pinky and she was only able to utter call my dad. She is schedule for surgery some time today and is also schedule for another to follow in the next couple of weeks, the prognosis doesn't look good in fact they think she will never walk again and that her story will be similar to Christopher Reeves.
Galardi South Enterprises will be holding a charity Fund raiser in her honor, at the Pink Pony the week of July 25 to 30, and we girls will be coming in from all over the country to donate a show or two. The club will put the money in as a donation rather than pay us.
Thy Neighbor's Wife - The Sequel
Author Gay Talese is writing a sequel to all his books including his one about the sexual revolution.
Gay takes up a chapter in the book The New New Journalism.
Author Robert S. Boynton: "You have a scene at a urologist convention in Las Vegas in which a female urologist and John Bobbitt watch a porno movie in your hotel room so she can test whether his penis works."
Talese: "Yes, it is a wonderful scene in which the urologist, Suzanne Frye, one of the only female urologists in America, is holding John's erect penis and talking about its "blood flow.""
What Justice O'Connor's Retirement Could Mean to the Adult Business
Clyde DeWitt writes:
Washington, DC - We now could be one vote away from First-Amendment Armageddon. A "swing vote" is gone. A combination of the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the overwhelming control of the White House and the Senate by the Religious Right is a recipe for disaster.
After Daughter's Arrest, Kremen Fires Another Shot Across Cohen's Bow
SAN DIEGO - Gary Kremen filed a lawsuit in federal court against the former stepdaughter of international fugitive Stephen Michael Cohen, the man convicted of stealing Sex.com from him in 2001.
Jamie Gardner interview with Eric Edwards (1999)
Eric Edwards acted in x-rated movies back in the 1970's and 1980's. Here is the part of the Eric Edwards interview in which we talk about porn actresses having been sexually abused. Eric Edwards Interview About Traci Lords (July 22 and 23 of 1999)
JG: During the sex scenes, did she seem genuinely in to the sex?
EE: No, never. I mean, maybe it was just me (I have no idea) but I always felt that she was just not there, at all.
JG: Yeah, others have said that.
EE: Well, this all comes, probably, from her daddy. I don't know if you know the fact or not, a great, very high percentage of the girls in this industry, in the x-rated industry, have been abused by their fathers or step-fathers or uncles or what have you. So I think a lot of her turned offishness probably came from that.
JG: Had you heard that she was sexually molested or are you just assuming she probably was.
EE: I do not know that as a fact, except from what I have heard, so I can't relate that as a fact. I have heard that she is another victim in this industry. As I said, I would say almost 90 percent of the girls, in the industry, have been sexually abused, in their lives. Plus, they all live with musician boyfriends, now, if you can figure that out. I don't know (laughter), unemployed musicians (laughter).
JG: So you think 90 percent were molested as children or raped, at some point in their lives?
EE: I would say about 90 percent, yeah, just in my 30 year career, I would say about 90 percent of the girls that I have met, come in contact with, worked with, or what have you or even talked with, have related stories to me about molestation in their family and that probably had lead them into the x-rated industry. A lot of girls who came from, lets say, Iowa or Kansas, some little town, and they move to L.A. or they moved to New York on their own and they get in to this particular industry, which is kind of a jump for anyone coming from a normal type of background, would say wow, why did this particular girl find this industry. How in the world could she have found this industry? Because it's not something that she would say. For example, an 18 year-old graduate, from high school, moves to California, gets job as secretary or McDonalds check out girl. No, what happens is that sometimes, a girl will seek out this particular industry or the streets, as a hooker, and you wonder why, how, what happened? And 9 times out of 10, the reason that what happened, happened is because of family molestation or abuse.
JG: Whether it's sexual or physical abuse.
EE: Sexual abuse is what I'm talking about. I sound like a psychiatrist, don't I (laughter). This is all being recorded, right?
JG: Yeah.
EE: So you're going to take out the good stuff.
JG: I will.
EE: OK, good (laughter).
Jamie Gardner: I read that Traci Lords had a reputation of being sexually promiscuous when the cameras weren't rolling. Did you see any evidence of that, at all?
Eric Edwards: No, I didn't, never did.
JG: So there was nothing of her having sex with camera people or directors?
EE: Boy, I wish (laughter).
JG: (Laughter) - or other cast members when filming wasn't going on.
EE: No, I never heard about that. However, it wouldn't surprise me because girls that are usually in (as I described before) an abusive situation, usually try to go for attention with anybody who will give them that attention, which means crew members, whatever, what have you. So it wouldn't surprise me, however I never saw it. July 25 of 1999.
JG: That thing with Traci Lords, you were saying.
EE: Well, I was saying, when you think about it logically, what so-called "normal" girl would, at an early age or even underage, get involved in this industry, in a sex industry, even going to the extent of lying and falsifying documents about her age. What normal girl would get involved in this business if she had not had sexual experience, for possibly a decade or so, before. It's just not something people do, so I guess what I'm saying is that I'm verifying the fact that many, many, many girls, in this industry, were victims of abuse in their family (sexual abuse, possibly from a step-father or father or grandfather or what have you). It seems like they come into this industry, almost like being graduates from some sort of bizarre, strange sexual academy. They know all the right words to say, they know what to do and yet they are only 18 years-old. And I don't get it.
JG: I actually read an interview with Kimberly Carson. In this interview, she said that she was sexually molested by her step-father and her theory about her and others gravitating toward the adult industry was once you've broken the taboo of having sex with a family member, then the other stuff doesn't seem like that much of a taboo anymore.
EE: Yes, I can understand that, makes logical sense. It also makes logical sense that the girls are trying to please men because they have been taught to please men.
JG: This one book, I have, "The Alcahemy of Love and Lust," says that there are 2 different types of women that are promiscuous. One type, the author says, has a higher level of testosterone. They would have more of a sexual drive more similar to men. Then the book says that the other type of women were the ones who were doing it to please men. It was a self esteem thing, they had low self esteem so they'd want to have sex with different men to feel that approval.
EE: I think the women in this industry, probably, fit in to the second category more.
JG: I have heard that Nina Hartley probably fits in to the first category more.
EE: I think she fits in the first category (laughter). I say that with a laugh and affection.
JG: I have also heard that people like Tiffany Mynx are more in to it for the sex aspect. They tend to probably have very high sex drives.
EE: I agree with you there. I was probably looking at it one-sided.
Jamie Gardner interview with Nina Hartley (1999)
I have been working on a book about Traci Lords since 1998. In Traci Lords' Auto-Biography, she says that she raped when she was 10 years old. When I interviewed Nina Hartley about Traci Lords, I asked about Traci claiming that she was molested. Nina Hartley Interview About Traci Lords (July 26 of 1999)
Jamie Gardner: Traci Lords has claimed that she was sexually molested, how common do you think that is? There is a stereotype of women in the business having been sexually abused.
Nina Hartley: The business is considered debased and why would a healthy woman, with a good self esteem, go into this line of work. Most people, in their heart of hearts, still don't believe that a woman can choose to be a sex worker and be happy and healthy, as a choice, because people assume that women don't have sexual drives like men do. People assume that women who are promiscuous are cheap, easy or trampy or a floosy or whatever, have low self esteem. They can't imagine anybody would want to do this work, who did not feel bad about themselves, and one of the reasons that you feel bad about your self and you think that you are good for nothing else but being a slut is having been molested. There are certainly some people who are sexual abuse survivors. Myself, I have not done a formal poll. I wouldn't say it was a majority or anything like that, certainly not.
Jamie Gardner: I've heard different views on this. When I was talking to Raven Touchstone, she was saying that she believed it was not a majority, just because she's talked with different women (and she hasn't polled every one but she has talked to them about their lives and such). I heard the opposite view when I was talking to Eric Edwards, he actually believed it was 90%. And when I talked to Ron Sullivan, he believed it was 100%.
Nina Hartley: Ron Sullivan definately has a different view of women (laughter) then Raven would. He's a bit jaded himself, bless his fuzzy little heart. What is molestation? First, it depends on how broad the defination is.
Jamie Gardner: Do you mean that some people could consider that a teenage girl, who's 16, having sex with another 16 year old is molestation? Is that what you are getting at?
Nina Hartley: I'm thinking of, did you're uncle feel you up when you were 12 or were you raped when you were 14, by your brother. What is being molested? Did it happen one time with a stranger? Was it an ongoing thing? Was it forced or was it something you liked but the person was older then you, so other people thought it was molestation? It's much too broad a category. Even if a hundred percent of us were molested, so what? That doesn't make the business bad, it makes the business a perfect place to deal with your issues about sexuality and the body and make a living, at the same time. I've used the business for a lot of personal and emotional growth, on my part (in dealing with body image issues and sexuality issues and confidence issues and all kinds of stuff). The sex business, dancing and movies and sex work and selling sex and peepshows and all the things that you can do. It's a tremendous oportunity for a woman to gain control of her sexuality, on her own terms. For that alone, it's valuable.
Jamie Gardner: One of the persons that brings up sexual abuse is Dr. Drew, on "Loveline." Have you ever watched that show?
Nina Hartley: I was on it a couple of times, when it was on radio, but I don't watch it on MTV. I don't care for it, I don't like their viewpoints. He has more conservative views on behavior and he doesn't think "promiscuouty" in women is a positive thing and I think it's not necessarily a negative thing. It depends on the mind set of the person doing it. If the person is engaging in a behavior that is self-destructive, taking on partners, doing it when she is drunk or high on drugs, not using condoms, not owning or taking responsibilty for her actions but continues to play the victim, then yes, her promiscuouty is damaging, to her, and is an expression of her self-loathing.
However, if you are a swinger and somebody who realises that you're a freaky person, with bi-sexual or exhibitionistic tendencies or whatever else, and you decide to go and satify those desires, with other consenting adults, in a safe and sober environment, then your "promiscuity" is a healthy expression of sexuality, so it depends a lot on the emotional state of the person engaging in the behavior.
Me, getting up, dancing on stage, naked, is wonderful. If my sister was to do it, it would be abusive to her. It would be completely inappropriate. No one else in my family could do what I do and remain mentally healthy. I'm the only one who has the capacity for it and so I wouldn't want them to do it. Pat Califia, Carol Queen ("Real Live Nude Girl"), Jill Nagel ("Whores and Other Feminists") have talked about the double standard of if a man's sex drive is high, he's normal and if a woman has a sex drive, she's deviant. And the origins of this double standard go back 5 to 10 thousand years, so it has very deep cultural roots and very deep ramifications for society.
Another good book, out on the market now (that I really can't recommend highly enough) is called "Woman: An Intimate Geography" (by Natalie Angier), absolutely an astoundingly good book. You'll like it very much and one's of the chapters talks about women's sexuality from the biological point of view.
Jamie Gardner: Actually, some people I've talked to have said that they thought Traci seemed to be more in to for the money then for the sex, that it didn't really come across like she was genuinely in to the sex (it was more just an act).
Nina Hartley: That describes, at the time, easily, 50% of the actresses in the business, so that's not unusual. Even today, it descibes a good 30% of the actresses.
Jamie Gardner: So how many did you think it was back then?
Nina Hartley: I would say close to 50%, during the '80's.
Jamie Gardner: I would have thought that it would be the opposite.
Nina Hartley: No, no, now adult material is more OK to get in to. It's a line of work that we made more acceptable and more OK. Certainly, in the mid-eighties, it took a really, really ballsy woman to get in to the business and accept what she was doing and like it. It wasn't impossible, it just wasn't really common and certainly she was no different then a good number of women, at the time.
Jamie Gardner: I was reading this interview with you, in Playboy, and you were saying that more married people are getting involved with acting in x-rated movies. Do you think people, that are doing it, are more well adjusted?
Nina Hartley: There is a greater percentage, then ever before, of people entering the business who are already mentally and maratility happy and healthy. When I first got in the business, it wasn't a place where, for the most part, people with good self esteem ended up. I was extremely rare that way. It was a stigmatized business and it tended to pull people in to it who have odd issues to deal with and now, 16 years later, after relentless discussion of sex positivism and sex as a legitimate line of work, more people are coming in to it who are already in good, healthy relationships, already sexually open and already having dealt with issues like jealousy and possessiveness.
Everyone makes the business work for them in a way that wasn't possible 15 years ago. I think were coming to a very healthy fork in the road. I have been trying to promote sex positivism, which gives respect for everybody's sexual choices, including ones that don't agree with you. I've actually been getting more respect from people who choose celebacy or choose monogamy, if they are not judgemental about my choosing non-monogamy. It's very important that we have tolerance for other people's points of view, I'm more tolerant that way. The gay right's movement, the civil right's movement, the one world movement and the tribal movement have all grown up together and now there's people your age who don't remember the way it was before this level of openess. I think because of HIV, the fact we have to talk about sex, we must speak of it. It has to be talked about, kids today are more willing to be open about discussing it. I see that a lot, the college kids are changing.
When I was talking to them 13 or 14 years ago, their questions were different then the ones they ask now. Men and women take for granted that it's OK for them to seek a sexually satisfying happy life and they don't have to be traditional. A lot of the negativity that ended up coming out of the seventies happened because people leapt in to behavior without thinking of the consequences and a lot of consequences are bad. So if HIV makes people makes people slow down and be a little more deliberate and conscious and aware before they enter sexual activity, it's a good thing. People don't like that because they think sex mostly just happens or they don't want to think about it, "it takes all the mystery, it takes all the fun out of it" but I think that bringing conscous awareness to something as emotionally-charged as sexually is critically important and it's a good thing. HIV is happening but, man, there's pagan sex parties, there's group sex parties that you can go to and there's jack 'n off jill parties that you can organize.
All kinds of fun stuff that you can do that's nasty and freaky, you just have to have a little imagination. You have to be careful, you wouldn't sky without a helmet and you don't drive without a seatbelt and you don't do unsafe sex but you get to do fun things. There's a lot of fun things to do that don't involve drugs, alcohol or mindless stupidity. And if you are smart, it can also include naked people. At the time of the seventies, a lot of people were actively trying to expand their minds and to give up negative prejudices and give up old-fashioned and wrong-headed views about sexuality and it's place. We were trying to shed off old baggage and to take on a new consciousness about sexually. Condoms were for birth control, everything else could be cured by penicillin, that's just the way that it was.
Sordid Stories
When I was on the set of Sordid Stories, Annabel Chong's ass was squirting blood like a volcano, over and over. They kept having to stop, clean everything and everybody up, start again, and after a few minutes everything shut down again.This was the DP scene in the President's office. She wouldn't stop bleeding so they eventually stopped altogether, filmed three-plus hours of non-sex scenes while she squirted liquid bandage up her butt and relaxed, and then they restarted the same scene again. She didn't bleed much that time. Of course that's not what makes the final edit.
Jay Allen Sanford, Carnal Comics publisher, writes: Since Annabel Chong's name came up (RE her claims that John Bowen, aka John T. Bone, owed her money for the World's Biggest Gangbang), here's an excerpt from the "Carnal Comics: The Inside Story" book, mainly concerning Sordid Stories (a combination film and Carnal Comic issue) but also quoting Annabel about her Gangbang experience:
There was even an autograph signing in LA at the Golden Apple comic store, with Annabel in her Pink Stiletto costume. This was Annabel's first-ever public appearance, her films hadn't even hit the market yet. She was just there to promote the upcoming release of Sordid Stories and nobody knew what to make of her, remembers Carnal publisher Jay Allen Sanford. And nobody could understand a word she was saying with that freaky accent of hers, part British, part Asian, part Valley Girl!
We have lots of pics from that night, her with Bonnie, Becky Sunshine, Sarah-Jane Hamilton and a buncha others, but poor Annabel was in a corner all by herself being ignored most of the night. This changed after the Sordid Stories movie and comic became underground cult hits, even earning a cover feature in Cult Movies Magazine.
Annabel's star reached new heights after the infamous "250 man gangbang" (read "75 guys who got in line a few times") - huge crowds turned out to meet her at appearances. Annabel never got her own bio issue of Carnal Comics, but Jay Allen Sanford interviewed her for one that never got off the ground.
About having sex with over 250 men, Annabel said: 'It was really quite fun, no problems. Security guards made sure nobody penetrated me without condoms, and I say a grand time was had by one and all!'
She does admit that she was sore early on, from men using their fingers inside of her, but once director Bone decreed that no fingers be used (Men have sharp nails! Ouch!), everything ran like a well oiled machine. Or a well oiled porn star anyway. Some guys got into it and came back for seconds and thirds, Annabel says proudly, obviously enchanted at having nursed so many erections and ejaculations. A few guys had so much fun, they actually came onto the Jerry Springer Show with me, and their girlfriends even!
The girlfriends treated Annabel none to kindly onstage, but Annabel claims they sang a different tune when the cameras were off camera. They were all over Ron Jeremy, asking for autographs. Talk shows are like wrestling, I'm afraid. People say and do things totally different from what theyd normally do and say.
Annabel claims that her personal sex life is very routine compared to the circus acts shes willing to do, without a net, on film. My friends and I still watch Sordid Stories all the time, she says. Its definitely in high rotation, especially the orgy scene and the bit in the dungeon. Nobody's ever seen stuff like that, and the fetish freaks absolutely love the costumes!
Sanford's most vivid recollection of Annabel isnt from Sordid Stories, but from a time he gave her a ride home after a particularly frenetic film shoot. She had just done one of those all-anal gangbangs and there was still Astroglide lube leaking out from the back of her hot pants. I didnt realize this until I was driving and looked in my rear view and saw Annabel in the back seat every time I took a sharp turn, I saw her gliding across the vinyl backseat, leaving this snail-trail of lube in her wake, back and forth like she was riding a Slip-N-Slide back there. I told friends later I was lucky her swollen butthole didnt stick to my back seat like a suction cup.
Sanford says he declined to give Annabel any more rides after that messy incident and in fact cancelled plans for an Annabel Chong comic book around the same time, for whatever that may be worth in the way of observation.
Roy
At one point Karch essayed the contents of a conversation he had with adult film screenwriter Raven Touchstone who allegedly said, "Does this guy know anything about you? Does he know you play blues harmonica? Does he know you paint? Has he been to your apartment and seen your paintings on the wall?"
I had no idea I was dealing with such a renaissance man. In the long run, however, I had wasted hour upon hour of my time and my tape on a man who presented himself to me as someone with virtually no compelling story to tell. And Karch was making it increasingly clear through telephone conversations that he was disgruntled with my services and it was all going nowhere.
She writes FunWithPSEs: "I reside in Los Angeles, CA and just got into providing. I am having such a great time!"
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Max Hardcore
I don't much care for Max's work and vision. I'm not into very young-looking women, nor am I into very petite, skinny women. And I most certainly am not into his brand of sexual hostility. So, I never much cared for it.
He was always nice to me when we met at the conventions, etc., but he never asked me to work for him, and I was fine with that. It helps, sometimes, to not be someone's type!
For some women, working for Max was the most horrible thing ever. For more than one woman, he was their first, and last, attempt at a career in porn, the experience being so bad for them. On the other hand, there was more than one woman who made more than one movie with him, showing that it takes all types, and that there are all types out there.
In my private life, I do a lot of things that, taken out of context, could be viewed as "mean," "violent," or "harsh." However strange the behavior may be, though, the feelings behind it are of affection, attraction and even love.
With Max's movies, one rarely has the sense that the women really knew what they were signing off on. He's not the only one who likes the woman's actual distress to be apparent on camera. There are lots more directors of "hostile" porn than there used to be, but Max was the first to really make it pay.
I don't have an age fetish, and he does. I don't have hostile fantasies, and he does. So, we're really far apart on what gets us off and that's a fact.
Ernest Greene writes:
...[Y]oung people tend to be both competitive and conformist. They want to do whatever is considered hip and cool at the moment, and outdo all their peers at it.
On the gonzo end of the porn spectrum, this has led to a competition not just among directors and producers but also among performers to see who can do the most extreme stunt-sex - the biggest bat up the ass, the largest gang-bang, the widest gape, the roughest BJ, the most extreme double-anal etc. Since not all performers can hope to become names by being feature contract girls, for some the next best thing is clearly to achieve notoriety for being the wildest, nastiest, dirtiest, etc. This trend has been going on since the Jasmine St. Claire - Houston title bouts in the GB category.
Of course, this kind of atmosphere is hog heaven for a certain kind of director, who can exploit a performer's need for recognition (as well as money, of course) by offering her the chance to get out in front of the pack through some kind of over-the-top action that stirs up a lot of attention, for about ten minutes until somebody else one-ups it. I'm not one to judge when it comes to sexual behavior, on or off camera, but I fail to see how this kind of race to the bottom really benefits anybody but the the guy selling the video.
I do think it will be a good thing when this particular trend runs its course and we get back to showing people having mutually enjoyable sex. I regard that as a much more sustainable marketing approach than the sensationalism of which we're seeing so much these days. The good news is that this may already be happening. I've noticed (as has AVN) that those companies with the resources are going back to making bigger shows with higher production value and less emphasis on harsh, relentless action. This could be the beginning of a market correction that is, in my view, long overdue.
48yo Woman Wants To Enter Porn
Sue writes: "I am 48 years old, still pretty hot for my age. Anyway....I have been giving alot of serious thought into the adult industry. I know that there is a demand for the "mature" woman, but I am not sure how to go about making contacts."
I'm sad to say that I can offer no good news for you. I don't doubt that you're a very hot, fit, passionate 48-year old woman. However, the business is brutal on women who come into it past the age of 30, and that's a fact. You'd be asked to do things you might find very objectionable, or end up in movies like "Horny Grannys Suck Cock, #22" and the like.
The men who make the movies have no idea what a healthy, older sexuality looks like, and few of them have a happy sex life at home, and they like to f--- with model's heads. You may have your head on right about sex, and your body, and aging, etc., but this business doesn't. I'd hate to see you subjected to the mental and emotional stresses of trying to make it in a business where you're considered easily twice as old as you "should" be.
However, if you do want to do this, go to the store and rent as many movies with older women in them as you can find. The code words on the titles are "mature," "MILF," "Granny," "Aged to Perfection," etc. Some will be more unpleasant or disrespectful than others. Of the ones that you can stand to watch, and can deal with the portrayals, find out who the company and/or director is and take it from there.
Of course, if you do get to LA to make a video, remember you can always say "no" to any thing or person you don't want.
Rob Black's Extreme Associates Still In Business?
Michael writes: "I tried to sign up to their website [with no success]. I also noticed that their telephone number didn't work to order from."
Mika Tan: 'Back Door Open for Business!'
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Mika Tan Mika Tan (May 24, 2005 at Sardos)
From Mike Tan's online autobiography:
Born in Honolulu, as a military brat, I was raised across the Pacific. My Dad was stationed in Oahu, Guam, and San Diego.
I was homeschooled for a brief period and traveled to across the US, parts of Europe, SE Asia, Middle East, and North Africa on a religious [Buddhist?] mission before I hit high school.
With a majority of my dad's family in the armed forces or dependents thereof, it was no surprise I married a military man. We decided to work in porn as a couple, but then began getting offers to work with other talent...
I call Mika Sunday morning, July 3, 2005.
Duke: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Mika: "There's a recording of me at five. I said I wanted to be a professor by day and a stripper at night."
Duke: "How did you ever get the idea of becoming a stripper?"
Mika: "Maybe I thought they made a lot of money."
Duke: "What were you expected to become (by your family)?"
Mika: "I grew up in a zero-expectation household. If I didn't want to go to school, they would write me a note saying I was sick. I didn't get pushed hard.
"My dad wanted me to go to college but he didn't push me. I got $20 for every A I got. That was my motivation to do well in school.
"It's an Asian household where they didn't expect the women to do much. 'You're going to get married and you're going to have kids and you're going to be very happy.'"
Mika was a good student in highschool and college. She graduated with a degree in Bio-Chemistry from San Diego State. "It took me five years but I did it. I loved school. I liked science. I wanted to be a teacher."
Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Mika: "I was with the nerd crowd. I was in student council and the national Honors society.
"In my last year in college, I was trying to make some money. I did figure modeling. Nude modeling. Have you heard of Glamor Photography International? This small association of amateur photographers. They rent out a small park. For $75, photographers can come in and take pictures of all these models (who get paid between $150-$200 a day. You did just pretty Playboy-style modeling."
I hear tap going on in the background and the flow of water. I think she's washing her hands. Then it sounds like she's drying them as she says, "I didn't have a problem with nudity."
So what was she doing two minutes before washing her hands while talking to me?
Mika: "My grandmother owned massage parlors in Guam and Hawaii. I grew up [in Guam]. I know that sounds really bad. I don't know if you want to print that."
Duke: "Oh no. That's fascinating."
Mika: "I don't have any issues or hangups when it comes to sex or nudity. I did some house-dancing at a couple of strip clubs in San Diego."
Duke: "You went to UCSD?"
Mika: "No. It's so hard for an Asian to get into a UC school. They tend to hit their Asian quotas. Affirmative action crap.
"It's depressing when you get your degree from a place that's known for its football team.
"I did my first porn movie in 1997. Who was that for? He got in trouble recently for getting a minor pregnant. He was a little guy. [Jack Pearl]. Out of San Diego.
"Ed Powers was my first anal scene.
"My ex didn't want me to do any boy-girl scenes, so I scaled back. I just did girl-girl and fetish. Then I came across an internet company (JET, who ran Hollywoodasians.com) that was looking for a model. I applied. They didn't have an admin assistant, so I started working in the office and doing cam on the side. Cam girls are flakey.
"I opened up Geishahouse.com in 1999. It was an all-Asian voyeur house. I did solo work and with my ex-husband [Ray Shannon]. He was so jealous. It was so weird."
Duke: "You're on your second husband now?"
Mika: "Yes. And he's [Alec Knight] a lot nicer.
"Then my ex-husband decided he wanted to be a porn star. We started doing boy-girl scenes."
Both of Mika's husbands have been white while her boyfriends were Asian.
"Both marriages were after I was already doing porn. Asian men I dated while in the business would not let me meet their parents, some of their friends, and no self-respecting Asian man certainly would not marry a woman in the business. The Asian boys interested in dating a porn chick have something to prove to their guy friends, but seemed ashamed to introduce me to their sisters or parents...I don't need that s---. The guys that last long enough for marriage are ones that can deal with what I do. I have made compromises in the past, but my new guy understands this is what I was when he met me."
Mika (who's Chinese, Okinawan and Samoan) says she's done 631 scenes (many of them just for the internet).
Duke: "What do you love and hate about working in porn?"
Mika: "I love sex. I love the freedom it gives me to spend time with my family. The pay days are not bad. I like building my own schedule. I could never do 9-5 again. It's nice to be able to say, 'I'm tired. I won't book anything for a couple of days.' The freedom is paramount to everything else I like.
"The things I don't like about the industry are scandalous people. Not everybody is in the business because they enjoy sex and like making money doing it. Some people have weird fetishes and strange egos or drug problems."
Duke: "Have you gotten taken advantage of?"
Mika: "Oh yeah. I got screwed over because I didn't have an agent. I'm getting to the point where I'm shot out. I'm using the agent to fill in my holes.
"I'm getting behind the camera. I shot my first production in the beginning of June, before I left. My church group went to Phuket, Thailand to help rebuild houses. I came back in bad shape (mosquitoes, really bad sun burn).
"I don't have a distributor yet. I'm going to try to pimp it out. It's the first Asian movie featuring all Asian men."
Duke: "There aren't any Asian men in the business."
Mika: "There aren't. I had such a hard time. It was such a challenge I almost wanted to cry sometimes.
"The genesis of the project is that I started getting hate mail from my fans. 'How come you hate Asian men? You never f--- Asian men. What's your problem? Asian men aren't good enough for you?'
"I said, 'Why don't you step up? There ain't no Asians to f---.'
"I started doing these casting calls. I had 147 emails applying to my website. There was this website Asianman.com that was bashing me. 'Mika Tan is trying to exploit Asians.'
"They want to be porn stars. They want to be respected sexually. But they don't want to be exploited? The whole biz is exploitation, for men and women."
She sounds like she's taking a sip of a drink. "Exploitation is how we make our money.
"I got the Asian community's panties in a bunch. Some really liked the idea. Some really hated the idea."
Duke: "Why do you think there are so few Asian men as talent in porn?"
Mika: "Asian families have pressure on their boys to do well and to not shame the family. There's so much stigma to shaming your family. Japanese people jump off buildings because they're failing in school."
Duke: "What about Asian men are not hung?"
Mika: "Asian men got a bad rap for being tiny. The only exposure people have to Asian men are those Japanese ones [where the genitals] are digitized. They're embarrassingly tiny. The women do scenes like they're constipated.
"I wanted to show people that there are not a billian Asian people in the world for nothing. Not because they don't know how to f---.
"We did it. All my men are over six inches long.
"There were men who were big and good looking but they refused to show their face. They wanted to wear a mask.
"I went down from 147 people who were interested to seven guys. I didn't want to have any half-Asians. Guys were showing up saying, 'I'm Jamaican-Chinese.' I said, 'Dude, you look black. Go away.'
"I got Katie Morgan and all the biggest names in the business. I had [the fans] write down their fantasy list of who they wanted to see. Most of them wanted white girls.
"I bash the mainstream on my website. They treated me bad because of porn. So many people have so many misconceptions about what people in porn do. I get invited to Hollywood mainstream parties but they want me to service directors. For some reason, they don't understand why I get offended.
"I'm a performer just like you, only that I go all the way. I show that extra two percent of skin. I don't see any difference between what we do and what somebody on Playboy TV does. It looks the same. It's still adult content.
"I know there are a lot of crack whores in the business. I just don't want people to believe that we're all cracked out nymphomaniacs. We are intelligent and this is an intelligent decision that we're making.
I did mainstream modeling starting at 12. (Resume). I had the most problems with casting directors and writers hoping for tail even before I did porn. Even more so have come out of the woodwork after I started doing porn. I get e-mailed offers all the time over the last couple years to meet for coffee so that I can "read" for parts. Slimiest pervs I have met in my life, including my porn contacts, are at NBC, MTV, FOX, Paramount Pictures, and Touchstone Films.
"I see nothing wrong with sex. That's how we all got here."
Duke: "How did your family react to your getting into porn?"
Mika: "My dad didn't handle it well. My mom was pretty cool about it. My grandma owned massage parlors, so she grew up around that stuff. 'Oh, I half-expected it.'
"They couldn't complain too much about it because I helped out a lot with the mortgage. I helped pay off my grandma's house. They probably would've had a problem if I had kept it all to myself and did drugs.
"My dad didn't talk to me for a couple of years. My mom knew years before my dad did. She said, 'Don't tell your dad. He might have a problem with that.'
"I didn't tell my dad until I did a Hustler thing and he has a subscription to Hustler.
"After I told him, he banged the phone on the table for a while and then said, 'I need some time to register this. Don't call back.'
"My grandma was kinda happy. My grandma's philosophy on her massage parlors is that massage parlors take away rapes. They fulfill fantasies.
"I used to get a lot of flak from school. People would say, 'Your grandma is a whore.' Everybody knew my grandma. They had a big thing in the paper. She was talking about massage parlors. They were shutting down massage parlors in Guam. My dad was stationed there so I caught a lot of crap.
"My grandmother said, 'Everybody needs sex. Not everybody gets it the way they want it or as often as they want it, and that's where massage parlors come in. Guys who like little girls can come in and choose one of our ladies who dresses up like a little girl. It helps to stop rapes.'
"She felt like she was doing a public service.
"She said to me: 'That's good. At least it's not illegal yet. Just keep on going until they ban it. Americans are going to ban it.'
"I don't know when [sex work] became something you needed to be ashamed of. It's weird. A country based on freedoms and you're not allowed to exercise them.
"I think of internet porn the same way [as a public service]. I do a lot of fetish work. Because some of the fetishes I do are really taboo, some guys can't ask their wife to dress up like a little girl and talk to me like that... I don't believe porn creates fetishes. I think it caters to them. People who have these fetishes need an outlet. If they didn't have an outlet, they might run around and hang out at school yards.
"I was in Germany. I saw a German Shepherd with a woman. It doesn't make me look at dogs in a new way. I can't see how watching a porn video can spark your interest in something you have no interest in.
"In Thailand, they have little girls they pimp out. That doesn't excite me. It makes a little bit sick. I have no problem dressing up as a little girl and have them talk to me that way. I can call them daddy if they want me to. I'd rather it be me than somebody else."
Duke: "Your church group went to Thailand to build houses."
Mika: "I do a lot of work for [a non-profit home-building organization for the disadvantaged]. We built 15 houses in ten days. If anybody needs drywalling, I'm pretty decent. I can do it topless. They'll have to pay me a premium though. I'm not licensed and bonded."
Duke: "Does your church group know about your modeling work?"
Mika: "Yeah."
Duke: "They don't give you a hard time?"
Mika: "No. It's not like it's a Christian church. It's a Buddhist church. They're more relaxed about it."
Duke: "What are your life ambitions?"
Mika: "I want to make porn that is fun to watch. I don't want any of that spit-in-her-face, punching her and weird stuff like that. We've come to the point where directors are competing with themselves and not catering to what customers want to see. Who can think of the most disgusting thing to do.
"People come up to me and say, 'Would you be willing to do that?' Three cocks in my ass? No.
"It's come to the point where I don't even like to rent porn anymore and I like it."
Mika calls her sister a "breeder" because she has three kids.
Mika has a phone number on her website where she'll talk to people for $5 a minute. "I haven't checked my messages in a long time. I used to get these weird calls: 'I want to f--- you till you bleed.' Eww. It must be all the bondage and S-M shoots I do. Because I have a high tolerance for pain, I do a lot of them. I do extreme fetish shoots."
Duke: "Isn't that freaky when you meet people who are into the extreme fetishes you do?"
Mika: "It is. It scared me. Just because I do the fetish and understand it doesn't mean it turns me on. I don't really like to beat people until they bleed, even though I've done it."
Duke: "What did you learn from the tough stuff [miscarriage, divorce etc] you went through?"
Mika: "It made me paranoid. I went through four webmasters who screwed me over. I had to sue the last one to get my name back. I need to not trust so easy, which is sad, because I'm normally an open love everybody person. But people have to earn my trust now.
"My husband and I want to go into partnership with people on our productions but it makes me scared to tell anyone my ideas. I'm so afraid that someone is going to take it, like the Geishahouse.com. I created it. I built it. I drove traffic to it. And my partner sold it and I got nothing. Not even my cut.
"It's one thing to have no morals, but to have no ethics, that's something different. Yeah, I'm the first one to tell people that I have no morals but I'm ethical. I would like to see that more in the business. I like working with people with ethics. I wish there were more people like that in the business but that's the cross we have to bear.
"I used to think my grandma was a crackpot when I was growing up. Everyone in my family said she was weird. But I guess I've grown up to be just like her. The more I do the business and meet fans, the more understand that it is important to a lot of people. We need to cater to people who don't have sex as often."
WHERE DID YOU GO? DID YOU RETIRE?
I got really burned out and had to get away. I went through some tough personal stuff (miscarriage, divorce) and trusted people who didn't care about me.
DOES YOUR FAMILY KNOW?
Yes. My parents think it is a waste of a perfectly good brain, but the truth is that all the money I make in this business is spent on necessities for the whole family and my various organizations. I share whatever I have and they know that I only have a short amount of time to captialize of my youth. My dad's opinion is: "Porn is good for anyone else's daughter, but your own."
CAN YOU AND YOUR SISTER DO A GIRL-GIRL SHOOT?
That is just plain disgusting. This is not her industry. She is a mom, for crying out loud! Even if we weren't related, she is your average heterosexual and does not deviate in any way. Man, if you knew her, she would bite your head off just for asking. She is quite humorless.
Sunday afternoon I got a mass email from Mika:
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I got the all clear to work my rear!
My current Stats are Measurements: 36D-27-38 (Enhanced) Ht: 5' 5" Wt: 120 lbs Hair: Straight, Black, medium-long length
My current rates are Playboy-Style: $150/hour or $600/day Fetish: $150/hour GG: $700 GGA: $1000 BG: $900 BGA: $1200 DP: $1500
I am planning on doing only 2-3 anal scenes per week to avoid any possible complications. I am NOT going to go through that surgery again! :-) It was awful!
The Ups And Downs Of Working With Porn Stars
Jim Goad (jg@jimgoad.net) is working on a story about working with porn stars and he would like to hear from those people who have.
Aspen Brock On A Current Affair
From A Current Affair's website:
During most of her hard-core adult movie shoots, Cleo Cameron (a.k.a. "Aspen Brock") was strung out on heroin to cope with the shame she felt. "I tried to stay as high as I could," Cleo remembers. "I was so disgusted with myself. The fact that I had this director saying, 'I'm gonna make you a star,' it didn't matter. I knew how degrading what I was doing was." Today, Cleo is clean, sober and the mother of two children.
"I really felt that this story had to come out," says Anne Bissell, author of the book, Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor. She's eager to tell "the true story.not the glamorized 'Pretty Woman,' Heidi Fleiss, Jenna Jameson b.s. that's out there, but the real story, the real truth." Bissell and Cameron have joined forces to start "Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous."
It's always good when both sides of a national debate speak their minds so clearly and with such force of conviction. I hope this report sparks dialogue that makes people aware of the other side of Jenna Jameson's "autobiography."
RE the below, this is one of truest things I've ever seen on this yahoogroup: "Sexual dysfunction is a very common trait in sex industry survivors. We call it "The Split." This is a complete sexual shut down or disassociation between the body and the mind during sex. Others also describe this as turning a trick without getting paid."
I may someday write a lengthy book chapter about my own experiences with women of erotica who ended up with exactly the same problem(s).....the way I've put it is "when sex has become the same thing as a handshake," there's a great sense of loss there, and the women who experience it are much the worse for this. As are their lovers.
RE "Aspen Brock," I'm actually familiar with her, we spoke once and I've seen two of her films she sent me, "White Trash Whore" and some other gangbang film, while she campaigned to be in Carnal Comics. In White Trash Whore, they put a toilet seat over her head and rape her mouth, and I think they DP her on the toilet. Now I would normally have long since forgotten her and these horror-show movies were it not for the fact that I was 99% positive she was on heroin at the time. I could tell from her demeanor, body language, vacant eyes and voice slurs in the films, and I could tell from talking to her - at the time, I was dating and managing the career of a well known heroin-addict porn star and spending time with her on the road, so I knew all-too-well the manifestations. At the time, when Aspen was talking about doing a comic, I gravitated toward the notion even tho I was already wrapping up my involvement with Carnal. I had this urge to, I dunno, throw her a rope. I sensed she was in deep trouble - the other film of hers she sent me, she starts crying when they start the anal sex. There's tears running down her face, she's sniffling and wiping them off with her makeup smearing, while some guy pounds her ass and a black guy stands behind them yelling "I'm next! I'm next!" There's very little contemporary porn that sticks in my mind, but I recall poor Aspen Brock in those two movies, and how sad it made/makes me.
Who knows if her heroin addiction predated her porn "career" - I doubt it matters. Both things, heroin and porn, she had to "survive" them. I'm glad she's telling her story.
Jamie Ralph Gardner writes:
The second video that you had of Aspen Brock was Gangbang Auditions 3. You had a dub of it on one of your 6 hour speed video tapes. She does cry during the scene but the Director does show compassion toward her. Several times, he asks her if she is OK. He keeps telling Aspen that it's up to her what she wants to do. There is no black man saying "I'm next! I'm next!" It was a black guy that caused her pain when he was having anal intercourse with her. He was going slow with her. He didn't deliberately cause her pain.
Trancript of Aspen Brock sex scene from Gang Bang Auditions 3.
Aspen Brock: f---, OK, hold on.
Aspen Brock: Hold on
Gregg Allen: Slow
Gregg Allen: Go nice and slow guys. Are you OK?
Aspen Brock: Yeah.
Gregg Allen (inaudible)
Aspen Brock: No, I'm OK.
Gregg Allen: Are you sure?
Gregg Allen: You can back it up.
Aspen Brock No, it's OK, don't pull it out. Once you're in, don't pull
it out. OK, alright.
Gregg Allen: Just relax, are you OK?
Gregg Allen: You talk to him. He's not going to move, you move. As much
or as little as you like.
Aspen Brock: Oh God. No, no, don't pull out. Just keep going. Do you have
a tissue where I can wipe this away?
Gregg Allen: Don't come out.
A guy uses a kleenex to wipe away her tears.
Mark Davis: Mine is small, it's not going to hurt.
Aspen Brock: Yeah, right
Mark (laughter).
Gregg Allen: He's a more sensitive lover then this lucky guy.
Aspen: Oh God.
Gregg Allen: Are you OK?
Gregg Allen: You can talk to him. You can let him know to slow down or
go faster. Do what feels good for you.
THE GUY PULLS OUT HIS PENIS SLOWLY AND ANOTHER GUY TAKES HIS PLACE.
Aspen Brock (laughter)
Gregg Allen: A 3 second grace period
Aspen Brock is no longer crying and she is calm.
Gregg Allen: There you go.
Gregg Allen: Let me see that pretty face.
Aspen Brock: I'm afraid I look like I'm crying though.
Gregg Allen: No, you look like your having fun?
Aspen Brock: OK.
Gregg Allen: Are those tears of pleasure?
Aspen Brock: Yes (laughter)
A GUY PULLS OUT AND ANOTHER ONE TAKES HIS PLACE.
Gregg Allen: You like the asshole?
Aspen Brock: OH yeah.
Aspen Brock (smiling): I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: Do you love it?
Aspen Brock: I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: Yes, you have 3 cocks down you.
ASPEN BROCK IS BEING DOUBLE PENETRATED AND A GUY'S PENIS ACCIDENTLY FALLS
OUT OF HER.
Gregg Allen: Oh, thank you very much.
Aspen Brock: Oh, damn it! (she sounds irritated)
ASPEN GETS DOUBLE PENETRATED AGAIN.
Gregg Allen: Open up your mouth really wide. There you go.
Aspen Brock: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, f---! (she looks like she is in pain)
THE VIDEO SWITCHES TO THE GUYS CUMMING ON HER FACE.
Aspen Brock: I'm a cum dumpster, fill me up.
Aspen Brock: I like it yeah.
Gregg Allen: That's a girl.
Jay Allen writes:
Your surreal transcript below backs up what a sad debacle took place that day. My pity for her is only increased by looking over the text - now I'm even more of a mind to contact her and offer to help her efforts to be heard.
Your definition of "compassion" seems akin to the Marqui De Sade's - compassion would have been giving that poor girl her clothes, a check and sending her home. What you describe as "compassion," I see only as "We need this footage to cash OUR checks so don't break her, and then who gives a f--- about her."
"Aspen Brock (laughter)" - some "laughter," that was a woman's last mental defenses crumbling before your eyes, like the rape victim who tries to "befriend" their attacker somewhat, just in order to psychologically survive the horrible ordeal - - - - that kinda crap is about as sexy as a snuff film.
A Jew At Bob Jones University
I heard a hilarious story about a Jewish woman who was the sole Jewish student (there were few if any Blacks, Latinos or Asians) at a conservative Christian college (and rural town) similar to Bob Jones U.
She had a foul mouth and would tell people, "You better not f--- with me, I'm Jewish." While all other students were required to attend chapel daily, she was exempt. She also took Jewish holidays off school. Not because she observed them as her religion prescribed. On the contrary, she held Yom Kippur kegger parties and charged her fellow students entrance fees to get drunk on Jewish holy days. She also introduced cocaine to the campus and made a bundle from her sales. Judaism must be so proud.
Judith Regan Tired Of Cultural Misogyny
A few years ago, rabbi Shmuley Boteach said that Michael Jackson taught him to be a better father. Now rabbi Boteach writes in the Acknowledgments of his new book Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex:
For almost five years, I have wanted to write a book about the shockingly negative portrayal of women in Western culture... But this project was given greater impetus through my conversations with my friend and publisher, Judith Regan, who has passionately shared my viewpoint of widespread cultural misogyny and the negative portrayal of women as sleazy, slutty, and stupid everywhere we look. This book is meant to combat that deplorable state of affairs, and I want to thank Judith for her constant encouragement throughout its development. Judith is a strong woman, and many argue that it is her toughness that has propelled her to the top of American publishing. I disagree. I know that underneath that formidable exterior, which many successful women develop as a means of competing in a man's world, is an unbelievably warm feminine softness that has so endeared her to authors like me, who look to her as a warm and caring friend.
The Devil and Miss Regan By Judith Newman for Vanity Fair.
For moments of my career as a writer, I gloried in the opportunity to label people good and bad. As a young journalist working for other people, I chafed at my inability to put my opinions in my stories.
Now at middle-age and with my own website and the ability to publish whatever I want, I'm (usually) relieved to keep my opinions to myself and to generally avoid taking the stands on people that rabbi Boteach does.
For many years, I wanted to be a moral leader like Dennis Prager. As I've aged, I've realized I am not cut out for that and that I am much better at other things than being a pundit, such as interviewing people. Usually, to get a good interview, you need to empathize as much as possible with your subject. This is usually amoral. To get good interviews, I keep to myself most of my moral judgments about my subject and his work and try to honestly get their point of view.
Once I articulate a position, I feel a strong internal compulsion to defend it. By not staking out my views, I find it easier to listen to others and to change my mind. I find it difficult to defend my views and to listen to others simultaneously. My mind works on only one track at a time.
I'm usually a horrible person in an argument. My pulse races, my skin flushes, my voice rises and cracks, and my approach becomes nasty. I fight to keep myself out of arguments and feel joy when many people say they view me as serene.
I have been receiving a lot of mail from people asking me what's going on with Jill Kelly Productions. More importantly if I'm still with them. Due to certain reasons that I won't talk about I couldn't say what was going on before, but now things are different. I can finally say it: "As of today I am no longer with Jill Kelly Productions!". I respect and admire Jill. She's one of the nicest people I've ever met. Since she has resinged from JKP there was no point for me being with them.
Jamie Ralph Gardner Does Erotica LA
He writes:
I got to the convention on Friday. I got autographs from Nautica Thorn and Rita Faltoyano. On Saturday, the longest lineup was for Jenna Jameson. I got in line 90 minutes before she started signing. The huge mob of photographers slowed the signing down. To speed up the line, a bodyguard for Jenna told the crowd that Jenna would sign only one item. Some people in the crowd expressed annoyance when this was announced. Some guy in line said that most of the time Jenna signs two items. He said that Jenna frequently signs for free. At the Club Jenna booth, McKenzie Lee was signing to the left of Jenna. Before Jenna signed for me, she took a break for a few minutes. A guy in the crowd expressed surprise that she got back so quickly. Jenna was friendly and personalized the photo for me.
One of the highlights of Sunday was meeting Jenna Haze for the second time. I met her previously at the AVN Entertainment Expo 2005. When it was my turn to get her autograph, she looked at my badge and noticed that it said Carnal Comics. Jenna mentioned the Felecia comic book and she spoke very highly about it. She was really charming. I bought several Jenna Haze DVD's at the convention. Over the years I've seen photos and clips of her on the internet but these were the first movies I ever watched of Jenna Haze. I definately wan't to get more Jenna Haze DVD's. She's very sexy and enthusiastic in the movies I saw of her. I even like the way laughs. Some other porn fans think otherwise.
I took photos all 3 days of Erotica LA 2005. Melissa Monet visited the Carnal Comics booth but she didn't do a signing there. Jasmin St. Claire was scheduled to sign on Sunday (June 12th) but her autograph signing didn't work out. Some people came by the booth asking if she was going to make an appearance. In addition to Melissa Monet, there were other women at Erotica LA 2005 that Carnal Comics has done biographies about. Taylor Wane had her own booth, Rebecca Bardoux signed at Adult 1 Stop, Kylie Ireland signed at Platinum X Pictures and Tiffany Mynx signed at Goalie Entertainment (Romantix) and Mofo Wear.
On Sunday, I talked to Kylie Ireland at the Friday Productions booth. She was hanging out there because her slicks got locked in a cabinet for hours. She was waiting for the slicks to out of the cabinet so she could start signing again at the Platinum X Pictures booth. Kylie said she has come up with a porn star fantasy story to go along with the update of her comic book. Tiffany Mynx is also interested in her comic book being updated. Rebecca Bardoux no longer had any copies of her book so she was happy when I gave her one of the Rebecca Bardoux comic books. Rebecca signed the 3 remaining copies of her book. When those are sold, her book will be completely sold out.
You can read more and see photos here and here.
A Pornographer Thinks A Second Time
I talk to him on the phone after he spent a few days on a mainstream shoot.
"I was with so many wonderful people," he gushes, "so many Jewish people who work in mainstream television. After telling them a handful of stories about the business and the stuff I've been doing, these guys think I am the most fascinating person they've ever met. They want to do a show about me for HBO. I'd love to get out of porn.
"It was an emotional week for me because I got to realize that I am way into the porn thing. It's almost a scarlet letter. These guys feel bad for me. I've never had somebody feel bad for me. I can see where porn can take its toll. These guys say, you are way too creative and way too talented to work in porn.
"That's a good question.
"They all have this morbid curiosity about how it works. They ask, aren't you exploiting women? I say, nobody is putting a gun to these girls' heads.
"It's funny when you get the mainstream take on how they see porn. Obviously my mom thinks that way but when you hear guys my age saying the same thing...
"I really need to expand my horizons."
Craig Valentine Phones From Las Vegas
8:45am.
Craig: "I had a big meeting with Arnold yesterday."
I'm thinking, "Arnold Schwarzenegger?"
Duke: "Stein [of Old Pueblo Distributors]?"
Craig (who says he has a degree in engineering): "Yes. We're launching our huge paysite company and cash [affiliate] programs in three weeks. We've been working on it for a year.
"I've figured out a little piece of technology. I know I'm just a dumb porn guy. I'm launching it on September 5. Everybody is doing wireless porn. I've fixed it. It's tested fine. I can give you on one of your phones, if it has enough memory, perfect video. It looks as good as a DVD."
Tyra Banxx Leaves JKP
She writes:
"I am officially free from JKP!" states former JKP contract girl Tyra. "I had to wait and see what was really going on. When I realized that Jill was not returning, and that the company was obviously not the same company I signed with, I knew it was time to leave. If you do not have Jill Kelly, what do you have?"
Tyra signed on with Jill Kelly Productions in November 2004, and was featured in videos such as 'Tyra's Little Secrets' and 'Tyra's Runway Rendezvous' and 'Boned.' Tyra was also a trophy girl at the AVN Awards in Las Vegas in January.
"I met a lot of great people at JKP and I have the utmost respect for Jill. She is an extremely smart woman who I admire for her strength and professionalism. People with no knowledge or respect for the industry are what destroyed JKP. I am glad that the industry as a whole realizes that Jill was not the bad guy. She was what held the company together. All of the girls only stayed on as long as they did out of loyalty to her."
Friday Tyra picked up her last check from JKP. She said that Dan Ice, the new COO did not even talk to her about it. "He made Scott do it, to convince us it was in or best interest to leave. What does that tell you?" asks Banxxx. "The employees are really great and I hope that they can find other jobs within the industry. Yvette Garcia is an amazing graphic designer, and Scott Hoover always supported me and got my name and face out there when I was brand new. I will always be thankful to my friends."
Tyra does not want to comment in depth on the future of JKP although she said, "It does not look to good when Jill and all your contract girls- something that you have built your company on- decide to leave. It's very sad, but I look forward to working with some new talent, new directors and possibly another contract down the road. I am working on my website, totallytyra.com and getting myself working again. I can't wait to start shooting again."
Tyra can be reached for bookings at tyrabanxxx1@aol.com
Wankus says Tyra's first non-contract shoot will be for Team Tyler July 23. Wankus will direct the boy-boy-girl, her first.
He calls me Friday afternoon.
Duke: "Are you doing scenes?"
Wankus: "I have done a couple but the focus of Team Tyler is more on Tyler. I'll be directing and writing and things like that.
"Over the past few scenes, I'd always appear as a novelty in BJ scenes and s---. 'Let's shoot goofy Wankus.' I've done a lot of non-sex roles for Wicked and different companies. Tyler said to me recently that she wanted to work with me on a production and I did it and I succeeded at the scene without failing. If she wants to use me or people want to use me with her, I'll do it but I probably won't be working with anybody else because I don't have the desire to.
"The one with Tyler, full-on sex, should be out in a month. It's something that Chef Jeff shot for a company out of Canada."
Duke: "This is a big step."
Wankus: "Yes, it is a big step. It's one thing to sit there and get a blowjob. It's another thing to perform.
"But I surprised myself and after the scene, Tyler put me on her list. 'I didn't think you'd be able to do it so well but you rocked it.'
"The whole day of, I was scared to death. But once we started shooting, I was totally confident and just rocking. It was easy.
"She was saying, 'Don't worry. I'll carry the scene. You do your thing and I'll relax.' It turned out that she had to tell me to calm down because I was really carrying the scene.
"I don't want to make a habit of it, but if someone asks her who she wants to work with and she chooses me, I'd rather have her choose me than some random dude. It's not like I'm running for governor soon."
When Parents' Consent
Into my office walks a beautiful blonde girl. She's come to interview with me about posing. I tell her about how I operate, what I want from a model, what type of work we'll be doing... you know, the whole spiel.
I'm pretty happy she's here. I'm sure my members and clients will love her. But then, when I'm finished, she tells me she must go home and talk things over with her dad.
"Well that's the last I'll see of her," I think to myself. But I was wrong.
The next day she returned. She relayed to her father every detail I'd told her. She even had him visit my websites. And together they had done a bit of checking up on me as well. She was ready to pose!
To all LFP Video directors and editors: The following guidelines must be followed for all video and box cover productions:
1. no shots with the appearance of pain or degradation
2. no Bukkake
3. no spitting or saliva mouth to mouth
4. no food as a sex object
5. no urination at all
6. no blindfolds
7. no wax dripping
8. no bondage or bondage type toys or gear, unless very light
9. no hands from two different people fingering the same girl
10. no male/male penetration
11. no transsexuals
12. no degrading dialogue
13. no menstruation topics
14. no incest topics
15. no forced sex or rape themes
16. no bestiality
17. no hands(s) around someone's neck
The most recent naked picture of me is at three looking out a window. I believe it was taken by my mother. I have no interest in posing naked and never considered it. I consider myself an artist and not someone who peddles her physical image.
About five years ago I was profiled in Penthouse by Ralph Gardner Jr., and they wanted to run photos even though my interview was running on the cheap paper. I went to lunch with the art director and it became clear that he also art directed the one-handed shoots too. I think he said he and his wife were going through a divorce and he was dating a woman who had posed for the magazine. I couldn't believe those sorts of things actually happened.
US Commerce Department Maintains Authority to Block XXX Domain Name Extension
NEW YORK - The United States Commerce Department on Thursday reasserted its veto power over all internet domain name extensions approved by ICANN, and therefore has the authority to reject the dot-xxx domain name extension should ICANN attempt to put it into play later this year, YNOT has learned.
According to an Associated Press report, the United States Commerce Department has reversed course over previous promises to eventually relinquish authority over computers that control traffic on the internet, and now claims it will maintain control over the computers and the master list of top-level domain name extensions for the indefinite future.
The Penis or the Swastika
Chaim Amalek writes:
She must choose one. Sounds like this woman needs a trip to the Museum of Tolerance, and pronto. You have the right to know if she is a righteous gentile who will let you ---- her, or some hateful she-witch. And let that be the title of your next book on how Jewish men can score with hot young shiksas. Oh how I envy you.
The more you date hot young shiksas, the lower the probability that you will ever be able to settle for any Jewish woman who would deign to have you. Once you have dated 24, why would you even consider 38?
There is a subset of women in NY who are among the most beautiful on earth - models, model wannabes, some of the actresses. But unless you are seriously loaded to a degree other people just can't comprehend, you have no chance with them. These are not the women you see on the subway. Hot women do not ride the subway. And NY air, life is bad for a woman's looks. Real bad. I just had this conversation with a women friend of mine yesterday. She moved out of NY after a few years to avoid becoming what she could see other women become here, a crone. Caustic, leather-tough, angry at men, alone.
Kevin Blatt Vs. Dave Cummings
I got to know Dave Cummings in 1996 and Kevin Blatt in August of 1999. They'd both rank among the most high profile persons in porn. Cummings is one of the six plaintiffs in the FSC's lawsuit against the Department of Justice's new 2257 regulations.
As many of you may or may not know one of my very first positions in the online business was working as Director of Marketing for YNOT.
At that time, I was encouraged to make tradeshows a success and help sell ads- Rick who was the orginal owner was very much a gentleman and also told me he'd like to eventually sell the company- I told him I can do that for him after building some equity back up in the company. We spent a ton of money at the AVN show in FLA in 99-2000 and part of the promotion was bringing a little known man into the booth named Dave Cummings- an old retired Col for the Army- he along with Shayla LaVeaux, and Serenity were a big hit- and I enjoyed introducing him to not only the entire web community but to YNOT as well.
After the show- I arduously went about the task of tryin gto broker Rick's company. I found a buyer in FCI/ Sextracker after meeting with other companies such as AVN ( who passed and didn't realize what webmasters were at that time) A deal was struck= and YNOT was sold for just under 5 Mil.
It was around a month or two before the sale that I brought in my best friends down here to work for YNOT in SD Otto Geelan and Bob Rice ( YNOT BOB).
About a week or two after the company was purchased I was let go by Otto and Andy Edmond- hence making a bitter rivalry of myself and YNOT for a few yrs- I felt dejected, and depressed. I also felt betrayed. However, I signed agreement with FCI not to disclose our outcome of that and it's all water under the bridge now.
After my shakeup with YNOT I had a bout of depression and really didn't know anymore who my friends were- it was at that time I was approached by dave cummings to meet his webmaster, JMM or Jeff Miller and that he really loved the way I handled Andy and YNOT on the boards and made minced meat of of them.
He and I met with Dave and a deal was struck to be made a partner of his new venture Sundownmedia.com and I would be made President and get shares of stock in the company. This never happened.
Again I had some public blowouts with JMM and called bulls---. I felt I was taken advantage of again.
I then got on with my life and was retained by Sextoynetwork.com owned by Vivid and Goalie along with XPAYS at the time. I was still going to to toe with Jeff Millier everyday on the boards and it was starting to get to him.
One day while I am in the office at Goalie- I am pulled aside by Eddie [Wedelstedt] the owner and Steven Hirsch owner of Vivid ands asked " who is Jeff Miller and why are you f---ing with him"?
I then tell him the story of what went down and I am then told ...I need to let it go because he had received a phone call from some serious guys back East and they say to lay off of him.
Now anyone that knows Eddie knows he is old school and has a lot of connections. He told me the people that called him made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. The XPAYS boys were witnesses to this conversation.
Long story short - I let it go. JMM and I made amends the next trade show. I agreed to let it die if he would let it die- even though I was furious I was being "squeezed" and my job in jeopardy.
We both go on our separate ways and JMM is Dave's webmaster and runs Dave's program.
After sex toy network folded, I was then approached by guys at a company called HERBALO to head up their marketing and sales. They were familiar with me as well through reading my rants about Andy / YNOT/ and JMM. I went to go work for them and helped make that company a major player in the herbal business online bringing in affiliates like CE, Babenet, XPAYS, Vivid, Python etc.
I had moved in to another direction, consulting. Now I could sign 3, 6 and 9 month contracts to promote companies and not have to be an "employee." I start making some dough, my friends are all spamming and making huge money - we are all partying and good.
I go to a party at the sex.com house and meet a girl named Holly Miles- a fledgling, little porn star who hadn't even begun to live her life at the age of 20 yet. She was introduced to the biz by working as a secretary for my friend, Brian Muir- she later went on to shoot hardcore scenes and her s--- is everywhere.
One of the first people she meets and shoots for is Dave Cummings the Sugar Daddy In fact one of their scenes they filmed was busted up by cops here in a public park. Both of them were chagrined to say the least.
Holly and I get a little more serious as time passes and I don't want her shooting B/G scene anymore as well as she says she will only do G/G. Holly liked to take Vicodin's and pop pills, she would go to Mexico three times a week and pick up literally hundreds of pills and bring them back for friends and support her habit.
One night while she is in a coma sleeping, her phone starts ringing off the hook - I notice the numbers are local and write down the numbers only to call them later- One number gets traced back to a major player in the novelty business who is MARRIED and loves to f--- whores at every tradeshow. I question her about the calls and she tells me "it's people looking to buy pills."
I am no idiot, maybe someone would call franticly for cocaine or speed but Vicodin? Didn't buy it. I finally told her I knew what was up and she started telling me the truth that she was HOOKING on the side and that Dave Cummings made some introductions to his buddies and they became clients of Holly's.
I was devastated, heartbroken and pissed that she had lied to me. Not to mention I was sleeping with a girl who was sleeping with old men. I had no idea what the hell she could have given me. As with any relationship- we tried to work it out but her drug problem became critical. I stepped up and made a very hard call to her father whom I had never met and had to tell him that his daughter was not only a danger to herself she was going to die. If you think it gave me great pleasure to have to tell someone's father that their daughter is hooked on drugs and tricking to get by, you are crazy.
Of course she was in denial and she felt so betrayed that I would such a thing. I told her- "You may not like me- you may even hate me- but someday YOU WILL Thank me."
It was at that time, she was approached by JMM through Dave to run her website for her. She cried about what an asshole I was to him and he said he would get "even with me."
After signing an agreement with JMM and Zimm of WEG Cash she was to do a "gangbang type" of a site where she would live in a house and get gang... by a bunch of dudes. Sound like fun?
Nice way to take advantage of a drug addict eh?
I believe in AA they call these types of predators "enablers."
At some point over a year ago, she goes to JMM's office equipped with a tape recorder and plays all these crazy messages I left for her to JMM of which Brad Shaw... wanted to ...he had no idea what was going on. But hey JMM was his buddy...
What he also didn't know was that my computer had been hacked. I was dumfounded when I learned that someone had gotten into my outlook and started sending messages and emails to peoples private addresses.
This all occurred during the PARIS HILTON SEX TAPE Fiasco I had going on with SEXBRAT.COM
Here is an example of one of the emails that was spoofed and sent to a reporter
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Crawford [mailto:d.crawford@writeme.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:05 PM
To: brian@usnetwork.com; ian@usnetwork.com
Subject: Confirmation for Paris Hilton Sex Tapes Article
Hello:
My name is Diane Crawford and I am a freelance journalist doing a story on
the Paris Hilton Sex Tape scandal for several online publications. I am
trying to reach someone from Marvad or the website sexbrat.com for
confirmation on the kiddy porn rumors that are now abound. If I have not
reached the right people, please forward my message to the person/persons
who can officially comment.
I spoke with a Mr. Kevin Blatt, Director of marketing for sexbrat.com. I am
seeking clarification on two quotes from my interview with Mr. Blatt:
1. "I don't know if the tape is kiddy porn, at this point nobody really
does. We know when the tape was made and we know her (Paris Hilton)
birthday so you do the math. The tape was acquired legitimately so any
kiddy porn charges would go against either Donald or Ron. You would have to
discuss it with them."
2. "We have a signed release and the tape was acquired legitimately. Paris
is a smart girl and she saw what the Pam/Tommy video did for Pam's career.
She can pretend to be a victim, but she is playing the media just like she
said that she is being played."
I would appreciate clarification or comments as soon as possible. I would
like the story to go out today and I have a 3 p.m. PDT deadline.
Diane Crawford
Independant Media Associates"............
I report this incident to the FBI and work with law enforcement to try and find out who did this to me.
Turns out, Holly comes to the Vegas show two years ago and gets spun out on speed and nearly has a nervous breakdown when she sees me on the showfloor she is walking the how floor with JMM and his wife.
Ten minutes after seeing her she calls my cell phone apologizes and wants to see me deperately.
She then comes clean [Luke interjects: I have no evidence that the following assertion is true, Jeff Miller says it is not true] and tells me that it was Jeff Miller that got into my machine and was reaking havoc and that he bragged about having all my passwords and such.
She had a breakdown, we apologized and I got dressed and went to the Players Ball with Vivid Girl Monique Alexander- which made Holly a little jealous- but who knew things would happen like this?
I then call Dave Cummings and JMM and tel them what I had learned only to have them deny all accusations.Keep in mind, I know the truth.
I let it go and give them a stern warning that if this s--- persists I'll let this story fly publicly- while all the while I was forwarding L-ke Ford every email back and forth and Luke was abreast of everything. I felt the need to tell a third party. I did out of fear for my life before I found out who were the culprits.
Someone was out to ruin my life...
Holly gets clean and sober- she thanks me for being her "living angel on Earth" on a weekly basis now which makes my heart feel real good.
She is in college and works a real job and lives at home.
I keep my mouth shut about the entire thing ...I once again move on.
I start doing some consulting work for Dennis Hof of the Bunnyranch, simple suff like getting him a webmaster a new site designed, as well as sold a few banners on his site. we start having a friendly relationship.
I go out to the ranch and visit him and he attends our Players Ball's VIP.
A few weeks back I am forwarded an email that came from Dave [Cummings] to Dennis at the ranch about an incredible opportunity he has for Dennis to make over $100,000 with the guys at YNOT running his site for him.
I laugh and tell [Dennis] that is not going to happen.
He blows it off.
A week ago Dennis calls me and asks me if I want to sell some sponsorships again since he is ramping up his press for Cathouse by going on a lot of mainstream television as well as Stern. I raise some sponsorships in the form of banner spots on the site thanks to ( LITEROTICAVOD, FACIALABUSE.COM and SEXSEARCH).
Things are going great for me this week. I make a few posts that get picked up on Luke and Gene Ross' sites in regards to how I feel AVN treats their female employees, something that I believe is still protected by the 1st Amendment, and make several anti-AVN comments
I get an email from My client last night forwarded to me from Dave Cummings that reads...
"Re: Hope AVN Doesn't Think You Support kbizzle (kevin blatt)!!!!! Please Call me at 800-522-3933 "
And it's linked to the article on Gene's site.Now I am hoping this act of stupidity was of Dave's own volition, and that AVN wouldn't be stupid enough to try to collude with Dave to shut me up by blocking me.
WHAT BUSINESS WAS IT OF YOUR'S DAVE TO GET INVOLVED WITH MY BUSINESS?
I ask you for an apology and I get this as my response?
"The entity that wanted to explore the possibility of assisting Dennis in revitalizing his site does not want trouble from you, so I will now be able to back out of trying to marry them up on the phone."
Jeff Miller of SunupMedia responds:
Kevin, I have no clue why every year or so you want to drag me in to your life. I tried to call you to find out why, but you wouldn't answer the phone.
So, since Mutt brought it up, let's start with that one.
There was no call from some "east coast" guys as Kevin would like everyone to believe. No neck hairs stood on end. A phone call was made by the owner of Gentlemans Video (someone I was doing business with) who was a personal friend of Kevin's employer at that time. The call was made without my knowledge. No threats were made. No repercussions were threatened or implied. The call was made to point out how foolish the company was made to look while being represented by Kevin Blatt. Kevin Blatt has never "gotten to me".
Yes, I hired Kevin Blatt after he was fired from YNOT. Yes, I fired him shortly thereafter because quite frankly, the guy didn't do anything. A pattern that seems to have been repeated multiple times with multiple companies since then. To my credit, I was the FIRST idiot to hire Kevin Blatt. Being the first, meant that I could not have known that Kevin Blatt brought absolutely nothing to the table. To my discredit, I fired him after 6 months I believe and I should have fired him after 6 days, but that is water under the bridge.
As for hacking into his computer. That is not only actionable, it is also laughable. I couldn't hack my way into a paper bag. What did occur, was that I assisted Holly Miles in retreiving a password to HER yahoo email account that Kevin had changed. It was an account she used to get modeling jobs. During this time, Kevin took it upon himself to email as many content providers as possible to tell them that Holly was a drug addict and that they shouldn't hire her.
Dave told me that Holly wanted to run her own site and would I help, I said sure. After meeting with Holly and drafting a contract, it soon became evident that it wasn't going to work, and we dropped the matter. I did have a meeting with Holly and WEG at the show. WEG was looking for a girl to head up a series of sites. It was not a gangbang house, and there was no contract signed. As the "webmistress" Holly would do several boy/girl scenes. Not gangbangs, and not live in a house where she would constantly be gangbanged. I have no idea where that all came from. Again, Holly disappeared and nothing ever came of it....
Dave Cummings served his country for many years. He also jumped in front of a bullett that is/was heading for every single one of you. In my opinion Dave Cummings is a true hero, in more ways than one.
Brujah posts: "Wasn't Houston KB's girlfriend too ? I don't think he has a problem with his girlfriends f---ing other guys for money, nor with participation on gangbangs."
KB tells Brad Shaw that he's been clean and sober (no cocaine) for 22 days (I don't think this sobriety program includes absention from marijuana.
Brad writes: "Good for you KB, stay clean. Drugs are bad, even that wacky weed crap that many people think is so harmless."
Dave Cummings responds:
In my First Amendment Protected personal opinion:
1. Yawn!
2. Perhaps someone needs to grow up, and stop childishly being delusional about his own self-importance, and burdening us with his constant drama?
3. Dennis Hof is a friend. My email was intended to alert him that his "seller-of-banners-for www.bunnyranch.com" might possibly make it difficult for future interaction/advertising/etc with AVN, as previously, if it possibly appeared/connoted that being a kb client meant any hint of agreement with what appeared to be kb's subjective/personal/family-related recent posting about a former AVN employee. The email was sent because of my friendship and loyalty to Mr Hof. AVN had nothing whatsoever to do with me alerting Dennis.
4. Holli Miles once asked my help finding bookings so that she could earn money for late car payments (or car accident repairs, I can't recall which) and other expenses. She preferred not to have to drive to LA for porn shoots. I gave her the contact info for a respected local married guy who had told me that he was thinking about starting some video productions and might need adult models, and I referred her for some work on Playboy Television. It wasn't "pimping" per se as I know it -- I was merely trying to be helpful to her (doesn't pimping normally mean the pimp earns money off of the girl? I did NOT earn any money!). She eventually was booked on Playboy's "Night Calls":-)! I also heard some comments indicating something about Holli needing more money and attempting to extort a sizeable amount of cash off of the married guy, lest another person involved in the conspiracy would "rat" to his wife about the sessions with Holli---I can't recall the specifics, but I believe Holli and whoever was leaning on her in the extortion conspiracy eventually dropped the money demands.
5. Girls in the Adult Industry often relocate. Every January when I send out the 1099's for talent earning $600 or more during the previous taxable year, some are returned with a USPS stamp indicating the person is no longer at that location and no forwarding address was available. I keep those still-sealed envelopes containing the individual's 1099 with my Tax records to indicate that I sent the 1099 in good faith to the address on the Model Release form. I think I left an answering machine message asking Holli to give me her new address, or tell me to send her 1099 to her past address and let the USPS forward it to her--it was her call, but I recall counseling that she still had the tax liability if she had me use the last model release address and it came back to me as undeliverable. I did indeed send out Holli's 1099 to the address on her last model release--I can't recall, but I think it came back undeliverable.
6. If this board is indeed monitored by DOJ or others, the initiator of this thread could possibly be gravely, recklessly, and negatively damaging the fight against 2257 and in turn against MANY of the members of this board, not just me, by his rantings??????? Might not this thread be selfishly promotional, while hurting the American Adult Internet Industry? Perhaps it's time for all postings to this and related threads to cease????
7. Other than paragraph 8 below, I will NOT post additional comments to this thread.
8. Yawn!
Great post Dave. Funny part is Dennis told me he has met you 6 times in his life and on ONE occasion you visited the ranch. He also told me he had no idea why you sent him this email. You made it out to me as though Dennis was one of your best friends. I think you are more of a name dropper. What you don't know about MY relationship with Dennis is that I have done only good things for him, made him money, and had his back with some legal affairs. I am not just someone who goes to the ranch to use up Dennis' generous free comps. I speak to Dennis regularly and he trusts me. What does AVN have to do with Dennis' or my business anyway? What did you get out of it by being a NOSEY, SNOOPING HATER? DO YOU WORK FOR AVN? You think I am doing this industry harm by telling the truth about you and how you act? Maybe the industry needs to know that you have have two faces. One that may be helping support our case against .XXX. The other is a great way of getting the publicity you crave so much? Grandstanding for your own benefit by signing your name next to Alberto Gonzalez' on a TRO to sell videos is far more destructive than me exposing the truth.
Brad Shaw writes: "I hope [Dave Cummings] pays them as little as possible. This is America, and business is business. Heck, I shot 100's of hardcore scenes in Vancouver paying no more than $150. Talent in LA was in la la land over prices. Of course the Canadians finally woke up and realized they could get more $."
Why Do Porn Stars Dislike Luke?
Yanker writes:
It's probable that most porn stars dislike LF because he simply writes their blabberings down for future comparison to the truth. For most porners this is the equivalent of a giant bulls--- meter being placed over their head for all to see. It's surely very annoying for those who like to re-invent their past every few months or so.
We talk Tuesday afternoon on the set of Ariana Jollee: No Holes Barred.
She's been in porn for eight years and describes herself as a "big whore."
She qualifies: "I'm not a hooker. I do it because I like it."
Trent Tesoro is intimidated by the five page release form. "They're like tests. I get answers wrong. It's a lot of pressure."
Venus leafs through the release. "I should read it," she admits. "I have no idea what they're saying in here."
I lie down beside her and we get comfy.
I say in my most confidential and intimate voice, as though for the first time: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Venus: "I changed my mind all the time, but I wanted to be a marine biologist because I like fish. But I sucked at math and science. I've always liked writing. I still do.
"I've always wanted to be a model."
Duke: "What did your family expect you to become?"
Venus: "Nothing."
Duke: "How old were you when you lost your virginity?"
Venus: "Fourteen."
Duke: "Your boyfriend? A family member?"
She laughs. "I knew that was coming. Not a boyfriend. A football player in highschool."
She left home at 15.
She spent her first 18 years living up and down the East Coast. Then she moved to Las Vegas and then Los Angeles at 19. "I started doing magazine stuff for a year. I took everything slow. I did girl-girl for a couple of years. Then boy-girl."
Venus says she's never dated anyone inside the industry. She says she had kids with an asshole and stayed with him for five years.
Duke: "How did your family react to your becoming a porn star?"
Venus: "My parents are Southern Baptist so we don't mention it. We ignore it. It doesn't exist. Don't ask."
Duke: "Did you go to church every week growing up?"
Venus: "Three or four times a week."
Duke: "So what happened?"
Venus: "I had too much church. I never made it back."
Duke: "What are your life ambitions?"
Venus: "To see the world. To be content with me as a person. I want to create at least one masterpiece of art in this business."
Duke: "What part of your work do you find most meaningful?"
That stumps her for ten seconds. "Oh G-d. Porn is a certain stress release. It suits me. I pay my bills. I enjoy what I do. That's it."
I hear a yell from the bedroom. Genesis Skye has a chipped tooth. Trent was slamming her mouth down on him and he got cut in a sensitive area.
He cleans up and goes back to work.