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British Perspectives On US Porn

Jimslip writes: "I'm glad that you agree with my theory that most Yank porn producers are bitter, twisted, "raging queens" in denial. It would also explain their unnatural obsession with casting studs that wouldn't look out of place on stage in a gay night-club. I mean to say, shades, bandanas, spandex shorts. It just screams, "Hello honkey-tonks, how r u?""

Brerbear writes:

British women are always portrayed as 'victims' by our society and media. That they are only doing porn because some evil doer forced them into it. America - for all it's endless faults - have moved on by about 10 years, and see women less and less as victims and more and more equal to men. Therefore they have as much right to do stupid, harmful things to themselves as men do. The fact that people still insist on leaping to the fore, and suggesting that the women aren't smart enough to figure out the risks for themselves, or are being tricked into it, proves just how backwards an attitude Brits have toward their women. Donkey punch is about as stupid a ----ing idea as you can get, but the difference between them and us, is that their poorn is so saturated it has become niche on niche. British Girls are a niche to themselves, so we haven't yet needed to slump to such desperate measures. But if there's a market, someone will fill it. Especially knowing what greedy, money obsessed cunts the Yanks are. But then maybe they look at us and think that gorgeous fit 21 year olds having sex with pensioners and ---- ugly men is degrading.

Savanna Samson Lies About Her Age?

Thrash writes:

Savanna Samson lies about her age, she claims to be born in 1974, when in actuality she was born in 1967. She graduated from General Brown High School class of 1985. She was known then as Natalie Skeldon. Here's a link to small scan of her yearbook picture-all the way at the bottom.

A source writes:

Your posting today re. Savanna Samson is correct, she was born in 1967 according to her N.Y. driver's licence. It's funny that porn stars even attempt to fib about their age when their ID shots are readily available from the porn companies.

Another one who shaves off several years is Gia Jordan. She claims to be in her mid-20's when in fact she was born in 1971 which will make her 35 on May 20. Model ID pix attached.

Jane writes: "Several people have tried to reference your mention of Gia Jordan's true age of 34-35 at xpt and have had their posts deleted immediately. I guess it must be true, huh?"

What's Going On With NaughtyTalent.com?

The URL now redirects to Sexxxytalent.com, which is owned by Naughty's original owner Tim Myren.

I understand that German male performer Sasha stepped in to assist Tim and they must've had a falling out. [Gene Ross article.]

Sasha now owns and operates Number1talent.com.

I call Tim Myren Sunday afternoon.

Luke: "Why did you leave Naughty Talent?"

Tim: "I didn't leave it. I brought in partners Sasha and Brian. They took over the company.

"They took my domain names. I proved to GoDaddy that I was the original owner.

"I was working for Goldstar Models for two weeks. Joel Lawrence is a good guy but I do things differently."

Luke: "I was told that you owed people so much money that you sent girls over to do privates to pay off the debt?"

Tim: "That's not true.

"I have a deal with Anarchy Films to produce and direct a series called Suitcase Pimp. Sasha went to Anarchy and tried to get them to cancel my deal. In exchange they could use Naughty Talent's girls. Sasha got thrown out of their office. I've known the guy from Anarchy for over ten years.

"If Sasha will admit everything he's done wrong, he can have the URL naughtytalent.com back. But he'll never do that."

Kevin Blatt Says He's Not A Porn King

He's mad at the picture he's seeing of himself in this new documentary American Cannibal.

KB: "Steve Hirsch is a porn king. I'm a pauper. I'm an information provider."

KB also says he was not a producer of the Paris Hilton sex video. He simply helped market it.

KB: "These media outlets are trying to villify me as a bad guy in the porn business. I'm going on the Donny Deutsch show [at 7 p.m. Tuesday on MSNBC]."

KB's nervous about the American Cannibal videotaping of his party last July where he met his current girlfriend Katie aka Abby Page. She got naked and posed for pictures with a tampon string coming out of you know where.

KB did not expect the American Cannibal documentary to get so big.

KB might crack up from the stress and either have a nervous breakdown, revert to drug use, or become a born-again Christian.

Gary Kremen, former owner of sex.com, showed up Friday night to a restaurant where KB's girlfriend works. Gary has two employees and two chicks with him. One of the chicks went nuts and started throwing food around and created a spectacle. The paramedics were called. The chick was supposedly suffering from low blood sugar and went into a diabetic fit.

Da Burglar's Melissa Lauren Interview

2b) Your Myspace quote, "Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven" is from John Milton's "Paradise Lost." Do you really subscribe to this view, and if so why? Muslims believe that they will get to ---- at least 70 virgins in heaven, I'd be pretty happy with that, wouldnt you? Is your Hellfire Sex a warmup act for what you actually plan to do in Hell?

Melissa Lauren: "I actually havent read the book. but i liked that quote cause it ressembles one we have in french, which says "better to die standing, than to live kneeling". Anyway, i m going to Hell, so i m trying to make it sound nice."

....Melissa Lauren: "I achieve orgasm when the male talent is good, has a big cock, doesn't talk much, the room temperature is warm but not too hot, the sofa is comfortable, the director isn't a prick, and I don't need to think about anything. Ahem. oh, yeah, forgot to mention I'm a good actress. You usually wont be able to tell whether i'm faking it or not..."

4a) You are widely regarded as one of the most intelligent female performers in the industry. I, Da Burglar, think you are absolutely brilliant. Do you agree with the statement that "Sex is all in the brain?" Explain this for the less intelligent fans to be able to understand.

Melissa: "I disagree. Sex is anywhere but in the brain. At least for me ... that s how i separate feelings from sex. Let's have an example: sometimes i dont recall guys I've worked with. Because I care so little about them i dont feel the need to put any memory of their name or face in my brain. It's just useless information. Sex is just sex ... guys i m not your ----ing girlfriend ... i dont need to remember you!!!! lol. Although the guys I really like, I remember everything about them, and every scene we've done together.

4c) Are you single, and will you ever get married? What if all your fantasies have been fulfilled, what will you do with your husband to pass the time away and not be bored sexually with the same old ----ing and sucking and whipping?

Melissa: "I am single, and it feels great. I have ---- buddies. It's awesome: I get to talk to them, have fun, share great moments, have great sex... and i dont get the headaches!!!!! only the good sides. I can totally see myself settle down with one guy, start a family and not ---- around though. The reason i did so many crazy things while in porn, is because i knew that one day i d wanna settle down and have no regrets about not having done some things... I didnt want to feel one day like I'd missed out on something. I did it all (or almost) and i m glad i did."

5) You have performed as well as produced and directed in the indistry and have achieved MUCH SUCCESS and Praise; Will you ever leave or retire from the Adult Industry? What are your plans outside of the adult industry or after you leave/retire?

Melissa: "Well... here we are. I am at a point of my career where things are changing. When i knew I got cast in Fashionistas 2, I knew it would be one of the last movies I'd perform in. I wanted to get out while on top of my game. I ve been doing this for 3 years now. I've had a lot of fun, I've met wonderful people, had a ton of experiences... but now is time for me to say goodbye to the front of the camera and move behind. I'm not saying I'll never perform again. I'll do a scene here and there, but only for and with people that really mean something to me. Let's just say i m becoming a prima donna ----ing bitch!!! haha. I'm just gonna be very selective, and do scenes i really wanna do. I am still directing for the www.hellfiresex.com website, as well as shooting a movie a month for Combat Zone (Dion Giarusso's new company). I am starting production Sunday and i am very excited. I'd also say i m finding my place behind the stills camera... I love photography. It's such an amazing thing... capturing feelings and emotions (and orgasms!) Of course at some point i ll leave the industry completely. what i ll do then? Take over the world!"

Alicia Alighatti Interview

Da Burglar emails:

Luke, this young lady is extremely intelligent, and it is impressive that she is interested in returning to school. For Alicia, porn seems to simply be a means to an end. She is a good example for other girls looking to maintain a certian level of personal and moral integrity.

Alicia: "I don't watch my movies, or porn at all for that matter, so I don't really know which to recommend. I guess the one to check out would be Darkside since that's the one I won two awards for. "

2) What are Alicai Alighatti's tell-tale signs that she is loving what is going on with her in a scene?)

Alicia: "My eyes roll back in my head, and I usually announce when I'm coming, but in a really good one I go completely quiet."

4) Describe briefly your idea/ideal of the perfect "date" with a guy.

Alicia: "The perfect first date: pick me up at my house, ON TIME, bring flowers, dress nice, open the car door for me, nice dinner, pull out my chair for me, pay for dinner, pay attention to what i'm saying and ask questions, order me dessert, take me out to a movie, pay for both of us, let me pick the movie, walk next to me with your arm lightly on my back, open doors for me, on the way home, talk to me about the movie, drop me off at my house, if you've been good you get a kiss and a phone call the next day."

5) Once you are no longer performing in porn scenes, what will you be doing to make a living/support yourself?

Alicia: "I'm going back to school this year, and I'll be waitressing at a nice restaurant to pay rent etc, but i'm also going to start running horse shows again which i'm really good at. i might get married if the right guy comes along, and it will be for love, and he will most likely be older than me."

6) Alicia, what do you think of the practice of DONKEY PUNCHING?

Alicia: "I don't like it, i think it's totally disrespectful to the girl, and i like s&m play, but donkey punching you do without the girl knowing and it's ----ed up..."

8) What was the LAST thing you did to help someone out where you didnt receive or expect something in return?

Alicia: "I helped out with a sick horse when he had to get put down instead of making his owner do it, it's a hard thing to watch even when it's not your horse, when it is your horse, it's unbearable. last nice thing done for me was my dad flying out here in two weeks to help me drive back across the country with all my stuff and my horses..."

9) If you could go back in time, would you DO or DECIDE anything different Alicai to avoid getting involved in Pornography, and if so what path/career would you choose?

Alicia: "I wouldn't change anything about the past because everything that's lead up to now has made me who i am, and to regret it would be to hate myself. after this, i'll pick up a career with horses, the only thing i'll be able to do for the rest of my life and never hate it."

Riley Shy Strikes Back

She posts on XPT:

Wow...I know it sounds juicy, but I didn't think so many people would jump the gun on this one. Unlike Derek [owner of LADirectModels.com], I am not going to post that I have irrefutable evidence that I am innocent until I actually have irrefutable evidence. So think what you want, I'm handling this with Vince, Derek, the bank where the check was cashed, along with the courts and police if necessary. I'll post more when I have the facts to do so. Until then, grow up...what's with the picture of my BF, smoking? How old are we? And an even more pertinent question, how many people on this site, or in the business, or in California, smoke herb?

For those of you who think you've cracked the case...and its my apparent;y "lazy, brain dead meat-something?" You've got to be ----ing joking me. My BF is one of the most intellectual, knowledgable people I know. In his fourth year of AE degree, on his way for post grad....for those of you who actually are too stupid to know what the AE stands for...aeronautical engineer. He's also a dual certified personal trainer at 24 hr fitness, who sold his car so that I could move to LA to make movies for you unforgiving assholes. This is the first time in our 5 year relationship, that I have made more money then him. So ---- off and stay out of my private life because you're crossing lines and have no ----ing clue what your talking about. Like I said, when all the FACTS are available I'll show you who the responsible parties involved in this are.

Riley Shy's boyfriend posts:

To all those who assume without evidence:

You are the reason why the internet lacks creditability and why this site is a worthless piece of ----. All of us can say anything we want, including me, without having to substantiate it, ergo we just mouth off our poorly structured subjective viewpoints.

Here are the facts:

If there is irrefutable evidence, then why hasn't it been provided to the police?
If there is irrefutable evidence, why aren't I or Riley in jail? Oh yeah...there isn't!

Kurt Webb cashed the check, Riley's stepfather. The same Kurt Webb who had the police remove her from his house when he found out she was a porn star (did I mention we weren't allowed back in the house to get her possessions). This can all be proved by San Jose Police Departments records if anyone wants to try to verify on their own. Or, you can do what your supposed to do and let the legal system take its precious time to persecute the guilty parties. Until then your just making yourselves look bad because Riley is innocent and will be exonerated. Ask Vince Voyeur who cashed the check...it is signed by Kurt Webb, in San Jose, on a date when Riley was in LA...oh yeah and did I mention her and her step father (along with the rest of her family) haven't spoken since he called her a whore and a prostitute 4 months ago? Motive maybe? Moving forward...

To the brilliant mind who posted my picture...would you like a picture of me going over an active control algorithm, wearing my dorky glasses? Based on ONE picture you proceed to pass judgement.

To ChristianXXX: Because Derek says so huh?...that's about the same level of reasoning a child has. It's like your saying "because my daddy told me so ..." She left Derek because he gave her an ultimatum to pay Vince out of her pocket (which assumes guilt) or leave. What would any logical individual do if they were innocent? She even asked for two days to get the police involved and was denied this request because he didn't BELIEVE her. Derek never gave Riley a chance to prove she had nothing to do with the check being cashed. How is it that we cannot see that this is an obvious attack on Riley from Derek who is pouting because he didn't get his way. I, among many others, applaud Riley for not letting Derek push her around as he does most of his girls.

Oh yeah...and why isn't Vince going after Kurt Webb or the Bank that cashed this expired check without it being signed in front of a teller? You fools.

Practically all things are assumption based online. And my interest doesn't lie in national security or security at all. My interest lies within recieving a sport pilots license and having the ability to tweak my own craft. Thanks for your interest in my personal life, because of all of you I will be creating my own website were you can monitor Riley's and my life 24/7, to see how criminal mastermind's live. And to all you with your nose up Derek's ass...hope you like the smell...oh and to Christian...I don't need to know Derek, b/c I'm not his little bitch (oh I'm sorry, big bitch)...but I know how to treat people with common decency.

Riley Shy writes: "The check was left in my room when I was forcibly removed from my home (having to leave ALL of my possessions i.e. the check behind.) The check was in a treasure chest of mine, kept because it was the first check I ever recieved. You're right about how the check should NOT have been allowed to be cashed, it's against California law. The proof I will eventually provide (surveillence, phone records, and police reports from when I was kicked out by my dad) will show all this...along with what a dickhead Derek is."

Tim Myren Starts Up Sexxxy Talent

Gene Ross reports:

I spoke to Tim Myren Thursday night, and Myren tells me not only did he reclaim his Naughty Talent url but that he's launched a new talent agency called Sexxxy Talent. Myren is also claiming he had nothing to do with the Nazi prank this morning on the Naughty Talent site but found it highly amusing nonetheless.

Will Kelly Steele Save UK Porn?

Judging from the feedback on this thread, no.

Kelly and Hamilton Steele now live in England.

Mr Marcus Defends Sean Michaels

Mr Marcus posts:

Again all that bull----, that makes cats stray away from what they really wanna say. Honestly I think Sean can give a ---- what ya'll think. The cat likes women and has proven that clearly over time. There are a number of new dudes in the industry who are more than capable to suit your needs (a meat puppet (and I use the word with respect to you dear reader) who can keep his dick hard, turn the girl on and keep the viewer interested, oh yeah and shut the ---- up). Whatever it may be it's out there...you take up valuable time with bashin' Sean. I respect a cat who was there WAY before me and continues to do his thing way after the crowd has left. And the fans remain. That's how it is for a number of CATS...think music, chef's, artist, poets, gangstas, hustlas, presidents and bitches. Hate on me for all it's worth. I can find a few things wrong with all of 'you's'. The big picture dear reader (I know I'm biting) is that Mr.Sean Michaels changed the game and it's played a little different because of him.

The Dominant Woman

I interview author Humphry Knipe (husband to photographer Suze Randall and father of Holly Randall) about his book The dominant man: The mystique of personality and prestige:

* What are the implications for politics from your book?

HK: Profound. We have to be aware of the pecking order instinct that is wired into us and which makes us such easy prey to authoritarianism, whether religious (Islam) or secular (fascism). As long as we are human we will never be able to shake this thing off.

* How has it stood the test of time? Has new research validated or invalidated it? How so?

HK: Actually, when it was published in 1972 it was still widely held by liberals that the infant mind was tabula rasa - a blank table - on which anything could be written. The instinct theory was discredited by, for example, by Ashley Montagu in his influential "Man and Aggression" which was published in 1973.

The modern view is that we are, in fact, soft wired - we have an inborn propensity to behave in a certain way, but culture can modify that to some extent. However atavistic instinct remains only a heartbeat away. Why? Because it's the tried and true fall back position.

* Are humans just another animal? What distinguishes us from animals?

HK: Of course we are animals, smart animals although maybe not smart enough to deal with the power of destructive technology.

* What about the women? Your book is largely about men. Do women demonstrate status differentials in the same ways as men?

HK: We had a chapter on women but this grew into such a page consuming monster we dropped it. Thought of writing "The Dominant Woman" (I'm married to one, Holly is another). Could have, should have. Would have made me rich and famous by now and getting interviewed by the NY Times!

* What do you think of the book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life?

HK: Regarding The Bell Curve, which I have not read except in reviews: Obviously high intelligence coupled with high dominance (for example Julius Caesar et al) will improve the chances of the assertive individual getting to the top of the heap - although modern American politics indicates that intellectual brilliance is not essential for the highest political office - "people skills" is the must.

Brilliant but shy back room boys have the brains but not the extroversion, assertion, executive demeanor, charisma or whatever the latest buzz word is, to get into the executive office. The beta may be a tyrant to the gamma, delta and epsilons, but he (or she) goes mysteriously shy in the company of an alpha.

Sex Columnist Trades Her Oldest Profession For Chic Motherhood

Ms. Sohn, 32, one of the genre’s pioneers, is now ensconced in Brooklyn, married with a 9-month-old daughter. She won’t be returning to “Mating,” her own sex column in New York, any time soon.

After “Female Trouble,” the raunchy, first-person sex narratives she produced weekly at the New York Press in the 90’s, and a watered-down series at the New York Post, which were followed by five years of “Mating,” Ms. Sohn has decided that she doesn’t want to “be writing just about sex anymore.”

...“The official State of the Candace Bushnell–esque Sex Column is horribly hackneyed at this point—so out, that who knows?” said Julia Allison, who is fresh out of college and writes “The Dating Life” for AM New York (and who appears on her Web site lounging on a bed staring into her iBook), writing via e-mail. “But by and large, the formula of first-person accounts of one’s sexcapades is unbearably clichéd, undoubtedly narcissistic and inevitably boring as hell. I tend to shy away from that type of writing.”

David Clark responds:

Proof that writers are mostly self-obsessed whores as much as any porn star...

That the whole sex-writing thing was practically flogged to death didn’t exactly dissuade her from entering the field.

Any FORMULA is boring as hell, on its own. If the work is boring, cliched, etc, I would suspect the problem lies with the author. Though it may have been narcissistic it certainly wasn't BORING when Miller, Nin, Roth, Mailer & many lesser known writers -- including Marco Vassi & Susie Bright, the latter of whom was the trailblazing, increasingly thoughtful & evolving original here rather than one of the many irritatingly mediocre & pointless Xeroxes -- detailed their exploits.

But then they didn't start out as modern young middle-class Americans freshly awarded increasingly pointless university degrees with their eyes on no cultural prize higher than a guaranteed income & fleeting notoriety. They wrote about sex, even when deliberately penning stroke fiction, in a thoughtful way, rather than as a game with no depth beyond basking in their own egos & relegating one of the primal life drives -- a wonderful, terrible, spiritual, animalistic conundrum of a riddle -- to their own embarrassingly childish & spoiled consumerist outlooks on life.

No doubt the earnest application of these Great Thinkers to the task of parenthood -- now that they've worn out their bodies & emotions on years of pointless but meticulously recorded sexual encounters -- will result in a marked rise of emotionally abused, sociopathic kids in the urban middle-classes, since their parents clearly still don't seem to understand anything beyond possessing & owning "stuff" -- whether expensive purses or designer babies buried in the proper name-brand acouterments & raised, where affordable, by nannies while Mommy & Daddy are out trying to convince the world that they still own it.

Look for Tristan Taormino to get preggers in the next five years...

Why Is American Porn Nastier?

PaganGod writes on BGAFD:

Wondered what people thought of this aspect of US porn... American porn appears to have a growing pre-occupation with 'roughing up' the girls - it's seems to have become VERY prevalent in MAINSTREAM US porn in the last few years... I mean I've seen TONS of American porn and a fair bit of Brit stuff too and the main difference is that in mainstream Brit porn, I've never seen the girls being treated roughly, degraded/humiliated. On the other hand, it's something that US mainstream porn has seems to be leaning more and more towards. Brit porn, for me, seems very fun-orientated and no where nearly as misogynistic as our US counterparts, and that is the joy of Brit productions - everybody seems to be having FUN. Whilst I have some misgivings about Brit porn (poor production values, sometimes dodgy-looking talent etc.) the American stuff has developed this nasty streak of treating the girls badly on-screen: rough power-----ing, skull-----ing, spitting - the list goes on. Yeah, I know it's all agreed upon in advance, but thats not my point - it's why are the Americans so keen to see the girls knocked about so much? - you rarely see anything remotely fun in their stuff, just a lot of aggression.

Ashley Blue's Blog

All writes on XPT:

Ashley is very cute, but I choose to ignore her blog persona as I find it interferes with my ability to enjoy her videoed sexual degradations to their fullest. This sort of gallows porn humor shtick, as embodied by folks like blog Ashley and Anthony Malice, seems to me just another tired way for the production end to detatch themselves from and obfuscate the issue, much like the militaristic use of Strangelovian Whorespeak. As a pathological consumer of this monstrous garbage, I can say with authority that pornography is very serious, very sad, very soberly marvelous business and humor does not relate to it at all. I know where the really Ashley Blue is. It's in her nervous laughter when she says "I'm here to get gagged by a couple of dicks" during her pre-interview in 'Throatgaggers'. It's in that dazed look she has after Brendan Irons spits in her face, rubs it in, and slaps her in that one 'Serviced Animals'. It's in her self destructive, go for broke,frenzied self loathing she exhibits in '7 the Hard Way'. And if it isn't in any of those moments, it is the world that's wrong, not me.

What's Happening?

I get this email:

I work at a straight, mid-size porn company. The other day, a strange call came in asking about our 2257 records. The caller asked to speak with our custodian of records and verified the record keepers name, company address and business hours. Our owner refused to speak to the person and instructed us to tell them he wasn't available. A friend of mine also received a similar call at another company (but the owner spoke with the person, I think). Do you know of anyone else who received similar calls? After the call, the mood around the office was tense, especially our owner who quickly left for the day. All of it was very suspicious and has never happened before. What exactly is happening?

A pornographer writes me:

I received the same call and I had nothing to hide so I spoke to them yet my lawyers answer was to not allow them to see anything without a supoena even though we're not hiding anything. The only thing they were interested in was Skeeter Kerkove material. They flat out said it was only about seeing valid ID's to make sure no underage girls were used in any of Skeeter's productions.

What Happened To Nude Model Angela Devi?

It's been alleged on Wikipedia that "she was found by her best friend on the morning of April 2nd 2006 in her garage. Apparently she committed suicide by hanging although there has been nothing official in the local press as yet."

Blogcritics on Angela Devi.

I'll Be On VH1's Hollywood Blackmail Special Monday 9pm

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, people will do anything to infiltrate the world of the Hollywood elite. But for some, getting inside that sacred circle isn't just about seeking autographs and snapshots of their favorite stars. They're searching for a shakedown.

In VH1 News Presents: Hollywood Blackmail, VH1 News goes inside the shadow world of extortionists and con-men who prey on the rich and famous. And we show what celebs are doing to protect themselves from being victimized.

How do potential blackmailers infiltrate the celebrity world? How can a trusted employee become a celebrity's worst nightmare? How does a sexual dalliance turn into the ultimate "dangerous liason"?

Celebs ranging from Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, celebutante Paris Hilton, singer Celine Dion & husband Rene Angelil, and Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley have all been targeted by greedy predators looking to score a buck.

Holly Randall Captures The Inner Beauty Of Justine Joli (Pic) And Kimberly Kane (Pic)

HollyRandall: hey would you like to see my photos from the content exchange day with Kimberly and Justine?
HollyRandall: you know, the ones "any idiot could have shot" according to my best friend on XPT Luke: yes, those ones
HollyRandall: ok i'm sending two at a time
Luke: you make me a happy man
HollyRandall: liar
Luke: How do you capture such beauty?
HollyRandall: oh shush
Luke: I particularly like the Justine one
HollyRandall: Taboo actually just bought it because they really needed a fetish single girl
HollyRandall: it was really short set but they took it anyhow
HollyRandall: so of course i'm giving Justine some extra money
HollyRandall: i'm so surprised i had no plans to try and sell anything that day
HollyRandall: these are just short internet sets, you know?
Luke: How do you keep all your shots in focus?
HollyRandall: more than 15 years experience?
HollyRandall: and an autofocus camera?
HollyRandall: Keep in mind these aren't color-corrected perfectly yet-- Amber does that, I just throw these up on my site quickly.

Hillary Scott Goes On Howard Stern May 11

She stopped by the JM Offices Tuesday.

Riley Shy

This stunning redhead made about ten movies under blonde hair and the name Bambi for PlatinumX/Redlight.

Her MySpace.

Riley was repped by LADirectModels until a few days ago.

About seven months ago, she did a scene for Vince Voyeur. She was supposed to get $1100 but got a check for $1000. She complained. They acknowledged the error. They told her to send back the $1000 check and they'll send her the new one.

Riley told them she had lost the check. So they wrote her a check for $1100 and put a stop-payment on the $1000 check.

A stop-payment only lasts six months.

After six months, the $1,000 check was cashed.

Peter writes: "The reason that stop pays are only good for 6 months is because checks are only good for 6 months. The bank was at fault for paying on a stale check. Although she should not have deposited it as that was fraud the bank screwed up to by paying it."

Riley is prepared to battle it out in court.

I ask Derek at LADirectModels.com why Riley is no longer with his agency. He replies:

She was found to be involved in deliberate check fraud against Vince Voyeur. Once the evidence was irrefutable and she refused to pay back the money stolen we felt we could not continue to work for her. It is very likely that she will be arrested soon. I was not prepared to pay her bond or spend late night hours at police stations. It was her choice and she chose the police and courts rather than stay at Direct.

Suze Randall Unretires

A few weeks ago, Suze shot a model who ballooned up 15 pounds from the time she'd taken polaroids. Suze got mad, threw a fit, shot the single girl and made Chris (Thomas Rifter) shoot the boy-girl.

Suze swore she'd never shoot again.

But Suze came back to porn Tuesday and had a good time shooting Dragon Lilly, who's with LADirectModels like most of the girls Suze and Holly shoot.

Dragon Lilly is Hawaiin. She's nice. She's fun. She's a vegan. She has an accent. People mistake her for being English or Australian but she's just Hawaiin.

Luke: I'm sure these guys would love to bang you
HollyRandall: That's sweet
Luke: and if there's anything I can do facilitate that
Luke: you were well brought up, you have better manners than me usually
HollyRandall: so we found out what was wrong with the mailing list
HollyRandall: We tried to combine the suze.net and suzevideo mailing lists
Luke: please check the top of my site about your mom
HollyRandall: so only one mailer would have to go out and we could promote both sites in it
HollyRandall: uh oh why
HollyRandall: oh that's fine
HollyRandall: how about replacing "got so mad" with "had a really tough shoot and got so exasperated"
Luke: no, that's crap writing, she got mad
HollyRandall: you just like to be brutal
Luke: your mom gets mad, not exasperated
HollyRandall: she gets both
HollyRandall: anyhow it was the combination of the mailers-- suze.net people couldn't unsubscribe
HollyRandall: so of course we separated the mailers again so it shouldn't be a problem anymore
HollyRandall: i KNEW there was something wrong!
HollyRandall: it was just a technical error
HollyRandall: which i got fixed right away
HollyRandall: whew thank goodness
HollyRandall: i hate it when stuff like that happens
HollyRandall: It honestly was really bothering me
HollyRandall: and i especially don't like being publicly accused of "lifting" people's email addresses from all over the place
Luke: I still dont understand how someone who is not on either mailer would suddenly get suze.net spam?
HollyRandall: he must've been on the mailer somehow
HollyRandall: there's no other explanation
HollyRandall: see how you can add yourself to the mailing list at the bottom of the guest pages? http://www.suze.net/tour1.html
HollyRandall: perhaps that's what he did
HollyRandall: otherwise i wouldn't know how to explain it
Luke: i praised you too highly in the book
HollyRandall: i come out looking perfect
Luke: the first of many books on you
Luke: I've spilled a lot of seed over you, and written many pages, somewhere in that soggy mess is a compliment to you.
HollyRandall: and thank you for that compliment, as buried as i may be under the constant accusations that i'm drunk
HollyRandall: there were moments that i was quite flattered
HollyRandall: but of course there were moments when i was thinking "what the ---- did he just write about me?"

High-Resolution Photos With Releases

I'm putting together my best interviews in a book tentatively titled: Lives on the Edge: Porn Stars.

Does anyone have photos (with releases) of the following that I could use in my book? I will credit you for the photos in the book. While I can not pay you for your contributions, please know that your reward will be immense in the world to come:

* Brooke Ashley * Marc Wallice * Kimberly Jade * Kevin Beechum * Farrah * Asia Carrera * Lynn LeMay * Alex Sanders * J.D. Ram * Earl Slate * Tony Eveready * Johnny Castano * Buck Adams * Gen Padova * Violet Blue * Friday * Mason * Ryan Conner * Kami Andrews * Scott Fayner * Veronica Lynn * Eva Angelina * Crystal Klein * Regina Lynn * Lori Wagner * Lizzy * Josh Alan Friedman * Tatum Reed * Avy Lee Roth * Gill Reavill * Penny Porsche * Genesis Skye * Mr. Johnson * Tone Capone * Chloe Jones * Larry Schwarz * Mika Tan * Ashley Blue * Mary Carey * Tom Sizemore * Joanna Angel * Jennifer James * Ericka Lockett * Holly Randall

I don't want any nudity. I suppose I can crop it out to get a nice head shot.

LADirectModels.com Girl Vixen Hurt During Scene

She was working Wednesday with Tony Eveready for director Jim Lane. There were at least four girls looking on during the scene, says Tony.

During the scene, the girl said her jaw hurt.

Tony: "I don't know what's going on with that. We were doing the scene. The girl says she got hurt. We stopped the scene. They've gone over the footage. Where she said she got hit, she never even got hit. I was doing my job. She was doing her job. Nobody was trying to hurt nobody. When she said she was hurt, we stopped."

She got sent to Dr. Riggs.

Mike South's Girlfriend Giga In Genesis Magazine's August Issue

A great honor. "I like it when the girls do it for fun," says Mike. "That's my trademark."

David writes: "Can you ask Mike how much he is paying Giga monthly to be his girlfriend? What does a hot young girl like see in a old wrinkly man like Mike? I didn't know social security paid that well for him to afford someone like Giga."

Mike responds: "Now why old David wanna be hating? I know why -- cuz I turn down better girls than he wil ever get.

"David...Not to worry, you aren't my type. You'd be better suited for Kurt Lockwood or someone anyway. Don't be sweatin it though. Maybe someday I will write a book and explain to the clueless masses what it is they don't understand about chicks that I do. Till then, yer on yer own."

Nothing New With Khan Tusion

MikeSouth.com reports: "I just heard from a friend that the DOJ has gone after Khan Tusion bigtime, including confiscating his Limosine."

I call Khan. He says this is not true. He offers to take me for a ride in his limo. I decline.

This witch hunt must stop NOW

Consenting adults expressing their sexuality in a consensual manner. What's the big deal?

Fred writes: "At last! A form of sexual entertainment approved by Andrea Dworkin!"

Prosecutor: While cameras rolled, N.C. trio castrated willing men.

Erik Everhard - Red Light District Legal Shufflings

Erik Everhard sent me the following which the RLD lawyer says is misleading:

On March 21, 2006 World Wide Red Light District dismissed its lawsuit against Erik Everhard Entertainment Inc., and its founder Mitchell Hartwell with prejudice and reimbursed Erik Everhard Entertainment, Inc., half of its costs regarding answering the Complaint. Erik Everhard Entertainment Inc. is still pursuing its action against World Wide Red Light District for (1) Breach of Contract, (2) Conversion, (3) Claim and Delivery, (4) Accounting and (5) Unfair competition. Erik Everhard Entertainment, Inc. is confident in its claims against World Wide Red Light District.

Ray Tamaddon, General Counsel for World Wide Red Light District, Inc. writes: "Luke, Everhard’s statements are absolutely misleading. What happened was a strictly procedural re-shuffling of the cases. Red Light agreed to dismiss its separate case against Everhard. However, Red Light re-filed the same claims against Everhard as cross-claims in Everhard’s action. Everhard now has to respond to those claims."

Tyler Houston Interview

She calls me back at 3:54 p.m. April 11.

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Tyler, 26: "A doctor."

Luke: "At what age did you develop an erotic interest in boys or girls?"

Tyler: "I wasn't curious until I was about 17. Late start, huh? I had a strict family. Roman Catholic. They didn't let me out of the house until I was 18, but once I moved out, I went crazy.

"I lost my virginity at 17, almost 18. I snuck out of the house.

"The first time was interesting, painful."

Luke: "What age did you sprout breasts?"

Tyler: "I was in sixth grade and I had Ds."

Luke: "Did you get teased?"

Tyler: "Yeah. Nobody in my school had big boobs and I had these huge jugs. People looked at me weird so I liked to wear these huge clothes."

Luke: "Were guys always trying to touch them?"

Tyler: "No, that was younger when they'd look up the dress and stuff."

Luke: "Why do you like doggie so much?"

Tyler: "Because I can get a vibrator on my clit. It's a lot easier than any other position. It's less work for me. I can be lazy."

Luke: "Do you like to be lazy most of the time when you have sex?"

Tyler: "No. No. Yes.

"My legs get tired in cowgirl or reverse. Doggie is easy."

Luke: "Why do you live in [Dallas] Texas?"

Tyler: "I don't know. I ask myself that every day when I wake up. It's an awful state. Nobody likes the industry. When people ask me what I do, I'm like, ehh. Usually I say, 'Oh, I model.'

"What do you model? 'Clothes, you know.' In my head, I'm thinking, 'I don't model anything at all. I model dicks inside my pussy.'

"I started posing naked when I was 20. I got introduced to the Adult industry at 21. I've gone off and on in the industry. I've only done 20-something scenes.

"I love the porn parties. I love the people. No matter who you're are, you're accepted.

"I don't like the new companies coming in that are not reputable and are not nice to the talent. I don't dig some of the stuff that is starting to occue, such as scat."

Luke: "How did your family react when they found out you did porn?"

Tyler: "My mother and stepfather still talk to me. They don't like it. My grandparents, my aunts and my uncles cast me out. They don't talk to me anymore."

Luke: "Do you sometimes wonder if [porn] was worth the aggravation and loss of relationships?"

Tyler: "If I wouldn't have gone into the Adult industry, I'd probably look back and wonder if that was something I could've been good at. Even if I had gone to med school and become a doctor. I don't look back and frown upon my family turning their backs on me or the friends I had who disagree with this lifestyle and will no longer come around me. If people can't accept me for the choices I've made, I don't need them around."

Luke: "What does it mean to be good at the Adult industry?"

Tyler: "To make a lot of money and to enjoy what you're doing. I enjoy the fans that I've made and the emails I get from people who enjoy watching my stuff."

Luke: "What do you like about having sex with strange men and women on camera?"

Tyler: "I look down the road and I like to think about people getting off to my videos. I'm an exhibitionist."

Luke: "The power."

Tyler: "Yeah."

Luke: "The attention."

Tyler: "I love the attention. I enjoy getting noticed when I'm out and about."

Luke: "Did you get a lot of attention when you were a kid?"

Tyler: "Yes. I was an attention-seeker. I was usually the one everyone was watching because I usually had something entertaining going on. I enjoy having an audience."

Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Tyler: "I didn't really have a crowd. I was an art geek. I hung out at home and painted. I didn't have a lot of friends. The ones I had, I didn't see much. When I graduated, I was a loner. A lot of people knew of me. Now a lot of people know of me because of porn.

"I was sheltered. My mom didn't let me out to do things. I wasn't able to party with all my friends on the weekends. I had a 10 p.m. curfew. If I were to move home now, I'd have a midnight curfew."

Luke: "How has working in the adult industry affected your love life?"

Tyler: "It doesn't because I don't have a love life. I choose not to be in a relationship. I get bored easily. It's hard for me to settle down. Being in the Adult industry, a lot of guys don't accept that. I guess it would be easier to date somebody within the industry. But then you look ahead to when you're getting out of the industry and a lot of the guys in the industry don't look ahead as far as college, etc... I don't think I'll get into a relationship as long as I am in the business.

"I usually have to get out of the business if I get serious about someone."

Tyler last had a relationship two years ago. "I had quit three months prior. Then I decided to quit completely once the HIV outbreak came out [in April 2004].

"Then I decided to come back."

Luke: "Have you tried to hide it from somebody you were dating?"

Tyler: "From my parents. I don't feel that it is any of their business to know what I'm doing to make a living. My dad seems to always catch me. I've even changed my name to hide it from my parents. But they've found every stage name I've shot under.

"Dating a porn star might be a fantasy for many men, but once it becomes a reality it is no longer something they fantasize about.

"The last guy, we were talking engagement. He said, 'I'm not sure I want you cheating on solo and girl-girl anymore.'

"I don't see a future for me with marriage, children, and the American family dream.

"The world is chaotic. I'd hate to bring a child into this world."

Luke: "Are you glad to be in this world?"

Tyler: "If I could've been born in the 1920s, that would've been more enjoyable. Or the 1960s.

"There's killing everywhere. Things are going crazy."

Luke: "But I bet you are still glad you're alive and here?"

Tyler: "Yeah. I wish it was safe for a child to go out on their bicycle down the street and for there to be no worries about some stranger picking them up and raping them and killing them and throwing them into a ditch. It's a mad world out here."

Luke: "Are you going to do anything to clean it up and make it a better world?"

Tyler: "That would be me against the world. I can't conquer the whole world."

Luke: "We've all got to do something to make a better world."

Tyler: "I shoot porn."

Luke: "How does that make the world better?"

Tyler: "That's a good point. I don't know."

Luke: "It keeps rapists off the street because they are home masturbating."

Tyler: "Exactly."

We laugh.

Tyler: "It also probably causes a lot of divorces."

Luke: "Have you had relationships with people in the industry?"

Tyler: "No.

"Being in the South is like being in a whole nother country. They've got real issues with porn. There's a judge in Dallas who canned [gave him maximum time] a guy who owned three porn shops. 'Do you realize that this is somebody's sister? Somebody else's cousin?' It's obvious the judge had a daughter.

"Everybody frowns upon it here. I don't know why. Everybody is so Christian."

Tyler writes for freakhole.com.

Tyler: "After the first scene I shot, I didn't come back for a while. I had a company that ripped me off for $1,500. Extreme Associates. They still owe me $1,500. They released the movie with my scene in it and I never got a dime from them.

"I was repped by Reb at PGI. He said, 'I don't know what to tell you.'

"Eventually I decided [porn] another chance."

Nate writes: "The problem for her is that she is in the wrong part of Texas. If she lived in Austin, or anywhere close to me, people would love her. She would totally be a celebrity in my hometown."

Thought For The Day - Tyce Bune

The Return Of Dakota Cameron

A source writes: "Dakota in NOT out of porn. She got a really bad infection around the incision of her most recent augmentation. The doctor informed her that it was from shooting to early & not allowing the wound enough time to heal properly. She has every intention of returning to the scene."

The New Girl

Amalek writes: "Once again, somewhere a Jewish woman is shedding tears for the eggs Jewish men like Luke choose to ignore."

Khunrum writes: "Those tears would no doubt dry up rather quickly if she took a quick spin around The Hovel Luke will be moving her into after the, ahhhhh! lucky gal says "I Do." She'd be out the door and back to the Jewish Professional Singles Mixers (Heeb Hops) in no time flat."

Holly writes: "This girl is doing all these sexy poses in different outfits in front of a crib? Is she trying to communicate something or there is no other background in her house? Did the baby take the pics? Just curious..."

Kelly Steele Saves UK Porn?

She's started up a site (with her husband Hamilton) about the industry at theukhardcore.com. It's ruffling feathers.

Heather Veitch Debates Tristan Taormino On CNBC's The Big Idea

It plays at 7pm and 10pm PST Tuesday.

Heather took up most of the airtime talking about how most strippers feel degraded by their work.

The host said all the strippers he spoke to were empowered by stripping and they were using the money for college and to start businesses.

Heather says that those are typical lines strippers throw out to customers to make them feel better about spending their money on lap dances, etc.

Novelist Rebecca Goldstein - The Mind-Body Problem

She has a PhD in philosophy but is a terrific writer.

I interview her Tuesday.

Retard of the Day

Jim South Jr posts:

Guy comes in asks if we are Vivid. We explain to him who we are what we do. He then asks for Vivid's address and is told we do not give out clients numbers to any Joe off the street.

Guy starts in with how a "on the street recruiter for Vivid" approached him while he was pumping gas. Showed him a bunch a pictures, said he's got the look and needs to see his goods. The guy dropped his drawers in the gas station. Then they go to the parking lot to discuss things further. The recruiter asks if he can blow him! Then someone referred him to us!

Lucky me. So someone is running around with a bunch of porn pictures asking to blow guys today. Gotta love the valley.

Rapper Proof Killed

I think Proof came to Porn Star Karaoke a couple of times?

From ABCNews.com:

DETROIT Apr 11, 2006 (AP)— Proof, a member of rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was shot to death early Tuesday at a nightclub along Eight Mile, the road made famous by the 2002 film that starred Eminem and in which Proof had a bit part.

The death of Proof (real name Deshaun Holton) was confirmed by Dennis Dennehy, the publicist for D12's label, Interscope Records, as well as by Detroit police spokesman James Tate.

Time For Jenna Jameson To Rest

She blogs:

The partying has now subsided...thanks be to god, because I almost couldn't take anymore. I now have caught the sniffles... must be from being half naked all night on saturday at Hefs Bday party... What a blast, though! It was worth a thousand people staring at my ass all night. I don't how perfect your ass is, you never want people staring at it for a time period longer than a glance. Trust me! Anyway, can you believe I only took 1 pic? It was with Pars' Hilton, so I will post that later today... But, if you go to www.playboy.com -- you will see my video shout out to Hef and a pic of me and Kendra! I am going to go rest and wipe my little nose.

Rob Longshot's re-integration with society

Tony Malice posts on XPT:

Ok, we decided to ban Rob Longshot to help give him that extra push to really work at becoming a part of the general population again. Sure, he has said he is leaving XPT, but we have heard that before.

Maybe if we can stop being his 'enablers' he will be able to became a fully employed, self reliant, functional adult. Maybe he really will move to Europe now, where his bisexuality and odd hairstyles will be more openly accepted. At least if we don't hear from him again, we can all imagine our own Utopian ideal for what finally became of him.

This is the best solution for everyone.

Nina Hartley Injured

She writes on Nina.com April 7:

On Friday, the day before three days of shooting, I was running errands for Ernest: wash the car, pick up some props, pick up some costumes, etc. I was running across the street to get the car from the car wash when my sneaker caught on a rough patch of pavement. WHAM! Down I went, right onto my right shoulder. Owowowowowowowowowowo. Did I mention ow? It hurt like a mother----er, and it still does, a week later. Luckily for me, nothing was broken or dislocated (I had to do a whipping scene on Sunday), but it still totally sucks. No pain meds touched it, so I've been going without. Ugh.

Nina writes April 6:

There was a wider range of ages permitted in the '80's and '90's, I think. Now, the emphasis is on newnewnew, youngyoungyoung. Young is good, but I always got so angry that they wouldn't use me with the younger women. Pull in both audiences that way: the Nina fans and those who prefer the unknown performer. It was always a head scratcher, that.

Putting two new, young women together makes for a weak scene, as no one knows the drill. It never made sense to me. Still a bit tweaked over that one, actually.

I'm working next month for Girlfriends Films, and will have a good time there, and am doing another Syrens of Sex this month. One scene with Jada Fire and one scene with two young men. Life is tough!

Things were different when I started. Mainly, the "formula" hadn't been created yet, so there was a lot more spontaneity in a scene: you ----ed in a position for as long as you wanted and then moved to the next one, until the director said that you were done.

Now, it goes like this:

oral one way: 3.5 minutes each, hard and soft
oral the other way: 3.5 minutes, ditto
vaginal position one: 3.5 minutes, ditto
vaginal position two: 3/5 minutes, ditto
anal position one (if applicable): 3.5 minutes (no soft core)
anal position two (ditto): 3.5 minutes (ditto)

Plus stopping for stills after each position. That's for features. In gonzo, they're not much different, but they'll do all the positions up to the pop shot, and then stop and go back and get stills for each positon (better remember what they were!). It gets boring, certainly. The sheer expansion of the available talent pool over the past 20 years is something else, too. From about 50-100 performers (full and part time) in '84, to a thousand now. It's much harder for a person to stand out from the crowd. The star system is pretty much dying: there will be no more Jenna Jamesons, I'm afraid.

Derrick Pierce responds:

While I certainly respect her position in the biz, I have to disagee. I don't think that the majority of the talent is interested in being Jenna in reference to level of popularity. I am positive that almost everyone would like to have her financial success. I think, in my VERY limited time, that most are doing the biz to make quick money & then move on. There are not many performers who have the desire to put in the time & effort it takes to become that successful. Its not that it can't be done, that much is for sure. If that were the case, then why do we have more than just one megastar mainstream actor/actress? Time & patience. Two attrbutes that are not commonplace in this biz.

Are Illegal Mexican Immigrants Taking Porn Jobs From Americans?

I don't think so.

Khunrum writes: "Are they knocking down wages? Do American highschool drop-out porn gals have to receive concussion-inducing Donkey Punches at reduced prices? And Luke, where are your perks? Richard Johnson from Page Six just married Baroness Von Somebody on a yacht courtesy of the Girls Gone Wild crew, whilst you are sharing a rice milk with Holly in your hovel. Isn't there anyone you can sell out to and make a buck?"

Whatever Happened To Sabrina Johnson?

Bill writes:

I often wondered what happened to Brit porn star Sabrina Johnson, long legged beauty who made some pretty radical videos in this country in the 90's, including one in which she apparently took on 2000 men in a gangbang video. She made a tape in Antwerp a couple of years ago for Patrick Collins, and then dropped off the radar.

Here's what she's doing now, according to her Belgian website. She offers an "elegant personal service." I quote from the site: "PISS AND SCAT -- I can use you as my personal toilet, or, alternatively, you can use me. I love to have your piss and ---- all over me. I even take it in the mouth. KINKY SCAT PARTIES -- Limited to six guys only. Pissing in mouth, ---- smearing, and eating, etc. ---- in my mouth and ---- it until you come."

This is an elegant looking woman, beautiful face and long legs, who only used to do a lot of anal, DP, double anal, and the occasional massive gang bang. I guess those were the good old days, when she was shy.

Whatever Happened To Krystal Steal?

She was a Club Jenna contract girl. Then she disappeared before the January show. What's happened to her?

Jan writes:

I do recall seeing her photo on the Bellamodels.com prostitution site before the New Year. On Jenna's blog, she said that Krystal did not show up in October for the AVN promo photo shoot. Her Dad called and said,"Krystal is sick." On one of Jay's first MySpace blogs, he described Krystal as 'very flaky' and that was mid summer last year. So obviously, there were already problems. Krystal has numerous strip club appearances scheduled.

Maybe Jenna and Krystal had some sort of falling out? They seemed liked best friends a year or so ago. Now, McKenzie Lee and Jenna are really close.

Krystal was the highest paid Club Jenna girl. Jenna had big plans for her.. she totally wanted to hand off the throne to Krystal.. now, it looks like McKenzie may be getting it.

Krystal lives in Orange County.

I also thought that Club Jenna may have tried to 'push' her limits and she didn't like it. Like getting her to do more scenes that what she was contracted to do for the same price... That happens alot to girls in the biz. But for Jenna to go back and cut her out of a film is pretty dramatic.. There has to be some sort of overwhelming emotion behind that and I doubt that they are positive. To me, its like when there's a divorce in a family and the half that leaves the home gets their faces cut out of all the family photos.

Whatever Happened To Dakota Cameron?

I believe she's out of porn. She never liked it. She owes Derek at LA Direct a lot of money for her two breast implant surgeries.

Holly's Worst Day Ever

Holly: how did the blue shirt work out for you?
Luke: I have not worn it yet
Luke: the one time I was going to, I did not know what to wear with it
Luke: I don't know if my dark slacks are blue or black
Luke: I went to the most stupid church
Luke: I was going to wear your shirt with my black jeans, but they have a huge rip in the crotch and I figured that was inappropriate for church
Holly: i had the worst day ever

Ceara Lynch Interview

She calls me back Monday afternoon.

Luke: "Why did you get fired from your job at the porn shop?"

Ceara: "I was renting out porn under my name because I got free rentals.

"We met Ashley Blue walking to the convention [in Vegas in January]. She thought Cassandra and I were cool and invited us to hang out with her.

"I always wanted to be in Barely Legal. I sent a picture to Fox magazine because I liked the magazine. I wrote a little letter to Jill Kelly and got published.

"When I was in LA [two weeks ago], I did two shoots for Dave Naz, one for Barely Legal.

"I've been into sex since I was a teenager. I was well educated in sex. I went on a porn binge. It got boring."

Luke: "What part of being in porn most appeals to you?"

Ceara: "The money and the attention.

"I just stood there with a pen in Las Vegas and signed autographs."

Ceara measures 34C-26-36. She started smoking marijuana at 16. She now smokes every day, sometimes five times a day.

Luke: "How does your boyfriend feel about your desire to be in porn?"

Ceara laughs. "He's nervous. He's been supportive up to this point. Yeah, he's worried. He thinks I want to do more.

"Cassandra is my only female friend. She's expressed some concerns. I think she'd tell me I'm ruining my life. But if I still decide to do it, it wouldn't affect our friendship."

Luke: "How would your parents react?"

Ceara: "They'd kill me. They'd be heart-broken. I got kicked out of the house for working at a porn shop.

"That's the number one reason I don't pull the trigger and go for it."

Ceara says she's a straight-A student at college. "I hate my job [at a supermarket].

Sierra Sinn Interview

Da Burglar emails:

1a) Ok Sierra, you are Porn's most lovable, sexy Stoner, your love of pot and porn is well known (and respected.) Everyone wants to know, does Pot REALLY enhance sexual pleasure or does it just make it easier to do porn?

Sierra Sinn: ****I AM A FIRM BELIEVER THAT MARIJUANA IS THE BEST THING TO ENHANCE ANYTHING. IT JUST PUTS ME IN THE PERFECT MOOD FOR ANYTHING. I DONT THINK IT MAKES PORN ANY EASIER, I MEAN A DICK IN THE ASS IS A DICK IN THE ASS NO MATTER HOW MUCH POT YOU SMOKE, YA DIG?

1b) Where does the best Pot come from, in your expert opinion? Sierra Sinn:

****I PREFER TO BUY MY WEED AT A PHARMACY, I HAVE A PRESCRIPTION SO IT IS LEGAL FOR ME TO BUY IT. THEY HAVE A WIDE VARIETY OF STRANDS AND EVEN EDIBLES....JUST THE OTHER DAY I HAD A VERY SPECIAL TREAT....A MARSHMELLOW WRAPPED IN GRAHM CRACKER DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE, THAT HAD WEED IN IT, SO IT CURED MY MUNCHIES AND MADE ME HAPPY.

1c) Do you think more girls in porn use Pot (or harder substances) to dull the physical pain of many of the things they are asked to do in porn films, or to ease the boredom of life in General? Feel free to share why you think Pot should be legalized too....

Sierra Sinn: ***I HOPE THAT I NEVER GET TO A POINT WHERE I AM USING MARIJUANA AS A CRUTCH. IT IS SAD THAT SOME OF THEESE GIRLS FEEL THAT THEY NEED TO BE OUT OF IT, TO BE IN IT (PORN) .... I MEAN, I LIKE TO BE AWARE OF THE THINGS GOING ON AROUND ME. I LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN MY SCENES. FOR ME POT IS LEGAL AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GET A PRESCRIPTION, FIGHT FOR THE CAUSE YOU KNOW.

...Sierra Sinn: ****GOD BLESS JENNA AND HER BLOW UP DOLL....YEAH IF SOMEONE WANTED TO MODEL A DOLL AFTER ME I WOULD JUMP AT THE CHANCE!!! AND I WOULD HOPE THAT MY FANS WOULD RUN OUT AND BUY IT SO THEY COULD ---- THE ---- OUT OF ME ON A REGULAR BASIS. OR RIDE WITH IT IN THEIR CAR WHEN THEY WANT TO TAKE THE CARPOOL LANE.....MAYBE THEY COULD MAKE A DELUXE EDITION WITH EXTRA NECK SUPPORT FOR THE DONKEY PUNCH FANS....OR A WATER PROOF VERSION FOR THE GOLDEN SHOWERS AND SWIRLIE FANS, HAHAHHA!!! HOPEFULLY CLEANUP WOULD NOT INVOLVE RIPPING MY HEAD OFF TO GET ALL THE CUM OUT OF MY BELLY HAHAHA !!

-- Would the doll have a bong as an accessory? Would you want your doll to be a stoner too?

Sierra Sinn: ****YEAH MY DOLL WOULD DEFINITELY BE A STONER, WITH ITS OWN CANABIS BUYERS CARD HAHAHA AND MATCHING BONG!!!

By The Way, What do you actually think of the travesty and crime against womanhood that is DONKEY Punching, and would you ever allow yourself personally to be Donkey Punched during a scene?

Sierra Sinn: YEAH I WOULD. I MEAN HEY WE ALL HAVE OUR THINGS THAT TURN US ON...I HAVE BEEN DONKEY PUNCHED IN MY PERSONAL LIFE AND IT WAS KINDA FUNNY...WHEN HE DID IT, HE PUNCHED MY HEAD INTO THE HEAD BOARD SO I GOT HIT FROM THE BACK AND THEN SMACKED MY FOREHEAD OFF THE HEAD BOARD...IT WAS HILLARIOUS!

6a) Do you ever feel like you are being used by the Adult Industry to your detriment, or do you think you are using the Adult Industry to better yourself?

Sierra Sinn: ***DEFINITELY BETTER MYSELF....I AM HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER THAN EVER AND I LOOK AMAZING....I AM CLOSER TO MY FAMILY THAN EVER AND JUST ALL AROUND HAPPY. BEFORE PORN I WAS ----ED UP....HAHAHA PORNO SAVED MY LIFE!

7) Once you are no longer performing in Porn Scenes, What will you be doing to make a living/support yourself? Will you EVER get Married Sierra, and if so, are you more likely to Marry for Love or Money? More likely to marry a man Older than you, or the same age/slightly younger than you?

Sierra Sinn: ****YEAH SOME DAY I WILL PLAY THE HOUSEWIFE ROLE VERY WELL...YEAH I WILL DEFINITELY MARRY AND BE HAPPY. I WONT MARRY FOR MONEY BUT HE BETTER HAVE SOME BECAUSE I AM NOT DOWN FOR SUPPORTING A MAN. AND DEFINITELY OLDER THAN ME, I DONT LIKE TO ---- WITH YOUNGER GUYS, THEY ARE USUALLY ANNOYING AND NOT EXPERIENCED.

Why Jim South (World Modeling) Hates His Job

Junior writes:

Guy comes in to RE-register. As in he has worked before. He goes in the back and proceeds to "get ready". Meaning get "it" up for the picture.

A friggen hour goes by. I get up to go out for a smoke and it smells like candy perfume. Think what the hell? and go outside. Come back in and it's even more overwhelming. I forgot about the guy in the back! He is sitting there still wacking off with some kind of candy lube that is stinking the whole office up and has made no progress!

So he has me take a pic of him pinching it off so to speak and asks me if I think this picture will work! If you can't get it up by yourself in a room, you're not going to be able to do it front of a crew! Hence you will NOT get hired!

I will not be eating any type of candy for a week now.

What Could've Been

Thursday night at the XBiz party, I'm chatting with my devoted 22-year old reader Cristina from SugarDVD.

Cristina, Sugar DVD owner Jack Cristina, Jack Cristina, Jack Cristina, Jack Sunny Lane, Cristina Sunny Lane, Cristina

She was to visit the Museum of Tolerance Sunday. She teased me with an invitation to lunch. We practically had our lives planned together.

Then I teased her about her tattoos and piercings and that was the end of it. As quickly as it had begun, the magic left our relationship.

Novelist Mark O'Neill sends in these pictures from the XBiz party: Sue Sue collage LA Direct Models

Holly or Bangladesh

Jane: How are things with promoting SugarDVD? Its a good program
Luke: they just pay me a set fee every month
Jane: You should be a gay escort, you could make more money
Jane: Would you be willing to accept payment for letting gay guys orally service you? You could just close your eyes and pretend its a girl
Jane: You could make more in the Sugar DVD affiliate program. All you have to do is link up the porn star names to their movies
Jane: its very easy
Luke: The road to hell is easy.
Luke: what's new with you?
Jane: Well, the search engine have changed algorithms and they making it much, much harder to get good listings
Jane: Its the equivalent of the big search engine shakeout of '99-00
Jane: It means a bunch more work now..
Jane: I am not happy at all
Luke: laid lately?
Jane: no, I really haven't gotten time for thr dick hunt, I really have to do some SEO stuff because of the changes
Jane: I have a lifestyle to support
Luke: Is that more important than love?
Luke: Don't end up like me.
Jane: I have some mainstream stuff in the works that might make me my financial nest egg
Jane: I just want a big payout, like Gary Kremen
Jane: Do you ever regret selling LukeFord.com?
Jane: I think you could have gotten more than 25k for it
Jane: because you totally branded that site
Jane: it was part of the mainstream conscious
Jane: What are you going to do about retirement?
Luke: Hawaii
Jane: you're moving there for retirement? It's awfully expensive you know
Luke: maybe mexico or bangladesh
Jane: and you'll just live off Social Security?
Luke: No, I'll marry money
Jane: Holly?
Luke: yeah
Jane: you need to be nicer to her and give her flowers
Luke: Holly or Bangladesh

The Ballad Of Kitty Tyler

Felicia Fox's old man Tim Case emails:

There's a brand new girl coming out -- she'll be in town April the 18th. She is very pretty, from Lima, Ohio, and a good friend of Felicia Fox's. She'll be booking through Drew at Nasty Modeling. She worked at a school until recently, and was asked to resign because the school went behind her back, read her emails, and realized she was going to break into hardcore porn. Her name is Kitty Tyler. You should interview her. She has done two scenes at this point, a BJ scene for Felicia Fox's upcoming Old Pueblo DVD "Felicia's First Timers", and a bukkake shoot for Mike South's website www.southernbukkake.com.

I had to think long and hard before I picked up the phone and dialed the number Tim provided. I didn't want to facilitate the destruction of Kitty's soul by showcasing her on lukeisback before an audience of slavering pornographers. In the end, I decided to use my phone call as a pretext to mounting a moral intervention. When the girl comes to LA, she must stay at the hovel and I will set her straight.

First, I have to make friends.

I dial. I get her man. I ask to speak to Kitty. She comes on the line.

Our connection is not good. I have to explain who I am a few times. The ballad of Your Moral Leader is not sung much in Ohio.

Kitty: "I had someone call in and say to the superintendent that I had been a stripper and they were disappointed the school would employ somebody who had immoral values.

"I worked as a dancer only on Friday night [she started stripping at age 20 in October 2003]. Otherwise I worked at the school.

"I love dancing. I want to go into the porn industry to become a feature dancer and travel around the world doing what I want to do."

Luke: "How's your family going to react when they find out you're a porn star?"

Kitty: "I'm hoping not too badly. I'm sure it is going to be shocking for them. I feel that my family has always been supportive of me and that they love me enough to stand behind me no matter what I do."

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Kitty: "A dancer."

Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Kitty: "I was in color guard. I twirled flags. I was in band."

Luke: "Were you cute in highschool?"

Kitty: "My boyfriend was mean to me. He was one of the popular ones and he was always picking on me. He says that I'm now smoking hot now. 'If you had looked like that in highschool, I wouldn't have picked on you.'"

Luke: "Is porn and dancing revenge?"

Kitty: "Oh yeah. Definitely."

To Glorify God

Eric writes: "I stumbled upon your site by accident over the weekend and have read lots and lots of interesting facts and trivia, but what is the reason for its existence? I feel I might be missing something."

Lukeisback is a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel.

Scott writes:

Your site is awesome! I hope this email finds you well and in good spirits. I was thinking of hiring a girl from LA Direct and shooting a scene on standard def and cutting it together. I am student filmmaker. Could you tell me that if it had any artistic merit that I could sell it to a distributor? Use it as a reel to get production work? Or, would it be better to build a site and library around that? Or, just stay a loyal fan and argue 1st Amendment rights, because the biz is too competive? I live in Hollywood. Let me know if I can buy you a bag or a coffee.

Gosh, there's no specific advice I can give you. Just keep googling the topic. Frankly, I don't feel right promoting someone's venture into porn. Consider what it could do to you and your family.

Jim South Jr's First Times

He writes:

How old were you when you first.......

LOST SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU- Sophomore year I basicaly got "punched" out of a group that I had been hanging with since the begining of 9th grade. For most of 10th grade I did not really have to many friends since I alienated the ones I had made in junior high.

DRANK ALCOHOL- I was 15 at Club Med in Istapa Mexico with my mom and brother. Got my first taste then and been drinking since.

SMOKED WEED- 15. John Shinn (name from the past). Was sitting on his bed, he packed me a pipe load of Indica (another name from the past). Took some hits and felt nothing. Stood up and got about 4 flashes of black on my vision. Almost blacked out!

GOT KISSED - 15

GOT STUNG BY A BEE - like 5 or 6 yrs old

WENT TO THE HOSPITAL - Had to be around 1st or 2nd grade. Cracked the back of my head open

GOT YOUR HEART BROKEN - 18 when my girl cheated on me. Has been that way ever since. Forgot to celebrate my 10 year anniversary of being Mr.----edOver

LOST A PET- 3rd grade?

GOT ARRESTED- 23 DUI. Leaving Sage Brush. Was speeding and got pulled. My STONY (SONY) sticker on the window didn't help and my pot leaf belt buckle did not either. THEN they find out what I do for a living and stuck me in the front seat to ask me about the porn stars I know. Friggen cops!

SMOKED A CIGARETTE- 15

BROKE A BONE- NEVER

GOT JUMPED- 19? Spotting in front of a liquor store and one of the guys from my old group of friends from 10th grade pulled up with a carload of people. Didn't see them pull up. Got tapped on the back, turn around and get a full cocked back punch in the mug. lol didn't fall. Most of my buddies there (like 10 of us) just stood there while I got chased. Love old memories

GOT A JOB- 16 at Taco Bell on Rancho and Thousand Oaks Blvd =p

GOT CHEATED ON- 18

CHEATED ON SOMEONE- n/a

GOT A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND- Damn not untill 10th grade! Late bloomer or just a dork?

RODE THE CITY BUS- never

WENT TO A CONCERT- 18 NiN & Univesal

MET SOMEONE FAMOUS- never

GOT IN A CAR CRASH- I believe I was 20 on Thousand Oaks Blvd. Some guy stopped trying to make a left on a one (wrong) way street (his fault) I was messing with my stereo and did not see him (my fault)

DYED YOUR HAIR- Dyed not bleech? I would say 21 I started adding dark blue highlights.

RODE AN AIRPLANE- 5 when I went to Dallas Texas with the fam

WENT TO ANOTHER STATE- 5

Shyla Stylez Flakes (former Jill Kelly Contract Girl)

Scott Preston writes on PornStarPerformance: "I just want to let you all know that Shyla Styles (formerly of JKP) is trying to get back into the business and was a complete no-show, no-call on my set today. She was scheduled a week in advance and gave me a full confirmation the day before. She told me she was so excited, anxious, blah, blah, blah. I believed her and got burned."

Sex As Metaphor

I interviewed sexy novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum Monday morning.

Binnie complains that people can't get past her sex scenes. That they are metaphors for loneliness et al.

She and anyone else with the same complaint don't want to face reality -- that once you introduce sex, that is the primary thing people will think about and remember from your work. Sex as metaphor only works for intellectuals and professional writers. Sex overwhelms everything else when you employ it in your writing or art.

Are the sophisticated readers of lukeisback able to watch porn movies and see them as metaphorical and existential statements about loneliness or are they primarily whack material? Do you look at Holly's beaver pictures on suze.net and contemplate what Holly and the model are trying to communicate? Or do you just imagine that model's vagina clenching around your cock?

Do you guys tend to view your sex as metaphors for loneliness or as another way that you go about communicate? Please discuss.

Have writes on XPT: "Metaphorically representing sex as anything becomes more difficult when in the visual realm, sight is our most powerful sense and sex is such a fundamental part of human nature that subtlety of message is easily lost. This is the reason I dislike features and alt-porn. When you add more than just sex into your porn it becomes just a big waste of time and money."

Bornyo writes:

If as an author you want to use sex as a metaphor you should use the mating of animals or insects to illustrate your point, not sex between attractive human beings.

Most men, if we think about sex at all beyond how to get more, think of it in animalistic terms anyway: "black widows", "donkey punch", "doggie style", etc.

WillieD writes: "When Annette Haven got cast then booted from Brian Depalma's Body Double because of her porn past, I'm sure she was real serious about not wanting the part anyway because her part was "too gory.""

Amalek writes: "Sex has about as much relevancy to my life as does poodle tossing."

Fred writes: "I view sex as a metaphor for existential angst and eternal nothingness. Doesn't everybody?"

Amalek writes: "If I were you, I'd be making more direct deposits at the First National Bank of Holly than there are Mexicans working at Taco Bell in LA."

Robert writes: "Her sex scenes are metaphors for her moral laziness. Nothing more."

Her writes:

I think about boxing, and how on the one hand the real high is the moment and watching individuals who you follow take punishments and dish them out. But the "sport" is only truly compelling because it has an elemental and metaphorical dimension- nothing intellectual, but rather something fuzzily sensed. Metaphors aren't only a literary conceit. Our subconscious breeds them prodigiously, and irritates us with them with no explanation. This is the only way I can account for the troglodytes at JM coming up with those tight, relentless closeups of UPSIDEDOWN female heads submitting inexplicably to preposterously pistoning peni. Is it a metaphor? It has to be, or else I would not be so upset and pulled everywhicha way.

How Will I Know?

How will I know, to quote Whitney Houston, that I've met a woman who's truly interested in my body of work and not just my body?

Khunrum writes: "If you had a body as emaciated as Whitney Houston's she'd be interested only in your money. Since your bank account is always on the lean side and you're proud of your world class miser rep, I have no idea what she'd be interested in?"

John Floofin writes on XPT: "If she cooks dinner nightly and washes your underwear and socks without complaint, that's a good start."

Have writes: "Whores lie and absolute whores lie absolutely."

'Haredi sex commando' targets porn sites

Group of ultra-orthodox hackers erases Israeli porn sites, replacing them with photo of the Lubavitch.

Do you like visiting porn sites? The "ultra-orthodox sex commando" will do whatever it takes to stop you.

A group of ultra-orthodox hackers, shocked by the obscenity of some porn sites, has launched an internet campaign in a bid to cause such sites to crash. The hackers, already named at some internet forums the "ultra-orthodox sex commando," or the "ultra-orthodox electronic underground," focus their efforts at this point on Hebrew sites.

The first target was the Hebrew porn site www.sexhack.tk - a mid-sized, not very popular site that features sex videos. Those who tried logging in to the site found instead a photo of the Lubavitch Rabbi with the text: "We, the religious-net group, hacked into this site and erased all obscenities. The other sites we plan on bringing down are listed below."

The hackers erased the explicit content and wrote that "the holy kabbalah warns that the sin of spilling sperm in vain is the cause for most diseases and misfortune!"

As of today there are about 40 porn sites operating in Israel and about 20 sex-related forums. The group tried sabotaging other Israeli porn site with little success so far.

The ultra-orthodox website "Shofar" was hacked into several days ago. The religious content was replaced with anti-censorship and anti-religious items. It is unclear if the two incidents are related.

New York Gossip Scandal

Khunrum writes: "Luke, have you ever considered blackmailing a porner?"

What would you say? That they go to church?

Angela Devi Dead?

A source writes:

I dated and lived with Angela for many years. Don’t believe the hype. Her webmaster has probably come up with this PR campaign, sick as that may be. Yes, Angela Devi (the ficticious character) is probably dead, since she is getting married, and wanted her image removed from the internet. Her real name is not Angela Devi, it is Shanali Dhingra, and I bet you can’t find anything about her death anywhere. She has duped everyone once again, gotta give her props.

Correction … My friend spoke to her mother the other day.( the mother actually called him back I know this as detectives were listening and he was informed as such.) She indeed is not with us.any longer. Sudden for them as they are just coming to light and terms with just how much there was to know about their daughter and just how many people around the world were interested in her, now even more. Out of respect for the family and likely their wishes I won’t discuss details only that that they like millions of her fans and many friends or acquaintances are SHOCKED. Angela was good people….and I hope she has found the sense of peace of happiness she sooooooooo desired while here with us.

OM3 writes:

I just read your story about Angela Devi on your site. There is currently a lot of confusion about her fate: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has no info on her demise. Wikipedia has dimissed her "death" as rumour. And last Friday, a Yahoo! group [post] stated she's fine and well. Just how credible is your source, who alleged that she had sadly passed away?

Chico Travieso Interview

He runs his own talent agency -- AgencyXonline.com, which has about 12 girls on the roster. Xpeeps MySpace

He calls me back Sunday evening, April 9.

He says he got into porn five years ago. "AVN had a message board. They had a talent for hire thing. I put an ad in there. Lainie Baron (she's no longer in porn, she had a baby 18-months ago, her boyfriend Joey ran AdultStarsManagement which merged with AdultStaffingServices) responded. Through her, I made other contacts and things snowballed from there."

Chico loves the freedom of his work in porn but hates dealing with the "lying, cheating, stealing, flakiness."

Luke: "Which part of your work do you find the most meaningful?"

Chico: "Good question. Just getting girls work, especially when rent's due or they have bills to pay or they have to take care of their families."

Luke: "How did your family react to your getting into the Adult industry?"

Chico: "They don't know."

Luke: "How has it affected your love life?"

Chico: "It's good and bad. The girls that understand know it is a job. The ones who are insecure think I'm screwing around with every girl in the business..."

Luke: "How many of these [porn] girls do you get to screw?"

Chico: "There's been a couple here and there."

Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Chico: "Either a rock star or a baseball player.

"I hung out with everybody in highschool. I played four sports -- baseball, track, football, and volleyball.

"I was a good student until I got into highschool. Then I got mixed up with the wrong crowd and I started missing school.

"After highschool, I went to college for a couple of years and tried to get my degree in business administration."

Luke: "Is there much anti-Latino discrimination in porn?"

Chico: "I haven't felt it. I'm pretty sure there is."

Australian porn king Scott Phillips admits torturing thieves

From the AAP:

A wealthy pornographic website master tortured two burglars and then dumped them at a police beat office, a court was told today.

Scott Gregory Phillips, 31, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane to one count each of torture and robbery of Daryl Jay Irwin, and causing grievous bodily harm to, and entering the dwelling of, Daniel George Atkinson, all on January 21, 2002.

At the time of his arrest Phillips had a million-dollar company, Internet Billing Services, and operated a porn site, pinkbits.com. When Phillips was bailed on a surety of $20,000 in 2002, the man who put up the money was Gregory Shiraz Lasrado, himself a wealthy porn king at the time, but now facing a heroin possession charge.

Prosecutor Todd Fuller told Phillips's sentencing hearing today that Irwin and Atkinson had broken into Phillips's Mount Nebo home in late December 2001, and stolen various items including cheque books.

Mr Fuller said Irwin was a friend of a former business associate of Phillips and had committed the burglary to steal property which might or might not have belonged to his friend.

Phillips tracked Irwin down and, armed with a knife, abducted him from his workplace at a Coles supermarket in Sunnybank on Brisbane's southside. Phillips then took him to his Mount Nebo home, tied him to a chair, with tape, rope and a belt.

"He then placed a plastic shopping bag over his head and held his nose to stop him breathing," Mr Fuller said.

Phillips also bashed Irwin around the head and knees with a bat and punched and threatened him during an interrogation where he forced him to give details about his family.

Phillips then drove Irwin to his office at Milton and forced him to lure Atkinson there on the phone. He attacked Atkinson with bolt cutters and repeatedly kicked and punched him, forcing him to sign over his motorcycle.

Phillips ransacked Atkinson's home, taking items to offset his losses and took the pair to a Cash Converters store to try to retrieve some of his pawned stolen goods. He then dumped them at a police beat at Sunnybank, giving his details with an officer before leaving.

The sentencing hearing before Judge Warren Howell was adjourned to resume on April 28 and Phillips, who did not apply for bail, was remanded in custody.

From Brisbane's Courier Mail April 11, 2006:

The court was told Atkinson was so badly injured he had to have a titanium plate inserted in his face. Irwin received a broken finger.

Both were bruised from head to toe. Arresting officer Detective Senior Constable Adam Cass, who has toiled for more than four years to bring Phillips to justice, said it was "highly gratifying to finally see him taken into custody".

Snr Constable Cass describes Phillips as a "highly brazen, violent psychopath".

He believes Phillips opted to personally deliver justice to Irwin and Atkinson because "he gets off on it".

He said Phillips had complimented police on their investigation since his arrest and was intrigued by the techniques and methods that led to his capture.

"He rates himself as a stand-over man," Snr Constable Cass said. "He was very confident during the attack – he assaulted the men in public on some occasions – it was as if he expected to be arrested."

What the victims said:

Daryl Irwin: "He sat me on a wooden chair, tied my hands together at the rear, tied my feet together and put a plastic shopping bag over my head so I couldn't breathe. At the same time he held my nose so I couldn't breath. He took it off when I started to struggle. He then picked up a baseball bat and hit me over the head and around the knees. He punched me in the nose so it started to bleed. He then started kicking me. I fell over. He picked me up and said: 'Don't break my chair.' He continued to punch and kick me all over my body."

Danial George Atkinson:

"... The next thing I remember is waking up in the office in the building. I remember lying on the floor on top of ordinary brown cardboard. This cardboard was on top of the carpet. I remember there was heaps of blood on the cardboard and carpet. Whilst I was lying there I was rolling about on the cardboard, I was in severe pain in the head, legs, ribs and even my arms and legs. I remember when I woke up Daryl Irwin, my friend, was also there. I think he was on cardboard on the floor as well. I could see his face was puffed up and bleeding. I can't remember much conversation with Daryl." Later, he said, his alleged attacker told him: 'If you tell anything about what happened today I will come back and rape your parents'. "