Monday, July 31, 2006
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I Hear The Temptation Awards Lost $100,000
Worse than a car crash.
The powerpoint presentation on the big screen kept putting up winner photos while the nominees were being read.
I hear that to fill the room they were scrambling to hand out free tickets to people drinking at the hotel bar.
About 100 people total went to the show.
Aside from Gram Ponante's blog, the official media sponsor of the show, XBiz, does not even bother to cover it. I can find no list of winners anywhere.
3:10 p.m. A list of winners is emailed and a story subsequently appears on XBiz.com.
I sneak into the room where the Awards will be held, get an uncomfortable feeling of déjà vu: Curtains, blue lights, big TV monitors, let's hope the band doesn't suck... You got it, I'm stalling, nobody's here yet...
...Holly Randall, happy-drunk, waves around her mother's Hall of Fame Award. I ask her to pose with it and she opens her mouth wide, still smiling, and tongues it...
Women Who Date Jerks
Holly Randall says: "Rock Star Magazine sent me an email. They're doing an article about why girls date jerks. And they want to interview me about you."
Luke: "Were you drunk Saturday night?"
Holly: "No. I just had a couple of glasses of wine."
VP of Costa Rica: Gary Kaplan would be extradited to US
From Gambling911.com News Wire:
Though he hasn't been caught yet, Sylvia Alvarado Marenco of Costa Rica newspaper Al Dia reports that BetonSports.com founder, Gary Kaplan, can be extradited back to the US by the Costa Rican government. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri returned a 22-count indictment charging 11 individuals and four corporations on various charges of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. Kaplan, the founder of BetonSports.com, was named in the indictment along with the company itself and the CEO, David Carruthers. Some of the marketing people were arrested in the States. "The extradition is possible if they comply with the diplomatic processes and corresponding courts, although in the country of Costa Rica it is not illegal for a company to take bets over the Internet, explained the Vice President Laura Chinchilla. Interpol reported that they had not yet received an American request to locate Mr. Kaplan. His location remains unknown. Some websites and publications have reported that Costa Rica would not extradite Kaplan. This is not the case, however. "That was never said. Nothing has to see that the crime exist or not in Costa Rica but rather another country that recognizes it (crime) and that we have a covenant of extradition, as in this case", emphasized the Vice President. David Carruthers, president of BETonSPORTS, that operated in the mall San Pedro, is prisoner in Texas since July 16, defendant, al the same as Kaplan and other nine people, of blackmail, fraud and tax evasion. Chinchilla added that the State he is "worried, therefore not a regulating framework of those businesses exists, above all in the financial environment, to guarantee us that not activities of money laundering be concealed". "Because it worries is us that we prompt the reforms to the law of psychotropic and of casinos, (are likely). The ball, right now, (is in the hands of) the Assembly. The city halls also, therefore if them do not they give permission and clear, they would not be able to be installed in their zones".
For the girls... what's your favorite 'sex act'?
Sorry I know "sex act" is a lame term, but I couldn't think of any other way to describe it. Just curious as to what really gets the girls in the biz off-- is it pussy eating, doggie-style, etc? Personally I LOVE giving bjs. I think it's a control issue, but there is nothing better than having control over a guy's pleasure and watching him enjoy your handiwork. Neck and back-of-the-shoulder kissing is my "button"-- no matter who you are if you get kiss me on the back of the shoulder or on my neck I get wet instantly. But bjs... oh boy I love it! Sorry it's been a long time, I think I'm getting sexually frustrated... Somebody shut me up!
...What are you talking about? Your family would love me-- parents always do. I'm incredibly polite, watch my language and help wash the dishes after dinner. I never talk about porn-- if there son didn't tell them you'd have no idea I'd ever even seen a porn flick. If there is anything my mother taught me, it's manners, manners, mannners! In fact, she insisted I learn good table manners and tennis because "You never know when you're going to dine with the president." I don't think she was considering Bush when she told me this.
Why are you posing horribly lit photos and why should I be impressed? Yes I've been celibate since... drumroll... Luke, but amatuer photos of sexual acts aren't going to push me over the edge. I am waiting for a special man to take away my newfound virginity. I demand that he is college educated, well-mannered, open minded and has a working penis. Oh yes, and he has to love his parents-- a man who doesn't love and respect his family is doomed for disaster. I'm pretty sure that Smelly Monkey is the only one here that fits the bill.
Smelly Monkey posts: "Oh god, you had sex with luke? His desperation/obsession wore you down? WOW, I wouldn't be putting that info out there otherwise you could find yourself having two 300 pound problems in ac cream and swami if they sniff that angle works with you, theres none better at desperate obsession then ac cream and swami, da burgs a close 3rd and lukes a distant 4th since he actually managed to make it work unlike the other 3. God, please tell me Luke cries with guilt and shame during sex."
Temptation Awards Too Tame For Holly Randall
So the gig was boring as hell and no one took it seriously -- to spice it all up I was obnoxious as hell and was planning on taking my top off on stage just to raise a little excitement in the evening. I was never called up onstage -- I just marched my ass up there and prepared to take my top off. I had George or whoever in my ear begging me not to act inapporapiately, so I waited until I got back on the main floor and then I let Cassidey Rae suck on my nipples. The show was so boring I brought out the ultimate obnoxiousness in me and probably made everyone think I was insane. The best part was Andrew Blake trying to make my cousin the star of his next flick. Monstar can attest to my shenanigans.
I am crazy normally-- liquored up I'm insane. At least I'm a sweet drunk -- too much wine only brings out too much love from me.
Monstar writes: "You were a work of art baby. I like how you tried to accept the award for "best gay director." Holly and whatever she was drinking stole the damn show. her table was the one to be at."
XXX writes:
The Temptation Awards had to be tame -- if there was nudity, which is illegal in public in Los Angeles, then the Ritz Carlton and the Beverly Hilton will emerge victorious in the pending lawsuits. Porners had to follow the laws of the state. Go figure.
The media, the beginning, the food, that was actually all pretty nice - the awards were not qualified, the show didn't really have a unique voice or legitimacy - the awards ceremony was whack - totally not put together well at all - but if I had to guess, I'd say porners will buy tables next year anyway.
After a Pasadena Rita-Carlton employee unpacked a box containing a Best Anal Scene trophy (designated for Hillary Scott), the hotel officially freaked out and pulled the second plug of the week on the Canada-based awards show.
How downtown's Westin Bonaventure was secured and prepped so quickly (it happened in a day) is a miracle of organization. The Bonaventure's San Francisco Room was beautiful, the lights were great, the sound was good, and the meals were, without a doubt, the best awards show fare I have ever had (I've eaten Emmy and Grammy food that I wouldn't feed to my accessory potbellied pig).
Rachel Worth's photos. More.
I figured the Temptation Awards would be a bust, but a friend who went says otherwise:
Although there were lots of negatives, for them to have persevered in the face of so many roadblocks says something good about them. Those that attended had some of the best food ever at any of these events, and there were great photo ops for us photographers (as you can see by the pictures). The women looked gorgeous and most people seemed to be enjoying themselves.
I feel bad for George Whitty and his company. They worked so hard and must have lost an unbelievable amount of money.
I dropped out of school 4 weeks before graduation with all my high school credits I needed to graduate but unfortunately before you are able to graduate the state requires you pass the math SAT exam with at that time a score of 300 and I got 297, so I wouldn't be able to walk with my class let alone graduate till next year, so I dropped out. I ended up getting my diploma during the summer after I re-took and passed that darn SAT.
As for work history I used to be a courtesy clerk at Smiths Grocery store in Carson City for a few months and from there I went to being a cashier at Big 5 sporting goods also in Carson then from there a stripper at the Wild Orchid Gentelmans Club in Reno, NV. I worked there for a year (my longest job) and somehow I have ended up here.
Has Porn Jumped The Shark?
Mac writes:
That's the sense i get from the bits you post... well, i don't know what the deal is with the dvd covers ... all seemed aimed at real misogynists i know that's nothing new but i wasn't really paying attention for about 7? years it'd been that long since i would go into a porn store to see what was up six years ago. the last time i think i was doing an article that required me to hang out in one for a couple hours that was enough but the cover art seems to be nastier, more misanthropic. are there that many men who have never had any personal contact with a woman? sexual or not.
Archie writes:
I thought you might get a kick out of these two recent CL posts. I guess the industry has finally hit rock bottom when it's soliciting 'sales people' and 'producer/distributors' on a classifieds board. Reuben Sturmen must be spinning.
Devon Sounds Off
First off im f---in crazy and don't give a f---, haha. I really wanna speak my mind more than ever lately after learning some of this real life jugglin. The past forevers i always worked for a few big companies like vivid, jill kelly, and digital playground but now im straight up doin my own thing:) This industry is so wack you wouldn’t believe it. lol. Lately ive been laying low hanging out with friends and doing alot of fun stuff tryin to stay away from the whole porn mess. I’ll be back though for sure Just in a different way:) Sometimes you get so caught up that you can no longer see the big picture from the outside which is important to me and should be for everyone. Looking in, i feel bad for everyone in the industry and how bad everyone rips each other off. I barely don’t even know any girls that aren’t also escorts to pay the bills. You all know how much respect you have for call girls. haha. Being a star in movies doesn't cut it, neither does doing a photoshoot once or twice a month. That would all change if maybe one company would give the so called stars residuals off thier movies. After all these movies sell for years but they'll payout the stars around 50 g's total one time(girls and guys so a few grand per scene) for a movie that could produce millions over time. haha, who's your daddy!! The man behind the desk doesn't care at all because he knows his market tools don't know any better and of course thier gonna come shoot again to pay those bills. I’ve even heard them joke around about going on vacation for a few years and coming back and thier girls will still be stuck in the same spot doing the same thing. Girls sometimes tend to think thier the center of attention when really this whole game is about that disc and box in the stores marketed the right way. Bad publicity is good publicity as long as your name gets thrown up. You can't say that about most other jobs:) It's this big stupid circle. Any extra money made for most goes into poppin pills like vics, zanis, doin blow, having a badass car for your apartment lol. Just keep spending too somehow keep your head alittle sane to deal with what you've become. You could spend all your money and have the best material items only to realize your not happy so go buy something else. lol. The more you make, the more you have to spend. I’m not counting myself out because yes, I’ve been there done that and still struggle with my own problems just like everyone else. We'll every porn girl too me is really a beautiful girl inside and out trying hard to fit in with a bad past. To think back i can't really remember too many kids throughout school dreaming of being a pornstar. Just about every pstar I’ve met wishes they could do mainstream movies but it’s alittle hard once you get labled as a pornstar. Maybe some late night hbo shiz but they just want you to show off your body there too. I guess picture it this way. You show up to set, theres like 20 wierdos there waiting to see you naked that can't wait too watch, and you just have to block out your head and pretend your not really in your body. I've never gotten close to getting off on camera nor have i ever had much fun filming a movie. But don't get me wrong because i know there are some people out there that would like to have sex in front of a bunch of strangers with some toolbag they don't know. Filming with girls(g/g) isn't as bad because you feel alot more comfortable but i don't know any girls who look forward to filming with a guy. lol. Sex is just more fun and a lot better when a camera isn’t documenting you if you can see it that way. Doing anything and everything you want, anywhere and be the real you:) Publicists may tell you to say different though:) That’s just alil of the truth. lol. Ive been very fortunate to become surrounded with alot of good people lately and they’ve been helping me see alot of the real things in life. I used to be so caught up in wanting to have some designer glasses, purses, clothes but ive realized that nobody cares. haha seriously. Something else i realized lookin into this s--- is that i was always trying to impress the wrong people. I moved out here to cali but got surrounded by porn people. I realized that i was trying to dress and look good for only people in the industry and seriously almost every single person in my phone book was friends with people in porn. Thats when i started to realized how stupid i was about not getting out there and experiencing life. Being a pornstar is like being in a stupid race with no finish line and i wish some peps could see that. When you work in the industry you keep trying to impress anybody who you feel might be above you like a boss or another pstar(market tool) but then you finally figure out they are nobody to impress because look at who they are. It doesn't feel all too great when you only trying to impress scum ya know. Alittle back to image; The price for some of these purses, clothes these days, id rather go on a cruise for the same price, The only things i used to look forward to in life was going out to the next club, making the next dollar, getting high next, going on a vacation to get away from porn, but lately thats all changed. Theres just too much fun stuff out there. Maybe im alittle different than your average girl but i like going snowboarding, going wakeboarding, hanging with the boys at the skatepark, smokin weed haha, i don't drink barely so when i do i get hammered! I love the beach and im making this summer towards becoming a better surfer. Anyway i don't know what else to write right now but overall i feel i don't need to prove s--- to anyone neither do any of you. Who cares what anyone thinks of who you are because this is your world and nobody elses. I like how the beatboy Eyedea puts it, "this is my world, you just happen to live in it too." If you don't know who Eyedea is and you think eminem is cool then you need to update.
If I had to pick a favorite performer it would have to be Devon. I think Devon could have been as big as any star out there if she would have made the right choices and had the right people behind her. At the moment she seems to be burnt out on the whole porn scene. Hopefully she will get her production company up and running and start cranking out some movies that we will all enjoy.
Derek posts:
I don't want to do a "Dr. Phil" on Devon, but it's pretty clear to me that changing her name is just another way of Devon expressing her desire to become someone other than "The Porn Star known as Devon." As someone else has already posted, Devon seems pretty burnt out on porn. Just read (if you can get through the misspelling and bad grammer) her rants & rages on MySpace. My personal experience of watching porn and being around porn girls since the early 1990s is that (eventually) most of them come to hate porn...if for no other reason than it continues to "define" them to other people (boyfriends, family, potential employers, people on the street)--long after the girls want to define themselves in new ways. Remember: we "grow" as we age and move thru life; we change, and "evolve" who we are as a person. In our own eyes, and in the eyes of others. What Devon is doing, in a very public and "whacky" way, seems to being saying: "I'm no longer a Porn Star...I'm something else now" and she's destroying her porn life by spilling all of her personal "dirty laundry" (examples: she didn't like most of the guys she f---ed on video, she hooked on the side to make money, the companies & directors are controlling and have a different view of what's "hot sex" than she does). And, to put another nail in her PornLife coffin, she states that "all" of the other porn girls she knows feel the same way, and have done the same things (like hooking on the side). Bottom line: Devon is "crazy" like the guy in the mainstream movie "Network": she's mad as hell, and won't take it anymore. It's definitely the end of her career in porn.
Parker29 writes on ADT:
Someone posting here is calling someone else, "crazy"? Hmmmm, let's examine that, shall we?
Patient: "You see Doctor, I go to this website where we review and discuss women who take penises up their asses in all measure of ways. And, then we breakdown their scenes and discuss their personal life and psycho-analyze their behavior and our personal likes and dis-likes. We judge their performances in great detail in an attempt to discern their abilities to arouse us when they engage in different methods of intercourse."
Doctor: "You're crazy."
Twenty Five Years Ago Today...
Air Supply's song "The one that you love" was the #1 song in the U.S. It was recorded in one take in Los Angeles.
They are the Siegfried and Roy of the soft-rock music world, the perennial are-they-or-aren't-they Aussie pop duo who were once portrayed as gay lovers on Saturday Night Live. Air Supply was on Regis and Kelly today, flogging a best-of album, 30 years after they first started filling the airwaves with songs of loving, losing and wondering if anyone could ever possibly like us and what are these feelings inside, they're so new and different and ...
OK, I admit it, when I was but a wee tyke, Air Supply was all I needed. They year was 1980. I would retire for hours at a time to our dank, smelly basement and play their songs on a rickety record player until I cried about the love I longed for. Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock – the two Russells. A quarter of a century later, I can remember almost every lyric. To me, they were – true to their name – like the air I breathed. And I will never forgive Kim Carnes for unseating them atop the charts.
It was the summer of 1981 and I was falling in love for the first time (that was requited). I frolicked with my girlfriend at the pool many afternoons. One day a little black boy wearing goggles surfaced beside us and asked me, "Why is your penis sticking out like a lance?"
I never kissed my love. I was too scared. Over the next nine months, however, away from my love and at public school for the first time, I learned how to french kiss. That next summer, I got the nicknames "Hans Ford" and "Romeo." I made out with my love and went to R-rated movies with a college girl four years my senior. For the first time, I learned that women's panties get wet when they're sexually excited.
A friend asks me July 30, 2006: "How are you?"
Luke: In a torpor, perhaps depressed, have a hard time leaving my bed, just exhausted, back hurts, money prospects poor etc. All I do is lie in bed and listen to Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
How come there's never been a book about Air Supply?
>I read a decent book: 'Great Pretenders' by Karen Schoemer. It's half memoir and half writing about the pop singers of the 1950s. I could imagine you doing that kind of book that contrasted your life with the music of air supply. Check that out and see if you're inspired. This is a really uninteresting woman too but still a charming book.
The first time I saw Air Supply live was last July. I went with my 24yo GF who'd never heard of Air Supply.
Twenty four year old girls are good for me because I'm 40 and stuck in my ways and these young uns are more flexible. I don't know why my friends push me to go out with hags when I could be hanging with community college girls.
I've been told that my craggy features have a timeless beauty and, frankly, I haven't grown up much since I was four years old. So I'm not married and don't have a respectable life? At least I've dated a lot of women. Quantity has a quality all of its own.
I Despair About Israel
I'm no political or military expert, but as as many Hezbollah rockets are falling on Israel today (July 30) as they were at the start of the war almost three weeks ago, I can only conclude what I believed when the war began -- that Israel's prime minister, Defense minister and IDF leadership are incompetent.
Holly Randall: 'I am a bad mother'
It's been so hot recently and I've been so damn busy I haven't tended to my vegetable garden in about a week. Gloves, shears, fertilizer and all, yesterday I prepared to give a little TLC to my garden and pluck my quickly ripening tomatoes (there are so many I practically give them away because I can't eat them all). Imagine my diress once I opened the gate to my little piece of heaven and my tomato plants were all dying! I feel like a crackhead mother who went on a drug binge and left her children to starve and die. My garden is set on automatic sprinklers but the heat has been so devastating I've had to water twice a day, and I'd been neglectful this past week. Does this mean I'm going to be a bad mother? I love my vegetable garden more than most things in this world, yet I got distracted and let it go for a week. I am sorely disappointed in myself, and now I doubt my dedication to the things I love. LOL, could anyone but me get so worked up about their goddamn plants?
DRD posts: "Between Aria wishing she could wander in circles talking to smurfs, and you equating a plant with a child, how does your brother live with you crazy people?"
Holly Randall Sounds Off
Once a new girl showed up to my set with full blown herpes on her mouth-- when I asked her what was up she just seemed confused and said she woke up with it this morning and had no idea what happened to her. I had to gently explain that she'd contracted herpes-- probably from whatever scene she had done last week. The poor girl didn't even know what herpes were. It's unbelieveable how stupid some of these girls are-- I need to start a quote book.
I stopped taking responsibility for idiots a long time ago. I come to work, make the girls look and feel as beautiful as I can, take some good photos and go home. I used to want to save the world, but I'm over that now. I got my own sanity to keep in check.
OMG Mia you are freaking me out! I also love: guys in their late 30s early 40s, I also give money to charity and homeless people like crazy, Newcastle is my favorite beer and Sierra Nevada is a close second (check out Stella, it's one of the strongest beers out there and damn tasty). You are too funny just wait until I get my hands on you next month-- I'm going to make you look so amazing you won't believe it. Ha! I'm excited...
Well she is obviously referring to Tawny Roberts, but for all the people who tell me Mary is actually smart... well I just don't see it.
Mary Carey responds:
I am smart, I may talk a lot, but I am intelligent. I act dumb sometimes, think a lot, in fact I think faster than I can speak but i speak the truth. True, I ramble on and on, but another girl on keith olbermans show, neil's show and alan's show on fox, see how they do. But please tell holly I'm not stupid. Maybe sit down to dinner with me and have an educated conversation. No one pulls up the publicity stunts that I have still been doing with out kick ass or goes to the red carpet events as much. Just search my name at www.wireimage.com or www.dailyceleb.com. Mainstream people. www.marycarey.com
I am going to vomit. Why is all porn outside of what I call my little "Suze bubble" so disgusting?
I don't really want to look at a dick closely unless it's about to go in my mouth.
Busted!
HollyRandall: that girl
you wrote about sleeping with
HollyRandall: and you tried to tell me later that you made it all up?
HollyRandall: you did f--- her you liar
Luke: OK, I lied.
HollyRandall: lol
HollyRandall: why did you say you made it up?
Luke: because that is what I would've wanted to hear if the situation
was reversed.
HollyRandall: if you were trying to make me jealous like you said, wouldn't
you stick to the story that you did hook up with her?
HollyRandall: oh Luke
Luke: I was observing the golden rule.
Luke: It was the ethical thing to do to lie.
HollyRandall: oh please
Luke: How did I know I was going to get found out?
HollyRandall: the ethical thing to do would have been not to sleep with
her in the first place
HollyRandall: because liars always do
Luke: We were broken up. I had no plans to be with you again.
HollyRandall: even more reason not to have lied about it
HollyRandall: whatever i really don't care that much
HollyRandall: i just wanted to catch you out
Luke: gonna keep my peepee in my pants. you make me want to be a better
man
Temptation Awards Has More Trouble
Here's the press release:
(Los Angeles, CA) The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa cancelled their contract with Canadian adult news outlet Temptation News, to host the Temptation Awards, an adult industry, black-tie affair.
An official document from Jill R. Hilts, Director of catering and sales for the Ritz-Carlton Pasadena gave reason for the cancellation stating, “This is an awards ceremony that celebrates the ‘porno’ industry, and the Ritz-Carlton does not,” and further stated, “We cannot have ‘porno’ stars in our hotel.”
Ms. Hilts openly discriminating against an entire profession as she continued her assault on the adult industry in her letter saying, “you intend to use the Hotel facilities for a pornographic video awards ceremony. We cannot permit activities at the Hotel that our employees and many of our guests will find highly offensive. Your awards ceremony falls squarely within this classification.”
Temptation News CEO and founder, George Whitty created the Temptation Awards™ to celebrate the adult industry with an elegant and glamorous event. Commenting on the turn of events George says, “The Ritz-Carlton stepped in last minute, providing their facilities as the venue after a contractual disagreement with the Beverly Hilton. The Ritz openly embraced the opportunity to accommodate the Temptation Awards™, when they executed the contract. Twenty-four hours later they canceled and reneged on their signed contract based solely on the professions of those attending. Discrimination of any sort is detestable, but to openly discriminate against ones legally acceptable professional is appalling.”
The Temptation Awards™ is not cancelled. George Whitty is determined to continue confirming, “I will not let discrimination triumph over the celebration of a person’s legal right to the profession of their choice. We have an alternate venue. The Westin Bonaventure has graciously offered their hotel and services.” The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites 404 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, California 90071 United States Phone: (213) 624-1000
A porner tells me: "What is going on with the Temptation awards? They are so disorganized. They won't pick up our phone calls or return them. We just called the Bonaventure and they don't have anything on their calendar that they are hosting an event this weekend."
Update: Bonaventure now says it is having an event.
Temptation says that 300 people are confirmed to come.
I hear that many porners have backed out of the event because they don't want to piss off AVN. The Temptation Awards seem patterned on the AVN Awards.
Sebastian Sloane Productions Target of Second Reported 2257 Investigation
AVN.com reports:
“They told me [the FBI is] conducting an investigation of all producers who produce any kind of pornographic material and they plan to finish this by December. They also said they’ve spent two years gathering up information on adult web sites… done Whois searches, and have picked up information by going to [VOD sites] to figure out who is producing videos,” Ruch told AVN.com.
Mary Carey Talks To Her Father For First Time In Over A Decade
Mary spoke to him through his sister. Her father has a severe speech impediment.
Mary tells me Thursday afternoon, July 27: "I couldn't stop crying. Harold videotaped me. We put it on speaker phone because we knew it was something we should capture. Part of me feels betrayed my grandparents. When I was a little kid, I was afraid of him. He has cerebral palsy.
"He was the first four kids. No one else has any problems.
"He works as a janitor at a hospital. He likes to go bowling. He's been wanting to see me for so many years.
"I overnighted him a letter with some shots of me.
"I told Howard Stern about my dad. They want me to reunite with him on air. They called him up and his sister calls me: 'How could you do that? He's been made fun of all his life.' I said, 'Howard's not going to make fun of him.'
"When I think about how people make fun of my mom and my dad, how they talk, how they can't do normal basic things... I sit there and spend money on hair extensions and botox and he would give anything to speak properly. He can't go anywhere.
"It makes me think how shallow I am, and how shallow Hollywood is...and what a bad little girl I was when I was scared of him because he couldn't speak.
"My mother lives alone (on little money), which I'm scared to do. She's happy when someone doesn't make fun of her for one day.
"My aunt wanted to know what I was doing. I said I had done some stuff for Playboy TV and I ran for governor of California. I must've sounded delusional. She must've thought, 'This girl is retarded too.'
"Today she said to me, 'I found out some things you've done. I'm not going to tell your dad. I don't want to hurt him. He has a twelve year old mentality.'
"I've never had to deal with the family and the porn thing. I've only had my mom. My grandparents are dead.
"Now I finally have a family. For a day they didn't know what I did. Now they do.
"I can't stop crying."
Mary gets off the phone because she's crying so hard.
Harold takes over.
Then Mary comes back. "I hate being so smart that I can psychologically analyze everything to the level I can. If I was like a friend of mine who's pregnant and an adult star, I wouldn't even have these thoughts. I know that other [porn] girls I've hung out with couldn't take these things to the level of analyzation."
Aaliyah Brown - the girl that might have shot scenes while underage using a fake I.D.
During the time she was supposedly underage, she was removed from various agency sites such as Foxxx Modeling, Metro Talent etc.
She's no longer listed on any porn agency site I can find.
Here's a copy of the I.D. she was using.
This may have been the girl who prompted the recent 2257 record checks at Diabolic.
2257 Issues Haunt KeepSafe's Chris Haberski
I chat with Cheyenne Silver's ex-boyfriend Gregory Bauman on or about March 15, 2001:
Luke: "What happened with her web site CheyenneSilver.com?"
Greg: "I'm going to get in a lot of trouble for this but I may as well say it because it is true. You can look up who was the administrator for her web site. He approached her before she signed her Vivid contract. He promised her quite a few things.
"She provided him with a number of her photographs. Her scrapbooks and things. He wanted amateur pictures and hardcore and softcore. I was worried about it. I said, 'You better be careful with this guy. He's young and ambitious and he doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing. But give it a try. It's a free site. Then you can launch a pay site later on.
"So he launched it and the first thing I noticed was that he had her four year old child on her web site. And her mother and her brother. Having a child on an adult web site, I would think, would be a federal violation. I told her to take those pictures down. He didn't do it.
"Then he had this supposed message board where people were calling her 'Stinkpot Silver' and I'm thinking, 'My God, this is supposed to be her web site. This is supposed to promote her to her fan base. And it is doing nothing but degrading her. I told her, 'You have control over this. Tell your webmaster to take the message board down. Take the kids off the thing. Clean this web site up.'"
Luke looks up the domain name CheyenneXXX.com on Network Solutions and finds: Vivid employee Christopher Haberski (Haberski@REALIDEAS.COM), who is at: 1033 12TH ST STE 301 Santa Monica, CA 90403-4265. The sites have been down for weeks.
Greg: "The webmaster was unresponsive. We had a breakup. For about two months, we didn't see each other. Then up came this letter on the front of her web site, that Vivid forced her to get her boobs done. She cried all the way to the doctor's office. And the letter made her sound like an idiot."
Vivid girl Cheyenne Silver writes on the front page of her website www.cheyennesilver.com in August of 2000: "To all my fans, I'm very upset with some of the talk that has been happening on the Forum boards. First you start to tell me not to get a boob job, but I do. Then everyone starts to turn on me. I cried when I went to get them done because I saw what people were saying on the polls. I didn't ever want to get them done, but t hey said they needed them to be perked up. So I got them. Now some idiot starts talking about hygine. I don't know who it i s, but they don't know anything. I think it's very sad that someone has so much time to make up hurtful stories about someone else. I guess it all comes from jealousy. Those who've met me know the real me w hat I'm about."
Greg: "A friend called me to say how she couldn't believe how much garbage was on the web site. I said, 'There's no way that she would write something as stupid as that. It's got to be coming directly from the webmaster. She called him and told him to take it down. And it did come down. But he didn't want to take the kids pictures off the web site. A four year old daughter on a porn site is bad.
"I sent him a strong cease-and-desist letter. He took the site down after that. This person [Christopher Haberski] happens to work in the chromes department of Vivid Video. And Vivid backed him. Vivid had a banner on the site. And Vivid basically told her that what she did was wrong. That she shouldn't have sent him a cease-and-desist letter. They didn't agree with it. I told her that she should come forward and tell the public what really went on. She never did. My feeling was that Vivid was condoning a four year old child on a pornography web site. And Vivid was the number one sponsor on the site.
"It looked to me like Vivid was putting the pressure on her to sign with them to have them make the web site because then they take 50% of the proceeds. It almost looked to me that Vivid was making her look bad to pressure her to sign with them for her web site. By putting up these nasty comments about 'Stinkpot Silver', by talking about her boobs, by putting up a ridiculous letter... By putting up all these rotten things about her. The site had the worst publicity of anybody... I couldn't have thought of a way to make her look more ridiculous.
"He did take it down. But he put an auto-link to it and stole the site. She owns the domain CheyenneSilver.com. He bought the domain CheyenneXXX.com. He put up an auto-link so that when people went to CheyenneSilver.com, it automatically went to CheyenneXXX.com. And he was using all the same material in all the photographs without her permission. And she never saw a dime from any of the revenues from the site. Vivid had a banner at the top.
"She asked him for the domain CheyenneXXX.com and he wouldn't do it. He said, 'I'll sell it to you for a profit.' And he called me on the phone and said, 'I just talked to Steve Hirsch and to Marci and they both agree with me that your letter is ridiculous and insane. And you shouldn't have done this. If you want to talk to me about this, we can talk, but I'm not going to do any of the things that you asked for in this letter.'
"We asked him that he take down the web site immediately. That he provide an accounting of any revenues. That he cease and desist any activity relating to Cheyenne Silver.
"It appeared to me...that Vivid said, 'Hey, let's make her look bad on this web site that she tried and she'll have more of an incentive to go over to our webmaster and sign up at 50% profit.'"
Molotov Cocktails At Red Light District?
I'm told: "Last night some unidentified idiots threw two molotov cocktails at the RLD building in Chatsworth. One of them didn't even make it inside, while the other one did little damage. The morons used plastic bottles instead of glass! Fire department came in the morning to assess the damage."
Monique Alexander Sighting?
Ty writes: "I was out two nights ago and I swear I saw Monique Alexander at Katana on Sunset, she was looking smoking in some high boots and a mini skirt that made me droool all over my Edamame. She was with some dude with a goatee, Pornstar Mr. Marcus and Rapper,Too $hort. The dude with the goat looked hella familiar and I know I have seen him on your site before. I have to say that Monique Alexander is the hottest Vivid girl I have seen in years, and I envied the bro she was with- they seemed to look like friends or maybe her agent?"
Ray Guhn's Defense
Jessica writes:
While I agree that what's happening to Ray Guhn is politically motivated and completely unnecessary as a public safety gesture, it's nothing shocking or completely unexpected in any way. If you are a principal in a company generating millions of dollars in income from the creation and distribution of pornography you understand that the day will come when the knock on the door comes in some way to deprive you of your wealth and possibly your freedom. Whether it's at a local, state or federal level no matter. You can only go so long without some sort of trouble. It's mostly a cat and mouse game that usually works itself out with a few court dates and a bunch of check-writing to the government and your beloved legal team. For those working from smaller towns you also get crapped on by the local papers and from then on you're known to all as scumbag smut peddler. It's like a rite of passage. Now you are official!
As far as the losing the child business goes...it happens to truck drivers, janitors, accountants etc every day. Blaming it on the adult industry is a lame excuse. Maybe your wife is crazy or vindictive...she probably was when you met her but perhaps it just comes down to bad instincts. Same thing with having no money saved or job prospects... we live in the land of unimpeded capitalism where those who don't anticipate their needs for the future fail miserably more often than not. Keeping a scapegoat handy for all situations in life is often the first sign that denial has set in. Maybe it's you who screw up? Who knows. I don't have time to sort of out who's who so shut up already, please. This is the exact type of personal and professional character that separates most of us from Larry Flynt, Eddie W and any one else who enjoys a longevity of any sort in the skin trade. They aren't the worrying type, they have solid business minds and even more solid damage control. Getting clipped is a fact of life in porn and they accept the challenge. Going to jail can suck but if that's the path you've chosen professionally you take it on full swing. No tears. No sad letter to Luke blaming your troubles on others. Do what you got to do quietly and give tomorrow a swing when it comes. Life goes on.
Brian Shuster Is Back
He ran the XPics scam in 1998.
'Adult' MySpace-styled site launched Erotic social networking site hopes to have 1 million users by end of 2006.
Brian Shuster, chief executive of Utherverse.com Inc., said people under the age of 18 are banned from using the new social networking site - a move that should help the upstart online community avoid MySpace.com's No. 1 pitfall: pedophiles.
She emails:
I'll be at the Exotic Dancer Expo in August, as well as the AVN in January. The Legends of Erotica are putting me in the hall of fame, I'm so jazzed about that! I'm doing great, I live in Vegas now, and I still dance the day shift at a cool club called Seamless, across from the Orleans casino, at least until I'm to big to anymore. I'm expecting a baby in late January.
>How's your husband?
He's really happy! He's out of the army, getting ready to finish college. I'm excited too, but I've been really sick this first 3 months, losing control of your body sucks eggs! I've been driving him nuts with the mood swings. So when you get a wife, be prepared!!! Do you go to the ED expo? We'll be there, so will my brother Tommy. Hopefully my all day sickness will wear off by then.
He got back 4 1/2 months ago. We are living in Vegas now. I'm so glad he's out. They just deployed the 82nd Airborne to Iraq. He's coming with me to the AVN, so you'll get to meet him then. I still have my eyes out for a cute jewish girl for you! My friend Mona Lisa just said there's no nice jewish girls in Vegas, but she's looking too! I went to high school with a girl who became a jewish missionary. I've been trying to get a hold of her. You'd like her, I'll keep trying.
Diabolic Investigation Centered on Specific Performers
Matt O'Connor writes for XBiz.com:
CHATSWORTH — When FBI agents came to the offices of Diabolic Video Monday morning, one of the first people Diabolic owner Gregg Allan called was Chris Haberski, owner of KeepSafe, the company that computerizes all of Diabolic’s 2257 records.
...Haberski added that the agent also asked him if he worked with other adult companies. When Haberski answered yes, the agent said he wouldn't be surprised if they saw each other again in the near future.
'How to Love a Republican'
That's the title of a short story in Steve Almond's collection, My Life in Heavy Metal:
What Darcy enjoyed most was a good lathering between the thighs. As a lifelong liberal, this was one of my specialties. In some obscure but plausible fashion, I viewed the general neglect of the region as a bedrock of conservatism. The female sex was, in political terms, the equivalent of the inner city: a dark and mysterious zone, vilified by the powerful, derided as incapable of self-improvement, entrenched and smelly. Going down on a woman was a dirty business, humiliating, potentially infectious, best delegated to the sensitivos of the Left.
I relished the act, which I considered to be what Joe Lieberman would have termed, in his phlegmy rabbinical tone, a mitzvah. It required certain sacrifices. The deprivation of oxygen, to begin with.
Mary Carey's Retarded Parents
She calls me Wednesday afternoon. "I always thought my dad was dead. When I was 16, my grandparents were raising me, Harold, could turn down the music? I'm trying to talk on the phone."
Harold: "No. You talk on the phone all the time."
Mary: "I got an email from my dad. It turns out he's still alive. It turns out I have an Aunt Sheila, my dad's sister.
"My mom told me he was dead because she hadn't heard anything from him. My grandparents had custody of me and took me to Florida.
"Someone must've told him I was his daughter. I wonder if my dad jerked off to me. My grandfather died when I was 16.
"The only thing I remember about my dad is that he had a speech impediment. He's mentally handicapped. When he was born, he was pulled out with tongs (in a military hospital), which twisted his brain.
"He was married to my mom for a year. My [maternal] grandparents did not like my mom being married to my dad. He drank a lot. They didn't like my mom being married to someone more handicapped than her.
"They were scared when she got pregnant with me. They had just gotten done with raising one handicapped daughter and they were afraid they were going to have another one.
"I don't know I can carry on a phone conversation with him. Maybe his sister can translate.
"My mother was adopted by my grandparents. I think she has fetal alcohol syndrome. They have her as a schizophrenic. That's what she takes medication for. Maybe slight autism."
False Reports On Red Light District
Over the past two days, I've had three separate (and usually reliable sources) tell me that the FBI was at Red Light District poring over their 2257 records. I published two of these reports and then pulled each one. According to David Joseph, RLD owner, the FBI has not visited his business.
Everyone at RLD's warehouse was scrambling on the day Diabolic was visited. Word got around that the FBI was visiting, but it was not accurate. I'm sure it was a case of "telephone." Many took it as fact they were coming, but I think they just wanted to be 100% ready for a visit.
Flaw In Wankernomics
James writes:
Reading Winai Wongsurawat's paper it's a great example of why fundamentally and technically-superb economists are prone to [soiling] the bed on relevancy so often. a paper published in 2006 using 1991 penthouse magazines just doesn't MEAN anything in the post-max era. in terms of concern about material titilating people into sexual violence, a printed copy of penthouse(even more so in that era) is a totally different animal than a movie with real people acting out sexually-violent things. the penthouse is closer to a "maxim" or "fhm" than to captured domestic violence. only the most-conservative people pick up a glossy/artsy mag like that and feel equally as concerned it's something to worry about versus speculums, choking and physical blows to a partner acted out as realistically as possible on film. good technically, but so far removed from the current reality of what people are concerned about.
Prostitution pricing in the U.K.
Ray Guhn’s Arrest and Pending Censorship of the Adult Industry
Andy Craft aka Jim Manley posts on JBM:
If you have anything to do whatsoever with the adult industry, you will want to read this entire post. I am making this post to offer my view and to update our industry on the latest news of the arrest of Ray Guhn and several members of the www.cumonherface.com and www.cashtitans.com team and how it can affect you. For those that are not aware of the arrests, here are the links to those articles http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?i...ing=ray%20guhn and http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?i...ing=ray%20guhn
Most of you know me as Jim Manley or Big Jim. For those of you trying to picture who I am here is the most memorable pic of me brought to you by JFK http://www.fubarwebmasters.com/curre...pbp/z02847.htm now that was a great night and memory that I will cherish forever.
Ok, first, I am not really able to comment on the facts of the case only to say that Ray Guhn’s legal team will be fighting these charges aggressively as long as the money holds out. Ray has retained the legal team of Weston, Garrou, DeWitt & Walters. The well known and respected Larry Walters plans to spearhead a vigorous 1st amendment defense as you can imagine. Now please carefully read this next part. The predicate on which Ray Guhn and associates are charged can seriously impact how YOU as webmasters, producers, hosting companies, affiliates, and pay site owners will be permitted, or not permitted, to conduct your business in the future. The cops are claiming that paying people to perform sexually on camera is prostitution and therefore illegal. If the prosecution wins the Ray Guhn case in Florida it will have the chilling effect of setting precedent of illegalizing porn production throughout Florida which in turn will eagerly be used by other states anxious to squelch free expression to justify filing suits or applying pressure against webmasters, producers, hosters, affiliates and site owners who engage in showing ‘paid performers engaging in sex while being photographed or videotaped or on webcam’.
1) Why the charge of Racketeering? As mentioned, the cops assert that compensating people who perform in, or produce, adult sexual content is prostitution and that any parties earning an income derived from activity based on prostitution is Racketeering (which carries up to 30 years in jail). The 2nd predicate they are using is an Obscenity charge, ie: that COHF content is stronger content than Pensacola community standards allow, even though you can walk into dozens of stores in Pensacola and purchase many different porn mags showing detailed glossy images of group sex, anal sex, triple penetration, bondage sex, dildo sex, lesbian strap on sex, oral sex, cum swapping and oral/facial cumshots. But we all know how vague the obscenity law is, depending on your locale a girl posing nude could be considered obscene by a conservative jury.
2) Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the guns they seized at Ray’s home were all legally owned along with a weapons permit and the “drugs” were only one medication type legally prescribed by licensed physicians. But it made for a sensational byline in the article.
3) It’s Election year here. So the stronger the headlines, the better, as far as the guys running for reelection are concerned.
I really can’t comment more on the case but after reading some of the posts when this story broke on GFY and other boards I wanted to clear up a few confused posters who poked fun at this situation without understanding how THIS CASE is the landmark case that many in the adult industry have been fearing for years. Grave consequences will occur first in Florida and next industry wide if the prosecution prevails in reclassifying porn performers and actors… as prostitutes. If performers are reclassified as prostitutes, smart money says the law will next move to classify people like YOU who webmaster, produce, host, manage, or resell that ‘illegal’ content as criminals and racketeers. (remember, racketeering carries up to 30 years in jail!).
Attorney Larry Walters has set up a legal defense fund for this fight. I am asking everyone to donate to this fund, not just to help defend Ray and myself, but also to preserve our adult internet industry as we currently know it. This case is already creating expenditures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and honestly guys we need industry financial help from our friends, associates, fellow businessmen and industry moguls to win this battle... for all of us. Please donate directly to Larry Walter’s firm at: www.RayGuhnDefenseFund.com NONE of the donations go to Ray, myself or COHF.
I can only hope that the generosity (and sense of self preservation) of our industry will shine in this moment of darkness and contributions will flow in to assist defending against these charges. Please read this article concerning this case as it was posted on AVN http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary...tent_ID=270764 I hope that after reading this you will understand that this is much more than just another case against a few guys in Florida, but rather it is a veiled legal attempt to begin the process of outlawing all porn production not only in Florida, but eventually reaching across the country.
www.RayGuhnDefenseFund.com
On a personal note I wish to thank the industry for their support and emails and phone calls and im’s about this situation. I am truly grateful of everyone’s concern. I now understand what it means to be at the bottom of the barrel as I have lost everything, my job, my income and for the few that knew I had a daughter as of now the state has ended my rights to see her, so again if you don’t think this case is important for those of you who have children, please imagine not being able to see them again simply because you operated or worked for an adult business. If you think for one second it can’t happen to you as I did, WELL IT CAN! I am not sure if I will stay in the adult industry after all this is over. I have to consider the options and what I might have to do to regain custody of my daughter. I would like to talk to anyone that might need a general manager type, employee or sales rep to weigh my options. I will consider all offers as I have stated before I have no income and my savings is almost gone.
I will respond as I can to the replies of this thread I ask that it be bumped quite regularly if possible to keep this subject fresh in the minds of all webmasters.
Thank you in advance for your donations (www.RayGuhnDefenseFund.com) and emotional support and let’s ALL hope that when the sun sets Ray Guhn and his legal team’s fight to preserve our 1st Amendment freedoms for the adult industry are successful. Truth and the 1st amendment are on our side. The best 1st amendment team in the country is on the case, but the effort needs donations now to the legal fund to avoid being railroaded into a defeat that will shake the foundation of the adult industry.
Who's Going To Host The Temptation Awards?
Temptation says
350 people are confirmed to come. XBiz says Jessica Drake will host
the show. I've heard that she will not.
X-Biz is a sponsor of the Temptations Awards.
Where Is Mark Carriere?
Does he still run Leisure Time? Does his company still move 200,000 DVDs a month?
Ariana Jollee Slugs Director Roy Karch Saturday On Set Of Sex Z Pictures Tranny Movie
Ariana felt that Roy was directing her too much.
After she punched him, she said, "Now you're my bitch," and walked off the set.
Roy shrugged it off and went back to work.
Whatever Happened To Mason?
Pierre writes:
I would like to know what has happened to the once much talked about porn director Mason. About two years ago now, she was on the cover of AVN and was recognized by her peers, but also created much controversy. Her hard-edge style in movie-making sure wasn't for everyone, but she was quite a big name in the gonzo type of movie.
What bothers me is that in the spring of 2005, at the end of February or May, her site (whish included her journal) went down, in about the same time she started changing companies. Leaving Elegant Angel for a brief stint at Platinum X, and after she is supposedly went with Hustler. They didn't kept her long (her movies probably too extreme for the brand), and since then she kind of disappear. I think her last movie was Mason's Sluts, which came out last year. No others came following that one.
So you see, my problem is that I am very much interested to know what happened to her, but I cannot contact her since I can’t reach her through her site since it is down. I don't know for which company she works, I don't even know if she is still active in the business.
As far as I can tell, Mason's gone into a shell since the Delilah Strong fiasco two years ago. She has/had a directing deal with Chris at Anabolic.
What happened to her? Here are some possibilities:
* Her brutal pornography may scare a lot of distributors.
* She's never been prolific. She produces her scenes and movies very slowly.
* She's bounced through various directing deals and may be out of options.
A source writes: "She blew all the money from the Diabolic deal and is slowly getting that movie done one scene at a time."
A source writes: "The articles online say they are after 10 different studios yet it is 23 films from various studios in question."
FBI Visits Diabolic Video to Check 2257 Records
Paul Fishbein writes on AVN.com:(the last time I saw his byline was June 23 on the sale of Club Jenna to Playboy):
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - FBI agents are currently visiting the offices of Diabolic Video here checking their records in accordance with the 2257 statute, according to Diabolic owner Greg Allan.
“The agent said there are 10 companies on their list and we were the first, but Diabolic, not Anabolic,” Allan told AVN.com exclusively.
This is the first time an adult company was visited to verify compliance with the record keeping requirements of 18USC~2257.
I believe that Anabolic/Diabolic is going to get popped on federal obscenity charges within the next year along with several other (maybe dozens of other) hard-edged gonzo companies. This 2257 investigation is a way for the feds to pile on the charges against the extreme porn companies.
L-Pink writes on GFY: "Let's hope pornotube is one of the next inspected. One of their Japanese, teens dressed as school-girls, gang-banged, no 2257 info provided clips."
2:35 p.m. I return Mary Carey's call . She says: "Legend is right next door to Anabolic/Diabolic. I was supposed to go to Legend to pick up my paycheck. Then they told me not to come today because the FBI was at Diabolic. I started freaking out. I want my paycheck now in case... They say, 'Why don't you wait and get your check tomorrow when we'll know what is going on.'"
Legend is across the street from JM Productions which was busted on federal obscenity charges a few months ago.
Mary: "I'm sitting here trying to figure out who are the other 10 companies. Legend doesn't do those type of movies."
In 2001, Legend stopped distributing Max Hardcore.
What makes “Clerks II” both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to the original “Clerks” ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition. If anything, the sequel is more defiant in its disdain for the rat race, elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle. This principle is upheld by Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Mr. Smith), fixtures of the director’s universe, who function as Greek chorus and comic relief, interrupting the usual barrage of non sequiturs and smutty jokes with even more gratuitous filth and absurdity. But the chief defender of the virtues of obnoxious laziness — most notably in a ringing, utterly sincere speech that provides the film’s emotional climax Mr. Smith’s fondness for jokes about excrement, bestiality and related topics is so evidently childish that it is hard to be offended, or even especially provoked, when he tries to test the limits of taste. Unlike “Dogma,” his misunderstood satire on religion, “Clerks II” is not really interested in smashing taboos or exposing hypocrisy. The characters talk dirty as a way of passing the time, dispelling boredom and expressing their squeamish fascination with the messy weirdness of being human.
Mark Felt writes in: "What will you do without Eddie W. to kick around? What will he do without you? Maybe the two of you can hit the lecture circuit like Timothy Leary and G. Gordon Liddy did some years ago."
I wonder what the real story is here:
DENVER - Goalie Entertainment Holdings owner Edward Wedelstedt has agreed to sell his Romantix Adult Superstores chain and his M&M Distributors operation to an unspecified investor group.
In August, Pulse Distribution will take over about half of the Chatsworth offices of Goalie Entertainment on Owensmouth.
Hot Young Chix - An Issue Facing The Nation
Often when I'm interviewed for documentaries there's some old geezer in charge and he's assisted by a couple of hotties. Do these chix get their jobs purely through their professional skills? Are they hired in part because of their looks? Do the geezers hire the chickies because they want to be around chickies (and possibly sleep with chickies) or because the geezers believe that their documentary subjects will be more likely to open up to chickies?
Lainie writes:
Yes they're lovely people and NO I don't think he's doing either of them at all, I spent enough time with them to feel that vibe. The cool thing about that guy is how non-plussed he was by all of it. He was in a hotel room with me, Krista Ayne and Charlie Laine getting ready for a party and the girls were in various states of undress and he didn't leer at all. The most passion I saw from him was discussing religion and music.
They're great girls because they're very intelligent as well as pretty, I think you get turned on by smarts a whole lot (which I dig about you). Bet you'd love a three way! I don't know really, hey I guess it didn't hurt to be attractive. I also notice a lot of young women work for photographers and film people, so yeah maybe he did choose them. But like I said as far I saw he didn't treat them like concubines at all, quite the opposite.
The only guy I met in this business that I found attractive I ended up dating for three to four years! Unfortunately I rarely meet anyone through working here.
Funny you mention three way I've been commissioned to write a book on Three Ways for a small erotic press. I've been close but something always happened, once it got squashed because the woman went nuts because I was making out with her husband when she was out of the room and the other was two guys but I chickened out because I picked them up at a bar and got scared they'd abuse me.
I love smart chicks and the way I feel when I penetrate them. I had a blonde a few months ago and while she was witty and smart and well-read and very giving, what I loved most about her was the good feeling I received when I plundered her nether regions. At times, all the tension in my life would rush towards my groin and pour out of me into her. Afterwards, I felt relaxed and at peace. I could roll over and go to sleep and she was left with the messy task of cleansing herself of my iniquity.
Jane writes:
He only had one girl and yes, she was cute. I don't think he's banging them but who knows? Why not hire someone who is easy on the eyes as long as they can do their job correctly? I think we all tend to automatically gravitate towards the more attractive candidates.
Well, that puts my mind at ease.
Wankernomics - The New Frontier
An Economics professor writes:
My chosen professional has ignored the adult entertainment industry too long. Although I doubt it will ever be a frontier, maybe something more like a small niche or perhaps just a cottage industry?
The number of prostitutes varies dramatically between and within countries. As the attached paper by Lena Edlund notes, it has a lot to do with the sex ratios, the degree of mobility between regions, and many other things. From the 1991 NHSLS I can tell you that 1.9% of women in the US - or about 1.3 million in 1991 - report EVER having been paid by a man for sex, while 1.1% of men report having EVER been paid by a man for sex. From another line of questions I can determine that 0.6% of men report having paid a prostitute in the last 12 months. The average number of times they went to a prostitute in the last 12 months is 6, but there is a lot of positive skewness in the data with the range going from 1 to 60! Remember though, just like restaurants range from McDs to Spago, so to do prostitutes. The prices vary wildly (and I expect have some positive skewness as well). I’ve actually heard that the crack epidemic drove the price of street walking prostitutes to the floor, so bad that pimps actually stopped pimping and became drug dealers (thus the rise in violence over the ensuing property rights as dealers claimed turf).
I realize you have a love hate (or is it hate hate?) relationship with the industry you follow, but there is mounting evidence that pornography actually REDUCES the incidence of rape. (recently delivered at the NBER Summer institute -- and this in the Journal of Applied Economics). So if consenting adults engage in sex and film it, and that reduces Rape, I think we have a net improvement.
I’m working on a math model that tries to identify the substitution between paid sex and masturbation (and masturbation facilitating things like porn and strip shows).
Judaism's Loss Is Pornography's Gain As Kendra Jade Returns To XXX?
Kendra went to the University of Judaism conversion program with Raylene but dropped out. Raylene graduated, converted and married Brad Hirsch, younger brother of the owner of Vivid.
Howard read that Kendra Jade is returning to porn and is scheduled to shoot the movie this week. He read a story about her return to porn and they talk about her history with Jerry Springer...
Kendra says she is not returning to porn.
Pure Play Media To Go Public Later This Year
It's presently owned by Richard Arnold and Sieg Badke.
Willie writes: "PPM's shelf registration was submitted on paper to the SEC."
Braving extreme heat, a crowd of Israel's supporters estimated at several thousand clogged Wilshire Boulevard, waving Israeli and American flags and cheering speakers who included Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Both lamented civilian casualties in Lebanon but expressed strong support for Israel.
According to the Times lead paragraph, the primary thing that Israeli supporters did Sunday in Los Angeles was "clog" Wilshire Blvd. The verb chosen for the paper's lead sentence was "clogged." The subject of that sentence was "Israel's supporters."
I'm curious if those who support left-wing causes, such as the massive rallies a few months ago for illegal immigration, also "clogged" L.A. streets? Or do only Jews clog our town?
A search of "clog" on dictionary.com reveals only negative connotations to the word (and its variations), including:
1. To obstruct movement on or in; block up: Heavy traffic clogged the freeways.
2. To hamper the function or activity of; impede: “attorneys clogging our courts with actions designed to harass state and local governments”
A search of "clogged" (as well as "clog" and "clogging") on LATimes.com reveals that the newspaper has never used the word to describe any other rally in America (going back as far as March 24, 2002).
I'd be shocked if the Times ever described black or Latino protesters as "clogging" streets.
The Times story (by Teresa Watanabe and Valerie Reitman) only quotes Jews on the Left -- Rabbi Steven Jacobs, Jewish Journal Editor Rob Eshman, David N. Myers, Michael Berenbaum, Daniel Sokatch, and Zev Yaroslavsky.
The one possible exception is Jewish Federation L.A. leader John Fischel, who is difficult to place on the political spectrum but could certainly not be considered right of center.
Look at the second sentence of the story: "Both lamented civilian casualties in Lebanon but expressed strong support for Israel."
What kind of twisted thinking places lamenting civilian casualties in Lebanon in opposition to expressing strong support for Israel? Why did the Times choose the word "but" instead of "and"?
The Times evidently believes that lamenting civilian casualties in Lebanon is the opposite of expressing support for Israel.
Protect Israel By Thinking Pure Thoughts
Not only do I watch Fox News and pay my synagogue dues, but I also protect Israel by abstaining from female flesh.
Launched into my fifth decade of life, I don my kipa Sunday afternoon, sew my shirt together (first time I've picked up a needle in about a decade) and (skipping the sunblock because Psalm 121 says God will keep the sun from harming me, though, oy, we're in the days of the great slaughter, when the towers fall... the sunlight is seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days... with burning anger... his tongue is a consuming fire) haul my aching back to Wilshire and San Vicente Blvds to join 1,500 or so other Jews rallying for Israel.
I walk past a hundred people (about a quarter seem to be Jewish) rallying against Israel.
I hope there's a rumble.
I find a trash container in the shade (the temperature must be close to 100 degrees) and sit on it and read a book on creative non-fiction.
Anne Dillard advises me to not write about myself.
Though I'm a vegetarian, I check out the different ways my fellow Jews cope with the heat. The more Orthodox are completely covered up. Some look good. Some wear black suits. Most look dumpy.
The more secular Jews wear less but don't seem to cope with the heat any better for their bareness.
I see dozens of people I know but approach none of them. I don't want to come off as emotionally needy.
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
There's an enormous roar for the Governor.
If each of my loyal readers patronizes one fewer hooker this week and instead donates that money to Israel, together we can make a better world.
Wow, I'm writing on the internet.
KS writes:
Hey Luke, You seem to be duplicitously involving yourself in the march supporting Israel. As though you went, but were not really involved, or went just as an observer. Interesting that this facet of your personality also seems to extend to your faith.
I have to tell you that I am less than impressed by Israel's conduct. I don't like the fact that Israel constantly falls back on its protector (the USA) when taking a tough stance. It's cowardly to speak boldly while your big brother stands behind you smacking his knuckles into his palm. It's even more pathetic when said big brother only associates with you for his own (political) expedience. What are your thoughts on Israel’s startling ability to cause maximum civilian carnage? Do they actually mistake those ice cream trucks for Hezbollah/Palestinian HQ's? At this point who is the oppressor/the oppressed?
I agree with President Bush who said after 9/11 that the United States will not distinguish between terrorists and those who harbor terrorists. Lebanon has chosen to harbor terrorists. So Lebanon will pay the price for choosing to make a deal with the devil (Hezbollah) just as Afghanistan and Iraq paid the price for harboring terrorists.
Israel got bombed. Israel now wants to destroy those who bomb it. That seems just. How would you like the United States to act if it got bombed by terrrorists in Canada or Mexico or Cuba?
Israel is doing the opposite of causing maximum civilian damage. If Israel wanted to cause maximum civilian damage, it would use its nuclear weapons and kill millions of people.
KS writes:
You weren't joking about being a FOX News viewer. What terrorists did Iraq harbor prior to the US invasion? Were they the guys hiding the WMD's? Absolutely incredible that a man as sharp as you is so easily confused by the low grade propaganda spewed by W and crew. Israel's usual collection of random airsrikes were not in response to being bombed. They were in response to the "kidnapping" of one of their soldiers. This brings up a good point of irony in regards to your complaint of word selection in reportage - I.E."clogging". That soldier, had he been Lebanese would have been reported as "captured", but as he was Israeli he was "kidnapped"... Further Israeli soldiers were "kidnapped" while on an offensive foray into Lebanon to recover the original. How would you like the USA to react if it was annexed in a 3rd party land deal and your family's land was confiscated and divided amongst settlers? Was the last paragraph meant to be taken as a serious response? Would you defend that action also?
The movie in question was called Butt Mitzvah, and that gave a fair indication of the problem they faced. The Lubavitcher rabbi had denounced the film in a speech in Crown Heights, and three members of the City Council had called for prosecution -- all of which would have been excellent publicity if picketing hadn't forced the film out circulation.