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All of Saturday night's proceeds go to the Red Cross for Katrina relief. "However much money we make tonight (tickets are $15 and there are 600 DVDs for sale)," says promoter Johnny Barraco, "The Forbidden City (the club hosting tonight) and David Joseph (owner of Red Light District) will match the funds."

Johnny says he might be taking his Pornutopia events (he's done six) to Japan. He'll take about ten American porn stars, including his girlfriend Taylor Kurtis.

I hear Bob Guccione Jr is starting a hardcore magazine.

A former VP at Playboy TV, Steve Taibor, says his last paycheck there bounced.

David Gorman (formerly with Hustler Video) comes in with his girlfriend Nikita Lea. She asks me if this is a porn party. I say yes. She punches him. "I told you I don't want to go to anymore porn parties."

"You want to go home?" he asks.

She says no. Now that they're here, they might as well drink.

Harry Mohney has just opened 40 clubs in Europe. At the opening night in Paris, the strippers were having sex with the customers.

Harry is good friends with Larry Flynt. At dinner the other night, Larry told Harry, 'You have more money then I'll ever have." Harry just smiled.

I chat with blonde model Ariel, 22, and her husband of a year Michael Kryger (he's friends with Don Benn). They met when Ariel did a spanking and blowjob movie for him in Pennsylvania. After the work was finished, Michael (who's 43 and been divorced twice) asked her out.

They're swingers.

Michael shoots porn for various people. He even shot a couple of scenes for Max Hardcore.

Ariel's been in porn a year but only done four movies because she's highly selective and since her marriage she's only done girl-girl.

Luke to Ariel: "He brought you into the industry?"

Michael: "No."

Ariel: "Yes you did. You brought me further in."

Michael: "She came to me to shoot for me."

Ariel: "He spanked my ass red. He put me over his knee and made me act like a little girl and ask for punishment."

Michael: "I asked her afterwards if she'd like to go to dinner sometime and she actually said yes."

Ariel: "I lived three hours away and he drove all the way out. There are so many girls in porn. Why are you coming to my house? He had a girlfriend at the time."

Michael: "No. I'd broken up with her."

After a few dates, Ariel moved in with him and healed his broken heart.

Luke: "How come you guys got married so quickly?"

Ariel: "He said to me, 'Do you love me?' I said yes. He said, 'Then you'll marry me.' I said yes."

Michael has two kids Ariel's age. Ariel says they like her (they don't know she does porn).

Michael tells his kids he shoots wedding videos. Before porn, he was an industrial designer. "I got into porn making silicone dildos. I shot video of the girls using them for advertising. People liked the way I shot video.

"I swore I would never get married again. I was a single dad for ten years. I had the life every man would want [shooting porn]. Then she walked in my door and I said, 'This is different.'"

Ariel: "His ex-wife called him up and said, 'Michael, how is it to be married to a 22-year old?"

Ariel had one bad experience when she came to LA to shoot but she won't divulge the details. "I'm picky about who I work with."

Luke: "Why?"

Michael: "She has standards."

Luke: "She's a porn girl."

Michael: "No she's not. She's a lady."

Ariel: "That's ok honey."

Ariel, who says she's been with about 20 guys in her life, says Michael is always with her when she's working.

Luke to Ariel: "How often do you bring a girl home?"

Ariel: "About every two weeks."

Michael: "But we don't keep kosher."

Ariel was raised a Baptist. "I was taught that pornography was bad and that I would go to hell for it. Part of the religion teaches that God will forgive you. So hey, God will forgive this."

I hear Aria (one of the founders of Porn Star Karaoke) found God and that's why she left porn and escorting a few months ago.

Ariel hasn't tried to bring Michael (who was raised an Orthodox Jew in Canada and speaks a little Hebrew and Yiddish) to Jesus.

"I don't go to synagogue anymore and I love my sushi," he says.

Luke: "Why don't you keep the Sabbath?"

Michael: "Because Friday night is the best night for her to bring home girls."

Luke: "Have you ever been in prison?"

Michael: "Only once in a holding cell for five hours with a bunch of Mexicans. For immigration. I was out of status temporarily."

Ariel: "I came out in the September 2005 issue of Hustler. All my sister's friends called her. She said to me, 'I thought you were done with that. That you're not doing that anymore.' I'm like, 'That was shot a year ago. It just came out now.'

"When I walk into my hometown, all the guys are like, 'Hey, how's it going?'

"I'm coming out in Hustler's Beaver Hunt, the Christmas edition."

Luke: "Your parents must be so proud."

Ariel: "My mother is so pissed off. She wants me to dye my hair brown to go to her wedding. She's afraid that people will recognize me. People are calling my house and my sister and saying they recognize me."

Ariel says her dad left when she was seven.

"[Porn] kinda had to do with an ex-boyfriend. He told me that I was not that sexy. He was a porn addict. He loved porn girls. He would read porn magazines. I thought, 'Omigod, he obviously thinks they're cuter than me.' So I thought, 'I'll show him.'"

Michael: "Don Benn is going to spank you when you get home."

Ariel: "Don's going to kill me. Everybody warned me about you. You said that Trinity Page is stupid."

Luke: "I never said that. I don't call people stupid. I don't own l-keford.com.

"Did your dad tell you that he loves you?"

Ariel: "Yeah. He's like, 'You know that I love you guys.' But then he leaves."

Ariel first had sex at 14. "I wasn't a ho until I turned 19.

"I thought that when you got into porn, you could just f--- and have orgasms and have a good time all over the place. I didn't know that your agent had to know this person and that person. I just don't like the politics. I wish your could just spread your legs."

Luke: "What are the joys and sorrows of having a relationship within the porn industry?"

Ariel: "That's really deep."

Luke: "I'm a really deep person."

Ariel: "This is porn. It's supposed to be light and airy."

Luke: "Not me. I'm deep and dark."

Michael: "Remember the darkness."

Ariel: "I haven't had any sorrows."

Michael: "You'll be crying tomorrow [when she reads this]."

Ariel: "Oh no, I've met Luke.

"When it comes to women f------ my husband, I don't care. I like to see women f------ my husband."

Monstar says to me, "Why do you pretend to focus? You know it is going to turn out blurry."