On Set Of DCypher's Taboo 22 From Metro

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I arrive on set at 10:20 a.m. I park on the street (and later forget about the sign that says no parking from 4pm-7pm. I pick up a $65 ticket).

DCypher looks happy to see me. "I can't remember when I last punched somebody," he admits. "It was probably when I was in bar and drunk. There have been a few people I've wanted to punch but they didn't want to fight. These days, it's not what I'm into. I try to approach people from a perspective of compassion and understanding. But I have bad days."

Ethan Cage holds the boom today. He's proud that his wife Lexi Lamour threw an elbow in a guy's throat when he grabbed her bum at McKenzie Lee's birthday party.

"I put her in karate class," boasts Ethan.

DCypher (now with Justine Jolie, he used to be married to Bunny Luv who's now the Digital Playground director Celeste) says that people who come into porn, including himself, have emotional issues they haven't dealt with. "They're put into an environment where they get a lot of attention, a lot of money, and there's access to drugs... That doesn't create the greatest environment to have a healthy functioning relationship with another human being.

"Why aren't you in a successful relationship? You have a strong moral basis. I read on your site that women find you quite dashing. What are you waiting for?"

Luke: "I hate it when people treat me like a porn person."

DCypher: "You feel like you are more than that?"

Luke: "Yeah."

DCypher: "You feel it demeans your intellectual capacity?"

Luke: "Yeah. LA Magazine says the only thing I know anything about is porn."

DCypher: "That hurts?"

Luke: "It did. It's not true. I have many dimensions."

DCypher: "Many people in the industry feel the same way. Even though they use their genitals to get paid or capture people using their genitals, they've been stereotyped. Why do you think society stereotypes like that?"

Luke: "Because sex is so powerful, anyone who trafficks in commercial sex is stigmatized, is primarily viewed as a pornographer."

DCypher: "Don't you think that's hypocritical?"

Luke: "No, it's inherent to the human condition. No society will view a commercial sex provider or entertainer as a human being."

DCypher: "Do you view porn people as inhuman?"

Luke: "No, because I know them and I don't care about their porn work."

DCypher: "What happens after they are done? Can they return to human status?"

Luke: "Generally, no."

Van Damage walks up.

DCypher: "I was just asking Luke if he felt that people in porn lack moral fibre."

Van: "How are you doing, Luke? Can I pinch your nipples?"

Luke: "No.

"They lack some boundaries. That's interconnected with morality but it doesn't encapsulate it. I don't think everyone in porn is a scumbag."

Van Damage: "What constitutes moral fibre?"

Luke: "Doing what is right."

DCypher: "You never want to answer my questions."

The crafts service Asian girl has tits to stop a bus. Her t-shirt reads "I luv my boyfriend."

I bet he loves her too.

I yell at DCypher: "I walked in here expecting to see some slamming action."

DCypher: "You've got to be the post we measure ourselves against. If you move, we'll slide into moral anarchy. How do we know if we're improving or declining?"

DCypher defends me for quoting from porners' MySpace postings. "I keep a journal. I would never dream of putting things from there on my DVSX site. A girl writes that she poisoned her girlfriend. What was that? Then they get mad when you reprint it. I'm confused why people get so upset. They want to control how it looks.

"In the MySpace era, everyone has a blog. The blogosphere is killing the news. Rupert Murdoch says it is good it is going, that personalized partisanized news is triumphing. In the age of reality TV and blogging, everyone is becoming L-ke Ford."

DCypher tells his videographer Jason Sullvan: "I don't want to alienate you like I did Barry Wood. He thought I was talking down to him. If you start to feel that I'm talking down to you, let me know."

Ava's scene requires her to act like a crazy person. She rocks back and forth screaming, "It's not real, it's not real."

She's about to cry.

Throughout the day, Ava says to me, "Luke, you're not an animal."

DCypher: "Despite what other women have said."

Luke: "Despite what Holly says."

I am a human being. I am a man.

Off camera, Ava Rose goes down on Van Damage.

I walk into the make-up room. Somebody says that Vivid girls are all powder and plastic.

Girl A: "You ever worked for Vivid?"

Girl B: "I don't think I want to."

Girl A: "I worked for them once."

I return to watch the director interviewed by a crew from Playboy's American Sex Star.

DCypher takes my recorder: "Are you lonely at night, Luke? What do you think about when you're alone? Can you hear the lambs screaming?"

The director says about his lead actress: "She has perfect shaped tear-drop breasts."

"Derek [at LADirectModels.com] asked Ava if she would be comfortable working with four guys and she said it was something she'd be interested in trying. He said she would probably feel safe on my set. We don't beat the girls up so much. It's not like a gonzo."

Ava says she would never have sex with four guys for a gonzo movie.

Luke: "How were you able to tap into the craziness for your role?"

Ava: "I came in here and I was like, 'How am I going to come in here and act?' I don't know where that crazy girl came from. I knew this crazy lady in the next door apartment who was a drug addict. I wanted to go over and save her but I was young and my parents thought I'd do drugs."

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

Ava: "Insurance fraud. I wanted to be a secret agent and insurance was the closest thing I could get.

"I know you don't twist words, Luke. People twist words."

Van Damage, dressed like a fascist, says his father and grandfather were in Auschwitz and to this day it still affects his grandfather. "He won't walk into a gas chamber."

Van: "How do you know what's right?"

Luke: "You need a transcendent moral code or it's just everyone's opinion."

From Chicago where she worked as a stripper during highschool ("because I wanted to move out of my parents house"), Nevaeh (a Penthouse Pet) moved to LA a year ago after entering porn.

She's skinny. Her t-shirt reads, "Do I make you feel fat?"

"I want to make as much money as I can," she says, "and then move back to Chicago and buy a house.

"I used to come out here two weeks of every month and it [the travel] just got so annoying."

She loves the money, beautiful women and attention that come with her work in porn.

Luke: "So how has it affected your life being a porn star?"

She pushes my recorder away and ends the interview. She finds my questions too intense.

DCypher: "I owe Metro one more movie. I'm off contract."

A light bulb explodes.

"It's the whole 6/6/06 thing," says a crew member.

DCypher: "I want to be more like Holly. No matter what you write about her, she ends up looking good. You want to put a bullet between the eyes of her friends. She writes back, 'Oh Luke, don't judge them so harshly. They didn't know I'd quit drinking.'"

In the name of his rebbe Jim Holliday, DCypher instructs the girls that their fingernail and toenail polish should match.

Joe writes: "Bless that director for wanting the girls to have their fingers & toes painted the same color. That's a real life thing that drives me crazy. Especially since women are so quick to say "That doesn't match!" to most anything a guy wears."

Ava (older by a year) and Mia Rose entered porn in February 2006.

Van Damage throws a fake tirade: "How do you expect me to act in this atmosphere? Where's my injector? Where's the water I asked for ten minutes ago?"

A crew guy who's worked in the industry for 20 years remembers when he used to stunt-cock all the time in the eighties when the main actors were limp from cocaine abuse. You didn't need an HIV-test then to jump into the action.

1:15 p.m. Charlie Lain and Nevaeh go smoke a bowl. The make-up artist requests that they do not smudge her work.

Ava Rose is strapped down. I ask DCypher if she'll be having sex while strapped up.

"Yeah," he says. "And then we'll bring in kids and they'll have sex with animals."

"Luke, you're not an animal," says Ava. "They can't have sex with you."

Referring to Van, Ava says: "Yeah, he's my daddy. He does dirty things to me because I'm a f--- hole."

I wonder if Ava (one of 15 contestants on Playboy's American Sex Star) would say such things if she truly understood how much God loved her.

Brooke Haven is asked what she would do if she got a million dollars.

Van, from behind her: "Get this strange guy out of my ass."

Playboy asks Ava repeatedly, "What would you like to say to Jenna?"

Ava doesn't know.

Who can blame her? What does one say to Jenna? "I admire your work"?

I interview Iowa's Carli Banks, in porn for 18-months. "I only do girl-girl.

"I signed up one 1Modelplace.com.

"My boyfriend at the time (for a year, ended a year ago) was always looking at porn. 'That chick is so hot. She's the most beautiful woman in the world.' I said, 'You watch. I'll be in one of those magazines.'

"An agent found me. I told my boyfriend I was doing fashion work.

"One day I brought home a Penthouse. 'Look at this honey.' We were flipping through the pages and there I was. He was so pissed. We broke up for like a week.

"That was one of the main reasons why I did.

"I wanted to live here. He wanted to live [in Iowa]. He's a momma's boy. He can't keep a job. He depended on me making money."

She has natural C-cup breasts.

"I love the money. It's easy. I hate that everyone knows what I do. It's kinda embarrassing that everyone's seen me naked. I'm more of a private person. Now I'm used to it but I kinda regret having my pictures all over the internet.

"I'm with a guy [UCLA student]. We don't talk about it. I keep it private. My personal life is completely separate. I don't let it affect me.

"We live with eight guys from this frat. I'm like a sister to them. They go, 'Eww, that's gross. I can't look at what you do.' The whole UCLA school knows what I do."

She giggles. "He doesn't like that too much."

"I will never do a scene with a guy. I couldn't live with myself.

"I haven't talked to my mother's side of the family in four years. My dad knows. I can't tell my grandma.

"I'll tell me dad, 'I'm going to be in this magazine this month. Don't get it.'

"My dad loves porn. He's a very sexual person.

"I moved in with him at 15. I had a crazy stepmom. She chopped off all my hair. He was married to her for five years. She was really sweet until I moved in. I moved out on my own at 16.

"He'll tell me, 'I had five girlfriends this week.'"

Celeste Star has been in porn for 30 months. She did one scene with her boyfriend at the beginning but since then has been girl-only.

Luke: "What motivated you to get into the industry?"

Celeste: "It was more my boyfriend."

Luke: "He was pushing you?"

Celeste: "Yeah, he was. When I started, it was for the money.

"I've had a boyfriend for two years. He supports me. He was going to drive me today but he went golfing instead. He's going to make us money golfing one day."

Luke: "Does he have a job?"

Celeste: "No. When I first started, when I was with my first agent and I wasn't working much and wasn't making much money, so I needed him to bring in a paycheck. I enjoy spending time with him. If we get married, it'll be both of us working and taking care of the kids.

"He doesn't use my money. He's not like my first boyfriend. He's laid back and he respects me and loves me."

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

Celeste laughs. "A doctor. In highschool, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon. I took all the necessities but I didn't pass my SATs with a good score so I decided I wouldn't be a doctor."

Luke: "How did your family react to your being a porn star?"

Celeste: "They don't know. I think my mom would be OK with it. She'd be shocked at first. One of my sisters loves it and the other sister says I'm throwing my life away."

Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a porn star?"

Celeste: "I hate waiting around. I love the sex. I love the make-up. You get to do pretty girl and look all pretty."

Luke: "What do you do with your spare time?"

Celeste: "Hiking, playing basketball. I sit and watch TV a lot."

Nicole and Voodoo celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary in October. She did her first scene in late 1999. For the past two years, she's worked as a photographer in addition to doing a few scenes a month.

DCypher, who ranks among the 700 most powerful people in porn, enjoys the admiration and caresses of his actresses.

"Why did we never date?" he asks them.

"Bad timing," is a frequent answer and one he finds comforting.

When he's all done with this movie, he can sit in the shower trying to wash away the filth and rock back and forth and cry, "Bad timing! Bad timing!"

Shooting pornography after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Charlie Laine walks around burping. She's bored and high. "If I get any more stoned, I'll fall asleep," she declares.

The four girls doing a lesbian four way protest when they learn that a boy-girl will be going on at the same time in the same place. They clash with the production manager Jay Shanahan, who's filling in for his sick wife Shanna McCullough. They call him Sergeant Porno.

Director DCypher steps in and calms everybody down and works out a compromise.

A member of the crew repeatedly straps Ava down.

"He can never love you more than he loves himself," says another crew guy to Ava. "And he hates himself."

It takes me an hour, but Tuesday evening I finally work up the courage to ask Faith Leon for an interview.

She's from a small town in North Carolina, which has shunned her since it found out she does porn.

In the industry for two years, she's done over 100 scenes. "I usually come out here for two weeks at a time and do two-three scenes a day. I moved here last year."

Luke: "What group did you hang out with in highschool?"

Faith: "I had friends in all the little cliques. I was the chick who had all the guys."

Luke: "Were you a cheerleader?"

Faith: "No, I was a sports player (soccer and basketball). Me and my sister (two years older) took number one in basketball North Carolina. I'm 5'11. I played forward. My sister is 5'10. She's an English teacher."

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

Faith: "A veterinarian. I'm an animal freak.

"After highschool, I went to college for about a year -- North Carolina State. Taking 18 hours and working fulltime. I couldn't take it. I needed more money. So of course, blah blah blah. I am going to go back to school but I have to gain residency in California."

Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about being in this industry?"

Faith: "I like the freedom. You feel pretty. You get dressed up and made up.

"It's overwhelming sometimes. Mentally, you've got to cool off. My fiance Marcus Leon (30yo) works in the industry too. We have to separate it from our lives."

Earlier, I heard Faith say her fantasy was to see two guys have sex.

Luke: "Would you lose respect for your fiance if he allowed another man to plough him up the rear?"

Faith: "I wouldn't lose respect, but I wouldn't want to see it because I know he wouldn't like it.

"We'll be together two years in November. We're getting married in November.

"When I met him, we had both just started but we didn't tell each other. Come on. If you weren't in the industry and I came up to you on the industry and said, 'I f--- guys for a living, do you want to go out?' Would you want to go out with me anyways?"

I shake my head.

Faith: "Exactly. I told him two weeks later. He said, 'Ohmigod. I do the same thing.'"

Luke: "What are the joys and sorrows of dating someone in the industry?"

Faith: "It sucks because I don't like seeing him with other girls. I don't watch his scenes. I like to know who he's working with for my own mentality's sake, my defence mechanism.

"Good things? The money. We own a house in Chatsworth that's paid for.

"I do want kids. I don't want to wait ten years to have them.

"We're trying to get the website thing going. We're planning to build up north (in a small town). I love the snow and the mountains. We're going to move up there. The standard of living is a lot less. Hopefully we won't have to do this. He does photography. I'll do a little small business. I've researched the town and I know what kind of business they need."

Luke: "Have you had to pay any prices for being in this industry?"

Faith: "Yes. The whole town (about 25,000) I grew up in knows what I do for a living. They've blackballed me. When my ten year reunion comes, I've got these pictures to show. 'Hey, I'm looking gorgeous. I've got a husband on my arm. I'm 21 and I own a $600,000 house.' I don't see any of those people my age doing that."

Luke: "Did some people stop being friends with you?"

Faith: "They completely cut me off. They found something on the internet, a huge company on the internet. It was one of my first scenes. It was absolutely horrible. I looked hideous. Of course that's what they found. Word spread like no other.

"My [born-again Christian] friend calls me up: 'I can't believe you do this.' You f--- other people. So...

"It's Bible-belt country. My brother (three years older) stopped talking to me. My dad for a while. We kinda told them that I'm out of the business. They don't go looking for porn. They're church-going people."

Luke: "Why are you such a rebel?"

Faith: "I've always been. I'm a loner. I do what I've got to do. It's for better causes. That's my excuse.

"I talk to my sister about my scenes. 'Yeah, I had to do this!' She's like, 'What?' She teaches highschool English. She thinks it's great. 'My little baby sister does that.'

"I'm still shy, reserved. If you see me on set, I'm not approaching people. You might think I'm a bitch because I won't come up and talk to you because I'm scared of talking to you. But if you talk to me, I'll talk to you."

Faith has no southern accent. "My family is from Michigan so I wasn't raised southern. My family doesn't. You won't catch me saying 'Y'all.'"

Luke: "What do you love and hate about Los Angeles?"

Faith: "I hate LA! Too many people! There are cars everywhere! Coming to work today, I sat on the exit ramp for 20 minutes."

Luke: "Do you get recognized?"

Faith: "No, because I don't wear make-up."

She finds many porn fans creepy and when her husband gets recognized in public, she doesn't like it. "Eww, that means they masturbate to our movies."

With her husband, Faith moved into this "cute neighborhood in Chatsworth. It's safe. You can go jogging at night. I thought the neighbors would bring pies but nobody did anything. There were no welcome baskets. I was disappointed."

Luke: "On the other hand, it's good that they don't know you because they won't know what you do."

Faith: "We're very private. They think that my husband is a photographer and that I'm a model."

Most of the girls are stoned. They alternate bowl breaks with cigarette breaks. Some of them have been waiting around since 11 a.m.

7:40 p.m. Charlie Lain yells out: "There's no 'I' in 'team.'"

I overhear AVN's Peter Warren say to DCypher: "Ron Jeremy was at my house last night. It was so weird."

James DiGiorgio writes me: "While checking out your latest 'photographic verite' images from DCypher's set, I became impressed with Duke, DCypher's PA, cuz he's wearing an "Archaeological Institute of America" baseball cap. In one of the images, he seems to be joyously preparing for a "dig" in Ava Rose's ass. It's makes me proud to see people in porn combining smut and academic research."

Whatever happened to Sin City contract girl Gina Austin? I guess she didn't want to do porn anymore and just left.

I ask the Dalai Porn Llama of Sin City who replies: "I really don't have a clue. I didn't ask this time figuring either religion, drugs, embarrassment, parental intervention, just plain tired of sucking cock on video, better offer, suitcase pimp's influence, roommate's influence, herpes, chlamydia, or all or some of the preceding."

A friend writes: "I saw her being interviewed on video at AVN.com, and she had a deer in the headlights look on her face. She hadn't done a lot of sex. She'd stripped briefly in Ohio."

I arrive at Porn Star Karaoke at 9:10 p.m. It's almost empty.

Sponsor Jason Sechrest rolls up at 9:20. He promises the crowd to make PSK more gay.

I hang out until 11 p.m. but I don't see any porn stars beyond Lisa Sparxxx.

A friend tells me that Tyra Banxxx is doing really well for herself. "She was tricked by Tyra Banks on her TV show to say that she was leaving porn, but she never had any intention of leaving porn. She's on the boxcover of America's Next Whore. It's a feature for Hustler directed by Roy Karch. It was shot on film."

Luke: "She can be proud of that. The boxcover no less. America's top whore. Wow."

Friend: "It's been a long time since there's been a black contract girl. Since Heather Hunter."

Luke: "She's like the next Rosa Parks. She'll be a role model for black youth all over the world. This will revolutionize the black underclass. Give them hope."

If you work hard in America, you can go straight to the top of a porn boxcover. Shot on film no less.

"She's like Stand and Deliver. It's like she's teaching calculus to inner-city kids."

Friend: "She's a great performer. Did you see her on Monster Loads? She was teaching other women how to ----."

Roy walks up.

Roy: "It's called America's Next Top Porn Model and it's from Sex Z Pictures. The broadcast rights will go to the Hustler channel."

Friend: "See!"

Luke: "Was she good?"

Roy: "She was very good. She's a nice girl. She took special time with this one for us because of the situation with the original Tyra and the Tyra Banks show. We shot some of the scenes in the same location where the original Tyra Banks show was taped. It's quite the parody. We're just finishing the editing. It should be out in the fall."

Friend: "I just saw the boxcover for it. It looks great."

Roy says I've carved out a niche for myself as the reluctant porn journalist.

Friend: "He's in wikipedia!"

I hear Lisa Ann (and Amy Reid) says she gets $2,000 per scene and won't do anal.

Da Burglar writes on XPT: "Dude, they (porn whores) are already "dead" inside, that's why they smoke, drink, do drugs and play Russian roulette with the HIV/STD Revolver. Cancer schmancer."