Whore posts to XPT:
Several years ago, Duke had balls and asked the difficult questions to the whores he interviewed. He caused controversy and exposed the truth.
Recently he interviewed MILF Heidi Mayne. Who the fuck cares what her best classes in high school was. She went to high school over a quarter of a century ago. 28 years old? Yeah like Lori Lust is 27 years old. What she learned in high school then is taught in elementary school. Same goes to when she lost her virginity.
Why didn’t he ask her why she left her last agency and moved to Gold Star? She says "[Porn] gives me something interesting to talk about when I come home from work."…okay let’s expand on that…
what the fuck does she talk about? About the Herpes II she just caught? How she tells her kid, mommy likes it up the ass by random men?
Come on Duke…you have become the Larry King of porn journalists.
Steve York posts to XPT:
I read Luke’s site regularly but I skip any interviews with porn girls, especially the new crop. Its not that Luke doesn’t dig up juicy facts, ask the tough questions or act like such a quiet inept retard he forces the subject to spill their guts out of boredom and pity.
How interesting of an interview can you get out of whores who are just boring people to begin with and what type of questions do you ask to get a response that doesn’t end with a sad molestation or abortion story?
Or take this story: Luke a few months ago interviews a girl on-set new to the business [Evelyn Lin]. She goes to my old college [U.C. San Diego]. He asks what type of response she gets from students and she claims she’s rarely bothered and the response is nominal.
The truth? Its been a topic of conversation all over campus and all over tons of message boards. The girl even gets caught editing details in her own Wikipedia entry (like where she goes to school after blurting it out in some scene she starred in). Her boyfriend threatens to sue a few message boards. Tons of other juicy details and events. Very interesting story which raises issues of online privacy, wiki-ing, and the balance between being a college student and advertising and promoting your own porn career. Yet Lurk posts some myspace blog entry he found like some old creep.
So yeah, even when there’s an interesting story girls will just lie about it anyway. Just skip the interviews with the girls Luke, stick to the shit stirring like the current Chico Wang fiasco.
Nobody posts: "Maybe he toned it down because he wasn’t getting as many women to interview with him as he used to. Kind of like this site scares away, pisses off, or chases away porn stars with pitch forks and flaming torches. You know the old saying, "you get more flies with honey". Maybe he’s trying to be nicer so he can get future interviews."
Houston Don posts: "Yet "nicer" interviews in quantity are meaningless compared to fewer but more probative interviews of broader interest. Still, the kinds of interviews he offers should be geared to the audience he seeks to attract. If he wants the slavering fanboy types to populate his website, the nicer interviews are a good idea for him. On the other hand, if he wants to establish some form of journalistic integrity that could lead to better jobs (inside and outside of porn), the comments here are spot on that he needs to ask more interesting questions, even if they make the subject a bit uncomfortable."
Rog Pipe is informative, but there’s an inherent smugness about him that I find irritating. And I lost my last shred of respect for Gene when he offered to take Chico Wang out boozing. I’d much rather drink alone, thank you very much. Or with a Tompkins Square Wino ca. 1989. So I guess I’m stuck with Luke.
I don’t know whether Mr. Ford ever consciously thought that up as a method or strategy for his interviews or not, but I think it’s an interesting approach to confront several (not so) different people with the same basic set of questions and see their respective reactions.
It’s easier to discern certain psychological patterns and mechanisms that way, the lies and typical, shallow porn PR talk become even more obvious. So do the honest answers and painful truths…
I’d like to see Holly doing those kind of interviews or how about Vanessa, she demonstrates knowledge and interest in photography, certainly they both have the intelligence. How about a section to allow people to post up their pic’s and interviews.
i really like the latest interviews where he asks non-porny questions about their lives. In the end you get to know the girl more. Many of these interviews could be put together as feature length documentary about porn people.
Sure…when the interview is really deep…and controversial(Aria’s interview)you won’t expect the girl to give another one.
With all due apologies to fuckwhore, the perez analogy falls short simply because mainstream isn’t porn. nobody in porn would drop that kind of money for a banner on luke’s site if he was still cruising in 99-mode.
Like it or not, porn journalism must deal with humanity and not just the jerkoff witch hunts of anti-sexual prude police. Perhaps Luke has grown tired of beating a dead horse with the moral leader shtick. Spending a career in a smut media shithole complaining about the stink is the definition of professional literary hell. It may be a tabloid way of life for sour grape fans. But it gets old for insiders who have been there and done that.