Claire Hoffman writes in Portfolio: “It’s not just a man thing,” agrees Samantha Lewis, the C.E.O. of Digital Playground, who estimates that 45 percent of her Web-based sales (which include site subscriptions and DVDs sold online) are to women. “As each year goes by, we’re realizing, Oh my goodness. The percentages are climbing.” I ask…
Claire Hoffman writes in Portfolio: DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s happening to its Hollywood counterpart—only worse. …Three years ago, 80 percent of Vivid’s income came…
Tom Hymes writes: UNIVERSAL CITY Calif. — History was made at the Free Speech Coalition’s Red, White and Blue Bash last night by former Senator Mike Gravel when he became the first U.S. presidential candidate to speak at an adult entertainment industry function during a campaign. Eddie Wedelstedt, the founder of Goalie Entertainment and Eddie’s…
Tod Hunter writes: On Sept. 7 in Portland, Ore., Paul Eugene Frizelle, 37, was charged with the murder of 18-year-old model Emily Egan, whose body was found in his apartment. The case has a number of familiar themes: a young runaway girl, an older man, intimations of drugs and sex, and an angry mother who…
Jim B. speculates on XPT: The more I look at this, the more it seems that he killed her accidentally. What I think happened is he took her away to force her to get clean, something that always backfires. He got frustrated, and, hopped up on booze and blow, hit her too hard and accidentally…
AVN reports: PRAGUE – European adult performer Robert Rosenberg, his wife and an assistant are being detained in Prague on suspicion of human trafficking. The Pravo Daily has reported that the three are being held and a court has placed the Rosenberg’s child in a temporary home. Rosenberg, who is also known as Robert Rosi,…
From the Sun newspaper: A HARD-core porn comic has caused outrage by depicting Keira Knightley having sex with Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. The US publication, produced by a firm called Sinful Comics, boasts readers will see Keira, 21, as “she gets seduced” by her Pirates of the Caribbean co-stars. Film-makers Disney are reported to…
Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 10, I got a call. "This is Tony T, Brian Surewood’s partner. "I have an issue. You and Gene Ross are going online and putting out stuff as though you were there. You’re slaughtering the dude online. That’s not cool. "Brian didn’t hit anyone. He was hit. There’s no evidence that he…
I call Doron Wednesday, Oct. 10. Wanker Wang used to relentlessly humiliate Doron, calling him a fat guy with a little pecker. Doron: "He used to be the webmaster at Extreme Associates. They had a wrestling promotion. I street-teamed for them one time and I met him. This was early ’02. In September ’03 he…
I talk to Jandi and Jack Lawrence Wednesday night, Oct. 10, at James Bartholet’s birthday party. Video Video In porn for two months, Jandi is of Chinese ethnicity and comes from Hawaii. As a kid, she wanted to be a scientist. "I’m on my way. I’ve graduated from college. I have degrees in Spanish and…
