Gram reminds us that porn stars are born, not made, with this week’s Porn Star Birthdays

Hair-carpeted and randy, Reems could have been the face of the carefree 70′s

As much fun as it is talking with Vanessa Del Rio, it is bittersweet, too, because you really wish it were 1974 with the two of you buying loose joints in the seedy fleshpits of an unsanitized Times Square. We’re talking about an upcoming movie version of the legendary pornstress’s life, the “Latin from Manhattan” [...]

Gram Ponante profiles three books worth reading, two that tell us about how we got here and one that wonders why we stay.

Radley Metzger, director (as Henry Paris) of “The Opening of Misty Beethoven,” turns 84 on January 21.

“Well, we’re good girls,” says underpantsless Lisa, “but whatever we can’t give you, we make up in enthusiasm.”

A pornographer who was an unlikely political activist, Riccardo Schicchi, 60, directed Cicciolina in “The Red Telephone,” Italy’s first hardcore film.

For many on stage and in the audience, there is a feeling of nostalgia and loss, as if it could never be that way again.

Keep reminding yourself that “Elements of Desire” is 19 years old.

Perhaps Nina does love Ron, but then they go and fuck a bunch of other people and never see each other again.

Kiki D’aire talks with Gram Ponante about her role in 2000′s “Camp Erotica,” managing a porn agency, guys who can’t get it up, and meeting girls who remind her of her.

If you’re going to interview someone about his rum, the right thing to do is to have consumed a lot of it beforehand

No book has done more to complicate the legacy of the late John Holmes—to his favor—than “Porn King,” his fascinating work of semi-autobiography re-released by his widow, Laurie Holmes.

“It was a different time,” says Jamie Gillis.

Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”

I look at two versions of “Sex World” shot 30 years apart.

Nearly a quarter century after his death, interest in John C. Holmes isn’t “Exhausted,” and you get the feeling Holmes wouldn’t have had it any other way.

The Wonderland Murders became the Porn Industry’s first big scandal, and AHF and AIM had nothing to do with it

Like Georgina Spelvin, Gram Ponante believes that if you’re going to Hell anyway, you’d better enjoy what got you there

Someone born at the start of Shayla La Veaux’s porn career is now eligible to be in porn herself. “But it would be weird to do a scene with her,” says La Veaux.