Re-opening “Misty Beethoven”
“It was a different time,” says Jamie Gillis.
Adding “Inches” to John Holmes biography
Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”
The Best of All Possible “Sex World”s
I look at two versions of “Sex World” shot 30 years apart.
Book launch and documentary prove John Holmes still isn’t “Exhausted”
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.
John Holmes & the Wonderland Murders: 30 years ago today
The Wonderland Murders became the Porn Industry’s first big scandal, and AHF and AIM had nothing to do with it
“The Devil” You Know: Earning your rapture rejection
Like Georgina Spelvin, Gram Ponante believes that if you’re going to Hell anyway, you’d better enjoy what got you there
Witchy Woman: On a Couch with Shayla La Veaux
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.
Johnny Wadd’s meatier “Flesh”: An Interview with Bob Chinn
Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd
Home for Eros Day with Dr. Suzy
I have worked in the adult industry long enough to respect the double standards on which it is built, and some of these require a great deal of finesse to negotiate.
Annie Sprinkle invites the Moon into her marriage
I’ve been to some weddings where the couple can’t stand each other and no one has a good time. But this wedding—a threesome, no less—was glorious.
“Grimy’s Tales”: Is it bestiality if it’s a cartoon frog?
Snow White’s Evil Queen mounts her cat, Sleeping Beauty’s mom is fucked by a frog, and the baby Sleeping Beauty does something that would very likely get this site closed down if I posted the picture.
Porn Parodies of the Ancient World: “The Howard Sperm Show”
How can you not root for a movie whose own boxcover copy states that it’s “not the best porn parody you’ll ever see”?
The Bad Porn Contest: April
I will send you both “The Senator’s Daughter” and (what I consider) a good movie if you …
The Good Old Days weren’t always good: “The Senator’s Daughter”
“… the couple rides through the empty streets of Century City in a convertible limousine, waving to no one. It’s like the money ran out.”
Porn Valley Two-Headed Donkey Tour: The Wonderland Murders
John Holmes began hanging around with a group of thugs who lived in a three-story home on the twisty mountainside Wonderland Avenue. He became their mule and errand boy in exchange for drugs.
Not-so-secret porn societies: the XRCO
“I believe that only people who have been in the biz a long, long time have survived because they recognize and acknowledge the humor of it,”
Good Friday with porn’s crossunder stars
“I got things you won’t believe/Name your pleasure I will sell/I can fix your wildest needs/I got heaven and I got hell.”
Five women get at your urethra, heart
“With this you can stimulate the urethra, hook your thumb over to the G-Spot, get the A-Spot with this finger, and with the other hand stimulate the clitoris.”
Whatever works: Goodbye, Jamie Gillis
Jamie Gillis, an actor whose eccentric and devious performances made porn seem like performance art, died February 19. He was 66.
Preventing “This Ain’t El Topo XXX”
There are several reasons why “El Topo” can’t be a porn parody, chief among them that there are no roles for Kagney Linn Karter