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Proof: Ron Jeremy talks rum, Milton Berle [video]

June 12, 2012 Gram the Man 0

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

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John Holmes tells his own story in “Porn King”

April 11, 2012 Gram the Man 0

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.

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Re-opening “Misty Beethoven”

March 26, 2012 Gram the Man 5

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

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Adding “Inches” to John Holmes biography

November 10, 2011 Gram the Man 0

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

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The Best of All Possible “Sex World”s

August 18, 2011 Gram the Man 5

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

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Book launch and documentary prove John Holmes still isn’t “Exhausted”

July 11, 2011 Gram the Man 3

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.

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John Holmes & the Wonderland Murders: 30 years ago today

July 1, 2011 Gram the Man 3

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

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“The Devil” You Know: Earning your rapture rejection

May 20, 2011 Gram the Man 2

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

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Witchy Woman: On a Couch with Shayla La Veaux

May 12, 2011 Gram the Man 1

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.

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Johnny Wadd’s meatier “Flesh”: An Interview with Bob Chinn

March 25, 2011 Gram the Man 1

Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd

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Home for Eros Day with Dr. Suzy

January 27, 2011 Gram the Man 5

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.

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Annie Sprinkle invites the Moon into her marriage

October 26, 2010 Gram the Man 4

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.

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“Grimy’s Tales”: Is it bestiality if it’s a cartoon frog?

October 6, 2010 Gram the Man 1

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.

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Porn Parodies of the Ancient World: “The Howard Sperm Show”

July 9, 2010 Gram the Man 0

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”?

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The Bad Porn Contest: April

April 29, 2010 Gram the Man 6

I will send you both “The Senator’s Daughter” and (what I consider) a good movie if you …

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The Good Old Days weren’t always good: “The Senator’s Daughter”

April 16, 2010 Gram the Man 3

“… 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.”

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Porn Valley Two-Headed Donkey Tour: The Wonderland Murders

April 9, 2010 Gram the Man 8

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.

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Not-so-secret porn societies: the XRCO

April 6, 2010 Gram the Man 1

“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,”

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Good Friday with porn’s crossunder stars

April 2, 2010 Gram the Man 3

“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.”

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Five women get at your urethra, heart

March 10, 2010 Gram the Man 1

“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.”

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