Porn boxcovers, according to the Journal of Fabricated Statistics, account for 87 percent of the reason people buy a particular DVD. Gram Ponante talks with the team behind Elegant Angel’s elegant boxcovers.
Full Story »“Cleaning up the girls”: Elegant Angel’s elegant boxcovers
Truth And “Dare” with Dani Daniels
I’m convinced that the future of porn most reliably rests in first-person adventures like Dani Daniels’ “Dare,” in which the movie is all about the personality of its star.
Full Story »Hey Hey, My My: This is the story of Bonnie Rotten [interview]
Here’s the thing about growing older (I’m now 23): You notice the younger people who have the savvy, sass, and sobriety to make the world interesting after you’re dead. I knew Bonnie Rotten was someone to pay attention to when I heard her say, “You like fucking my 19-year-old ass?”
Full Story »If you want to “Meet Bonnie,” get in line [review]
She’s just been in a handful of movies since alighting on the adult industry in early 2012, but Bonnie Rotten has already landed a very flattering star vehicle in Digital Sin’s “Meet Bonnie.” Why did the ultra-inked Ohioan absolutely deserve her own movie? Because she’s a porn star we can get behind.
Full Story »“D3viance”: The 3 is for syllables
I wanted “Batgirl XXX” to be more Extreme Associates and less Extreme Comixxx
In an attempt to please her inappropriately sexualized father, a woman is initiated into a dangerous business while in a questionable state of mind by two masked men who have sex with her. Perhaps “Batgirl XXX” is a metaphor for porn in general.
Full Story »Set to Screen: “The Truth About O” (or: “50 Shades of O”)
As both America’s Beloved Porn Journalist and a Costco Executive Member, I am uniquely qualified to write about both the phenomenon of “50 Shades of Grey” versus the heightened reality of “The Truth About O.”.
Full Story »Spunk & White: “The Elements of Desire”
Dirty Bird: Meet Scarlett Revell
Scarlett Revell: “I have to feel like I’m there. I want to smell the penises and pussies and sexual juices.”
Full Story »CatalystCon: In the room with sex workers and elephants
…the inaugural CatalystCon in Long Beach was a refreshing, well-organized, and thought-provoking event filled with challenging ideas that didn’t shy away from difficult topics.
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Remembering Hollie Stevens on her own terms
Hollie Stevens is remembered at a not-at-all-uncharacteristic-of-Hollie-Stevens gathering at Hyaena Gallery
Full Story »“Nina Loves Ron” (But she also loves Jon, Tom, Braun, and a Strap-On)
Perhaps Nina does love Ron, but then they go and fuck a bunch of other people and never see each other again.
Full Story »Porn of the Ancient World: “Body Heat” or: “This Ain’t Body Heat” or: “It Gets the Hose Again”
Is it possible to watch a movie made in 2010 and still find relevance to today’s world?
Full Story »Japanese cartoons teach us to fuck the shame away
These fragments would tell us a lot about Japanese culture if we were the type to believe that a culture’s pornography is any indication of that culture’s values.
Full Story »Wrong Hole, Right Idea or: The long road from fellatio to anal
Putting a blowjob front and center on the cover of an anal movie suggests that women who give blowjobs also do anal, which is never a slam dunk.
Full Story »MontagFoto 8.13.12—Claire Adams opens up
Gabe And Karla And Will And Mindy: “Shared Wives”
“I see the twisted remains of melted metal that was once a bike, and the wreckage of the humanity and families that are what’s left over of a $12,000 joyride which, yes, crashed, because they didn’t take it seriously.”
Full Story »Nudes You May Have Missed
…the nudes keep coming, piling atop one another in an ever-pinkening fleshmass of nudes.
Full Story »She Sells Skanktuary: “The Cult”
While Harmony Films’ “The Cult” is neither David Koresh nor L. Ron Hubbard (unless you connect Tom Cruise via “Eyes Wide Shut”), no one can say that porn doesn’t have its finger on topical subjects.
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