If you agree that porn, bless its heart, is about dressing up the solitary act of masturbation, then the couples’ movie is itself kind of a fetish; It is a paraphilia in which viewers use the performers as props for their own sordid offscreen strivings.
Full Story »When “Bad Ideas” is a good idea
Michael Ninn: Brought to you with condiments of the Mob
Michael Ninn may have been one of the last pornographers to receive funding for a movie by means of a shoebox full of cash.
Full Story »Proof: Ron Jeremy talks rum, Milton Berle [video]
If you’re going to interview someone about his rum, the right thing to do is to have consumed a lot of it beforehand
Full Story »Sabrina Deep goes from gangbangs to Girlfriends [interview]
There are those who believe that people who perform in gangbangs can’t as easily perform in gauzy Sapphic interludes, and vice versa. Sabrina Deep has found the key, and it involves not coming when she touches your leg.
Full Story »Mother’s Day with Belladonna
False Cuckolds and sex on pool tables: Alia Janine makes her presence felt
“At Louche Ends” with Maria Alexander [interview]
Maria Alexander talks about BDSM, spirituality, and “At Louche Ends,” her collection of poems. “It’s safe to say that this volume can be taken as one long drink of my sexuality,” she says.
Full Story »Tribulation-free Tribbing: It was a good day
“So, I like my tits; I think they’re nice,” says Sage to Daniels. “But fuck: your tits are insane.”
Full Story »CatalystCon suggests Southern California is ready to talk about sex
CatalystCon is a weekend-long conference on sexuality, activism, and acceptance, coming to Long Beach September 14-16.
Full Story »XXXLaw: Blind justice for naked people
Porn is inconveniently a test kitchen of the freedoms every American enjoys, so it must be defended. Gram interviews Free Speech attorney J.D. Obenberger
Full Story »“Stripper Quotes”: Boobie-loving best buddies blog a book
If their lives were a buddy movie, it would have a triple-X rating. Now Tim Case and Mike South, veteran pornographers, strip club managers, and straight-shooting old world gentlemen, have compiled a decade of blog posts and dressing room banter into the entertaining blook “Stripper Quotes And Other Stories From the Sex Industry”
XRCO 2012: An Awards Show for the Ages
This year’s XRCO Awards were a great fun time; a perfect encapsulation of the misplaced resentment, earnest good will, limited attention span, dark humor, poor planning, and uncalibrated sense of history that Porn Valley’s 4-decades-old adult industry is known for.
Full Story »John Holmes tells his own story in “Porn King”
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.
Full Story »Rape, Choice, Condoms, And Casinos at Stanford Law
“Adult performers do have a wide range of opinions about condoms,” says Chauntelle Tibbals, Ph.D. “But they all agree that, as adults, wearing condoms or not should be their choice.”
Full Story »Pissing in the desert: “The Return of Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls”
Padded Kink: Hefty Honies Humiliated Halfheartedly
Are you saying I need to come to my own conclusions but that—perhaps—people shouldn’t be so goddamned outraged over everything? That one way of taking power away from detractors is to use their own tools against ourselves and, emerging unscathed, win?
Full Story »Gun to the Head: Tales of Porny Coercion
Sometimes people make choices in porn more for what they can avoid than for what they can get
Full Story »Pornografica in Espanol? Si, se puede! [interview]
Jacky St. James: The Last Woman Working in Porn [interview]
“…so many people (who don’t write porn) talk about how easy it is to write a porn script…”
Full Story »Dirty 30: Ashley Fires
‘I’ve been tied up and sodomized and felt less humiliated than when [I was] working in an escrow house.’
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