B. Skow’s announcement that he is “cordially” leaving Vivid is the second such departure notice in a week. It’s probably nothing.
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Mother’s Day with Belladonna
“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 »Intrigue at the XRCO measures who still cares about adult awards
Re-opening “Misty Beethoven”
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 »Submit to be tied: “The Truth About O” [video]
I don’t need to tell you how comfortable and life-affirming it is to sit with scantily-clad women as they giggle, tweet, text, take photos of each other, and shove candy in their mouths.
Full Story »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.
Full Story »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
Full Story »Seattle’s Best Zombies—Caroline Pierce as the Feminine Ideal
MontagFoto 5.16.11—Sunny Leone wakes the dead
Maybe Vivid’s presence in that bone orchard was proof that when you die, that’s all there is.
Full Story »“Rocki Whore” explores slutty monogamy
“Rocki Whore Picture Show” is one of the handful of porn parodies that pays its own way; it has a good shot of pleasing porn fans who like the original camp film as well as those who’ve never seen it.
Full Story »No Sex is the “Neu Sex”
Letter from Gazzman: Importing “Harlots” to the Czech Republic
“Why do Russian hookers like Prague?”
“It reminds them of home, but without the breadlines and shootings, I suppose.”
Full Story »MontagFoto 4.25.11—Save Porn Star Karaoke Edition
Letter from Gazzman: Both ends (of Syren Sexton) burning
Nick Manning drops science, loads
It would be easy to dismiss Manning as an egomaniac, or even to say that the puffed up ego is a show in itself, but what comes across in interviews is that Manning knows who he is, but sometimes it’s difficult to live in his own body.
Full Story »You can’t put a laugh track on genius: “The Facts of Life XXX”
“The Facts of Life” was the first porn movie I wrote and directed. Yet it wasn’t even the first porn parody of the 80′s sitcom that made Mindy Cohn a household name.
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