People who make porn
Witchy Women: JACKtheZIPPER And His Goddamned Sacred Geometry of Filth
See this picture across the banner on the top of the page? The intriguing JACKtheZIPPER took a series of them starring me and the whippetlike […]
Known Pornographers
Uncomfortably Close with Gram Ponante Episode Two: Holly Randall
Holly Randall talks with Gram about her extra-colorful career in the porn industry.
Uncomfortably Close with Gram Ponante Episode One: Roy Karch
Gram talks with Roy Karch about making porn, selling porn, and the plight of the senior pornographer.
Same As the Old Boss: Paul Fishbein on the X-cellent “X-Rated”
“My mother turned to me, half appalled and half proud, and said, ‘I hope you’re making money.'”
Steve Diet Goedde And 25 Years of Interesting Nudity
Photographer Steve Diet Goedde is a revered and respectful chronicler of California’s fetish and otherwise-professionally-nude scene.
2014: Why Nudity Matters
2014 was the year porn became a visual medium.
Greene And Hartley Tag-Team Consenting Audience in “Master of O” Reading
Submissives are father to the master
Gentleman/collar: Ernest Greene’s Masterful “Master of O”
“Everyone is aware of limits, so that when the limits get breached there is a reckoning.”
Christy Mack’s Brutal Reality Show
No one assumes a non-famous battered wife must have done something to deserve the beating.
The Porner’s Almanac Comes Back from the Dead
Gram reanimates the Porner’s Almanac for Gamelink
Carlos Batts Remembered by Hundreds in a Weekend of L.A. Memorials
“Live life to the fullest, without fear or regret.”
Talk About Digital Playground’s “Pirates” Day
A little story about the biggest porn movie of the century, “Pirates.”
People Take Jenna Jameson’s Return to Porn Personally
Jameson’s star power in this little corner of the world is revealed in how personally fan and hater alike are taking he return.
James Deen reveals himself to Canadians on podcast
“I’m (still) going to go (back) to a world where I have sex with beautiful women every day,” Deen says.
Porn Star Birthdays: Rocco and Celeste
Gram reminds us that porn stars are born, not made, with this week’s Porn Star Birthdays
Heavy Traffic at XBiz360
A sleek, informative, and convivial adult business conference with an accompanying awards ceremony, January’s XBiz360 conference was also a subtle battleground of ideas the adult […]
The 2012 Ropey Volley Awards: Books of the Year
Gram Ponante profiles three books worth reading, two that tell us about how we got here and one that wonders why we stay.
Shocker: Debbie Didn’t Do Dallas, Did Do Sweathogs
“Well, we’re good girls,” says underpantsless Lisa, “but whatever we can’t give you, we make up in enthusiasm.”
Riccardo Schicchi, Italian porn pioneer, dies in Rome
A pornographer who was an unlikely political activist, Riccardo Schicchi, 60, directed Cicciolina in “The Red Telephone,” Italy’s first hardcore film.
Porn’s “Golden Goddesses” alight in Hollywood
For many on stage and in the audience, there is a feeling of nostalgia and loss, as if it could never be that way again.