Sundown, you better take care, if I find you been uploading pirated content to those tube sites, there

This has led to the further fetishization of shame, as consumers look for performances that appear particularly uncomfortable.

There once was a time when even something God-awful would sell 30,000 units at $79.95 a tape.

Free porn hurts everyone, including performers and distributors, right on up to the consumer

Sigmund Freud said that psychoanalysis was useless on the Irish, and now an elderly Irish priest can add MILF to the list of things that find the Irish unpalatable. According to the Christian Science Monitor: Father Michael Sinnott had worked in the Philippines for nearly 33 years when six armed gunmen kidnapped him from a [...]

Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning director and international fugitive who was arrested on a 31-year-old U.S. warrant in Switzerland this weekend, has not responded to what Porn Valley insiders call a “generous” offer to reteam with Samantha Geimer for an update of their 1977 poolside tryst. Polanski was 44 when he admitted to drugging and performing [...]

Next week I am attending the filming of Hustler’s porn parody “This Ain’t Happy Days XXX 2: Fonzie Luvs Pinky.” You ask, “Grams, when will this crazy joyride of diminishing returns flogging a dead horse stop?” (Especially since it was Leather Tuscadero, and not Pinky, who was the exciting one, as everyone knows.) But with [...]

At no point in the movie “I’m Good At Freaky,” which premieres Thursday night at the Los Feliz 3, is the title character identified as iconic record producer/convicted murderer Phil Spector. But what about that hair? I talked with “Freaky” director/coproducer Roy Karch, who finished filming the movie in April, just as Spector’s jury pondered [...]

An informational meeting of adult industry elites was held at Chatsworth’s Radisson Hotel to discuss threats to the Porno-Industrial Complex by California’s Occupational Safety And Health Administration (Cal/OSHA). Chaired by Vivid’s Steve Hirsch, the meeting took place on September 9, timed to coincide with the release of The Beatles Rockband. Despite this, the small room, [...]

Like in “The Godfather,” when Clemenza says to Michael that every five, ten years there needs to be a war to clean out the bad blood, now and then the call for condoms and external regulation of the porn industry reaches a shrill crescendo. If we weren’t such calm, buttoned down people, some of us [...]

The solution to the dying adult DVD market? Large-scale purchases for the purpose of registering complaints. Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) yesterday filed complaints against 16 porn companies with Cal/OSHA, stating that the adult industry’s “blacklist” of condoms contributes to unsafe workplaces. AHF president Michael Weinstein and his staff collected 58 DVDs from companies [...]

Jazella Moore, pornstress wife of the small-town Florida city manager who was fired when her occupation was discovered, will be in Los Angeles from August 4th to the 11th for booking. Since she is not only the sole breadwinner of the family but also the object of so much media scrutiny, I hope the blonde [...]

For 4/20 the straight-edge people of BlueBlood have posted their interview with the delightful Superna, who seems so ripe that all I can think of when I see her is “The Best Thanksgiving Dinner Ever.” But it hasn’t been easy for Superna. Mere days after this photo was taken, a SWAT team raided her home, [...]

AVN yesterday filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against rival XBiz, claiming the upstart adult trade publication misappropriated trade secrets and generated unfair competition in its poaching of sales director Sara Sazzman last month. Both outfits have shed employees lately but, aside from ronin porn scribe Tom Hymes, the migration has always been from [...]

While you may have always wondered what Ginger from “Gilligan’s Island” would look like in a three-way with Gilligan and Mary Ann, several legal obstacles must be removed before your castaway fantasy becomes a reality. Porn parodies of mainstream fare have always been around, but have recently cycled back into popularity. They are among the [...]

Eric Swiss is fast becoming the Yaphet Kotto of the porn world. This does not mean he is chunky, black, and the grandson of the Crown Prince of Cameroon (thus making the analogy awkward) but instead that he appears prominently in a lot of movies and is not yet a big star. Calling Swiss articulate [...]

Notable events this week: XBiz commissioned a firm to create the glossy State of the Industry: Researched And Revealed! pamphlet which also makes projections of the shape of things to come. Chapters deal with the problems posed by free content online, the dwindling DVD market, and the schism in the industry about what defines a [...]

The British site Knicker Picker, which is like Colorforms for panties, satisfies the requirements of obscenity because it has no artistic merit and because it appeals to my prurient interest. There is absolutely no way this site can be used to choose underpants. It’s like using those Dove ads to sell soap. Bravo, Gentlemen. Bravo. [...]

Max Hardcore will report to California’s Lompoc Penitentiary in eight days, finally convicted of obscenity. You don’t have to like what Hardcore does to find this ridiculous. That Hardcore has detractors in the Department of Justice is clear, but he also has a number of them in the adult industry, who draw a line between [...]

John Holmes single-schlongedly embodied the American narrative of success, downfall, and redemption in its porn context, which means something different from any other context. And his story as told in a new book by Jennifer Sugar and Jill Nelson, John Holmes, a Life Measured in Inches, unfolds that story as comprehensibly as possible. I say [...]