I was not at Tristan Taormino’s House of Ass premiere party this weekend in New York City, though I do keep all five boroughs in stitches. I was chiefly interested in what a New York porn party looks like as opposed to the traditional San Fernando Valley one.
I was also in a quandary about who to send as my eyes and ears. I couldn’t ask Eon McKai since he made a Stephen Glass of himself at the Joanna’s Angels 2 event recently, and I couldn’t ask Justine Joli, because she’s shacked up with that DCypher guy. She would probably tell me there were dogs being shot in the street and I would dutifully write it and then DCypher would write on his blog that Gram had been hoodwinked again in a horrible trilogy of lies that began with Jennifer James.
So I did what I should have done in the first place. I called Tristan Taormino. I knew she would never let the beat drop.
“We tried hard to keep the genders balanced,” she said, which right away set this event apart from a lot of the parties I go to out here, which feature me and a bevy of dirty, dirty girls while a bunch of guys angrily adjust their makeup at me. “We had straight, queer, young, old. People told me they felt welcome. One man who came down alone from Boston was nervous that he wouldn’t know anyone and everyone, he said, was very nice to him.”
“So the non-adult press who were there weren’t yet acustomed to porn people running around?”
“No,” she said. “A writer from the New York Observer asked, when he was finished talking with me, if there were any ‘academics’ he could interview.”
Among the doodads given out were $1200 in Adam & Eve products as well as commemorative pint glasses. I have so many useless lanyards and five-page notepads from various parties that it’s nice to hear that something useful was given away.
“Absolut Ass, our signature drink, was made of Absolut Peach, cranberry juice, orange juice, and a splash of club soda. However, Absolut is a registered trademark owned by V&S Vin & Sprit AB and did not endorse the drink nor my party,” she said. “I’m not sure about their endorsement of ass.”
Taormino is jetting into L.A. with her one-eyed, telepathic dog to discuss with various companies her proposed regularized return to porn directing. Tristan Taormino’s House of Ass is available now.
I’m glad that it was a friendly atmosphere and everything, but I like my porn parties full of menace and dread.
(photo of Justine Joli licking product placement courtesy DCypher)
Previously: House of dolls and ass and fog; Taormino incorporates Ass
See also: Adam & Eve, Pucker Up
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