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The Cupboard is bare, but Kelly Shibari isn’t

I have turned the paradigm of the gluttonous BBW on its head with this poignant and revealing photograph.

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MontagFoto 3.18.12—When Assnet became self-aware

It was May, 2006, a year after I’d started Porn Valley Observedin earnest, when I attended my first “Pussy Party,” and it became one of those rare events in which I knew I was having a good time while I was having it.

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Opening Up the Pod Bay Doors with Sinn Sage

People talk behind Sinn Sage’s back a lot, and it’s all nice things. It might have something to do with the quality of her back.

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Steak, Blowjob, and Pecan Pie Day with Alex Chance

“I have a small mouth,” says Alex Chance, “but I use my hands a lot.”

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Siri at Home or: If You Want to be Topless, Be Topless

I’d asked her to dress so that the average reader would want her to take more clothes off, and she complied.

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Potential Space: Porn Stars without Makeup

The makeup-free photographs alternately reveal the bottomless personality of the performer unaffected by makeup or the role of cosmetics in the way we experience porn stars who would be unrecognizable to us without them.

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Historians weigh in on “True History of She-Male Cock”

“It stands to reason that if there is a movie called ‘The True History of She-Male Cock’ that there have been false histories,” says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

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MontagFoto 3.11.13—Focus on the Butthole

You may think that this will be a wistful post, and you’re right. How could I not be wistful about a movie called “Cum in My Gaping Butthole”?

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MontagFoto 3.4.13—A Rose, A Daisy, An Uncomfortable Leopard Skin Couch, And Dildos

…Similarly, the low-wage stripper “house girl” need only land a few porn movies before she can return in triumph to her old club as a bona fide feature dancer, then have her shoes stolen.

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Rocco Siffredi will squeeze your breasts painfully if you don’t wear a hat

“It says that the only way to keep Interstellar Beings from entering our skulls is to wear hats if you are female or sunglasses if you are male,” Siffredi said. “And you see, I have already purchased sunglasses.”

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Vanessa Del Rio and the tasty taboos of 1970′s New York [interview]

As much fun as it is talking with Vanessa Del Rio, it is bittersweet, too, because you really wish it were 1974 with the two of you buying loose joints in the seedy fleshpits of an unsanitized Times Square. We’re talking about an upcoming movie version of the legendary pornstress’s life, the “Latin from Manhattan” [...]

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The 2012 Models Must Go: “Performers of the Year 2013″

I’m always sad when the new “Performers of the Year” rolls out. Even though Lexi Belle and Asa Akira carried over from “Performers of the Year 2012,” it makes me wonder if Kagney Linn Karter, Kristina Rose, Jayden Jaymes, and Gracie Glam are on a junk heap somewhere being crushed into cubes.

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They are in love

I ask Bang to stand over her and look menacing, but it doesn’t work. He just looks kind of happy.

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MontagFoto 2.4.13—Learning the ropes with Lorelei Lee

The scene was for Kink.com’s site “Wired Pussy,” and the poor Georgia-bred Jane was about to have some shocking things happen to her.

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Blowjobs: Thing with Balloons Confuses, Momentarily Engages AEE Attendees [video]

Gram Ponante explains the balloon fetish like you’re some kind of idiot

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“Skin Diamond is not a cunt”—An AEE fan’s perspective

Perhaps if he lives in the Lincoln Tunnel, he is technically from Manhattan, but his shirt, unbuttoned to a sunburned gut, suggests Hoboken.

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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 industry is chewing on, from Content vs. Traffic to Free vs. Pay to Old vs. New. The conference underscored the lingering division between Content and Traffic in the porn business, [...]

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The 2012 Ropey Volley Awards: Most Ridiculous Movie of the Year

…there is no accounting for taste, even if there is accounting for height.

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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.

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  • Sex At “La Boutique”: It’s A Lingerie Store; It’s Not Like They’re Eating Sandwiches May 20, 2013
    I don't read other people's porn eviews, because it's like sleeping on dubious sheets. But I did look at the boxocver copy of Digital Playground's "La Boutique," and it provided an excellent summary, complete with italics: […]
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  • Is “Mother In-Law” the New MILF? May 15, 2013
    Maybe it's "okay," but I don't believe that Eva Karera is this guy's mother in-law. He's not wearing a wedding ring, and Karera refers to the unseen woman as her daughter, not his wife, or even the more familiar "Becky." See? The Social Contract has been broken already. […]
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