Because I am base-minded and low, I was not able to walk away, for I had an erection.

Whenever I see something especially art-smelling featuring nudes, I often wonder how on board the nudes were with the art. This is what captures my imagination about Francesco D’Isa’s “Pornsaints” movement, a very earnest and complex cosmology involving porn performers being raised to the firmament. “We will call Pornsaint whoever attains sanctity through pornography” reads [...]

Artists from Michelangelo to El Greco have depicted the Virgin Mary, and tonight at La Luz de Jesus (not to be confused with La Madre de Jesus) gallery in Hollywood, eight artists put their stamp on the non-virginal parts of April Flores. Flores’ genitalia were the subject of Topco’s Cyberskin craftsmen earlier this year, and [...]

Ain’t it hard to discover that/He ain’t really where it’s at/After he took from you everything he could steal?/How does it feel? – Bob Dylan I got a message from a colleague who happens to work at an adult trade publication. “This is ripe for your site, Gram,” stated the colleague, attaching several meticulously scanned [...]

While I am uncomfortable with the terms “gash,” “quim,” “spunk,” “jism” (but not “jazm“), “cocksnot,” “bunghole,” “queef” (except as a word that rhymes with “Lee Van Cleef“), “cunt” (except when the British combine it with “stupid”), “the shitter,” “dirtpipe,” “stink star,” ATOGM, and “love juices,” this will not stop me from using one of them [...]

Vivid’s Steve Hirsch, who co-founded the company in 1984, was inside. Hirsch is one of only a few of Porn Valley’s CEOs who has managed to keep his company afloat from the dawn of VHS through the Great Internet Dilution. The others are Larry Flynt and Adam & Eve’s Phil Harvey.

This emancipated gimp was one of the many delights offered to visitors of Harry Mohney’s Erotic Heritage Museum. I rarely venture of the Strip while in Vegas (I am frightened by the natives and their rites), but this space is a delight for any consumer or scholar of sex culture. Clearly a labor of love, [...]

I received several excellent ropey lyrical volleys for the Pirates 2 contest, leading me to think we should have a contest every month around here. The challenge was to write a poem inspired by Pirates 2, the same way Madonna wrote songs inspired by the film Dick Tracy. Yes, exactly like that. There were limericks [...]

I get a lot of requests to write something – anything – about Lexi Belle, who is from “the South” and Cute As Hell. “The reason I got into porn was to totally enhance my college experience,” she says in director Andre Madness’ Real College Girls 16, a movie that incorporates interviews into sex scenes. [...]

According to the Department of Invented Statistics, 98 percent of porn titles are bought on the basis of cover art alone (that’s why the designer Alaska is very important to Vivid-steve). Here are four boxcovers of movies I received this week that spoke to me personally. Clockwise from top left: Red Light District’s Toe Service [...]

or: Froggy Went a’ Courtin’ in Your Vagina Here in George W. Bush’s Judaeo-Christian America, we think of frogs as the stars of Number Two of the ten plagues that befell Pharaoh, the subject of a Mark Twain story, and the best shorthand imaginable for the feeling one is losing one’s mind. But Japanese pornographer [...]

I met this striking woman at a baby shower several weeks ago, and today I walked onto the set of Anabolic’s Creampie Explosions 3 and there she was again, except naked and going by the name Audrey Elson. The 5’10″ Detroit native was to be ejaculated into, then she was to squat and expel it, [...]

Photographer Ed Fox (whose picture of the newly-minted Noname Jane debuted on this site a week ago) is displaying his work for Garage Magazine at a group show at San Francisco’s Minna Gallery. “Full Custom Living: The Art of Garage Magazine” is a group show featuring 26 contributors to the magazine devoted to custom cars, [...]

What I meant to say in the last entry was “When is the last time you went to an art show – and didn’t get stabbed?” My new answer to that rhetorical question is now “Why last Friday night, of course.” A few people (well, no one) wrote in to express their concern that in [...]