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Don’t go breaking my Covenant

As America’s foremost critic of pornographic and pornotextual material (it even says so on my parking space), I am often asked, upon writing an unfavorable review of a movie, what right I have to say so if I have never directed or performed in a pornographic movie? A reasonable question if one disregards the following [...]

Buffet line in the Czech Republic – call for submissions

Here is an image from the movie Carolina Jones and the Broken Covenant, which I just reviewed for an upcoming issue of the adult trade journal XBiz Premiere. What assumptions can you make about the movie by looking at this picture? There sure is a lot to think about! I’d like you to tell me. [...]

Erotica L.A. in a nutrag

As the adult industry adapts to a changing economy it also continues to evolve. Nowhere was porn’s dedication to the new sexual aesthetic more apparent than at this weekend’s Erotica L.A., in which fans in and out of wheelchairs sampled the erotic future of 22″ rims, glass bongs, and scented candles. And, in a tribute [...]

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The buttoned-down Ava Rose

Since it’s only April and the heat is already at record-breaking levels here in Porn Valley, what better way to celebrate the slow roasting of the oceans than to talk with Alaska’s own Ava Rose, contract star for Adam & Eve and, if there could be a contract star of the pants, well, there too. [...]

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Ava Rose hears you call her name, decides it feels like home

Ava Rose’s spread (that was just the best word available; I didn’t mean to sound filthy) in April’s Penthouse is reminiscent of the look of a certain New York-bashing children’s author circa 1989, when Rose was three. The delightful Adam & Eve contract star frolicked through a virtual French country house to achieve the combination [...]

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Ava Rose: It’s what’s for dinner

Here is Ava Rose on the set of Rollerdollz. I want to create a series of pictures of America’s porn stars in front of price lists, like menus, gas station marquees, and Sotheby’s auction items to make a statement about relative worth in 2008. I will submit this as both a doctoral dissertation and as [...]

Ava Rose at home

I spoke at length with Ava Rose in her Silver Lake home yesterday. Our discussion ranged from why her dog was humping my leg to why I shouldn’t feel threatened when the dog started humping a bigger, thicker table leg. “He likes you,” she said. I should use that excuse the next time I hump [...]

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Backstage at the XBiz Awards: A Night of Heroes

I am not saying that the Porno-Industrial Complex does not deserve to honor itself or that pornfolk do not deserve recognition for their hard work, but I can’t shake the feeling that adult awards shows, with their Lifetime Achievement honors and Man of the Year trophies, seem like kids dressing up in their parents’ oversized [...]

From Carmen to Kayden

Carmen Luvana’s contract with Adam & Eve will end on January 1, 2008 and Kayden Kross will take her place in the trio of the company’s contract stars. Carmen will be making personal appearances on a per-assignment basis for the Hillsborough, NC-based company, and Kross, who until October was a Vivid girl and prior to [...]

Adam & Eve’s house that porn built

North Carolina porn concern Adam & Eve joined with a local Habitat for Humanity to build a house for a formerly unlucky family, and they didn’t construct it from copies of Tailgunners, either. I asked A&E public relations director Katy Zvolerin if the Hillsborough family knew that part of their new home was constructed by [...]

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Report: Night of 101 Girls "Pleasant", "Good"

I attended last evening’s Night of 101 Girls and found it pretty O.K. There seemed to be no occasion for the party, other than I recently got my hair cut, but sponsors L.A. Direct Models, Vivid, Skinnie Magazine, and Effen Vodka nevertheless put on a brave face and threw a party anyway. Read more after [...]

Industry shocker: Adam & Eve to sponsor party far away from adult industry

The news is not that Adam & Eve is helping to sponsor a pajama and lingerie party at the Palms Casino next weekend in support of the September release of Eden, but that it has chosen a location and a time that ensures the fewest possible members of the Porn Valley adult industry can attend. [...]

Hooray for Pornywood

In my short time in Los Angeles I have seen some favorite clubs come and go, and their replacements come and go. The several square miles comprising the blocks bounded by Vermont and Highland to the east and west and Franklin and Sunset on the north and south have changed significantly in my six years [...]

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