I wanted Benjamin to leave porn for good and marry his colonic irrigationist, like a House At Gape Corner Kenny Loggins.
classic
Adding “Inches” to John Holmes biography
Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”
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Gram’s Summer Reading List for Porno-Americans
Gram recommends five device-ready books for your summer betterment
classic
Book launch and documentary prove John Holmes still isn’t “Exhausted”
Nearly a quarter century after his death, interest in John C. Holmes isn’t “Exhausted,” and you get the feeling Holmes wouldn’t have had it any other way.
geekery
Aynal Architecture: “This Ain’t The Fountainhead”
“This Ain’t The Fountainhead” is the only porn movie that comes with a building
Today in Porn Valley
Book: Women need “A Billion Wicked Thoughts,” but men need just one
According to the book, “Women’s sexual interests are plastic and change frequently.” Houston, we have validation.
Gram Is There
“Facts of Life” media convergence breaks Internet
“A Porn Valley Odyssey” is burning up Amazon’s Kindle Store and Geri Jewell just announced she’s gay. Coincidence?
classic
Johnny Wadd’s meatier “Flesh”: An Interview with Bob Chinn
Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd
BDSM
Gothic.net party: Sinister, Malice
Perhaps the Old Ones, tittering behind the clouds from their blighted mansions of non-Euclidean geometries, had a tentacle in my being spared the L.A.P.D.’s latest scam.
Gram Is There
Gram’s New Book—Making “The Facts of Life XXX”
Did you know that it is the Director who dictates on what part of the pornstresses’ person the ropey volley is deposited? I felt like a slightly-less-disgusting Babe Ruth.
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“And Then Her Mouth” saves the best for last
Some of these dirty stories will make you laugh out loud, which makes them dirtier
geekery
“Money Shots!” Shooting nudes and keeping cool with Michael Charles
“Some women are comfortable being sexy right out of the gate, sexy and naked in person,” Michael Charles says. “And they can be a dream to work with. But it’s a skill to bring that look or emotion out with your camera, so that it translates to a webpage or a magazine.”
business
The Korn/Porn connection: Saving Us from Ourselves
“Save Me from Myself” is a little like “The Devil in Miss Jones,” in which Miss Jones finds herself in Hell having not really enjoyed the life that got her there.
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Maybe Jessica Bangkok can’t play the piano, Amy Chua, but she knows how to live
Every teacher from Sting to Jeff Daniels’ character in “Terms of Endearment” to whatever Garp’s wife’s name was (I’m not going to look it up—do I look Chinese to you?) can tell you that you shouldn’t pluck the low-hanging fruit that is a besotted student.
interviews
Surviving John Holmes, Dawn Schiller reveals a “Road through Wonderland” less traveled
Dawn Schiller’s fascinating new memoir “The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes
interviews
“Porn & Philosophy” or: The Myth of the Gape
Why have I never received any spam about being Nietzsche’s Übermensch in bed, or helping her acheive orgasm through the Kant or Clitomachus?
business
Humb Day with Lupe Fuentes
Not since Leo Tolstoy’s “Anal Creampie Karenina” has a great work of literature become porn shorthand as quickly as Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” has.
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“Backstage Passes”: Gropey groupies and pre-”Twilight” vampires
Yes, though 1990 still had AIDS and condoms, not one of the characters in this book, be they rock star, hermaphrodite, loser, or part-time lesbian bass player, ever Tweets, Googles, or LOLs.
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Andrew Einhorn makes “Naked Happy” coffee tables
Einhorn: As I get older and the models get younger, there is less and less chance for sexual interaction.
GP: Sorry.
Narcissism
Social Network Disease