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Intrigue at the XRCO measures who still cares about adult awards

April 4, 2012 Gram the Man 3

Ridiculously mismanaged award shows are the comfort food of the porn industry.

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I didn’t mean to offend trans-anyone

January 20, 2012 Gram the Man 0

If I don’t think a performer is performing with the delight of the audience in mind, it doesn’t make me mis- or otherwise -phobic to say so.

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Madison Young & FurryGirl: Manufacturing milk, consent

August 15, 2011 Gram the Man 4

Young is asking us to appeal to the better angels of our nature and to divorce the makeup and the dress from the factory they cover. Can we do it?

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This Week in Porn Hysteria: The Name Bomb or: When Is Dana DeArmond also Dana DeArmond?

March 25, 2010 Gram the Man 2

The nuclear option in many porn feuds is the revelation of a performer’s real name, such as what happened this week in spectacular, awful fashion.

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Adventures on the Open Internet with Ava Rose

October 7, 2009 Gram the Man 3

This morning America requires me to be in beautiful downtown Burbank. But how can I post my usual musings on rape, bestiality, gaping, milk enemas, […]

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Same time last year: Least Likely to be a MILF Edition

January 23, 2009 Gram the Man 2

Maybe once every two months I will get a call or an e-mail from someone who has a problem with something I wrote. Either there […]

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Today in porn disgruntlement: Adam & Eve

November 17, 2008 Gram the Man 0

I received an e-mail this morning from a person calling himself (I assume it was a he) “Barock Odrama.” The letter concerned his grievances with […]

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I haven’t seen "Juno" but…

September 18, 2008 Gram the Man 7

…I am definitely one of those people who, based on Diablo Cody sightings around Hollywood (and at the Oscars) didn’t know what to make of […]

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Vicky Vette: When boobs are not enough

August 29, 2008 Gram the Man 2

Erotic Scandinavian among erotic Scandinavians Vicky Vette, whose wholesome sauciness evokes the pornstars of the 90’s, is in a near dead heat with someone named […]

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Gram cut to the quick by pornographer

February 15, 2008 Gram the Man 0

“Go fuck yourself – at least then only one person will be disappointed.”

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Gram cut to the quick by pornographer

February 14, 2008 Gram the Man 6

I write a monthly He Said/She Said-style review column in XBiz with my ex common-law wife, Joanne Cachapero. We reviewed The Make Up in the […]

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“You’re not one of us”: a steveporn odyssey

October 12, 2007 Gram the Man 29

Gram you don’t get it… guess you never did… keep filing flesh bot with MSM’s taned over blown bodays..

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