This year’s XRCO Awards were a great fun time; a perfect encapsulation of the misplaced resentment, earnest good will, limited attention span, dark humor, poor planning, and uncalibrated sense of history that Porn Valley’s 4-decades-old adult industry is known for.

If an actor is but an instrument of the script, Bartholet is the biggest tool there is. In fact, he should be called Home Depothelet.

It was cold but, to my credit, I never thought, “Gee, I fucking wish it was a hundred and fucking 13 degrees out.”

“I … think the essay actually makes clear to me many of the reasons that relationship had to end – even if I didn’t realize these reasons as I wrote it.” – Lorelei Lee

Just because many of the porn couples in this book are no longer couples doesn’t mean they get edited out

Replacing butt plugs with showstoppers and gangbangs with kicklines is the aim of a partnership between celebrated New York and Los Angeles theatre companies. Steve Cosson, artistic director of The Civilians, a theatre collective from New York City, has been conducting interviews over the last few weeks with performers, directors, and a few writers in [...]

I wrote a porn screenwriting article for XBiz and it was published there a few months ago. Since then I got a complaint from a director who felt I misrepresented him, so I’ve left his name out of my edit of the article. How do we recognize good screenwriting in a business that, sales show, [...]

During a brief ceremony at the Lamplighter Restaurant this morning, the vaunted National Institutes of Pornographic And Pornotextual Arts changed the name of its annual awards from the Also-Rannies to its current title, the Excellence in Adult and/or Erotic Entertainment Honors. A simple nine-foot statue was wheeled across the parking lot. “That looks like my [...]

Porn Week Vacations was established in 2000 to offset the cost of filming porn movies, and has become an international brand with several revenue streams. “We knew that fans wanted to see porn being shot, and that they’d probably pay for it, but we didn’t want 30 guys hanging around,” said founder Dave West, a [...]

Six years in the wake of the AVN-financed web series The Money Shot, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine, AVN financier Vivid is releasing Layout, about the inner workings of a Porn Valley trade magazine. The Money Shot, about the day to day operations of the Blue Movie Guide (BMG), drew [...]