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“Flashpoint X”: Back(draft) to the Future

August 23, 2012 Gram the Man 1

In 2007, Wicked released a tenth anniversary edition of its 1998 movie “Flashpoint.” Calling it “Flashpoint X,” the extra year was for smokiness.

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Today in Cameltoes: Hoodie, Footie, Goody

February 10, 2012 Gram the Man 0

On these cold Los Angeles winter nights, make sure your labia are cozy

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Hot job: Bethany St. James’ Cameltoe Wrangler

August 17, 2011 Gram the Man 0

Cameltoes aren’t just made by Fate, or God. Sometimes real people have to make them.

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Gram Ponante shocker: “Post-natal abortions are not sexy”

July 29, 2011 Gram the Man 4

“As long as they’re your own embryos you’ve been killing,” Ponante says, “I’ll still photograph you naked.”

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Bad Taste: Three tales of how the porn industry creates its own problems

July 7, 2011 Gram the Man 0

“The consumer could be the biggest loser” almost made me shit myself.

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Officials: Bin Laden had porn stash, killed thousands of people

May 13, 2011 Gram the Man 3

Among Osama bin Laden’s fairly extensive porn stash was a pirated copy of my “Facts of Life XXX.”

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Vivid sort of agrees to stop harassing Octomom

January 26, 2011 Gram the Man 3

Out of the goodness of its collective heart, Vivid will buy Suleman’s home for her anonymously and not tell anyone, ever.

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Ponante shocked, pleased with “Facts of Life XXX” Academy Award nominations

January 25, 2011 Gram the Man 5

“When I heard Gabourey Sidibe announce my name at 6 this morning, I almost shat,” said Ponante

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AHF vs. AIM: What does winning look like?

December 13, 2010 Gram the Man 2

If it were a boxing match (and it is) the media savvy and attention-hungry AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) would have won the round

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Rape-happy Incas and Dale DaBone’s Dick Pills

June 22, 2010 Gram the Man 2

The reason why you don’t see every male porn performer in his twenties endorsing Viagra and Cialis is because they don’t need to advertise it.

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“Rolls Royce of condoms” for the skull-conscious douchebag

May 27, 2010 Gram the Man 5

And nothing says safe sex and responsible romance like two panthers circling a fucking skull.

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Vivid to Nadya Suleman: I’m’a takes care of you, baby

March 22, 2010 Gram the Man 1

While many people get into porn because they find the idea of it thrilling, the “gun to the head” that compels others is often dire economic need.

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Porn: Dumbing it down for women

November 17, 2009 Gram the Man 1

We can’t all live in this enlightened Chatsworth ivory tower

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“Naked States”: The Origins of Spencer Tunick’s nudestack

November 11, 2009 Gram the Man 0

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

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Who’s watching the Sasha Grey?

October 21, 2009 Gram the Man 0

Sasha Grey’s new production company with Oren Cohen (formerly of Tightfit and “Assraelis” fame), Grey Art, has excellent boxcover art evocative of low-fi comic books […]

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Porn studios vie for Polanski/Geimer reunion video

September 29, 2009 Gram the Man 9

Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning director and international fugitive who was arrested on a 31-year-old U.S. warrant in Switzerland this weekend, has not responded to what […]

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Porn Valley signage: Which is real?

September 17, 2009 Gram the Man 0

Following yesterday’s shocking discovery that AVN had Photoshopped (do I still need to capitalize that?) its logo onto a building owned by someone else for […]

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AVN buys Olympia Financial, secures rockstar courthouse parking

September 16, 2009 Gram the Man 0

Years ago I worked at AVN, a trade publication for the adult industry.  Today, while visiting the neighborhood after Sindee Jennings squirted on my glasses (more […]

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Intrigue: Stormy’s political advisor hit with car bomb

July 29, 2009 Gram the Man 1

What appears to have been a bomb destroyed the vehicle of Brian Welsh, political advisor to Stormy Daniels, in New Orleans Monday. Daniels, whom I […]

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Sex mit Stoya macht frei

June 9, 2009 Gram the Man 3

Stoya is being coy-a about the rumor that Marilyn Manson shaved a swastika on her pubes. “Well gosh Grams,” she said, “I have yet to […]

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