Anticipating Infighting, APAC Urges Tolerance
Quorn between two or more non-fluid-bonded performers, and marketed as such, is a social no-no.
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You Can Do That in Porn: Ivy Green Becomes Demi Desire
Demi Desire by any other name would still be the best thing that ever came out of Phoenix
Everybody Comes to the Kink Suite
Mimosas, dildos, and conversation on an upper floor of the Hard Rock
Measure R: How Porn Valley Handles Rape
So now there exists in a once-shadowy business the opportunity to discuss something with the faith that the whole structure won’t be pulled down.
Uncomfortably Close with Gram Ponante Episode One: Roy Karch
Gram talks with Roy Karch about making porn, selling porn, and the plight of the senior pornographer.
Porn Standards Conclabe Supports Milves, Abolishes Strokable
Notes from the 12th Porn Standards Conclabe CHATSWORTH, Calif.— Calling to order the 12th Annual Porn Standards Conclabe at the Lamplighter Restaurant here, Porn Valley […]
It’s not July without a Wonderland Murders commemoration
The Wonderland Murders made John Holmes’ petty thievery on-set look quaint by comparison
Riccardo Schicchi, Italian porn pioneer, dies in Rome
A pornographer who was an unlikely political activist, Riccardo Schicchi, 60, directed Cicciolina in “The Red Telephone,” Italy’s first hardcore film.
Porn’s “Golden Goddesses” alight in Hollywood
For many on stage and in the audience, there is a feeling of nostalgia and loss, as if it could never be that way again.
John Holmes tells his own story in “Porn King”
No book has done more to complicate the legacy of the late John Holmes—to his favor—than “Porn King,” his fascinating work of semi-autobiography re-released by his widow, Laurie Holmes.
Bartholet on Porn Acting [interview]
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.
Adding “Inches” to John Holmes biography
Gram recommends the recently updated biography “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches”
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.
John Holmes & the Wonderland Murders: 30 years ago today
The Wonderland Murders became the Porn Industry’s first big scandal, and AHF and AIM had nothing to do with it
Johnny Wadd’s meatier “Flesh”: An Interview with Bob Chinn
Gram speaks with Bob Chinn on his book-based reboot of Johnny Wadd
John Holmes and a brief history of HIV in the porn industry
It was not from a lack of education on Holmes’ part that he knowingly exposed several partners to the virus by continuing to work post-diagnosis.
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
The Bad Porn Contest: April
I will send you both “The Senator’s Daughter” and (what I consider) a good movie if you …
The Good Old Days weren’t always good: “The Senator’s Daughter”
“… the couple rides through the empty streets of Century City in a convertible limousine, waving to no one. It’s like the money ran out.”
Porn Valley Two-Headed Donkey Tour: The Wonderland Murders
John Holmes began hanging around with a group of thugs who lived in a three-story home on the twisty mountainside Wonderland Avenue. He became their mule and errand boy in exchange for drugs.