I got a message this morning from a person who sent me a MySpace blog post that he said was written by the performer Donny Long. Long often recruits new female talent to the adult industry, rechristens them with his last name, and shops them around to producers. The blog post dealt with some of [...]
OMG: Local paper to write about porn
The Los Angeles Daily News (“Not the L.A. Times since 1911″) will unveil a six-part series on the San Fernando Valley porn industry starting Sunday. The series, compiled in January and February by a team of seven writers, visits porn personalities like Wicked director Brad Armstrong, Sasha Grey, Oren Cohen of Tightfit Studios, and Teravision [...]
Experts: Designers shouldn’t faux the ‘gine
The British Medical Journal says there “is nothing unusual about the protrusion of the labia” and has condemned the elective genitoplasties women are having to make their parts flatter. Furthermore, the BMJ suggests that vaginoplasty deadens feeling in that area. If one subscribes to the belief that porn performers feel nothing anyway, then one will [...]
Still, don’t expect more for taking one in the ass
Despite predicted job growth of 1.5 percent and a projected earnings increase of three percent for workers in Porn Valley this year, there was no mention at this week’s San Fernando Valley Economic Summit of the area’s orgasmic analists, gay for pay over-the-hill twinks, or adult trade magazine workers receiving raises. “Things are humming along [...]
Wankus out at KSEX, fired by phone on air
It is hard to imagine KSEXRadio without Wankus, the person who undisputedly made the station the unvarnished garage band of porn industry discussion. “Well,” Wankus qualified today, “if you think KSEX sucks, that’s me, too.” Wayne “Wankus” Lewis joined KSEXRadio in late 2000 after years as a radio DJ in regional markets around the country. [...]
The Unluckiest Ottoman
Every now and then I feel like I get a peek into someone else’s world. For example, now that I have seen An Inconvenient Truth I feel like I know what it is like to be Melissa Etheridge. But such backstage visits can be misleading. A recent episode of Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels had Simmons [...]
Orbiting Choad threatens Earth
Another blow to the patriarchy. Previously: Alira Astro: Alien Breeder Lab; The Things I could perch on Nicole Austin’s ass; Your Japanese Christmas in Space; Dwarf planet pornSee also: Asteroid jiggles like jar of mixed nuts (space.com)
Plucky Gonorrhea to antibiotics: "Porn has made me strong"
Gonorrhea, like the Spartans in 300, has overcome fierce opposition and prevailed, proving resistant to traditional treatment in over five percent of cases in 26 cities, including Los Angeles. The Centers for Disease Control have recommended that fluoroquinolones, a family of antibiotics that include ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin, no longer be used to treat the [...]
Memorial for Kitty Kastro tomorrow
Transgender activist and TV host Kitty Kastro (aka Nadia Cabezas), who died when hit by a car March 5, will be memorialized tomorrow at 2 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Foundation, 121 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. Kastro, 40, was the host of San Francisco’s “Tranny Talk”, a cable access show that ran on and [...]
San Francisco sex workers seek to unionize
An affiliation of “erotic service providers” (“an Erotic Service Provider is anyone who is compensated for his or her erotic services or compensated for their support of someone else’s erotic service” – thus making yours truly an Erotic Service Provider) in San Francisco is gearing up for a season of fundraisers and awareness-building events in [...]
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Utah: No Star ’80 on Port 80
“Wrong hole.” Forget .xxx, a Utah measure to curb Internet smut access would create your computer’s own porn pipe. Ralph Yarro III, who chairs the board of Utah-based UNIX software solutions provider SCO, effectively lobbied the non-binding resolution through both houses of his state’s legislature after which it was approved by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. [...]
Cheney busted on technicality
It appears from this news clipping from a Michigan paper that, since there is no real law against being Satan, the Vice President was hauled in for having relations with a dead dog. Michigan’s Bay City Times posted this article about Ronald E. Kuch, a man charged under the state’s existing sodomy law for a [...]
Hungary on Bush presidency: "We’ve got that beat"
As you know, it is impossible for something to be sexually attractive until it turns 18. The lone exception is this Jagermeister dispenser here in the office. A Parliament minister in Hungary, which is one of the most prolific porn producers in Europe, has inserted language into a draft of the larger penal code that [...]
"What kind of jobs are we talking about here?”
Kink.com’s purchase of an historic 200,000 sq. ft. building in San Francisco’s Mission District caught the protesting establishment off-guard; prepared for condominium developers, they got Condom-Only instead. Previously: Porn world mourns Barbaro; O: The places you’ll goSee also: A Neighbor Moves in With Ropes and Shackles, and Some Are Not So Pleased (nytimes.com), Kink
Anna Nicole Smith, R.I.P.
From Carlos Batts: Title:I’ll see you at the Funeral Medium:PhotographyHand manipulated without the use of a computer Date:2002 Shot on Location in Los Angeles…it is featured in my New Book “American Gothic”. I thought one day it would be relevant. Previously: At home with April Flores and Carlos BattsSee also:
Mooninites descend on Boston
In that Tera Patrick once guest-starred on Aqua Teen Hunger Force and did what I think was her best acting ever there (even more so than her job interview with Digital Playground), the fact that apparently the entire city of Boston is angry with ATHF producer Adult Swim/Turner Broadcasting for planting “hoax devices” throughout the [...]
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Report: Porn industry to utilize Internet
Prime Time Uncensored, launching February 11 as a free adult webcast service, is, in its promotional material anyway, painting itself as an anti-KSEXRadio and anti-Playboy-on-Sirius. While I would not be telling tales out of school to say the production quality is not very high nor the programming comprehensive, it is free to watch, and includes [...]
Passages: Hentai turns back on porn screenwriting
Today I talked with former AVN coworker/current HentaiPR owner Wayne Hentai. One of his side projects recently has been writing porn scripts. I will not tell you what they were. He has seen about 15 of them made into movies. We are going to see each other on a set this afternoon. “Did you write [...]
Italian human trafficking ring whacked
Italian police have broken up a human trafficking ring operating across Italy with the aid of 45 women forced to work as prostitutes. Police arrested over 800 people in a sting known as “Spartacus”, which referred to both the slavery aspect of the crime and the fact that there was no clear organizing body (though [...]
"So you’re having sex, and people find this a turn-on?"
Gardening and weaponry network G4TV’s Layla Kayleigh interviewed Joanna Angel for a recent feature on the cable channel’s website, The Feed. Kayleigh, who has a porn star name but otherwise doesn’t know much about the business, uttered the subject line whilst quizzing Angel about her movie The XXXorcist. Unlike Glenn Beck’s boorish performance interviewing Paul [...]
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