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Cash brings vaginas together: Vegas through the eyes of two pornographers

August 17, 2010 Gram the Man 3

The work of Tony Flush and Madison Young suggests that vaginas can be approached from two different angles.

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Andrew Einhorn makes “Naked Happy” coffee tables

August 16, 2010 Gram the Man 5

Einhorn: As I get older and the models get younger, there is less and less chance for sexual interaction.

GP: Sorry.

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An old-school porn “Open Invitation”: Capturing the elusive swinger

July 16, 2010 Gram the Man 3

“There is a lot of competition,” Marc Davis said about orgies in general. “It’s like herding cats, but I do like to control the room.”

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Degenerates invited to become pornographers in San Francisco

March 18, 2010 Gram the Man 0

As with all of San Francisco’s public functions, the Independent Erotic Film Festival will feature plenty of attendant drag queens, live sex shows, raunchy music, free-flowing alcohol, visiting porn stars, and debauchery.

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The “Thin Line Between Art And Sex” (is not the taint)

March 3, 2010 Gram the Man 2

“Thin Line Between Art And Sex” is really good-natured, which always makes people look sexy.

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Sunset Thomas gives comfort to aging punks

February 18, 2010 Gram the Man 0

There’s something about a gracefully aging porn star, maybe sadder but wiser, that seems to give comfort to aging men.

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Come and play with Alix Lakehurst … forever

February 17, 2010 Gram the Man 0

If you were Delbert Grady, wouldn’t you like to correct Alix Lakehurst? And what is it about hotel hallways that makes women so vulnerable?

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Turn It Off!: George C. Scott in “Hardcore”

January 19, 2010 Gram the Man 11

“Hardcore” really is like a Porn Valley Chamber of Commerce pamphlet brought to life. But could it be too magical?

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The Ropey Volley Awards: Gram’s Dirty Dozen of 2009

December 29, 2009 Gram the Man 6

In a very real way, all porn is good. But the following titles were better.

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Best of 2009 – Bobbi Starr’s classy ‘boe job

December 28, 2009 Gram the Man 3

“When people found out I played the oboe, they would ask me to play it while sitting on some girl’s face and giving a blowjob,”

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Expectation And Erection management at the Exotic Erotic Ball

November 4, 2009 Gram the Man 0

You can get away with so much poor planning as long as nudity is involved.

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Noname Jane becomes dessert, Bozzio and Coolio share stage at Exotic Erotic Ball

October 21, 2009 Gram the Man 3

I am not, like many of my colleagues, a Clinical Sexologist, so I don’t really know the difference between Erotic and Exotic, especially in the […]

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Swingers: They’re not just in your rec room anymore

October 20, 2009 Gram the Man 1

I intrinsically trust “A Real Swinger’s Orgy” because it cares enough to stress the word “Real.” I feel the same about Real California Cheese.

What we can learn from "The Barbary Coast"

October 6, 2009 Gram the Man 1

Recently I finished Herbert Asbury’s 1939 book “The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld,” and it gave me an idea about […]

The Upper Floor and underground of Kink.com

August 31, 2009 Gram the Man 0

San Francisco’s Kink.com, founded in 1997 as a single, catch-all fetish website, has grown to an umbrella organization comprising almost 20 specific, constantly updated websites […]

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Westward Ho or: The Frog Pimps

August 25, 2009 Gram the Man 4

I am reading an excellent book by “Gangs of New York” author Herbert Asbury called “The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco […]

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So long for now, Lorelei or: Lorelei Lee’s shocking departure

August 20, 2009 Gram the Man 1

Lorelei Lee left today on a cross-country road trip to New York, where she will be attending graduate school. At San Francisco’s Kink.com Armory, Lee […]

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If you want to be Hollie Stevens, be Hollie Stevens

August 20, 2009 Gram the Man 0

Hollie Stevens is one of my favorite porn performers. Why? Because she really makes me think. On a trip to San Francisco this week, Stevens […]

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Noname Jane: The cross and the pentagram

June 16, 2009 Gram the Man 4

It was a pleasure seeing Noname Jane at Erotica L.A. this weekend. I didn’t notice at the time that she was wearing a pentagram, but […]

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Little Angel Puss – I’m surprised we still need porn

March 10, 2009 Gram the Man 5

I got a tanker of antique porn movies the other day from VCX, which reissues titles from the Golden Age from its various catalogue acquisitions. […]

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