Each year I recognize the people, movies, and events that made a difference to me in the porn world. These are the 2011 Ropey Volley Awards for Movies of the Year.
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Our tax dollars at work: “Mug Shots” and the County Cum Department
What is the crime, and what is the punishment?
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Skating away: Behind the scenes with Sunny Lane
Gram Ponante shares some candid photos of Sunny Lane at various periods of her porn career, including a backstage video from “The Flying Pink Pig”
Today in Porn Valley
Porn marriage, Sunny Lane style
For all her Girl Next Door accessibility and bubbly exterior, Lane is a chess player
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MontagFoto 4.25.11—Save Porn Star Karaoke Edition
Porn Star Karaoke is an ancient and venerable tradition that must be preserved
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Creepos at a Roller Rink: Shot by Kern
Professional models face some of the same challenges pornstresses do, but the former have a lower Creep Tolerance
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Sunny Lane’s horn of plenty
Sunny Lane has met thousands of porn consumers, and her archsexpot manner must work; she was trailed by very eager fans everywhere she went.
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The 2010 Ropey Volley Awards—Pictures of the Year
As I’ve been led to understand, pornography is a visual medium.
Today in Porn Valley
“Flying Pink Pig”: Holy Spirit Comes in Sunny Lane’s Eye
one can’t look at the twinkle in Sunny Lane’s eye on the set of Erica McLean’s food-truck porn “The Flying Pink Pig” and not be powerfully reminded of a visit from the Holy Spirit. Wait—one can?
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Whisky A Gang Bang with the Free Speech Coalition
Evan Stone gets offstage and he sweats on some women; I am jealous because I am never as successful when sweating on women.
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“Sunny’s Flying Pink Pig”: Filling Might Be Hot
At a time when porn productions are seeking every revenue stream and strategic partnership, McLean has captured the zeitgeist by attaching her movie to one of L.A.’s hottest trends
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eXXXotica adult show comes to Los Angeles: I get to go to the Pantry again
Could the advent of a fresh and sassy new adult consumer show signal a turnaround for the porn industry or might I be retarded?
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Not-so-secret porn societies: the XRCO
“I believe that only people who have been in the biz a long, long time have survived because they recognize and acknowledge the humor of it,”
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Flight Attendants
“Flight Attendants” tries so hard to please that it collapses with the effort.
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Noname Jane becomes dessert, Bozzio and Coolio share stage at Exotic Erotic Ball
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 context of the Erotic Exotic Expo and Ball (EEB) that will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend in San Francisco. More to the point, since everything I do is [...]
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FSC’s Freedomfest: A night of limited but poignant porn star interaction
Because my relationships with our nation’s finest porn performers are intense and significant, I often attend events and talk with only three or four of them. And David Faustino. The Free Speech Coalition’s Sex, Drinks, Rock’n Roll Freedomfest extravaganza last week at the Whisky a Go Go was a raucous affair that raised $8,000 for [...]
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Erotica L.A. 2009 is the new 2002
Erotica L.A. seemed packed the two days I attended, and that is an encouraging – though qualified – sign for Porn Valley’s most precious resource. The south hall of the L.A. Convention Center had been floorscaped to smaller dimensions than in previous years, so it was hard to move around. Crowds formed around Belladonna, consumers [...]
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Amy Fisher: MILF over Miami
Exxotica Miami, which in the past three years has grown to be the East Coast’s biggest adult consumer show, next month features Amy Fisher hosting “The Search for South Florida’s Hottest MILF.” And the contest is on Mother’s Day, May 10. I know of no other way for Dade County’s moms to show their devotion [...]
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Benchmarking adult award shows, conferences
A few years ago, the adult video industry’s connection with upstart XBiz was tenuous; Hustler and Vivid did not play ball with AVN’s rival, and only Digital Playground seemed to see the value in advertising with the magazine. But that has changed, and now both AVN and XBiz draw from the same pool of advertisers [...]
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