“This inhuman place makes human monsters” – Danny Torrance

Self-hating Asian Wayne Hentai, writing on Asian Juicebox.com, hipped me to the fact that the 1976 socio-erotic thriller In the Realm of the Senses has been released in a Criterion edition.In the Realm of the Senses did for kitchen utensils what Last Tango in Paris did for butter, and Hentai describes the movie as “the [...]

Don’t cry for Kylie Ireland. (But don’t toast her, either. At least not with champagne.) Kylie Ireland and I talked about Marilyn Chambers last week, and she suggested that sometimes the assumption that people need sympathy might be premature. Marilyn Chambers was found in a trailer, and this news was sad but not surprising. That [...]

It is a cliche that porn is poorly made. This comes from years of visible boom mics, awkward dialogue, quick scripts, and poor editing. But today’s pornographer knows how to edit and, if he’s smart, writes dialogue that performers who aren’t in this to be actors won’t trip over. “Yeah. I’ve never been to that [...]

A film critical of the porn industry (and that’s O.K., remember – it’s not like it’s Birth of a Nation) will be shown tonight at Pasadena’s Fuller Theological Seminary. The Price of Pleasure has marketed itself as fair and balanced, but it is not. More than that, producers have actively tried to keep potential detractors [...]

Service providers such as strippers are providing more for less in the current economy, as you will see in this video from the horror collective Fewdio. The protagonist of Door 17, written by Drew Daywalt and directed by Paul Hungerford, patronizes a peep show in which the dancer goes the extra mile. In fact, she [...]

Most porn movies are horror flicks only unintentionally, but Carlos Batts’ Kiss Attack, which he made for Adam & Eve and which comes with a 16-page comic book which Batts co-designed with Albuquerque artist Nathan Carlisle, is supposed to be scary. “Andy Warhol got to make his ‘Dracula,’” Batts said of his porn vampire movie, [...]

The accepted way for your hi-larious officemate to make fun of a porn movie is to add a ridiculously high number to a wacky title that probably already exists. “My neighbor’s wife should be in My Hot Wife Is Fucking Blackzilla 48,” he’ll say. You will then check your watch and accurately predict that Blackzilla [...]

Todd Todd is a photographer who pretty much knows everybody in the adult business. When I was new to AVN in 2003, he took me around the convention floor and introduced me to every performer in the building, including these ladies. Photographers need to keep the action moving so their subjects don’t get bored or [...]

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 [...]