This Week in Porn Hysteria: The Name Bomb or: When Is Dana DeArmond also Dana DeArmond?

It is not odd that the porn performer who would consent to being gangbanged by the ungraduated 1987 class of Chatsworth High or take it – punk-rock style – up the ass from a Brazilian tranny, is often skittish about revealing her or his real name. While the individual may have made his peace with his choice of profession – may even be proud of it – there are members of his family who would suffer to know their darling one gobbles goo for pay.

That is why the nuclear option in many porn feuds is the revelation of a performer’s real name, such as what happened this week in spectacular, awful fashion.

Most porn industry employees take a nom de porn, like Sassy McSassypants, Rod Cockdick, Steve G. (Internet-based porners tend to use initials – it’s a Compuserve thing), or Kagney Linn Karter, that can be pleasant-sounding, an artful illustration of the services they provide and/or a shield to family members who are not yet ready to accept the perfectly valid career choices of their relative.

Former porn performer and producer Donny Long, who now lives in Florida, has a beef with porn agent Mark Spiegler. At issue is Spiegler’s taking on as a client a woman Long didn’t like, and who Long said had falsely accused him of a crime.

While I am trying to reserve my own judgment here, I run the risk of shortchanging you on information in order to remain objective. So you might very well be asking:

Q. Grams, why would Donny Long have any say whatsoever with regard to the hiring – by someone else – of someone who is legal age and of whom Long is not a legal guardian or caretaker?
A. It is the pimp mentality. Long, who gleefully refers to women as “whores” (and I have no problem with this term, as some of my best friends refer to themselves as whores), was angry that Spiegler hired someone whom Long said would never work in this town again. Spiegler, for his part, said that he thought Long was referring to one Asian girl when in fact Long meant another, but that is almost irrelevant.

What is relevant is that Long began an Internet campaign to smear Spiegler, and Spiegler responded by creating a website that listed Long’s real name and various criminal offenses. It is still up, though I will not reprint the address. It looks very professional.

“Donny Long is psychotic,” Spiegler said. “If he doesn’t like you, he goes around your neighborhood sticking up posters saying you’re a pedophile.”

Long retaliated by creating his own anti-Spiegler website. From his launch e-mail:

Mark Spiegler is a suitcase pimp hooking out young girls and getting away
with it in Los Angeles
Is the LAPD doing there job?
Is the Vice unit sitting there wanking to porn instead of doing there job?
Mark A. Spiegler Stagename Shylock, is a known scam artist
suitcase pimp. He is known to trap young girls into fucking him and then
pimping them out off Craigslist and many other places and keeping there
money. There is a whole website about this scum with video proof of it
inside and still he gets away with it? [URL redacted]

I wonder what the LAPD vice unit has to say about this? Where are the tax
dollars really going? Instead of worrying about who uses a condom they
need to lock scum like this away to clean up the town and the adult
industry.

I have attempted to enlist the aid of the LAPD before to solve crimes, but to no avail. Perhaps I should have shamed them by saying, “What are you, wanking?”

Because Mark Spiegler is his nemesis’ real name, Long lists Spiegler’s date of birth on the website and promises proof of Spiegler’s criminal offenses. As yet, none has appeared.

But Long’s site prints the real names of several of Spiegler’s clients, including Dana DeArmond. Whose real name happens to be Dana DeArmond.

(DeArmond, among her many singular talents, has both a family supportive of her career as well as an alliterative name.)

It is getting easier and easier to discover a porn personality’s real name. Lapsed Christian and former porn blogger Luke Ford, among his many singular crimes, listed many real names of porn stars on his site several years ago. But the “name bomb” has always been either classless, a last resort, or both.

Since I have never seen someone go so far as to list the real names of associates of a porn feud participant, I e-mailed Long to find what his justification was.

Gram: Why bring the girls into it?
Long: Its simple, the girls dont want there real names posted so why would any girl sign with spiegler knowing there real name will get posted. Mark Spiegler out of business in time! Get it now?

All this feuding saddens me. I am reminded of the words of Eon McKai, who long ago wrote me:

My hart is to big for this bisness.

Yes, Eon; it takes a mitey hart to survive in this cruel world.

Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Sixth time is a charm for Donny Long; Life in a porn dorm isn’t all pillow fights and orgies; Mug shot revisited
See also: Spiegler Girls, Donny Long

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1 Comment

  1. Would someone remind Mr. Long that there is a difference between “there” and “their”? It tends to ruin your credibility (regardless of whether you have any to begin with) when you can’t differentiate between homonyms within your rants.

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