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Grassroots steveporn backlash

Because altporn’s definitions, if any, are claimed by different factions, I have renamed “studio” or corporate altporn “steveporn”. In that world recently there have been rumblings at the top, and it is whispered that that frosted mini-kingdom is going to come crashing down.
On the same day this week I received two bits of media, one [...]

Skateboard Kink Freak

This is the type of movie I can use as an example of porn I appreciate even if it’s not right for me.
A lesbian BDSM romp featuring Michelle Aston and Amber Rayne, Bleu Productions’  was shot by Maria Beatty on a shoestring plot. Aston both worships and whips Amber Rayne, who is willingly subservient. Rayne [...]

Sasha Grey in Skin Trade

There is a lot to say about Joe Gallant’s latest movie, The Skin Trade, that doesn’t include cover girl Sasha Grey, but she is definitely the cherry on this cake someone left out in the rain.
For those of us who have only been watching the same kind of rechewed porn for a few years (and [...]

Asian rituals in porn

I was on the set of David Aaron Clark’s “No Man’s Land: Asian” watching the barefoot Jandi and Kitty remove the vestments of the fabulously hair-extended Ange Venus.
“It’s like you’re removing the robes of the queen” Clark said, adding, “as it were.”
Clark is a pragmatist and said “as it were” because he remembers that this [...]

Stood Up

There is a Filipino restaurant across the street from my office called Good Ha. Vivid’s new comedy label is known as Vivid HA. There is no connection, other than the Filipinos always laugh at me when I try to order.
I like porn that is intentionally funny, because somehow it makes the women seem hotter. I [...]

Joe Gallant: No Goofus

Puritan America associates porn, with its guarantees of release and guilty pleasure, with not trying too hard. And the porn world takes seriously these low expectations, routinely misspelling the names of its stars on its own boxcovers. To say that director Joe Gallant is a smart guy, then, is to add an unstable element to [...]