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08-08-10 04:56pm - 5250 days | #36 | |
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This is all going off in a totally different directions, but a) who cares? and b) that's not all that uncommon around here. It's interesting how some women can do the craziest shit and still look hot and other women, not so much. Brigitte Kerkove is the epitome to me of the latter - she's not a bad-looking woman but her sex scenes are absolute cock-deflatingly, go-wash-my-brains-and-eyes-out, unwatchable. Debi Diamond, Careena Collins, Amy Brooks all look hot doing crazy-ass shit. Sasha Grey is a gorgeous woman, but I'd much rather watch her milder stuff, like Buttman's Stretch Class, than her harder stuff, because she doesn't look good to me in her balls-to-the-wall stuff, despite the fact that is how she's mainly known. | |
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08-08-10 04:46pm - 5250 days | #12 | |
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Different tastes, for sure. My biggest beef with Twisty's is that, even when they allow natural skin tones on the bodies, they blur the faces. What the fuck? If they think the models are ugly, they should hire different models - why blur the faces so often? It's why my affection for ATK Galleria grows by leaps and bounds. They actually show what their models look like - what a concept! | |
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08-08-10 09:37am - 5250 days | #7 | |
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I'm not sure why that photo would even cause any confusion, but I think that we have different enough computers and monitors with different resolutions that pics really do look quite different to some of us. I remember having a back-and-forth about the pics on Pier999, or whatever it's called, where some people were talking about the remarkable clarity and detail on their pics, while to me the remarkable thing about their pics is to apply lacquer-like photo treatment to eradicate anything that might possibly be confused with natural skin tone. | |
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08-07-10 06:15pm - 5250 days | #24 | |
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Makes me wonder what Aria Giovanni (a very successful glamour model on the thick side) was told when she started? | |
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08-05-10 07:29pm - 5252 days | #4 | |
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Of the sites that you mentioned above, I recommend TeenDreams - and it's pretty easy to find online deals for $17.95/month access. Nubiles would infuriate you due to your hatred of toys. | |
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08-04-10 09:49pm - 5253 days | #7 | |
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No secret code? Damn! I was hoping for a cool decoder ring! | |
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08-04-10 06:52am - 5254 days | #17 | |
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My answer to this question is "Which site did you join?" Once could assume - with all the pitfalls of assuming - that the site that you joined was the main attraction and would best be the center of your review. If other sites that were available to you as bonus sites - which is how I would describe sites that are stand-alone but included in a subscription - are worth reviewing on their own, in your opinion, then go to it. It's a personal preference and a judgement call. | |
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08-01-10 09:08pm - 5256 days | #229 | |
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Bergman's stuff is pretty intense. I went to see lots of his stuff when I was living in Boston and was making a point of seeing stuff that I thought I ought to. It's interesting. Among foreign films, I found that I connected most with films from Germany and Japan on a fairly consistent basis while films from other countries frequently left me cold. The German film-makers, like Fassbinder, Herzog & Wenders were directly addressing the post-WW II question of "what does it mean to be human if humans can do that?" I find that kind of searching in a lot of Scandinavian crime fiction, which the Larsson books turned me onto. Great stuff! | |
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08-01-10 07:43am - 5257 days | #226 | |
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It's like with e-mail - sometimes written humor is hard to pick up on, since you don't have the voice to give you the clues that it's supposed to be funny. That's why people put "lol" and smilies when they're making jokes - so dunces like me don't respond with "What the hell are you talking about?" | |
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07-31-10 04:54pm - 5258 days | #224 | |
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I saw the Swedish film of "The Girl Who Played With Fire" last night and it was the answer to the trivia question, "Why don't we hear much about Swedish suspense movies?" I LOVE the story. I've read the 3 Stieg Larsson books multiple times. And I know there's the old adage of "If you love the book, you'll hate the movie." Perhaps. I found all of the Harry Potter films to be well-done and I enjoyed those books - though not on the level that these have fascinated me. This was just not a well-made suspense movie. There were MANY scenes that were completely flat and drama-free with nothing in them except some information to move the story along. Sorry, but if you're going to do a scene, put SOMETHING into it - have people act, have some spark of something. They left out all of the dark humor of the books, including the last line of the 2nd book, which was beautiful. Plus they totally distorted the role of the police from that portrayed in the books in both Swedish films and changed the relationship between one of the main characters and the police in both films. Given that, the beginning of the 3rd film will also have to be changed from the book. In every way, I suspect that the 3rd movie - which has less "action" in the story - will be even worse, unfortunately. Skip the Swedish films. Read the books, wait for the David Fincher films to come out. That's my advice. I have high hopes for Fincher to connect with these books and make exciting movies out of them. Edited on Jul 31, 2010, 04:58pm | |
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07-31-10 04:48pm - 5258 days | #223 | |
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I couldn't follow this at all, lk - you like them? You don't like them? It's been a good experience, but you want people to boycott them? $1.50 is exorbitant for a movie rental? I don't get it at all. | |
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07-30-10 04:20pm - 5259 days | #14 | |
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Here is an interesting article relevant to this topic: http://news.gofightlive.tv/2010/07/ufc%c...-streaming-websites/ On July 24, 2010, Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC, served subpeona's on 2 streaming video websites, demanding that they reveal the identies of the people that have uploaded video of live Pay-per-view UFC events. | |
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07-28-10 05:36pm - 5260 days | #5 | |
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I believe that Kamilla also did some work on Masha's World, if I remember correctly. | |
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07-28-10 06:38am - 5261 days | #4 | |
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From what I've heard from people that did business accepting Paypal as a form of payment, they're taking an awful risk. Paypal has been known to freeze accounts (and funds) at the drop of a hat if they feel that the seller is breaking their rules. | |
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07-26-10 06:15pm - 5262 days | #220 | |
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All true, lk - the good thing about it - and the thing many action movies don't have - was that it had an emotional center to the whole thing - the loss that one character felt (trying not to do any spoilers here if I can). That kept me watching it, wondering how that was going to play out - lots of the rest of the movie - too much - was pseudo-video-game-arcade crap. | |
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07-25-10 04:33pm - 5264 days | #218 | |
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I saw Inception today - wasn't planning on it, but some people in another forum recommended it highly. It was worth seeing, though it didn't blow me away as it did the other people. I liked Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time in a movie since "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" or whatever the name of that was. Finally he's got enough age and a look of ravishment about him to believe weighed-down-and-miserable that he seems to enjoy playing so much. Oh, and it's got Ellen Page looking adorable and a really cool sequence where they play with the physics of dream-states. | |
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07-24-10 07:41am - 5265 days | #4 | |
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It sounds like an early Jenna Haze vid, of which there are many at Videobox | |
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07-21-10 06:14pm - 5267 days | #15 | |
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Some sites put a lot of energy to shutting down the piracy. Some sites figure there's advertising value. Some sites/webmasters figure it's just part of the realities of having porn sites and aren't interested even if you alert them to the thievery. | |
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07-20-10 05:59pm - 5268 days | #135 | |
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I've got to say that I'm pretty non-discriminatory when it comes to boobs. Boobs turn me on. I really like natural boobs, including mosquito bite titties, but there are a lot of women with fake ones that turn me on as well - in person, too - though it's a pretty fast turn-off for me if I'm squeezing a woman's boobs the way she wants and I start feeling some foreign material inside the thing moving around in a weird way - that's not terribly uncommon with fake ones - and then there are the weird stretch marks. So while I do get turned on by good looking fake ones and girls who have them, I would never encourage women to get them and I have discouraged numbers from ever getting them - not that most that I have discouraged have listened all that much. | |
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07-20-10 05:53pm - 5268 days | #4 | |
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There are a LOT of forums that are built around promoting and sharing stolen material - and giving hosannas to the biggest posters/thieves as though they are brilliant for their ability to steal and make it available for other people. There are other forums - one which I particularly like, though I've received warnings for mentioning it on this site - that have pretty strong moderated standards that all posts must be of official sample material - or other material that is not taken against the wishes of the producer of the material - Myspace pages created for promotional purposes, etc. That's my preferred place for checking stuff out, though I first learned of pay sites from forums - mainly Yahoo groups - that were built around sharing stolen material - and giving hosannas to the biggest posters/thieves. | |
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07-20-10 05:46pm - 5268 days | #6 | |
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I think this is very true. The right-wing anti-porn brigade wants social control more than anything else, so they don't want people doing anything that's going to involve playing and thinking about social roles. The left-wing anti-porn brigade is knee-jerk in their response, they don't investigate much, they're intellectually lazy on the subject and they wind up being dupes of the right-wing anti-porn brigade, when it comes right down to it. | |
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07-20-10 06:18am - 5269 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Lorelei Lei was one of the female stars, along with Annette Schwartz, of the Milk Nymphos scene that was one of the 2 scenes and a video trailer that were at the center of John Stagliano's trial. This is an interview she did after the case was thrown out - smart woman: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movie..._lee_stagliano_trial | |
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07-18-10 11:10am - 5271 days | #7 | |
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A great blog by Aurora Snow: http://news.avn.com/articles/Aurora-Snow...from-D-C-403915.html I hadn't gotten this bit before about how thoroughly the prosecution failed to show ANY connection between Stagliano and the DVD's that the FBI Agent got - the label could only be connected to a corporation that, though charged in the indictment, hasn't been active for years - Interestingly enough, an article a couple of days ago at AVN mentioned - 3rd hand - that one reporter had gotten a chance to speak to a handful of the jurors as they were heading out of the courthouse. None of them would have voted to convict, they told the reporter. | |
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07-17-10 06:57am - 5272 days | #13 | |
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Join Kari Sweets' site - she's make a career out of going through the motions. You'll love it. | |
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07-16-10 09:26pm - 5272 days | #11 | |
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Recent material at ALS Scan is fantastic, in my opinion. They just released Viky Day & Amy Brooke, both of whom are absolutely gorgeous - Amy's one of the hottest women on the site, for my tastes. Of the last 10 updates, 1 of them pertained to 2005 material, but it's new to the site, not re-released. Looking back at the previous 10 updates, 1 of them pertained to 2003 material, but was also new to the site, not re-released. So they're not doing a lot of re-releasing of old material. In fact, Alex recently posted that they weren't going to do much re-mastering any more because it was quite expensive & time consuming and wasn't paying off in new members - not surprisingly. There's a lot of the most recent Caribbean trip material being released lately and I always love that stuff. One of my favorite recent vids was a very casual one of Tanner Mayes, in her hotel room dancing and singing along to Lady Gaga wearing this sexy tiny white dress and no panties - great upskirts and Tanner's just a delight to spend time with - she's fucking adorable and kind of crazy. | |
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07-16-10 06:28pm - 5272 days | #4 | |
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Apparently there was a very tense scene in court where the judge demanded that the prosecuting attorney submit a written statement that the judge had NOT told her to tell the witness anything about their testimony. She said, "I can't do that." He then threatended to force her onto the witness stand and make her recuse herself from the rest of the trial. Only then did she submit the written statement. So he's off the hook. She rested her case looking completely shaken up and he got on his high horse about how woefully unprepared the prosecution was, ripped them up one side and down the other as he started throwing out one charge after another. So now he looks like some great defender of the constitution and the prosecutor's career is toast. | |
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07-16-10 05:11pm - 5272 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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http://trueslant.com/susannahbreslin/201...hn-stagliano-and-co/ I think that the fact that the main prosecution witness fucked up and revealed the discussion between the judge and prosecution on prepping the main prosecution witness made the judge feel that he was more interested in keeping his seat on the bench than trying to ram this shredded case through. I'm fucking delighted!! | |
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07-16-10 06:33am - 5273 days | #25 | |
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You realize that Stagliano is facing up to 32 years in jail if convicted on all counts? | |
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07-15-10 11:23pm - 5273 days | #9 | |
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Sites with "Many Solo Girls" I'm actually a big fan of solo girl tease. Here are some recommendations: If you like Latinas, join Karla Spice or Gigi Spice or one of those premium sites and you'll get 7 or so bonus sites as well - all full of lots of content - pretty nice stuff, though only one or two of the sites are updating - as is usually the case with solo-girl sites - Gigi got a boob job and moved on, so they're just working through their stash of material, Karla got married and retired from modelling, so they're about done with her un-released material, etc. PanchoDog has a large package of sites as well. If you were to join Ariel Rebel's site, for instance, you'll get a huge group of sites as bonuses - maybe one of those sites is still updating, but among the sites that are bonuses are such great ones as KatieFey.com and Andi Pink's site has some nice material as well. Ariel's site is still updating and she's very involved in it and is a cool girl. Nubiles has a ton of material updating daily - and the archives include a who's who of porn babes over the past several years as well as a lot of hotties that you wouldn't have seen elsewhere. KarupsPC, KarupsHA, ATK Galleria, ATK Petites all have a lot of solo-girl like material with lots of updates. ALS Scan has a mix of porn babes, solo-girl babes, just as Jana Jordan & Sarah Peachez. They update all the time and their stuff is fantastic - very high quality, very entertaining. The simple little hotel room vid they just put up of Tanner Mayes dancing and singing to Lady Gaga in a hot little white dress with no panties is just beautiful! Their new Amy Brooke material is mind-blowing. | |
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07-15-10 11:11pm - 5273 days | #23 | |
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Fascinating stuff - for me anyway - in this AVN article on today's court transactions: http://news.avn.com/articles/Stagliano-O...Midpoint-403727.html The issue of jurisdiction is so outragreous. Here you have LAPD guys traveling to Las Vegas to go to the Adult Entertainment Expo so they can see stuff that they don't like and then sic the feds on people that they don't feel that they could ever get to a court in the place where they actually DO have jurisdiction. Then you have a case filed in DC by an FBI agent who rarely went to DC - who had ordered the vids from Virginia and had them delivered to a PO Box in DC, where they were picked up - supposedly - by someone else that brought them to Virginia where they were viewed - and then the charges are brought in a court in DC - why? Another interesting ruling tomorrow is whether the prosecuting attorney will be forced to take the stand to explain the main FBI agent's testimony that she - the prosecutor - told the FBI agent to re-acquaint himself with the vids he was going to testify about at the direction of the judge - who denies it. If she has to testify, then she has to recuse herself from the remainder of the trial presentation. Then there's going to be a ruling in the morning as to whether Lorelei Lei, one of the 2 female performers in the Milk Nymphos scene that was shown to the jury is going to be allowed to testify under her stage name - because she has no intention of having her real name bandied about - If she doesn't get to testify, then the only witness for the defense will be Stagliano, since the judge refused to allowe the defense's expert witnesses to testify since they "would leave the jury astray." This whole thing would make a great movie - reminds me of the trial in "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" except that the judge in that book wasn't conspiring with the prosecution as this one has been exposed to be doing. | |
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07-15-10 10:14pm - 5273 days | #7 | |
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Are there? An example of the hazards of joining solo-girl sites is what just happened with Talia Shepard's site. Talia wasn't happy with her situation with one webmaster, went with another. After announcing that their sites would no longer feature toys and masturbation - 24 hours or after promoting a new set he had just shot of Talia masturbating with a wii controller - the new webmaster took down more than 75% of the content of Talia's site - including such "hard-core" material as Talia stripping out of a one-piece swimsuit. It's join at your own risk with any adult site, given the haphazard quality of much of the industry, but that's amplified 20 times with solo-girl sites, as this example shows. Maybe the former webmaster threatened to sue about the old content, I dunno. | |
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07-15-10 05:26pm - 5273 days | #22 | |
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And finally a win for the defense - the judge threw out the defective CD-R that was the entire basis for 2 of the charges in this case and a partial basis for a 3rd charge: http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=122879 And a summary of the afternoon - Sounds like the FBI agent fucked up in revealing that the judge had been having discussions with the prosecuting attorney about preparing key witnesses for the prosecution - both the judge & the prosecutor claiming that the testimony by the key defense witness is incorrect - when it comes to what that witness said about them anyway: http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=122907 | |
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07-14-10 06:32pm - 5274 days | #20 | |
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Lots of new stuff out on the trial from different sources How did this travesty of a trial come about? By the LAPD working outside their jurisdiction and using the feds to do what they couldn't - isn't there a legal issue about "fruit of a poisoned tree" that would make this whole case need to be thrown out in a country where laws actually mattered? http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th...-john-stagliano.html A chance to hear from the expert defense witness that the judge won't allow the jury to hear because she "might lead them astray" - the actual words of his ruling: http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=122827 Cato and Reason's coverage - Stagliano has been a well-known financial contributor to Libertarian org's for years: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/07/1...nos-obscenity-trial/ Aurora Snow's blog: http://news.avn.com/articles/Aurora-Snow...no-Trial-403410.html And she's absolutely right that the Milk Squirters scene that the jury was forced to sit through is a rockin' example of everything that's good about EA porn - it's kookie, it's funny, the women are hot, the situation - a black milk man delivering milk to 2 white Milk Nymphos - is hilarious, everyone in the scene is obviously having a good time, the sex is crazy hot - filthy and fun at the same time - and it's filmed beautifully. In the first good turn for the defense, the file that is the basis for 1 - or possibly 2 - of the counts of the indictment was faulty and might necessitate 1 or 2 charges being thrown out - a complete rundown on that here: http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=122841 | |
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07-14-10 05:44am - 5275 days | #18 | |
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And more on this trial, which continues to go in a dangerous direction: http://news.avn.com/articles/Stagliano-O...-At-Last-403381.html The two most dangerous elements: 1) The judge allowed the prosecution to tell the jury that "prurient" means "lustful" and over-ruled the defense's objection even when they pointed out that "the U.S. Supreme Court had decreed that "lust" was not a descriptive term for "prurient," since many people lust—including former President Jimmy Carter, who admitted to feeling lust in his heart for certain women." Aaah, the Supreme Court - whadda they know? 2) The judge ruled that even though the law is that obsenity needs to be judged by taking the work "as a whole", not only doesn't the jury HAVE to see the whole of the work being judged, but the defense "'do not have the right' to show the complete movies because that would be 'a meaningless consumption of time.'" Evidently this judge has other railroads he wants to get on to - can't have this one take too much time. | |
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07-13-10 07:53am - 5276 days | #6 | |
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The thing is that porn stars aren't embarrassed by that stuff. I've talked to Stephanie Swift about her gang-bang movie and the edited DVD - they took out the spitting and slapping that she was the recipient of in the original release. She was all "Yeah - they told me they were going to destroy the un-edited ones and I told them 'don't destroy them - send them to me! I still have a couple right here.'" and she immediately sold one quite happily - not to me, I'm quite happy to not be seeing Stephanie getting slapped and spit on during a gang-bang. Stephanie had a lot to say about the very intense fem-dom scene she did with Sharon Mitchell in Knockout. I told her it was one of my favorite scenes because of how unique and intense it was. She talked about feeling honored doing it because it was Sharon Mitchell's last scene ever - Stephanie talked about doing Jenna Jameson's last scene before one of her retirements as well. The fun thing is that porn stars aren't embarrassed about their work. I wouldn't talk about how many times I've jerked off to this or that scene, but if I tell them which scenes I like the most and why, that's another way of saying the same thing. | |
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07-13-10 07:45am - 5276 days | #5 | |
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I've talked about this in other threads - I've gone to clubs where porn stars were doing feature shows. At Gold Club Centerfolds in Rancho Cordova, CA - just outside of Sacramento - they have a cool set-up. They have an adult bookstore next door where the feature porn stars spend a couple of hours on Friday & Saturday when they're performing that weekend. You can chat with them in a more leisurely way without shouting over the pounding music in the club. I had the most fun with Stephanie Swift and Nautica Thorn, both of whom are very cool, like to meet their fans and like to chat in a relaxed sort of way. I met Adriana Sage as well - gorgeous woman, but as far as chatting with strangers, she wasn't anywhere near as comfortable as Stephanie & Nautica. Nautica - and I've mentioned this in other threads - seems to have a knack for remembering every person she meets and what she was chatting with them about - even if it was months before - and she's reminded me of a previous conversation when she spied me in the front row while she was doing her feature performance. Very cool woman! | |
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07-13-10 07:35am - 5276 days | #14 | |
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How much of a railroad is the judge trying to make this trial? According to this article at Law.com: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=12..._Rare_Obscenity_Case "On Friday, (Judge Richard) Leon ruled the defense would not be allowed to call two experts to testify about the scientific and artistic value of the movies, stating such testimony would likely lead the jury astray." Yeah, we wouldn't want the jury to have to hear the defense, would we? Dangerous shit! | |
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07-07-10 11:11am - 5282 days | #8 | |
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It may be that Stagliano will win. He's a smart guy and I'm sure he's got good legal representation. But the fact that the judge has been going along with every proposal made by the prosecution - moving to silence Stagliano leading up to the trial, agreeing that only clips of the DVD's need be shown by the prosecution to the jury, etc - speaks to the orientation of the judge - and that's not helpful and doesn't point in a good direction. Multiple jurors in Max Hardcore's case were coming up to him immediately after his conviction with tears in their eyes saying that they felt that they had no choice but to vote to convict based on the directions they had received from the judge - so the guidance from the bench makes a big difference a lot of times. You can take the attitude, "Oh, no big deal - he'll win and we'll all celebrate" or you can look at what's going on and recognize that there's great danger that the judge will do what he can to force a conviction and that this case has great stakes for free speech generally and for porn in particular. | |
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07-07-10 07:51am - 5282 days | #6 | |
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The Obama Administration certainly could have dropped this case, just like they could have stopped making the same legal stand as the Bush Administration had in a lot of other areas, such as keeping White House documents secret. That's part of Obama's political strategy, it seems to me. He's got well-defined progressive agenda elements, like extending health care to millions more people, that he put out there and fought to enact and other than that he's carrying on with the same agenda as his predecessor to lessen the attacks by the Right - not that the Right gives a shit, but that's his political strategy and he's carrying on with it. | |
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07-06-10 06:14pm - 5282 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Time for me to get on my soap-box. This is probably the most important first ammendment rights case in many years. The prosecution is saying that any anti-porn government employee can order material that they want to build a case on, then use the material that they ordered and charge the producer and distributor of the material with obscenity - and, even though the law states that the material "as a whole" must be considered to have no redeeming social value, they can show clips of the material and ONLY show clips of the material and on that basis have the producer and distributor of the material sent to jail for decades and be fined for millions of dollars. Stagliano is facing a maximum of 32 years in jail and $7 million in fines if convicted on all counts. I've never been much of a fan of Howard Stern - I consider him to be a vicious bully based on the amount of his show that I've been able to stand listening to, but his points on this issue are right-on: http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i78191 If consenting adults can't buy material that is clearly created for and marketed to consenting adults, then there is no right to free speech. I'm a big fan of Evil Angel's material - it's the best porn company operating, as far as I'm concerned. Rocco's recent stuff is unbelievably great, with a freshness that is pretty striking considering how many years he's been in the biz. Jay Sin's stuff is brilliant. Their new director, Mike Adriano is awesome. It would be a big loss to porn fans if this company were taken down, but more than that, it would mean that nobody making porn is safe in the U.S. One could fool oneself that really vanilla porn is still going to be safe - but if they win this one, I don't think that will be the case at all. The porn industry seems to get the importance - both XBIZ and AVN have reporters that will be on the scene through-out the trial. The current expectations are that jury selection will take 2 days and opening statements will begin on Thursday. | |
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07-04-10 05:18pm - 5284 days | #21 | |
PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
There seems to be a new rash of anti-porn books out there - there's this one and Pornification by Andrew Benjamin & Pornified, by Pamela Paul. I looked through a bit of Pornified and I had the same reaction I do when listening to a bit of Rush Limbaugh - It was rather amazing how thick the BS flew - if Pornified were true, then anybody that had ever spent any time looking at porn would be only interested in the most brutal, degrading crap out there - and frankly the stuff that the author describes as being omnipresent is stuff that you have to work hard to find. In my years of web-surfing, I've stumbled across stuff as nasty as she describes maybe twice and got the hell away from the sites that had led me there. But people who don't check out porn believe these liars, unfortunately. Someone I know read Pornified and considers it 100% true - and I'm not going to go into my credentials as a porn-hound in order to tell her how wrong she is in detail. | |
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07-01-10 06:24pm - 5287 days | #11 | |
PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
OK - but only if I get to appreciate Denner for bringing to mind the truly wonderful Monty Python's Flying Circus Oooooo - I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, I sleep all night and I work all day... I love those guys! | |
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07-01-10 06:19pm - 5287 days | #18 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
What guys think women think about guys has little to no relation about what women actually think about guys. Yet another lesson learned venturing to strip clubs. I read a review of a club I go to that has a lot of older Asian men as day-time regulars. The reviewer was going on about how awful the dancers must feel being pawed over by these wretched old men. I've talked to the dancers there - the majority think the old geezers are pretty cute and they like teasing them and getting a rise out of them. Then there's the big heavy guys - again, guys could go on about how awful it would be dealing some fat slob. Talk to the dancers and it ain't necessarily so. If the big heavy guys really are slobs - don't shower or whatever - then yeah, they're not happy about it - but if it's a well-groomed big guy who treats then nice and is generally cool with them, they would rather interact with that person than some snotty young guy that thinks he's all that and is disrespectful. And I hear similar things from porn babes at cam shows. Debi Diamond, for one, loved Ron Jeremy before he really went to seed. Now he's considered rather smelly by a number of girls, which they definitely find a turn-off. | |
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06-30-10 06:54pm - 5288 days | #11 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Evan Stone? Girls hate him? Have you talked to any girls that have worked with him? They love him! The guy's hilarious and gets great scenes out of most of the women he works with. | |
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06-28-10 05:56pm - 5290 days | #11 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
There are some great vids of Amy Reid where she's bouncing her amazingly beautiful boobs - best boob bouncing I can think of - easily found at both Videosz or Videobox | |
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06-27-10 08:31am - 5292 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I've never joined that particular site - some sites have a clearly labeled group of main categories that will include whatever bonus material they have. Some sites are quite cluttered with a bunch of ads and in the middle of that pack of ads, they'll have a place to click to get to their bonus material. | |
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06-26-10 07:20am - 5293 days | #31 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I'm a fan of John Waters' films - I'm old enough to remember when he would tour when they were opening and I was lucky enough to have been living in Boston, which was a major market for his stuff so I got to see him present the openings of several - but I don't remember gloryhole scenes in Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Serial Mom,Desperate Living, Crybaby, Mondo Trasho...certainly not Hairspray Maybe I'm adverse enough to gloryhole sex that I blocked it out, but there's a lot of stuff in John Waters films that is unattractive that is seared into my memory, so I don't know why I would | |
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06-25-10 05:51pm - 5293 days | #27 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
The williamj/turboshaft interaction brings something to mind - gloryhole sex. Now while I've seen gloryhole porn that I thought was hot where a hot babe was dealing with anonymous cocks or hands, etc, the idea of being the recipient of gloryhole sex where I couldn't see the woman or interact with her is really not appealing. I've had Gay friends that were into the anonymous sex thing and I just don't get it - I'm definitely not an "any hole will do" guy. I need the visual stimulation and that means that I need to be turned on by the woman I'm looking at. | |
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06-22-10 06:35pm - 5296 days | #19 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
You want to see how universal attraction to a particular type of woman is? Go to a strip club with a wide variety of dancers - big, short, slender, thick, white, black, asian, etc. You'll see babes that give you an instant hard-on being left alone while women that you wouldn't think of spending any money on are having guys scoop them up. That's a good thing, because otherwise, it would be a colossal drag trying to compete with every guy in the place for the same 3 women. But, yeah, universal standards of attraction don't exist. | |
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06-22-10 06:03pm - 5296 days | #22 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Here's my experience with this site - idols69 - that you are so desperate to defend against my criticisms. I paid them $19.95. No ability to log in for hours in any browser, no response to me filling out their online form. What value were they delivering? None - if you find blank pages and Internal Error messages entertaining, go join that site and have a ball! I finally got access late that night and downloaded one vid just to see if it was possible - then went to bed - not much entertainment value out of the site, but it seemed to be working. The next day I had access and the site worked. The following day - no access at all - and no response to me filling out their online form - same with the following day. The 3rd day - after 2 days of no access to this site at all - I got some BS response from their CS idiots blaming me for the problem the same as they did in their first response. No offer of any partial refund or extension of my subsription to make up for 2 1/2 days of no access that they charged me for. So this site is pretty damned unstable and barely functional. You want to defend it? Fine. You want to tell me that I'm wrong to criticize it? I disagree - it's an unstable, barely functional site in a world where there are lots of sites that are more stable, more functional and deliver much more entertainment because of it - and I'll encourage anybody here that likes Japanese porn to join those other sites instead because idols69 is pretty much crap. But you might really like it - or maybe you'll just love their idiot un-helpful "CS" people. | |
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