Nancy Reyes observes that it’s hard to avoid porn when browsing Google’s top videos… …while exploring, I went to the Google Video top 100 home page to see if I could download stuff on Linux without my Google Video player, and found that the “top 100″ page was all pornography. And not just “debbie does […]
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Porn: A Deadly Occupation
RAME, “the official website of rec.arts.movies.erotica”, keeps track of porn stars who have died. Here are many of the performers from their list… AccidentalTeri Diver, Overdose, 1/2/2001“She had apparently taken too much of her headache medicine,” Ren Savant [her husband] told AVNJoey Stefano, Drug Overdose, HIV Positive, 11/21/1994Leilani, “accident related to psychological turmoil”, 2/4/1993Marc Radcliffe, […]
Workplace Regulations for Porn Performers: A Dialogue with Renegade Evolution
On July 11, we continued our dialogue with Renegade Evolution, a stripper and porn performer, moving on to the subject of workplace rules for porn performers. We are happy to see some areas of common ground, with the goal of making life less harsh for people in the industry: NPN: I would like to take […]
Adult Website Tries to Use Copyright Laws to Restrict Debate
It has been interesting this week to see members of the adult industry, famous for its staunch defense of free speech, object to being quoted in ways they find ‘exploitative’ or damaging to their interests. Notions of having a free and open debate, so cherished by the founders of our country, go out the window […]
Strip Club Tips: How to Savor an Exquisite Blend of Fantasies, Lies, Exploitation and Despair (explicit language)
The Strip Poker Men’s Club provides a helpful guide to achieving just the right balance of fantasy, exploitation, lies and despair in “Understanding The Stripper Psyche So You Can Have Fun and Not Lose Your Wallet” [explicit link, typos in original]: …be aware, the stripper is animalistic creature; a product of evolution, they have evolved […]
Springfield Republican Reports on Strip Clubs and the Mafia
A front-page story in today’s Sunday Republican describes the last months of Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno, whose leading role in Western Massachusetts organized crime ended when he was gunned down in November 2003. Strip clubs feature prominently in the article… During the spring of 2002, Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno inflamed local mafia wiseguys and club […]
Strip Clubs Are the Next Hot Thing on Wall Street, Fund Manager Tells Barron’s
Strip clubs are a buy, says Peter Siris, managing partner of Guerilla Capital Management. Once you eliminate the mafia connection, there’s no problem. Never mind these clubs are like wrecking balls to marriages and communities, or the conditions the dancers work under, or the realities of sex trafficking. Siris pitches his case this week to […]
Sexual Ecology: Porn, Promiscuity, and AIDS (explicit language)
Gabriel Rotello published Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men in 1997. The Nation described it as “The most important book about AIDS and gay men since And The Band Played On. And it is far better.” The Boston Globe wrote, “Rotello’s ambitious book is the Silent Spring of the AIDS epidemic.” NPN’s […]
Omni Hotels Drops Porn, Reaps Rewards
A few years back, Omni Hotels removed porn from its entertainment system. The results, reports James Harder, were bags of supportive mail and an increase in movie-rental profits… Hotels were among the first publicly held companies to profit from porn, networking their rooms to provide a flow of X-rated movies. It’s a route almost all […]
Porn Director: The Idea that Porn Actresses Are Not Prostitutes Is Silly (explicit language)
Candid comments from people who work in porn routinely skewer attempts by academics and porn defenders to ennoble the porn industry.“Billy Watson” is the blogmaster at I Shoot Porn (explicit). In his June 1 post, “I Be Google’n”, he laughs at the notion that porn actresses are not prostitutes. He also gives ranges for what […]