So what better way to kick off our Extreme Pornstar Showdown than with two of the most extreme pornstars we know? In one corner, longtime Fleshbot favorite Belladonna, whose strengths include talents like taking a baseball bat up the ass (while pregnant!) and a healthy love of anal squirting! In the other corner, relative newcomer (and fellow Fleshbot crush object) Sasha Grey: the thinking person's pornstar who really loves a good cock choking. Truly, a battle of the greats! But who will win? That's up to you, gentle (and not-so-gentle) reader. After the jump, two video clips and a chance to vote for the victor.

Last week, we opened nominations for the first round of contestants in our new Extreme Pornstar Showdown feature—and today, we're happy to announce that the players have been picked, divided into brackets, and assigned challenges. (We would've used the word "seeded" in there somewhere, but given the context it sounded kind of ... you know, dirty.)

After the jump, you'll find a handy battle bracket that you can print out and put on your fridge or something so you can keep track of all the hot and heavy action over the next several weeks. Trust us, those Final Four have nothing on these girls.

Extreme Sophia climbs the carpeted stairs of her duplex, her mouth half open with a dreamy look that is supposed to suggest nymphomania and sex fatigue. All I can think is: I have seen this duplex. "Follow me," she says to us, and then proceeds to look at a magazine. Tease.

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Porn Valley Dispatch: Paintballed, Sure ... But Also Balled

Punkporn legend and suspension provocateur Matt Zane has issued a call for likely lads to engage in extreme, "Jackass"-style activities with a porny twist: "'Punkdurass 3' features guys performing outlandish stunts in order to achieve the goal of working with a top of the line porn girl." (Past talent has included Flower Tucci, Nautica Thorn, Sarah Vandella, and Tera Wray.)

Zane said that the dude who got paintballed while wearing a jockstrap has - shocking! - left the production, so the organization has some openings. Interested parties should e-mail here.

· Evolution Distribution (evolutiondist.com)
· Buy "Punkdurass 2" (adultdvdemart.com)

Send In The Eels: A Genki Diary

Even as Japan fights allegations of overfishing the delicious bluefin tuna, director Daichiki Amano employs its marine neighbors, such as eels, octopi, and the wriggly loach, in extreme porn that is truly tentacular. And Amano's casting couch isn't limited to the sea.

When last this site visited the girls of Genki Genki (and found it horrifying), its founder hadn't contributed a blog. Now readers can peak into the precise, perverted, and pescaphilic mind of Amano as he blithely describes sets awash in liquefied worms, vomit, and unexpected tenderness.

By day, German artist and graphic designer Gaby Trautmann and her helpmeets Marlis and Siadanea work at a "large newspaper publishing house in Hamburg", but when they're off the clock they collaborate on a sprawling digital art portfolio featuring things which include (but are far from being limited to) naked babes, virtual porn studios, bus stop handjobs, amputee fetishism, giantess fantasies, extreme bondage, erotic torture, dead hookers, blowjob castrations, skeleton fucking, alien sex, and horny robots.

Eros Zine interviews artist, photographer, and erotic provocateur R.C. Hörsch, whose sexy and occasionally disturbing portfolio we've noted here previously and whose genre-defying work has been explained by his agent and publisher by a particularly deft bit of semantic wizardry: "If pornography can be defined as images or prose designed for arousal, then much of his work is clearly not pornographic in the sense that (hopefully) few people are sexually aroused by images of violence, dead bodies and grotesquely wasted heroin addicts." Of course, regular readers of Fleshbot know that there are plenty of folks out there who are indeed turned on by things like images of violence, dead bodies, and grotesquely wasted heroin addicts, so maybe the distinction isn't as valid as he might think. Nice try, though!

· R.C. Horsch (interview + gallery @ eros-zine.com)
· Eroto: the sexual-erotic fine-art photography of R.C. Hörsch (eroto.com)

It's Friday, which means as soon as the boss' back is turned it's time to sneak out early and find a bar where you can kick back and raise the old elbow. (Or just crack open that fifth of Cuervo that's hidden in your file cabinet and pass out under your desk until Monday morning. Not that we know anyone who would do that.) The only danger with either strategy is that once you've got a few in you, that wine or beer or liquor bottle might start looking pretty good ... and then we all know what happens next. The following group of tipplers may or may not have had one too many before "recycling their empties". But whatever they're doing, it's better than drinking alone.

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