Editor-in-Chief:
John D.
Senior Editor:
Dashiell Bennett
Asssociate Editor:
Lux Nightmare
Contributors:
Violet Blue,
D. Cypher,
Richard X.
Senior Erotic Consultant:
Gram Ponante
This Weekend In Averted Republican Sex Scandals: Charlie Crist Gets Hitched
Over the holiday weekend—on July 4, no less!—Florida governor Charlie Crist announced that he's getting married, which came as a surprise to some since he's been a "confirmed bachelor" ever since his first and only marriage (in 1979) ended in less than a year. However, Crist is apparently on John McCain's short list for the Vice Presidential spot, and stakes that high are apt to make people do crazy things—like soldiering through a marriage despite persistent rumors that you've had affairs with several younger men. (tampabay.com + browardpalmbeach.com + YouTube, via Pam's House Blend + telegraph.co.uk et al.)
Pride is, as they say, busting out all over this month and one of the best things about the celebrations (aside from that whole empowerment thing, we mean) is the opportunity they afford to see pornstars like the deliciously inked Matthew Rush here showing up half naked in person instead of just ... you know, showing up totally naked on DVDs. It looks like they caught some bad weather down there in Ft. Lauderdale last weekend, but it didn't seem to preclude anyone from taking their shirts off. When you look as good as Matthew does, do you really think a little rain is going to make you any less ... uh, proud? (pornforpatric.net, more pics @ flickr.com/photos/randomlyroaming)
Obscenity A La Mode?
Max Hardcore might have been getting all the attention lately, but another obscenity trial in Florida is currently underway where the defense is using Google search stats to prove that "community standards" are a lot broader than some people might think: apparently, searching for the term "orgy" is just as all-American as searching for "apple pie". (No word on people who search for "apple pie orgy", though—maybe even community standards have their limits.) (freespeechcoalition.com + nytimes.com)
If you don't have any plans for the weekend yet, you might want to consider partying with Jenna Jameson: after all, what could be more fun than heading down to Florida, putting on some lingerie, drinking champagne, and hanging out with the world's most famous porn star? (Okay, we can think of a few things, but we'll take what we can get.) (nationalledger.com)
Following 14 hours of deliberation today, a Tampa jury found extreme pornographer Max Hardcore guilty on ten counts of distributing obscene material, the first time Hardcore has been found guilty in a career full of obscenity legislation. Hardcore said that he would appeal, and is free on bail until a September 5 sentencing. "I'm full of good spirits and they didn't get my house," Hardcore told AVN.
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Hiring a nude maid to clean your house while the wife is on vacation sounds like the perfect plan, until she makes off with $40,000 worth of your wife's jewels. That must have been a fun explanation. (myfoxtampabay.com; thumb of the very trustworthy Shay Laren)
Straight male porn performers belong to an exclusive club, and the ones who actually get their names printed on boxcovers and magazines belong to a still more exclusive club, because it takes a lot to make an impression on a predominantly male consumer base that is predominantly looking at the side of the screen occupied by a female and her wares. Tommy Gunn is such a performer. We talk with the 2007 AVN Male Performer of the Year after the gap.
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I know that the days when porn could be made anonymously with drifters and hobos are past, and that every "reality" series is actually a low-budget but meticulously documented exercise in making scripted things seem like they just happened. But still I dream, and the idea of picking up agreeable trollops on Florida's highways and byways appeals to me (because I think that's how the Mouseketeers got started), and because I have long been a proponent of art made in vans.
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We totally saw this one coming: that Porn Camp Seminar we told you about a few weeks ago is already overbooked. Shockingly, there are more than 12-20 people in (or willing to travel to) the Tampa area who want to know how to make a porn video. Or at least who want to meet Courtney Cummz. (tampabays10.com)
Today's baseball spring training update: A scout for the Boston Red Sox was arrested in Florida for "committing a lewd act in a hotel room that overlooked the pool." Your move, Derek Jeter! (abc2news.com)
Ever wanted to make and sell a homemade porn movie but lost hope after the penis pictures you posted on Craigslist yielded nothing? Visit Tampa from March 28-30 for a comprehensive seminar that will cover everything from lighting to where to store your talent IDs for when the feds break down your apartment door.
OK, so maybe we aren't being completely accurate in the title of this post: after all, winter doesn't officially start for another couple of days, and we're pretty sure that this latest round of shots by photographer Jason Rowan for Key West's Island House was taken at least a couple of months ago. But sex object extraordinaire Levi Poulter is indeed pretty naked in nearly all of them, so we're not totally off the mark. Somehow, a tropical vacation never seemed as tempting as it does right now.
Check an exclusive selection of Jason and Levi's preview pics after the jump.
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We gravitated toward Pink Visual's "Slutty Campus Teens 3" because we miss those halcyon days of hefty student discounts from the Apple Store and ponchos of dubious provenance on sale at the campus center. But while the cast and crew of the movie were careful to not mention what campus they visited, telltale clues—palm trees, actual weather, real tans and mostly real breasts—suggested one somewhere in Florida.
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Don't you hate spending the better part of your life fighting against the glass ceiling to build a respectable judicial career only to have some jackass plaintiff come before you who you once gave a drunken blowjob to in college? Especially one who willing admits to emitting high-pitched girlish screams that set off car alarms when receiving fellatio? No one really comes out of this story alive. (abovethelaw.com, via Jezebel)
Poor Bob Allen. While everyone has been obsessing over Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom stall, nobody noticed that the Florida state representative was found guilty of soliciting sex from an undercover officer. Of course, he's sticking with the "just hanging out in the bathroom with scary men" story, but why doesn't he get to be interviewed by Matt Lauer? (msnbc.msn.com)
porn of the moment
Of the many awards bestowed in last week's Nightmoves convention in Tampa (by all accounts a fun time, though we have never been offered airline tickets, free hotel and transportation, and happy ending massages from stern but grateful gator-wrasslin' women), none so captures the zeitgeist of the porn industry past and present than "Busty Hookers" winning an Editor's Choice award for Best Gonzo Release. Not since "Busty Hookers Who Are Also My Bartender" have we felt the stars align so fluidly.
· Night Moves (nmea.com)
· Buy "Busty Hookers" (gamelink.com)
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