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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Susannah Breslin interviews the 57-year-old scat video producer who is at the center of what may be the "most extreme obscenity trial in U.S. history." Of note: he compares himself to Picasso, Mozart, and Kafka, and does not consider his work to be pornography. Snip from her intro: A few weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled "The 2 Girls 1 Cup Defense," focusing on the case of Ira Isaacs,...
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MyCrimeSpace (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Hollywood Cops Hunt MySpace Sexual Predator: Police in Hollywood Florida are looking for 32-year-old Ansen Brown. Brown made a blog post that asked who wanted to be porn star. The blog post said if he thought they were good enough he would fly them to Miami. Apparently he thought a 15-year-old girl was good enough because [...]
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Radar (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
This week, porn producer Vivid is shipping the Jimi Hendrix sex tape, which is likely about as real as the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, which is to say not real at all. Yes, reports the New York Times, there's a Hendrix-like guy and a couple of girls with
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In the Company of Glenn (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
In January of 1998, I set out from New York to Las Vegas to meet up with three other colleagues to work on an article for Premiere about the Adult Video News (AVN) Awards, said awards being the putative, especially...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
There’s little sunshine in Michael Lucas‘ world at the moment. As some of you may know, the porn producer’s mother, Yelena Treyvas, recently succumbed to cancer. She was a mere 59-years old. While some of us haven’t always agreed with Lucas’ political agenda, nobody takes joy in such a loss. Or one shouldn’t, at least. Lucas [...]
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Susannah Breslin has a an interesting post up today about an interview on Adult Video News, the trade magazine of the adult video industry, with Ira Isaacs, the adult video creator and distributor named in an eight-count federal obscenity indictment: And perhaps most interestingly, Isaacs and his lawyer, he says, intend to pursue an unprecedented legal...
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Ippoippo (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Here’s todays other random links. Porn producers arrested for filming at McDonald’s in Saitama… We didn’t think it would be a problem as long as nobody noticed what we were doing. ROFL!! Meanwhile, elsewhere in Japan, good old Yasukuni Shrine related stuff is stirring things up again. And finally, I see WordPress 2.5 is out now. I’ll guess [...]
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appletree (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Yes, it’s true. Haven’t we been down this road before? Hasn’t it been established for decades that the federal government has no right to prosecute people who make and sell movies of consenting adults having sex? Shouldn’t the prosecutors and investigators involved in this case be out trying to catch terrorists?
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Carly Milne is a lot of things: Author of Sexography -- a memoir about sexually coming of age. A sexual abuse survivor. A founder of Moxie , a female-content driven web network. A former editor at Yahoo! Canada . An former editor at Adult Video News , and, of course, a blogger. Now she's a fundraiser -- a controversial one at that. Milne tells FBLA what it's been like to from...
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Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Feds Charge Porn Producer With Selling Adult Content to Adults - Via Threat Level : Federal prosecutors in the nation's capital this week charged Los Angeles adult-film producer John Stagliano with seven felonies for selling his films to Washington, D.C., residents over the internet. Stagliano, also known as "Buttman," wasn't producing kid porn, selling to kids, or forcing his films...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Or as Wired's Threat Level put it, porntrepreneur John "Buttman" Stagliano was busted for "selling adult content to adults." If convicted, he faces a possible prison sentence and up to $7 million in fines. The eight count obscenity indictment was issued this week, and the Department of Justice released details in a press release before handing down charges to the defendants. Three pornographic...
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Wired (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., level felony obscenity charges against a Los Angeles adult-movie producer for selling his skin flicks over the internet to paying adults. Your tax dollars at work.
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Porn producer Michael Lucas apparently had a run in with the law last month: A resident of 244 W. 23rd St., Michael Lucas, 36, was arrested on Sat., March 15, after a neighbor told police the defendant slapped and scratched him. Witnesses said Lucas broke several items in one of the apartments of the building and [...]
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Fametastic (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
Simon Cowell has revealed he loves to spy on his Hollywood Hills neighbours. The X Factor and American Idol judge recently bought a telescope after watching Dudley Moore’s film 10, which involves Dudley's character keeping a close eye on parties at his porn producer neighbour’s house. Simon told the Mirror: “I saw that Dudley Moore film and [...]
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The New Republic's latest edition contains a look at Israel-loving porn producer Michael Lucas‘ exclusionary, anti-Islamic politics. So, what's the recap called? “Hard Politics”. [TNR]
