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Ashley Fires Interview

alison hart — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:04:52 +0000

If you don’t know Ashley Fires yet, you’ve been seriously missing out. She’s cute as a button, flirty as all get out, and perhaps most surprisingly, a kick-ass Femdom.

I met Ashley in the Clips4Sale booth at the Adult Entertainment Expo this year and was instantly caught up in her natural charm and effervescence. Check out our interview below where we talk about toe sucking, fire dancing, tickling and more.

I’m a Certified Sexpert

alison hart — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:20:10 +0000

A while back, I heard that sex toy manufacturer California Exotic offered free toys to bloggers who would review them on their websites. The application was pretty in-depth and even though I was pretty sure I had the right pedigree to become an official toy reviewer, I lost hope after a few weeks went by with no word from the company.

This morning, I received an email that began, “Congratulations! You have been chosen to be a Cal Exotics Sexpert™!”

What does that mean for you? In a week or two, I’ll start posting the occasional sex toy review on this blog. I like Cal Exotic and I’ve sold thousands of their products over the years, but you can rest assured that I’m no shill. If anything, my experience in the dildo mines has made me very aware of what doesn’t work and I’m pleased to be able to share that experience with you, dear reader.

So keep an eye out. They say I’ll be receiving a box of goods (or perhaps a single good?) in the coming week. I hope my Sexpert™ certificate’s in there.

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Review: Tera Patrick’s Sinner Takes All

alison hart — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:08:38 +0000

Everyone loves a naughty tell-all book, but only a few porn stars have captured the general public’s imagination enough to write successful autobiographies like Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale. Jenna’s was probably the most compelling of these books to come out in the last decade, but Tera Patrick’s new book, Sinner Takes All, does something that Jenna’s book didn’t – it makes her seem like a real person.

Salacious stories are par for the course in any porn star’s autobiography, and Tera obliges us with plenty of tales of teenage drug addiction, sex that borders on rape and porn set horror stories. She also reveals things that most of us – porn stars included – probably wouldn’t be able to admit about ourselves in such a public forum.

She cops to completely shallow aspirations, mental illness, spousal abuse and generally cunty behavior that are rate in porn autobiographies because no matter what people say, they care about how they’re are perceived by others. Tera shows sides of herself that make her seem incredibly unlikeable right alongside the stories of taking care of elderly patients in a nursing home and fighting back against a huge porn company that knowingly capitalized on her naiveté by offering her a terrible contract, then attempting to drive her out of the business after she realized how badly they’d screwed her over.

Throughout the book, the theme that stuck out most clearly for me was contradiction. In one chapter Tera calls herself a beautiful, powerful woman, then describes her degrading relationship with Erik Schrody (aka Everlast) in the next. At one point she says she loves her fans and then turns around later on and calls them the “perverted guys who fantasized about me.” The biggest contradiction of all, in my opinion, is her inflated ego as “the most famous porn star in the world” and the crushing insecurity that pushed her into emotional turmoil, bad relationships, and porn scenes she wasn’t comfortable doing.

If Tera comes out of this book looking complicated and paradoxical, her ex-husband Evan Seinfeld manages to seem even more dissonant than she. Evan writes a few chapters from his perspective that reveal him to be the suitcase pimp douchbag we all know he is, as well as a partner who withstood abuse, emotional manipulation, and pure insanity to be with the woman he loved.

In the book’s afterward, Tera writes a very raw post-mortem of her marriage and how she’d managed to be so oblivious for so long to the things that ultimately convinced her that the relationship was doomed. The perspective gained by putting her life under a microscope and analyzing who she is and how she got to this place was too much for the already fractured relationship to withstand. And she’s happier for it.

I didn’t leave the book with the impression that Tera might have wanted to give me about herself, but I was very moved by the courage it took to include the details she knew might make it hard to do so. From the experiences that led her to this career to her institutionalization in a mental hospital to the rise and fall of her marriage, Tera is straightforward and earnest almost to a fault – even when it’s hard to take her at her word. Her story is as much about her ugliness as her beauty and that’s what makes it a compelling read.

Video: Belladonna on Condoms in Porn

alison hart — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:44:04 +0000

After all the debates and hand-wringing, L.A. County has announced that it can not and will not enforce mandatory condom use in porn production in California. According to the Chief of the county’s Public Health Department, it would just be too difficult and expensive to try to police an industry that’s so fragmented. Public Health officials passed the buck to the state legislature, but as the L.A. Times notes, “not a single California lawmaker has been willing to sponsor such legislation.”

While interviewing Belladonna at the Adult Entertainment Expo, I asked her what she thought about the idea of condom mandates and her answer captured the ambivalence many performers and producers feel about the topic.

Belladonna Interview at AEE 2010

alison hart — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:59:45 +0000

Lovely as always, Belladonna talks to me about first impressions, how she chooses scene partners, what she does in her free time, and more.

Gianna Michaels Retires from Porn

alison hart — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:34:59 +0000

Today is a very sad day indeed. Luke is Back is reporting that the woman with the most gorgeous breasts to ever grace pornography has decided to leave the business.

It seems like only yesterday we were enthralled by Gianna’s first anal scene. Today brings nothing but tears.

I consider Gianna among the finest performers to grace the world of porn, but I wish her well in her future endeavors. Goodbye, Gianna, and…wait for it…thanks for the mammaries.

Study: AEE Attendees Male, Business Down, Free Porn Rampant

alison hart — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:05:58 +0000

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas sociology department released the results of surveys conducted during the 2008 and 2009 AEEs. They asked both fan and trade participants about their demographics and attitudes on various topics. The results are pretty much what I would have expected, but there were a few pieces of info that I found interesting.

Only about 20% of the trade attendees were female.
This seems incorrect to me. Even if you don’t count the performers (although I’m not sure why you wouldn’t), I’d guess that 30-40% of the people I saw or met while working the show were female. In my experience, most companies are owned by men, but have a good number of female employees.

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Most companies report business is flat or down
We’re in a recession and battling the biggest threat (piracy) that porn has ever seen. That 67% of companies are seeing flat or reduced sales is unsurprising. What is surprising is that almost no one at the show seemed to be talking about what to do about that.

More than half of respondents watch free porn online
One star I interviewed told me that when she has tried to sell her movies at conventions, fans will actually say that they’re just going to download her movies for free online. It seems insane to me that people could be this insensitive, but the numbers don’t lie.

If you’re interested, you can read the report here.

Twitter Updates for Alison’s AEE Adventures on 2010-01-12

alison hart — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0000

so nice to see @AshleyFires at the Palms tonight. She's just the cutest ever. #

Twitter Updates for Alison’s AEE Adventures on 2010-01-11

alison hart — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0000

interviewed Sasha Grey about an hour ago. That's it for AEE 2010. it's been a great show. #

AVN Award Winners

alison hart — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:02:35 +0000

I’m pretty sure there are approximately 37,000 AVN awards, but here’s a selected list of winners. The full list can be found here.

Best New Starlet: Kagney Linn Karter
Best Actress: Kimberly Kane – The SEX Files: A Dark XXX Parody
Best Supporting Actress: Penny Flame – Throat: A Cautionary Tale
Female Performer of the Year: Tori Black
Female Foreign Performer of the Year: Aletta Ocean
MILF/Cougar Performer of the Year: Julia Ann
Unsung Starlet of the Year: Shawna Lenee
Best New Web Starlet: Lexi Belle
Web Starlet of the Year: Sunny Leone
Hall of Fame: Gina Lynn
Director of the Year (Body of Work): Will Ryder
Best Director, Ethnic Video: Jules Jordan – Lex The Impaler 4
Best Director, Feature: David Aaron Clark – Pure
Best Director, Non-Feature: William H. – Evalutionary
Best Male Newcomer: Dane Cross
Best Actor: Eric Swiss – Not Married with Children XXX
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Byron – Throat: A Cautionary Tale
Male Performer of the Year: Manuel Ferrara
Male Foreign Performer of the Year: Toni Ribas
Unsung Male Performer of the Year: Derrick Pierce
Transsexual Performer of the Year: Kimber James