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Woodmen

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Evan Stone as Kirk My favorite exit off the 101 freeway, which skirts the edge of the San Fernando Valley, is Woodman Drive, the exit I’ve taken a few times to meet some of the male talent of porn. The Woodmen.

Evan Stone, who no one in the industry seems to dislike, arrived at Starbucks shirtless and with his famously long hair gone. I asked about the hair, and it seems that, having refused to cut it for anyone before, he couldn’t turn down the role of Captain Kirk in the recent Star Trek parody porno. Kirk’s hair is iconic, and Evan doesn’t like wigs, so director Axel Braun captured Evan’s Samson moment on camera. I have to say, I think Evan looks better with the short hair. They released the parody, in which finally we actually get to see Kirk getting it on with a Vulcan (played by recent hotshot Sasha Grey).

Asked how he maintains his wood throughout a long shoot, Evan says you just can’t overthink it. It’s the men who begin worrying that they won’t get paid or hired if they can’t maintain who start being unable to perform. A downward spiral.

I still haven’t quite gotten over speaking over lattes to someone whom I just watched engaging in multiple acts of intercourse on my computer screen. Or chatting idly between scenes on a shoot with a man who is completely naked and maintaining his erection while making small talk. But I’m getting there.

Sierra Skye Sebastian Silver and Alliterative Anecdotes

Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Sierra Skye Poolside

Sierra Skye Poolside

Sierra Skye has a sunny personality, brains, and big boobs.  In this job her bust (which is natural) is her calling card. Sierra was the first girl in school to get breasts, and initially she hated them and was weary of the attention and teasing. But at 14 she decided to embrace them and discovered boys around the same time. Having already been first in one category she was the first girl to give a blowjob. And a couple years later her sexual talents met technology with the webcam. On a site designed for minors, she’d push the limits.  No sex allowed.  No flashing. No sharing those boobs. Well, Sierra got her account canceled.  So she’d get a new name. And eventually they figured out her ISP and banned her computer. Fast forward to adulthood and Sierra’s made a few scenes in her home state. Scenes she describes as just awful. She didn’t know what to do. No one helped. They covered her in baby oil which looked terrible. And it was shot terribly. Now in California she’s much happier with her work, especially working with Lynn LeMays and LeMayzing Productions.  Nice to have a good photographer.  Sierra’s career is an example of one of the new phenoms of porn. The talent doesn’t live in LA. They commute.  Sierra flies in for a week of work once a month and then back home.  (Though she plans to move here soon.)  The director Roy Karch, an industry veteran, told me that he just shot a girl who was a student at a midwestern university – she flys out friday, shoots for two days, then back in her math class Monday morning.  Sierra hopes to take her money from porn and send herself through school to study forensics.

Sebastian Silver

Sebastian Silver

This is Sebastian Silver. Like everyone of course, not his real name.  When he first created his nom de porn Sebastian had trouble when asked on the spot what his name was. “You have to think for a second of who you’re talking to and which name to use.”  Sierra had a similar problem. Back home a friend was calling her and calling her (with her real name) and couldn’t get her to turn around and finally just screamed “Sierra!” and got a reaction.  Sebastian is male talent obviously and consequently has a different relationship to the industry and the camera.  “Mostly they don’t see me. You’ll get one shot of the face.  And then it’s just about my cock.”  Which rings true with what many of the cameramen have told me – it’s all about framing.  You’re trying to get the girl without the guy even though the girl is being penetrated.  Most cameramen seem to agree that it’s important to try to get the balls out the shot. “Cause who wants to look at the backside of a guys balls or his taint?”  Of course in many cases the balls are close to the shaft so you’ve got to be good. Sebastian shared some of the things male talent needs to do to break in to the business.  The fans are excited about new girls “fresh meat” as everyone seems to say.  They really don’t care about the guys.  So a guy is on his own. One of Sebastian’s first jobs was a group scene with a bunch of guys and an older woman.  In her 60’s maybe.  With an enormous scar on her stomach because, as she explained to them, she had previously tried to kill herself by shooting herself with a shotgun.  I’m not sure how you survive a gunshot wound to the stomach.  Hopefully I will never have to find out. He’s since graduated from gunshot scar gangbangs, and has worked with talent like Sasha Grey.  In this pic I asked him to give me a badass look. He gave it his best, but said “What’s a badass look.  Don’t know if I knew how to do that.” I figured every porn guy would have a badass look handy, but then again, they’re not necessarily shooting the face so often.

Free Speech Coalition Party

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

So on our first day (last week I’m a bit behind) we met with the fabulous, charming and delightful Diane Duke of the Free Speech Coalition which is essentially the trade organization for adult entertainment. They’re not huge – a modest office in the Valley. But they do a lot to advocate for the people in the industry and to help defend companies from obscenity prosecutions.  I think (tell me if I’m wrong) that most Americans are unaware that pornographers can still be prosecuted for making something that other people think is obscene.  Max Hardcore is in prison right now for making a movie. His movies sound seriously disgusting and I’d personally never want to see one, but it’s a movie after all.  Diane had some interesting things to say about how even if there is some physical risk happening on a porn shoot – think about professional football, or hockey…

So then on Wednesday we attended their benefit (only $15 far cheaper than your average non-profit benefit).  It was held at the Whiskey A Go Go and for me the highlight was meeting Nina Hartley for a brief chat.  Interviewing her more later.  She said “filming people having sex is far more ridiculous and far less sinister than people imagine.”  Sasha Grey was also there judging a “Screaming Orgasm” contest where amateur women pretend to have orgasms… strangely none of them made any noise.  The poor MC kept saying things like “It’s called the SCREAMING orgasm contest.  Let’s hear you SCREAM.” And the ladies pretended to have sex with their boyfriends (fully closed) and maybe they were screaming on the inside… I guess the sexual revolution isn’t over yet and people are still a bit shy.  We all got lovely giftbags (had to cross the street to go the Hustler store to get them).  I got a vibrating cock ring “for her pleasure.” Hmm….

Hustler lingerie models working it.

Hustler lingerie models working it.