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Shane’s World contract star and “girl next door” Casey Parker has been tapped by CO-ED Magazine to be the magazine’s resident sex advice columnist.

“I am very excited to be able to help college students with any sex questions they might have. I remember when I was first discovering my sexuality, there was a lot of stuff I had questions about, but I was too shy to ask. Now, it feels great that I am going to be able to help someone else out.” Says Parker.

Robert, President of CO-ED Magazine was equally excited. “We featured Casey on the front cover of CO-ED Magazine and have always had a great relationship with her. We wanted to do something that was both fun and educational, but also very interactive. We figured, with Casey’s appeal and bubbly persona, she’s the perfect person to give advice to college kids, she gets it, she’s in college, she understands what these kids are going through and can relate to them.” Says Robert.

“I always say that our generation should be more open about their sexuality. Everybody has sex. We might as well talk about it, and improve ourselves so we can get the maximum pleasure out of the act, and please our partners as well.” Adds Parker.

To submit your own sex question go to www.coedmagazine.com and click “Sex-ed with Casey Parker.” Or just write her directly at: askcasey@coedmagazine.com

To enjoy more of Casey Parker check out her official site: www.caseyparker.com

Visit Casey Parker on her Myspace page: www.myspace.com/caseyparkerxxx


I was talking to a friend of mine the other day how we often don’t appreciate the fine art of being a star, a porn star. We sort of lump everyone that performs in adult movies as a porn STAR but in reality there are vast differences between a porn star and all the rest. We got into this conversation while talking about the whole Michael Ninn situation and how little respect the owner of Ninn Worx_SR, John L. Gray has for porn stars and basically treats them like dime a dozen strippers.


So really what does define a porn star over a common stripper or aspiring porn starlet?  The first thing I would say would be industry recognition so that would be judged best by award nominations.  But that alone is not enough.  A true porn STAR would be someone who’s name can carry an entire movie and by that I mean sell well.


Say what you will but in the end this business, like others is about MONEY and without it there is no porn industry so we would need no porn stars.  So a true porn star would need to be someone who can make that movie they were just in sell.  Let’s look at some examples ….


First we have the look of a common stripper.  Sure she’s cute and has the potential to be a porn star but in this picture we see her as a stripper. This really is a picture of a Devon before she was famous. It was when she was a stripper, hoping to one day be a porn star and boy what a difference the two photos show.


Devon


Now here is the photo of that same girl once she has become a porn star!  She became a porn STAR not just based on the fact that she starred in adult films or got some award nominations but because she got name recognition and a decently large fan base.  If you made a movie with Devon in it (back when this photo was taken) this shit would sell.


Devon



Next we have Sasha Hollander.  She in fact has been in several pornos including Afro Invasion 6 from Candy Shop.   But she isn’t a porn star.  We will classify her as an aspiring porn star or porn starlet.  Although she has about a year of experience in the industry her name has yet to really draw in the fans.


sasha_hollander

Next we have someone who has been in the industry quite a few years.  She has a large number of titles under her belt, and some award nominations including a few Urban Spice Award nominations.  She is a feature performer on the dance circuit but in reality she’s never really passed the fame threshold.  In fact, she didn’t even get a nod on the hot 100 who featured porn stars that I personally considered so non existent it wasn’t even funny but that sort of brings me back to my point.  Not everyone can be a STAR and in this case we have an industry veteran, who although hot still is not a porn star.


august-night


So next I give you every definition of what a star is.  Some of you may be annoyed by her and others may not find her all that attractive but say what you will, this bitch sells fucking movies that she appears in.  Her name alone makes many fans look twice at the movie simply because she is in the movie.  She is famous both in the industry and in the real world.

Oh wait, you thought I was talking about Tera Patrick didn’t you?  Well no.  Although all that I said may be true about Tera Patrick, I am actually referring to Sunny Leone.  Who besides her large fan base in the porn world also has done quite a bit of mainstream work as well including appearing in the upcoming My Bare Lady 2, a Fox reality show.


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Now that I’ve said all of this I want to point out that it’s not a direct insult saying you aren’t a porn star.  It’s just that well the term means more than just some chick who appears in an adult film.  The term porn star means someone who has reached success in the adult film industry and the judge of that includes award nominations and large sales of their DVDs.  You can be the sweetest, most attractive person in the world but it doesn’t make you a STAR … a porn star.  Only the big bucks associated with the sale of your DVDs can do that.

With all this drama going on right now I thought we could all use a good laugh.


Gotta love fucking Google, you enter someone’s name and bam there is a nice little story about something all fucked up in their past. According to an article I dug up in the Review Journal (and in THIS article as well) John Gray, CEO of the adult film company Ninn Worx_SR, Spearmint Rhino Company has quite an interesting past and seems to be no stranger to fraud.

This criminal has a couple convictions in California for making false statement to win a military contract and bouncing checks — before fessing up to reporters. He also has been known to use several aliases, including Johnny Win, John Luciano, and John Luciano Gianni, for reasons why he could not explain to reporters.

But if that wasn’t enough it turns out he can probably add pimping to his resume because in regards to his Spearmint Rhino club ….

police reported that, in their opinion, “activity within the club, intentionally or otherwise, borders on offenses of prostitution and permitting the keeping of a brothel.”

It seems that John L. Gray is some sort of Smooth Criminal (or the alternative Smooth Criminal which I think is even better).

Route 66 Penthouse

view the Route 66 Penthouse DVD information while you can


What do you do if you can no longer get your kicks on Route 66? Well we may just find out because as reported today on TMZ, the fine folks who made the 1960’s TV show “Route 66″ are more than pissed that Penthouse is trying to turn their beloved show into something smutty. The best part of the lawsuit is that they suggested a new title for the movie “Sex in and Around the Pink Motel.” LOL


Anyway you can view the full court documents from the TMZ website or view the details of the Penthouse movie Route 66 HERE which stars Katarina Kat, Renae Cruz, Holly West, Mia Smiles and Nikki Kane, who should not be confused with the new Vivid girl named Nikki Jayne. They are not the same people.


With porno spoofs of real life movies, TV shows and celebrities like Not the Bradys XXX from Hustler or Down, Dirty and Desperate Housewives from Factory 13, it’s really only a matter of time before we start seeing more and more lawsuits.

We all know that the economy sucks right now. That’s no big surprise to anyone but what we didn’t know is that Vivid is being hit pretty hard it seems as well by these economic down turns.


First we have some Vivid Cash webmasters who have at least for the last few months been getting paid later and later and webmasters not being paid is never a good thing but add to that the fact that their two main points of contact aren’t responding to emails nor are they even bothering to log in to ICQ in the past week, their only real form of contact with their webmasters as they don’t provide a means to call them. Add to this pile that they haven’t really updated their free hosted galleries in how long now? Now throw in something really good and that is the VividCash.com domain name no longer exists. It seems someone forgot to renew it.




What really is going on over at the Vivid offices? Is this a financial problem with Vivid or a major fuck up by the people running Vivid Cash? What we do know is that Vivid.com recently unveiled a new website. It is actually pretty damn good looking.



We also know that the one of the people listed on the Vivid Cash website for customer service, Chen has not responded to any emails or logged on to ICQ in at least two months, while the other guy has just been MIA about a week. And if all of that isn’t enough, my own personal sales took a 16% drop this last pay period. It could be anything that caused it but my sales have always been pretty stable for Vivid so it does make me a tad suspicious when I see such a major drop. Then we have some empty promises. How long has it been that Vivid Cash has been promising the Shop Vivid program to their Vivid Cash webmasters? What’s it been, like 2004? A Vivid Cash rep once told me in 2006 that they made a deal with Effex Media to provide adult video stores to the Vivid webmasters and that despite all the previous delays it would launch in a few month which would have been about April of that year. By October it still wasn’t ready to launch and a different Vivid rep said they aren’t sure what the problem Effex Media is having but that they do consider it a priority and it should be ready to launch by the end of that year. The end of that year has come and gone and still no video store.


While it is true I can just go to any of the major retailer websites such and setup my own video store account, but it’s just one more thing I have to keep track of. Beyond that it’s an additional source of revenue that Vivid is missing out on by now allowing their webmasters to sell their DVDs through the Vivid Cash program. Why the fuck would Vivid not want to make more money? That just doesn’t add up.


I’m very confused by this and even more confused as to why it would not make sense for Vivid to allow Vivid webmasters to sell Vivid DVDs through their Vivid Cash program by now. It just sounds like to me that someone is just a lazy fuck.


I tried to contact the people from Vivid Cash but as you might have expected I can’t exactly do that since their email is down to their expired domain name and they don’t bother to log on to ICQ. I did however call the Vivid offices directly who said they didn’t know what I was talking about but did refer me to call the Vivid Cash offices directly (the company who runs Vivid cash for them) and well when I called them at nearly noon on a Monday “none of the people from the Vivid Cash account were in the office at this time”. Are you fucking kidding me? It’s fucking almost noon on a Monday you lazy fucks can’t bother to show your ass up in the office? GET TO WORK ALREADY! No wonder everything is going to shit over there.

Update: Since this post I should point out that Mike C. has addressed the domain name issue and states the name has now been renewed and it should be up shortly however that was about 4 and a half hours ago and the site is still down at this time and instead of owning up to this major fuck up they are going to go with the pass the buck story. Nice, real fucking nice.

Vivid Cash

Another update: Some 7 1/2 hours after the Vivid Cash website is said to be back up here is what we have ………..

The artist director formerly known as Prince Michael Ninn has left the building renounced his association with Ninn Worx_SR, which is owned by Spearmint Rhino. Yes, yes that company who owns those tittie bars. They also do distribution for a few other movie companies including Woodman Entertainment, Supercore, Jazmin Media and Moire Candy.


Here’s how the story goes, well as far as we know … there was once an artist by the name of Michael Ninn who had a vision for artistic porno movies. He had sort of a dark, creepy side but still his shit was good, really good.


AVN had this to say about the artist formerly known as Prince Michael Ninn. Michael Ninn is renowned for his unique artistic style, as per example with the adult film, Neo Pornographia, which depicts an extreme gonzo approach within a dark atmosphere and setting.


On July 26, 2007 it was announced that Spearmint Rhino “merged” the fledgling Ninn Worx, to form Ninn Worx_SR. And we do use the word merge very loosely. They use the word merge but it seems now it was more of a buyout. It seemed from the start the Spearmint Rhino people sort of took over and it wouldn’t be long before Ninn Worx_SR became Nin Worx_SR a Spearmint Rhino company … so ya, merge my ass.


A few months wouldn’t go by before the problems started to show. Most importantly a man from the “outside” of the adult film industry started running a studio with world class “contract” girls and he didn’t show them the respect they deserved. Rumors were he treated them like dime store hookers and expected them to fall in line like the low class strippers he hired at his nightclubs.


However he would soon find out that Porn Stars are not hookers or strippers and if you treat them like that they leave. He would go on to say (as discussed in my article from April of 2008) that that stars of the movie were not as much a priority as the music and lighting. WTF IS HE SMOKING? Who the fuck cares if the lighting is right if the porn stars are not in there. What a stupid fucker this guy is. Anyway, eventually all but one of his contract stars would leave. Most of them saying that he required them to work every week in one of his strip clubs and they were porn stars, they didn’t sign a contract to be a contract STRIPPER.


Then we have the name change. It seems that the name Ninn Worx_SR wasn’t enough for him. He felt his newly acquired adult film company wasn’t doing enough to promote the Spearmint Rhino name and decided that Ninn Worx_SR must from now on be called Ninn Worx_SR a Spearmint Rhino company.


Then we come to the departure of Michael Ninn from what is left of Ninn Worx_SR a Spearmint Rhino company. In closing he the artist director formerly known as Prince Michael Ninn, now using the name IMNINN has this to say to Adult FYI about it all ….


There comes a time in most people’s life when you must make this choice; to put the better good above ones self, that wealth is not as important as well being and doing the right thing makes you a better person in spite of the out come.


I say to you today, I stand on the outside of Ninn Worx_SR along with my contract stars and my crew, knowing that I no longer have to live with the lie that the check is in the mail or that the corporate committee will get back to you, as soon as they have reviewed your invoice and have reached a decision on paying you.


I feel this is not an end at all, but just the beginning. I enter the next phase of the Ninn Worx_SR relationship with a positive attitude and a firm belief in our legal system and welcome the challenges ahead.

June 16, 2008

Blow Job Babes Author: Ryan Rayzer

I can’t believe I forgot movie trailer Friday already? Well hell … but I guess it’s better late than never so this week we have BJ Babes as our movie trailer of the week. These young porn star wannabes leave nothing to the imagination. They see a cock and grab hold of it and don’t let go until it explodes in their mouth and well … that’s just the way it should be. These girls may not be pro but they damn sure suck a cock like they could be. Brianna Beach, Brianna Bragg, Holly Holsten, Leah Wilde, McKenzee Miles, Peyton Lafferty, Riley Evans, Estella Leon, Stephanie Nicole, and Vanessa Lynn colored me fucking impressed.


BJ Babes

Apparently porn is bad but this is somehow ok?


GQ Adriana Lima

June 13, 2008

Sin City Say What?? Author: Ryan Rayzer

Interestingly enough after we post our story on the Sin City Films domain name change, AVN does finally post news about the Sin City films domain name change however they note in their article that the domain name is “parked” when in fact the domain name was sold to a Casino in Las Vegas.

The AVN article also claims “The new site features titles from Sin City Ultra, Sin City, Sin City Teen and Mayhem, along with trailers, video on demand, streaming video and iPhone downloads.”

Yet the old site offered exactly the same thing. Why not just come out and say WE SOLD OUR DOMAIN NAME TO SOME RICH BASTARD IN NEVADA AND MADE SHIT TON OF CASH? Nothing wrong with that! In fact, I say GOOD FOR YOU SIN CITY! I think it’s damn impressive they were able to sell their domain for such a rumored large amount of cash. Although we can’t get a confirmation of exactly how much the domain name was sold for, our secret inside source tells us it was big numbers. I said “more than a million”, and his response was “you can say that”. Who knows if that is true but either way, I don’t give a damn. I still say good for making money in cyberspace on virtual real estate.

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