Gram Ponante

Bring Me the Head of Emy Reyes

July 27, 2010
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Perhaps it is because people literally burst into flame upon viewing Latina muchachita picante Emy Reyes that I was unsuccessful in capturing her head in this video. “That’s all right, Grams,” you might breathe – through your mouth, “I don’t need to see her head.” Reyes was on the set of the much-anticipated food truck [...]

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I Was There: A Short History of the Greatest Photograph Ever Taken

July 14, 2010
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Many of us can remember where we were when we learned of the Kennedy assassination, the World Trade Center tragedies, seeing Britney Spears’ vagina for the first time. We can also be transported by those iconic photographs of history in the making, or snapshots that defined the zeitgeist, like the sailor and the nurse in [...]

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With Mouth Wide Open: Jesse Jane

July 6, 2010
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Jesse Jane knows how to handle fame. I have watched Jesse Jane make short work of a convention hall full of autograph seekers, all of whom want to touch her boobs. She is kind and attentive to each of them for the 25 seconds or so they are alloted, but then they need to go, [...]

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You’re A Better Man Than I Am, Sasha Grey

June 15, 2010
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When we were dating, the person I am married to said, “I want us to be able to hurt each other.” What I thought she meant was that we needed to keep on our toes and continue to recognize the other person as a human being. I’m happy – and exhausted – to say that [...]

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Pornstar Superheroes

June 8, 2010
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Elegant Angel’s “Pornstar Superheroes” has done adult parodies one better; not only has it incorporated themes from one popular genre and pornified it, but writers/directors William H. and Graham Travis have also thrown in at least a thousand identifiable film references into this “Kill Bill”-meets-”The Stand”-meets-”X-Men” feature starring girls in and out of tight clothes. [...]

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When It Comes to Gangbangs, Some People Are Givers

June 1, 2010
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Kagney Linn Karter is one of my favorite people in porn. She’s kind, hard-working, and talented, and she has a machine-crafted body that seems to conjure semen from all directions. Madison Scott, though I don’t know her nearly as well as the KLK – and that is a shame – also possesses an energy and [...]

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3D Porn Cummin At, On You

May 26, 2010
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When the first popshot was captured in mid-flight, in Michelangelo’s Le Corde Calde of 1560, it was only a matter of time before such things could be seen bursting forth from video screens in glorious 3D. Porn, after all, is the science of getting as close as one can to something one can’t currently have. [...]

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The Golden Age vs. “The Golden Girls: An XXX Parody”

May 19, 2010
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“Deep Throat,” “Behind the Green Door,” “The Devil in Miss Jones,” and the original “Debbie Does Dallas” are all cited as tentpole (ahem) movies of porn’s Golden Age. They were high-budget productions worthy of the mini-phenomenon in America known as “Porno Chic.” But the Golden Age is strictly a porn industry term. It is used [...]

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Pro And Con: Condoms to Protect Porn Stars, Kill Porn

May 12, 2010
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Performers. directors, and fans alike have weighed in on condom use in porn: they don’t like it. But a series of moves by California’s Department of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA), the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, California’s Labor Board, and anti-porn activists may make condom use mandatory, thus constituting what might be the final nail in [...]

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Seoul in Every Hole: On the set of “Not M*A*S*H XXX”

May 5, 2010
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Don’t get me wrong; I wrestle daily with my ambivalent feelings about porn parodies. Are they scraping the bottom of the barrel? Are they blazing a trail? But then I realize that thinking too much about porn gives me hives, so I just enjoy it. What is indisputable is that parodies have breathed new life [...]

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