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Articles by Gram Ponante

'Marriage 2.0' Premiere Celebrates Cast, San Francisco Community

It was this time last year that India Summer and Mickey Mod shot a steamy polyamorous "date night" scene in the Mission's venerable Victoria Theatre.

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Sex Toy Tech: Form Follows Function in Adult Pleasure Product Market

There’s a reason that the adult novelty market has slowly been rebranded as pleasure products, and that the transition has paralleled the growth of social media and a backlash against fly-by-night technology. As shame decreases (thanks, Facebook), consumers are more free to discuss things that used to be dirty little secrets, and are demanding quality and practicality—elegant tools rather than easily breakable bachelorette party gag gifts.

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Specialty Production

Veteran porn salesman Dean Sussman says that every adult store he's visited for the past 20 years has the same type of customers in them.

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Jenny Hendrix

Jenny Hendrix knows she's hot. This confidence makes an interview with her different from those of many porn performers.

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opinion

Writing for the Blue Screen

How do we recognize good screenwriting in a business that, as sales show, has no need to value it?

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Cousin Stevie's Pussy Party Shoot

After a while, watching a porn movie being shot seems less like an event than a job, and that's how it should be; but Cousin Stevie's Pussy Party allows the observer to rediscover the wonder of watching someone squirt all over a rented Encino wall.

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opinion

Sexualizing your firewall

In the lurking world of the Internet, where the best face we can show the outside is our public unresolved digits, a northern California company has created a site that moans your Internet Protocol address

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opinion

What Would Bob Seger Do? Girls on Film: Solo 2

As easy as it might be to forget why I'm here, now and then I am reminded that at all times we must pay homage to Bob Seger

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opinion

Joe Gallant channels Sir Mixalot

In my bootlegged copy of Joe Gallant's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Screw Movie</span>, the saucy <a href="http://www

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opinion

Banana seat

Few aspects of our daily lives cannot be improved by porn, and the bicycle is no exception

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opinion

Joanna Angel tackles boobs

There are a lot of things people are shy of talking about in today's porn industry: drug use, sexual harrassment, malfeasant distribution deals

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opinion

Rob Rotten provides jobs for gay homeless, Sasha Grey

I never understood blowjob movies; the same amount of clothing comes off and the result ends up in the same place as it would in a full penetration movie

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opinion

Postcard from Porn Week

Porn Week Vacations was established in 2000 to offset the cost of filming porn movies, and has become an international brand with several revenue streams

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opinion

Hookers have no sense of humor

>It is one of life's great ironies that something that should be so much fun - sex for money - is taken so goddamn seriously

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opinion

Squirting and self-censorship

I visited the set of <span style="font-style: italic;">Cousin Stevie's Pussy Party</span> prior to my vacation and wrote about it for the adult trade magazine XBiz in a story that will be published next month

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opinion

Woman in skank costume considers airline suit

Hooters waitress and San Diego college student Kyla Ebbert, 23, who dressed as a skank for a one-day trip to a doctor's appointment in Arizona, was cautioned by a Southwest Airlines steward onboard her flight that her outfit was too revealing

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opinion

Julie Simone's method

Aspiring actress Gia Paloma (center, gagged) gains insight into her character under the patient instruction of Julie Simone (center, impersonating <a href="http://www

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opinion

Area code impurity to destroy Valley identity, porn

Since the beginning of recorded time (1984) the area code of Porn Valley has been 818

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opinion

Lystra is cage candy

One comes across an image like this and is incapable of thinking, "Did David Aaron Clark have a fire sale?" <p> Previously: <a href="http://www

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opinion

Nom de Porn du jour: Adrenalynne

Not since Strokahontas and Suckable has a porn name caught my attention like that of Adrenalynne

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