Industry Members Batten Down the Hatches

LOS ANGELES – With the amended 2257 regulations going into effect June 23, adult companies and stars that maintain Internet presences are putting the finishing touches on making their sites compliant or taking them down until they can.

Flower Tucci, a featured performer on Showtime’s “Family Business,” had a members-only Yahoo Group that was taken down by the company recently. “I had graphic images on the site,” she told XBiz, “but of course there was no child pornography, which I think Yahoo had been sued for, so they were scared about any adult personalities who had a group.” Tucci said she lost the contact data of more than 4,000 members when the group was removed.

She has now disabled member access to both FlowerTucci.com and FlowerTucci.net while she makes the sites compliant. “I’ve always been very careful,” she said, “but now I need to put my sites on hold.”

Adult performer Kami Andrews keeps contact with her fans via a free site, Kamiland.com. The past few weeks have been difficult, she said, as she rooted through her site looking for any non-compliant content.

“I'm not all compliant yet,” Andrews said. “I have [identification] for all my set reports but I need to go back and [check] my journal.” Andrews posts regular public nudity segments. “My site is all me, so that's pretty easy,” she said.

The staff of Long Island, N.Y.-based adult shopping portal Mallcom.com has had what Public Relations Director Steve Javors called “a painstakingly difficult time” getting things in order. Mallcom hosts customized adult stores for its clients, selling other companies’ videos, toys and clothing.

“It seemed like a lot of companies were ill-equipped to deal with the new regulations,” Javors said. “There were many different interpretations of the law and who exactly will be protected by it.”

Javors, like others interviewed for this article, hopes for injunctive relief of the stricter regulations but expects the worst. “We have most definitely erred on the side of keeping all our bases covered,” he said. Still, he added that “hoping for the best is not possible under this administration.”

Joanna Angel of BurningAngel.com runs her alt-porn site out of Brooklyn, N.Y. She had previously run into content trouble when her company’s graphically-violent porn “Re-Penetrator” was refused hosting by BA’s server company. Now she is faced with “tracking down models who might have done one shoot three years ago” to get valid and updated identification.

“It’s been a lot of work,” she said, “but all our models like us. And we’ve got a big new filing cabinet.”

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