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Hi all, we’re back!! Sorry we’ve been missing in action for a while, but things have been very busy for both of us lately, and now things have settled down & we are able to make videos again!! This video answers 2 questions from Anime9100 and Airlim. Enjoy!!

via YouTube – It’s like baseball, 3 Strikes & You’re Out!!.

YouTube is deleting thousands of sexually explicit videos after it was hit by an organised attack yesterday in a prank known as “Porn Day”.

The video-sharing website, owned by Google, has removed most of the porn clips but some content could be available for days as YouTube deletes the offending material. The pranksters hid the porn amid innocent footage of celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers.

Members of the 4Chan message board, which focuses mostly on Japanese anime and manga, have claimed responsibility for uploading the porn, apparently in response to YouTube’s stance on copyright music videos.

via YouTube besieged by porn videos | Media | guardian.co.uk.

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PLAYBOY Enterprises, the far-flung empire founded by Hugh Hefner in 1953, is quietly being shopped around for $300 million, sources tell Media Ink.

But so far, well-heeled suitors that have been approached, like Apollo Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners, haven’t stepped up.

The battered company‘s market capitalization is now around $100 million and nobody has been willing to pay the substantial premium that it would take to persuade Hef to sell.

via PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES IS ON THE MARKET FOR $300M – New York Post.

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This week, a panel of judges and lawyers got together to debate a major injustice in today’s legal system: Lady lawyers and their sexy sartorial choices. It seems some male lawyers think their female counterparts have an unfair, fail-safe argument: “Exhibit A: My breasts. Exhibit B: Check out these gams. Aaand, I rest my case.” It’s a wonder male councils ever win!

“I’d really like to pay attention to your argument,” (but your breasts are getting in the way)

During the Seventh Circuit Bar Association meeting on Tuesday, a panel discussion was kicked off very reasonably: A judge raised the issue of professional dress and pointed to the example of a female lawyer who showed up in court wearing a velour tracksuit. (She won the case, by the way.) Then the panel’s conversation shifted “from schlubby to sexy” attire, as the New York Times puts it. Judge Michael P. McCuskey said he’s seen women in court wearing “skirts so short that there’s no way they can sit down, and blouses so short there’s no way the judges wouldn’t look.” Judge Benjamin Goldgar concurred by sharing his wish that he could tell certain female lawyers: “I’d really like to pay attention to your argument” (but your breasts are getting in the way).

Things remained civil during the meeting, but all hell broke loose online. On the Web site for the American Bar Association Journal, a woman sassed: “I’m sorry, Sugar, I’d love to listen to what you’re saying, but I have a penis. As such, I am only able to use one sense at a time.” She added: ”What garbage! Poor men can’t control themselves, so women have to respond.” A male reader shot back, “Yes, please ladies, by all means use your sexuality to get what you want (after all, that’s the only excuse you have for dressing in the manner described in this article).” And in a final escalation, Susan J. Koniak, a law professor at Boston University, told the Times that if revealing skin in the courtroom is such a problem, “we should just have a bag when we walk in, a burqa.”

via Broadsheet – Salon.com.

It’s become clear that pressuring Craigslist into replacing “erotic services” with a stricter “adult” section has just amounted to a dimming of the flashing lights and a renaming of its virtual red light district. Now, it looks like some officials are turning to prostitutes themselves in an attempt at scaring them away from the classified site.

A prostitute can “appreciate” the dangers of her job and still feel compelled to do it

As promised, Craigslist has unveiled its pricier, human-monitored “adult” section, but what was thought to be a strict crackdown appears to be more of a gentle wrist slap. A quick browse of the new R-rated playground makes it clear to any person capable of comprehending heavy-handed sexual innuendo that the services being offered are much the same, only the photos and language are tamer and there are more winking euphemisms than ever before. It’s an “I told you so” lobbed directly at Craigslist’s chief antagonizer, whom the site sued this week for his repeated legal threats, South Carolina attorney general Henry McMaster. As Craigslist has always said, it can’t be held responsible for what takes place between two adults who meet up through the site.

Now, Washington, D.C., police appear to be trying to diminish the online supply of sex workers through the following forehead-slapping public service announcement: Selling sex online is dangerous! Which is to say, they’re telling sex workers what they already know all too well. The Washington Post reports: “In recent interviews, nearly a dozen women who posted ads on Craigslist said that they know the risks involved. But police said many women engage in online prostitution because they fail to appreciate the dangers.” That’s a surprisingly naive assumption for police to make: A prostitute can “appreciate” the dangers of her job and still feel compelled to do it, for any number of reasons. For the past couple months, I’ve been interviewing sex workers for a story I’m working on for Salon and the majority were aware of the dangers, some were downright terrified, but they do it anyway.

via Police to prostitutes: Craigslist is dangerous! – Broadsheet – Salon.com.

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Adult film star Sasha Grey talks about preparing for her role in Steven Soderbergh‘s latest film, “The Girlfriend Experience.” Andrew O’Hehir writes more .

Hosted by Salon film columnists Andrew O’Hehir and Stephanie Zacharek and IFC News’ Matt Singer, Beyond the Multiplex covers film news and culture. Watch the show here and on IFC every Thursday evening.

via Interview with Sasha Grey – Beyond the Multiplex.

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by Bob Cashill

Twenty-five years ago, Brian De Palma planned to give porn star Annette Haven the lead role of “Holly Body” in his film Body Double, but backed off as controversy threatened to erupt. Today, Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh builds a whole movie, The Girlfriend Experience, around porn star Sasha Grey, and no one blinks. Why does the star of Anal Cavity Search 6 and This Ain’t Star Trek XXX land this rare crossover opportunity?

For the same reason that the 21-year-old has appeared in videos by the Smashing Pumpkins and The Roots, sat down with Tyra Banks, and been interviewed/celebrated by publications including Los Angeles magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Wall Street Journal—shaved and airbrushed, the porn industry just isn’t as dirty as it once was. I remember the filthy old days of the ’70s, when the New York Post ran titillating ads for adults-only fare like The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (“It’s Not Just His Nose That Grows!”) and the neighborhood cinema where I grew up in sleepy suburban New Jersey went from showing Disney double features one summer to hardcore porn in fall. When Love Muscle replaced The Love Bug, a snake had clearly crawled into the Garden State.

In 1979, when porn was outlaw, it was easy to believe in the premise of Paul Schrader’s Hardcore, which scandalized my high school. “Oh my God, that’s my daughter,” fretted the poster, above an image of an anguished George C. Scott. From what we knew of the sleazy shenanigans out in Hell-A, it was entirely believable that an innocent girl like the one in the movie could be lured from an amusement park in California, drugged and raped on film by “Jism Jim,” then transported south of the border for snuff movie murder at the hands of the fearsome “Ratan.” (It was never believable that Scott, as the girl’s rigidly conservative father, could successfully masquerade as a swinging porn producer to find her, as also happens in the film.) Twenty years later, a similar premise seemed laughably quaint in 8MM, with Nicolas Cage doing the worrying. It wasn’t just that 1997’s Oscar-nominated Boogie Nights had looked at the 70’s porn scene with bemused nostalgia. The entire industry had moved off the streets and onto our VCRs, DVD players, and finally our computers, where it became tamed and domesticated, at least for the viewer. The porn theater merged with the home theater; no need to hide behind a raincoat and join the unwashed at the triple-XXX bijou, or skulk out of the videostore with tapes embarrassingly concealed from passers-by.

via No Concessions: My Porn “Experience” | Popdose.

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I don’t necessarily love all of Steven Soderbergh’s movies, but who could? The guy’s career seems devoted to Emerson’s principle that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I met Soderbergh recently in New York to talk about his new movie “The Girlfriend Experience,” a quasi-experimental indie drama about a high-end Manhattan call girl. Last fall, I interviewed him by phone for the release of “Che,” his four-hour epic about the career of Latin America’s most famous revolutionary. Here are his five films before that, in reverse chronological order: “Ocean’s Thirteen,” “The Good German,” “Bubble,” “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Solaris.”

That makes two star-studded Hollywood romps, a black-and-white murder mystery set in postwar Berlin, a no-budget working-class drama made with non-actors and an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s mystical science-fiction novel (and to some extent a remake of Russian art-film god Andrei Tarkovsky’s most famous picture). As Soderbergh says, he’s inspired by the examples of such legendary Hollywood directors as Howard Hawks and William Wyler, who cranked out films rapidly and often, in every imaginable genre. But Hawks never tried to make anything like “The Girlfriend Experience,” a movie in which a real-life porn star plays a fictional hooker, a movie that bears the unmistakable traces of Godardian postmodern cinema and Marxian social criticism.

To me, Soderbergh always seems betwixt and between; he’s not quite a production-line engineer in the Hollywood model nor is he a completely distinctive artist. You can view that eclecticism as a strength or a weakness, but it is what defines and distinguishes his career as a director, as well as his less-noticed but important and generous career as a producer. (Among the films Soderbergh has helped produce, but did not direct, are Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There” and “Far From Heaven,” George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” and “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” Tony Gilroy’s “Michael Clayton,” Richard Linklater’s “A Scanner Darkly,” Stephen Gaghan’s “Syriana” and Christopher Nolan’s “Insomnia.”)

via Steven Soderbergh and Sasha Grey deliver “The Girlfriend Experience” – Beyond the Multiplex – Salon.com.

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"Jack's Teen America 7" box cover

Featuring Four Kinky Anal Scenes, Including Katja Kassin‘s Intense Double Penetration!

News release: May 22, 2009 — VAN NUYS, Calif. — Fans of kinky anal sex are in store for a treat when Digital Playground releases “Jack’s Teen America 7” on Blu-ray™ May 28.  The four mind-blowing anal scenes are punctuated by Katja Kassin’s intense double penetration.  “Jack’s Teen America 7” by director Robby D. also features Marie Luv, Austin Kincaid, Tiffany Holiday, and Vanessa Lane as they compete for the beauty queen crown.  AVN’s Jared Rutter writes that “Jack’s Teen America 7” is “both fun and hot…Lots of anal…and the party ends with a good d.p…One of Jack’s best!”

The trailer is available at www.digitalplayground.com/mov/jacksteen7bd.html

Jack knows beauty pageant contestants will do anything to win 1st place, including lots of anal!  “Jack’s Teen America 7” features Jack and his crew interviewing lovely contestants Katja Kassin and Marie Luv to find out why they are qualified to be the next Teen America.  Katja wants it so bad she begs Scott Nails and Chris Charming to double penetrate her.  She’s quite adept at coaxing out Jack’s…vote.  Austin Kincaid, Vanessa Lane and Tiffany Holiday also joins the hot sucking, fucking and anal action.  “Jack’s Teen America 7” is full of horny girls who won’t settle for 2nd place!

Joone, Digital Playground’s Founder says, “Like all Digital Playground movies, ‘Jack’s Teen America 7′ satisfies its particular niche and then goes further,  bringing the consumer better, hotter sex.”

“Jack’s Teen America 7” on Blu-ray includes a photo gallery, and trailers to hit Digital Playground films.  It is presented in 16:9 widescreen format with 5.1 digital surround sound and no regional coding.

To download the box cover, visit
http://stream.digitalplayground.com/press/downloads5/JacksTA7_BD_FC.jpg

About Blu-ray™:
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, and is supported by more than 170 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers, video game and music companies, and major movie studios.  The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video, as well as storing large amounts of data.  For more information, visit www.blu-ray.com

About Digital Playground:
Digital Playground is the world leader in adult filmmaking and interactive formats boasting the largest HD library available.  Since the Company’s inception in 1993, Digital Playground has earned over 300 awards, currently garners more than 80% of high definition sales within the adult market, and is a leading provider of Blu-ray™ titles, with over 25% of the market.  Female owned and operated, Digital Playground emphasizes quality first, employing fastidiously high production values in erotic film for women, men and couples.  Digital Playground’s commitment to excellence, innovative technology, brilliant full-length productions and exclusive Contract Stars are the secrets to its success and makes Digital Playground the most highly demanded supplier of content for hotel, IPTV, cable, pay-per-view and mobile networks worldwide.  For more information visit www.digitalplayground.com , www.myspace.com/digitalplayground , or www.twitter.com/dpxxx

“Jack’s Teen America 7”
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Formats: Blu-ray™
Length: 1 Hour, 59 Minutes
Rating:  XXX
Studio: Digital Playground
UPC Code: 787-633-014-924

by The Times-Picayune

Thursday May 21, 2009, 1:14 PM

Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels announced today that she is forming a committee to explore a potential campaign against Sen David Vitter, R-La.

The announcement, in part:

Today, I am excited to announce that I am taking the next step in exploring a possible run for United States Senate. Two weeks ago, I embarked on a listening tour where I had the pleasure of hearing the thoughts and concerns of my fellow Louisianans. These conversations were highly encouraging and convinced me to officially explore the possibility of running for the United States Senate. To this end, I have formed an exploratory committee to gauge Louisianans’ support for my potential candidacy.

I do not take this step lightly. While I have been humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response my potential candidacy has generated thus far, my decision to run for United States Senate will only be made after I have had the opportunity to discuss this prospect with as many people across the state as possible. Too many in government ignore the voices of those whom they claim to represent. I promise you that I will not.

via Porn star Stormy Daniels forms exploratory committee to look at run against Sen. David Vitter – Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News – NOLA.com.