> Mark, a Jerry Springer producer writes: Hey Mean Gene, My name is Mark, and I’m an associate producer at the Jerry Springer Show. We’re doing a special episode on pregnant girls in the adult entertainment biz and I’m very interested in speaking with any pregnant industry girls in regards to being guests on the show. I was hoping you that you might help spread the word that if any preggo’s out there are interested in some great free pub for their website, videos or themselves, before a national TV audience and would like an all expenses paid trip to Chicago, please call me toll free at 1-888-321-5376. ASAP.

Thanks so much! Mark

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> Mimi Miyagi [pictured] blogs: Our fun fundraiser last night [Saturday]!! If you missed it, too bad. My friend Jane.

Fox 5 News showed up at our event this time. We got started off to a late beginning, but that’s ok, by midnight Barbeque Masters Tavern was bumping! We played Twister, Truth or Dare, Musical Chairs, and Karaoke. So many people showed up in various pajamas and nighties. Ooh sexy! It was hilarious and a fun filled night. Thankyou all who showed up and supported me!

> a performer rates are out of control thread starts on www.xxxporntalk.com. shawn reynolds comments: If guys were just props you wouldn’t need humans. You could just get one of those $3,000 sex dolls I saw on HBO’s Real Sex and have the actresses ride them. But you need that human interaction to make a ‘real’ sex scene.

I’ve heard the dopey prop thing before from an agent and not only does it degrade the quality of the energy between the male and female performers, it works against successful management of the male talent in the long run. My first take on the prop statement from any male mouth is that it comes from someone who has been around the wrong people in the industry and probably won’t get the best out of talent if they directed them. Or, they simply are so focused on getting in the pants of the female talent, they want to degrade the male talent into thinking they are insignificant participants and bruise their egos… the kind of approach that comes from someone who has no business managing talent. Everyone I know who enjoys watching porn DOES NOT want to see a hot actress with an ugly dude. It totally ruins the scene. It matters what the guy looks like and how he behaves. It matters if he’s in shape or not. It matters if he’s got a big cock. This is an opinion I’ve heard shared by both men and women.

Male talent, in my opinion, should be made to feel as important in the production as the actresses. It’s a no brainer, really, to understand the effect confidence and a healthy ego have on male talent. Putting them down and regarding them as insignificant props doesn’t make sense to do when you want the guy to be rock hard and fuck in a variety of sexual positions, enthusiastically, and not like he’s half into it.

I think guys should be paid more equally to females, period. Needless to say, if she’s doing an anal gangbang, her fee should be of such where it is surely higher, just as it should if HE is the one getting gangbanged in the ass. The current imbalance in rates males and females are getting begs for change.

The glut of product in the market is helping to kill business, in my opinion. There’s too much, made by too many people (anyone really), and there’s not enough room on the store shelves for all of it. When I shop for a new DVD in a store, I have so much to choose from, it’s difficult, not a pleasure. In the end, I totally ignore looking at features, and just purchase a compilation that’s 4 hours long and gets straight to the sex. Things have to be put in place that serve to lessen the glut of product out there. The industry needs some creative thinking to recognize what these things will be, but they are there, and the time is now to get started.

Fuel prices have to be having an effect on any product that is of secondary importance to a consumer. They have to have transportation, they have to have food and fluids, shelter, electricity, the internet ….. but a new adult DVD? Not likely at the top of the list. Better to look at free porn galleries on the net and get by with that. I’ve seen the fuel prices lessen transactions on other secondary expenses one could incur … like on website design. It doesn’t take a lot of time to realize the current fuel prices are swallowing up extra monies that use to go to the little extras in life … like a new adult DVD. If anything, the $10 compilation DVD of 4 hours is going to sell before the $40 adult feature of 70 minutes will.

This is simply a time for change and adjustment in the industry. A guy asking $1,000 for a boy/girl scene doesn’t know what business he’s in. He may be justified, giving up his control of footage of himself naked and having sex, to be distributed all over the world for whoever wants to see it, but common sense is often not much of a commodity in any industry. Innovative thinking, however, can yield changes.

> Dino Velvet responds: Shawn I will have to disagree on some your points here….only because if the looks portion was to be in effect then Ron Jeremy would have not been allowed to work after his looks to a degree faded. Good looking men are only necessary in three genres of porn.

• Couples porn

• Gay porn

• Specialty niche porn (bangbros So. Florida types and/or vast majority of print work)

The reasons behind them are all because of demographics. Fat, Ugly and Old men control the destinies of most heterosexual porn companies, since they are the prime consumers of the product. Just how many freaks of nature are the true fan boys who spend a lot of money tiring to get close to their idols? I take it you have not been to ANY conventions right? If so you would be able to see what I’m talking about. Women in the past, present and in the future will control the sales of hardcore straight porn as far as the talent side is concerned.