Years ago, a certain Fleshbot contributor used to be married to a certain pornstar-turned-director (hey, don't hate the player, hate the game). Walking into the Stephen Hicks studio for one of his wife's shoots, this writer may have met a really cool pervert photographer with serious aspirations (for the purposes of this post, we'll call him Jonni Darkko). Snapping away at record speeds, the talented young Darkko begged to escape the porno equiva...

newVideoPlayer("/9to5movie_fleshbot.flv", 506, 304,""); As disappointed as we were to learn that current Fleshbot Extreme Pornstar Showdown contestants Sasha Grey and Belladonna are not starring in a hardcore remake of the of the 1980s Lily Tomlin/Dolly Parton/Jane Fonda workplace comedy classic, we're still intrigued by the trailer for this "behind the scene" porn documentary. Tes, we know it's been done before—but this one looks well sho...

The back-and-forth legal maneuvering between our government and our nation's pornographers may not get you hot, even if it gets you bothered—it even makes our eyes glaze over sometimes. But it is occasionally instructive to keep tabs on who is being put in jail with your tax dollars. It's also hard to have a First Amendment debate over a title like "Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice" without giggling, but it helps that the Supreme Court ha...

Since you were probably too busy last week driving across various state lines to procure semi-legal fireworks, you might have missed the rest of John Stagliano's debate with First Amendment scholar Barry McDonald. (Spoiler alert: They don't agree!) It's interesting and informative, but there's not enough vicious name calling and ad hominem attacks for our cable news channel tastes. (latimes.com)

Whether you want to donate to the Evil Angel legal defense fund or spend 10 glorious, disturbing, jaw-dropping, delightful, and carnivorous hours with the likes of Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Sandra Romain, Eva Angelina, and Tricia Devereaux (or, I imagine, both), you will love "Defend Our Porn." In April, 2008 Evil Angel founder and director John Stagliano was indicted on obscenity charges in the type of case that has become familiar to First Amendm...

"Should there be an obscenity law that outlaws a product that is made with informed adult consent with no laws being broken, and that is increasingly distributed and consumed in complete privacy?" You can probably guess what our answer is to that question, but apparently some folks still think this is a matter of some debate. That's why the Los Angeles Times threw together a little point-counterpoint between associate professor of First Amendment...

Following 14 hours of deliberation, a Tampa jury today found extreme pornographer Max Hardcore guilty on ten counts of distributing obscene material, the first time Hardcore has been found guilty in a career full of obscenity legislation. Hardcore said that he would appeal, and is free on bail until a September 5 sentencing. "I'm full of good spirits and they didn't get my house," Hardcore told AVN.Hardcore's attorneys told jurors that no one cou...

Stores like Adult DVD Empire may have already pulled our gal Belladonna's newly federally indicted "Fetish Fanatic 5" from their online inventory, but as of this afternoon you can still see the trailer for it on Evil Angel's site. Frankly, after watching it two or three or a dozen times we can't see what all the brouhaha is about; after all, things like enemas, squirting, and inserting dildos with one's (or someone else's) feet are hardly rare in...

After failing to get JM Productions on obscenity charges last year, the Justice Department is now targeting Evil Angel and its owner John Stagliano. The feds handed down a grand jury indictment against the company earlier this week. You wouldn't think a film with a nice wholesome title like "Milk Nymphos" would get anyone in trouble? (avn.com + xbiz.com)

Image from Fashionistas Safado; more images here. John Stagliano has long been a porn director of high regard for me — and a businessman I admire. His company, Evil Angel (named after a combo of former girlfriend plus his name as a male erotic performer), is unique among all other porn businesses. I wrote this article about him a couple years ago. Read the statement on his front page for details: in summary, he gives his directors complete...

The word on the street is that the Abby Winters booth at the 2008 AVN Convention in Las Vegas stole the show. Why am I not surprised? All my fav AbbyWinters girls were there, Anneke, Sue Ann, Chloe B, Marigold, and many others. Not sure if this was the first time they flew the girls out to Vegas but part of the titillating pleasure was watching these amateur models cavorting with old time porn pros like “Buttman” John Stagliano and Ni...

DCypher reports: In case it wasn't clear when we first told you about it a few months ago, the final installment of Evil Angel's "Fashionista" trilogy, "Safado: Berlin", takes place across the whole of modern Europe and not in Berlin, Ohio. I think we can all agree that the Amish have been teased enough without having to be subjected to the perversions of a Nacho Vidal, and the studio assures us that no Amish were harmed during the filming.Inste...