The Porn Industry Closes Its Legs

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57497344-10391704/syphilis-scare-halts-porn-industry-filming-in-la-as-health-officials-investigate/

It has been reported that the porn industry in Los Angeles, California has gone through a temporary shut down as at least five cases of syphilis has been reported, and that number goes up to ten depending on other reports.

But even though your next nookie video isn’t in the middle of of post-production right now, doesn’t mean that it won’t be coming at all to either a mailbox or an adult store near you.

Due to the fact that the alarming news of syphilis is being spread, all actors are going through the screening process and are getting heavily tested to make sure that they can safely return to work.

“Work”. If you want to call it that. Getting paid to have sexual intercourse with other people on film…. I digress.

Every time there is a medical scare like this, the industry always shuts down. And then someone comes out to the media and “explains the situation”. There has been in the past, where the HIV virus had been detected in porn actors and actresses. To which the entire industry always does the same thing….. shut down.  Eventually, they do so much testing and screening and re-vamp their ways to protect their people. And those who are found to be carrying any kind of sexually transmitted disease ultimately lose their job in the industry.

But it seems to me that these scares come up every so often. And they have been as of lately been more and more frequent. And that causes me to question what is going on in the industry that they are unable to detect these kinds of problems and take action before it becomes a “scare”?

I do not know much about the porn industry at all. I DO know that it is a very successful business as it brings in approximately $10-15 BILLION annually. This current situation will not be much of a factor in regards to how much money it will make this year. In fact, the difference will be so small that it will go unnoticed.

Syphilis on the other hand, is a very real and serious thing. I read from the Center of Disease Control that it is often painful, produces sores, and has the ability to shut down certain functions of the body and has the great potential of being fatal. And it is spread through sexual contact. Thus, a sexually transmitted disease.

When “OH BABY” turns into “NO BABY”!

Ladies and gentlemen: is what scary is all about!!

However, syphilis (if detected early) can be treated effectively. But I think that in the porn industry, it isn’t being detected early enough and then it spreads. Not to mention the possibility of it being spread or even contracted through sexual intercourse by porn actors with NON-porn actors. And that is very frightening to think about. It has the chance to either introduced into the common world, or be ushered in by the common world.

To say that one STD is greater and more serious than others would be a bold lie. They ALL are!

For now, the porn industry will not be working until they cleared this up and figure out who has what and when. A syphilis scare will not be enough to make the industry crumble and bring it down to its knees. After all, it already IS on its knees to begin with.

 

 

 

No Guts No Glory

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ladies & Gentlemen. Disciples. Happy Followers and readers. I give to you the winner of the Overgrown-sized Testicular Fortitude Award for March 2012.

 

I present the brief story of:

 

Michael Stone.

 

Michael Stone, aka “Mad Mike” is an 18 year old high school student from Minnesota. Being that it is almost high school prom season, Mike took his chances and used his Twitter account to contact hundreds of porn stars and other people in the adult film industry and asked them if they would escort him to the prom, provided he paid for their transportation to reach him.

 

Over and over and over again, one after another: Mike’s requests were denied. An endless flurry of women not seeming to be interested in the event and declining his invitation.

 

Mike however, didn’t give up. He did the best that he could (with the 140 character limit that Twitter has) to make his supplications known that he was in fact, dead serious.

 

More and more rejection. But Mike seemed to have been immune to it.

 

And then one said “YES, if you pay for my way to and from.” … paraphrased. The name of the adult film star, you will have to find out for yourself.

 

Mike couldn’t have been any happier. However, the school board couldn’t have been more displeased.

 

They’ve told Mike that the adult film star could not attend the prom with him. That he could not have her as his date. And they’ve even gone as far as to pull up some stupid rules to back up their decision. And what’s even more ridiculous is that they’ve threatened to have the adult star arrested if she shows up.

 

Again, Mike is within the legal age of his state and area. I personally don’t see this adult film star corrupting the entire prom. I am sure that there would have been very strict rules and guidelines that Mike would have had to follow if this would have been allowed. And probably Mike would have had to sign some sort of waiver and a written statement that she was not there for the purposes of sexual activity.

 

But still… he totally had the testicular fortitude to sit there time and time and time again to ask several women out as his prom date. It had seemed that his patience was going to pay off. But not anymore.

 

All I have to say about it is…. Where was Twitter when “I” was in high school?? I could easily see myself doing something like that. Knowing that eventually every rejection that  came through would turn into acceptance.

 

But no. There was not a Twitter to be had. Instead, I had to do it “the hard way”. I wrote a letter to a famous singer at the time to ask her to join me at the prom. But I did not offer to pay for her transportation costs.

 

I also had to write it twice. The first time, there wasn’t enough postage on it because I had forgotten that the price of stamps went up. And then the second time, my parents caught the letter in the mail as I was on my way to school. They caught it, and then threw it away. A few years later, I would find out that they had done so. Talk about mad!

 

But I have to salute this guy. He’s 18 year old. He knew what he wanted to do, and he set off in such a grand style in order to get it.

 

I think that the school board though, is kind of over doing it juuuuust a little! It’s a prom date- not a Caligula style orgy.

 

I’m sure that the adult film actress would’ve had herself so protected by her management, her agent, and many more measures of security that if Mike would’ve tried to pull something that she would have had him land in jail before he got his zipper down.

 

I hope that Mike gets his prom date. Actually, I hope he gets ANY date. But now that he’s becoming viral, I am sure that there are going to be all kinds of females ready and willing to date him. Just for the sake of him going viral.

 

I feel bad for his inbox, his Twitter, and for any other social network site account he might have.

 

 

Pornography Surprises

“The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don’t get bad reviews.”~ Joe Pantoliano

 

Last night I had one of the most wild surprises in my e-mail that I have ever received in the past 10 years.

 

All weekend long, I was receiving messages from a guy that I now regret ever giving my e-mail address to. He filled it everytime with some kind of URL that would link to some kind of pornographic website, all because he thought that I might find the female actress to be hot.

 

Suddenly, he wrote in the subject title “I FOUND YOUR BIRTHDAY PRESENT” in an e-mail. I guess I could have just deleted it, but I didn’t. What I would find is yet another URL to another pornographic website, but this time he had included his username and password. And instructions to one particular page.

 

I was to find a woman named “Lexy” and click on her page.

 

When I did, I saw the most horrifying, mysterious, and shocking thing that I never thought that I would see in my life.

 

“Lexxy” as it were, was a female porn actress and she had about 10 different videos on the page.

 

Very cautiously, I clicked on the shortest video there was. Knowing that I was not a fan of pornography. What I saw for the next 3 minutes and 42 seconds was rather intriguing as “Lexxy” was looking familiar for a strange reason that I could not wrap my mind around.

 

After that, I moved on. Clicked the second one beneath it. And then it all came to light. I realized why this “Lexxy” was so familiar.

 

“Lexxy” is an ex-girlfriend of mine. Not a cyber girlfriend, and not a long distance relationship girlfriend, an actual tangible relationship girlfriend.

 

Immediately I threw up. I didn’t even have time to think about moving towards the bathroom. It just came out, and came out strong and hard.  My head spun, I was feeling faint and extremely disgusted.

 

I turned it off in total disbelief. I began to doubt the validity that it was her. I did some searching and it didn’t take that long to realize that in fact, it was her. Her face was the same, her voice. The only thing that was different was her body type which had obviously been altered for the industry.

 

I sat there wondering why she would do this. But then again, it didn’t surprise me. Considering the fact that after we had broken up, she was said to have been working at a strip club. Something that I never got confirmation on, but then again I didn’t really care as it was over between her and I. The only thing I could think of is that she went from exotic dancing to amateur pornography at some point.

 

What was bothering me about it is that when we were dating, we found out that we had a mutual fascination for tigers. The hypothetical question came up: If you can own a pair of male and female tigers, what would you name them?.

 

For the female, I said “Lexy”.

 

I’m guessing she held on to that to this day as it is now her “stage name”.

 

It still made me so violently sick to my stomach. No matter what the opinion that I hold on her would be.

 

I personally do not get into pornography. And that is for many reasons. Other than it being a moral issue.

 

Computer viruses are on all pornographic videos on the Internet. It will damage your computer and ultimately destroy it. Trojans and other things that are in the videos will connect to your computer and kill it. You can have the biggest and baddest anti-virus program built, and it will still attach itself to your machine.

 

I recall reading an article about the strangest Hollywood career changes. There was an Italian porn actress from the 1980’s that had gone from the porn industry into the Italian government. It struck me as odd, so I researched it.

 

It took just one click of the wrong website and my computer was toast.

 

I am also not a voyeur. I do not receive a thrill over watching someone else have sex. I would prefer not to be a part of the audience. That just isn’t in me. 

 

Pornography is dangerous as it is. Many people get addicted to it. And then they think that it is okay to take their addiction into the real world and treat women just the same as they see it on their videos. They do not realize that pornography to a certain degree is fake. It still is just another form of entertainment. No matter what your view on it is.

 

But I sure did get one heck of a surprise to have seen her. Especially like that!!!! I’m not sure exactly what I am going to do. Other than try to clean out my computer’s history and cookies and other files that connect my computer to that particular website. I definitely trashed the e-mail that contained the website. And I wrote back that I didn’t want any more of this guy’s porn. If he continues to send more, then I am going to block him from my e-mail.

 

He said he had thought it was my ex. So he definitely was going to share it with me to see if he was right or not…. and of course, he was.

 

I think though that I could have lived the rest of my life without having to have seen that.