Who knew! Hugh Hefner, the guy with three buxom twentysomething girlfriends and more money than he can use, would behave like a creepy old guy? According to a new tell-all by former Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson. While Hef wasn't outright abusive, Wilkinson says he was vaguely attentive in person, but made his staff monitor the gal's every moves and report back to him. Being a concubine doesn't have the freedom you'd expect, eh, gals?

Larry Flynt and the "Girls gone Wild" dude now have a political agenda: get the pornography industry a bailout like the financial and automotive industries got. Like most industries, pornographers have been hit by the recent hard times and the relative "luxury" status of porn - and I'd like to point out that, unlike the banks and auto-makers, the porn industry didn't screw itself to cause the financial burden, so are more deserving than the big industries that are getting all the federal money. In the case of the financial industry, the feds are taking a partial ownership in the businesses; imagine the change in laws if the U.S. government were to buy in to the! porn industry as a dividend-earner? Chance of it happening: none, but it's nice to think about it for a while.

Penthouse, the venerable purveyor of naughtier content than Playboy, but classier than Hustler, is trying to raise money by launching an IPO. They aren't officially "Penthouse" anymore, though, which proves where the real money is. Since 2007, they've been known as FriendFinder Networks, some of the most annoying advertisers online. If the IPO helped the magazine and content producers, great: but if it's helping AdultFriendFinder continue to intrusively tell me hot chicks in my town want to chat with me, well, fuck'em.

Ron Jeremy, a hero to fuzzy Jews everywhere, was pepper sprayed by a paparazzi while eating in a restaurant today. Jeremy responded by whipping out his 4-foot-long dick and beating the paparazzi to death with it, in hopes that predatory photographers will get the message: Ron Jeremy's dick doesn't fuck around.

We all know Playboy is circling the drain. And it's a damn shame, but Best Week Ever has a plan - they've developed exactly what Playboy needs to do in order to recover their former glory. Much of it has to do with imitating Hustler, but, well, you gotta follow your audience's needs!

You've turned off Limewire to avoid the RIAA, you keep away from Torrents to keep the MPAA off your back, but you probably didn't expect this: people sharing hardcore porn online have gotten cease-and-desist letters, and are being sued for violating pornographer's copyrights. Not only does the DCMA get you caught, but now everybody's going to know that "Cum Butt Virgins 57" is your favorite download.

Think today's teens are out of control when it comes to drugs, alcohol, and reckless sex? The prudish Victorians encouraged sexless lives, moderation and proper behavior, and what did it get them? Kids who went off to college, got drunk off their asses, hired prostitutes and fucked anything that was remotely willing. Hmmm, how'd that work out for them? Those kids grew up and became - the horror - Edwardian progressives.

Whaaaa?!?? Women are able to produce porn? I thought only brutal, sleazy men with Mafia connections were allowed to make porn. Er, at least that's what TV and religious leaders taught me. According to MSNBC, there's more women producing adult entertainment than ever before, which kinda makes it hard to say that porn is all about female suppression. Bonus: Joy King on the life of a porn magnate.

High On Sex has, as we all do, put 'pornography' into a Google Image Search - but when they combined it with Google's acquisition of Life magazine's image reproduction rights, you get some interesting views of the porn film industry, circa 1970s.

Time magazine, source of hard-hitting news, has compiled a Reader's Digest history of lad mags. So brief, in fact, that it pretty much only talks about Playboy...surprise, surprise: they're shilling for a new Hef biography.

Adultland XXX has had its share of lawbreaking: they got closed down for selling porn on Flag Day, they got cited for selling porn on Columbus Day, but the court has decided that the city has no juristiction for shutting down adult stores on holidays, because they haven't properly defined what days those are. Vaguely-worded laws don't give you wiggle-room, governments: they are just going to get your laws thrown out. Next up: properly defining what actually constitutes an adult store, and then we can get down to brass tacks.

Everybody's proud of December 2008's Playmates, a set of twins, including their parents and their police officer brother. Hooray! The gals were discovered due to a bikini contest, were originally just considered for a college-student issue, but something struck Hef in such a way that he wanted them for the cover of their own issue. Here's what he saw:



Oh, dear. such terror in their eyes.

The daughter of Bo Black, a public figure in Milwaukee, has appeared on The Girls Next Door topless, in a bid to get in the 55th anniversary issue of Playboy. Mom, however, is fine with it - she already went through the public wringer over her Playboy cover in 1967. Sure, Bo wasn't nude in any way, and Playboy's purpose has changed in this modern era of Hustler and online hardcore, but, hey, her daughter has some fine, fine assets and shouldn't keep them under wraps!

Mom:


Daughter:



The daughter's modelling website. Sorry, nothing nude...yet.

Jenna Jameson, who is only "Jenna Jameson" in the professional sense, is going to make it a permanent change. While many people with adult stage-names use them to help keep anonymity, she's got enough investing in being Ms. Jameson that it's about time that the name be her real one. I mean, who'd watch some porn starring Jenna Massoli? There's hardly anything sexy about that.

I was excited to see the headline: It's Pornography Awareness Week! I completely understand where they're coming from - we need to make the public more aware of pornography's benefits to society! There will be speeches about how performer safety is a paramount focus of pornographers, how the use of pornography can help people with social disorders learn aspects of human sexuality, how AIDS rates are low in the industry, how due to the Internet independent producers have a glorious advantage they never had before, bringing jobs to talented people all - wait, what? No, I didn't read the article...hold on. Oh, um...never mind. The "Pornography Awareness People" are asshole douches.

Gerard Damiano, the porn director behind one of the key movers in the porn chic genre, has passed away at age 80. Damiano was a former hairdresser who got into B-movies for fun, a trail which eventually led him to direct Deep Throat - one of the most profitable films of all time, but Damiano's connection with the mob for financing cut him out of the loop, and like the stars he didn't make much from it. He stuck with the porn industry, despite the pushing of obscenity laws in response to Deep Throat, and worked into the '90s. Damiano had experienced a stroke last month, and finally succumbed on the 25th of Octob! er.

A Craigslist post was looking for a very specific porn star: she must be a Sarah Palin lookalike. Geeks are really, really hoping the only applicant is Tina Fey. In fact, I'll bet a Tina Fey lookalike pornstar would be one of the most valuable properties in all of porndom. Palin herself has a career to fall back on if she doesn't get elected: Hef wants her to pose. Maybe Palin could be the Tina Fey lookalike porn star - it all fits together!

Nearly fifty years later, photographer Bert Stern might get back his "Last Sitting" Marilyn Monroe photos. Taken on assignment for Vogue, Stern lent them to Eros magazine (a fine publication, if I do say myself), but never got them back. After years of tracking down the originals, he found them in the possession of two New York guys. The guys asked for a bunch of money for their return, which, inevitably, resulted in lawyers getting involved. There's lots of issues here (wouldn't they belong to Vogue? Does the Visual Artists Rights Act mean anything? Any documentation on how Eros was supposed to return them?) but greed is, of course, the driving force behind the conflict! .

King of the Porn Stars, Ron Jeremy, is interviewed on the Time website. Most of the stuff he says is the same talking points as every other place (why do they always ask the same questions?), but I gotta give the hedgehog some credit where credit is due.

Gentleman's December 1960 issue seems to claim the discovery of cheesecake model Virginia Rogers:"GENTLEMAN discovered Virginia Rogers in one of Hollywood's finer niteries, the Slate Brothers Club, where she works as a cocktail waitress..."While every magazine is likely to claim to be the first with any 'virginal' model, this appears to be a true claim: most other Virginia Rogers photos are from 1962 or 1963; she even appeared in a naughty nudie film in 1961. Here's the photos from this 'first' photoshoot: