Today is my 2 year anniversary with HotMoviesForHer.com. Some days it feels like I’ve been working here forever (we just mesh well) and others seem like it’s only been a minute. I guess it’s true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. And fun is definitely what I’ve been having, peddling the girlie smut and bringing all I know about sexin’ to you ladies. I love my job and know that the pleasure side of sexuality is where I belong.
In celebration of my anniversary, I thought I’d write up some of my favorite HM4Her moments from the last two years. I know it’s a little self indulgent, but hey isn’t indulgence what porn is all about?
- Dinah Shore weekends 2008 & 2009. Sponosoring this massive lezzie event is not only an awesome way to help the lesbian community get to know us, it’s a fabulous way for us to really get to talk to tons of women about porn and what things they’d like to see on a porn site just for women. Watching Pat Benetar, Margaret Cho, the Idigo Girls, Lady Gaga and bunches of girls in binkinis is just a perk. Oh, that and hanging out with The Porn Librarian. It’s the only time of the year I get to see her face-to-face, so Palm Springs is extra fun!
Last Friday I spent the day hanging out at the 8th Annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference and got my learn on about all the new medical and health info going on in the transgender community. This conference is near and dear to my heart and I’ve been either attending or volunteering for a bunch of years. This year I was lucky enough to not only go to learn, but to also preach the porno gospel and hand out free 30-minute cards for HotMoviesForHer.com.
While I was super excited to pass out our cards and turn people on to great porno, I wasn’t quite sure how it would go over. I mean, we are HotMoviesForHer.com, so what about all the people I wanted to talk to that don’t identify as her? I certainly didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. And the fact is that we have some of the most awesome female-to-male trans porn that’s on the market and more hot queer porn than you can shake a stick at!
Well, turns out I just need to quiet my buzzing Virgo brain more often, because no one gives a crap about a name when you are giving them access to free hot porn. We could be called BirdSharkFishButt.com and folks would still come a-running at the mere mention of hot queer humping. That said, everyone that I spoke with was super excited about HotMoviesForHer and what we have to offer. Maybe it’s because I’m such an awesome salesgal or maybe porn just sells itself (more likely), but I was out of cards by the time I left for the evening. And had the promise of a few emails on their way asking me for movie suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »
Ian Sparks is one of the guys responsible for bringing queer porn to another level. His film studio, Trannywood Pictures, creates award winning movies that feature male-identified folks in all points of transition having hot, hot sex with other male-identified guys. As well as super sexy, Trannywood movies makes sure to portray safe sex and responsible sexuality throughout their movies. How hot is that!
Sparks has starred in both “Cubbyholes” and “Couch Surfers – Trans Men In Action” from Trannywood and works behind the scenes to bring us some really amazing queer porn. Along with all the awesome porn goodness, Sparks’ passions include community organizing, cultural work, public health, butches, boys, genderqueers, cubs and queer activists of all genders. Swoon!
1. How (and when) did you get started in the industry?
About 4 years ago, I became one of the owners of a gay safe sex club in San Francisco (EROS). We have a very community, mission focused model that includes a free community classroom, art gallery and a lounge that is available for all gender events. We wanted to expand our safe sex message and our focus on normalizing a variety of body types. So, when we decided to try our hand at doing a niche film, it was either going to be a bears of color movie, or a gay trans men film. A couple of our staff were in Morty Diamond’s “Trannyfags” and we realized we had enough talent to go in that direction. That was around 2006. My own screen debut was in a Colt Studio film, called “Beyond Perfect” (2005)….I just had a non sex roll, but Mr. Pam was one of the camera operators and I got a lot of screen time. Read the rest of this entry »
I logged onto the Twitter when I got to work today, per usual, and what do I see this am?
mortydiamond: I took my website down!My wife teaches high school english and a fellow teacher is saying I’m a tranny and make porn! She might get fired!
and
mortydiamond: WHY CANT PEOPLE LIVE AND LET LIVE! Why are people so afraid of pornography!
What the hell! That totally sucks for both Morty Diamond/his wife and porno in general. And why the hell does it matter if he’s a porno makin’ tranny?!? He’s not teaching anyone, and even if he was, a porno makin’ tranny can’t talk about Shakespeare and nouns? Shit, I would have been WAY more interested in high school english if Morty Diamond was teaching it. If these toolbags that are giving them trouble took even five minutes to actually watch Trans Entities: The Nasty Love Of Papi And Wil, they might realize that they are dealing with an amazingly smart person challenging gender and sexuality norms.
I hope everything works out for Morty and his family.
Leave it to ignorance and hate to ruin a perfectly good Thursday. Jerks!
I love porn. Duh, right? Of course I love watching hot sex on screen, but when it comes to porn, sometimes there’s so much more to love than just what’s on the surface. One of my favorite things about porn is the people that make it – whether they are starring in the movies or behind the camera. And while sure, I’d love to see any of these five amazing porn folks naked and squirming in pleasure, I’d also actually love to hang out with them too. They all seem like so much fun!
So, here, in no particular order, are my top 5 porn people I want meet up with for drinks and hang outs.
(I will have to put a little disclaimer that these are people I’ve never actually met. There are a few other people I would have added that I have alreadyhungout with and are amazing, but that didn’t seem fair to include them. And Nina Hartley was a given, so I figured I’d assume everyone already knows she tops the list.)
I feel like it’s been a while since I talked about Morty Diamond here on HMFH – and that is totally unacceptable in my book. Not only is he one of the raddest porn directors out there, Morty Diamond is amazingly smart and engaging and turning the trans/queer porn genre upside down with his thoughtfully sexy and wildly arousing movies. Check out his awesome videos here.
But the real reason I’m thinking of Morty Diamond is a video that he just posted this weekend called Tranny Triptych, which features him and Glenn Marla – who, from what I can tell from his myspace, seems to be a fabulous performer in NYC (and apparently friends with people I know in Philly – weird!) - talking about navigating being trans and how they relate to their bodies. I’m not sure if this video was for something in particular, but it is awesome and totally worth watching.
Since J.D. is out of the office this week, I’ve taken it upon myself to crush on Morty Diamond. Here’s a video of the delicious Diamond peddling water.
I’m not one that typically pays for things that I can get for free (although I have been know to pick up a six pack of wind on a Friday night,) but I’m pretty sure Morty could sell me just about anything.
The first time I saw this Morty Diamond Productions queer boi romp was at a hipster art gallery in Philly a couple of years ago. A room full of hot queers watching hot queer’s fuck on screen, complete with commentary by Morty Diamond himself, who was sitting on the side. I sweat just thinking about it. It was fucking hot then and just as hot sitting here, watching at my desk. I’ll totally admit I have a raging hard on for dirty gutter queers and tattooed, mohawked tranny boys and watching them have an all out orgy in an outdoor hot tub nearly did me in. At one point I couldn’t figure out where the fourth guy went, only to realize he was wedged between two other bois, taking it from the front and the back. But lets get to my favorite of favorite parts… the circle jerk in scene two. More line up than circle really, these dudes are just standing around, rubbing their bits and moaning. I loved seeing the different ways they fucked themselves and the differences in their genitals (some are probably altered by T). It was my perfect porno scene. Two thumbs up… well, if they weren’t down my pants.
There aren’t many people out there doing what Morty Diamond does. And by what he does, I mean deconstructing gender and teasing apart binaries, one mind-blowing orgasm at a time. Two movies deep into his Morty Diamond Productions studio, director/producer Diamond has turned the trans/queer porn genre upside down with thoughtfully sexy and wildly arousing works that engage both your brains and your bits. Thank you, Morty, for reminding us just how hot we are for smart porn!
