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And the votes are in! The 2010 AVN Award nominees have been announced, and this year the picks are better than ever. Basically the Oscars of porn, the AVN Awards honor the best and brightest of porno movie royalty. So, yeah, they are a big freaking deal. This year we are extra excited because so many of our favorite performers are on the list! We are super happy for them and know they all completely deserve the nominations. Check out the full nomination list.
While many of the folks nominated have had the pleasure of making the list in previous years, I want to make sure to give a special shout out to some HM4Her crushes that are celebrating their first AVN Award nominations this year. Especially the San Francisco queers that are breaking through the mainstream barriers of porn and bringing their insanely sexy gender/sexuality bending action to the masses. This year is the first that AVN is recognizing the work they do as being on par with some of the most well known names in mainstream porn.
So, who am I talking about? Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan and Pink and White Productions (dir. Shine Louise Houston)! I remember that last year we were excited when queer performer Syd Blakovich walked the AVN red carpet as Madison Young’s date, and now look at us – cheering on these awesome queers for their own nominations! And surprisingly, it’s not for a queer category either. Jiz is up for Best New Web Starlet, Dylan for Best Solo Sex Scene, and Pink and White for their Best Video Feature, “Champion,” which was shot with a mostly queer/trans/gender non-conforming/people of color cast and crew and with a way smaller budget than any other movie in the nomination category. Hot, right? So, congrats to these rad pervs! Who cares who wins… the nod is freaking awesome.
Some of our other favorite porno gods/goddesses that made the list this year are:
Nica Noelle – Director of the Year
Kimberly Kane – Best Actress
James Deen – Best Actor/ Male Performer of the Year
Carlos Batts – Best Director (Non-Feature)
Roulette – Best Music Soundtrack (I told you!)
Sweet Sinner – Best New Line
Good Releasing – Best New Video Production Company
Sasha Grey – Best New Web Starlet/ The Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year
Belladonna – pretty much every award
Tommy Gunn – Best Actor/ Best Supporting Actor
Penny Flame – Best Supporting Actress
Joanna Angel – Director of the Year
Dana DeArmond – Female Performer of the Year
Buck Angel – Transsexual Performer of the Year
Seriously, there are so many awesome movies and performers nominated, I could spend the whole day making a list. Why don’t you just check out the whole list here.
Congrats to one and all!
xoxo
-J.D. Bauchery
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Jennie Ketchum is one classy lady. Until recently, Ketchum was known by all as Penny Flame, a feisty porn performer/director with an infectious grin and a whole lot of sassy sex appeal. While it’s pretty old news that’s she’s left the business to explore her non-porn identity (as well as go through Dr. Drew’s Sex Rehab on VH-1), it’s really now just coming to light how unique her departure actually is and how it defies long held stereotypes about porn and porn performers.
Lucky for us, Violet Blue caught up with Jennie and chatted her up about quitting on her own terms.
I hate the common exit strategy, hate that girls join the ‘god squad’ or feel ashamed of the choices they made but I understand it. I can see that it’s much easier to say ‘porn did this to me, or that’ but at the end of the day, we are all responsible for the choices we make. I chose to be a porn star. Now I’m choosing not to be. It’s the beautifully terrible thing about free will: we can do whatever we like but we must be held accountable for whatever we do. Just because I don’t want to be a porn star today doesn’t mean that I should feel ashamed to have been one seven months ago. It’s something I did and I’m not afraid to say I did it, loved doing it, and just don’t feel like it’s what I need to do anymore. Shame and guilt are useless emotions. The only way I would feel ashamed is if I’d decided being a porn star isn’t what’s best for me and then continued doing it anyway.
Check out the rest of her answers in Violet Blue’s SFGate article.
Gotta love a gal with such awesome self respect.
xoxo
-J.D. Bauchery
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When I really like something, I’m the kind of person that decides that it’s my favorite thing ever and takes any opportunity to talk it up. This is true when it comes to porn stars as well. I will find a star I like and blog about them incessantly, only switching gears when I find someone new to obsess over. For better or worse, that’s just how I roll. But unfortunately my system kinda blows for the ton of other stars I really enjoy watching but haven’t turned into fangirl crush objects.
So, because we are so close to the weekend and the fact that it’s Friday the 13th (yikes!), I’ve decided to take a little time out to swoon over some of my favorite, but rarely talked about, performers. Today feels like a day to spread the love around.
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Elexis Monroe is your total girl next door… sweet, bubbly and the kind of foxy lady you hope gardens in her short shorts. With her mischievous smile and sultry moves, Elexis rocks the lady lovin’ socks off of whomever she touches and makes love to the camera with little effort. She is equally adorable and sexy all around.
After heating up the porno screen as a staple for Girlfriends Films and other top lesbian studios, Monroe signed on with Sweetheart Video earlier this year as their first ever contract star! Her first feature with them should be out later in the year. In the meantime, see what she has to say about porn bloopers, sushi and animal rights and be sure to check out her awesome movies here on HM4Her.
1. How (and when) did you get started in the industry?
I first started about 10 years ago. I walked into World Modeling after I saw their ad in the newspaper. I thought it was for figure modeling, which to me at the time was Victoria Secret sort of stuff. I walked in, looked around and noticed all the pictures around me were of females mostly naked. I thought ‘okay no biggie.’ I took a few test shots and was handed a list of 10 main contacts. It went from there. I started with magazine shoots, solo modeling gigs, which later progressed to Girl-Girl Sex Movies : ) Years later, here we are.
2. If you weren’t in the adult industry, what would you be doing?
Working with animals or a photographer. I love them both more than life and both are huge inspirations and passions to me. Truth is, after I graduated from college, my plan was to become a Fish & Game Warden for California. : ) Imagine that. Me with a gun, sort of.
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It’s a damn shame that Penny Flame is quitting the business, because this girl is awesome. Not only is she a fabulous porn star, she rocks the sex educator stage like the best of them. Her engaging approach to making instructional porn takes the genre to a new height, where it’s not just about giving people info on how-to, the movie actually creates a safe and comfortable environment for folks to test their boundaries. Plus Flame keeps it sexy and fun enough to bring into the bedroom to help with those “interactive demos.”
I really like that Penny repeatedly goes over the places not to hit. She reinforces how important it is to be careful and know your shit before jumping into rough play. Being able to see the back end of what could be perceived as something violent really helps give me perspective into consensual kink play and how hot it can be.
When it comes to my favorite part of the movie, I can’t decide if I like scene 3 or scene 4 best. Both scenes are chock full of discussion about the rough play they showcase, as well as super hot hardcore that totally makes me want to take notes to bring back to my own bedroom. Oh, and be sure to check out scene one, where Penny talks about all the important ins and outs of safe and sex rough housing.
If you are looking for ways to incorporate kink, or just wanna watch super sexy people get rough, be sure to check this out.
-J.D. Bauchery
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Happy Hump Day! Lots of links to give lovin’ to, so let’s get it goin’!
- What would happen of sex blogger Violet Blue welcomed April Flores, Kimberly Kane, Courtney Trouble, Pepper, Jiz Lee, Syd Blakovich and Carlos Batt into her living room for an evening of debauchery? The most amazing hotness ever captured on film, obviously. Just look at the picture posted above! Last Friday Violet Blue did just that when the aforementioned folks’ porn shooting locale fell through. She should get some sort of sexy commendation for helping get those people all naked in the same room. I CAN NOT WAIT to see!
- Speaking of sexy, check out the world’s first steampunk vibrator! Ani Now, an engineering student with a minor in human sexuality, merged her interests to create this compressed air run metal vibe that is the epitome of functional art. For all you San Francisco people, the vibe is on display at Madison Young’s Femina Potens art gallery. (via The Frisky)
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They tried to make her go to rehab… and she said no, no n… well ok, as long as it’s televised.
Porn’s sweetheart Penny Flame is joining the ranks of the celeb-realitized (that’s celebrity reality show go-ers, for all you not in the know) and heading over to VH1 Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew for her sex addiction. Who’s to say if Flame is actually a sex addict or not, but it should be a pretty interesting show. The rest of this installment’s cast includes former Playmate Nicole Narain (of Colin Farrell sex tape fame), former Miss United States Teen/Playboy model Kari Ann Peniche, gay film director Duncan Roy, Playboy covergirl Amber Smith and pornstar Kendra Jade.
As a side note, what is diagnosed as sex addiction is a pretty controversial topic among sex folks. Libidos vary so much that one person’s normal might be having sex ten times a week and another person’s normal is having sex ten times a year – and neither is wrong or bad. Wanting sex/to get off a lot only becomes an issue if is problematic to the person or if the search for it/need for it is overwhelmingly taking over a person’s day to day functions, as with alcoholics and drug addicts.
All that said, my hopes for the show are that they treat porn fairly and that they don’t change Penny too much… I mean really, we don’t want her to quit her day job!
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xoxo
-J.D. Bauchery
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It never even crossed my mind to join a sorority when I got to college. I was more of an anti-mainstream, feminist dyke and the perky smiles and Greek letter screen printed on the bottoms of their sweatpants did little to interest me. Had I know that this was even a possibility, you’d have seen this tattooed lezzie rushing those groups faster than you can say Phi Sigma Suck My Clit!
From the very beginning, the movie is really great. Both Penny Flame and Bobbi Starr have curvy bodies that fit together so well. Holy bootylicious butt Miss Flame! I love the natural light and airiness of having lots of windows/open balcony door in the room and if watching Starr’s clit rub against Penny’s leg makes me hot, then those ladies definitely need that extra breeze! But while I really enjoyed this scene, my favorite part of the video is scene three, with Sasha Grey and Penny Flame.
They start off super cute and giggly, hanging out on a big white, fluffy bed watching Cops (so random, I know). Soon they are all over each other, tangled up in each other’s bodies and getting busy up and down the bed. There is just something about the Grey/Flame duo that makes them impossible to resist watching. They are both so sexy and flirty with each other in a way that seems as though they are actually really excited to fuck. And really, what else is better than that? Two thumbs up for Campus Life in the sorority. Where do I sign up?
-J.D. Bauchery
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Intercourse and handjobs are like chocolate ice cream and strawberry ice cream – they are both equally tasty and fun, and you don’t have to partake in just one, or both. In fact, you can have two scoops, or just a lick of each. Sex is the same way. While it’s become the norm to think of sex as a linear event (ie. first base, then second base, third, and onward to the home run), in reality, there is no right or wrong way to fuck. And just because handjobs are foreplay to some folks, it doesn’t mean a good handjob can’t take you all the way home and beyond.
To get my point across loud and clear, I am putting a moratorium on the idea of foreplay. I am of the firm belief that anything that traditionally comes before intercourse is perfectly capable of standing on its own. And though we may play that way and then go to intercourse, there should be no prescribed agenda or script to follow. In honor of giving the big F.U. to anyone telling anyone else how to have sex, I am offering up a two-part Sex Tips that deal directly with our five fingered friends, our hands!
First up I’m giving the guys some love… well, them and the sexy strapped on gals. I’m talkin’ bout man-handling the manbits, stroking the sausage, wankin’ the weiner – basically how to give the best of the best handjob around. Next week you guys get a little lady bit lovin’!
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A few months ago I saw a couple of behind the scenes shots from Roller Dollz while it was still in production and I was totally smitten. Not only do I love me some naked ladies, I have a special place in my heart for roller derby, as I was once a derby girl myself. So mixing derby and sex – what’s not to love really? And even better, top notch studios Adam & Eve Pictures and Zero Tolerance teamed up to bring us the hottest of the hot chicks to star as hot and horny women of the roller rink! Not only does this flick feature porno powerhouses like Bree Olson, Courtney Cummz, Kayden Kross and Sunny Lane, it includes a few of my personal favorites like Penny Flame and Alektra Blue. Talk about a star line up! And while those first pictures made me swoon, they’ve got nothing on the actual movie!
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