Sasha Grey Goes Naked For PETA
Sasha Grey – PETAAdult film/budding Hollywood actress Sasha Grey has jumped on the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) train, lending her name and body to a new campaign promoting “To much sex can be a bad thing.” Watch a video on the photo session after the jump.
The latest idea from the animal group is to bring awareness to the level of animals dumped and subsequently destroyed (about 6 million annually in the US alone) and asks people to have their pets sprayed or neutered.
“I think spaying and neutering is incredibly important,” the star of Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience says, “[I]t keeps the animals out of the shelters, and there’s too many unwanted animals out there already.”
Carnival Burlesque January 20th 2010 in CHICAGO
Lady Jack is back for the third installment of Carnival Burlesque at Debonair Social Club’s weekly series….
With only ONE show that night – Midnight – you’ll be seeing the best of all performances with two sensational neo-burlesque striptease numbers by Donna Touch and Lady Jack….as well as the incredible bellydance of Jolie and amazing hooping artistry of Dizzy Lizzy. Also part of the fun is host Cameron Esposito….one of Chicago’s best comedians.
You can’t catch this blend of seduction and skill anywhere else, and we can’t wait to see you in the crowd.
The show is free and there is a private reception to boot if you rsvp to this invite! The reception is from 10-11 and the show starts at Midnight.
21+ Can party with us and DJ Ryan Paradise
Carnival Burlesque
January 20th 2010
Debonair Social Club
1575 N Milwaukee Ave
Show at 12:00am, Private Reception from 10pm-11pm!
FREE!
Official Site: www.debonairsocialclub.com
Vaudezilla Presents Here We Come A-Tasseling: Bartop Burlesque Show
Free Burlesque Show – Chicago
This Thursday, Next Thursday, Every Thursday!
10:00pm (SHARP!) – No Cover Charge
Blue Bayou Bar & Grill
3734 N Southport Av, Chicago IL 60622
Make no mistake: when it comes to free burlesque in Chicago, no one can bring it better than Vaudezilla. So come on back to Wrigleyville and join us as we remind everyone why Blue Bayou is the hottest spot in the Windy City on a Thursday night.
As always, Dick Dijon hosts, as Vaudezilla’s best babes take the stage : Red Hot Annie, Donna Touch, Wham Bam Pam, Maria May I, and Barrett All. And each week, different performers around the city will join us for the festivities!
Enjoy some authentic New Orleans cuisine and some tasty $4 drink specials while our dancers entertain you promptly at 10:00pm.
The show is FREE and features 7-9 different performers from the roster every Thursday.
Fleur De Tease Rock and Roll Revue
The first Fleur de Tease show of 2010!
Come check out the Rock n Roll inspired Burlesque as it takes to the stage with magic, aerialists, and special guest Angela Eve!
Two great shows (8pm, 10pm)
General Admission is $15
Reserved Table Seating is $20
To reserve a table please contact info@fleurdetease.com or call 504-319-8917
When:
Sunday, January 10, 2010
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST
Where:
One Eyed Jacks
615 Toulouse Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
Tera Patrick, ‘Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn’; Fight with DP Put Her in a Mental Ward
from www.expressnightout.com “SINNER TAKES ALL,” the autobiography of Tera Patrick, begins harrowingly, with the popular porn actress recounting what she can remember, which isn’t much, of a psychotic break she suffered in 2004.
Dogged by pressures stemming from a costly lawsuit with the production company Digital Playground, Patrick went on a rampage, destroying her fiance’s Brooklyn loft in a violent fit and prompting him to subdue her with duct tape and drive her to the emergency room.
She was committed to the mental ward for two weeks, and her account of the experience makes for an auspicious beginning for a book about one of the most successful porn actresses of the 2000s. Patrick has built an empire that includes a production company, a lingerie line, an upcoming burlesque show, a Web site offering her own and others’ movies, and now an autobiography written with Carrie Borzillo (author of books on Nirvana and Green Day).
The main thrust (sorry) of “Sinner Takes All” is that Patrick has found the fulfillment and empowerment through porn that she was not afforded in other professional avenues. After a decade in the industry, she is one of the few porn actresses to find any sort of celebrity outside the backrooms of video stores and firewall-blocked Web sites. In fact, along with a few of Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses and recognizable names like Jenna Jamison and Sasha Grey — not to mention anyone who has had a sex tape — Patrick helped usher porn into the mainstream during the 2000s.
Just as Patrick decries all the “porn chicks” with daddy issues, she herself has her own baggage, which is only nominally addressed in the pages of “Sinner Takes All.” Born to an American father and a Thai mother, Patrick was an awkward girl, athletic but ostracized for her gangly frame and developing figure. Her father moved constantly and her mother was abusive, which she claims sent her on a reckless path: As she writes about her decision to do porn, “I wouldn’t know until years later, after some therapy, that what I was doing was filling the void left by parents who weren’t there for me.”
“Sinner Takes All” is candid, even if Patrick does not dig especially deep into her motivations. At 14 she began modeling and lived in Tokyo for two wild years, where she became addicted to Valium and alcohol and spent her paychecks on shopping sprees. She was, she admits, a “not-so-beautiful mess.” Returning to America, she settled down a bit, studied for her nursing degree, and worked for a few years toiling at a retirement community. A “normal” life at last seemed a possibility, but she hastily quit after a patient attacked her with a loaded bedpan. It may have been humiliating, but it’s one of the most humanizing passages in “Sinner Takes All.”
Patrick fell back on her modeling career, posing nude for a number of magazines and eventually starring in adult films. She is, she says, a “gonzo performer” — in it for the sex and not out of some aspiration toward mainstream acting. “Ladies,” she counsels, “porn is not, I repeat not, the gateway to Hollywood!”
Naive if not exactly innocent, she signed a shady contract with Digital Playground, effectively giving the company more of her earnings than she herself took home. But via a string of popular films as well as a job hosting “Night Calls 411 Live” on Playboy TV, Patrick rose through the ranks of porn actresses to become one of the most popular and profitable stars in the industry, despite being a functioning alcoholic with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
In the early 2000s, she met Evan Seinfeld, the vocalist-bassist for metal act Biohazard, who eventually became her manager, co-star and husband. Described by Patrick as the ultimate tattooed biker bad boy, he seems to have had a positive effect on her, getting her help when she needed and providing much-needed professional advice on her career and her image. He comes across as a saintly rogue in “Sinner Takes All,” but that image abruptly crumbles in the last chapter, when Patrick admits that she filed for divorce in September 2009.
That is the underlying tragedy that is conveyed — not explicitly, but implicitly — in this depressing book: Patrick comes across as an emotionally wounded and not unsympathetic women with a strong will but crippling insecurities. She looks to everyone around her for guidance, whether it’s a father, a husband or even a photographer, but each one seems to fail her in some crucial way. Ultimately, despite her success in the industry, porn is just a backdrop to this story of a woman trying to find some sense of balance and security.
Heidi Fleiss Should Be Ecstatic- Nevada Legalizes Male Prostitution
AZ w/ Fleiss in Las Vegas 2005
from www.gawker.com – The Nevada State Board of Health has made a change in brothel regulations that will allow men to be prostitutes—even for other dudes! Seems like some sort of twisted consolation for New York’s failed gay marriage bill, right?
Prostitution has been legal in Nevada since 1971, but places like the Shady Lady Ranch have only been allowed to offer up mares, because health regulations required all prostitutes to receive “cervical” tests for STDs. Since guys don’t have a cervix, they were essentially banned from being prostitutes. But, Shady Lady Ranch madam Bobbi Davis successfully petitioned the Nevada State Board of Health to allow men to receive urethral examinations instead. (She was aided, of course, by the ACLU.)
You would think the Nevada Brothel Owners Association would be ecstatic at the idea of tapping into the very large “people who like having sex with men” market. But, no: A spokesman for the brothel association—which, you will remember, makes money by selling sex—likened the changes to the brothel industry’s “Pearl Harbor” (Incidentally, “Brothel Pearl Harbor” is a film we would definitely pay $12 to see Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale in.) Reports the Las Vegas Sun:
“We’ve worked hard for years to make the traditional brothel business in this state socially acceptable and something we can be proud of that most Nevadans accept,” Flint added. “We have some concerns that this can be diluted by what Ms. Bobbi Davis wants to try.”
Flint went on to say that he’s proud of the industry’s track record in preventing the passage of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, between prostitutes and clients.
“Now we’re going to get into an areas that doesn’t enjoy the same track record that our industry has enjoyed,” he said.
This guy is trying so hard to find some high moral ground from which to look down upon the gays that you almost have to admire him.
But, anyway, congratulations, gays and ladies, on this historic civil rights advancement. Maybe now it will be easier to fuck away the pain of all the many other substantial inequalities you are still subjected to.