Speaker 1: The industry is in transition. Stephen Hirsch, Vivid Entertainment.
Speaker 2: My original aim was to make a bunch of money
Speaker 2: with these CD ROMs to start my mainstream company. It
Speaker 2: started out as paying a rent, but through the years
Speaker 2: I changed it to what I want to do. June Directed.
Speaker 3: I think I.
Speaker 4: Got to a point in my career when people got
Speaker 4: sick of me being positive about myself and my career,
Speaker 4: and they decided they wanted to try and find some
Speaker 4: dirt on me. The point when I started defending myself.
Speaker 4: I embraced it, and things are working out for me.
Speaker 4: I started doing a lot of mainstream things which brought attention,
Speaker 4: and I started to speak out on women's rights. I
Speaker 4: had to study and prepare myself on things to sound intellectual.
Speaker 4: Jenna Jamison.
Speaker 5: Video took porn out of the downtown theater and into
Speaker 5: your house. It made it more palatable, even though it
Speaker 5: brought the quality way way down. DVDs are making us
Speaker 5: more acceptable in society. Seeing a porno tape in a
Speaker 5: DVD box just gives it a better smell, a better
Speaker 5: sen Paul Thomas director.
Speaker 6: I want to have the chance to change and evolve
Speaker 6: and not be pigeonholed as an adult star and that's it.
Speaker 1: Heather Hunter performer.
Speaker 7: Because of the economy, we're now shooting in some much
Speaker 7: nicer places. Before it was I'll never have adult in
Speaker 7: my house. Now it's can you get someone out here
Speaker 7: to shoot? It's eighteen bedroom, sixteen car garage. Evanstone performer.
Speaker 3: Welcome to General World. Welcome back to General World. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Molly Lambert. This is episode eleven Pirates.
Speaker 2: I look at the porn business where Vegas and gambling
Speaker 2: was in the seventies. Vegas was still mob owned and
Speaker 2: they were making a transition between these small groups of
Speaker 2: people to corporate own. I feel the same exact thing
Speaker 2: is going to happen with adults.
Speaker 3: The early two thousands Internet promises democratization. The web is
Speaker 3: supposed to be a place where people can make stuff
Speaker 3: and share it. But the dark flip side is that
Speaker 3: online art starts being shared for free, scrubbed of credits
Speaker 3: for pornography, an art form that always struggled to be
Speaker 3: categorized as legitimate entertainment because of its status as underground
Speaker 3: and illicit. Online streaming will prove absolutely devastating in this
Speaker 3: next media format shift. As always, porn leads the way.
Speaker 3: While the Internet opens up avenues for self made porn
Speaker 3: entrepreneurs like Danny Ash, it also allows for adult content
Speaker 3: to be easily bootlegged and shared for free what are
Speaker 3: called tube sites. Will decimate the San Fernando Valley's porn
Speaker 3: studio system and the porn industry as a whole. The
Speaker 3: Internet opens pornography consumption up to its largest audience, yet,
Speaker 3: pulling in even those who would never be brave enough
Speaker 3: to buy a VHS or DVD. Streaming porn illegally and
Speaker 3: watching it privately, not on a television but a computer
Speaker 3: screen adds a yet another level of horny secrecy to
Speaker 3: the act of masturbation, and because most people are so
Speaker 3: reluctant to admit they even consume pornography at all, the
Speaker 3: moment that porn becomes easy to pirate online, DVD sales
Speaker 3: start dropping dramatically, and the entire adult film industry begins
Speaker 3: to collapse. In two thousand and five, a porn studio
Speaker 3: called Digital Playground releases a movie called Pirates, advertised as
Speaker 3: the biggest budget pornographic film of all time. Pirates is
Speaker 3: a swashbuckling sex comedy riffing off of Pirates of the
Speaker 3: Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney's two thousand
Speaker 3: and three blockbuster film based on a theme park ride,
Speaker 3: Digital Playgrounds Pirates has a total production budget of over
Speaker 3: a million dollars. It's shot on high definition digital video
Speaker 3: mastered in Dolby Surround sound, and features over three hundred
Speaker 3: CGI effect shots. These faring scenes are shot on a
Speaker 3: ship that's a replica of the original HMS bounty called
Speaker 3: the Bounty, built for MGM's nineteen sixty two film Mutiny
Speaker 3: on the Bounty. While the Bounty was built for filming,
Speaker 3: it's also a fully functional sailing ship that sailed from
Speaker 3: Nova Scotia to Tahiti. The Bounty was scheduled to be
Speaker 3: burned after Mutiny on the Bounty finished filming, but that
Speaker 3: film star Marlon Brando insisted that it be preserved. The
Speaker 3: Bounty was then turned into a tourist attraction and docked
Speaker 3: in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where Digital Playground director Ali June
Speaker 3: rents it to film the non sex scenes for Pirates.
Speaker 3: He tells the Bounty's owners that he and his film
Speaker 3: crew are just making a regular Pirate movie, never disclosing
Speaker 3: that it's a pornographic one.
Speaker 2: I had an Apple Quadra nine fifty and I managed
Speaker 2: to license a wicked title called De Barlow's Affair. I
Speaker 2: did ties it to three twenty two forty FOURMAT and
Speaker 2: added the menus. I had to fly up to San
Speaker 2: Francisco with a hard drive to a company that had
Speaker 2: a CD bar name.
Speaker 3: Digital Playground AKADP is founded in nineteen ninety three to
Speaker 3: sell adult CD rams by a twenty five year old
Speaker 3: who goes by one name June. Most of dp's initial
Speaker 3: business model is digitizing existing foreign content from other studios
Speaker 3: onto CD ROMs so that they can be viewed on
Speaker 3: a home computer screen. June is Ali June, an ambitious
Speaker 3: Iranian American UCLA Film School grad and aspiring director who
Speaker 3: idolizes directors like Federico Fellini, Jean Luke Gedard, and Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 3: June teams up with another UCLA Film grad who goes
Speaker 3: by Robbie d.
Speaker 8: At first, I didn't know anyone, but I lucked out
Speaker 8: by making two right phone calls. The first was the
Speaker 8: Jim South, who really hooked me up with my first girls.
Speaker 8: In those days world modeling would close for lunch and
Speaker 8: everyone would hang out at Hamburger Hamlet. So I cruised
Speaker 8: over there and made the connection right then and there.
Speaker 8: Robbie d cinematographer.
Speaker 3: June wants to direct Hollywood films, but as a no
Speaker 3: name director with a dream, it's much easier to break
Speaker 3: into directing porn. June and Robbie Dee assemble a tight
Speaker 3: knit film crew for Digital Playground, and they all do
Speaker 3: mixed martial arts together in their free time.
Speaker 8: Shooting sex is really like shooting sports, which is where
Speaker 8: I came from. It's about the way people move. How
Speaker 8: you learn to anticipate, improve communication, get the right chemistry going,
Speaker 8: be ready for anything. Often the best way to be
Speaker 8: a director is to get out of your own way,
Speaker 8: roll with it, trust your instincts. You can shoot the
Speaker 8: same girl in the same house and one day it's
Speaker 8: totally hot and the next day it's just plain not happening.
Speaker 8: You just learn to recognize and let it happen.
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety eight, Digital Playground become innovators of digital
Speaker 3: pornography when they release Virtual Sex, with a series that
Speaker 3: allows the user to point and click their way through
Speaker 3: sex scenes by selecting from menu choices like foreplay and strip.
Speaker 3: The viewer can choose from one of four sexual positions
Speaker 3: and decide whether the performer is innocent or dominant.
Speaker 2: It's the closest you'll ever get to having a sex
Speaker 2: with a girl without really having a sex with them.
Speaker 3: It's interactive in the sense that the user decides what
Speaker 3: they want to see next. In nineteen ninety nine, DP
Speaker 3: releases Virtual Sex with Jenna Jamison, which retails for thirty
Speaker 3: one dollars and becomes one of the best selling adult
Speaker 3: DVDs of all time. DVDs allow for films to be
Speaker 3: padded out with bonus features like behind the scenes footage
Speaker 3: of starlits on set, which some viewers prefer to the
Speaker 3: main content itself.
Speaker 9: I guess they just like seeing me going through what
Speaker 9: I actually went through. They like the real stuff.
Speaker 1: Mercedes performer.
Speaker 3: Point of view akapov porn is another best selling trend
Speaker 3: in the late nineties and early two thousands.
Speaker 2: When you're watching a regular porn movie, you're watching it
Speaker 2: in the third person. You're basically a warrior. This way,
Speaker 2: it's a first person experience. If the girl is in
Speaker 2: the missionary position, the camera is looking down at her
Speaker 2: as you would if you were actually there with her.
Speaker 2: You're the god of your bold at that moment.
Speaker 3: Virtual POV porn favors the illusion that the camera's point
Speaker 3: of view is the viewers and that the penis shown
Speaker 3: on screen is their own. While camcorder content sometimes has
Speaker 3: the director or male performer operating the camera, POV porn
Speaker 3: is meant to create an illusion that erases the existence
Speaker 3: of the male performer entirely so that the viewer can
Speaker 3: project into the scene.
Speaker 2: We already choot our girl against a black background for
Speaker 2: our interactive DVDs. That way, when we perfect hologram technology,
Speaker 2: we can cancel out the black background and bring this
Speaker 2: subject into three dimensional isspace.
Speaker 8: Men will love it.
Speaker 2: They'll sit in front of their giant TV turn off
Speaker 2: delights and the only thing lead will be the gear.
Speaker 3: This leads to a brief panic that virtual sex POV
Speaker 3: scenes will make male porn stars obsolete. This doesn't pan out,
Speaker 3: nor does June's two thousand and three promise of holographic
Speaker 3: porn stars. Digital Playground is at the forefront of new
Speaker 3: technology like super high definition digital video and DVDs. After
Speaker 3: Sony lost out by choosing not to sell adult content
Speaker 3: in the eighties dooming Beta Max. New physical media formats
Speaker 3: like Blu ray and HD DVD are determined not to
Speaker 3: make the same fatal mistake.
Speaker 2: I keep up with the technology trends every day as
Speaker 2: an artist. I know it's a tool. I don't get
Speaker 2: sentimental about one particular machine when another one might do
Speaker 2: the job. Vetter, you know, one of my happiest days
Speaker 2: was when I stopped shooting on film. I love the
Speaker 2: freedom of going digital.
Speaker 3: So when porn starts transitioning online, Digital Playground is already
Speaker 3: ahead of the curve. DP move into a studio and
Speaker 3: Van Nuys to make original content, take advantage of the
Speaker 3: porn industry's role as a testing ground for new tech
Speaker 3: and brand themselves as the porn studio of the digital future,
Speaker 3: the way that Vivid was the studio of the Via
Speaker 3: jess Age. In two thousand and four, DP shoots the
Speaker 3: first high definition porn film, Island Fever three, on location
Speaker 3: in Bora, Bora and Tahiti. The Digital Playground brand is
Speaker 3: high budget, escapist fantasy sex shot on high definition digital
Speaker 3: video cameras in exotic locations.
Speaker 2: The only difference between us and a Disney is the content.
Speaker 3: They also have digital playground contract girls like Jesse Jane,
Speaker 3: a p teit blonde bombshell born Cynthia Anne Howell in
Speaker 3: Fort Worth, Texas in nineteen eighty a cancer. She grew
Speaker 3: up in Oklahoma and graduated from her high school with honors.
Speaker 6: You have to treat it like a job. I'm a mom,
Speaker 6: I have a family. You know I bought a house.
Speaker 6: It's the way you pay your bills. Jesse Jane, performer.
Speaker 3: Horn stars, much like athletes, know that industry success can
Speaker 3: be fleeting, fickle, or stop cold due to physical injury.
Speaker 3: They aren't expecting marquee fame to last forever, but they
Speaker 3: want to make money for however long they can. Jesse
Speaker 3: Jane starts out doing local modeling for mall prom dress stores,
Speaker 3: gets a waitressing job at Hooters, and works her way
Speaker 3: up through the ranks to become regional training coordinator, then
Speaker 3: becomes a Hawaiian Tropic bikini model. By the two thousands,
Speaker 3: American media has semi normalized making porn as a legitimate
Speaker 3: job due to public advocacy by performers like Jenna Jamison.
Speaker 3: Twenty first century performers don't view doing porn as a
Speaker 3: death sentence or something that will prevent them from having
Speaker 3: a normal civilian life afterwards. Doing sex work isn't automatically
Speaker 3: stigmatized as a sign of mental illness or trauma induced
Speaker 3: hyper sexualization. It is simply one way to make a
Speaker 3: buck off of willing to pay simps, a practical solution
Speaker 3: to the larger problem of having to earn money to exist,
Speaker 3: and it's hard work.
Speaker 6: We get new girls all the time, and I don't
Speaker 6: feel anyone as my competition.
Speaker 3: Jesse Jane signs with Digital Playground in two thousand and
Speaker 3: two and becomes one of the last major contract girls
Speaker 3: to emerge from the Valley's porn studio system. She gets
Speaker 3: the traditional full marketing push that a baroque era porn
Speaker 3: studio like Digital Playground provides. In the cash heavy early
Speaker 3: two thousands. Like Jenna before her, Jesse Jane crosses over
Speaker 3: into mainstream Hollywood a little bit as a famous blonde
Speaker 3: porn star. She appears on Entourage playing herself, and has
Speaker 3: a cameo in Pod Philips Starsky and Hutch. She hosts
Speaker 3: a show for Playboy TV called Night Calls no relation
Speaker 3: to my former podcast Night Call for two thousands performers
Speaker 3: porn is no longer necessarily a lifelong vocation. Sometimes it
Speaker 3: is merely a day job. Some performers even get into
Speaker 3: porn in order to cultivate name recognition that they hope
Speaker 3: to use as a springboard to other kinds of work.
Speaker 10: I guess I was naive at the time. I thought
Speaker 10: since these movies featured women, and that since the women
Speaker 10: are on the box covers, that there'd be more women
Speaker 10: buying it or running things. But throughout the nineties, I'd
Speaker 10: say ninety percent of the people I met on business
Speaker 10: calls and at the conventions were men. Samantha Lewis Digital Playground.
Speaker 3: Ali June marries a woman named Samantha Lewis who works
Speaker 3: with him at Digital Playground. They divorce but continue to
Speaker 3: work together. June and Lewis understand that marketing is just
Speaker 3: as important as the content, and they are very ambitious
Speaker 3: about both.
Speaker 10: I was in real estate for eleven years, and I
Speaker 10: really had a misconception, as most people do, about what
Speaker 10: adult is. But since mainstream sales experience is what I
Speaker 10: came in with, that's when I applied to selling porn.
Speaker 3: Unknowingly, one of the last big adult film studios to
Speaker 3: ever produce full length adult films. Digital Playground leads the
Speaker 3: way into porn's baroque era. The budgets are bigger than
Speaker 3: they've ever been in the history of the industry. The
Speaker 3: films have wide instant reach online, and they're made to
Speaker 3: stand right alongside mainstream Hollywood's content. Digital Playground even has
Speaker 3: tent pole releases each year, the term for big movies
Speaker 3: in the studios lineup, whose profits are supposed to help
Speaker 3: prop up with smaller movies. And, like the name says,
Speaker 3: DP shoots exclusively on digital video cameras.
Speaker 8: I went through all the great Sony models along the way,
Speaker 8: the one thousands and two thousands, then jumped on board
Speaker 8: with the Cannon because of their sixteen millimeters glass options.
Speaker 8: Moved into varcams for a long time, back to Sony
Speaker 8: in the nine hundreds for a bit. Those nine hundreds
Speaker 8: are temperamental. I didn't like them so much.
Speaker 3: The Island Fever series is Digital Playground's first successful tent
Speaker 3: pole franchise. DP calls it high end gonzo shot by
Speaker 3: cinematographer Robbie d who they poached away from Vivid. By
Speaker 3: the time they make Pirates, Digital Playground is shooting on
Speaker 3: top of the line read four K cameras. Pirates is
Speaker 3: marketed as one of the most expensive and ambitious adult
Speaker 3: films ever made. It's the first adult film ever released
Speaker 3: on Blu ray and HD DBD. There's even a three
Speaker 3: disc special edition for seventy bucks Pirates and Standard Definition HD,
Speaker 3: and a special features disc with bloopers. Digital Playground sells
Speaker 3: half a million copies of the single disc version of
Speaker 3: Pirates at twenty five dollars a pop. There's even an
Speaker 3: R rated secre cut that's available to screen or rent
Speaker 3: from video stores. Copies of Pirates are sent out to
Speaker 3: college campuses with info on how to organize a screening
Speaker 3: for students. Dp's publicity blitz centers on their use of
Speaker 3: cutting edge digital video technology. The stars of Pirates, Jesse
Speaker 3: Jane and legendary woodman Evan Stone, say the movie is
Speaker 3: a rollicking adventure comedy film that just happens to have
Speaker 3: a little bit of hardcore acc in it.
Speaker 7: Take the sex out of this movie, and it's Walt Disney.
Speaker 3: There are reports of parents accidentally renting Pirates for their
Speaker 3: children at video stores, assuming it's a family movie about
Speaker 3: Pirates from the cover art, which is why it's sometimes
Speaker 3: also known as Pirates triple X. Pirates should be the
Speaker 3: cherry on top of porn's gradual acceptance in mainstream Hollywood
Speaker 3: as a legitimate form of filmmaking, and then come the
Speaker 3: other pirates. It's Jenna Jamison continues to promote her memoir
Speaker 3: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, a cautionary tale,
Speaker 3: in newspapers and on TV outlets across the globe. Porn,
Speaker 3: mind you, is not the cautionary part of the tale.
Speaker 3: It's the various creepy men who tried to manipulate and
Speaker 3: control her in her personal life. The porn industry is
Speaker 3: where Jenna actually received respect.
Speaker 4: I thought it was important for people to know they're
Speaker 4: real me.
Speaker 3: While the portrayal of porn in the media has improved
Speaker 3: dramatically since the seventies, eighties, and nineties, even in two
Speaker 3: thousand and four, interviewers on outlets like Fox News are
Speaker 3: still trying to bait Jenna into saying the porn industry
Speaker 3: is a bad place and that she's only in porn
Speaker 3: because she experienced sexual trauma. Jenna refuses to take the
Speaker 3: bait and diplomatically states that she's had good experiences and born,
Speaker 3: and she could have endured the exact same traumas and
Speaker 3: just as easily ended up in another field like newscasting.
Speaker 3: There are women who've experienced sexual trauma in every industry
Speaker 3: because such a high percentage of women do. When General
Speaker 3: World returns, Roccos Safreddi retires, Oh my god, welcome back
Speaker 3: to General World.
Speaker 11: My children are growing up and I can no longer
Speaker 11: just say dad is going to work to make money
Speaker 11: for the family. They want to know more.
Speaker 2: Raccos Safredde performer.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and four, Rocos Safreddi announces at an
Speaker 3: industry convention in Paris that he is retiring from performing.
Speaker 3: While porn has made him rich and famous, having so
Speaker 3: much sex on camera has caused him to struggle with
Speaker 3: sex addiction in his personal life and neglect his home life.
Speaker 3: While he plans to continue directing and producing, he no
Speaker 3: longer wants to have sex on screen. By the early
Speaker 3: two thousands, Vivid Entertainment Group is still the biggest porn
Speaker 3: studio in the valley, making one hundred million dollars a
Speaker 3: year in DVD sales. Porn studios are releasing seven thousand
Speaker 3: new pornographic films each year sex, toupling the number of
Speaker 3: new releases from the early nineties, but DVD sales and
Speaker 3: rental numbers are suddenly starting to drop by as much
Speaker 3: as fifteen percent. Could it be because the market is
Speaker 3: so oversaturated now that there is simply too much porn
Speaker 3: for even an eager customer with expendable income to consume,
Speaker 3: or is it something else? In two thousand and four,
Speaker 3: a sex tape is released starring celebrity heiress Paris Hilton,
Speaker 3: titled One Night in Paris. Against her wishes, Paris Hilton's
Speaker 3: ex boyfriend Rick Solomon sells the sex tape, filmed in
Speaker 3: two thousand and one to a Chatsworth adult film distribution
Speaker 3: company called red Light District. Video. One Night in Paris
Speaker 3: opens with the dedication, in memory of nine to eleven
Speaker 3: two thousand and one, we will never forget One Night
Speaker 3: in Paris is horrible and not sexy at all. It's
Speaker 3: actually so depressing. In the past, celebrity sex tape scandal
Speaker 3: is usually involved men who were exposed filming with underage
Speaker 3: girls like eighty star name redacted, or urinating on underage
Speaker 3: girls or getting oral sex from groupies while saying it's
Speaker 3: good to be King to the camera like Scott Staff
Speaker 3: from Creed, allegedly in a video of him and Kid
Speaker 3: Rock getting head from fans on a tour bus and
Speaker 3: a preview for a tape that was blocked from release
Speaker 3: by Kid Rock. Paris successfully sues Rick Solomon for release
Speaker 3: One Night in Paris.
Speaker 9: I never received a dime for the video. It's just
Speaker 9: dirty money and he should give it all to some
Speaker 9: charity for the sexually abused or something. To be honest,
Speaker 9: I don't even think about it anymore. Paris Hilton Airis.
Speaker 3: One Night in Paris wins top selling and renting title
Speaker 3: at the two thousand and five Avian Awards, which features
Speaker 3: musical guests smash Mouth, Lit and Chingy. Not since Jamie
Speaker 3: Gillis Made on the Prowl has a pornographic movie created
Speaker 3: such a seismic shock through the adult film industry. Porn
Speaker 3: is no longer just the domain of professional performers. Anyone
Speaker 3: on earth can be a porn star now, and a
Speaker 3: famous civilian's depressing, perloined sex tape can outsell even the
Speaker 3: most famous porn stars. One Night in Paris causes a
Speaker 3: brief two thousands vogue for boutique sex tapes from D
Speaker 3: list celebrities, culminating in the two thousand and seven ray
Speaker 3: j and Kim Kardashian sex tape Kim Kardashian Superstar. While
Speaker 3: Kim threatened legal action against Vivid for releasing the tape,
Speaker 3: there are some people, including ray Ja, who claim it
Speaker 3: was allegedly her mamager Chris Jenner's idea to release a
Speaker 3: KIMK sex tape to the public, allegedly inspired by how
Speaker 3: One Night in Paris made Paris Hilton into a household name,
Speaker 3: even if it was as a punchline. Jenna herself says
Speaker 3: she was neighbors with the Kardashians in La at some point,
Speaker 3: and they all knew each other. The Kim K sex
Speaker 3: tape helped met Kim Kardashian and her family a two
Speaker 3: thousand and seven reality show on the E Entertainment Network,
Speaker 3: the same channel Regenna did red Carpet interviews. The reality
Speaker 3: show is built around Kim's new notoriety and invokes her
Speaker 3: deceased father, Robert Kardashian's brief national fame as one of
Speaker 3: Oj Simpson's friends and defense attorneys. Kim drops her suit
Speaker 3: against Vivid and settles for five million. She also poses
Speaker 3: for Playboy at her mother's urging. Kim Kardashian has taken
Speaker 3: the Jenna Jamison model of fame and reduced it down
Speaker 3: to one mediocre filmed sex scene that will launch her
Speaker 3: career doing whatever it is that she does. The marketing
Speaker 3: of oneself that porn stars have always done is becoming
Speaker 3: something civilians do now too, in the new world of
Speaker 3: social media. In the same way that the first parasocial
Speaker 3: porn stars offered a way you could follow along with
Speaker 3: their real lives from home, now civilians can also create
Speaker 3: and cultivate parasocial relationships with their followers. Internet stardom morphs
Speaker 3: into a new future, defining paradigm the influencer digital playgrounds.
Speaker 3: Pirates sweeps the two thousand and six Adult Video News Awards.
Speaker 3: It sets a new record, winning eleven AVN trophies, including
Speaker 3: June for Best Director, Jeanine Linda Mulder for Best Actress,
Speaker 3: and Jesse Jane for Best All Girl Sex Scene, and
Speaker 3: newly created awards for Best HD Video and Best Online
Speaker 3: Marketing Campaign.
Speaker 7: I never sought porn, It found me.
Speaker 3: Evanstone wins Best Actor for Pirates, part of a string
Speaker 3: of two thousand's Best Actor wins for Stone. Born Thomas
Speaker 3: Ryan on July eighteenth, a cancer, his parents divorced and
Speaker 3: he's raised by his mother and firefighter stepfather in Texas.
Speaker 3: He plays defensive linemen for a Division I college football
Speaker 3: team in Michigan, but gets sidelined by an injury. He
Speaker 3: joins the ROTC. After college, he works various jobs as
Speaker 3: a mechanic at a gas station, slaughtering cows on the
Speaker 3: kill floor at a meat slaughterhouse, operating a pepsi co forklift,
Speaker 3: and performing in local dinner theater.
Speaker 7: I worked at Medieval Times when I was in Dallas,
Speaker 7: writing and illusion stallions. It's just the best job ever.
Speaker 3: Evanstone becomes an exotic dancer for the next decade and
Speaker 3: gets into shooting porn in nineteen ninety seven. He doesn't
Speaker 3: get an agent after finding he can book his own work.
Speaker 3: To book work in the industry, you have to go
Speaker 3: to industry parties and network face to face, which he
Speaker 3: excels at. He does all the other stuff an agency
Speaker 3: might do for a performer, like booking his own HIV tests.
Speaker 3: Pirates even gets written up in The New York Times,
Speaker 3: which mentions its dominance of the twenty third annual Avian Awards.
Speaker 3: That year, a performer slash screenwriter from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Speaker 3: who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels au Pisces
Speaker 3: wins Best Original Screenplay for Camp Cudley Pine's Power Tool Massacre.
Speaker 3: She calls for more innovation in porn screenwriting.
Speaker 6: There's nothing worse when the pizza boy rings the doorbell,
Speaker 6: the girl's says she doesn't have a.
Speaker 5: Tip, and then they get it on.
Speaker 3: Storry Daniels, per former. In two thousand and five, a
Speaker 3: content production company in Montreal called Browsers is launched by
Speaker 3: a team of four computer engineers who meet while playing
Speaker 3: in a competitive foosball league, Stefan manos Uisam, Yusef Barris
Speaker 3: Santune and Matt Keezer. Several of the Browsers programmers have
Speaker 3: Middle Eastern heritage, and Browsers is meant to sound like
Speaker 3: the way they pronounce brothers. Computer programmers have a few
Speaker 3: advantages over porn studios when it comes to getting lots
Speaker 3: of new content online as quickly as possible. The film
Speaker 3: studios have to bring on tech help, but the Browsers
Speaker 3: boys are their own tech guys. They excel at the
Speaker 3: stuff that's really important when it comes to gaming the Internet,
Speaker 3: like search engine optimization.
Speaker 12: By far the best in the world in my opinion.
Speaker 12: Who can get porn and sex to be number one?
Speaker 12: We're the number one result?
Speaker 13: You know how hard.
Speaker 12: That is farus ontoon Browsers.
Speaker 3: Browsers starts off making content in the really big fake
Speaker 3: tits category with high production values and good cameras. They
Speaker 3: start their own ad affiliate network called jug Cash. They
Speaker 3: quickly notice a clear trend in which type of content
Speaker 3: does best for them.
Speaker 12: They saw, Wow, that tit niche is huge. Then they
Speaker 12: realized that the milf niche, oh, the older woman niche
Speaker 12: is even bigger, and they became the masters of the
Speaker 12: big tit milf niche.
Speaker 3: So they pivot the brand to target their milf hungry audience.
Speaker 3: They expand Browser's portfolio with new websites like doctor Adventures,
Speaker 3: teens like Big in Gang Wee Bang, and jugfuckers dot Com.
Speaker 3: They start a second content imprint called mofos. The Browsers
Speaker 3: boys buy houses in Montreal's Laval suburbs with their earnings.
Speaker 3: Within a couple of years, Browser's employee count jumps from
Speaker 3: forty to two fifty as profits for the new tube
Speaker 3: content side skyrocket. The money starts leaking out of traditional
Speaker 3: porn studios. The sudden hyper availability of short porn clips
Speaker 3: online is destroying the studio model built around scarcity and
Speaker 3: slow release of content.
Speaker 9: Do you honestly think that your average guy watching a
Speaker 9: five minute porn or several of them won't be able
Speaker 9: to get off? Of course he will, and once he
Speaker 9: shot his load all over his keyboard after watching my
Speaker 9: free five minute video, he certainly isn't going to be
Speaker 9: pulling out a credit card to join my site allie
Speaker 9: Chase dot com.
Speaker 3: People in the rapidly collapsing porn business are desperately sniffing
Speaker 3: out whatever remaining niches haven't already been colonized and consumed
Speaker 3: by adult tech company interlopers.
Speaker 8: Honestly, the gay sites where all the money is there
Speaker 8: might be thirty straight guys who could make a living
Speaker 8: at it. But if you're willing to get fucked in
Speaker 8: the ass, I can get you five grand right now.
Speaker 8: Mark grandeesa First Amendment lawyer.
Speaker 4: I had major self esteem problems. I was always trying
Speaker 4: to outdo myself. I felt like I had to proved
Speaker 4: myself constantly because I felt alone, lonely, and I wanted
Speaker 4: everyone to love me.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Jenna Jamison is still promoting her multimedia brand on
Speaker 3: as many platforms as possible. Jenna pioneered the burgeoning reality
Speaker 3: start a model with her crossover pornstardom and now wants
Speaker 3: to get in on the reality TV boom. In two
Speaker 3: thousand and five, Jenna hosts a Playboy pay per view
Speaker 3: reality TV competition game show called Jenna's American Sex Star,
Speaker 3: where she and a panel of porn industry professionals judge
Speaker 3: the next generation of Jenna wannabees. She also goes on
Speaker 3: a Swedish version of a reality show called Paradise Island,
Speaker 3: where she has paired up with a Swedish glamour model
Speaker 3: named Sophia Helkvist and they make out on TV. The
Speaker 3: whole porn industry is trying to cash in on reality TV.
Speaker 3: There's a Playboy TV show about vivid entertainment called Vivid Valley,
Speaker 3: which features Vivid girls and a performer named Adam Glasser
Speaker 3: who uses the stage name Seymour. Butts has a docuseries
Speaker 3: called Family Business on Showtime. Jenna's autobiography ends in two
Speaker 3: thousand and three with her marrying Jay Gerdina and moving
Speaker 3: into their Scottsdale house to live happily ever after. In
Speaker 3: the press, Jenna repeatedly states her intent to have children
Speaker 3: and retire from performing so that she can be a
Speaker 3: full time stay at home mom who just happens to
Speaker 3: also own a multimillion dollar adult film production company.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to live someplace where the people were
Speaker 4: really nice.
Speaker 3: Jenna has a beautiful home, a loving, devoted husband who
Speaker 3: isn't threatened by her success, and access to the fancy
Speaker 3: material things she craved growing up in poverty, all earned
Speaker 3: herself with the profits from Club Jenna. But back at
Speaker 3: home in their two million dollar Arizona mansion, Jenna and
Speaker 3: Jay's attempts to get pregnant aren't going as planned, so
Speaker 3: for now it's just her and Jay in their six
Speaker 3: seven hundred square foot Spanish style house. While Jenna always
Speaker 3: believed that she just wanted to settle down with a
Speaker 3: nice man in a white picket fence, she finds her quiet,
Speaker 3: calm new life to be something else boring. She thought
Speaker 3: she'd spending this era of her life pregnant and then
Speaker 3: as a doting mother, but instead she's stuck in limbo
Speaker 3: waiting to retire from porn. For Jenna, whose life up
Speaker 3: until right now has been a series of very high
Speaker 3: highs and low lows, she is unmoored by suburban regularity.
Speaker 3: What she thought would feel peaceful feels unexciting. She finally
Speaker 3: does get pregnant and tragically miscarries. Jenna has always relied
Speaker 3: on being able to leave town when she feels trapped.
Speaker 3: It is a tradition her father, Larry passed on to her.
Speaker 3: With the Massoli family's constant sudden moves, being able to
Speaker 3: bolt at a moment's notice is key to Jenna's sense
Speaker 3: of freedom. She has a lot of free time in
Speaker 3: the Scottsdale House that she thought would be spent raising
Speaker 3: her new babies in domestic bliss. Instead, she spends it online.
Speaker 3: Jenna starts hanging out on the social networking website MySpace.
Speaker 3: On MySpace, Jenna can take her brand even further, interacting
Speaker 3: personally with fans in the comments. Online, she can post
Speaker 3: personal updates on a day to day basis so fans
Speaker 3: can engage with her daily life. She posts no makeup
Speaker 3: selfies and candids of her real life. That further help
Speaker 3: fans understand that Jenna Jamison is not just a fantasy
Speaker 3: woman they jerk off to. She's also a fun, goofy,
Speaker 3: normal broad irl. The Internet allows users to feel artificially
Speaker 3: close to almost anyone. Parasocial connection is no longer limited
Speaker 3: to actors and rock stars. There's a whole new form
Speaker 3: of flirtation that will come to dominate the twenty first century.
Speaker 3: Direct messages. The DM slide is much lower risk than
Speaker 3: hitting on someone in real life. It's much easier to do,
Speaker 3: and the clandestineaed sure of the online space lends itself
Speaker 3: amazingly to an ancient clandestine practice infidelity. Instead of being
Speaker 3: limited to whatever affair partners one might find in meat
Speaker 3: spaces like work or bars, you can now check out
Speaker 3: every potential sexual partner on earth at the world's hot
Speaker 3: new singles bar social Media. In two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: Jenna goes Brunette and sweeps the Avian Awards yet again,
Speaker 3: this time at the Venetian Hotel with her club Jenna
Speaker 3: Projects like Bella Loves Jenna, taking home seven trophies the
Speaker 3: same year that one night in Paris is the dark
Speaker 3: Horse Champ. Jenna and Jay Gardina win Best Couple Sex
Speaker 3: Scene for a scene in their film The Messus, and
Speaker 3: Jenna gives a gracious speech, This award is.
Speaker 4: So much better when you're having sex with somebody that
Speaker 4: you truly love. I'd like to thank my husband for
Speaker 4: being so incredible in the Sack.
Speaker 3: In October of two thousand and six, Jenna suddenly files
Speaker 3: for divorce from Jay Gardina and quickly starts dating a
Speaker 3: UFC fighter named Tito Ortiz, known as the bad Boy
Speaker 3: of Huntington Beach. Jenna and Tito allegedly meet on MySpace.
Speaker 3: I don't know the timeline specifics, but I do know
Speaker 3: that Jenna's husband, Jay Gardina, is pissed because he puts
Speaker 3: out his own statement on MySpace under his unfortunate screen name,
Speaker 3: So I married a porn.
Speaker 14: Star preach John Bitch blah blah blah. People don't like
Speaker 14: for amazing. It's funny how individuals always believe their own bullshit,
Speaker 14: or basically they're set of the story. As flamboyantly as
Speaker 14: they might want to tell it. People will convince themselves
Speaker 14: that the shit they spot out of their mounts is
Speaker 14: the truth and it justifies everything in their little ram
Speaker 14: of reality. This is a man slash woman's best justification
Speaker 14: of actions and feelings. I call it the denial zone.
Speaker 14: There are always three sides to the story and only
Speaker 14: one side of the truth. It's a funny theory, but
Speaker 14: it's a reality of life. People in general will always
Speaker 14: try to blame someone or something else for their own
Speaker 14: faults and adequacies and or weaknesses. This is a classic
Speaker 14: scenario in the best form of defiance. At some point
Speaker 14: in all of our lives, we have to face reality,
Speaker 14: and the majority of the time it's not fun, exciting,
Speaker 14: or something anyone wants to deal with. This is when
Speaker 14: the real people, the ones with integrity and honesty, step
Speaker 14: out from the pack. I recently read a blog from
Speaker 14: someone blaming their physical appearance on circumstances and situations, all
Speaker 14: of which are completely self perpetuated on a victim or
Speaker 14: stress and circumstances. At some point, you just have to
Speaker 14: be honest with yourself, as much as it might hurt
Speaker 14: to say I need help my life in what I'm
Speaker 14: doing is wrong, at which point you need to become
Speaker 14: proactive in the rectification of the situation. The saddest point
Speaker 14: of all of this is that most people have to
Speaker 14: hit rock bottom before they can realize this simple truth.
Speaker 14: This is heartbreaking to everybody that loves and supports that person.
Speaker 14: I always ask myself, why does it have to get
Speaker 14: to this for the people that love and try to help. Well,
Speaker 14: we have an inherent flaw that in most of us
Speaker 14: we want to help. We always want to come to
Speaker 14: the rescue, and the person in need has no control,
Speaker 14: abuses and consumes, consumes like a psychic vampire. These are
Speaker 14: just truths in life I like to pass on. If
Speaker 14: they fit in your scenario of life, then appreciate them.
Speaker 14: I will never use this form as a personal place
Speaker 14: to verbally slaughter people and or personas this is a
Speaker 14: place where I can rant and express my theory to
Speaker 14: life is something that I.
Speaker 7: Believe to be helpful.
Speaker 14: That's it. Take it for what it's worth. I'll do
Speaker 14: a blog later on what's happening in my life. The
Speaker 14: last four weeks have been sick that I will save
Speaker 14: for the next blog. Jay gerdenon directors.
Speaker 15: Boxing is like Checkers, Mma is like chest Tito Artios fighter.
Speaker 3: Jacob Christopher Tito Ortiz Unaquarius is born and raised in
Speaker 3: Huntington Beach in a Mexican American family. He is scouted
Speaker 3: into college wrestling at Golden West and transfers to cal
Speaker 3: State Bakersfield. Tito starts entering mixed martial arts competitions while
Speaker 3: still an undergraduate, and competes in his first UFC pay
Speaker 3: per view event at the age of twenty two. When
Speaker 3: Jenna meets Tito Ortiz, he is six foot three, two
Speaker 3: hundred and five pounds and the light heavyweight UFC champion,
Speaker 3: one of the first stars of the fast growing mixed
Speaker 3: martial arts sport.
Speaker 15: I've trained six days, actually six days a week. Five
Speaker 15: days a week. I'll train three days a week. One
Speaker 15: of those days I will train two days of the week,
Speaker 15: so six days a week I will be training.
Speaker 3: When Jenna World returns, Jenna does her biggest deal yet.
Speaker 3: Oh my Gosh, Welcome back to Jenna World. In two
Speaker 3: thousand and six, Jenna attends New York Fashion Week and
Speaker 3: walks the runway for Club Kid brand Heatherette. The show
Speaker 3: is attended by Jennifer Lopez, Debbie Harry, and Patty Hurst,
Speaker 3: whose daughter Lydia is walking in the show on MySpace.
Speaker 3: Jenna fights allegations by Jay Gardina and others that she
Speaker 3: has relapsed on substances and has an eating disorder.
Speaker 4: I feel like I need to address the weight rumors
Speaker 4: that have been swirling for a few months now. This
Speaker 4: saddens me only because everyone that is judging me has
Speaker 4: absolutely no idea what is happening.
Speaker 16: In my life.
Speaker 4: People are hateful and accuse me of being a drug
Speaker 4: addict or an anorexic. Does anyone seem to remember the
Speaker 4: fact that I am going through a nasty divorce. It
Speaker 4: has been weighing heavily on me.
Speaker 3: To get back at Jenna. Jay Gardina goes on a
Speaker 3: public date with Jenna's former friend Shanna Moechler, ex wife
Speaker 3: of Blnquin eighty two drummer Travis Barker. Jay and Shanna
Speaker 3: go to Mister Chow, a restaurant you might know from
Speaker 3: the Steely Dan Song glamour profession Michael Chow opened a
Speaker 3: location in Beverly Hills in nineteen seventy four and had
Speaker 3: regulars like Clint Eastwood, Eartha Kit and Jack Nicholson. In
Speaker 3: the two thousands. Mister Chow is still a place where
Speaker 3: Z listers arranged to be spotted by TMZ.
Speaker 4: Publicity Hungry. Just like always, he rears his ugly head
Speaker 4: only when it might mean a little press for him.
Speaker 4: He wants to be a star so bad and has
Speaker 4: ridden my coattails for years.
Speaker 17: I wish him luck.
Speaker 4: He wants it more than anyone I know. He gave
Speaker 4: everything up for it period. It's really too bad that
Speaker 4: he feels the need to bash me and not accept
Speaker 4: any blame for his hideous actions. But it will all
Speaker 4: come out in the end. The truths will set you free.
Speaker 7: Good luck.
Speaker 9: Jay.
Speaker 3: Jenna does her biggest deal yet, selling Club Jenna Incorporated
Speaker 3: to Playboy Enterprises for an undeclosed sum, taking historically softcore
Speaker 3: Playboy into the hardcore space. The same year Google purchases
Speaker 3: YouTube for one point sixty five billion dollars.
Speaker 6: As the best selling author, a personality whose name is
Speaker 6: among the most searched on the Internet, and the founder
Speaker 6: of a profitable business, Jenna is a uniquely successful talent.
Speaker 6: Club Jenna is a very attractive business which we believe
Speaker 6: will be both financially acritive and strategically complimentary as we
Speaker 6: continue to execute our multi platform strack. Christy Hefner, Chairman
Speaker 6: and CEO of Playboy Enterprises.
Speaker 3: Well Jenna, has been talking about leaving porn for a minute.
Speaker 3: Some think she's also clocking the way the wind is
Speaker 3: blowing for big budget studios like hers. She sells Club
Speaker 3: Jenna to Playboy at the perfect moment as the fault
Speaker 3: line underlying all of Porn Valley is beginning to crack
Speaker 3: wide open.
Speaker 2: The Internet, like TV, is a free and in order
Speaker 2: for you to create something to get a customers to
Speaker 2: buy your product, you have to have a really good
Speaker 2: product coupled with marketing.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and six, Jim South retires and shuts
Speaker 3: down World Modeling, Inc. One of the longest running and
Speaker 3: most prominent adult agencies in the Valley. It is a
Speaker 3: sign of to come.
Speaker 16: I've been working since i was thirteen, and I'm kind
Speaker 16: of a workaholic, so I don't know how long I
Speaker 16: could be gone. Jim South agent.
Speaker 3: The first major porn tube sites are uporn, red Tube
Speaker 3: and porno Tube. They can host videos up to thirty
Speaker 3: minutes long. Users rip old porn scenes and upload them,
Speaker 3: and the tubes hide behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Speaker 3: Safe Harbor provision, saying they can't be responsible for any
Speaker 3: stolen content that is user uploaded. The porn tube sites
Speaker 3: defend themselves by saying that YouTube's first wave of content
Speaker 3: also included copyrighted content uploaded for the first time. While
Speaker 3: the porn tube's programmers were most likely doing some of
Speaker 3: the ripping and gripping themselves of stuff from established studios,
Speaker 3: they totally deny it and claim to have no control.
Speaker 1: We've decided to take a stand and say no more.
Speaker 1: We will go after all the free sites.
Speaker 13: The defendant's business plan depends on the uploading, posting, display,
Speaker 13: and performance of copyrighted audio visual works belonging to Vivid
Speaker 13: in others Paul Cambria, Attorney.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and seven, Stephen Hirsch says Vivid Entertainment's
Speaker 3: online profits are down a projected fifty percent. In March,
Speaker 3: Viacom files a billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube over copyright infringements.
Speaker 3: That December in a California district court, Vivid goes forward
Speaker 3: with the first porn company lawsuit against a tube site,
Speaker 3: Vivid Entertainment Group Versus Pornotube and their parent company, Data Conversions, Inc.
Speaker 3: Who operate a video on demand company called AEBN Inc.
Speaker 3: Out of North Carolina. Vivid's lawyers have documented instances of
Speaker 3: porno Tube illegally posting thirty plus Vivid classics like Night
Speaker 3: Nurses and Where the Boys Aren't Seven. Vivid seeks one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages per pirated clip
Speaker 3: four point five million in total. Hirsch wants all of
Speaker 3: the Vivid content struck permanently. He does not want to
Speaker 3: make a deal where Vivid gets offered a split of
Speaker 3: the ad revenue from porno Tube, which is what viacommon
Speaker 3: YouTube eventually settle. On Tube sites also don't comply with
Speaker 3: US Federal Code two two five seven, which requires anyone
Speaker 3: making or hosting explicit sexual content to provide records that
Speaker 3: verify the ages and names of the performers, which is
Speaker 3: enforced very strongly because of what happened with Tracy Lord's Stephen.
Speaker 3: Hirsch also thinks the porn tube sites are going to
Speaker 3: fuck up the porn studio businesses legality because people might
Speaker 3: upload content with underage people in it and there's no
Speaker 3: content moderation structure in place to make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: Vivid spends enormous sums to copyright its content and to
Speaker 1: comply with the Child Protection and Obscenity enforcement AJAC verification process.
Speaker 1: Pornotube and AEBN have been getting away with a practice
Speaker 1: that unlawfully earns millions of dollars at our expense.
Speaker 11: What's happening in the industry is an unacceptable amount of theft.
Speaker 11: John b Vice president at Red Light District.
Speaker 3: Vivid's lawsuit also seeks a permanent injunction against data conversions
Speaker 3: that will force them to comply with copyright laws and
Speaker 3: requests a letter where they admit they purposely and knowingly
Speaker 3: infringed on Vivid's copyrights to build out a library of
Speaker 3: clips that would draw viewers. Vivid's lawyers say that the
Speaker 3: damages to the business go beyond the financial.
Speaker 13: This action against pornotube is groundbreaking. AEBN and Pornotube are
Speaker 13: not exempt from the responsibility to comply with two two
Speaker 13: five seven rules, and we will demonstrate in court that
Speaker 13: they are obtaining an unfair business advantage by violating this obligation.
Speaker 3: Invoking two two five seven is controversial because it's been
Speaker 3: declared unconstitutional by a Court of Appeals and porn studios
Speaker 3: generally hate it because it requires so much extra work
Speaker 3: and money for them to comply with it. Confusingly, Vivid's attorney,
Speaker 3: Paul Cambria is in the Free Speech Coalition who are
Speaker 3: responsible for the suit against two two five seven that
Speaker 3: got it declared unconstitutional. But in this case it's likened
Speaker 3: to using a sword against the pirates.
Speaker 13: Is it an inconsistent position? I don't believe it is.
Speaker 13: What's covered in the lawsuit is not what we're challenging
Speaker 13: in the FSC case. I still think two two five
Speaker 13: seven is unconstitutional, but until the court says that we're
Speaker 13: stuck with.
Speaker 18: It, frankly, this claim is fucking dangerous. Do we really
Speaker 18: want to have a situation wherein webmasters are suing each
Speaker 18: other right no, and left over unfair competition based on
Speaker 18: alleged violations of two two five seven. It will cause
Speaker 18: widespread dispute, tension, and internacy and conflict the likes of
Speaker 18: which the industry has never seen. Jd Obenberger, attorney at law.
Speaker 2: When people are seeing declining revenues and lost income, they think,
Speaker 2: how do they put the brakes on you?
Speaker 19: And lawsuits are one way to apply the brakes. Michael Faederossi, lawyer.
Speaker 11: If it scares them enough, if it can take away
Speaker 11: twenty percent of the illegal downloads. We'll be doing the
Speaker 11: best that we can.
Speaker 3: Stephen Hirsch, who helped to end porn's film era with
Speaker 3: Vivid Video, is becoming aware that a new wave of
Speaker 3: even more discreetly consumable technology has now arrived to sweep
Speaker 3: him away. While Vivid will move online, they will no
Speaker 3: longer be the industry leader. That designation will shift away
Speaker 3: from studios to tube sites. Apear to pear. Sharing started
Speaker 3: cutting into porn's profits by the early two thousands, when
Speaker 3: online streaming video became high enough quality to watch. The
Speaker 3: tubes are decimating the entire Porn Valley studio system and
Speaker 3: its ecosystem of jobs. After two transformative eras, the Hirsch
Speaker 3: family dynasty's reign as the Kings of Porn Valley will
Speaker 3: come to an end. After selling Club Jenna to Playboy,
Speaker 3: You'd think Jenna would be riding another career high, but
Speaker 3: tabloids like Page six run stories saying all is not
Speaker 3: well in Jena world. Jenna attends Exotica in Miami Beach,
Speaker 3: one of the big North American adult conventions where porn
Speaker 3: stars do booth signings for fans. According to Page six's
Speaker 3: anonymous inside source, Jenna shows up to Exotica rail thin
Speaker 3: after allegedly undergoing a botched vaginoplasty surgery. The source says
Speaker 3: Jenna is unprofessional at Exotica, showing up late to her
Speaker 3: contraction obligated events and leaving early when she sees rival
Speaker 3: porn star Tara Patrick has a longer line.
Speaker 17: When fans openly asked her about her bot surgery and
Speaker 17: why she was so thin, her people cut them off.
Speaker 17: But she shouldn't be standing in front of an old
Speaker 17: photo herself when she's about forty bound skinnier than she was,
Speaker 17: an honest source basics.
Speaker 3: And so, for the first time ever, Jenna turns down
Speaker 3: mainstream media opportunities. She wants less exposure. She doesn't want
Speaker 3: to talk about her divorce from Jay Gardina or answer
Speaker 3: invasive questions about surgeries and weight loss. She is stressed
Speaker 3: the fuck out. Her boyfriend, Tito or Tease, is also
Speaker 3: allegedly backing out of his own gigs. He blows off
Speaker 3: a UFC bout with Dana White, the CEO of UFC,
Speaker 3: pissing off UFC, Spike TV, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Speaker 3: The UFC rumor mill claims that Tito backed out under
Speaker 3: Jenna's influence after Jenna told him he's being underpaid for
Speaker 3: a series of promoted pay per view bouts that will
Speaker 3: make other people like Dana White rich. She's not wrong. Athletes,
Speaker 3: like porn stars, often have a small window of stardom
Speaker 3: that can get derailed by a random injury. Jenna's lawyer
Speaker 3: says it's all lies, and Jay Handy, the organizer of Exotica,
Speaker 3: also rebukes Page six's rumor mongering about Jenna.
Speaker 20: Jenna fulfilter contract and Jenna had a classic Jenna fanline,
Speaker 20: the biggest line, one that wrapped around the convention hole
Speaker 20: Jay Handy Exotica.
Speaker 3: But in April of two thousand and seven, the feud
Speaker 3: between Tara Patrick and Jenna goes public when Terra's company,
Speaker 3: Terra Vision sues Playboy. Tara Patrick is one of the
Speaker 3: porn stars who joined Club Jenna to have a personal
Speaker 3: porn star our website there, but when Jenna sells Club
Speaker 3: Jenna to Playboy, she also sells her entire portfolio of sites,
Speaker 3: including Ta patrickx Tera says Playboy and Club Jenna failed
Speaker 3: to pay her owed royalties. Let's take a little trip
Speaker 3: to terror World.
Speaker 21: I'm tall, I have real boobs, I'm Asian and I.
Speaker 1: Have dark hair.
Speaker 21: Ta Patrick performer.
Speaker 3: Ta Patrick is born Linda Anne Hopkins in nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: six in Great Falls, Montana, a leo and grows up
Speaker 3: in San Francisco. Like Jenna, Terra says she was a
Speaker 3: bookish nerd as a little kid who became obsessed with
Speaker 3: becoming a hot adult woman. A child of a Thai
Speaker 3: mother and an English Dutch Irish father, Tara is the
Speaker 3: brunette Veronica to Jenna's blonde Betty. Tara also grows up
Speaker 3: without her mother, who leaves their family when Tara is
Speaker 3: Tara says her mom was abusive and she was relieved
Speaker 3: when she left. Unlike Jenna's top cop dad, Tara's dad
Speaker 3: is that other Western male archetype, a hippie. He's a
Speaker 3: good dad who cares about his daughter and wants the
Speaker 3: best life for her, and like Jenna's dad, he also
Speaker 3: moves the family around a lot. Tara is five foot
Speaker 3: nine at adventurous. She takes classes at Barbizon modeling School.
Speaker 3: A photographer at Ashue applies her with valume and champagne
Speaker 3: and then sexually assaults her. She gets a modeling agent
Speaker 3: who sends her to Tokyo, where half Asian, half white
Speaker 3: American girls get heavily booked. Fourteen years old and on
Speaker 3: the loose in Tokyo, she gets hooked on alcohol, downers
Speaker 3: and compulsively spending her modeling money on new stuff. When
Speaker 3: her hippie dad finds out she's been having sex abroad,
Speaker 3: he complains to her agency and they send her back
Speaker 3: to the States.
Speaker 21: Sixteen years old and already a washed up.
Speaker 3: Tara gets her ged at age eighteen, flirts with going
Speaker 3: to nursing school, and ends up doing EMT training while
Speaker 3: working at a retirement home. When someone throws their full
Speaker 3: bedpan at her, she decides to return to modeling. In
Speaker 3: two thousand, she appears in both Playboy and Penthouse. She
Speaker 3: starts dating Evan Seinfeld, lead singer of the New York
Speaker 3: hardcore band Biohazard. Evan Seinfeld, his real name, is a
Speaker 3: second cousin of Jerry Seinfeld, which is funny because Jerry
Speaker 3: Seinfeld is the last person on Earth you would think
Speaker 3: would have any connection to a porn star because he
Speaker 3: so clearly hates messy bodily fluids. Like Jerry, Evan Seinfeld
Speaker 3: also has dreams of being on television. In nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 3: he's cast on HBO's hardcore prison drama Oz. Seinfeld plays
Speaker 3: the head of a biker gang who is a prison
Speaker 3: ally of a white supremacist gang, even though you can
Speaker 3: sometimes see his giant star of David tattoo. When Evan
Speaker 3: Seinfeld wedd's Tara Patrick. He also gets into porn, using
Speaker 3: the stage name Spider Jones. Ta signs as a contract
Speaker 3: girl with Digital Playground, then leaves DP to sign with Vivid.
Speaker 3: Digital Playground says they own the rights to the name
Speaker 3: Tara Patrick, which Tara disputes. As she tries to launch
Speaker 3: a radio show on station k SEX alongside porn luminaries
Speaker 3: like Ginger Linn and Lex Steel, Tera responds to stress
Speaker 3: with anger and self medicating. She trashes the New York
Speaker 3: loft she shares with Seinfeld. She has a psychotic break
Speaker 3: from the stress of the lawsuit and is committed to
Speaker 3: a two week stay at a mental ward where they
Speaker 3: diagnose her as bipolar.
Speaker 21: I treat the business like a business because I have
Speaker 21: a business mind. I really enjoy my work and my scenes,
Speaker 21: and I think that's part of the reason why I
Speaker 21: haven't gotten burned out since I do have a nursing
Speaker 21: career to fall back on. I'm really not forced to
Speaker 21: be in the business. I stay because I truly enjoy
Speaker 21: the work.
Speaker 3: Like Jenna, Tara Patrick is both porn star and business woman.
Speaker 3: But in the two thousands, as the Internet creeps into
Speaker 3: physical media revenues, pornstars need new ways to make money.
Speaker 3: It's not enough to just be an adult actress or
Speaker 3: even a hot girl with a website, because the market
Speaker 3: for hot women with websites is already starting to become oversaturated.
Speaker 3: The window for pornstardom is becoming smaller than ever as
Speaker 3: a constant influx of new performers and access to their
Speaker 3: content on the Internet prioritizes endless novelty. Starlets have to
Speaker 3: make as much as they can performing while setting up
Speaker 3: other forms of income for later on. So Tara Patrick
Speaker 3: also starts a lingerie line, a Tara Patrick branded burlesque show,
Speaker 3: and her own production company.
Speaker 21: You are not going to get into mainstreams through porn.
Speaker 21: It's just not how it works. I think girls like
Speaker 21: Jenna Jamison and I have crossed over and made it,
Speaker 21: but mainstream is still kind of shaky. Once you've been
Speaker 21: an adult.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and seven, Jenna attends the Life Ball,
Speaker 3: an age charity event in Vienna, Austria with the heather
Speaker 3: At designers and befriends' future real housewife, the socialite Tinsley Mortimer.
Speaker 3: Jenna finds another way to license her image that doesn't
Speaker 3: require her to do any work comic books.
Speaker 4: Working with comics is creatively liberating. Everything is possible. My
Speaker 4: character is sultry, sexy and kicks ass.
Speaker 3: Jenna will be drawn as a character named shadow Hunter
Speaker 3: for Imprint Virgin Comics. Despite their name, they don't put
Speaker 3: out erotic comic books like Cherry Popteart and Omaha The
Speaker 3: Cat Dancer. Shadow Hunter is a reg comic book about
Speaker 3: the heroine fighting demons for her soul. As Jenna tries
Speaker 3: to get some good press again, tabloids and TMZ are
Speaker 3: also terrorizing her fan Britney Spears for allegedly erratic behavior
Speaker 3: following an incident where she shaved her head and smashed
Speaker 3: a car with an umbrella in front of paparazzi. Their
Speaker 3: compassionate response to the mental health issues suffered by women
Speaker 3: in the spotlight is to shine the spotlight brighter, brighter,
Speaker 3: as if to say, well, you wanted to be famous,
Speaker 3: Now you don't get to turn it off. Twenty five
Speaker 3: year old Britney Spears is undergoing a painful divorce from
Speaker 3: Kevin Fetterline and a custody battle over their two young kids.
Speaker 3: During this time, ok Magazine decides to run a story
Speaker 3: outing Britney as allegedly bisexual by publishing invasive photos of
Speaker 3: her frolicking topless in a pool at the Standard Hotel
Speaker 3: in downtown LA with her female assistant. Okay Magazine quote sources,
Speaker 3: including Tara Patrick, to claim that Brittany is a quote
Speaker 3: recreational lesbian. US magazine runs different photos of Britney in
Speaker 3: the pool with a male model she met on a
Speaker 3: video shoot set and calls her an unfit mother, with
Speaker 3: the headline Topless, drunk and Lonely. Spears seduces a college
Speaker 3: student in a hotel pool as Kevin rushes to save
Speaker 3: his boys. Fetterline one custody and as we know now,
Speaker 3: many of these stories about Britney being crazy were planted
Speaker 3: by her fucking father, Jamie Spears, so he could shore
Speaker 3: up the conservatorship. Evil.
Speaker 16: Don't turn up your nose. This is creating jobs for people.
Speaker 16: A revenue stream, and though you may not personally approve,
Speaker 16: there's a huge market out there. Jack Kaiser, chief economist
Speaker 16: LA Economic Development Core.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and seven, the adult business's national yearly
Speaker 3: gross is twelve billion. The valley faction of the industry
Speaker 3: is racking in one billion dollars annually. The porn business
Speaker 3: has grown every year so far, employing six thousand people
Speaker 3: at two hundred valley porn production companies. But while the
Speaker 3: billions in profit and money maker contract girls are what
Speaker 3: get all the press, most people in the industry are
Speaker 3: middle class in below.
Speaker 20: Very few people make over one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 20: dollars in this industry. David James Vivid Video.
Speaker 3: An average porn film worker in two thousand and seven
Speaker 3: is making sixty one thousand dollars a year, even though
Speaker 3: the valley production companies at that time are still making
Speaker 3: more in sales than Playboy and Hustler combined. The profits
Speaker 3: from porn's billion dollar bonanza are going to a handful
Speaker 3: of people at the top cable companies, hotels that show
Speaker 3: adult movies, and guys like Vivid Entertainment's David James, who
Speaker 3: personally nets four point five million dollars of vivids one
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars in profit. And while porn has been
Speaker 3: based in the valley since the nineteen seventies, its foothold
Speaker 3: there is slipping. As porn moves online. There's not the
Speaker 3: same need for the major players to exist in one
Speaker 3: physical location.
Speaker 19: Is it a solid industry? Well, aerospace turned out not
Speaker 19: to be a solid industry. Porn is largely export. If
Speaker 19: some other countries start to specialize in it, it's possible
Speaker 19: they could leave the area. The anchor is the entertainment industry.
Speaker 19: Daniel Blake, San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center.
Speaker 3: Valley homeowners have long been trying to drive porn out
Speaker 3: of the valley, but the valley was built around another
Speaker 3: industry that has already long since deserted, it aeronautics. Porn
Speaker 3: leaving the valley will make at least six thousand local
Speaker 3: workers unemployed, and while some say good riddance, others point
Speaker 3: out the negative economic impact it would have on the area.
Speaker 14: Sex has been around from day one, airplanes haven't been.
Speaker 2: David Feldman pipe dream products.
Speaker 1: You take all those things into account, and that's why
Speaker 1: you see these little guys getting squeezed and it's going
Speaker 1: to get worse. I think there's a real struggle going
Speaker 1: on out there.
Speaker 22: Competitors were friendlier. In nineteen ninety one, all the owners
Speaker 22: could attend a meeting and agreed to try to agree.
Speaker 22: Now there's trepidation. Paul Fishbeine Adult Video.
Speaker 3: News in two thousand and seven, two Tube Side's debut
Speaker 3: that will destroy porn's studio system model and drive the
Speaker 3: adult industry out of the San Fernando Valley forever. A
Speaker 3: French website called x Videos and a Canadian one called
Speaker 3: porn Hub. Pornhub launches in May of two thousand and seven,
Speaker 3: a few months after the ten year old mail order
Speaker 3: DVD rental company Netflix launches a new streaming website. There's
Speaker 3: also more federal pushback on porn from conservative politicians. As
Speaker 3: part of a federal statute called the Adam Walsh Child
Speaker 3: Protection and Safety Act that President George W. Bush signs
Speaker 3: into law, the Department of Justice demands a list of
Speaker 3: everyone who works in porn, which they say will be
Speaker 3: used to make sure miners aren't working, but porn people
Speaker 3: believe will just be another route to legal harassment. It
Speaker 3: doesn't help that the statute is mainly a list of
Speaker 3: sex offenders and adult film people do not want to
Speaker 3: be lumped in with them or tracked. It's part of
Speaker 3: the newest conservative legal strategy against porn. What about the children?
Speaker 3: Since shutting things down through legal loopholes hadn't worked to
Speaker 3: kill porn, nor had moral invectives about mental decay, the
Speaker 3: right wing has a new old tactic fearmongering. They suggest
Speaker 3: that porn leads to child sex trafficking. This encourages a
Speaker 3: true crime, it could happen to you. Fear for suburban
Speaker 3: parents that their daughters will be kidnapped out of kmart
Speaker 3: parking lots if they are not vigilant. Like the home
Speaker 3: invasion fearmongering of the Reagan eighties, the trafficking panic posits
Speaker 3: that pornography poses a real threat to the suburban nuclear family,
Speaker 3: whiteness and girlhood. It minimizes actual trafficking, which mainly happens
Speaker 3: to impoverished women of color, in favor of a fantasy
Speaker 3: narrative about daughter snatching that plays into macho, vigilante fantasies.
Speaker 23: I just finished Janine Loves Jenna this year, and Jenna
Speaker 23: is amazing. I can see why she's the queen. She
Speaker 23: exudes so much. She's smart and sexual. She has the
Speaker 23: entire package. Janine Linda Mulder performer.
Speaker 3: One of the last club Jenna films is Janine Loves Jenna.
Speaker 3: In the movie, Jenna's character kills herself and is sent
Speaker 3: to the underworld, where she has to fuck her way
Speaker 3: back out. Jenna is still spawning new merchandising deals off
Speaker 3: the success of her book and brand. She and Heather
Speaker 3: at designer Richie Rich say they're going to open a
Speaker 3: bar slash boutique in New York's Chinatown in a former
Speaker 3: whorehouse called the General Store.
Speaker 4: I'm able to be a really freaky role model because
Speaker 4: every woman has a porn star in her every woman.
Speaker 4: I just choose to do it in the public eye.
Speaker 3: Jenna appears in a horror movie called Zombie Strippers as
Speaker 3: a stripper who quotes Frederick Nietzsche. In two thousand and eight,
Speaker 3: a new adult industry awards show launches called the Urban
Speaker 3: X Awards, which aims to course correct the racism of
Speaker 3: the adult video news awards. The first ever Urban X
Speaker 3: Awards are hosted in Studio City by Sean Michaels and
Speaker 3: Latina performer Olivia o'lovely. In two thousand and eight, Vivid
Speaker 3: Entertainment drops its suit against Porno Tube. Maybe Stephen Hirsch
Speaker 3: reads the writing on the wall. Tubes are the future
Speaker 3: of porn, just like Va Jess once was. If Vivid
Speaker 3: wants to stay in the business, they're going to have
Speaker 3: to figure out how to work with the tubes. But
Speaker 3: even while skies are darkening over the adult industry, Jenna
Speaker 3: finally realizes one of her longest held dreams. She gets
Speaker 3: pregnant with twins. She and Tito Ortiz will become the
Speaker 3: parents of two baby boys.
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what I'm going to say to
Speaker 4: my sons, but I do know that I want them
Speaker 4: to understand that their mother loves them. I don't worry
Speaker 4: about what people think. I worry about what my sons think.
Speaker 3: Next time, on Jenna World, Episode twelve, He'll Turn Jenna
Speaker 3: Jamison turns her back on the industry that made her
Speaker 3: a star, just as the entire adult business starts to collapse.
Speaker 3: Jenna World is an iHeartRadio production executive produced by Anna
Speaker 3: Hosnier and Becca Ramos, supervising, produced by Bei Wang, produced
Speaker 3: by Victor Wright, script editing by Jonathan Mills, engineered by
Speaker 3: Graham Gibson, and edited by Rory Gagan. Today's episode of
Speaker 3: Jenna World featured Bardia Salimi as Ali June, Noah Garfinkel
Speaker 3: as Stephen Hirsch, Laurence ser Video as Jenna Jamison, Jason
Speaker 3: Walliner as Paul Thomas, Sydney Battle as Heather Hunter, Evan
Speaker 3: Laffer as Evan Stone, Sam Wiles as Robbie d and
Speaker 3: Mark Randezza, April Clark as Mercedes, Anya Konoffskaya as Jesse Jane,
Speaker 3: and Christy Hefner, Charlotte Erculi as Samantha Lue, Max Silvestri
Speaker 3: as Roco Safreddi, Ali Robottom as Paris Hilton, and Allie Chase,
Speaker 3: Mary Russ as Stormy Daniels, Yasser Leicester as ferris A Tune,
Speaker 3: Colin Burgess as Jay Gerdina Felix Biederman as Tito Artiz,
Speaker 3: Grant Crater as Jim South and Jack Kaiser, Brian McPherson
Speaker 3: as Paul Cambria, Brad Evans as John b Alex Papadimus
Speaker 3: as j d Obenberger, Angel Carreras as Michael Fatateerossi Becca
Speaker 3: Ramos as anonymous source, Bridger Winneger as Jay Handy and
Speaker 3: David James bai Wang as Tara Patrick, Jason Sheridan as
Speaker 3: Daniel Blake, Scott Gardner as David Feldman, Dave Horwitz as
Speaker 3: Paul Fishbeine, and Lindsay Normington as Jeanine Linda Moulder.
Speaker 2: Oh my god,