Like the Velveteen Rabbit (and not even a vibrator version), we began to feel real again this week after an extended shooting slowdown in the porn industry.

Here, then, is a whole new batch of Popshots that reveal our nation's porn stars not as the vaselined lenses of moustache-chewing corporate jizz-coaxers see them but as they really are, leading off with new Hustler girl Nikki Nine. See more friends (and friends-to-be) after the gap. - GP

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Performing with Nikki Nine in her second movie ever was our pal James Deen, seen here literally chewing the scenery. Hustler production designer Kenny DeMartinez crafted a squalid pied-a-terre at Hustler's studios in Canoga Park for "Educating Nikki".

Speaking of contract stars, Digital Playground's Shay J (formerly Hunni B'laze) was impressed with all 17 inches of our PowerBook. Digital Playground is an all Mac shop (except for Accounting).

Here's "O" star Tommy Gunn lighting a cigarillo with a Saturday Night Special lighter. Leave it to a porn dude to be all vertically integrated.

Finally, the feline Amber Rayne gets ready for her closeup ("Actually, it's a double-penetration," she said sweetly).

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

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