Straight from the email of Eon McKai, a casting call for his latest project, "In Her Room." We'd tell you what it's all about, but, well—why not just hear it in Eon's words?

I'm looking for girls RIGHT NOW!
For a new project called "In Her Room"
Obviously this is a paying gig.
• There are no casting restrictions as far as experience, age, look, etc.
• This is a video shoot and should only take 2 or 3 hrs. Stills will also be taken during the production.
If you know my work and are interested, or you're just interested, hit me up.
Don't be intimidated by the whole hipster alt-porn thing. This is more a humanist thing so let's bring people together, not exclude them.
•You must be comfortable getting naked.
Or adorably awkward about it, which is kinda my preference.
• I'm in Los Angeles but I'm going to travel to one other city for a few day and shoot girls. Could be NYC? SF? PDX?
• Email me at Eon AT Eon McKai DOT com as soon as possible.
No need to send me n00dz or modeling photos.
Just send me a link to whatever online profles you keep up and we can go from there.
I want to know who you are first. Then we'll get you naked.
• As far as the concept, I'm expanding on the idea behind a video I did for Louis XIV years back. [Ed. See above.]

· Eon McKai (eonmckai.com)

Not only is she a Burning Angel starlet, but she's also done shows on the British erotic network, Television X, as well as a Playboy parody called "Gash in the Attic" (as in "Cash in the Attic," ha!). Her latest accomplishment is, of course, winning our hearts.

· Interview and pics at Holly D (bizarremag.com)

You may know Courtney as the founder of indie porn site NoFauxxx.com; she's also one of the fine minds behind Good Releasing's Reel Queer Productions. And now, her thoughts on how the adult industry has evolved through out the '00s.

At left: Courtney Trouble.

Adult entertainment in 2009 looks a whole lot different than it did in 1999. In your opinion, what's been the single biggest change this decade?
I'm young, so the past ten years of porn have really been all I've truly experienced, but I've got to say that in the past ten years, I have seen so many independent porn ventures rise and fall on the internet. A good few of them, including my site NoFauxxx.Com, have really succeeded in creating a long-term brand and legacy, while others came and go like night clubs. With this whole do-it-yourself dot.com take on pornography, I think many subcultures have been able to create, sell, and experience pornography, which I could be wrong but I don't think that was happening in the 80s or 90s. Porn has really moved away from something that lives, breaths, and does payroll in "Porn Valley" and become somethign that anybody can do, and making a living from, all over the world. I think the single biggest change has been not just the internet, but the internet's ability to let subcultures and independant pornographers reach worldwide audiences, making limitless room for creative pornography projects. The big companies can complain all they want about how the internet has killed their profits, but the plus side is that people like me have a chance to do our work and gain visibility.

At left: Baron, shot for NoFauxxx in 2002.

You launched NoFauxxx in 2002. What was the industry like back in those days? What motivated you to start your own site?
I dind't have much part in the "Industry" until much more recently. Back in 2002, I was 19, living in Olympia as a tiny Riot Grrrl nugget, and rebellious against not only mainstream porn but alt porn that wasn't inclusive of people of larger sizes, varied genders, or racially diverse. SG lived in Portland and was still considered the most empowering porn out there, and it still didn't feel like enough - and that was really the motivation behind starting the site. The term "Queer Porn" didn't exists what-so-ever, even though a few things like Ssspread.Com and SIR Productions were making what I would consider "queer porn" back in the day. But nobody called it that until No Fauxxx hit the scene. So, for me, I was creating images for fun, not realising that what I was doing was creating a genre for my work and others to follow.

At left: Tom and Huck, shot for NoFauxxx in 2003.

How has NoFauxxx changed over the years?
It started out as such a tiny site, with just me and a few of my brave friends from Olympia. I was a phone sex operator and was really obsessed with having a balance of "fantasy" and "reality" in my work, so No Fauxxx became an outlet for me to make erotic art that showed the "reality" of the sexuality in my community. The photos were DIY digital on a bulky Nikon CoolPix, couldn't get them much larger than 600 pixels, and didn't even own a light set, studio props, or a video camera. I shot people's "realness," asked them to be themselves, and shot in very natural, intimate places. The goal of realness is still a factor these days, but there's a lot more tools of the trade and high-concept storyline on my set these days. I still really love shooting someone masturbating with no makeup on, that will never change - but I've evolved to use better tools to get that done.

At left: Trouble, shot for NoFauxxx in 2004.

Has it become easier or harder to be an indie pornographer since the beginning of the decade?
In my case, easier. People have really caught on to the indie and queer porn movements, and I feel like investors/producers are more open to picking up DIY film makers to make porn for them because they've realise that, "Hey, these Porn Valley DVDs aren't selling like they used to, but this tiny little company's movies are flying off the shelves." I don't disrespect the work that L.A. performers and directors do, but I do think that the "market" is looking more now towards the kinds of porn that I make - indie, chemistry-driven, fun, creative... The generic stuff just isn't catching the consumer's eye anymore. As far as self-promotion and marketing go, at the beginning of the decade, being active on message boards, link exchanges with other sites, and buying web and/or print ads were really crucial to the success of a small porn site, but now with all the social networks like Twitter and Facebook, just being there, being personal, and being generous with freebies has been enough to keep new visitors coming to my site all the time.

At left: NoFauxxx in 2005.

How has the SF porn scene evolved over the past decade?
Ten years ago, SIR Productions was making films and Good Vibrations had a few titles. SIR even won an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Feature. There really wasn't much going on here aside from that, and hadn't been since the "Golden Era" of SF porn production with the Mitchell Brothers and all that stuff. I musn't forget to mention that GAY porn has ALWAYS been in SF and I don't know much about that industry or how it's changed in the past decade, except with their self-imposed mandatory condoms (wish I could say that about LA) and of course, evolving with the internet just like the rest of us.

Now, you've got all sorts of things going on. To break it down there are 3 main directors; Myself, Shine Louise Houston, and Madison Young; and then the production company Trannywood Pictures, and of course, Good Vibration's Good Releasing launch just this year. (I am the headlining director for the Reel Queer Production line under GR) Now we are seeing porn media from LA and New York take interest in our movies and our stars. A year ago we were breaking into parties at AVN, handing off our burned copies to people like Fleshbot and XBiz. Now they come to us, and this year, nobody's gonna kick anybody off the red carpet at AVN for being a dyke. Just in this past year we've really made it happen, and I think more and more people are looking to SF for great porn of all kinds.

At left: Madison Young, shot for NoFauxxx in 2006.

Has Porn Valley become any more accepting of different body types/genders/etc? If so, what's been the motivating factor?
Kind of. Belladonna cas cast SF queers like Syd Blakovich and Jiz Lee, and hot fatties like April Flores just recently, and some other production companies have accepted them with open arms as well - sought them out even. Vivid has a Vivid Alt division run by artist & pornographer Eon McKai and that has brought more subculture flavor, diversity in the types of women you see in porn, into the spotlight. I don't think you saw many brunette tattooed hipsters in Vivid movies in the 90's. Our subcultures have become porn genres, and again I think it has a lot to do with growing presence of independent adult work and art on the internet.

At left: Avarice, shot for NoFauxxx in 2007.

The internet has obviously had a huge impact on the adult industry. What's been the best change the internet has brought to the adult marketplace? The worst?
The two biggest changes I think have been of course, peer-to-peer file sharing, and social networks. A big company might say that tube sites, torrents, or P2P will be the death of them, and it sucks for the performers to have their scenes blasted for free all over the internet, but I don't think that the tube sites are really hurting the smaller companies at all. It's kind of like when Napster came out and everybody was getting free music, it was almost a socialist thing - the big companies were loosing money, and the small companies and independent artists were getting more exposure, more fans, and more people buying their records and concert tickets. It all really depends on how you look at it, or where you are on that spectrum. And as I said before, having social networks around allows us to market ourselves for free and with a truly personal voice, and that's something I'm sure seemed absolutely impossible 10 years ago.

At left: NoFauxxx in 2008.

Any thoughts on what the industry will look like at the end of the next decade?
I'm seeing events like the Feminist Porn Awards, and the Berlin Porn Film Festival, become more prevalent. I think we could be headed into another "Golden Era" like the 70's when porn was revolutionary, shown in theaters, talked about in colleges, and not taken so much for granted. There are brilliant artists making films and independent companies coming out from their "underdog" status. I think at least for the next few years, porn will be seen more as Art than trash. I can't say it will last another ten years, but I am happy to be a part of it for the long haul.

At left: NoFauxxx in 2009.

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Clearly, Madison Young reads Shakespeare a lot closer than other so called "scholars." She knows that the witches are supposed to say:
Double, double toil and trouble,
How's that cockring working, MacBeth?

· Buy "The Curse of MacBeth" (goodreleasing.com)

In addition to serving her Fleshbot consituents, Joanna's been running groundbreaking altporn site Burning Angel since she founded it with a few friends in 2002. We checked in with Joanna to see how the alt genre—and industry at large—have changed since she first stripped off for the web.

At left: A young(er), less tattooed, and introspective Joanna Angel.

Fleshbot: Adult entertainment in 2009 looks a whole lot different than it did in 1999. In your opinion, what's been the single biggest change this decade?
Joanna Angel: I wasn't in porn in 1999—I was in my first year of college and I knew nothing about the industry at the time. However, just in the years I have been in porn I have seen a lot of changes. There were probably more changes in porn this decade than there ever have been. I would say the biggest change is the image of the porn star. If you look at the porn stars who were popular in the 90's, and the ones who are popular now... it's a complete difference in looks, and personality. If you look at the more popular girls today—like Jenna Haze, Sasha Gray, Belladonna, Alexis Texas—they are all natural. They could walk down the street and blend in with the other hot girls on the street—they don't look like a different species of people who belong on a separate island. Not to say there aren't unnatural boobs in porn anymore—however, the image of the porn star has changed too. Porn stars in the 90's were completely untouchable. No one knew what their personalities were like at all.... it was almost like.... no one was supposed to. Now people really get to know the porn stars they look at through MySpace and Facebook and Twitter—even in the movies themselves, people include more interviews and behind the scenes than every before. In the 90's, the image of the porn star was a very mysterious thing—like they were trained to just look hot and fuck.

At left: "Burning Angel: The Movie," Burning Angel's first movie.

You started Burning Angel in 2002 with a couple of friends from college. How has the site changed since the early beginnings?
Jeeze. It has changed a lot! We went from being one website with about 5 photosets that were updated every 2 months or so (along with band interviews—those were always there)—to a network of 6 websites that get updated with photos daily, and videos weekly, along with message boards, blogs, and an entire community. It basically went from a weird hobby to a career. We're not just a porn site right now—we're a porn company. As much as we have changed though, the theme of the website has stayed the same and you can tell that I am still the same person that I always was....I'm just a little smarter now.

At left: "The Re-Penetrator," released in 2005.

Burning Angel is seen as one of the foremost examples of "altporn." Has the altporn scene evolved/changed much since it first began? What's been the biggest change?
I think altporn is still growing and it hasn't hit its peak, and it will still go through more evolving and changing. When BurningAngel first started, we just had photos on there. It wasn't until a few years later where we started adding video and became a hardcore porn company. The idea of altporn used to only be associated with pinup style photography with alternative models.... now I think "altporn" has actually... well.. become porn.

At left: "Porny Monster," released in 2006.

You're a prominent female director and business owner. Have things gotten easier for women in power in the adult industry? Harder? Or are they about the same?
I think that aspect has stayed the same. I honestly don't notice the hardships of being a woman business owner that often, because I just don't let it be a problem. I think girls have a lot of power in this industry and they always have, it's just up to them whether they chose to use this power to do anything constructive or not. In the recent times, more women have taken more control over their careers.... I think porn attracts less lazy people these days than it did before. In general, I just think people now treat this more as a business and less like a party—I think there was just too much money in porn in the 90's and no one ever had to think of a plan B. I don't think the girls had any idea that that money would ever disappear. These days people don't have that delusion anymore, and it has made everyone (girls included) work harder and smarter.

At left: Joanna Angel, hard at work.

The internet has obviously had a huge impact on the adult industry. What's been the best change the internet has brought to the adult marketplace? The worst?
Well, I am a product of the positive things the internet has done. If it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't have been here at all. I was in college when I started my website. My roommate and I met in our school dining hall and brainstormed how to do this. We didn't even think about going to Los Angeles and trying to set up a meeting with Hustler or something. That was completely unfathomable. In the old days, the only way to make it into porn was if you found a way to team up with one of the big companies. The internet has made it possible for perverts across the world to make their own movies and have an easy way to get it out there. You don't need a fancy distribution deal anymore to call yourself a "pornographer". The downside is [that] it has become almost a little too easy to make a porn.... so everyone is making porn, and as a result, the market is saturated and there is just way too much of it out there. And of course.... dun dun dun (put some creepy music on)—the worst thing the internet has given way to is tube sites and torrent sites that just have endless amounts of free porn. I mean, that's cool for your average Joe out there looking to jerk off—but it's not great for the people trying to make a living off this. However, music and mainstream Hollywood has suffered from the same problem and I am sure it will be fixed one day soon.

At left: "Cum On My Tattoo 2," released in 2006.

Has anything changed about the performers who work in the industry? Is a different kind of talent attracted nowadays?
As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot more natural beauties in porn now than there ever were before. I also think that performance is a lot more important now than it ever was. The girls in the movies now really fuck their brains out... and I feel like some of the older pornos it looks like the girls are just lying there. I feel like the only qualification to do porn in the 90's was to be really really hot—and if you weren't hot, well you should go to your local plastic surgeon and fix whatever is slightly imperfect about yourself. These days, you need to be dirty and actually love having sex.... if you don't.... you will get less work. You can't really just survive on looks alone anymore.

At left: "POV Punx 2," released in 2008.

Has public perception about the adult industry changed much since 2000? Is adult entertainment more accepted, less accepted, or about the same?
I honestly think it's about the same. There is a lot more porn now—which has created more porn fans.... as well as more haters. I don't think there will every be a point in time where you can sit at a dinner table and have someone say "I'm a receptionist" and someone else say "I'm a porn star" and everyone will just act completely normal and act as if the two are equal. Porn will always be a little taboo and shocking.... if it wasn't... well it just wouldn't be any fun anymore now would it?

At left: "LA Pink," released in 2009.

Any thoughts on what the industry will look like at the end of the next decade?
That is a scary thing to think about but—hopefully—all the free porn on the internet will be regulated somehow and we can all get out of this hole that we're in. I have faith in my industry and I think everyone by the end of this decade will find a solution to the problem. I think everything will be a lot more community based, and while I don't think DVD's will completely die, I do think that there will not be nearly as many of them coming out. I think companies will start putting all their content online, and save their best stuff for DVD, so it's more of a collectors' item than anything else.

At left: Joanna Angel...hard at work.

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Recent studies have shown that caffeine is good for semen! Allegedly, coffee improves overall male fertility by stimulating the spermatozoa, making them swim faster. We're not sure if putting the jizz directly in the coffee with sugar has the same effect. We'll find out, though. For science.

· Cafe con semen, coffee with Sperm (xtube.com)

· Bella Vendetta (bellavendetta.com)
· Photos by Planet 313 Photography

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Art School Girls are Easy

Studio: Vivid-Alt
Director: Eon McKai
Cast: Andy San Dimas, Kasha Bella, Stevie Hart, Pixie Pearl, Daniel, Vin Vericose, Dane Cross

Yes, "Art School Girls are Easy" is a "remake" of the seminal pomo porn "Art School Sluts." Is it a brilliant twist on porn's relentless reinvention of the same topic? Is it a nostalgic cry for a simpler time? Is it a sign that Eon McKai is just completely out of ideas? We're still puzzling all that through—but we can say for certain that it's a pretty hot film.

Fans of the original will be familiar with the structure of this release: the opening car crash segues into a girl-girl scene with Kasha Bella and Pixie Pearl, a trip to art school results in Pixie and Daniel getting it on in front of the class (while Kasha takes photos, natch), Kasha and Stevie Hart seduce Vin Vericose into a threeway, Andy San Dimas and Daniel giggle their way through dialogue and get down to the fucking, and—last but not least—Kasha seduces Dane Cross, who's stopped going to art school in favor of doing drugs.

When "Art School Sluts" hit the scene, it was hailed as groundbreaking, revolutionary, and influential—and truly, a porn unlike any other that had come before. Five years later, "Art School Girls are Easy" doesn't have the same impact: quite literally, we have seen something like this before.

So if you strip away the novelty and the newness, what's left of the girls of "Art School"? Hot sex, for one: Pixie Pearl and Andy San Dimas give knockout performances, the now retired (and much missed!) Stevie Hart takes a walk on the B/G/G side, and newcomer Kasha Bella proves that she has what it takes to fill shoes of the original Mia, Keiko.

And at the end of the day, isn't that what matters most?

One often wonders what an artist would do, if they had the chance to do it all over again. Perhaps Eon McKai is giving us his answer: he would have used more Pixie Pearl.

· Vivid-Alt (vividalt.com)

Pixie Pearl and Kasha Bella
Pixie Pearl and Kasha Bella
Stevie Hart, Kasha Bella, and Vin Vericose
Stevie Hart, Kasha Bella, and Vin Vericose
Kasha Bella and Dane Cross
Kasha Bella and Dane Cross
Andy San Dimas and Daniel
Andy San Dimas and Daniel
Andy San Dimas and Daniel
Andy San Dimas
Kasha Bella
Andy San Dimas
Kasha Bella
Kasha Bella
Andy San Dimas
Kasha Bella
Pixie Pearl
Pixie Pearl
Pixie Pearl
Andy San Dimas
Stevie Hart
Andy San Dimas
Stevie Hart
Stevie Hart
Pixie Pearl and Daniel

What's that? You say you're going to start featuring men on your pinup site? To make the ladies happy? Only they're not actually going to be naked—just in their underpants (or even fully clothed, if that's how they roll). Well, um...that's one strategy for success.

...maybe someone can give you another few million just because?

· Nominate a Zividude (zivity.com)

She even got to meet Paulie, one of the artists from "LA Ink," and give him her stamp of approval: "he also showed me some videos of himself getting a blowjob from someone on his phone. Anyone who does that within 2 minutes of meeting me is good in my book." If that's not a standard of friendship, then we simply do not have any friends.

Except this guy, he can be our friend. He knows what's up.

More photos of Supreme Commandress Joanna at XOXO Joanna Angel (xoxojoannaangel.com)

The digital camera. Without that crucial invention, amateur pornography would never progressed to the levels it exists at today. In past times, a fear of improper behavior at the photo processing center might have kept a girl like Hannah-Jay from photoing herself naked (or at least have limited her to polaroids). But thanks to our friend the digital camera, she's able—and wiling!—to photograph her naked body with impunity, and send the results off to classy gents' mags like Front.

It truly is a wonderful world we live in.

· Alt Girl DIY: Hannah-Jay (frontarmy.co.uk)

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In addition to being super sexy on cam, Bella's been playing a stripper on screen (and in real life, too), totally revamping her extreme fetish site, and designing some of the sweetest jewelry we've seen in a long time. We never thought we needed a pair of solid gold, police issue handcuffs...but thankfully, Miss Bella has opened our eyes.

· Bella Vendetta (bellavendetta.com)

And she's pretty hot to boot, too...here's hoping we see a whole lot more of her, both in and out of Bizarre (and, ahem, in and out of her clothes), in the coming years!

· Bizarre Girls: Skin (bizarremag.com, video here)