It's hard to take a picture on a porn set or backstage at a strip club and not have it look like a lot of work we've seen before, particularly when so many artists and photographers have been mining this same territory for years now. That said, UK photographer Michael Grieves attempts to depict these "increasingly entwined and performative worlds of pornography, prostitution and stripping" via his own unique perspective: "'No Love Lost' does not attempt to be a statistical documentation but works as a lyrical documentary metaphor in a factual world about real fictional encounters and conveys a sense of the difficulties of meaningful human connection in spiritually vacant environments." OK, so maybe calling the adult entertainment world "spiritually vacant" isn't exactly a unique concept, but several of his photos do manage to convey a certain tenderness for their subject matter despite their ostensible detachment. (And at the very least we learned that there exists what seems to be a thriving porn industry in Peterborough, UK. Who knew?)

· NO LOVE LOST: Eking Out the Seamiest Boltholes (viceland.com, via Tiny Nibbles)
· Michael Grieve: No Love Lost (lensculture.com)

Previously: "SFV Porn" by Vera Hartmann, Jeff Burton, "The Other Place", Jean-Christian Bourcart's "Infertile Madonnas": Deep Inside The Brothels Of Frankfurt, Elyse Butler: Sexual Tension, Strippers Of London, "Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs", "Pornoland", Larry Sultan

Our (unintentional) Porn Vampire Week here at Fleshbot continues with this selection of hardcore production pics from Joe Gallant's upcoming "Hell's Kittens" shot by our friend Igor at Driven By Boredom a few weeks back. Despite whatever mental image the words "porn vampire" create for you, you'll note that there's a relative lack of fake blood and even faker fangs in the photos; there is, however, plenty of biting, sucking, and exchanges of miscellaneous body fluids. Those new skool vampires haven't totally abandoned tradition, you know.

It can't be easy being an executive at Titan Media these days: once you've shocked porn audiences with the depths of sexual depravity in titles like "Cirque Noir" and "Folsom Filth", what can you possibly come up with to outdo yourself? Well, the upcoming "Fear" looks like a doozy, what with all that extreme bondage and gut punching and water torture and ball biting and that spooky promo photo of Francois Sagat trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey in the Marquis de Sade's kitchen. But Titan may have done the scariest thing of all casting real-life couple Derek Da Silva and Tony Buff in the movie: not only are they adept at all of the nasty things listed above, they're also (gasp) a nonmonogamous pair who live in different cities and who each have other boyfriends on the side. If that doesn't épater les gays bourgeois, we don't know what will.

· "Derek and Tony, sittin' in a ... vice?" (video podcast @ timandromablog.com; see also "FEAR and loathing with Titan Media")
· Titan Media (titanmen.com)

Real military porn might be getting more hazardous to make these days, but we can always count on the pros to cobble together a bunch of old camos and dog tags and crank out a production that at least fulfills our fantasies involving ... uh, a bunch of porn stars wearing old camos and dog tags. But even if it's not the real deal, Raging Stallion's upcoming "Grunt" at least gives us a chance to wonder what it would be like to go through some not-so-basic training with crush objects Jake Deckard, Steve Cruz, and Roman Ragazzi, minus the risk of getting gunpowder stains or rifle grease all over ourselves. Not to mention slapped with one of those pesky court martials.

· "Grunts" Behind The Scenes With Chris Ward: Day 1, Day 3. Day 4 (chriswardpornblog.com)

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