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You Know, "I Love Sara Stone," Too

Gram Ponante — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:30:01 EDT

I realize that I bandy about the word "delightful" like some people use "love" and "hate" (and "h8t"), but delightful is what Porn's amalgamated compilation concerns had in mind when it released "I Love Sara Stone."

The busty 26-year-old is not a huge star. She is not a particularly dirty talker. She is neither a girl next door nor a machine-crafted, tattooed and wizened piece of sex jerky. She doesn't seem to be a partier or someone too concerned that you think her smart, but she's not dumb. She knows she's sexy but won't hold it against you.

All the above seems apparent in the way porn is a blank slate for viewers to, er, projeculate on.

"I Love Sara Stone" is a compilation of 10 scenes that have only the zaftig charms of Stone in common, several that feature her trademark two-fisted, two-breasted cockgrasp. Of particular interest are her scenes with Lee Stone and Mr. Pete.

Lee Stone (no relation) is a guy who looks like Thing from "The Fantastic Four." He retired (mostly) to Florida this year. Due to his hugeness, Mr. Stone was often paired with tiny women that he would spin around to do a signature standing 69 upon.

But not with Sara Stone. It is like Lee is grateful to not have to do this party trick with Sara, who is superabsorbent.

And then there's Mr. Pete who, with Steve Holmes, is among Porn's Most Grateful dudes. Mr. Pete cannot get enough of Sara Stone.

Will Steven Soderbergh cast Stone in his next off-movie? No. Will Stone show up on the cover of Playboy? No. But she lights up the room, and that's why I love the delightful Sara Stone.

Wherever Syd Blakovich Goes, We Will Follow

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:01 EDT

More reason to get excited for the upcoming launch of Pussy In Stereo: Crush Object Syd Blakovich is one of the models. Swoon! (altpornstar.com)

Fleshbot Birthday BabesTM: Belladonna

Gram Ponante — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Porn fans love Belladonna so much for many reasons: the way she throws down, her evil pixie/erotic vulture persona, how she has weathered intense scrutiny from within and without the porn industry and come out the other side with her mind and body intact. And wisdom is sexy.

The former Michelle Sinclair started her porn career when she was 19. Raised a Mormon in St. George, Utah, Belladonna went from Latter Day Saint to Evil Angel (with a stop at Nacho Vidal) in a career that has made her one of the adult world's three or four most recognized women.

Now the head of Belladonna Entertainment (with her husband, Aiden), Belladonna is going eclectic with her onscreen partners, essentially fucking who she wants when she wants (which is what we heard about Brigham Young).

Happy 28th birthday, Bella.

· Belladonna (enterbelladonna.com)
· Belladonna at IAFD.com (iafd.com)
· Mother's Day with Belladonna (gramponante.com)
· Buy Belladonna's movies (gamelink.com)

The World's Hottest Woman Topless...And Then Some

Lux Alptraum — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:01 EDT

Now that Olivia Wilde is one of our official Crush Objects, we figured we should try to ~~see her naked~~ learn something about her. And boy, are we glad we did.

One of our wonderful commenters suggested we take a look at "Alpha Dog." We've tracked down a clip (at left)... and boy, are we glad we did. Olivia, you've certainly earned your World's Hottest Woman title (or whatever Maxim is calling that thing.)

Sasha Grey In "Throat: A Cautionary Tale"

Gram Ponante — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:30:01 EDT

Like he did with "Faithless" earlier this year, Paul Thomas has made an excellent porn movie that doesn't skimp on the love or the anger in this new-world (and New Testament!) version of "Deep Throat."

Throat: A Cautionary Tale

Studio: Vivid
Director: Paul Thomas
Cast: Sasha Grey, Penny Flame, Tom Byron, Evan Stone, Aliana Love, Trent Tesoro, Herschel Savage, Lee Stone

Review by: Gram Ponante

"I didn't mean for this to happen," intones Julie (Sasha Grey), commenting on her (naked, of course - are you kidding?) corpse a la "Sunset Boulevard" via its Porn Valley counterpart, Sherman Way. "Things just got out of hand."

Out of hand and into throat, you mean. Thus begins "Throat: A Cautionary Tale," Vivid's biggest movie this year, an ambitious project that has already had a six-episode paid infomercial playing on Showtime to support it.

Veteran porn scribe Raven Touchstone's script is the best this year, convincingly effecting a B story of the cops (Tom Byron and train wreck Penny Flame) tracking down Julie's killer as well as presenting several possible culprits. And, in a movie that is dark but not too dark for its own good, Touchstone gives a ditzy stripper the line "I heard he fucked an elephant and made it scream."

That Grey - and not a Vivid contract girl - leads the cast is not surprising, considering director Paul ("PT") Thomas' other big movie this year, "Faithless," starring Miss America-turned-soap opera actress-turned-full-throated cougar harridan Kelli McCarty.

"Throat" is also a great example of a post-modern porn movie. At two hours it is a throwback to features of yore, but it also takes as its source material "Deep Throat," porn's most famous film and a cultural phenomenon that even found its way into the Watergate scandal.

"What's a 'Deep Throat'?" asks Julie, who lets us know that her "pussy was her enemy" and her "clit like a wart."

Julie is being schooled by Lane (Aliana Love), a fellow stripper at the peep show at which Julie has been forced to work to pay for college. The movie takes its time breaking down Julie's stripperesque misanthropy ("I was sickened by their pathetic neediness," she says. (You and me both, sister!) "But I felt sorry for them, too. If they had someone to love them, they wouldn't be here") and provides a few indulgences not often thrown to porn consumers: a slow burn.

Julie, you see, cannot experience pleasure in her vagina. At first we think it's just because her loser trust-fund boyfriend Eddie (Trent Tesoro) only cares about himself. This is partly true. But the real reason is that Julie's functioning clitoris is in her throat. Once Lane shows Julie how to "deep throat" a dildo (if the characters Lane and Julie know about Linda Lovelace and the origin of that term, they never let on), Julie is hooked on the feeling of finally, finally getting the stimulation she needs.

But even as Eddie becomes the lucky beneficiary of Julie's newfound throat-acumen, he becomes enraged by the thought of how she might have developed it. He gets over it and, like Evan Stone's mercenary gentlemen's club manager later in the movie, pimps her out for cash.

Where "Throat" differs from other porn versions of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams story is the time it takes to set up Julie's betrayals. Before these guys reveal themselves for the sleazebags they are, Julie trusts them.

Similarly does Joe (Tom Byron) trust his partner Byrd (Penny Flame). As you can imagine, Byrd gets drawn in to the sex club scene while investigating the death of Julie, but Byrd is given even more of a past: she's a pill popper and drunk! Not only that, she trades on her shame. In another of "Throat"'s memorable lines she says, "Punish me. I deserve it. I'm no good. Punish me."

The movie gives the audience so much credit throughout that its occasional porny missteps - at the beginning and end - are jarring. Do we really need to see a textbook overlay of the female reproductive system above Grey's pleasing flesh-and-blood parts? Isn't this explained elsewhere? What kind of coroner leaves a patient lying naked and uncovered on a gurney after declaring that her dead (and hot!) little throat "will make history"? Do we need to see what we are already pretty sure is her famous vagina labeled "Vagina"? Perhaps so. Like the coroner is the first to find - long after the detectives are through with her - the condom sticking half out of that "Vagina," maybe the filmmakers believe the audience is likely to miss something.

Similarly, for someone who has clearly stated that she only gets off with her throat, Julie sure spends a lot of time post-epiphany getting it everywhere else. (I'm only complaining about this as a writer, you understand.)

The performances of Grey and Flame are right on the money. The sex is integral to both their stories, and everything their characters say within that context makes sense, and is delivered more convincingly than anything else. We cannot help infer the plight of the millennial 21-year-old porn star Sasha Grey in Julie's "I'm a person!" speech, and we are all too familiar with the upside of bad behavior: sometimes Penny Flame just wants to be punished.

But the deftest touch in "Throat: A Cautionary Tale" comes from Herschel Savage, who plays a Hasid with a crush. He delivers a line from the New Testament (go figure) that is as appropriate to porn as, I don't know, using the word "Children" (as in "Not Married with...XXX") wasn't.

But you owe it to yourself to see the movie. Even if you are no good and need to be punished.

· Vivid (vivid.com)
· Buy "Throat: A Cautionary Tale" (gamelink.com)

Fleshbot Birthday BabesTM: Nina Hartley

pweasels — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:00:42 EDT

As timeless as Nina Hartley seems to be, as much as she seems just as energetic and sexy as she was as a mere stripling of 25, she is still having a big birthday today.

Remember your first Nina Hartley movie? You should. Mine was "Debbie Duz Dishes," which is no longer available, in spite of the fact that she won her only AVN Best Actress Award for it (so far).

Nina turns 50 today. In other words, you have been getting off to movies starring the legendary Best Ass In Porn now for at least as long as you weren't before she got into porn 25 years ago. It sort of makes you wonder what you were doing before that, doesn't it?

Bio data courtesy of the Internet Adult Film Database

· Internet Adult Film Database (www.iafd.com)
· http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=Hartley/Gender=F/nina-hartley.htm at IAFD.com (iafd.com)
· Buy Nina Hartley's movies (gamelink.com)

Penny Flame Has The Whole World In Her Hands, Mouth

Gram Ponante — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

When thinking of Penny Flame (and we are), her hands aren't the first things that come to mind. "We already know she isn't a transsexual," we say. "Concentrate on other parts." But now we've reconsidered.

Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Handjobs for Men & Women

Studio: Vivid
Cast: Penny Flame, Harmony, Justice Young, Anthony Rosano

Review by: Gram Ponante

Ms. Flame proves an excellent teacher in "Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Handjobs for Men & Women," which delivers the sexy without skimping on the science.

Appearing before a multi-ethnic and multigenerational classroom, Flame whips out the visual aids, both tasteful black-and-white drawings and flesh-and-blood subjects Harmony and Justice Young, to demonstrate that handjobs are more than masturbation plus distance.

Flame emphasizes lube, hand hygiene, and taking it slow (but firm) with guest Harmony, who allows Flame to squeeze her labia together for the hushed onlookers ("Don't go straight for the clit before it's warmed up," Flame tells you sternly). But tragedy strikes when Justice Young appears for the male component, because Flame only gets him hard - she doesn't allow a release. That, my friends, is not Justice.

And this is the only drawback to the movie. The 30-minute classroom portion is filmed and edited like an infomercial for softcore late-night cable, with all the applause sound effects, approving audience shots, cheesy voiceover, and canned music. The artifice threatens to overwhelm the naturally compelling Flame and make her seem like more of a prop, when in fact her teaching style - when she's allowed to do it - is helpful and personable.

The infomercial gives way to several annotated hardcore scenes, including one with Flame and Anthony Rosano, that fill out the DVD.

· Vivid (vivid.com)
· Buy "Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Hand Jobs" (gamelink.com)

Kitty Caulfield Is Never Fully Dressed With A Smile

Gram Ponante — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:00:00 EST

Enough of that sneering; I work damn hard for that oversize testicular payload. Relative porn newcomer Kitty Caulfield might not remember the departed Mr. Rourke's exhortation of "Smiles, everyone—smiles!" but she lives it.

The chipper and zippy porn vignette movie "MILF Date 3" features Caulfield as an aficionado of "bulgie-eyed dogs" and an artisan of acrylic jewelry reproductions who doesn't have to try very hard to seduce Anthony Rosano.

The 5'11" Caulfield might easily be mistaken for the equally amicable testarossa Audrey Hollander, but I like that I live in a world where both can co-exist peacefully. All Caulfield's parts are sexy, but they are made exponentially more delightful by her smile.

With scant movies and Internet scenes to her name, Caulfield might get lost in the MILF flood, which would be a shame.

But not as big a shame as the fact that Eddie Powell's excellent little feel-good movie isn't about milves at all, but cougars.

We will not sleep until this terminological inexactitude is made right. (We don't sleep anyway.)

. . .

· New Sensations (newsensations.com)
· Buy "MILF Date 3" (gamelink.com)

Mika Tan Returns, Has Something To Show You

Gram Ponante — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:40:07 EDT

Longtime Fleshbot Crush Object and noted anti-shoulder stink crusader Mika Tan has returned to Porn Valley from an extended trip to the Mysterious East, and we couldn't be happier. This week she helped launch RudeTV, an adult internet TV station that happens to be located in the offices vacated by the defunct KSEXRadio. Tan worked her charm on callers from West Virginia and Boston, both of whom wanted her to play with dildos. "You guys are all about the dildos tonight," she remarked. "Well, all right."

The motivation for the pose above was: "Your shadow might wish you ill."

· RudeTV (rudetv.com)
· Mika Tan (mikatan.com)
· See also: "RudeTV sprouts from the grave of KSEX" (gramponante.com)

Fleshbot's 2007 Crush Objects Of The Year

Jonnobot — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:30:55 EST

It's that time of year again ... time to kick back with a nice tall glass of ~~Night Train~~ fine champagne and reflect on all our professional accomplishments of the last twelve months, Fortunately, what professional accomplishments we can lay claim to generally involve looking at gorgeous naked babes, which always makes our year-end wrapup of the top ten crush objects who set our hearts a-flutter a particularly pleasant task.

This year's crush object list was derived from a secret formula involving nominations by Fleshbot contributors; number of times they were mentioned on the site; a patented coefficient extracted from each subject's astrological chart; and a subjective measure of how much each one of us wanted to date and/or cook a morning after breakfast for each one of the crush objects in question. Find out who they are after the jump.

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10.

Pixie Pearl
According to a certain member of the Fleshbot staff, Burning Angel's Pixie Pearl is "the girl that keeps me up at night." No, we won't tell you who it is ... but Pixie, if a certain Fleshbot staff member approaches you in public sometime and throws herself at your feet in an insomniac frenzy, don't say we didn't warn you.

9.

Monique Alexander
Vivid's wonderful contract star actually smiles at the camera. Who does that anymore? We applaud her courage in not sticking her finger coyly in her mouth at every opportunity and slapping her own ass. We would like to reserve that right for ourselves.

8.

Brandi Belle
The always delightful Brandi Belle manages to set herself apart from all those other amateur and solo gal sites out there by a geeky sense of humor and some genuinely hot setups for her videos. If her stunts haven't made the initials "CFNM" sexy for you ... well, you haven't been paying close enough attention.

7.

Jenny Hendrix
The hardest-working woman in porn, Jenny Hendrix hasn't even taken a nap since July. The world recently teetered at the brink of the abyss when she toyed with the idea of getting new boobs, but she has decided against it for the time being. At 22, she has at least three more months before things start going horribly wrong.

6.

Sophie Howard
It was hard to pick up a lad mag this year without running smack into Sophie Howard's magnificent rack. Fortunately, running into Sophie Howard's rack is something we can't see ourselves getting sick of anytime soon.

5.

Eve ("Iga") Wyrwal
It came from Poland ... the mysterious Eve Wyrwal, that is, who was suddenly everywhere you looked on the babelog scene as "Iga" this fall and then started appearing under her even more consonant-heavy modeling name in the pages of lad mags not long after. Whatever she decides to call herself, we hope she sticks around for a while. (As long as she doesn't keep adding to her aliases; we're having a hard enough time keeping track of her appearances as it is.)

4.

Stoya
Stoya is more than just Digital Playground's attempt at going Alt (whatever that means), but her non-mainstream porn pedigree is so much different—God's Girls, Lzrbunny—from the Hawaiian Tropics via Hooters route taken by Jesse Jane that she is already the highest-profile contract girl with tats since Janine Lindemulder and the recently-departed Sophia Santi.

3.

Maria Ozawa
Maria Ozawa would have made Bill Murray's character in "Lost in Translation" stay in Japan. (So what if she's half Canadian?)

2.

Gianna Michaels
Had Michaels been around at the time of the great Renaissance artists no work would have been done, aside from them crawling over each other to get at her. (Save for Michelangelo of course; he didn't go in for the boobies. Well, more for us.)

1.

Sasha Grey
Next year Sasha Grey turns 20, and she will no longer be America's Sexy Mopey Teen. Luckily for us there is the Porno-Industrial Complex which will ensure that she is in pigtails and plaid skirts until she's at least 26. With luck, by then she will have blown up Chatsworth.

. . .

See also Fleshbot's Crush Object Hall Of Fame:

2005's Crush Object Of The Year

Joanna Angel

2006's Crush Object Of The Year

Dana DeArmond

(And all the other crush objects who made our 2005 and 2006 lists. We'll always have a place in our hearts for you too.)