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Backstage At "Breaking Berlin"

Gram Ponante — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST

You will not be surprised to learn that the world of bondage is rule-bound, codified, and an ideological battleground. "People don't have to use foul language and scream," says bondage impresario Julie Simone of Aiden Starr in "Breaking Berlin," in which Starr and Simone differ on the best way to humble the title character without splitting the vote and leaving her breaking to a third party candidate.

Of all porn's many delightful forms, BDSM is the most regimented and the place where viewers are most likely to see something real. That is not to say that there aren't disagreements. And when you have dominatrices disagreeing, watch out.

The petite, no-nonsense Aiden Starr leads Berlin through a progression of well-choreographed and stylized humiliations, just daring you not to take the proceedings seriously. Simone directs and occasionally takes part. Berlin is bound, gagged, penetrated, painted, and bent every which way in a day that director and stars admit was "very long."

In a series of interviews after the film was wrapped, only Berlin seems enthusiastic. Both Simone and Starr appear to be suffering from Top Drop, a condition common to people who've just spent the last several hours beating the shit out of someone and getting no release themselves.

"She didn't complain once," Starr says of Berlin, whom she fucked with a strap-on after smearing lipstick all over Berlin's face.

When asked if slave training "in real life" is similar to the way it was depicted in Simone's movie, Starr snaps, "Well, there's no sex in real slave training."

I've said it before: Thank God this isn't real slave training.

But apparently Starr was a little too salty for Simone, and Simone says that the two dommes shan't be working together again.

"You can be cruel and still be classy," Simone says. "I don't like vulgar guttermouth dommes."

· Vicious Vixxxens (viciousvixxxens.com)
· Buy "Breaking Berlin" (gamelink.com)

Berlin Gets Ready For Twin Sex Festivals

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:58 EDT

Do you live in Berlin—or wish you did? For the next two weeks, your answers should be "Yes," because that city is about to become the sexy time European capital of the world. Thursday is the opening of the Venus Trade Fair, which is sort of like the AVN Expo for people who don't gamble. It's mostly for companies to sell things to each other, but it is open to the public and honest-to-goodness pornstars will be there. Which is the perfect setup for the following week's Porn Film Festival. It's four days of porn the way it was meant to be seen—in another language with a crowd of intellectual European film snobs. Actually, where else you can see "The Doll Underground" and "Edward Penishands" on the same day? Ich bin ein intrigued!

· Venus Berlin (venus-berlin.com)
· Porn Film Fesitval Berlin 9 (pornfilmfestivalberlin.de)

Hot For Teacher: In Search Of Madameweb

Fleshbot — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:35:46 EST

For a supposedly "internationally known" "star of the adult entertainment world", it's been awfully difficult to find any photos or images online of Italian amateur porn sensation Madameweb (aka Anna Ciriani, aka Isabella Troia), who's been making headlines this week after being dismissed from her day job as a teacher in the northeast Italian town of Pordenone: her Yahoo! group has been mysteriously shuttered, screencaps of her public sex adventures were pulled from servers, and even big-time news outlets have been reduced to using "illustrative photos" of random boobs to go along with the story instead of, you know, actual photos of Madameweb's.

Fortunately, it wasn't that difficult to find the clip that precipitated her actual firing this week: apparently, her porn antics were pretty much an open secret for a while now, but it was a high profile flash-and-gape appearance at this year's Venus Erotic Fair in Berlin last month that somehow broke the camel's back. They might be teaching lots of things in Italian schools these days, but we guess discretion isn't one of them.

· "Italian teacher revealed as porn queen Madameweb" (independent.co.uk)

Below, the video that launched Madameweb (back) into the spotlight.

While some of our colleagues were busy this...

Fleshbot — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:09:42 EDT

While some of our colleagues were busy this past weekend watching hot alt girls get strung up on meathooks, the folks at LoveHoney were keeping up with the latest developments in giant ball technology, spooky looking masturbation devices, and penis shaped meat products at the Venus Sex Show in Berlin. If these are the kind of things we have to look forward to when we attend the AVN Expo in Las Vegas this year, January can't come quickly enough. (We might pass on the penis shaped meat products, however. We're trying to eat healthier these days.) (lovehoney.co.uk)

CUM2CUT: Do-It-Yourself Porn Comes To Berlin

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:39:19 EDT

The Berlin Porn Film Festival is returning to the German capital later this month, but for those of you who don't have a major adult feature film ready to premiere at the event, it's not too late to get in on the fun. In the tradition of Seattle's HUMP! festival, aspiring pornographers are invited to shoot and submit their own smutty films through Berlin's partner festival, CUM2CUT. There's only one catch—you have to film and edit the whole thing in Berlin in just four days. Fortunately, there's a secondary "pr0n" competition for non-German visitors that allows you to upload a short film to their site and entries from both contests will be shown at the main Berlin festival. Was it Andy Warhol who said "someday everyone will be in porn for 5 minutes," because that future may have already arrived?

· CUM2CUT - Indie-Porn-Short-Movies Festival (cum2cut.net)
· PORNfilmfestivalBERLIN 2007 (pornfilmfestivalberlin.de)
· Thumbnail courtesy budding auteur Brooke Skye (brookeskye.com)

Previously: Getting A Leg Up In Porn, Berlin Porn Film Festival

Porn Valley (Adjacent) Dispatch: The Venus Fair And How to Get There

Gram Ponante — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:04:53 EDT

Berlin's Venus Fair, scheduled this year for the weekend of October 18-21, is a rollicking affair, inasmuch as sophisticated Europeans allow themselves to rollick. A trade show like the ones we cover in these virtual pages, the Venus Fair nevertheless makes stateside porn conventions look tame, even as the on-hand talent, what with their advanced degrees in engineering and sex positivism, somehow prove less accessible than our homegrown stars,

Private, the world's biggest porn company, and PurePlay, its U.S. distributor, will fly two lucky guests to Berlin to attend the Fair with 500 Euros to play with. Winners will also receive backpacks to stuff with lederhosen and "Heroes"-period Bowie records. - GP

· Private Contest (privateprize.com)
· Venus Fair - Berlin (venus-berlin.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive