In a lengthy (read it over a long lunch, Europeans) commentary on Pro Porn Activism, Greene points out that the HIV testing protocols of the heterosexual porn industry have been sufficient to contain HIV exposure and notes that the two Patients Zero in the 2004 case (performer Darren James, who contracted the virus in Brazil) and the 42-year-old female performer diagnosed on June 4, likely didn't contract the virus within the Porn Valley testing radius.

Greene and several well-informed commenters then debate condom use (Greene's stance is that condoms can break and vaginas get especially raw when the sex lasts for three hours under hot lights, asserting that Porn Valley-level HIV testing does a job that condoms don't), state regulation (how will broke-ass California afford/enforce it? Like they enforce safe sex in bathhouses?), and the "agendas" of L.A. City and County officials as well as Porn Valley personnel with beefs against testing facility AIM, of which Greene is an emeritus board chairman.

Greene believes that testing could stand to be increased to bi-weekly rather than every 28 days, but he essentially says that the testing system ain't broke. Whether or not you agree, the conversation is an illuminating and refreshing look at the brainer side of porn blogging.

· Rumor Control Central Re-Opens for Business (bppa.blogspot.com)
· LFP on HIV (gramponante.com)

· Hustler (hustler.com)

Once the title held by Belladonna, Tianna Lynn, Brianna Love, and Lauren Phoenix, Buttwoman is now the domain of Alexis Texas. At a solemn ceremony earlier this week, Texas acknowledged that with great power comes great responsibility, and vowed to avoid offshore drilling in search for the excess of emollients her ass requires.

• Alexis Texas (Wikipedia)
• Watch the "Buttwoman" Trailer (elegantangel.com)
• Elegant Angel (elegantangel.com)
• Alexis Texas Galleries: 1, 2 (nsgalleries.com. via askjolene.com)

Hwang was arrested on suspicion of pistol-whipping Haley in June, they were married at the beginning of August in Las Vegas, she was dead at month's end, and he was found dead in September.

Hwang, 38, had served time in prison before. For two years in the late 90's Hwang was in Chico State Prison on two felony counts of sexual battery and assault with a deadly weapon, charges nearly identical to those that landed him in jail in June. When running a previous incarnation of the site lukeford.com (sold several years ago by its namesake, who now writes on lukeisback.com), Hwang was at the forefront of a"shocking" porn website content that mixed gallows humor with extreme sex, often forcing his overweight "minion" to sit on reluctant starlets.

Toxicology reports on both deaths have not been released, but Haley's father said that Hwang was in the room with Haley during her overdose, which occurred on August 21. She had said in the months immediately prior to her death that she had left porn and was planning to go back to school. Hwang was found September 29 in a motel in Morgan Hill, CA, south of San Jose.

Many who knew Haley said she was too sweet and too vulnerable to be in porn. Born in Mexico, she claimed that she was molested by an uncle and raped by gang members before moving to San Diego with her family at 12. Seven years later, she was working at a Blockbuster when she answered a nude modeling ad. She later appeared in more than 300 scenes. She was 25 at her death.

On porn message board ADT, Hwang wrote this of Haley in March: "I think we're attracted to each other simply because we have the exact opposite personalities. She's sweet and quiet. I happen to be aggressive and loud. I guess opposites do attract."

· Porn And Suffering: Reflections on Maryam Haley (lukeisback.com)
· Revealing "Bastardly" thread (bastardly.com)
· Pictures from "The Da Vinci Load" (gramponante.com)
· Haley Paige on IAFD (iafd.com)

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Previously: RIP Haley Paige, Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Her Fleet Street-inflected interviewer is L.A. Direct owner Derek Hay, aka Ben English, who played Shay Jordan's employer in "Babysitters". "More people write and talk about this business than are actually in it," he observes in this video sent to media and fans.

(Oh, and the picture? Courtesy of DigitalPlayground.com, by decree.)

· Nikki Benz: Girl of the Month (ladirectmodels.com)
· Nikki Benz (nikkibenz.com)

We were skimming through videos of the recently-completed Bucharest Eros Show, marveling that the only significant difference between it and its dingy stateside counterparts was the odd choice of music with which attendees chose to accompany their YouTube uploads. Where were the erotic gypsies? Where were the erotic vampires? Why did it look like Sunday afternoon at the L.A. Convention Center? Worse than that, why don't strippers allow you to touch them in Bucharest? Hasn't the fall of Ceaucescu accomplished anything? - GP

· Eros Show Romania (eroshow.ru)
· Eros Show Bukarest (machomedia.hu)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Soft-spoken media darling and pinup photographer Dave Naz will greet guests at a reception for his new exhibit, "Candids", at the Todd/Browning Gallery in Hollywood this coming Saturday.

We are big fans of Naz' photography, which is bright, sexy, and accessible, but we would be lying if we didn't say we weren't intrigued at the prospect of catering provided by girlfriend Ashley Blue. Maybe she'll make some Attention Whore d'ouevres?

Oh Malph, you still got it. - GP

· Dave Naz (davenaz.com)
· Todd/Browning Gallery (toddbrowning..com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

Like you, I have a little crush on Page Morgan, who is just six months younger than I am. She appears in New York deviant Porno Jim's movie "Hookin' Up," about an underground loft party (see? Crazy Brooklyn kids live in lofts underground!) gone horribly awry, if awry meant smothered in flesh and Ladyparts^TM.

Manhattan's MI-5 will host the pre-release party next Tuesday, May 22. The first 200 attendees will receive a goodie bag (being prepared now) and everyone is encouraged to "wear something sexy," which invalidates the movie's website's unfair attacks of L.A.-based porn—here, we don't need to be told to wear sexy things.

"Hookin' Up" also features loftmadel Riley Mason as well as Zak Sabbath and Tommy Pistol. - GP

· "Hookin' Up" (hookinupthemovie.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive

The delightful Casey Parker (seen here gavoreeting amongst California's pioneers), will appear on the Tyra Banks show May 17 to discuss what, exactly, fraternity members enjoy about porn. Parker, whose own adult career started as a Colorado college student posing for a roommate, said that she hadn't seen the edited version of the Tyra interview, which carried the logline "What happens when college students start taking off their clothes instead of doing their homework?"

Our Miss Parker herself is still a college student and we worry, as a (slightly) older brother might, that the unhinged Tyra might sabotage poor Casey in post. We know for a fact that Casey always turned down our offers to go get naked because she had homework to do. - GP

· Casey Parker (caseyparker.com)
· Shane's World (shanesworld.com)
· The Tyra Banks Show schedule (aol.com)

Previously: Porn Valley Dispatch Archive