Porn Valley Dispatch: The Time Machine

It is whispered in the adult industry that the DVD is dying. A salesman for one of the Big Five says that DVD sales have been steadily dwindling each year, sometimes by as much as 20 percent.

That might not be a bad thing. "People will always want porn," AVN President Paul Fishbein said. "How they get it almost doesn't matter."

One way to (depending on how you look at it) glut the market/keep the catalog alive is to release compilations, or comps. These are often excellent historical records that give us a nostalgic look at how our ancestors, like Jill Kelly, shaved. Read more after the gap.
- G. Ponante

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"Curious Gorge" is a four-hour compilation featuring Jill Kelly (maybe not the best company name to be involved with, but a helluva porn star), Alexandra Quinn, Katrina Valentine, TT Boy, and Wayne Summers.

In fact, the latter foursome appears in a scene dating, according to Hustler Production Manager Bruce Whitney, from 1990. Did people even have sex back then? I know I didn't.

Hustler produces 12 straight and four gay comp titles a month. With the free extrapolation that proceeds from drunkenness (tonight it's port), it seems that Larry Flynt, at least, recognizes that 25 percent of the population is gay (either that or the gay population really likes its porn).

Out of the four hours of scenes iin this movie, not one quite explains the title.

In an industry where performers stay a short while, it is often left to their survivors to make some sense of the world they occupied. History is written by the winner.

"The person who thought up 'Curious Gorge' is no longer working with us," a Hustler functionary said. "I have no idea what it means."

· Hustler (hustler.com)

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