Porn Valley Dispatch: Max Hardcore’s Process

If Larry Flynt and his generation of adult publishers succeeded in making pornography a First Amendment issue, Pasadena's Max Hardcore has consistently been at the forefront of making sex seem so brutal and predatory that many in the adult business wince a little. Knowing this, Hardcore prefaces all his movies, including the recent "Hollywood Hardcore 7" with so many consensuality, health, and age verification disclaimers that the viewer is thoroughly prepared for something shocking.

I'd never seen a Max Hardcore video before, so I checked out a scene between him and the wayward and delightful Anastasia Blue to recapture the thrill of being shocked. See what I found after the gap. - GP

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Hardcore has been hauled into court a few times on obscenity charges, and last year an FBI agent blew a shotgun hole through his floor in a search for faulty documentation. As a provider of some of the filthiest content in the business, Hardcore is meticulous in leaving no loose ends, even appearing in a commercial for Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, the main source of the business' HIV tests.

Hardcore encounters Anastasia Blue in a park, smoking. "This is L.A.," the cranky Libertarian says. "Don't you know you can't smoke here?"

"Sorry," she says. Both performers are body-miked, so the exchange has the essence of vintage porn about it. Especially in the classic setup of much-older man and barely legal woman, the video, at three minutes in, doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

Players at the adjacent basketball court don't seem to notice what's happening. Has Hardcore done this before? Frankly, it seems more wrong to smoke.

Hardcore fucks her through his jeans. I would be shocked if they were zippered. Anastasia keeps calling him "Mister".

"Are you wearing your big sister's high heels?" Hardcore asks.

"Yes, Mister," she says.

Hardcore determines that Anastasia didn't "forget" her panties, as she had previously stated.

"You're not supposed to walk around like this," he says, "like a Barbie fuck doll."

The body mikes (and ADR) are important to Hardcore because this video features a lot of sounds, like those of Hardcore's entire hand disappearing up Anastasia. The remaining scenes are characterized by Hardcore attempting to get as much of his hand in various places, and the closeups document his success.

Blue looks much the worse for wear by the end of her scene with Max, but this interlude, shot in March 1999 (when Blue was 24 but appeared 16) and re-released this month by JM Video, was not Blue's final scene - it was actually one of her first.

Hardcore's movies fly off video store shelves, but sending them through the mail is often a sticky process if the Feds can pinpoint a county in which a jury is likely to be less lenient. I asked Hardocre about this.

"They love it in Europe," he said. "And I've never heard of anyone, even a store owner, getting busted for obscenity."

"I notice you don't spoon after your scenes," I said.

"I get up everyday and go at it, after a good breakfast of course," he said. "Got to have gas in the tank if you're gonna fight."

· Max Hardcore (maxhardcore.com)
· Buy "Hollywood Hardcore 7" (jerkoffzone.com)

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