AltPorn.net has gotten a lot of mail from people who miss our AltPorn Traffic and Rankings stories, so I’ve been invited back for another addition. This installment covers the QuantCast Estimated Monthly Visitors metrics. Quantcast has earned itself the reputation as being the most accurate traffic analysis tool available to the general public and is widely accepted as being far less gamable than other popular measures. QuantCast has changed their rankings reporting mechanism since my last traffic study installment and now only reports statistical numerical ranking measurements for sites that actually include their ‘Quantified’ measurement tool directly in their code. However, their Estimated Monthly Visitors statistics are still available for all. EMV is a good stat, as it gives a realistic feel for how many visitors a site is really getting in an average month, so that is what we will be using. We’ve tried to compile as complete a site list as we can, although we do exclude solo girls sites. If you have sites you feel should be included, please contact us and make your suggestions. For example, we debated the inclusion of Zivity, contact us if you have an opinion either way.
You will notice the addition of a few new AltPorn sites, some of which are doing phenomenally well, such as My Emo Bitch and Amateur Emo Girls. These sites reflect the recent popularity of ‘ex-girlfriend’ sites in online adult. They operate on the pretense that angry boyfriends upload embarrassing naked pictures of their former girlfriends for everybody to see. It’s depressing that this sub-genre is as popular as it is, but it goes to show that being popular doesn’t always mean being cool or good. These sites should still be included as they do reflect a realistic assessment of what people are looking at these days though. You may also notice APN has made a few adjustments to the AltPorn A-List. Inactive sites like RazorDolls are being removed. RazorDolls was a fun and sexy site, but it hasn’t updated in years. It was a good example of the AltPorn genre, but sending people there to join a dead site seemed wrong and/or unfair. We’ll hold out hope RD gets back on it’s feet, but for now it joins the ranks of ManicJane, FatalBeauty, SpicePlay, CityKittie, PornForPunks, and all the other dead AltPorn sites that once had interesting alternative content we’ve enjoyed.
These statistics are best evaluated as relative, rather than absolute. If you feel your favorite site gets more visitors, then consider that all sites measured probably get more visitors, as they are all measured with the same criteria. For example, judging by our own internal stats measures AltPorn.net gets an average of 101,000 unique visitors a month, but QuantCast only counts 57,868, and we’re actually Quantified. Here are the AltPorn Estimated Visitors Rankings for mid November, 2009:
Azrael Arden was already one of my favorite altmodels on the planet, before doing this interview. I love her ever-changing creative styles, her cute expressions, the way she poses, and the enormous pussy cat tattoo over her pussy.
But it is even better to find out that someone is extra terrific after finding out more about her. I have used Special Effects on my hair before, but I just heard of 50 volume peroxide for the first time from Azrael Arden. She also got her altporn model start in a more adventurous way than most. I look forward to seeing what kind of fashion design this talented girl does in the future.
Check out APN’s exclusive interview with Azrael Arden and find out everything you need to know about kitties who can knock you out, CraigsList adventures, where you can see her naked, and what she surprise costume she is going to wear for Halloween.
How did you get started modeling?
The first site i was ever on was in 2004 and it was called K.O kitties.com it was a wrestling/scratch fight site. We came up with the name Azrael and it basically stuck…forever. aha. I then answered a craigslist add…yes craigslist! I don’t advise anyone to do that, as it is very dangerous. Well i got lucky and met up with two guys from hoboken and we started azraelarden.com. I then became really busy with finishing school and decided I couldn’t keep up with the content updates. Then in 2007 I joined burningangel.com, because shooting for a site with 200 something girls is way less time consuming than having your own site. I met so many awesome chicks and got to do so many things through them..its just a great company to work for.
Do you have any fashion or hair tips for how other models might try to vary their style as impressively as you do? What sorts of things lead you to learn how to mix up your style so often and so well? I especially want to know how you got that great shade of blue!
Well every year as I get older I am changing my style. Each year I am being inspired by diff types of people or diff trends in fashion. I try to stay in style and follow the rules of fashion while being my own person at the same time. I actually am a fashion designer shh! ..anyone who wants blue hair.. You have to strip your hair to a light yellow or white. You must do this or it will look muddy! Use a bleach packet w/ a 40 or 50 developer. Then use a dye called special effects..they come in all kinds of awesome colors and they stay! I used fishbowl for my turquoise hair.
Who are some of your favorite photographers?
There are so many good ones…I once did some really pretty pictures with michelle star, Hiam bargig is fantastic of course, bob coulter dont even need to mention he is fabulous we all know that…the lovely brenda has taken some great photos of me and other burning angel broads, Chris jaime Took the infamous whisky n me .foot in pussy photos…o and destro damus takes the best ass photos ever. my ass looked like a fuckin peach.
Who are some of your favorite fellow models?
I am known to be friends with a few burning angel models! so I am partial to them of course! I’d say my burning angel friends make an all star team! Mayhem, Morgan mae, Draven, Jessie Lee, Joanna, Whisky, Bella Vendetta…and my girl crush..who i hope to shoot with soon…*wink wink nudge nudge* Miss Genocide.
Where has your work been featured? Altporn sites, magazines, videos, books, clothing catalogs, or anything like that? Where can fans find you?
Why don’t you use your full name Azrael Arden on all the sites you are on?
I think I do they just show me as Azrael sometimes. Im all over the place I lose track of stuff im on I’m terrible lol
What are some of your favorite sites/publications?
between you me, and the rest of altporn.net…I love free porn sites. lol. Sorry! I also really love random peoples fashion blogs..and lolcats. aha
Any appearances we should be keeping an eye out for or projects you are hoping to work on or anything of that nature? What is next for Azrael Arden?
Keep looking at burning angel…there is some sweet content to be put up! I also Randomly do youtube video blogs..I need to make new ones i delted my old ones because I looked awkward.
Do you know what you are going to be for Halloween yet?
yes.. I am going to be a sexy woodland elf. Don’t judge me. I’ve been a god damn cat for 5 years..trying to break the mold.
Be sure to stop by Azrael Arden’s APN profile and say hello.
Everyone knows Amelia G runs the Blue Blood empire and also does some of the photography and writing for it. Here on APN, we’ve featured photographs she has shot for Blue Blood many times and we’ve mentioned her writing once or twice. (You can also see the interview we did with Amelia G five years ago — Ed.) I write for APN and I have all the old Blue Blood print magazines from the 90’s in plastic bags with cardboard backing, so I thought I was pretty aware and I still found a lot on Amelia G’s new AmeliaG.com site to both inform and entertain me. In addition to running the business end of Blue Blood and working as an editor for many projects, Amelia G has had hundreds of photo sets published and thousands of articles. Amelia G has done writing and/or photography for all the major adult publishing houses including Playboy, Penthouse, Flynt, Crescent, Magna, and AVN, plus niche magazines including Marquis, On Our Backs, Skin Two, Tattoo Teasers, Fetish, Extreme Fetish, $pread, and of course Blue Blood. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica, Best S/M Erotica, and Best Women’s Erotica and dozens more books. But she still took time out of her busy schedule to give APN this exclusive interview.
APN: Blue Blood magazine in print was really ground zero for jump-starting the whole altporn genre and you’ve managed to maintain a top ranking for Blue Blood for more than sixteen years. To what do you credit your remarkable success and longevity?
AG: Thanks. I always hope the universe will smile on me for hard work and doing the right thing, and sometimes it does. A big advantage Blue Blood had in coming to the web is that the magazine was always subscription-driven and we had free sites for the community for years before we launched our first membership site. We actually had paid members before we had even actually launched the first pay site because we tested out a banner rotation for a few minutes and people saw it. I really appreciate the support we’ve gotten over the years and try to really put a lot back into the scene and into having really great creative work on all my sites.
APN: Okay, so, in your bio on your new personal site, your thesis subject really jumped out at me. You wrote your thesis at Wesleyan University on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality?
AG: I sure did. Kind of funny that it seemed sort of shocking, and outrageous, and possibly frivolous to be writing about that sort of topic, at a school like that, but it actually did turn out to be relevant to my job. The name Blue Blood is sort of a play on words with the blood for vampires and gothic spookyness and the blue meaning erotic as in blue movies, but the blue blood phrase overall connoting a certain tastefulness and strength. Especially in 1992, when I founded Blue Blood, it was very common for alt-identified people to feel like they had to accept second class citizen status. So the strength aspect is really important to the core manifesto for me. The most important message I would like readers or members to get from Blue Blood is that purple hair or tattoos or having kinky sex or otherwise living flamboyantly does not mean you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society.
APN: Didn’t the magazine have some bloodplay in it as well?
AG: The very first issue of Blue Blood, my friend Fish wrote a how-to article for safe bloodplay. Fish is a tattoo artist now and he was a military medic then, so he’s educated on the subject, but we got so many angry letters about that article. Blue Blood magazine even showed condoms in shoots and the article was about how to do bloodplay safely, so I’m very safety conscious, but some people just do not understand that it is not the extremity of a sexual practice which makes it unsafe. Unfortunately, in the internet distribution channel, we’ve been forced to move away from anything with blood in it.
APN: How does publishing on the internet instead of in print change whether you can have bloodplay?
AG: A lot of people get all caught up with definitions of genre based on what is and is not shown, but what can be shown in media is very dependent on distribution channel. For example, it did not used to be possible to show penetration in a magazine and be distributed on any newsstands outside of adult bookstores. Online, penetration makes no difference in where something can be seen. By contrast, if a web site accepts credit cards for memberships, they are likely to run into difficulties having any blood content. We’ve had to remove photo sets which showed only topless nudity where the girl was playing with blood made of vanilla-flavored corn syrup and food coloring because it was deemed extreme violence. If you watch Skinemax or cable channels like that, you can’t see penetration, but every other flick is a horror-themed excuse to douse topless women with fake blood. So it is not really that some distribution channels allow more and some allow less; they are just different.
APN: So is publishing on the internet harder or easier than in print?
AG: I love magazines. I still contribute to print projects and still create print projects. I love getting to hold a finished magazine in my hand. But the wonderful thing about the internet is that it is possible to go directly to the people who get it, without having to go through some distributor who hasn’t cracked an adult magazine in twenty years and thinks having tattoos is something that only teenagers would do. Despite a few restrictions on things like bloodplay, I find the internet easier from a distro standpoint. I think it is harder from a community standpoint. Back in the all print days, there used to be a lot of events where publishers would get together and we all traded quarter page ads with each and that is less the case for web publishers in this demographic.
APN: How do you feel about how altporn has evolved?
AG: Well, for one thing, I prefer the expression counterculture erotica to altporn, but I think altporn has definitely become the term for subculture-infused erotic media. In some respects, things are much easier today because being offbeat and being naked on camera have both been really destigmatized most places. In some respects, things being easier means that there are a small percentage of people who decide they want to make altporn who don’t really have the sense of community or individuality which would once have definitely been there. Most people in it are cool, but it has become more difficult to recognize who I have things in common with now, because, for example, there are people who just dress a certain way to be accepted and they don’t really care about personal freedom or get what it is all about.
APN: Your personal pics section on AmeliaG.com is really funny and I spotted so many famous people with you in there. Is your life basically a twenty-four hour party where you go from Hummer limo to book reading to art show to nightclub to fab afterparty?
AG: When I actually do take a moment to go out on the town, I like to make it count. I’m really a workaholic, but I think a gallery of like fifteen shots of me holding a camera and seventy of me sitting at a computer would have been less entertaining than eighty-five of me having fun.
APN: My favorite part of your new AmeliaG.com site is the professional photography portfolio you have on there. I love that you have members of the Misfits, Genitorturers, and Marilyn Manson in there with altstars like Voltaire, Bella Vendetta, and my future wife April Flores and it somehow seems all of a piece. How do you choose who you are going to shoot?
AG: As an artist, it is really important to me that my work be seen, so I like to have an idea of where a shoot might be published. A few hundred people a week apply to appear on the various Blue Blood sites, including BlueBlood.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, and RubberDollies.com in particular, and there is a submission form on BlueBloodPhoto.com. I, of course, publish other people’s photography even more often than my own on BlueBlood.com etc. and there are only so many hours in the day, but I do photograph select people from the Blue Blood apps. I do take commissions from publications, record labels, and such. In general, I most enjoy photographing people who have a certain spark, star quality, individuality, personal style, and passion for self-expression. Hotness is good, but there needs to be hotness with unique self-expression. After all, I think avoiding just conforming to someone else’s aesthetic is important to being alt.
APN: Thanks so much for your time. Congrats on the launch of AmeliaG.com. It looks fabulous, it is fun to look at, and it is really informative.
AG: Thank you for the interview and the kind words.
Xtra.ca “Canada’s leading source for gay and lesbian news” has some entertaining coverage of the recent fourth-annual Feminist Porn Awards, featuring video interviews with Madison Young, Jiz Lee, and NoFauxxx’s Courtney Trouble. Congratulations to Courtney for bringing home the Most Deliciously Diverse Cast award for Roulette, as well as all the talented winners who demonstrate what is great and creative and sexy in the alt world.
You can see more of Xtra’s video coverage on their YouTube channel.
If you are looking for some hot stuff to check out, here are the winners of the 2009 Feminist Porn Awards:
Movie of the Year:
Champion | Shine Louise Houston- Pink and White Productions
Indie Porn Pioneer:
Madison Young
Most Deliciously Diverse Cast:
Roulette | Courtney Trouble- Nofauxxx Productions
Sexiest Dyke Movie:
One Night Stand (Pour Une Nuit) | Emilie Jouvet – Hysterie Productions + Fatale Media
Hottest Kink Movie:
Perversions of Lesbian Lust Vol.1 | Madison Young – Madison Bound Productions
Steamiest Trans Scene:
Crash Pad Series 2- Unlocked | Shine Louise Houston – Pink and White Productions
Sexiest Straight Movie:
Intense Desires | Eli Cross – Lennox Films
Hottest Mature Couple’s Movie:
Bill and Desiree: Love is Timeless | Tony Comstock – Comstock Films
Most Sensual Softcore & Golden Beaver Award for Canadian Content:
Man of My Dreams | Mimi Balfour – Cleopatra Productions
Steamiest Educational Series:
Red Hot Touch Series | New World Sex Education
Heartthrob of the Year:
Dylan Ryan | For work in Strap-on Motel, Sex Mannequin, Crash Pad Series Volume 3, Champion, Perversions of Lesbian Lust: Volume 1 and Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco.
Heartthrob of the Year:
Tyler Knight | For work in Chemistry 4 and Intense Desires
A while back we covered an update Blue Blood did for their BarelyEvil bad girls and trouble makers site which featured super sexy tattoo pin-up Superna showing off some beautiful buds. Although drug use is common in the alt community and marijuana policy debate has been heating up within the youth activist circles, this still seemed like a pretty bold layout.
It turns out that there is a huge dramatic story that goes along with this photographic series that can only now be fully released. Blue Blood boss Amelia G just posted a really interesting follow-up interview with Superna about her trials and experiences relating to the big bust of her ‘drug’ house and the subsequent arrest. It all sounds like a terrible thing to go through, but her attitude about it is enlightening. We also have a bonus free gallery from the shoot that is a little nakeder than the one Blue Blood just posted on their non-adult entertainment and community site to go along with the interview.
So we posted the whole sexy series of Superna serving a couple pounds of weed in the BlueBlood VIP some time ago and, in honor of 4/20, we posted a free 420 photo gallery here. What we have not been able to share with you all, because her and Individual’s case was still pending, is that her home was raided shortly after this. Superna is someone who just lights up a room. In my experience, Superna makes everyone around her smile, so I am shocked and appalled that someone would do this to her. She always radiates a certain beautiful infectious joy and it broke my heart that she had to go through this. I guess I should probably also have been freaked out that Forrest Black and I shot this photo set at her home, actually during the time period her house was under surveillance, but at least the photos had nothing to do with her arrest.
Superna: Oh my god.. .it was like a movie! 20 swat officers with machine guns at 7am.. my 2 roommates were there, but Individual and I were in Louisiana . . . They kicked in the door while Willie was watching FOX News getting ready for work.. they also kicked in the two fences to the back yard. They expected a HUGE bust, which did not happen, so they looked like idiots! When we got back to Cali . . .. they arrested me and Individual there to save face for all the cash they spent on their “huge drug stakeout”. My roommates took a deal with the DA and have to do drug classes and probation for 16 months, Individual and I are still battling it in court because we are actually innocent (even though that term doesn’t really mean anything once you’ve been arrested. It’s like guilty till proven guilty). Because it was our name on everything we are the ‘alleged’ big drug lords of the universe with 18 plants. Funny thing though, they got less than an ounce total off of all those plants Our house was supposedly under surveillance when our car was stolen too. Cops didn’t help with that one… we lost our house while we were in jail and . . . Individual told them he was innocent and won’t do any . . . drug classes because he did nothing wrong… so they told him he couldn’t stay in the house over night. He is now sleeping in a tent in the back yard !! (heeeee) .. so …. carless… homeless… broke …. and I still can’t be stopped !! Someone has it out for me bad though. The police report is all based on testimony from a “confidential informant” who called the cops . . . HATERS!!! The best revenge will be my triumphant success!! . . . I love you.. and I can’t wait to see those shots of me and Individual’s jizz fest at our former house . . . I’ve been out of touch while in the slammer
[Fast forward many moons . . .]
Amelia G: What finally happened with your case?
Superna: After the State of California spent thousands dollars trying to make a “case” against us, the case was DISMISSED
Amelia G: After smashing your totally cool living situation, did the State of California determine that actually you should have a pot prescription?
Superna: Yes we both have physicians recommendations for the use of medical cannabis, and the federally approved synthetic TCH “Marinol” (which is available in every state and at every Wal-Mart pharmacy in the country by the way). As a matter of fact, when we were drug tested every week during our probationary period, we were allowed to have THC in our system because the state of California recognizes the use of medically prescribed cannabis (prop 215), and the state and county judicial system is required to adhere the laws of the state. If this were a federal matter, it would have been handled differently.
Amelia G: You have such a sunny and warm personality all the time around other people. You always make everyone smile. Do you feel smoking at one point in time can make you more positive at another or is your sunny disposition mostly philosophical?
Superna: I think it is definitely a philosophical point of view, also a CHOICE to be happy at all times. I think for its medical use, it can help someone with easing anxiety, stress, boosting creativity, relieving physical pain… Let me put it like this : If you are a naturally easy-going person it can help you to be a “really” easier-going person. Likewise, if you are an extremely paranoid person, it will also enhance your paranoia. Sort of a mood enhancer, but also with dozens of other medical applications.
Amelia G: What do you personally find good and/or bad about smoking?
Superna: Personally, I don’t find smoking to be good, I find it to be great. Seriously, it helps so much with stress and anxiety, appetite problems, stomach disorders, high-blood pressure, tension, insomnia.. on the other hand, it is also a creativity enhancer – making creative endeavors flow with much more ease from the source. Every medical study that I have reviewed on the subject shows it to be non-addictive with no lasting or permanent unwanted effects. A natural remedy, as opposed to the chemical cocktails in the pills that are created artificially in a pharmaceutical laboratory with life-threatening side effects. As far as the “bad” aspects, its definitely hard being coined a “criminal” for choosing a homeopathic route as opposed to the so-called “legal” drugs peddled out of your local pharmacy and hospital. It boils down to it not being as popular yet with the general public…and they aren’t making any tax dollars off of the home grown remedies, so they push what will make them (and the lobbyists) the most money.
Amelia G: Do you think the rest of the country will eventually legalize all smokables or at least medical use?
Superna: I hope so. I think as everyone progresses in their thinking (away from the antiquated religious dogma),medical use will become more accepted, as will other choices of a personal nature. Things are changing so fast right before our eyes, and I have a very positive outlook for the future. Happy 4:20 Thank you, and remember to love one another!!
Rob Griffin from 420Girls know how to make something look like a good time. Brooke Banner usually just seems like a regular pornstar, but, in this 420Girls set, Rob Griffin captures so much personality. Brooke Banner looks totally fuckable and human on 420Girls. Not at all like the airbrushed porno girl she comes across like elsewhere. Even her tattoos look like she has more of them. I wonder if other sites she appears on airbrush her tattoos out normally. Whatever the case, 420Girls makes it look fun. I wish they updated more often, but I guess stoned people sometimes take a while to get around to things.
Please welcome 420 Girl of the Month, Brooke Banner who says, “I have never heard of anyone going crazy on Weed or killing people, I think it is a great stress reliever and if you live in L.A. and drive the 405 or 101 you will need it, Hehe”.
Brooke says, “Smoke responsibly because it is still not legal, even though it should be.”
Watch Brooke toke bong rips of White Widow, pipe hits of OG Kush, smelling Nuggets and showing off some killer headie glass pieces in the coolest head shop in Southern California. Happy, High and Fully Nude. (350 Photos)
Why do you think Marijuana should be legal?
I have never heard of anyone going crazy on it or killing people, I
think it is a great stress reliever and if you live in La and drive
the 405 or 101 you get me. Hehe
What do you like to do when you get high?
My normal day to day activities.
When did you lose your 420 virginity and what was it like?
Years ago, I guess great b/c I am still doing it.
What is your wildest 420 fantasy?
To live in a planet free of penalty for possessing a plant.
Do you smoke Marijuana for any medicinal purpose?
Yes, for stress, headaches and cramps.
Do you own anything made from Hemp?
Yes.
What’s your favorite munchie when you’re high?
Anything, I am such a fat ass when it comes to eating high….
What’s the best bud you’ve ever had?
Purple from Humboldt County.
What is your favorite thing about Marijuana?
I can function on it.
What is your favorite method of smoking?
Out of a pipe.
What is your favorite stoner movie?
How High.
Who is your favorite 420 Band?
Wu-Tang
What was the funniest thing that happened to you while you were high?
Who knows, every day is always a funny day. Hehe
If you could state our case to the President, what would you say?
Legalize it, maybe more people would calm down and be less stressed.
Is there anything you would like to say to our viewers?
Smoke responsibly because it is still not legal, even though it should be.
Click Here to see Brooke’s fully nude photos in the Member’s Area http://www.420girls.com
__________________ 420 Girls
Creating Cannabis Awareness Since 1993
420 Girls is a Division of 420 Magazine
Lexi Belle always looks cute as a button to me, but I’ve never found her that alt, even though she has appeared in work from both BurningAngel and BlueBlood. I enjoy scenes and sets featuring her because she always seems to have a fresh energy to get into what is going on. Whether she is supposed to be being nerdy or party bad girl, she makes her sexual response come across new and not jaded. For 4/20, it seemed like today would be a good day to share these shots by Rob Griffin from 420Girls.
420 Girls – Lexi BellePlease welcome 420 Girl of the Month, Lexi Belle who says, “I think Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, and I think there are people in jail because of Marijuana that shouldn’t be”.
Lexi loves her Marijuana, she says, “Music is much more enjoyable, I enjoy friends who smoke with me, I enjoy a good orgasm when I’m high and even a good exploratory hike”.
Watch Lexi smoke bong rips of OG Kush, play with Buds and Vaporize God’s Gift from the Green Volcano in a Religious Marijuana Temple in Los Angeles. Happy, High and Fully Nude. (400 Photos)
Why do you smoke Marijuana?
I just really enjoy it, it is really relaxing.
How often do you smoke?
Whenever conscious, right now.
Why do you think Marijuana should be legal?
I think Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, and I think there are people in jail because of Marijuana that shouldn’t be.
What do you like to do when you get high?
Well, music is much more enjoyable, I enjoy friends who smoke with me, I enjoy a good orgasm when I’m high, a good explorative hike.
When did you lose your 420 virginity and what was it like?
Took a while to kick in, then sounds became more vibrant, everything became funny, I felt like I was under-water.
What is your wildest 420 fantasy?
Simply to roll the fattest most perfect blunt for friends.
Do you smoke Marijuana for any medicinal purpose?
I started smoking it before I even knew it had any medical purposes. I am now a Legal Medical Marijuana patient in California.
Do you own anything made from Hemp?
A few knick knacks.
What’s your favorite munchie when you’re high?
Cap’n Crunch Berries… just the berries.
What’s the best bud you’ve ever had?
GREEN CRACK and Sour Diesel.
What is your favorite thing about Marijuana?
The effect, the smell, and fucking everything.
What is your favorite method of smoking?
A water bong.
What is your favorite stoner movie?
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
Who is your favorite 420 Band?
Sublime and Wu-Tang
What was the funniest thing that happened to you while you were high?
Nothing situational just laughing incessantly at nothing.
Is there anything you would like to say to our viewers?
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of something elusive yet obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Click Here to see Lexi’s fully nude photos in the Member’s Area http://www.420girls.com
__________________ 420 Girls
Creating Cannabis Awareness Since 1993
420 Girls is a Division of 420 Magazine
I’ve just been introduced to the cool creative work of an artist by the name of Markley??? and I felt it was my duty to share these great portraits of our friend and fellow sex blogger Violet Blue. I have to admit that when I saw the first shot I thought it might be from our creative friends over at Porn Saints, but apparently there is no connection, not as of yet anyway. This is the kind of edgy creative work I really enjoy getting to see. Sex toys, fireworks, guns, and sexy tattooed friends of ours. That is what it’s all about. Check out the Markley: Three Question Marks site for some insane ramblings and more sexy dangerous creative work.
NoFauxxx pride themselves on being “the longest running queer porn site on the web” (Although a cursory check on the registration date of the clearly queer oriented BadPuppy shows it’s been successfully online since 1995. -Ed) Trouble, the site’s creator, began the site back in 2003 taking photos of herself and her friends and posting them online. NoFauxxx quickly caught on within the alt/queer community as something atypical, diverse, and freakishly outrageous. Fast forward to 2009, NoFauxxx 2.0 has evolved into a social networking porn site with a new site design and both a free and member’s community with many free features. The member’s area features over 139 photosets and 20 videos highlighting queer stars Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Madison Young, Lorelei Lee, Kimberly Kane, Audacia Ray, and Trouble herself. You’ll see lots of diverse alt/queer gender-bending fuckery between boys, girls and transfolk, sporting Mohawks, tattoos, piercings, and strap-ons.
Coinciding with the launch of the new website, Trouble has also been hard at work behind the scenes filming her first full-length alt porn which has been two years in the making. NoFauxxx Roulette (2009) will feature “steaming hot sex scenes that support the existence of the queer sex underground, with authentic and sexually diverse vignettes that uphold feminist and queer political beliefs.”
I remember when your site first launched and what struck me about it (besides the alternative/gender inclusive/queer content) was the name: No “Fauxxx”. Obviously this is a reference to the “fake” quality of mainstream porn. What is your take on mainstream and your Modus operandi, or what you hope to accomplish with NoFauxxx?
I’m not trying to say everything else is fake, but I am trying to say that everything on the site is authentic. There’s really a personality behind the photos, and it’s not just in a model bio or a message board presence. I actually make it a goal to post content that looks personal. I use real settings, real outfits, real couples. I’ve shot porn stars like Lorelei Lee, but the difference between my photos and some other work that she’s done (even though it’s all wonderful!) — I got the chance to take intimate photographs of her in her bedroom, in her favorite outfit, surrounded by the books that have inspired her most in her life. That’s what I’m going for really, an intimacy that could never be read as fake, posed, unreal, or contrived.
How has NF evolved over the years? What have been your challenges and accomplishments? How has this project allowed you to evolve/transform as a sexual individual, an artist, a pornographer? Where do you hope it will lead?
First of all, my photography has gotten waaaay better, and I’ve really learned how to make films over the years. If you see the videos on the site now, you can see how the quality really goes up a small notch in each vignette, and it’s taken a long time to get to the kind of quality you’ll find in Roulette. In a sense, the community has really expanded around me, so where there was once nothing but NoFauxxx, there’s now a whole community surrounding NoFauxxx. I’ve become more interested in making it high art, and I’ve really realized that the site lies somewhere in between “Queer Porn” and “Alt Porn.” — living in between a gay and straight space is hard to navigate, but that’s really where I hope it will lead.
You maintain in your mission statement that NoFauxxx “is the longest running queer porn site on the web”. There are many “girl-girl” and “gay” porn websites on the internet that probably use the same claim. How do you see NoFauxxx as distinct from them in relation to queer/gender politics?
“Girl Girl” is a contrived notion of queerness. I spoke with a company owner who boasts “true lesbians” in his business, and he had the audacity to say to me, “We make sure they’re a little bit bisexual.” And, while bisexuality is certainly a queer notion and bi girls count – the thought of this guy’s testing mechanisms for “real lesbianism” seems a little weak. I think that regardless of whether these “girl/girl” models actually like girls or not, the film is produced by men, with the intention of selling to men who like to watch lesbians.
I think you can be “queer” and be anywhere in the sexuality spectrum, as long as you feel like your sexual identity is somewhere outside the box, and perhaps you just don’t do things the way the world would expect you to as a gay, lesbian, straight, or bisexual.
The word “queer” in relation to “lesbian” and “gay” is an even more unifying word than “GLBT,” because you don’t have to explain your sexuality any further than that unless you feel like it. I think it’s a term used by younger people, certainly people who have transgendered folks in their scenes perhaps because of the complication of calling yourself “lesbian” or “straight” when you date people of varying genders. I believe “queer” also has a very punk rock element to it – we’re more deviant, we’re more dangerous, we’re more exciting, than just being plain old gay or kinky.
Women watch all kinds of porn. But women who identify as lesbians, from my experience at least, find most “girl/girl” porn to be extremely fake. It’s like whoever directed it has absolutely no idea how women fuck each other. Many alt porn sites have the same exact problem when it comes to shooting two girls together. Also, when I was doing girl/girl shows in a peepshow, it translated to men’s ideas of how women fuck in real life – meaning that men are believing this junk. I think that porn has the power to educate people, and that can be enlightening as well as damaging. How many things have you seen in porn where you have thought, “Well, that’s just not right!” Good porn will show you how it’d done right – but porn that was carelessly produced can teach it’s audience that our clits are in the backs of our throats, that lesbians love to show off for men, that all women can take 5 cocks in their asses all at once…. you get the picture.
I think that my site is one of those sites that show the world how people *really* fuck. I’m shooting raw, undirected, unscripted sex – I’m asking my models to show us how it’s really done. I think the end result is hotter both to queer audiences, and straight audiences, when the real is authentic and the chemistry is high.
Why is it important for you to deconstruct typical stereotypes in porn? Do you believe that art (as a vehicle for cultural critique) has the power to effect social change?
When was the last time you had to pick between BBW sex, MILF sex, Gay sex, Public sex, or Black-Dick-Zilla sex in your real, non-porn, you’re-actually-about-to-get-laid sex life? Real sexuality just isn’t thrown into boxes like that, and certainly, the people we are, and the people we’re attracted to, can’t all fit ourselves into those boxes. I think the over-niching of porn is rude to the performers, and I’d prefer that things were set up a little more like mine. I can’t separate my website into “Girls” and “Boys” because there’s some foxes on the site who wouldn’t know which side to pick. I think it’s important to break down gender, race, size, fetish, and orientation stereotypes to create a pornographic world were fat girls can be pin ups, skinny hipster boys can fuck their own asses, and black men can be nice, and not raping somebody’s daughter… Know what I mean? The stereotypes placed on minorities in the porn world is horrible, and I wouldn’t want to work in porn at all if I had to go by those rules.
You mention that NF’s goal is to “uphold queer political beliefs” and “sex-positive theories”. How does porn accomplish this?
Sex positivity has a lot to do with being open with yourself and other’s sexual idiosyncrasies. In that sense, a sex positive porn would be honest and true to the performer and producers sexuality, without creating a stigma or stereotype about the sex being performed. And to me, upholding queer political beliefs in porn means practicing safer sex, showing communication/consent/safewords as a normal part of queer sex, and respecting people’s bodies, gender identities, pronouns, and sexual preferences.
Do you believe that by making sex-positive, gender-queer, diverse sexualities more accessible via the internet, it has changed the way people view typical stereotypes of beauty/sex/gender? Have you seen these views evolve over the years since you first launched NF?
I think it serves as a place where college-aged queers could go and see that they don’t have to be “this or that” to fit into a LGBT system, or the world in general. Also, maybe this would be a question to ask the readers here – has stumbling across my site made you see beauty/sex/gender differently? Over the years that I’ve been doing NoFauxxx, there have been more FTMs [female-to-males] making porn and performing, and many people have started their own queer porn sites.
Much of the content on NF is taken by either yourself or your friends. How has DIY culture changed the porn industry, or has it? Mainstream keeps pumping out the same generic stuff and people still buy it. How can DIY complete with such an overwhelming commercial machine?
Mainstream porn can and always will pump out the same boring shit, but offering up more indie options will undoubtedly bring in our own audience. Once people see DIY porn, watching mainstream porn becomes a different experience–when you can see the different between real and fake.
I would like to talk about your new film: NoFauxxx Roulette. What was the experience like of creating such an ambitious project? What challenges did you face? What did you learn?
Well first off, I have absolutely no formal training in film or editing, so taking this project on was pretty much like enrolling in film school, except I had no teachers. I made plenty of mistakes and had to start over many times. In the end, I think teaching myself how to shoot and edit made Roulette a very unique film – i just don’t do things like everyone else.
I started filming Roulette in early 2007 with no budget. It’s taken me two years to complete, and I still owe money! The budget by far has been the biggest challenge – to keep updating the site and film this movie takes a lot of funds that I just didn’t have. Luckily I’ve been able to just make the movie, and hopefully it will work out in the end. The film is now available for pre-order at: http://www.courtneytrouble.com
There are many women who have become the makers rather than the muses in the porn industry. This is radically different form the 60s and 70s, within the feminist anti-porn movement. How have feminist ideologies changed to support the ability for women to become manufacturers of porn rather than passive pawns of male desire?
2nd wave feminists are our mothers and grandmothers – and naturally – this general of feminists have rebelled. Annie Sprinkle, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle… these people broke the molds that allowed women to create porn, and watch it more freely, than before.
Do you consider yourself a 3rd wave feminist?
Revolution Girl Style Now!!!!
What artists, pornographers, icons (past and/or present) have inspired you? Who are your mentors?
I love classic photography–Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and current photographers like Nan Goldin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Dave LaChappelle. Jackie Strano and Shar Rednoir’s movies inspired me when I was younger, and now Jackie is someone I go to for film advice on a weekly basis.
We’ve been checking out Sean Adamz’ LazerBunny altporn site a bunch lately and we’ve been entertained by some of the things the outspoken Mr. Adamz has had to say, so in honor of their one year anniversary, we thought it would be fun to ask the bunny master a few questions about his site, his creative work, etc. All in all, I must say that I enjoy his site. It has some areas ripe for growth, but he does manage to integrate some of the social features with the content and he doesn’t seem to forget that his members joined to see hot sexy photos and video of interesting and varied girls. I particularly enjoy the video featured on the site, but the photo sets are nice too. To be fair, a lot of the credit for this interview really should also go to KittyTwo. She helped with a lot of the questions and should share credit on the by line. We’d also like to thank Sean for taking the time to enlighten us and here is what he had to say:
I like how well organized the internal structure of the LazerBunny site is and the social features like member profiles and some really enjoyable member blogs give it a nice friendly atmosphere. Was that a challenge to set up?
The community features of lazerbunny, aside from billing and adult website business legalities, were ultimately the hardest to create. Once i had conquered all of that it was on to the wonderful struggle of encouraging the models to consistently use these features. After listening to the girls say it was ‘very important’ to have those blogs and community features (and agreeing), it was frustrating to have to constantly push smart, witty, outspoken people to be smart, witty and outspoken. I’m not the kind of person who really enjoys blogging but I do what needs to be done to make the site happen and sometimes that means writing a blog about a sandwich and a Fugazi song.
You have some interesting features like a magazine style section featuring a handful of movie and music reviews, along with interviews and other entertaining bits. Is this an area you plan on building up a lot more? How popular is this sort of content with your members?
The ‘magazine’ section of the site comes from my old-skool days when ‘zines were really popular forms of counter-culture and erotica for weirdos and punk rockers, alt kids, losers, whatever you want to call them. They raised questions about what was going on, and regardless of the content, it felt more personal and more relevant than the nightlife section of some popular magazine that anyone in the world could read.. ‘Zines were often mailed out by hand and written by a handful of people that likely knew each other and the ’scene’ they represented.. I was always around a lot of punk rockers and industrial/goth types, always the black sheep of both groups, but a good friend of mine had a very popular ‘zine called Psychotic Episode and I helped him out with that sometimes and always kind of mixed it all up without the boundaries of social cliche.
Many of the photo sets featured on the LazerBunny site are really creative from a lighting and environment perspective, not to mention the really sexy sexy subjects, but I noticed that a lot of them are fairly soft core topless style and such. Not that there is anything wrong with that, they are very enjoyable, but we’ve seen you rant about ‘bland pinup photography’ that doesn’t admit it’s pornography. These photo sets seem to contrast with your unabashed ‘hardcore’ sex videos, which are also enjoyable but not nearly as soft. Do you see a difference between good altporn video vs. good altporn photography, from the perspective of trying to create good pornography?
I see a lot of websites calling themselves ‘pornography’ or alt-porn… this is not the case if you are attempting ‘artistic nudes’ or fetish photography. All three are completely different, just like punk is not new wave and hardcore is not emo. I do what I do in the same style, and that plays a huge role at lazerbunny.com primarily because I DO everything on the site. I do not have assistants who edit, or financial backing from larger companies. I’ll shoot a photo set of a model with the same amount of thought that goes into shooting a video. The only difference is that one has ‘action’. I like a lot of different kinds of art; I own an art gallery and an extensive art collection that primarily features deviant artists of the early 1900’s when things were strange in the same ways. On one hand people were very glamorous and on the other hand life was very dirty and a lot of decadence and perversion was happening both openly and behind closed doors. On that note, I am a big fan of the original Bizarre Magazine published by Taschen at that time.
You’ve expressed disgust with people who fail to create pornography. What do you feel makes your work porn and what is good about porn?
I only feel disgust towards people that lie to the public about their product. I’m entitled to my opinion, and it pisses me off. I also feel that the people who do create an expensive and time-consuming product deserve respect regardless of their industry. People that work for our government are responsible for countless murders and even genocide , and they receive a lot of praise and a huge paycheck. Creating pornography was my decision to stand up for something in [duh]merica. Let’s get right to the point: pornography is our right as Americans. We can look at it, we can make it, we can do anything we want as long as its remains within the law. In sexually restrictive countries exists a higher rate of rape, murder, political unrest and sexism…Clearly that exists here as well, but I think that freedoms allow for a tolerance that maybe we stopped appreciating a long time ago, because we only use 10% of our liddo brainz. Wake up please, everyone, alarm clock time.
How did you get into shooting video and photos? Do you consider yourself more of a photo guy or a video guy?
Honestly, I am an artist. That’s it. I’ve toured the country playing in a rock band. I’ve held exhibitions of some of the most renowned artists in the world in my gallery, I’ve had photo shows, and made music videos for other bands. and I’ve had books of my writing published. Sometimes I’m a makeup artist when girls don’t like doing their own makeup. I can do anything it doesn’t matter what it is..’LazerBunnyMansion’ had no plumbing when i got the place..I did that too, while coding the website at the same time….whatever, you do what you want if you want to.
It seems like the role of ‘model’ has changed in the recent years, especially in the world of alt-modeling . In some cases, their expectations of what they are going to get out of a shoot seem very high these days. How do you handle it when a model expects you to work extra-hard to make her look more than perfect these days?
Mostly, I would like to introduce a lot of people to the word and conceptual reality of something called ex foliation… I’m not working for a major publication, so for me the key is do my job, and do it well. I should not have to work “extra hard” to make a model look good, isn’t that the models job? What does a model’s job consist of? 1. Show up on time. 2. Look good and know how to look good A LOT. 3. Wait there is no 3 which also cancels out 4.
What inspired you to start shooting? To start a site?
Well, like I said I have done a lot in the entertainment industry, so after deciding that I wanted to take a break from playing music after 10 years of doing it for a living, it seemed easy to contact a lot of my friends that I knew were ok with that kind of thing, i.e. groupies, strippers, gogo dancers.. . I’ve known Stoya since around the time she had just turned 18 from hanging around Philly and she was the first person I talked to about the site. At the time it was just an idea, and that was well before she had done anything nude in terms of photographs. She was actually turning down great photographers for nude shoots because she was doing more fashion. We collaborated over the years on ideas, and a lot of the original lazerbunnyz are mutual friends and acquaintances. From there it has been really a lot of determination and being kind of generally pissed off that most of the pornography out there is really really DUMB.
You have an interesting collection of talent on your site. What characteristics make you want to shoot a girl?
Each lazerbunny is different, amazing and unique. I noticed early on that alot of things are the same about ‘brands’ of porn.. the girls on the site are similar, the movies are similar, alot of the same stuff being churned out, which is good if you are making cars, because there are performance standards, but when you are dealing with really real hot models in really fake movies about real sex, you hit a conceptual wall that does not allow you to photoshoppe the same thing into every single background or cast the same exact girls as the other sites. I have in fact cast some girls that appear on other sites, and sometimes ALOT of other sites, but there’s always some way that they each represent the best of their ‘type’ of girl. For instance, Pinky Lee is the best 50’s looking retro pinup girl..She also gets more hardcore in alot of videos than some people realize. Stoya is clearly the ultimate supermodel of altporn, Kate Hate is well…Kate Hate..Astrid is a bitchy redheaded dominant girl who makes fun of people in videos about their cock being too small to find, and the list goes on. Each model has her spot in the spectrum of odd girls and mean girls and punk girls etc.
You created some of my favorite content of Stoya. How do you feel about her signing to Digital Playground?
Thanks, I really love all the sets of Stoya, because i know her personally i feel like a lot of personallity shows through in her sets… that’s something I really pride in my photographs. I was and still am extremely supportive of Stoya in her move to DP, mostly because that was the plan all along, to find a good place for her to have a job doing something that she actually enjoys (being a pervert or pervin out as she would call it) I can’t say for sure if S.bot actually ‘enjoys’ making porn all day sometimes. I also don’t think that football players want to train half the year and then go to play games for the rest of the year. It’s all a lot of work, achieving goals that go beyond the status quo. It’s like getting a record deal. If DP was Geffen Records, and I was SubPop, then Stoya would be Nirvana.
What do you think about the way the talent pool has changed since altporn became, as you posted, more corporate?
I have to be totally honest with you on this one, it’s probably become more professional… No different than bands sounding better once they get into a REAL studio to record after signing with a decent label and going on tour for a year, you’re just better. Amateur is cool, but that’s not alternative, and any industry should be professional.
Does it bother you when models and performers you shoot work with other people or are you happy for them getting credits, whether or not they come back to shoot more with you afterwards? How do you feel about exclusivity contracts?
How do I feel about exclusivity contracts…well I touched on this point earlier a bit actually. In the entertainment industry (which includes Altporn AND the price is right and MTV, etc, etc, etc), there are these amazing things called contracts which have existed forever and can also entail “getting signed.” This means you have a JOB. Jobs are good when you have bills. Remember that, kids. If the contract that you are signing will be a bad one, don’t sign it. If it will be beneficial to both parties, then outline the terms of the agreement and stick to it. It’s amazing how people sign contracts (especially non-compete clauses) and think that the words in the contracts they’ve signed don’t mean anything; it’s completely ridiculous. Personally, I don’t use exclusivity contracts for all of my models. I do work exclusively with some models, but that’s their personal choice.
What do you see as the pros and cons for working for a site like LazerBunny vs a corporation like Digital Playground?
The major benefit of working for a smaller company is that you always have some idea of who you are working with and for. Unfortunately this can often lead to theft, personality conflicts, “he said she said” situations, and a lot more drama than working for a corporation. (They just send you to human resources.) I assume that working for a bigger company like DP allows for more job security and less stress.
Who do you work with besides your own site LazerBunny (sites, magazines, video companies, etc.)
I only work for lazerbunny.com, although I do have other artistic projects underway, including a book publishing deal for my erotic and more ‘abstract’ photography. I’m going to be exhibiting in the first deviant art show held in Prague in a few months, and I deal in art and artist management , primarily visual arts. I am also the artistic director of lazertown art collective which is a selective group of artists like the dada group.
I saw that you admitted on your site that it costs more to run than it makes and that you are clearly not doing it for the money, as a matter of fact if you were doing it for the money you’d be doing something else. What are your goals for doing the site?
Well, there’s not much to admit there, as in most business you should expect to be in the red for a year or sometimes even two to three with high-risk businesses as the amount of cash flow is often time very hard to recoup from just one shoot, even when you are paying less than the mainstream industry standard. Funny thing is I just put that blog up about 3 minutes before you read it, probably because there were no blogs posted, so I had to think of something to write about. In the blog I basically say a lot of the same things that I am saying here in this interview, but maybe differently with more confusing metaphors. Even I don’t get where I’m going half the time, and that is exactly how I got here. It’s magical.
You voiced some pretty strong comments about the disappointing outcome of the SuicideGirls vs Lithium Picnic lawsuit. How would you summarize your current opinion of what went down there?
Meh, lolpr0n is funnier than that debacle. I had an initial reaction to it as I am sure a lot of people, models, and industry people had on different levels. As an artist I am ashamed to have someone that is well-respected by their fans make such obviously terrible decisions about where to ‘work’ . But you know, I talk to artists a lot, and almost every artist I work with or for is encouraged by me to own their own work. If LP Studios were independent of SG even after the drama started, I would have supported him in his work. But alas, I do not support people who work for wal-mart just because they need a job.. I don’t have anything against them, but I’m not going to give them the spare change from my pocket that I worked for as they complain about the choice they made to work for wal-mart. That just SEEMS like a rip-off… and it is. I hate to break it to everyone but if all your favorite bands and artists came crying about it and ‘fundraising’ every time they got sued by a record company or movie studio you would never even have known about the situation. Get over it.
Where are you from and were are you located now?
I was born on the banks of a river, raised in New Orleans, and I live in Philadelphia now.
Have you ever appeared on camera?
I’ve been on camera alot, I took a lot of band photos and appeared in a lot of videos and stuff for music. OH OH OH, you mean in porn? Heh, thats a mystery…no one really knows, not even me, one time i woke up in a bathtub filled with ice in warehouse ..with no spleen and Stoya was there smiling ..i’m not sure if there was a camera involved or not, but that was pretty altporn if you ask me.
What should people look for from Sean Adamz and LazerBunny in the near future?
Get used to me fuckers, cuz I’m not leavin’ . More of the same..A LOT more of the different, and also some interesting collaborations with great models..and other photographers…every now and then you can catch a set shot by Bob from CrazyBabe on my site, or a set from bunnymansion on his site….I am releasing my first DVD of lazerbunny scenes which will be part compilation and part full length move called “WE’VE CUM FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS” vol. 5 (we’re gonna skip the first 4)
I have 2 full-length DVD’s coming out after this summer, and A LOT more great photo-sets of Stoya, Pinky Lee, Ariel Adore and all the lazerbunnyz. Currently I am at about 15 thousand photos. There are currently 15 official lazerbunnyz…The idea is to have 13 lazerbunnyz per year 1 per month and a featured ‘upcoming’ star of the year, so look out for her and lazerbunny, and me, Sean Adamz all over the underbelly of the internet.
How do you define AltPorn? What is good about AltPorn? What is bad about AltPorn?
I define altporn as anything that gets the weirdo’z off. what is bad about altporn is the same thing thats bad about alot of things..HUMANS fuck it up. If pornicorns ( unicorns of porn) were flying around with rainbows shooting out of their asses then the world would be such an amazing peaceful altporn heaven, but theyre not …so deal with it fuckers.
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