I found this creative hot little video site and I knew some of our readers would be interested. It doesn’t look very big yet, but the photography is well done and sexy. Plus, a lot of their girls will be familiar to you. Girls like Jessie Lee, Darenzia, and other NY alt models make their sexy appearances. I still can not get used to seeing Darenzia’s more mature sophisticated model look with her brown hair and big tits, but the photos of her do look hot and stylish regardless. The directors make playful fun of Jessie Lee wearing more clothes than the cops are used to seeing her in. The whole thing looks cool and entertaining and you can check it all out for only $9! They don’t even rebill you. See it before they raise the price.

We got the notice on this a little too late to get our papers in order this year, but this will definitely be on my travel wish list come next January. The Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival just ran, from January 15th through the 18th, in Roetersstraat Amsterdam. This is the second one that they have done, annually, and the event is growing very quickly. The list of screenings and panels is very impressive and looks like a great time with some really unique and creative things to see and experience. Lots of artist/director talks, performances, and as always, too many hot looking after parties for one weekend. Check out the site, it’s got a lot of little video interviews from the event. Maybe we’ll see you there next year.

If I were to wildly oversimplify things, I could put the kinds of content we cover at altporn.net into two camps: artsy erotica and bonerfying pornography. In reality most of it falls somewhere between the two, with sites like FatalBeauty.com floating over near planet Artsy Erotica, and movies like Joanna’s Angels in a shallow orbit around the celestial sphere of Porn.

Alter Ego, the new film from Carlos Batts, is very, very much in the artsy erotica camp; properly emphasized, the ARTSY erotica camp. AE is a carnival of sensuality and skin and bent gender in slow motion, reminiscent of David Lynch and, less frequently, Andy Warhol.

AE is Carlos Batts’ tribute to April Flores/Fatty D, the voluptuous erotic performer and “super muse” who slides effortlessly between phat azz lowrider chica, living porcelain doll, and deadly stitched-up horror vixen. Batts’ moody, ethereal imagery captures a wide-ranging series of Flores’ erotic experiences, some of them sexy, some of them disturbing. Slow-paced and set to a stew of electro and hip-hop, it’s the kind of thing you watch in a quiet room at 2am when no one’s awake.

The altporn scene is just taking off in the mainstream adult industry, and it’s likely that we’re going to get a lot more punk/goth porn vids on the market. I’m not complaining, because I dig watching punk rawk girls get it on bigtime, but films like Alter Ego are important contrasts to easier-to-swallow porn. We need works like this to remind ourselves of the wide-ranging possibilities of erotic art.

• Buy Alter Ego
• Carlos Batts
• April Flores

What is altporn to you? Is it naked punk rock or goth chicks? Is it necessarily pornography? If not, is there a more appropriate moniker?

The ultra-awesome Molly Case drops some knowledge that Thomas Roche is the new managing editor at Eros Zine.

Sexy Fandom with Molly Case » Thomas S. Roche New Editor at Eros Guide Erotica EZine:

I first discovered author Thomas S. Roche years ago in a copy of Blue Blood, back when it was a print publication, back when finding that sort of material was nearly impossible, back when I felt like I was the only one who liked the things I liked. Blue Blood was my favorite magazine ever, partly because it introduced me to talents like Thomas S. Roche, who I might never otherwise have discovered. Roche is simply one of the best short story writers who ever lived. His name alone anywhere on the table of contents of an anthology is enough to get me to buy it.

(Via Sexy Fandom.)