Oriana Small aka Ashley Blue on Paul Little aka Max Hardcore

Late last week, Max Hardcore was found guilty on obscenity charges. In response, Oriana Small weighs in with a post on her blog: "Emotional Audience." In her unique blogku style, the adult performer deems the decision "unjust" and proclaims Hardcore, whose movies are routinely labeled misogynist, "the most unique pornographer in the business." Instead, Small, who regularly blogs her sometimes extreme sex life with her partner, photographer Dave Naz, speaks out for adults' rights to "partake in consensual piss-guzzling, ass-fucking and vomiting." The entry is accompanied by a series of photos in which Hardcore appears to be attempting to insert his entire hand into Small's mouth.

Quote of the Day: Jeffrey J. Douglas

"'Max Hardcore,' he said, 'is barely a cartoon of a human being...'" -- Jeffrey Douglas (See: "Max Hardcore Found Guilty")

Max Hardcore Found Guilty

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I, Nick Denton, Pornographer

Well, it looks like Nick Denton is getting into the porn business. Not satisfied with merely running a porn site portal, Denton appears to be quietly rolling out a new service this week: Fleshbot Video on Demand. For just $84.95, Gawker Media offers you 1,000 minutes of live, streaming hardcore porn, including masterpieces of hardcore cinema such as: "You've Got a Mother Thing Cumming 2," "Monsters of She Male Cock 4," and "GloryHole." Let's hope the DoJ's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and the FBI's Adult Obscenity Squad don't try and take down Denton for distributing obscenity; after all, the squads routinely bust distributors as part of their obscenity prosecutions against adult producers. But if it happens, maybe Denton and Max Hardcore, who's currently on trial in Tampa, could have tea.

Max Hardcore on Trial in Tampa, Florida

Thank goodness for Mark Kernes, the only reporter on the planet who has the temerity to go traipsing around the country, attending every obscenity trial that Porn Valley hath spawned. This week, Kernes is reporting live from the frontlines of the Max Hardcore obscenity trial in Tampa, Florida: "The Max Hardcore Obscenity Trial: Day 1."

The judge is a woman. I don't now if that bodes well for Max. (Real name: Paul Little.) Hello, Judge Susan C. Bucklew.

On the first day, everyone debated whether or not the jurors were going to have to watch all eight and a half hours of Hardcore entertainment. Why? Because of the Miller Test, which says the work must be evaluated "as a whole." But then "Judge Bucklew stated that she would have to watch the DVDs in their entirety before she could make a decision, and the prosecution handed the five DVDs to her as court recessed..." Is Judge Bucklew watching "Golden Guzzlers 7" right now?

After that, jury selection began. You know you are talking about some seriously hardcore movies when one juror is excused after stating "she was unable to look at anyone vomiting without getting nauseous herself..."

The chosen jurors include a museum worker and a pawnbroker.

The Week in Porn Indictments

1. Karen Fletcher's pleading guilty.

"'I have always been afraid of monsters. The monsters in my life had always been real; for too long they were always there with unlimited access to me, and I was helpless to do anything about it,' she wrote. 'In my stories, I have created new monsters.'"

2. No retrial date has yet been set in the case of Extreme Associates.

Lizzy Borden: "When I was a child, my step-father was an alcoholic. So I think I had deep issues, and this is kind of therapeutic for me, to take my aggression out on other people. So in a way, I'm exploiting people, taking all my inner demons and aggression on them. But it's good for me. So I guess that's all that matters."

3. Max Hardcore is slated to go to trial on the 27th in Tampa, Florida.

"Most of the girls then go along with the program, although they don’t have any idea how hard it really is. But almost all make it through the scene. Some come back again, and some don’t. But that’s about how it works for any porn, so it really doesn’t matter what you make them do."

Max Hardcore Indicted

Max Hardcore has been named in a 10-count federal obscenity indictment. The Smoking Gun story is here. Hardcore's statement is here. Evan Wright's 2000 Salon story on Hardcore is here.