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While You Were Sleeping: Mel Gibson Is In Trouble Now

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:11:00 GMT

Everyone's saying Obama brought down the house at the "nerd prom," aka the White House Correspondents Dinner, but really, it was Wanda Sykes who killed. She even landed good terrorism and abstinence jokes.

Ashton Kutcher got punk'd.

Star Trek shocked the movie industry by grossing over $72 million in its opening weekend.

Justin Timberlake brought it back to SNL.

It costs two cents more to mail a letter now, as if you still mail letters.

Mel Gibson may have impregnated his mistress. Yes, the guy who directed The Passion of the Christ.

The 9.6 million dollar text message.

Eminem has gone to war against... Mariah Carey?

Steven Soderbergh and Sasha Grey are on tour promoting their movie and are constantly having to defend porn.

These Claire Danes Nipple Slips Make Up For A Lack of Quality Nipple Slips This Week

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:05:00 GMT

We read you loud and clear-- you couldn't find Goldie Hawn's nipples in close up. Hell, you didn't see Sasha Grey's boobs in two posts with her nipples in them. Obviously, someone is using Netscape Navigator or some other image-blurring browser that hates Scanner and boobs.

Thankfully, Claire Danes stepped up to the plate the other day and delivered a very obvious nipple. And in case you didn't see that-- she sure as hell didn't-- we bring you her Greatest Hits...

Remember to click on the photo for a new window/tab, then enlarge by clicking on it...

And her greatest hits-- two moments from an MTV interview a few years back. Happy now, whiners?

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Sasha Grey Sucks Heartily From Publicity's Teat

Drew Grant — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:41:00 GMT

The Girlfriend Experience, a Rolling Stone spread, and now...a porn producer herself?

The F@&k Junkie is the first title to come out of Grey's own production company, Grey Art. Did we mention she directs the feature as well? We have to say, Grey's leveraging her recent alt-stardom to great entrepreneurial heights. If there are still some haters out there questioning Grey's savvy persona as being more than a glorified gimmick, this should shut them up quickly.

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Rolling Stone Somehow Convinces Sasha Grey to-- Gasp-- Pose Nude

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:42:00 GMT

Rolling Stone jumped on the Sasha Grey-mainstream-breakout bandwagon this week when it featured the porn star-turned-legit-actress in its most recent issue.

Although Grey is a highly intelligent individual, capable of captivating a reader with her hard-earned wisdom, it's obvious no one's buying this magazine, as they say, "for the articles..."

In her featured profile, the 21-year-old scream queen (of the other kind) discussed the thing she hates most about her day job:

Sasha Grey is the adult industry’s reigning princess of porn, a rock & roll 21-year-old with an actual mission statement — “Most of the XXX I see is boring, and does not arouse me physically or visually. I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone’s fantasies” — and few taboos.
“I don’t need to see genitalia up close; I don’t need to see a dirty yellow couch against a white wall. I want to see something different, like this is not exciting to me."
"If you look at me and you think 'Here’s a woman who’s intelligent, cognizant and making her own choices, and you still tell me that what I’m doing is wrong, screw you, because that should end the debate.'"

The article goes on to mention Grey's ten years of acting lessons and her interest in breaking into Hollywood-- but not by doing Michael Bay-type Blockbusters. She wants to be an indie darling along the lines of a Parker Posey or Lili Taylor. What do you think? Is it too late to save Sasha or are porn stars the next superstars?

We've been reading Rolling Stone for years and this is the first time we've seen a (celebrity) nipple. Click on the photos for larger images.

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Sex Lives, and Videotape

Drew Grant — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:13:00 GMT

I was one of the lucky few who managed to finagle a ticket to the Tribeca screening of Steven Soderbergh's latest "indie" (read: Not Ocean's 14th) film last Tuesday night. I was interested in his feature, The Girlfriend Experience, for two reasons:

1) It had been getting major hype for including a cast of non-actors save the lead, Sasha Grey, who is infamous for being perhaps the first hyper-literate porn star (she once wanted to use Anna Karina as her stage name), and

2) Because I hold a deep, somewhat dubious belief that one day Soderbergh will work through whatever gender-related issues he started with Sex, Lies and Videotape and manage to avoid becoming another Neil Labute (In the Company of Men to The Wicker Man in the span of a decade!) lazy misogynist. Boy, was I wrong.

The movie itself was quite good: A young, chic call-girl and her experiences with different Johns around the city, dutifully chronicled on a blog she keeps in her giant apartment (shared by her live-in boyfriend, a personal trainer who looks exactly like a lost Dillon brother). My problem with the film isn't the stunt-casting, or the fact that Soderbergh chose Grey for this film because her character is a thinly-veiled allegory for Grey's public life as a young, chic porn actress. No, the problem with this film is that *spoiler alert* of course the whore has to fall: There is no way two male writers and a male director could write a script where the call-girl ends up happy with the choices she's made in life. Even though Grey's character Chelsea is all business - managing her online image so meticulously that she could be her own hired PR agent - the non-linear narrative sets her up to fail by having her fall in love with one of her hapless clients (a charming screenwriter played by - d'oi - the film's writer David Levien). Levien's attraction to Grey in the film is based not on her poise, her beauty, or hell, even any of those thoughts that may or may not make up this character's personality. Instead he becomes interested in her the moment she makes the fatal mistake is letting her guard down and becoming vulnerable enough to open up to a client. This allows Levien to become Chelsea's knight in shining armor, before (inevitably?) revealing himself to be just as weak and guilty as anyone else who goes looking for sex with a stranger. In total: He is merely human for his error, while she is to be condemned for letting allowing chink in her armor.

So whatever sex worker's rights or girl-power image this film may have banked on is completely destroyed by the end of the movie: The lady is the tramp, and she must be punished for her indiscretions. If Soderbergh meant for this film to be, as Village Voice critic J. Hoberman calls "the first to allegorize (a porn star's) own situation" then what does that say for Soderbergh's respect for his leading lady, or in a broader sense, all female sex workers? Not much, as it turns out.

Media Fawning All Over Sasha Grey Now That They're Allowed To

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Sasha Grey's mainstream breakout role in The Girlfriend Experience, playing later this month at the Tribeca Film Festival before a wider release in May, is exciting the elitist media on the east coast. They're all big fans of Grey, which means they've been waiting for years to get her (half?) naked for their magazines while interviewing her on their office couch. Thankfully, Grey is too wise and experienced to fall for their tricks... she ends up coming off as a well-adjusted, well, porn star.

In this week's New York Magazine, Grey talked about playing a Ashley Alexandra Dupre-era prostitute in her first "legitimate" feature film...

How were you cast?
One of Soderbergh’s writers, Brian Koppelman, contacted me through MySpace. I thought it was a joke, because I get a lot of fake offers on MySpace. Then Steven left me a voice mail.

What, as they say, was your motivation?
Steven was really secretive about the character, but he wanted me to bring a natural, uninhibited quality to the film. There’s a lot of scenes where I’m improvising. I sat at home, writing a lot, figuring out who she was. I’d take my notes to Steven.

You don’t actually have sex onscreen.
When I had the first meeting I assumed I would be naked and do a sex scene. Did I think I would do five, like in my adult work? No, but even up to the point where we were shooting, I thought there was going to be at least one sex scene.

That’s usually the first thing actresses clear up in their contracts.
The contract did say that I would be nude. But one of the clauses was [laughing] “You cannot have [real] sex.” To me, that was a pretty funny legality.

I imagine you’d never seen that before?
It was pretty weird. But it was great not to have sex—that would have been too easy. If you want to see me having sex, you can do that! Not doing it shifts the focus, because a lot of clients are there for more than the sex.

What’s your plan?
I’ve got to diversify myself. Do I want to be 35, having sex on-camera? No. I want to be sitting on a fucking porch at my beach house with my own successful company.

Via New York Magazine.

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College Students in Maryland Barred From Ever Seeing Porn

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Right-wing politicians, who only seem to care about freedom when it involves grandstanding patriotism or a shot at an NRA endorsement, will do whatever it takes to stop pornography from being shown to anyone, including adults.

So, we're not the least bit surprised that Republican State Senator Andrew Harris in Baltimore County threatened to basically destroy the University of Maryland if he did not get his way on a screening of "Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge." Harris put forward an amendment that said any state school showing porn would lose its funding. Basically, this would've ended the university's $424 million deal if they were to carry on with this weekend's screening, which was almost sold out. Of course, Harris didn't say how he was prove in a court of law that something was "pornography"-- perhaps the "I know it when I see it" argument?

By the way, the school wasn't even hosting the event-- the student union was... and they were paying for it through ticket sales... so none of the state funding was even involved.

According to the Washington Post, there was an amusing twist in the debate:

While another senator was pressing Harris about why his amendment did not apply to double-X or single-X films, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) noticed that a group of third-graders had arrived to watch the action from the Senate gallery.

"Can we move to another amendment?" Miller said. And then: "We welcome the students from Plum Point Elementary School."

As debate on the other issue wrapped up, he told the children: "We're waiting for you to leave the room. We've got to talk about bad stuff."

Later, another senator was citing research that pornography makes men more angry at women who flirt but refuse to have sex. A group from Hollywood Elementary School in St. Mary's County then arrived. [Washington Post]

Representatives from the University, at that point, announced they were canceling the screening. We want to be mad at them, but pornography is not exactly high on our list of "free speech vehicles to defend to the death..."

P.S. Check out a censored Keira Knightley-Pirates-inspired porn comic here.

PG Porn Takes the Bang Bus

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:12:00 GMT

When PG Porn first appeared last year, we attacked it for being just as vulgar and idiotic as the adult films it portended to spoof.

After several consecutive successful viral vids, director/creator James Gunn has finally hit his stride with this: The Bang Bus parody. The inclusion of comic masterminds Craig Robinson and-- gulp-- Bree Olsen can't hurt either.

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While You Were Sleeping: Morrissey Gets Naked For CD Sales

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:12:00 GMT

The police used to have a fetish for busting dying dope smokers. Now, they're getting into busting up private dance studios that teach pole dancing.

Here's your daily creep. Today, it's a driving school instructor.

Can you believe Bon Jovi hadn't been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame? These judges give the state a bad name...

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Next in Virtual Sex: The Real Touch Porn Device

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:56:00 GMT

At the Adult Expo in Vegas earlier this month, everyone was talking about The RealTouch, basically a masturbation device for the virtual reality era, which, if we're not mistaken, was in 1992.

While this item is of questionable modern day relevance, we had to share it with you because of its revolutionary combination of internet porn, sleek design, and Sasha Grey... seriously.

Developed by a guy who used to work for NASA (or so he claims-- the space people aren't talking), the RealTouch is best described by its manufacturer. (Warning: Porny language and offensive, arguably derogatory comments about women.)

Simply connect the USB cable to your computer and in just moments you're synched up to the hot sex on the screen. Feel every flick of her tongue, every clinched muscle, and every tremble of her body as she comes. No other product captures the delicate nuances of the female body quite like RealTouch. Whether you prefer amazing blowjobs, fucking a tight ass, or a wet pussy, the revolutionary design of RealTouch lets you break all the rules without breaking any promises.

One blogger notes: "Cleaning seems a bit problematic (and questionably hygienic) as the unit cannot be submerged in water or placed in your dishwasher."

For all this gooey greatness (if this is your thing, that is-- for us, we'll stick to actual sex, thanks), you'll be paying $150. For that, they'll throw in Amy Fisher, Gianna Michaels, Jada Fire, Jenna Haze, and Sasha Grey, to name a few, all of whom appear in virtual reality-style porn point-of-view flicks that apparently come with the device. (This hasn't been made clear and the site doesn't yet allow for purchases.)

We'll also satsify your desires [says the girl in the introductory video] with a walk on the wild side: try trannies, midgets, or well-hung shemales!

Good luck and please do not let us know how it worked for you.

Via RealTouch.

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Sasha Grey Completely Naked in New American Apparel Ad

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Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:03:00 GMT

Just before the new year, we reported on the Sasha Grey full frontal American Apparel ad. Our post ended up being widely circulated, but no one pointed out to us that Sasha was kicking off a campaign of rampant nudity for the clothing manufacturer...

First, there was the European ad that preceded Sasha's foray into mainstream advertising, a layout we only just learned of today:

Here's the Sasha Grey ad we wrote about previously, calling it the extreme end of the advertising spectrum, for what else is there for marketing to try? Actual hardcore sex?

And the mysterious new ad. Can anyone tell us who this strangely anonymous lass is?

Sasha Grey Completely Naked in New American Apparel Ad

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:56:00 GMT

We always wondered when advertisements would feature nothing but naked woman and the name of the product ("Cheerios, brought to you by a naked Heidi Klum in a barren studio.") We shouldn't have been surprised to see it happening so soon, and with Sasha Grey and American Apparel the culprits...

The above and below photos play in an even-more NSFW version on a blog promoting American Apparel ads. The only indication they are an ad at all (and not a flash version of one of Grey's pornos) is the American Apparel logo at the end... and the fact that she is wearing yellow socks... in two of the shots...

According to this blog, written by Nerve's own Susannah Breslin, which has the fullest version of the Flash ad, the photo shoot was done by the same woman responsible for this memorable billboard:

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Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:08:00 GMT

We somehow missed this during the debate the other night... but that's a real honest-to-God photo.

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And John McCain showed up to explain his absence from a previous episode of The Late Show with David Letterman:

[CBS has disabled embedding for their own video after posting it as an embeddable clip. Losers. Anyway, you can watch it via this link.]

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American Apparel Now Officially Wants to Sex You Up... All Night

Emily Farris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:16:00 GMT

American Apparel has been not - so- subtly selling sex for the past few years, going so far as to use porn stars as models (see Sasha Grey, right). But really, when it came down to it, the company was using sex to sell clothes.

Apparently they've given up on all that cotton-polyester blend bullshit and are now, officially, selling sex.

But not just sex — vintage, old-school sex.

That's right, kids. American Apparel is now selling the Hitachi Magic Wand, lovingly known as "the Cadillac of Vibrators."

Yeah, if this thing wore clothes it would be a grey V-neck and brown track shorts, with a big, gold chain, of course.

And surprisingly, American Apparel is selling it cheaper than Babeland.

We just called our local American Apparel and, unfortunately, they don't yet carry the Magic Wand in the store. Too bad, we were hoping to snap a shot of hipsters with Hitachis. Maybe we can still get a hipster hand job?

[Street Carnage: AMERICAN APPAREL NOW SELLING THE HITACHI MAGIC WAND, THE CADILLAC OF VIBRATORS]

(Thanks, Emily M!)

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Porn Star or American Apparel Model?

Emily Farris — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:44:00 GMT

With porn becoming more mainstream and American Apparel becoming more pornographic, we were inspired to invent a fun new game in which we show you a picture of a woman and you tell us if she's a porn star or an American Apparel model.

That's porn star Sasha Grey, who Scanner Bryan showed us earlier this week and who appeared in the Roots' video Birthday Girl.

Except, wait, apparently she's also an American Apparel model. That's her, right? Damn, we lose. But American Apparel wins. Maybe they should just use porn stars for all of their ads.

Check out This Recording's interview with Grey (full of SFW pictures).

We Bet Porn Star Sasha Grey Can Fit A Lot Of Junk In That Purse

Bryan Christian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:00 GMT

And, oddly enough , we mean that literally. Click through for the full, not-technically-NSFW, er, spread.

[Vice via Fleshbot]

Porn Star Sasha Grey Plays "Birthday Girl" and Sacrificial Lamb

Nicole Pasulka — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Here's the video for the Roots song "Birthday Girl" starring 20-year-old AVN Performer of the Year 2008 Sasha Grey. The video brings the expected perving, and the anticipated criticism of our repressive, yet sex obsesssed media. According to Sasha:

"For me, it sends an interesting message," Grey said. "Our society is obsessed with using sex to market videos, films, music, campaigns, etc., etc., but yet porn is considered taboo and immoral. The concept of the video is a girl turning 18, and luring men to her because she's of age, and her sister isn't happy about it.

"The entire video is filled with sexual innuendos, which is quite normal," she went on. "It will be exciting to see how many viewers get angry that a porn star is playing the role of a young woman who is embracing her sexuality in a naughty way."

There's no better example of judgmental voyerism than this segment of The Insider featuring Ms. Grey.

We love how the clip invites viewers to "reach out to Sasha about the path she's chosen." We'd like to reach out to Pat O'Brien about his well-worn path to the tanning beds, but that's really none of our business.