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...magazines, not just porn magazines, are down in circulation because of the advent of the Internet. If you can download a magazine in the privacy of your home, it’s hard to convince somebody to go to a newsstand and buy it, especially...
...case of porn. But where Penthouse went wrong, and why they wound up going bankrupt, they didn’t diversify. We now have a retail chain called Hustler Hollywood which is extremely successful that sells all kinds of paraphernalia—gay gifts, sex toys, sort of a novelty shop more than anything else. And we have six Hustler Clubs, gentlemen’s clubs, basically strip clubs. We just opened one in Paris last fall. Our Internet websites are probably the most successful and profitable in the area. It’s the diversification that gives...
While close friends and fellow performance artists have always been privy to Bezreh’s art, it has never been readily available to those outside her inner circle. That all changed on September 13 when Bezreh’s “musical spanking porn,” entitled “The Naughty Garden,” was featured on the HBO special “Real Sex: Porn 101: XXXtra Credit.” Anyone with a cable box—including Bezreh’s parents in St. Louis, MO—could watch Bezreh getting...
...film, Bezreh’s interest in pornography was fostered by Harvard’s openness towards female sensuality. “When I was at Harvard, pleasure feminism was huge,” she says. “The idea that you could enjoy sex or even make porn and still be a feminist—that’s what I graduated with my degree in.” In this atmosphere of freedom, Bezreh was already expressing her desire to create an erotic short. In the March 16, 1995 issue of FM, Bezreh prophesized that...
...Although porn visions had long danced in her head, Bezreh needed concrete motivation to make a film. When Kim Airs, the owner of the Boston sex-shop Grand Opening, told Bezreh that HBO was making a documentary on the “You Oughta be in Pictures” Erotic Film Festival at Coolidge Corner Theater, Bezreh found her needed drive. “I have a fascination with making dirty stuff, but I didn’t have the guts,” she says. “I knew [the festival] would push...