The Best of Belladonna

Belladonna

Upon her 2012 retirement from performing, many fans of legendary pornstar cum director Belladonna lamented that their favorite degenerate sex maniac wouldn’t be appearing on DVD box covers again anytime soon. They stocked up on scenes and movies both digitally and physically distributed, built a solid enough archive to withstand years of use and abuse, and steadied themselves to enjoy new work from the current porn era’s most influential woman only if she directed the frivolity. Now all that is set to change thanks to Belladonna’s comrades at Evil Angel.

Due for release at the end of July, Legendary: The Best of Belladonna is a two-disc DVD set and VOD package containing ten scenes and six hours of material from the first tattooed ‘alternative’ pornstar to shave her head and take brutal DPs as a matter of course. The chosen scenes haven’t just been selected by the star herself, but selected to show the bisexual nature of Belladonna’s desire. Disc Two favors all-girl carnality and sees Belladonna fucking Joanna Angel, enjoying an anally inclined sleepover with Bobbi Starr and Dana DeArmond, has Sandra Romain for dinner (in more ways than one), squirts herself silly with Cytherea, and takes Alexis Texas to new heights of pleasure with the help of a few toys. Disc One takes care of Belladonna’s hetero leanings, too, with James “BMOPS” Deen lending his impressive cock (and foot) wrangling skills alongside those of Mr. Pete, Mark Wood, John Strong, and the fearsome duo of Rico Strong and Prince Yahshua who stretch and push Belladonna further even than most of her onscreen partners.

In the words of Evil Angel general manager Christian Mann, “We throw the term ‘legendary’ around a lot, but in Belladonna’s case, it’s merited.” And Mr. Pink couldn’t agree more, sir!

Kinky Odile: Phase Two

odilejohnnyvert_scene_hugeLast year I had the distinct pleasure of seeing the inner workings of Kink’s headquarters in the historic San Francisco Armory, a tour shepherded by a woman named Odile. Outfitted in a corset with died red hair cut into square bangs, Odile giggled nervously when describing the use of certain rooms in the fortified studio space but lit up when asked about her own experiences shooting for Kink’s orgiastic Story of O-inspired banquet hall, The Upper Floor. Odile now moves from a barely visible Kink performer out-shined by most prominent name pornstars to, well, hopefully one such pornstar herself.

San Francisco-based Odile, whose unusual name was chosen in honor of the Story of O’s infamous protagonist, enlightened AVN of her recent move into standard hardcore fare. While her existing Kink work has seen her bound and gangbanged in public fucking fantasies, trained as a submissive slave, and generally treated like a voiceless sexual object, nothing she apparently didn’t want.

Odile declared to AVN her love of group work, saying she wants “as many hot bodies there as possible, all groping and feeling and fondling each other, filling as many holes as possible.” While her first slate of mainstream work – for Naughty America’s My Friend’s Hot Mom and B. Skow’s ‘Daddy’s Girls’ (soon to be released through Girlfriends Films) – doesn’t come close to the audacity of her work for Kink, Odile aims to put her own spin on hardcore and is willing, she says, just about anything.

Brazzers Buys Madison Ivy

Madison IvyBrazzers’ focus on intense anal scenes, poundings of a blazing speed, and lube-heavy explorations of every female orifice that can conceivably (if not realistically or naturally) fit a penis, tongue, finger, toe, or tool could be the reason only men have been signed to exclusive performance contracts by the ZZ offices (Keiran Lee, for example). Perhaps women were too easily scared off by Brazzers’ reputation for physically demanding scenes and performances. But then, Madison Ivy is no ordinary woman.

Starting her adult career in 2007 at age 18, German-born, Texas-raised Madison Ivy won instant attention for her blonde hair, piercing blue eyes and a slim athletic figure that saw her somewhat typecast as a pigtailed “teen”. After a solid five years in front of the camera, though, the Madison Ivy of today bears little resemblance to the fresh-faced greenhorn of 2007. More tanned than a Jersey Shore cast member, with more obviously supplemented breasts than Pam Anderson, and as fierce a devotee to the benefits of marijuana use as Tommy Chong, 2013’s Madison Ivy is an all-sucking, all-fucking whoring machine. And she’s also the very first woman to sign an exclusive contract with Brazzers, where it is presumed she’ll be giving her fans and Brazzers members a gift many have been hoping for: her very first anal scene.

Congratulations go out to Madison Ivy and to Brazzers, but especially to the members and fans who’ll be witnessing this spectacular performer’s growth in what will undoubtedly be a highly visceral and thrilling fashion.

Being Ambitious (Within Reason) in KPOP

Dal ShabetFan reactions were dismissive when CBS issued a memorandum requesting “buttocks and female breasts [be] adequately covered” for its broadcast of the 2013 Grammy Awards in February, essentially amounting to “If Rhianna wants to show her underboob, we wanna see it!” And, true to expectations, there was plenty of cleavage, thigh, and lower-back on display throughout the ceremony. In South Korea’s thriving pop music industry, however, even second-tier artists find themselves subject to sexual censorship.

Dal Shabet (meaning “Moon Sherbet”) is a six-member girl group signed to Happy Face Entertainment, the company founded by producing duo E-Tribe, the pair responsible for Girls’ Generation’s super-massive-hit ‘Gee’, arguably the song that pushed KPop into the global consciousness, have been the subject of censorship demands from TV station SBS, who objected to the allegedly provocative lyrics of the group’s latest single, ‘Be Ambitious’. The objectionable lines – “When is [our relationship] progressing to the next level / Going home even when drunk / Are you really a man? / Are you being shy?” – were accepted by the MBC and KBS, the two other major TV stations on which Dal Shabet were booked for promotional performances, but SBS insisted and eventually got the changes they requested. The new lyrics – “Do you even find my aegyo (cutsey behavior) cute? / Why do you keep looking at the clock? / Look at me / Do you really like me?” – are definitely not as provocative as those deemed questionable, but apparently that wasn’t enough for some of those rejected the message of ‘Be Ambitious’, one of women demanding the attention and affection they crave instead of being taken for granted or ignored entirely.

The Korean title of ‘Be Ambitious’, ‘?? ?????? ??‘ translates to ‘Look at My Legs’ and it’s clear from the amount of lower limb skin shown in the group’s concept images and music video that Serri, Jiyul, Ah Young, GaEun, Woohee, and Subin were going to attract ample attention from fans and detractors both for their flashy new image. (Dal Shabet have historically been something of a whipping boy for netizens’ frustration and bile, unfairly so.) Somewhat surprisingly, though, the second prominent demand for censorship came not from the entertainment industry, but from a male rights group called Man of Korea (MOK). Claiming “the lyrics and music video of ‘Be Ambitious’ depreciate both women and men, and it’s harmful to the youth,’ MOK has requested the song be banned from further distribution, also claiming the song will induce “sexual assault from the youth by planting the wrong influence about women and sex” and citing scenes in the music video allegedly “depreciating the 60,000 soldiers” currently serving South Korea as similarly deplorable.

Gee, you’d think a national pop industry known for celebrating the ridiculous and outlandish (and the female leg) would recognize a work of satirical pop greatness when it roars onto the Gaon charts!