Following the Adriano Trail

Mike Adriano: love or hate him and his commitment to, if not obsession with women’s anuses, he’s one of US porn’s most prominent yet mysterious figures. Preferring to stay largely off-camera for his POV-heavy three-hole explorations of established and up-and-coming pornstars, the Spanish-born American director has recently spread his talents further around the Internet than ever, forming new partnerships with established distributors and offering selections of his work to new networks and outlets. Here, Mr. Pink’s will attempt to corral Mike’s various channels so those eager for more of his exploratory, boundary-pushing porn can fill your screens with his signature hyper-explicit displays.

Lena Paul, Giselle Palmer and Mike Adriano

The two latest efforts from Adriano make a pair of sites delivering the man’s signature close-up and curious visual style, one focusing on brand new starlets, the other on anal sex. Nympho and True Anal may not have proven themselves against the star-director’s classic titles and series, not yet, but they’re both home to some epic sexual investigations conducted by Mike and a few select substitutes. These sites also feature some of the only notable scenes Adriano has directed in his signature style to feature African American cocks and the men they’re attached to.

Jules Jordan Video announced a new distribution deal with Adriano early in 2018 that has brought True Anal and Nympho to store shelves in DVD form but Jordan’s main website also hosted one excellent Adriano-helmed feature, Anal Maniac #2 featuring Anny Aurora, Hime Marie and Tara Ashley in all their gaping glory. Nothing else has landed at Jules Jordan bearing Adriano’s name since 2019 began, leaving some fans to wonder where else the gape master’s new work might appear. Perv City has been cataloging classic Adriano content for quite a while now, as well as shooting new scenes for Anal Overdose, Up Her Asshole, and a few other select sites, but it does seem more focused on establishing a legacy than it does pumping out world-class ass fucking flicks on the regular.

A long time member of the Evil Angel empire, Adriano still has plenty of work sitting at EA’s online HQ, more than 200 titles, in fact. Now that Evil Angel is becoming more closely entwined with the booming Adult Time network – albeit a mysterious connection that depends highly on the angle from which you approach it – don’t be surprised to see a whole swath of Adriano’s best work appear under the Adult Time marquee soon enough. If you can’t wait, though, there’s already a selection of 16 Perv City scenes co-starring Adriano’s cohorts John Strong, Mr. Pete, Eric John, Criss Strokes and Markus Dupree offer awesome yet atypical encounters to Adult Time members.

Still, for anyone eager to get a taste of Mike Adriano’s sloppiest blowjobs, widest anal gapes, and surprising fondness for tender, sensual kissing can score some freebies via Evil Angel. EA members aren’t limited to only those Adriano titles EA itself distributes but also an excellent rotating selection of four freebies from Nympho and True Anal. Not surprisingly, this isn’t just a great way to scope out what Adriano’s been up to since striking out on his own, forging new deals and creating new pathways to getting his porn on more and more screens, it’s yet another reason to skip out on Evil Angel membership at your peril.

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Owen Gray Joins Team Skeet

One thing that has always baffled me about online porn networks is their tendency to add new concept sites with little to no fanfare at all. It’s understandable that a network already boasting a few dozen sites might not see their new project as all that significant but some site launches fundamentally change the face of a network for good. Some even change porn forever.

Owen Gray - Team Skeet

Team Skeet has been on a roll in recent months, launching new concept sites like Little Asians, Thickumz, and Shoplyfter that have been dazzling its members with some of the network’s most inventive offerings yet. One of the most recent new launches offers something truly interesting, though, as it signals the further blurring of lines between the majors and the independents. Team Skeet X OG features content produced by and starring Owen Gray, a San Francisco based pornographer known for his alphabet tattoos, kinky tendencies, and prowess at pleasing women. Yet, strangely, the network doesn’t seem to be advertising the existence of this new site at all!

While some of the 8 currently available TSXOG scenes have previously been made available via Gray’s official PornHub channel – fantastic homemade romps with Elsa Jean, Vienna Black, and Athena Faris for a start – those versions sit behind individual paywalls and make for a much more expensive point of access. Distributed through Team Skeet, Mr. Gray no doubt sees a boost in his audience and (hopefully) income. Through Gray, the network adds some of the hottest sex-tape-style porn being shot today and expands its potential audience to include both indie porn fans and Gray’s legion of female admirers. Here’s hoping the union of Team Skeet and Owen Gray continues to be as fruitful as it has so far!

Team Skeet review

Becoming Jane Wilde

Amidst the current crop of young, impressively talented, apparently self-possessed pornstars there was always going to be a few special standouts. Most porn performers take our fancy for physical reasons first but there are some who really cement their epic hotness once they start speaking. Of today’s bright young porn hopefuls one in particular has impressed just as much with her obvious onscreen abilities as her honest, mature recounting of her not-so-glamorous entry into porn.

Jane Wilde

In a revealing interview with Holly Randall, Jane Wilde spoke recently of how her dissatisfaction with a retail job led her to answer a Craigslist call from a webcam Svengali and take her first steps into the world of adult entertainment. Admittedly naive and unstable, an 18 year old Jane Wilde started webcamming with all resources provided by her new… employer? Boyfriend? Pimp? Soon, though, this man began distancing himself from his new protege and keeping her earnings. Stressing the importance of personal financial autonomy and company transparency, both Wilde and Randall detail their preferred ways of receiving income and paying performers, noting the newer content platforms like FanCentro, OnlyFans, and ManyVids that allow women to be paid directly instead of through faceless intermediaries.

Stuck in a camming job the earnings from which weren’t keeping her fed or housed, and having just experienced a family tragedy, Jane Wilde contacted MyFreeCams and established her own account free from the view or influence of Mr. Craigslist. For many other women, this would be a path out of porn altogether but Wilde admits that, although she entered porn under false pretenses, she’s more than happy to be working in adult, something her mounting IAFD credits attest to. With more than 150 titles to her name after less than two years at work, Jane Wilde isn’t just a nervous newcomer aiming for a quick buck. Very much a bona fide capital-P Pornstar, Ms. Wilde has delivered numerous powerhouse performances (replete with her now signature anal antics) for some major porn players. In celebration of her blossoming career, let’s take a look at a few choice cuts.

Putting her acting skills to the test, Wilde has shot five of Pure Taboo’s sordid domestic dramas, taking on cheating scenarios, filthy phone calls, identity theft and even playing a virtual home assistant eager to make her mark on the couple unboxing her. Gonzo is also on her agenda, though, and seriously physically demanding performances for Evil Angel, taking on cartoon dom god and Hookup Hotshot head honcho Bryan Gozzling, Mark Wood and Francesca Le (aka porn’s most deviant married couple), the award winning butt fucking boner of Mick Blue, and even shoved an apple in her mouth to play Thanksgiving feast for super-hung and super-hungry Rico Strong.

In slightly a more elegant and sensual mode, Ms. Wilde has also proven herself more than capable depicting romantic passion, not just animalistic lust. Under the guidance of Greg Lansky and his award winning creative crew, Wilde has already bagged herself two of porn’s biggest boys, Julio Gomez for Blacked and Riper (with a little help from Riley Reid) Rob Piper at Blacked Raw, while also opening her ass for Lansky’s viewers in another excellent threesome, this time at Tushy with Gina Valentina. Having been graced by her sizzling presence in at least ten extremely steamy lesbian scenes, GirlsWay celebrated Wilde’s contributions by appointing her their Girl of the Month for June 2019, not an honor often bestowed upon a standout anal extremist from the current crop of porno newcomers!

We’ll be paying close attention to Jane Wilde’s career here at Mr. Pink’s. Maybe once a year, if we’re lucky, porn fans will be swept up and smitten with an exceptionally talented (and extremely deviant) newcomer. In charge of her career, her finances, and her sexuality, and quite open about the mental health concerns of many in the industry, Jane Wilde is one porn success story who has turned the tables on abuse and exploitation in a truly marvelous way.

The Rawest of the Raw

Every now and then one single word seems to become a porno trend of its own. Recently, eagle eyed porn fans may have noticed an upswing in the usage of the word “raw” either in reference to sex without a condom or used more generally to denote, well, that hasn’t quite been defined. Greg Lansky’s latest iterations of his acclaimed Tushy and Blacked sites and series have tagged Raw to those titles and seem to largely differ from their predecessors photographically. The narratives are a little dirtier at Tushy Raw and Blacked Raw, with more cheating scenarios and fuck-buddy style hotel rendezvous, but they’re hardly the nastiest, most animalistic porn scenes around. Isn’t that what’s so often meant by “raw” sex?

Another fairly new site employing the R-word in an even more provocative title comes from the twisted creatives at Spizoo. Raw Attack is a handheld and POV hardcore fuck fest with plenty of kinky before-and-after play that sees the likes of Nia Nacci, Paige Owens and Gia Milana earning plentiful facials then being promptly filled once again with dick. Already boasting 76 scenes, Raw Attack pulls in top ranked and newbie pornstars for hardcore hookups often taking place directly after a scene shot for a Spizoo sister-site. Arriving around the same time as Blacked Raw and a good six months before Tushy Raw, it seems likely Raw Attack’s name was inspired by one even earlier proponent of handheld hotel hardcore and casual backstage sex, a porn legend with more than 30 Raw titles to his name.

Manuel Ferrara - Raw

Manuel Ferrara started his Raw series back in 2010 with an aim to shoot simple, casual, charming sex with top pornstars of the day. The resulting series has seen Manuel romance and ram more than 130 women and each episode has delivered a vivid yet voryeuristic sex-tape of incomparable quality. If you were half the director and half the stud Manuel is, you could conceivably hope to one day produce your own homemade sex tape of a similar quality. Good luck dipping into Manny’s extensive talent pool, though!

Manuel Ferrara’s Raw #36 has just been released via Jules Jordan Video has already made its way to Ferrara’s official site. Conveniently, along with the 28 editions online at ManuelFerrara.com existing editions of the Raw series can be found at Evil Angel (#’s 1-29) and Videobox (#’s 2-29 with a few omissions), and of course at Manuel’s own official site, where 28 Raw volumes (#’s 3 to 36, again with some omissions) are sitting waiting to be marveled at. Once you’ve seen some of your favorite stars dressed down and treated to a world class fucking in a charming naturalistic style, it becomes quite clear: of all contemporary producers of “raw” porn, Manuel Ferrara is undoubtedly the one who has truly embraced a rawness not normally found in porn, proving yet again that he’s more than an acclaimed stunt cock, he’s one of porn’s most quietly influential people.

Manuel Ferrara review