Porn Stars | Mr. Pink's Blog - Part 42

Taipei Transit Turns to JAV

It’s a problem that many American cities have struggled with: How to entice residents to use the cleaner, more affordable, and less stressful public transportation options rather than driving around everywhere in fuel-guzzling high-speed death machines. And it’s a problem Taiwan could have just solved with the help of Japanese AV idol Yui Hatano.

Yui Hatano

The Taipei MRT (or Metro) is one of the most expensive rapid transit systems yet constructed and carries an estimated 1.78 million riders every day. Taipei still remains plagued by traffic congestion, however, so someone at MRT HQ dreamed up a plot to bring more motorists to the train carriages. Given the option of paying their fares on a per-trip basis with tokens or a pre-loaded reusable card for further journeys, more and more Taiwanese are clamoring for the new EasyCards which come in two varieties, one featuring Japanese porn superstar Yui Hatano as an “angel” while the other shows her “devil” guise. Transit card designs – yet another arena in which Asia has us beat.

EasyCard

Igniting controversy both inside and outside of Taiwan, the new EasyCard designs were proven at their Septembr 1st unveiling to be extremely mild, simply showing a coy Hatano posing alternately in white and black outfits. Still, EasyCard announced a revised design after it was found the ‘Angel’ image was previously used as the cover of one of Hatano’s JAV DVD releases.

Hatano herself clarified her intentions, telling media via a statement, “Just because I am an adult video porn star… does it mean that I cannot pay a debt of gratitude to my beloved Taiwan?” EasyCard spokeswoman Lin Hsiao-chi explained the company’s intentions thusly: This set of cards is suitable to put in your wallet and collect. When you look at it, it will cheer you up.”

Yui Hatano @ JAV HD

In Memoriam: Candida Royalle

ca. 1988 --- Candida Royalle --- Image by © Deborah Feingold/Corbis — ca. 1988 — Candida Royalle — Image by © Deborah Feingold/Corbis

Candida Royalle, director/producer/performer, sex educator, feminist, and XRCO and AVN Hall of Fame member has died of ovarian cancer at age 64. Leaving behind a legacy of female liberation and free expression that has clearly informed today’s new generation of feminist pornographers, Royalle will be sorely missed by her peers, fans, and students alike, many of whom have taken to social media to share their remembrances of one of porn’s bravest and most compelling individuals, and the first director to envision a ‘couples’ market.

Born in 1950 in New York City, the future dancer and filmmaker was abandoned by her biological mother at 18 months, a subject that would consume much of her recent time as she worked on a documentary film about the search for the woman that birthed her. While You Were Gone remains unfinished at the time of Royalle’s passing. Though a private detective had located the woman at Royalle’s request, it was not before she had died from ovarian cancer, unknowingly preceding her daughter. The future of the film remains uncertain, though an except can be viewed below.

Entering adult entertainment in 1975, Royalle appeared in roughly 25 pictures before retiring five years later, penning the script to her final film as just a performer. Royalle founded Femme Productions in ’84, producing erotic films based on the notions of female desire and believably passionate couplings, going to great effort to avoid the usual male-centric porn cliches. A published author, public speaker and lecturer, Royalle’s influence on female porn professionals and viewers is almost unparalleled.

Candida Royale — Photo by Daniel Nicoletta

Party with Pornstars on Halloween

Whenever Halloween rolls around at the tail-end of October, porn fans’ blood starts pumping a little faster, their mouths start to moisten, and those little hairs on the back of their necks stand to attention and all because Halloween brings not only candy and annoying, intrusive neighborhood brats banging on your door, it also brings pornstars’ costume choices to our impatient attention. Hitting Twitter and Instagram on All Hallow’s Eve usually results in some pretty racy outfits modeled by adult industry pros who put every other saucily-costumed woman to shame. I was happy with this arrangement as it helped me avoid crowds and police yet still marvel at the newly depraved depths Halloween costuming sinks to every year. But now there’s a far more enticing option…

AVN Halloween Porn Star Party

The inaugural AVN Halloween Porn Star Party planned for October 30-31st in Las Vegas aims to combine traditional Sin City revelry with the sultry glamour of Halloween and the unstoppable sexual force provided by more than 30 acclaimed adult performers, over 50 other costumed models, VIP attractions, topless entertainment, contests, and even special “playrooms” accessible only to VIPs. Set to take place at Artisan Hotel Boutique from 10pm to 4am both nights, attendees can expect to party with the likes of Ashley Fires, Joanna Angel, Sara Luvv, Kagney Linn Karter, Karlee Grey, Riley Reid, and everyone’s favorite sensai of fellatio, Dana DeArmond.

As you’d expect, tickets aren’t exactly easy on the wallet, but who’d ever imagine paying anything less than $200 to party with pornstars? Tickets range from your basic party admission package for $200 to a $450 VIP Pass that allows access to Topless Play Rooms and reserved VIP area. The premium package offers much more, though, as it should at $2,000-a-pop! Limited in number, these All Access Passes include two-nights accommodation, open bar, and all the perks of being a regular VIP, just with the irresistible addition of a “Porn Star Cocktail Party” and “dinner with porn star hosts.” Exactly what these entail remains to be seen, but the offer sure is impossible to ignore, vague wording and all.

So, did you have any plans for Halloween or are you only now considering leaving the house to revel with porn’s best and bustiest?

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April Flores: Fat Girl Fantasizing

After winning two AVNs for BBW Performer of the Year in 2014 and 2015, April Flores, the only performer to ever win the twice-awarded trophy, was in a state of flux. Along with her greatest accolades yet came the grief of losing her husband, late photographer Carlos Batts, who died at age 40 of natural causes in late 2013, just months before her first win. Initially proposed to her by genderqueer producer/performer Courtney Trouble, Flores’ newest endeavor is shaping up to be her magnum opus: a members-only site featuring plus-sized and BBW models but largely focusing on her own “filthy” sexual exploits. The site? Fat Girl Fantasies.

Not content to tread the same ground as other BBW sites, those that simply shoot nude and sexually active BBW women and call it a day, Ms. Flores seems to be attempting to create a far more personal kind of porn guided by the desires of its featured models. Casting other large women alongside her interminably sexy self, Flores is aided in her erotic adventuring by Kitty Stryker, Karla Lane, Jade Rose, Eliza Allure, and Cinnamon Maxxine. Hell, even porn’s tiniest Asian-American anal whore, Asa Akira, drops by to suckle at Flores’ ample breast.

In honor of Batts’ contribution to adventurous, taboo-destroying adult entertainment, Flores named her new site after her late husband’s last book, Fat Girls, a photographic study of his partner taken over the course of twelve years, and hopes his spirit will live on in her own work. Quoth the creator herself: “Fat Girl Fantasies developed from love—the love between friends who use the medium of pornography to express themselves. Fat Girl Fantasies was conceived from the need to show the world how beautiful and desirable a sexual fat woman is.” And who better for that job than April Flores?