‘Revenge Porn Bill’ Passes in CA

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Remember when sending some friends a saucy photo snapped at a drunken party, a photo that might embarrass those depicted, all for a bit of fun? Well, shutterbug, keep doing that and it could land you in what the French call “le slammer”!

Concerned that Senate Bill 255, known as “the revenge porn bill”, “could interfere with free speech rights,” San Francisco senator Leland Yee voted no on the bill and claims the American Civil Liberties Union is in his and his constituents’ corner. Passing in the California Senate on August 15th, the bill makes a misdemeanor any distribution of explicit private material that causes undue distress to the depicted, whether they were photographed or filmed under consent or not. The bill also includes an emergency clause and will immediately take effect once signed into law. First offenders will face up to 6 months’ jail time and a $1000 fine if convicted.

Senate Bill 255 specifically states “any person who photographs or records by any means the image of another, identifiable person without his or her consent who is in a state of full or partial undress in any area in which the person being photographed or recorded has a reasonable expectation of privacy, and subsequently distributes the image taken, where the distribution of the image would cause a reasonable person to suffer serious emotional distress would constitute disorderly conduct subject to that same punishment.”

Well, that sure puts Is Anyone Up? out of commission in California for a while.

Beatin’ on a Budget! with Burning Angel

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Joanna Angel hasn’t exactly disappeared from the porn world, but she’s certainly stepped back from the spotlight a bit. Anyone worried that the heavily inked Brooklynite was on the verge of folding her Burning Angel company can rest easily, though, thanks in part to this killer Burning Angel membership deal. Normally charging $29.95 for one month of access, Burning Angel can now be enjoyed for half that price! And, as the front page of the Burning Angel network, such a membership would plant you at the opened gates of a world filled with inked skin, dyed hair, pierced body parts, and more ass-fucking than most prisons see in a decade. Pornstars like Skin Diamond, Dana DeArmond, and Sasha Grey have shot for Burning Angel, but it’s the Angels themselves that will keep your eyes glued to the small screen. Joanna and her crew of gutter punks, super sluts, and other revolving degenerates (including Veruca James, Krissie Dee, Tommy Pistol, Chad Alva, Vulpix, and Bella Vendetta) give you sordid “alt.porn” better than what any other wannabe porntrepreneur can manage.

Burning Angel’s archive might not be as dense as it once was, but with nearly 700 scenes and 1,500 galleries total, which is surely nothing to sneeze at, especially in the alt.porn world.

The Math:
Burning Angel, 700 scenes, and 1500 photo galleries are hard to resist at any price, but at just $14.95 a month, you’d be mad not to pay close attention. Breaking it down to bare digits, you’ll be paying .09¢ per gallery, 2¢ per video, and just 5¢ per model – a great deal in anyone’s book. And, hey, if you’re still not convinced, maybe a three-day trial for $2.95 (a pittance!) will drag you into one of porn’s most consistently interesting and decidedly unique hardcore realms.

Alicia Tyler RIP

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Adult performer Alicia Tyler was found dead at the Victorville, California home she lived in with her mother. While the cause of death remains as yet undetermined, Trevor Wilson, CEO of CST Management (which represented Tyler) released a statement last week suggesting that, contrary to wildly circulating rumors, Tyler did not die from a drug overdose. In his statement, Wilson told the 27-year-old “has been in and out of hospital over the past few months with severe stomach issues and breathing problems. Those who knew Alicia personally are aware that she has long suffered from bad asthma, which coupled with her more recent medical issues are the likely cause of her untimely passing.”

Tyler’s unresponsive body was found on Sunday August 11th by her mother, who tried unsuccessfully to revive her with CPR. Emergency workers pronounced her dead at the scene. Wilson, who rightly called his client’s passing “untimely”, noted that Tyler was “in the midst of a career revival with the release of her upcoming biography as well as her new adult web-based drama series due out in January 2014.”

CST Management is in the process of setting up a trust fund to care for Tyler’s daughter and has promised to match all contributions to the fund. Funeral and memorial services are planned for this week and the family have asked for their privacy to be respect in this time of mourning.

Lisa Ann Joins Jules

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It used to be that if you received a couple of notices in the mainstream media (and it didn’t really matter what for) you’d made the successful transition from onscreen hooker to bona fide pornstar. Nowadays, though, a female performer isn’t really living the high life until the camera is in her hand and she’s calling the shots. Belladonna, Bobbi Starr, Dana Vespoli, and Asa Akira all topped their already impressive careers by accepting the responsibility for entire features. Finding success as directors has meant these women and others can express their own vision of human sexuality and adult entertainment, a perspective often missing in porn. The latest notable performer to join the ranks of powerful female porn directors, signed last month to the Jules Jordan Video stable of directors is AVN, Urban X, and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee Lisa Ann.

Having shot for everyone from Vivid to Porn Pros to Girlfriends Films to, well, Jules Jordan Video, the newest phase of Lisa Ann’s career is bound to be a comfortable fit for the legendary performer, even if we don’t quite know what form it’ll take. For her debut effort, Ann has turned to a niche familiar to all her fans: mature women. MILF Revolution, released earlier this week, features Ann in every scene, as well as Racquel Divine, Jayden Jaymes, Katja Kassin, and Capri Cavanni; it even has both Ann and Kassin taking double-penetrations in the very same scene! Nabbing such an impressive cast wasn’t difficult for the one-time talent manager, who told AVN she intended to hire as many former clients as possible. “I’m bringing back the people I love that were so good to me when I had my agency,” she said.

Lisa Ann’s directorial follow-up to MILF Revolution, Lisa Ann’s Blackout, hasn’t been given an official release date yet, but it will no doubt be a hit with Ann’s fans and lovers of hardcore interracial sex, as it sees its director and leading lady take on Wesley Pipes, Ice Cold, Julius Ceazher, Nat Turnher, and Mark Anthony in what promises to be a gangbang scene for the ages. Lisa Ann just keeps topping herself!