Last night, the Los Angeles Lakers improved their record to 5-7 with a 114-99 win over the Detroit Pistons at the Staples Center, thanks to an impressive double-double from power forward Jordan Hill. But more noteworthy than two sub-.500 teams was the courtside celebrity watching that always makes Lakers games so much fun, and last night’s big star was… *monkey drum roll* adult film actress Daisy Marie.

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis was also there, as you can see, but what has he ever done for us? Record “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”? Big deal. Daisy Marie was the recipient of the Favorite Underrated Star honor at the 2009 FAME Awards, and she has been nominated for not one, not two but THREE Best Threeway Sex Scene awards by the folks at AVN. It’s only a matter of time before David Spade offers Kiedis an autographed VHS copy of 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag for his seat.

Lux Alptraum profiles James Darling, who “isn’t like most up-and-coming porn performers”:

As it happens, he’s a trans man (meaning he’s a man who was born in a female body), and that greatly limits the amount of work he can get. Trans women looking to perform sex work have numerous options, but for trans men, it’s a different story. Unlike “t-girls” and “shemales,” who’ve long been pornographic staples, trans men didn’t enter the porn world’s awareness until the early 2000s, when pioneering porn performer Buck Angel debuted as “the man with a pussy.” To this date, Buck is the only trans man to ever have been recognized by any of the major porn awards shows.

More than six years after Buck took home the award for Transsexual Performer of the Year, the number of porn studios willing to work with trans men is still in the single digits. Major porn studios don’t know how to market transmale content, which appeals to an audience not targeted by more traditional genres of porn. The filmmakers who pick up the slack tend to be members of the queer community who are looking to create the content they’re personally interested in seeing. Most, if not all, of those studios are indie ventures with small budgets and infrequent shoots, making it hard for Darling to pick up regular work. If he shoots once a year for the handful of companies that are trans man-friendly, that’s about four or five scenes—enough to establish a porn presence, but not nearly enough to make a living.

In the meantime, Darling’s day job? Pizza delivery man.

For some reason, AVN pulled their link to this article.

Cytherea is alive, well, human and the subject of a good article in a local paper: Cytherea’s Rise, Fall, Rise, Et Cetera.

I wish our own porn “journalists” would write something like this about individuals in the industry, and knock aside some of the hype.

From TheAtlantic.com,

To everything (turn, turn, turn) … there is a season (turn, turn, turn) … and a time … to every purpose … under heaven.

So true, Bible. So true, Byrds. What the truisms neglect to tell us, however, is that “every purpose under heaven” includes not only planting and reaping and laughing and weeping, but also, apparently, performing porny Google searches.

We know this, now, because of the plantings and reapings of Science. According to a paper just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Internet pornography — like so many storms, like so much kale — is seasonal. Porn’s peak seasons? Winter and late summer.

Researchers at Villanova examined the Google trends for such commonly-searched-for terms as “porn,” “xxx,” “xxvideos” … and other, more descriptive phrases that, because I am looking at a portrait of James Russell Lowell as I write this, I will let you look up in the paper itself. Once they’d gathered those terms, the authors examined them in Google Trends. And what they found was a defined cycle featuring clear peaks and valleys — recurring at discernible six-month intervals. The cycle, as you can see in the chart above, maps surprisingly well to the world’s calendar seasons.

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Unemployment in Spain is over 50% for those under 25. That means big competition for Porn Valley, even if Berth Milton isn’t personally hiring - and the worst is yet to come.

This photo is of young Spaniards - male and female - lining up for a single porn shoot in Madrid. What will these young people do for money that you won’t do?

Full article: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/04/spains-unemployment-level-outrageous/51634/