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Is Lou Cass’s Grabby-nominated turn in DARE going return the porn star to mainstream stardom? The hung hunk and Sword favorite will be hamming it up with Tori Spelling on the upcoming season of Tori & Dean: Inn Love. The 90s porn star was asked to do the guest appearance by Tori’s husband Dean because he’s such a huge Tori fan (as well as, if you look at Lou’s website, a huge fan of Katey Sagal, Roseanne Barr, Lisa Marie Presley, Pia Zadora and best pal E.G. Daily).

Here are the answers… we hope you’re as surprised/disturbed as we were.

When we
listened to Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern’s tirade a month or so back, we were reminded of that old saw
about decrepit morals and the ends of civilizations. While we’re currently
enjoying our flesh-filled life of debauchery, we thought we’d offer up this
quiz. Can you tell which of the following coyly worded events happened in the Roman Empire of ancient times… and which ones come from the modern day porn industry? The scenarios, after the jump.

Our favorite self-help loving porn star, Erik Rhodes, is doing a great job staying relatively sober, but he’s finding that his embrace of The Secret has unintended consequences. Case in point: The once-hard-partying star found a gram and a half of cocaine on his morning walk to get the groceries. “How is that not god fucking with me?” he asked on his blog, Slipping Away, yesterday.

Unfounded rumors? In the gay porn community? WE CAN’T IMAGINE. Below are a few of the bits we’ve been hearing lately…

Which legendary New York top man is in discussions to let someone be his back-door man? After nearly a decade in the biz, the hung babydaddy has named a five figure price and found a possible taker, but the SF studio (bank-)rolling the dice on him isn’t sure how well audiences might handle him on bottom.

You never know when fate will favor you and you’ll end up on a porno set. But trust us, little chickens, when you find yourself with flesh flying to your left, and wafts of marijuana smoke floating to your right, and everyone speaking in an incomprehensible vernacular, you’ll be happy you had us as your own personal Rosetta Stone. Below, the first of a weekly series translating those terms and phrases you’ll be likely hear on set.

When the rumor hit The Sword’s HQ that our beloved pinup François Sagat was taking a break, possibly permanent, from the adult industry, things got ugly in record time. Sliding into an abject helter skelter, we called everybody we knew, rifled through our neighbors’ medicine cabinets, thought about ENDING IT, realized suicide is totally 90s, came to our senses and called Titan’s Keith Webb. “Get a grip,” he assured us. “François is just being really selective about his upcoming films, and will be choosing them on a case-by-case basis.” Oh. Well, we’re

Getting inside the mind-as well as the pants-of a porn star is something we’ve all longed for once or twice, and with these new things called blogs we all have the chance to hear stories directly from the models’ own mouths fingers, sometimes daily.  As loyal Sword readers should know, RJ Danvers, Diesel Washington and Erik Rhodes are all avid bloggers, while many other stars like Steve Cruz, Francois Sagat and Brent Corrigan also dabble as online diarists. If you’ve been paying attention to the sometimes sordid, always amusing musings of the porn elite, this week’s quiz should be a snap. The first email we get with all correct answers will receive a month of free porn on NakedSword. To quote Spaceballs: Do your worst.

With so many pro-am sites gaining popularity these days, cyber-cruising megasite Manhunt.net refuses to sit idly by and allow their horny members get distracted by pornography when there’s real, scary, stranger sex to be had! Therefore, in order to kick-start their new pro-am site OnTheHunt.com, Manhunt is browsing its membership for fuck buddies who’ve found one another through their services to star in specially produced video clips. Paying $1000 per performer, selected gentlemen will also have the pleasure of being directed by pro-am pros Jeremy Hall and Collin O’Neal.

If you’ve ever left a turd on your lovers front door, bottomless bottom Steve Cruz is here to help. The porn-star-cum-advice-columnist has more than a little experience with the rear door and on Sunday, he helped us understand how he keeps his hairy arse spotless for the white-glove-test. Eat easily digestible foods, drink Pepto-Bismol before any serious play and take a douche hose everywhere you go.

You know us well, BananaGuide! If there’s one thing we love, it’s emo twinks who speak in an ESL patois, and with Kyros Christian of The Candie Spookie, you have served it forth with gusto!

When gay web portal BananaGuide alerted us to their interview with the dark-haired, skull-branded, money-smell-loving self-described mean-ass bitch (where they discussed life, love and Hot Topic), we were immediately entranced. We didn’t think that the short life of Bryan Kocis could have gotten any more like Party Monster but this early Kocis acolyte proves there are plenty of twinks still to be mined.  A few things you should know about the mop-top “SuperTwink of The New Millenium”:

Unfounded rumors? In the gay porn community? WE CAN’T IMAGINE. Below are a few of the bits we’ve been hearing lately…

Which megawatt star may be leaving the business after his final video
wraps this week? With no time left on his current contract and some
mainstream offers on the table, could this be, uh, fin?

What totally-not-bareback-studio is experimenting with a
bareback tag-line and logo? Unless you read the fine print on a recent
test run of ads, you wouldn’t notice that it’s for their vintage
features.

Because we don’t have time, the way our friends at Fleshbot do, to review all the porn that comes across our desks, The Sword has asked our friends in academia for a little help making sense of the latest porn titles.*  First off, Titan Media’s Telescope, a delicate rumination on the power of the gaze/gays dichotomy, starring Diesel Washington and modeled on Brian DePalma’s post-Hitchcockian thriller Body Double.

Could hairy porn pup RJ Danvers be the next porn star to follow stars like Lucas and Sagat and break into high-fashion? The little bottom who can’t say no submitted his profile to V Magazine‘s online model contest and hit the top slot yesterday. Judging from the fan feedback, his most attractive asset is his refusal to shave his chest hair-and they haven’t even seen his ass. While even his most ardent supporters think the industry will make short work of his fur, RJ’s dreaming big:

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Our favorite porn Gremlin may not have much longer to live. We got word today that his contract holder, Cockboys.com, will be feeding the twink to the GHB-crazy muscle queens at the White Party like so much chum to sharks. Cockyboys announced today that they’ll be bringing lithe Tory, along with Jesse Santana and five of their spring lambs to the event, ostensibly to promote a Cockboys model search. It sounds like the old virgin/volcano sacrifice narrative without, of course, the virgins.

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What happens when you get seven exclusives from seven different studios together in the same room? A good deal of penis touching, it seems. The boys came together as part of a boxing themed photo shoot for NakedSword by Greg Thompson whose extensive work with Chi Chi LaRue and other studios has provided more than a few scandalous coffee-table books.

Um, hi. PERVERTED MUCH? 

We were a little overwhelmed with the number of correct answers we got and are still sorting out the winners (a preliminary congrats to “Arch” and “Dave,” but generally an impressive turn-out, folks. To those of you who did a ton of research, impressive work. To those who were able to answer these without cheating: what’s your excuse?

When it comes to matters of the flesh, it’s been an eventful spring. We know that spring break is over for most of you (assuming that any of you, dear readers, are actually young enough to enjoy it), but we’re hoping that the time off from the books has given everyone a chance to catch up on the three months of arrests, awards and AndroGel patches that you might have missed. Do you know Erik Rhodes from Eric Hanson? Can you sing all the words to “I Wanna Teabag You?” The most number of correct answers wins free porn from Michael Lucas and first runner-up, a one-month membership on NakedSword.com.

When Falcon sent out the trailer for the upcoming film Fleet Week, longtime fans and industry wags were treated to something they haven’t seen in a Falcon feature in decades — oral cum shots. While Falcon is not the first studio to re-introduce oral cum shots, it’s certainly the biggest and possibly the most influential. Will the other studios follow suit?

Dark Alley may have crossed over to the barebacking dark
side, but even when the studio was using condoms they were no stranger to
controversy. In that grand tradition, the NJ-based studio is releasing the
holiday spectacular Passio (link NSFW) just in time for Easter … and oh, how he
has risen!

In the feature, Jesus is taken off the cross only to attack and rape the
supplicant who saves him. Von Fistenberg considers himself a Catholic and originally planned to have a half-naked man carry
a cross through downtown Manhattan.

Erik Rhodes’ on-again-off-again love affair with porn, Marc Jacobs and GHB isn’t exactly breaking news, but things are looking up: the dreamboat is going to start practicing The Secret! For those of you still stuck on Kabballah, The Secret is the thousand-year old practice of wishing things true, distilled, packaged and resold in faux-parchment paper to misanthropes like, well, us.

While the Falcon Exclusive and Loehmann’s model hasn’t actually tackled the Rhonda Byrne self-help tome just yet, we are pleased to report that he did watch the movie last night and, if all goes as planned, “is going to watch it a couple more times.”

Nickolay Petrov may be innocent until proven guilty, but CockyBoys is assuring worried consumers that it’s TOTALLY NOT milking the scandal to tell porn. Said CockyBoys rep Kyle Majors, “CockyBoys would like to wish its talented sexual performer Nickolay Petrov the best. We hope the stories circulating around this trial are untrue, and that all parties honor the standards that allow the accused a fair trial.”

Petrov was arrested in January for his alleged role in the
violent shakedown of an elderly couple in Florida. According to
police, the sexy, sexy Jet Set and CockyBoys exclusive was arrested
after attacking Galina and Grigori Komissarchuk with a hammer in the
Jacuzzi room of their Sarasota home.

Unfounded rumors? In the gay porn community? WE CAN’T IMAGINE. Below are a few of the bits we’ve been hearing lately…

What studio exclusive is kvetching about his current contract and not-so-quietly roamin’ around other studio heads to shop his wares? The only problem-it’s a recession and at the inflated prices he’s asking, no one’s buying.

Which former alleged child star turned adult actor turned
niche horror star has recently been trying to quiet allegations of his
alleged sitcom past because internet hawks have determined it never
happened?

Porn stars know we live vicariously through them, so while you were busy antiquing and stocking up on toilet paper at Sam’s Club, they spent St. Patrick’s Day weekend sacrificing their sterling reputations by engaging in semi-anonymous couplings, ingesting illicit compounds and dancing all night. But you needn’t pore over their blogs-their so-called lives are all meticulously detailed in our Monday Hangover Report.

It seems that yet another dirty boy on Dirty Boy Video turns out to have a real life outside the cum-soaked bedrooms of the East Village, and that life includes being an Ivy League sophomore.

Given that the internet was made for porn, gossip and social networking, we love when someone hits the trifecta as happened over the past weeks on JuicyCampus.com-a newish anonymous online campus gossip hub that’s sort of like the Page Six of the college set. A fetching twink known as Sebastian in Dirty Boy’s “Fourgy” (NSFW… he also shows up in Episode 9 of Dirty Tricks – NSFW preview clip here) was identified by a would-be Gossip Girl at Yale on February 25th, setting off a maelstrom of a commenter war in which fellow students were variously titillated and

Jett Blakk, noted porn director, homosexualist and repeated referencer of Perry Mason, is running a porn contest this weekend with a case of Valtrex as the prize. We kid — it’s a copy of his new release for Falcon, Overtime. The film buff and man-ogler has named the characters in Overtime after one of his favorite movies. The first guy that correctly identifies them wins a signed copy of the new DVD.

Thanks to a few well-placed handjobs and a bottle of Kahlua, we’ve weaseled our way into Grabby headquarters and stolen the list of nominees that’s scheduled to be published tomorrow. We started to tally the studio with the most noms, the movie with the most noms and the studio with the most movies and, well, wait… what were we saying? Sorry, we totally fell asleep. It doesn’t really matter since there’s enough noms here for each studio to spin, Bush-style, an edge up on the competition. By noon tomorrow, everyone will be in the lead.

Raging Stallion may have been the first to announce that they were releasing a movie in Blu-ray(â„¢), but Titan Media has beaten them to the punch, announcing yesterday that their massive hit Breakers goes on sale today in the high-definition Blu-ray format. The movie, available in a special hardcore director’s edit to allow the full film to fit on the Blu-ray disc, is available on the Titan website for $69.95.

Porn directors are sentimental fags like us, so it should come as no surprise that many of your favorite porn scripts are secretly based on classic movies-Chi Chi’s latest, Unknown is based on Ghost, and Steve Cruz’s Hotter Than Hell drew its inspiration from The Devil and Daniel Webster. Or maybe it was Bedazzled. But for every totally obvious porn parody (Oliver Twink, American Booty, Raiders of the Lost Arse) there’s a host of movies that you might never have realized drew their inspiration from mainstream. (Damn the distractions of the flesh.) See if you can match the the porn movies after the jump with the Hollywood screenplays that inspired them.

Damien Crosse announced today that he just finished filming his first non-Titan scene, opposite Steve Cruz in the Raging Stallion feature Steve Cruz’s Hotter Than Hell.  Crosse had announced last week that he was moving on after two years with Titan Media but had not revealed where he would be going. Crosse has been nothing if not diplomatic about the decision, saying, “I really enjoyed working with the
guys at [Titan]-they were great people and we made some
excellent films together-but after two years there I just wanted to
try to do something new and different. Raging Stallion is the company
that shoots some of my favorite porn, so it was an easy choice.”  After the jump, a few pics from the set and one from a recent modeling gig for a French boy mag.

This weekend’s shoot for Steve Cruz’s Hotter Than Hell was a terrific way to spend a Saturday-as long as you don’t like sunlight. Lured with promises of free pizza and crudité, porn stars (Luke Hass, Ricky Sinz, Antonio Biaggi, Scott Tanner, Steve Cruz) and perverts (Julian Marshburn, Mr. San Francisco Leather 2004; Jack Shamama, GayPornBlog.com; Mark Kliem, LavenderLounge.com) descended on the Powerhouse to pretend like they wouldn’t normally be at a bar on Saturday morning. While our weekends are so indescribably busy that we haven’t gotten to editing the footage from the shoot, you can take a look at Kliem’s videoblog (he captures much of the sit-around-and-wait inanity of porn shoots). Until then, we’ve got a few photos to sate you.

Gay porn superstar François Sagat returns to BUTT Magazine in the Spring 2008 issue, where he strips naked and gets playful with “famous celebrity chaser” Gary Lee Boas, showcasing his increasing appeal as not only a hog-tied piss victim and general XXX-covergirl but also as a visible gay celebrity. Could his foray into avant-garde Britney karaoke be what’s pushed him further into the gay consciousness, or is it simply the fact that he’s so conspicuously tattooed and memorable? Surely Gary might’ve had his pick of any celebrity to be his co-star in the pictorial, so François’ presence certainly speaks highly of him.

Steve Cruz may have been a pass-around party bottom in the past, but if you’re looking for someone to breed these days, head back to the Ramrod. The porn star-turned-directrix is taking the time saved by not shaving his balls to unveil the “How I Roll” safe sex campaign and to shoot “Steve Cruz’s Hotter Than Hell” all in the same week. The former features condoms adorned with the furry buggerer’s cartoonish visage, the latter with his punnish name. We’re not the first ones to say there’s no escaping the Steve Cruz juggernaut, but really-can’t we get a nut without him?

When we started asking stars about safer sex practices on set, we didn’t realize how much animosity was lurking below the surface. Spencer Quest, in particular, used it as a launching pad to discuss his experiences in the industry, as well as his crystal meth addiction, his off-set gang-bangs and his subsequent sero-conversion. While he acknowledges that he didn’t contract HIV on set, and that the industry didn’t get him addicted to meth, he claims they weren’t exactly helpful. Now, Michael Lucas is fighting back.

It makes sense that if Titan-exclusive Diesel Washington were to invent a new sex position that he would call it the “Bully.” After all, out of all the gay adult performers we can think of, nobody simultaneously turns us on and terrifies us more than Diesel (except maybe “Rimjob the Klown” in which case, we’re actually just terrified exclusively). Upon hearing about this new creative masterpiece in his strongly worded blog entry about his upcoming headlining feature, Telescope, we felt our throats sink into our stomachs with trepidation and felt compelled beyond all self-control to harass him into telling us what exactly this “Bully” entails. All is explained after the jump.

Aaron James may not be gay, but you wouldn’t know it by the amount he protesteth on his blog.