LONDON — Hot Octopuss has unveiled “the world’s first science-backed orgasm barometer,” which the company says is designed to help women explore and expand their sexual pleasure potential.

Created in partnership with sex therapist, sex neuroscientist and author of “Why Good Sex Matters,” Dr. Nan Wise, the G-Scale is described as a Richter-style scale for women to learn more about their orgasms and how to enhance them.

Capable of calculating climax from a “sneeze” to “earth-shattering euphoria,” the G-scale can be used for orgasms experienced solo, with a partner, with a finger, a toy or something else.

“Studies show that up to half of all women are dissatisfied with how often they reach climax. Alarmingly, 15% have never experienced one at all,” Hot Octopuss Co-Founder and COO Julia Margo said. “We created the G-Scale to help women gauge the power and satisfaction of their orgasms. Through using the G-Scale, women can gain valuable information on how to pleasure their G-spot, which is a crucial component of combined orgasms, squirting and more fulfilling sex overall.”

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LOS ANGELES — Several content creators are reporting issues with a new form of paperwork that OnlyFans has been requesting since late December 2020.

Based on emails and documents shared with XBIZ, it appears that the popular premium fan site has been demanding a specific kind of model release according to a template offered by the company.

But creators accustomed to industry standard recordkeeping — including the legally mandated 2257 form and widely available industry-attorney-drafted model releases — say that OnlyFans has refused to honor their compliance paperwork.

The problem is compounded by creators who own content with a full set of paperwork and copyrights — which OnlyFans has now decided not to accept — for material that features models who are no longer in the industry, or who are unreachable or no longer living.

Sources have indicated to XBIZ that OnlyFans’ insistence on this specific form is the direct result of MasterCard and other credit cards creating new compliance policies in the wake of Nicholas Kristof’s sensationalist article “The Children of Pornhub,” published by the New York Times on December 4, 2020.

Immediately after publication of the article, Kristof and one of his main sources, religiously inspired anti-porn activist Leila Mickelwait, began directly pressuring politicians and credit card companies via social media to alter the way the latter had been doing business with adult merchants.

‘Example Attached’

Shortly after MasterCard and Visa announced their cancellation of payment processing with Pornhub and other MindGeek companies, OnlyFans starting sending automated emails to content creators who had uploaded explicit non-solo content.

“Hello,” the emails began. “You recently uploaded the content of another model to your timeline. Use of third parties content without permission is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy. Your account may be paused/features limited during verification time.”

The email requested that the creator “provide Photo of valid Government-issued ID/Passport that belongs to the person featuring in your content and signed Release Form (example attached)” including the legal name of the account user, the model’s legal name and date of birth, the model’s ID/passport number, the model’s signature and a handwritten date of release.

The OnlyFans requirement also including a photo that depicts the model holding both their ID and the OnlyFans-approved form.

Issues immediately arose with creators uploading legitimate studio content — previously only the studio itself was responsible for the 2257 and other recordkeeping — and also with people who had shot “content trade” videos and had kept their own legally valid records that nevertheless did not strictly follow the new OnlyFans template.

Sources have also suggested to XBIZ that the specific wording of the OnlyFans template reflects legal advice concerning compliance with the credit card processing requirements.

The result is that some people who have legal content which they shot and own, or that a studio shot legally, and who have legally compliant 2257 and model releases, are nevertheless prevented from uploading that material by OnlyFans, based on new MasterCard policies prompted by a mainstream press-fueled anti-porn panic.

All this is occurring at the very same time that the courts have let stand a ruling that even the 2257 requirement is, in fact, unconstitutional.

So, as the nation’s courts — after a protracted battle with involvement by Free Speech Coalition and other first amendment advocates — helped prevent random searches of adult companies by federal authorities, a private company (OnlyFans) is seemingly bowing down to other private companies (MasterCard and Visa) with immense shares of their own markets by themselves deciding what recordkeeping is valid for the entire adult industry and all independent sex workers.

Tracking Down Estranged Partners and Retired Models

Today, model and independent producer Allie Eve Knox took to social media to express her frustration about having to provide the novel, OnlyFans-rubberstamped paperwork.

“So, [OnlyFans] won’t accept my model releases that I have had signed or my own 2257 documents and instead now I have to chase down models to have them use both [OnlyFans’] model release and take a photo with take model release,” she tweeted.

Knox added that she saw this as “a sign [of things] to come from platforms,” and that it would be to the detriment of producers.

“I have content on 19 sites,” Knox elaborated. “If I have to have every model I’ve worked with sign 19 different forms and then take 19 pics with the forms instead of just accepting my totally legally compliant paperwork… I will have to track down dozens of models to re-sign for every platform.”

“Do you have any idea how much time that will take?” she asked. “Plus uploading after already sending all my legal documentation? I’ll go out of business. Or have to censor my content or, even worse, take it down because of the hassle.”

She then perceptively added that she suspects “this is a Visa/MasterCard issue where they are putting the pressure on OnlyFans to stay extra compliant.”

Knox resigned herself to taking down some of the content, which she relies on to make a living. “I don’t want to track down retired models” to get them to redo their paperwork based on OnlyFans’ new standards, she stressed. “Certainly won’t be able to do that in a 48-hour turnaround like required.”

She also pointed out that if models in legally shot content with legal paperwork were now estranged from the creator (ex-partners, for example), or not in the industry, or had changed their minds, the new rules would essentially end up censoring that legitimate content, based on a corporate standard.

A Veteran Producer With ‘Ironclad’ Records

Veteran producer Miles Long spoke to XBIZ and described his OnlyFans accounts as early casualties of OnlyFans’ purge of content that did not comply with the newfangled documentation requests.

Long had been an active poster on OnlyFans since May 2020, uploading a mix of current lifestyle content and material from his library of adult videos, which he has legally produced for decades. Long told XBIZ he has always kept records according to the industry standard at the time of production, and has trademarks and copyrights around his brands that he regularly enforces through lawyers.

Having attorney-vetted paperwork, over the years, has long been described by owners of libraries as a necessity and, before December 24-28, 2020, Long believed all his content to be ironclad.

It was then that he received a form letter from OnlyFans like the aforementioned request for OnlyFans-compliant records. “Before that, they weren’t asking for anything,” Long told XBIZ.

Since Long had specific objections to the wording of the OnlyFans release, he tried to solve the issue offering the mountain of compliance paperwork he had accumulated over the years.

“I tried to solve this amicably,” he said, by calling other veterans adult industry figures and brokers who are now working with OnlyFans. After a couple of months, he said, one of his contacts admitted that the company should have done something instead of ignoring Long’s pleas to be heard.

That was three months ago, and his contact has stopped communicating with him and his legal content is still censored from the platform.

“You know there’s a problem,” a frustrated Long told XBIZ. “You know that you’re totally incorrect, you know I have access to model releases, 2257s, as well as physical releases where my copyrights and trademarks over the material is right there… and you do nothing?”

“They haven’t gotten back to me in five months,” Long told XBIZ. “I’ve informed APAG [the Adult Performance Artists Guild union], I have all the emails with them, I’ve informed my attorneys — this is now for me an issue of bad [client] support. They’ve been ignoring this and more and more content creators are fed up.”

Accounts Shut Down and Vanishing Funds

APAG President Alana Evans also told XBIZ the union is aware of the situation. “Over the last six months we have had numerous creators contact us because their studio content [which is legal and includes industry-standard records kept by the studios] was flagged,” she said.

Behind-the-scene producers who own content, and should be able to post it, Evans said, “have been told, because they do not appear in the scenes themselves, they needed to supply additional paperwork that includes current IDs for every model, even if the content is old.”

But the loss of income to creators and producers generated by OnlyFans new requirements may also end up benefitting OnlyFans.

“The producers are not asked for paperwork as they upload the content, so the product garners sales,” Evans explained. “If the producers are unable to locate the models, some who are deceased, their account is flagged, all of their funds frozen and eventually their account gets closed.”

She said APAG has assisted in cases where producers of vintage content have had their pages shut down and thousands of dollars vanish.

Current-day producers have encountered the same issues. “Again, the accounts are closed and funds are taken,” Evans said. She initially talked to OnlyFans regarding several of these accounts, but the conversations have stalled.

“They have been asking for things beyond 2257 requirements,” Evans said, noting that OnlyFans had initially presented these templates as suggestions to help models, but now seems to have turned them into requirements and “they’re forcing them upon performers.”

XBIZ contacted some industry attorneys to comment on this story, but they are not at liberty to comment since they have been retained by the company in question.

Seth Gamble, the 2020 XBIZ winning “Male Performer of the Year” and “Best Actor” — he picked up another XBIZ Award for his acting again this year — has just learned a rooster lives next door to his new home. The rowdy fowl repeatedly interrupts our hour long phone conversation, but Gamble isn’t perturbed.

“Welcome to Hawaii,” he laughs.

Roosters aside, Gamble is quickly adjusting to the pace of his new life. He delights in explaining local traffic signs that indicate a slow speed limit. “It’s crazy,” he says. “In Los Angles, it’s always traffic, but fast.” He has observed “a slight anxiety 24 hours a day” that is pervasive in the City of Angels.

It’s been nearly two years since the popular and prolific performer has given an in-depth interview. He generally prefers to let his work speak for itself. But Gamble has recently made a number of significant shifts in his life, such as relocating from Los Angeles to Hawaii and inking a deal as the first exclusive performer signed by Gamma Films Group.

Gamble also remains outspoken about his sobriety and his mental health and well being. We talk about how it seems society at large has only begun to grapple with the collective hit to everyone’s psyche in the wake of COVID, and he listens with interest as I describe a recent interview for XBIZ with Kristel Penn, the longtime marketing and creative director for Grooby, who founded The Sad But Rad Club as a platform to empower and advocate for the adult community, particularly in regards to mental health and wellness.

“These are not normal times. And so the internal meter that you may use to measure your productivity or your own value needs to be thrown out the window,” Penn advised.

“That’s such an important thing, man. The biggest tool I’ve gained in my sobriety is that you’re allowed to think whatever you want, but it’s the feelings you attach to those thoughts that will give you your freedom or not,” Gamble said. “That’s helped me more than anything. For so many years I would [believe] whatever I was thinking was real. We have these thoughts all day long and it’s whatever you attach to those thoughts that will decide how your day’s going to go. When there’s so much information being tossed at you, it’s hard to know what’s real and what isn’t real — and the fear builds.”

“Dude, I haven’t been on Twitter all week and I feel amazing,” he added with a laugh.

XBIZ: It’s been a minute since we sat down with you. Now felt like a good time.

GAMBLE: Yeah, thank you. I don’t do many interviews. I appreciate it.

XBIZ: You’re in Hawaii now?

GAMBLE: Yeah, I moved in the beginning of March [2021] and I just felt that I’d been living in L.A. for 12 years and due to the — there’s a multitude of reasons that I moved here — but living in L.A. with the [COVID] restrictions and the way that everything was going down gave me a lot of time to reflect on different things I wanted in my life. You know, I’ve spent the majority of my adult life just working every day and not really doing anything [else]. I mean, I had a lot of joy during that period and my career is very, very important to me. I’m so grateful for every opportunity I get. But I wanted to find some separation [between] my personal life and my job and I was having a pretty rough time doing that staying in the mix the way that I was for so long. And I just wanted to experience life in a broader way. I knew if I came back once a month to work that I’d be able to maintain my career and still enjoy it even more so. The Gamma contract wasn’t even being discussed [yet]. Everything is timing and it happened at the perfect moment. It was just one of those things. I wanted to live in paradise and because of the hard work I’ve put in, it was a viable thing that I could do.

XBIZ: I was going to ask how you landed on Hawaii, but that’s kind of an obvious question, isn’t it?

GAMBLE: [Laughs] I’m not going to get too [deep] with it. Now I’m here. I enjoy a nice house in Hawaii and I also have a place in L.A. I live in both places.

XBIZ: And you’re going to come in once a month to film?

GAMBLE: Yeah, that’s pretty much what it is. The way I used to work was — I always got paid my value, but sometimes because I was in the mix I didn’t turn down things I didn’t want to do. I’m in a place with my career where I just want to do projects I feel passionate about.

XBIZ: It’s interesting to hear you say that because it’s a definite evolution from a year-and-a-half or two years ago. Your gratitude for what you’ve described as your second chance is still there. But we’d get press releases at XBIZ promoting your 10 new scenes that month.

GAMBLE: Right, yeah.

XBIZ: You were really committed to putting your nose to the grindstone. We’ve talked about that. I mean, it was clear you didn’t think you were cranking out widgets. But you were just really committed to work.

GAMBLE: Yeah. I would say that I’ve succeeded at a lot of the goals that I’ve had over the last few years. I won “Male Performer of the Year.” I’ve won “Best Actor” awards. Obviously, I’m not done [laughs]. But I’ve put a lot into “Seth Gamble” since I’ve been sober. I’m not speaking in third person.

XBIZ: No, I understand.

GAMBLE: I’m speaking about “Seth Gamble” as a brand. I put pretty much everything into that and into being sober. There was a time when I was working so much that a lot of things in my personal life went in the back burner. I’m not regretful that I did all of that. I’m super-grateful. But I want to go to work now — and I can only speak to where I am right now, in the present moment — I want to go to work now and have every project have meaning to me, as well as be able to make a good living. I think there’s a misconception about being a top male performer, that it means working every single day, doing everything. And you’re building a body of work, but a lot of it doesn’t get seen. You know what I mean?

XBIZ: You mean it just comes and goes?

GAMBLE: I’ll use XBIZ as an example. How many “Best Movie” [nominees] are there in a year?

XBIZ: Usually 10 or 15.

GAMBLE: Ten or 15 movies. I do 350 of them in a year. Do you see what I’m saying?

XBIZ: Yep.

GAMBLE: This is just one part of the way I’m looking at it [now]. For a few years, I liked working every day. I was one of those people. I had that workaholic mentality: I wanted to work, I want to work. And I was getting to a place where I was uncomfortable slowing myself down. I want to be more [intentional]. “Okay, this is a project that has some meaning to me. This is something I want to do.” There’s also directors that I just like working with and it will be a quick day. I want to be more selective, I guess you would say. I wanted to have the ability to do that. Working a little less will give me the ability to put even more energy into my scenes And having our own platforms like OnlyFans gives us the financial [stability] to be able to do that.

XBIZ: That last thing is really interesting because OnlyFans and all the other platforms have been around for awhile but it’s been in the past year during COVID that it’s really exploded and changed the game for everybody.

GAMBLE: Absolutely.

XBIZ: And based on what you just said, Seth, it’s really kind of changed what has always been “the curse of the male performer,” where you guys had to work all the time, like you just said. You didn’t have any other options. You had to book two scenes a day. I mean, so many times when I was running a shoot a guy would come up to me and say, “I can book another scene at 2 p.m. Can you release me before then?” But OnlyFans and the like has really changed the game for you now.

GAMBLE: Oh, for sure. I’ll just give you a small [example]: in 2019, I did 476 scenes.

XBIZ: 476.

GAMBLE: Yes [laughs]. Don’t get me wrong. I had fun every time. But my body and my mind were really going through it — and on top of doing that many scenes, I did “Perspective,” which was a mental undertaking for me. I’m speaking for myself here. I want to clarify that I think everybody in this business works their ass off and I respect every performer. I think what we do is brave. We put ourselves out there. When I take on acting roles, because of my background and training, I put myself in that part. It’s not like I’m just going to work and saying some lines. I’m writing and doing research and creating alternate realities in my mind so that I can become something that’s not me. It becomes a part of me during the filming and afterwards. It could be difficult — because I did a lot of really, really dark roles — to release those parts of me. And on top of that, doing all of those scenes, I was just — I was really feeling it. I can’t really explain it. It was a lot, you know what I mean?

XBIZ: That makes total sense. I’m an actor, too. I mean, I’ve never played a serial killer or those kinds of roles. But if you don’t give yourself time to recharge, those lines blur.

GAMBLE: Well, it’s not like I turned into a serial killer [laughs].

XBIZ: [laughs] No, no, I meant the emotions. You’re really feeling those things. Your brain doesn’t know the difference.

GAMBLE: Exactly!

XBIZ: Your body doesn’t know you’re acting and just playing a part. It feels like it’s really happening.

GAMBLE: Exactly. Luckily I do a lot of self-help work and stuff like that. And then we ended up getting this forced break [due to COVID]. I don’t know everybody’s experience, but I needed the break. Now I could spend some time with myself. That’s what everybody had to do during this time. So I really started getting into home workouts and I started really getting into meditation. I started exploring these parts of me that weren’t based in porn, things I hadn’t really experienced. I’ve been doing this since I was 18. My entire adult life has been inside of porn.

XBIZ: That had to have been disorienting to go from 470-something scenes to nothing, or just your OnlyFans stuff and that’s it.

GAMBLE: It was. I had to completely shift my focus and my thinking. It took a few weeks to get my bearings and figure it out. But in 2020 I had a taste of what I’m talking about now. I’m in “Muse” and I’m in “Killer on the Loose.” I raised my value – my rate – a little bit because the beginning of 2020 was [following] a pretty incredible year. I mean, from XBIZ I won “Best Actor” and “Male Performer” in the same year. After “Perspective” and 476 scenes, I had the most incredible body of work that I’ve ever had. I’m super-grateful — and tired [laughs].

XBIZ: And you achieved it some 15 years into your career.

GAMBLE: Dude, it’s incredible. I have to say, the first 10 or 11 years, I was a kid. I’m in my thirties now. When I really hit my stride I was in my early thirties. Most of my twenties — man, I’ve done so many cool movies — but generally speaking for a majority of my career it was like, “Okay, so the stepson bangs the…” That was my brand because I looked young. What I’ve recognized with this career is that I’ve gotten better as I’ve gotten older. This is a job about sexuality and finesse and as a 22-year-old kid, from my experience, you’re really not into finesse. When I got older, performing with a woman in a scene, I’ve had more confidence in myself as a performer. As times goes on you’re more comfortable with yourself and your sexuality and it shows when you’re on camera.

XBIZ: I completely agree. By the way, I was doing some research on you and I came across your entry in an adult film database. And the photo they have for your entry must have been taken your first day ever on the day. Seth, I swear to god, you look — let’s just say “young.”

GAMBLE: I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s actually not that old [laughs]. But it’s still so funny. So many of those sites have never updated my photos.

XBIZ: You look barely legal.

GAMBLE: Dude, that was my career! I got a contract through Bang Bros because I looked like that. You have guys shooting right now that look like that. That’s always been the trend. My first Bang Bros scene went viral because I looked so much younger than the female talent. And I acted like a kid.

XBIZ: On the gay side, at least, there seems to be a wide range of acceptable ages for performers. But on the straight side, you have to look really, really young. And it’s more popular than ever.

GAMBLE: Yeah, but there’s such a big market now for guys that look like men. They need more “daddies” now. But what you’re talking about is on the [studio] side of things. We’re in a [changing] time on the mainstream side. There’s so much acting! There’s always a story attached to the sex. It doesn’t matter what you look like; if you can convey the story well, the viewer will be watching. There’s so much porn out there — an excess of porn — and so you want something that has a little more [interest] to it and gives you that niche or that fetish or that thing for the viewer. And then there’s gonzo; everybody’s doing gonzo now. You can’t say that’s not acting. There are so many different compartments to porn. It’s really interesting.

XBIZ: It really is. And just watching how self-produced content has evolved in the past year has been interesting, too.

GAMBLE: It’s like a renaissance. If you think back to the ‘90s and the 2000s, people were doing three-day features. Which seems insane when you think of how we shoot features now. And then it moved into parodies from everybody. You had the quality Axel Braun parodies, and Will Ryder made some really great parodies. But there were some [titles] where you thought, “Why is this a parody? This is insane.” I mean, to some extent, everything is a parody when we’re talking about porn. It’s just changed and shifted around and renamed.

XBIZ: A very lightly applied parody.

GAMBLE: [laughs] Yeah, there’s still a lot of that. But now, generally speaking, there’s a lot more originality. Some of the movies I’m so proud I got to be part of were “Perspective,” “The Possession of Mrs. Hyde” and last year with “Killer on the Loose” — these are movies. They have intricacy and if you have the ability to act like my costars in those movies — Angela White and Avi Love and Aiden Ashley, really, really incredible actresses and performers — to me, that’s what “performer” means because it’s someone that can do all of the above.

XBIZ: What I look for is whether the performer can carry their character through the sex scene. You can do that and it’s something Angela White is really, really good at. You and Aiden in “Killer on the Loose” carried those characters straight through the sex scenes. Often the acting just stops when the sex starts.

GAMBLE: Another guy in the industry who is really incredible is Tommy Pistol. There’s just something about him. It’s so natural! And Xander Corvus. These guys who are just so smooth and natural at finding whatever character they’re playing inside themselves. It’s really cool to see. There’s some new guys that have that ability as well. For me, then, it becomes about how much work are you willing to put in? I can only speak for myself and I choose to put everything into it. This is my career.

XBIZ: Some chronologically young guys have a natural ability to project that finesse you’ve been talking about, a natural maturity, but with Tommy I think it’s what you’re saying: he’s a grown man with responsibilities who has lived a little and has a lot of natural empathy, which is what you also have.

GAMBLE: I think with anyone that is good at acting — there is a sensitivity to us. We feel things harder, I don’t know. That’s how I look at it, at least. I don’t know if it’s because I live with alcoholism. I don’t use or drink or do anything anymore because I know where that takes me. But I feel that having that type of brain wiring — and the reason why alcoholism came into play — is because I was trying to stop my head. I didn’t have the tools to [manage] it for a long period of time. And I think people who have that kind of sensitivity are able to come into their own acting ability. If they let themselves feel whatever that person is saying to them or feel whatever situation they’re in, if they have the right tools and they put the work in, it will seem real on camera. That empathy just comes in. This is so interesting to me because, as a performer — a sex performer — it’s different, a different mental mindset. It’s more visceral, it’s a connection that you build with your partner. It comes natural to you especially for me someone who loves my job so much.

XBIZ: And it’s another thing to learn how to do it over and over again, right? To learn how to do that 470 times a year — and that’s just for work, not your own personal sex life. That kind of consistency doesn’t just happen naturally.

GAMBLE: It’s true, man. And you were saying about how I’m winning these awards 15 years into my career — the fact is that consistency has been happening for over a decade. It becomes more a part of me than it was when I was doing it for even five or six or seven years.

XBIZ: Let’s talk about your new Gamma contract. You’ve done a lot of great work with directors like Axel Braun and Bree Mills, and this offer came along at exactly the right time, so it wasn’t a hard decision, I would imagine.

GAMBLE: Think about it: you have Axel, who is not just a director to me; he’s one of my closest friends. He’s one of the people who made me a porn “star,” I would say. He’s put me into positions where I’m playing Luke Skywalker and it becomes one of the bestselling DVDs of all time and I was a kid! He saw potential in me. He’s always seen it in me even when other people didn’t, people on set with us who would say, ‘Seth can’t do this.’ Axel would always say, ‘Yes, he can.’ We got really close over the years, especially after we did ‘The Possession of Mrs. Hyde’ together because it was my coming-of-age after I got sober.

When I got sober, there was definitely a mindset [in the industry] of, ‘Seth’s good but he likes to party.’ And I definitely felt like I had to find out if I could live up to my own expectations for myself. You know what I mean? I absolutely will say it again: it came at the perfect time. I’m so grateful it did. I couldn’t be happier.

XBIZ: You wanted to prove you could actually follow through on something.

GAMBLE: Yeah! What can I do with a clear mind? What could I do if I focused and really put 100 percent in? And it paid off and Axel was one of those people who not only obliged me, but said, ‘You can play this and ‘Deadpool XXX’ in the same year.” Two massive parts simultaneously; sometimes I was doing ‘Hyde’ and ‘Deadpool XXX’ on the same day! Those were some really weird days [laughs].

Also, my relationship I built with Bree Mills when they started Pure Taboo. I was starting to hit my stride then and she was inviting these girls to write stories. They started requesting me for these really in-depth, emotional stories, plus all these movies that Bree wrote herself, for me or Tommy Pistol. Then she puts me in “Anne,” which was a big movie for Tommy and Derrick Pierce, and the year before it was Charles Dera. One day, she comes up to me and says, “Next year is for you. I’m writing a movie for you and Angela White. I want to do a movie with you as the lead.” It was an opportunity I took very seriously, getting to work with Bree Mills and Angela White in such a powerful project.

XBIZ: It seems like you can really explore your various creative urges with Gamma.

GAMBLE: They have a lot of different sites and things I thrive at, a lot of acting-based stuff. There’s lot I can do. They were also interested in my being creative behind the camera and that was something that was very alluring to me. How does it get any better? I don’t think it would have been difficult for me to fly into L.A. for 12 days and call everybody I know and get those days covered. But this gives me some stability. And I’m doing projects I’m proud of with directors I enjoy working for. Gamma’s an incredible company. Look at it this way: when you’re doing upwards of 300-400 scenes a year, there will always be a few that don’t go exactly how you would like. No one’s perfect. But if I’m doing less and working for one company, I want everything to be quality. And I feel like with Gamma I’m going to have that opportunity.

XBIZ: Directing is really about detail work and trust. It seems like a job that would benefit from your mindset.

GAMBLE: We’re [discussing] some ideas. They’re sending me the projects they think I should be a part of. It’s a really great opportunity. They’ve been super-accommodating. I’m grateful. We both seem to value each other equally. What I think about is maybe there are some newer guys, or newer girls, who are willing to put in the work and I can help them elevate their craft. Or maybe somebody you wouldn’t expect and I can offer them that platform. I would find it enriching to be able to do that.

XBIZ: You’ve mentioned your OnlyFans a couple of times. How does that factor into your plans now?

GAMBLE: My OnlyFans is more interactive. That’s how I’ve been able to keep it financially viable and make some money on there. I’m not really big with shooting tons of content. The reliability of shooting free content with other people is not good. I saw an article where OnlyFans was described as “the farmer’s market of porn.” These fans are paying money to see you — everybody’s fan base has a different expectation. But my fans seem to really enjoy talking with me, sitting with me. I’m shooting some couples stuff and then stuff with just me. The more “real” and amateur-based stuff is what they’re looking for, a personal experience with me.

It’s so interesting. When you think back to when I first got into the business, we were fantasies to people. Now with social media and OnlyFans, we’re a reality. We’re so much more accessible. The reaction of when you meet someone who knows who you are is a lot more normal than what they used to do [laughs]. Now it’s a lot more of a normal conversation. We’re a little more acceptable to society. There are people out there fighting for sex workers’ rights. It’s in the culture now, people respecting people for who they are, no matter what they do and I think that’s beautiful. It gets a little over-the-top sometimes; the end of the day it’s great that people are standing up for each other because back in the day we were looked at as the dirty side of the entertainment industry.

XBIZ: Or just an untouchable fantasy.

GAMBLE: Yeah, the Vivid Girls, the Wicked contract girls, these untouchables. It’s a different environment. What constitutes a “porn star” is a completely different thing now. It’s definitely a trip.

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LOS ANGELES — Studio exclusive Rachel Starr is celebrating the achievement of over 244 million views on Brazzers.com.

Click here for a trailer commemorating her most popular scenes, which include “A Five Star Massage” with 335,000 views; “Stranger Danger” with 562,000 views; “This Was Your Idea” at 945,000 views; “A Side Piece of Porn Star” at 1 million views; and “The Last Dick on Earth” with over 2 million views.

“I love working with Brazzers, but I had no idea I had racked up that many views. What a wild ride it’s been for sure,” the performer enthused.

Her first scene for the studio, noted a rep, was 2007’s “Wish Upon a Starr,” opposite Johnny Sins, and her most recent is “Slut Magic” costarring Johnny Castle “and a large pink vibrator.”

Explore all of Starr’s scene work for Brazzers here and follow the studio on Twitter.

Follow Rachel Starr online and on Twitter and OnlyFans.

May 12, 2021 3:06 PM PDT

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Britney Amber is celebrating her nomination in the category of “Best MILF Premium Social Media Star” from the 2021 XBIZ Cam Awards.

Online voting is now open; click here to cast a ballot daily through May 26. Winners will be announced during a livestreamed ceremony, presented by Chaturbate, on Thursday, May 27, on XBIZ.tv.

“I’m overjoyed about this XBIZ Cam Awards nomination,” Amber enthused. “I concentrate a lot of my attention on connecting with fans on several platforms. So, to receive a nomination for ‘Best MILF Premium Social Media Star’ is quite a thrill. I would love it for my fans to make sure they take a moment and vote for me.”

Follow Britney Amber on Twitter and her social media profiles, via Linktree, for updates.

May 12, 2021 3:05 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — BDSM sexpert and Sanctuary LAX instructor Sir Ezra of House of Algos has announced the publication of “Mindfucking Mindfully: A Guide to Mental Manipulation for BDSM and Sadomasochism,” described as “the first ethical guide to ‘mindfucking’ ever published.”

“Intellectual dissection of the practice is accompanied by several first-hand accounts from Sir Ezra and other leaders in the field,” a rep explained. The guide “stands to help the kink neophyte, the S&M veteran or those intersecting with BDSM. It covers the basics with a focus on safety, ethics and best practices. It also covers advanced techniques, the categorization of the various mechanisms as well as some examples of elaborate mindfucks.”

“Lastly, a simple game is outlined and included to help people practice the mindfuck with each other in responsible ways,” added the rep.

BDSM author and kink community educator Midori described “Mindfucking Mindfully” as “a humane book.”

“Why is it humane? Because it tries very hard to address the gray area of desire,” Midori noted. “This book shares all the sweet secrets that we mindfuckers have up our sleeves [and] gives several very useful tools to think about, discuss and use for understanding consent, fun and agency.”

The guide will be available on Amazon as a paperback or audio book on Friday, May 21; pre-orders can also be placed here.

An exclusive book release party will be held at Sanctuary LAX Studios on May 21 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. (PDT). The guest list is limited to 25 persons with proof of full COVID vaccination. Tickets are $40; click here for details.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — AEBN has published data highlighting the most popular search results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia in its straight and gay theatres for March and April.

Among the straight content searches, “cuckold” was popular in Alabama and California while “femjoy” was sought-after in Idaho. Popular stars included Richard Mann in Wisconsin, Whitney Wright in Alaska, Dee Williams in Louisiana and Maryland, and Alexis Fawx in North Carolina.

In its gay theatres, Georgians searched for “boot camp” and Dirk Yates took the top spot in California. “All-American military” was popular in Illinois and Active Duty had mass appeal in Texas. Other top searches included “felching” in Utah and “sucking cock” in Hawaii, while top performers were Sergeant Miles, Devin Trez, Sean Cody’s Brayden, Michael Roman, Jack Dixon and Connor Maguire.

Additional details can be found on the AEBN Trends blog.

CERRITOS, Calif. — Sportsheets Reseller Support (SRS) has expanded its reseller support toolbox with over 50 new product GIFs now available for download.

“Sportsheets’ latest update spotlights the ever-popular animated GIF collection taken from the company’s latest round of videos,” a rep explained. “Each GIF is less than 10MB and showcases best-selling features of popular Sportsheets SKUs. Ideal for social media, websites, email campaigns and various other promotional channels, ‘Sportsheets GIF Collection One’ has been compiled as a zip file for a quick, grab-and-go download.”

SRS was launched last year as a B2B hub for promotional and marketing materials.

“Everyone loves GIFs,“ B2B Sales Manager Julia Harney said. “They do a remarkable job of quickly showing off the best features of a product and can close the sale in seconds. I’m excited to offer this useful and fun sales tool to our customers.”

Sportsheets CEO Julie Stewart noted the company’s B2B efforts “remain focused on providing the best available service and resources for our partners.”

“We’re grateful our customers continue to share their suggestions for different types of sales tools as the digital landscape rapidly evolves,” added Stewart.

Click here to explore SRS and follow Sportsheets on Instagram.

May 12, 2021 2:14 PM PDT

MONTREAL — Former motocross racing champ and current Big 49 Radio personality Roscoe ‘Buzz’ Roberts recently sat down with Arousr for an interview about sex and body positivity.

Described as “the fastest man on two frickin’ wheels,” Roberts participated in the Arousr Bodysuit Model Search, and posted an image of himself in an Arousr onesie to Instagram.

“I’m 6’5 and 300 pounds. I barely fit in that thing. I thought I was going to lose circulation and have to cut off a lower extremity,” Roberts recalled. “It was tight.”

Arousr Social Media Manager FemmeFatale interviewed Roberts for the company’s YouTube channel.

Roberts said he was excited to download the app, utilize his 1,000 free credits to begin chatting and “extend from the 205 [area code] and find some more ladies… it’s time to get bigger and better. We’re just adults having fun. I don’t have a type… I’ll be wooing women everywhere around the world with my big sexiness.”

Follow Arousr on Twitter and its XBIZ.tv channel for updates.