WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Boneyard Toys has rolled out the Drop-Kick Ass Trainers kit as its first product release for 2022.

Additional Boneyard kits on the boards are the Low Hangers Ball Stretcher kit, the Aroma Topper Pack and the Bangers Butt Plug training kit.

“The Boneyard Drop-Kick Silicone three-piece ass trainer is the perfect beginners kit for anal kinksters,” a rep said. “The teardrop-shaped trainers push-and-pull on your anal pleasure points. The kit comes with three graduated sizes to train and ease your way into more intense anal play. Each individual trainer enhances your foreplay and sex with incredible results that will keep customers coming back for more.”

“The easy pull ring grip handle ensures a secure hold so the set will go no further than you want,” continued the rep. “Four weighted beads connected by stretchy and flexible silicone from handle to tip. The Drop-Kick is 100% silicone with no filler. They have a beautiful but firm stretch with legendary Boneyard soft touch, velvety smooth silicone finish that has a smooth seamless finish.”

Rob Reimer, chief marketing officer for Boneyard parent company Channel 1 Releasing, added, “We are really excited about this product release, we think this is something that consumers will really enjoy. Boneyard is known for manufacturing products for the more experienced user, so this is an avenue that we think will attract a whole new consumer base for us.”

For additional details, contact sales@C1R.com or visit C1RB2B.com.

Feb 22, 2022 10:44 AM PST

LOS ANGELES — Alexis Tae returns to Brazzers in a new double-penetration scene, ”TA Gets a DP,” released today.

Tae stars with Xander Corvus and Lucky Fate as a teacher’s assistant who takes her job very seriously. One of the students in her class, Corvus, is near failing and when he asks Professor Fate for help, it’s suggested he work with Tae to better his grades. But Tae needs and wants more, eventually enlisting Fate to join in as she manages a double-blowjob and then gets her DP action.

“I loved my DP scene for Brazzers,” said Tae. “I was so excited to work with Xander again, and adding Lucky to this scene for his first time being part of a DP. It was so much fun having both of them fuck my holes, and I loved getting to play a teaching assistant who has sex with both the teacher and a [college] student. The scene proved to be perfect for my cravings.” 

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NEW YORK — Alfred Sole, who directed the controversial 1972 adult film “Deep Sleep” — which was investigated by the FBI in its attempt to shut down the nascent adult industry — and then went on to have a successful mainstream career, has passed away at 78.

Sole died on Feb. 14 at his home in Salt Lake City, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The Rialto Report has long championed “Deep Sleep” — Sole’s directorial debut — and re-released over the weekend a lengthy interview with the accomplished filmmaker and production designer, as well as a short film about the making of his pioneering X-rated title and its convoluted legal aftermath.

According to the introduction to the Rialto Report podcast, when Sole decided to make “Deep Sleep,” he “didn’t know much about adult films or the industry, so he shot it in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey and using a cast and crew made up of friends and family members. This meant that the local lawyer, banker, policeman, high school teachers, funeral home director, the mayor’s wife, even Alfred’s wife and his mother were part of the filmmaking group. It seemed like everyone in Paterson knew someone who was involved in the making of ‘Deep Sleep.’”

And so, the introduction continued, “predictably when it came out, it was a smash hit in New Jersey, with long lines of people breaking box office records trying to get into the theaters to see it. But not everyone was impressed. And what followed was one of the most remarkable and notorious prosecutions of an adult film in American history. First the filmmakers were indicted on a state basis under an ancient anti-fornication statute, and then on a federal level for interstate transportation of pornography. Suddenly Alfred Sole found himself at the center of a storm. He was under attack both from the law and from everyone who’d helped him make the film in the first place.”

Later on, after being forced to pay off a hefty fine to have the case dismissed, Sole found success in Hollywood, and eventually directed the cult horror classic “Alice, Sweet Alice” (1976), wrote for several TV thrillers, and was production designer for popular shows like “Veronica Mars” (from 2004-07), “Castle” (2009-16) and “MacGyver” (2017-19).

“I’m so saddened by the loss of someone I was fortunate enough to call my friend these past 15 years,” wrote the Rialto Report’s Ashley West. “I’m grateful that so much of his creative output is available for audiences to appreciate. And I will keep doing all I can for the story of Alfred Sole and ‘Deep Sleep’ to reach as many people as possible.”

WASHINGTON — The Washington Post published an opinion piece yesterday offering a cautionary historical perspective on how anti-pornography crusades like the current War on Porn end up harming marginalized groups like sex workers and the LGBTQ+ community.

The opinion piece was penned by Quinn Anex-Ries, an American Studies and ethnicity scholar at the University of Southern California, whose research examines the historical relationship between technology and sexuality.

According to Anex-Ries, in the past two years efforts to ban online pornography have been “growing in strength.”

“High-profile skirmishes over online pornography are microcosms of the broader debate raging over internet regulations,” he wrote. “Large swaths of the American public, along with federal regulators and political pundits, have adopted the view that the internet is unchartered — and untamable — territory. But when it comes to pornography, the debate is anything but new. For over a century, government officials, concerned citizens and erotic media producers have wrestled over the distribution of pornography via platforms ranging from the U.S. mail to the telephone to cable television.”

For the writer, older incarnations of the seemingly never-ending religiously-motivated War on Porn “offer a cautionary note as lawmakers grapple with how to regulate the internet. While proponents historically have sold tools to limit pornography as ways to protect public safety and national morality, multiple generations have wielded them more as weapons against LGBTQ communities and political radicals — with devastating effects.”

Anex-Ries then invoked the name of the founding father of American censorship, “anti-vice” crusader Anthony Comstock, and moved forward through U.S. history to show how anti-porn campaigns have “disproportionately affected the LGBTQ community.”

“More recent efforts to block internet pornography,” he noted, “have also perpetuated these historical exclusions. In 2018, Congress passed a legislative package, FOSTA-SESTA, intended to curb online sex trafficking. While regulators rarely use the law, its passage led many platforms, including Tumblr, Craigslist and eBay, to crack down on a range of consensual pornographic and sexually explicit material. This has had particularly adverse effects on the livelihoods of sex workers and the availability of LGBTQ media.”

Only if lawmakers “work collaboratively with the marginalized communities — including sex workers and LGBTQ people — most frequently subjected to censorship under anti-pornography legislation,” Anex-Ries concluded, will they be able to craft policy solutions “that allow individuals to choose how they encounter pornography online while also preserving free speech rights.”

To read “A New Push to Censor Internet Pornography Could Harm Marginalized Groups,” visit the Washington Post.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched a new website as part of a government public health initiative known as “Effah,” which claims to help people “get rid of pornography addiction” in 100 days.

Saud Al Hassani, director of the Effah “psychological counseling program” launched in 2019 by the theocratic, family-ruled kingdom, explained to Gulf media that the new website “will include specialized psychological models and lessons to help get rid of pornography addiction, in addition to a ‘Ten Steps’ program, and a ‘women’s recovery model.’”

Health experts have overwhelmingly debunked the notion of “pornography addiction” as a medical ailment, finding instead a meaningful correlation between religious, shame-based indoctrination about human sexuality, and compulsory behaviors concerning exposure to sexual imagery.

Al Hassani added that the Effah website “offers treatment for porn addiction based on a systematic model and three key pillars: cognitive behavioral therapy, spiritual therapy and a safe support environment” and will eradicate “porn addiction” after 100 days.

Efah is a Quranic name for girls that means “modesty,” “chastity,” “abstaining from all bad things” and “moral excellence.”

“The website will also explain the damaging effects of pornography, and why we have not been able to stop it so far, and will clarify the steps of recovery based on Islamic teachings,” a rep explained. “It will also feature gifts, prizes, interactive weekly meetings for support and assistance, and will share success stories of those who have successfully beaten pornography addiction.”

Echoing religiously motivated anti-porn groups in the U.S. and Europe, Al Hassani said that pornography is “an issue that affects human values, psychological health and productivity and can also lead to fueling harassment and violence.”

The Saudi bureaucrat also claimed that “a third of internet content is pornographic.”

Feb 21, 2022 3:35 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Rachael Cavalli will headline at Indianapolis’ The Pony gentlemen’s club Thursday through Saturday.

Cavalli will feature on the main stage twice nightly and host multiple meet-and-greets, where she’ll be available for selfies and selling exclusive merch. Fans and patrons will also be able to purchase a VIP lap dance.

“I’m excited to be going back to my home state. I hope Indianapolis is ready to have a great time,” she enthused. “Get there early for the best seats and stay late to see both my nightly shows and meet me in person. And of course, I’ve got some surprises in store.”

For more info, find The Pony on Twitter and Instagram.

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LOS ANGELES — Axel Braun has cast Blake Blossom as Gwen Stacy (aka Spider-Gwen) in the director’s latest Wicked Comix superhero parody, “Spideypool XXX.”

The character is described as “a heroine from an alternate Marvel timeline where Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider rather than Peter Parker, leading to her masked vigilante career as Spider-Woman, better known as Spider-Gwen.”

“Blake was just phenomenal,” said Braun, who is in his second year serving as head of production for Wicked Pictures.

“Her audition was fantastic, but on set she actually surpassed my expectations. From her look and her acting abilities to her extremely physical take on the character of Gwen, she was simply outstanding, and if that weren’t enough she was also a delight to be around,” he added.

Brain described Blossom as “sexy, funny, thoughtful and 100% committed, not to mention the fact that she possesses the most perfect set of natural boobs in the industry. She absolutely killed it as Spider-Gwen and it doesn’t take a genius to see that this girl has a very bright future ahead of her.”

A Porn and Mainstream First

A rep noted that “Spideypool XXX” will mark the first time Spider-Gwen has been depicted in either a live-action mainstream or adult film.

“While Bryce Dallas Howard portrayed Gwen in Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 3,’ and Emma Stone assumed the role in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ films with Andrew Garfield,” the rep explained, “Spider-Gwen’s movie appearances have been limited to the animated ‘Spider-Verse’ series, where the character is voiced by Hailee Steinfeld.”

Blossom revealed, “When I first got the call from my agent about a super-secret role in an Axel Braun parody, I was really nervous about what it could possibly be. I was waiting on pins-and-needles to find out if I was going to get this huge role and it couldn’t have panned out better.”

She added that she has always enjoyed the Spider-Man universe and was overjoyed about the chance to play Spider-Gwen.

“I actually did a ton of character research, read a bunch of comics and rewatched all the movies to get a better understanding of what type of girl Gwen is and was,” said Blossom, who shared that her favorite part of the production was her painstakingly designed costume.

“Axel had such a wonderful and precise vision for my character and his attention to detail throughout the whole process was incredible,” she added. “[Costar] Tyler Cruise and I had never worked together before but his version of Peter Parker is hilarious.”

“Being part of this cast was so fun and I hope there’s a Part Two to Gwen’s story,” Blossom concluded.

Seth Gamble, who reprises his XBIZ award-winning role as Deadpool, said the starlet “gives precise form and delicate feeling to emotions and experiences that, despite the comic book specificity of the circumstances, everyone will recognize.”

“She’s a visceral performer and a convincing actress who looks and moves like the Spider-Gwen we all remember from the source material,” Gamble added.

“Spideypool XXX: An Axel Braun Parody” will premiere in 2022 exclusively on Wicked.com.

Feb 18, 2022 5:00 PM PST

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jenna Starr returns to Brazzers, opposite Julie Cash and Van Wylde, in “Noisy Nympho Roomie Gets Double Whammy.”

As the action opens, “Van and Julie are a couple trying to get some rest, but a horny Jenna is making a racket with her giant dildo. It’s not long before all three end up in Jenna’s bed for a devilishly good time,” teased a rep.

“I had a lot of fun making this new video,” Starr enthused. “I got to hook up with Julie and Van, two incredible performers. Fans are going to love watching this scene as much as I loved making it.”

Find a preview here and follow Brazzers on Twitter.

In related news, Starr is also featured, opposite Serene Siren, in “Lesbian Booty Calls 1” from Girlfriends Films.

“When two beautiful blondes connect for a lovemaking session, they make magic,” the rep said. “The passionate scene features caressing, kissing, and even some toe-sucking before some steamy scissoring starts.”

Click here for additional details and follow Girlfriends on Twitter.

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LOS ANGELES — Last month, Cadence Lux and Ashley Lane gathered at fellow performer Phoenix Askani’s home for a “girls’ night in” — with snacks — to watch the second season of one of their favorite shows: HBO’s acclaimed high-school dramedy, “Euphoria.”

“And then the character Faye shows up,” Askani said, “and we all cheered. It was Chloe Cherry. It was one of us. On HBO!”

Their reaction was not uncommon among adult performers and sex workers. Cherry’s Instagram and Twitter posts announcing her “Euphoria” debut as the full-fledged character of Faye, an instant fan favorite, are festooned with accolades from colleagues such as Tommy Pistol, Chad Alva, Brooklyn Gray, Hyley Winters and Ivy Lebelle, who responded, “I was obsessed with Faye! Hope we see more of her.”

“When she reappeared in the second episode and then she was tied to Fez, one of the show’s protagonists, we realized she would be a recurring character,” shared Askani. “We were excited we were gonna see more of her and had a moment of acknowledgement and celebration for our peer.”

Even at a time when it seems that more adult performers are being considered for mainstream roles — a practice traditionally called “crossover” in the industry, although the term lends itself to ambiguity — two things make Cherry’s “Euphoria” appearance special.

One is that Cherry told XBIZ she deliberately chose to keep her performer name in the credits, eschewing going by her legal name or a different mainstream artistic moniker. This is important because it makes it clear that she puts her work in projects involving explicit sex on equal footing with those that don’t. She’s an actor and these are all performances. It is a destigmatizing move, and incredibly brave coming from someone just starting in what looks to be a promising mainstream career.

The second thing that makes Cherry’s “Euphoria” role special is that Faye is a defined character, with a name and backstory, who is part of the show’s universe — and she’s not a porn star.

For decades, it hasn’t been uncommon to see adult performers drafted by the movies or television to play strippers, sex workers or other — often naked — background roles. “Euphoria” itself does this, with Aiden Ashley, Emily Willis, Diana Grace, Kenzie Anne and Ashley Lane having shot background work for the show’s second season.

But Faye is different, and Cherry is aware of the unusual opportunity.

Angus Cloud (Fez) and Chloe Cherry (Faye) (Photo: Eddy Chen/HBO)

Becoming Faye

“The moment I got this audition, I knew I could do it,” Cherry told XBIZ. “I love becoming a character that is totally different from me. I knew she had to be tough but also make you smile. I came up with so much backstory in my mind to become her. She has seen so much and just keeps experiencing more darkness and insanity.

“You can tell she wants more, though,” Cherry continued. “You can see in her clothing and her sense of humor she has something bright in her. The entire cast and crew was extremely talented and amazing to work with. I got to improv some lines which was very fun.”

“I hope you all love Faye and find her funny and exciting!” she added — and the fans did.

The show’s protagonist, Rue — played by multi-hyphenate star and executive producer Zendaya — meets Faye on New Year’s Eve. The pair spend some time together while the show’s low-key charming high-school drug dealer, Fez (Angus Cloud) takes care of some business. During the second episode of the new season, Fez offers Faye a place to stay, making Faye a potential rival to love interest Lexi (Maude Apatow).

A week after the “Euphoria” second season premiere, the British edition of Cosmopolitan magazine singled out Cherry’s Faye as one of the breakout new characters that had galvanized the audience’s attention.

Fans immediately started creating “Euphoria”-themed art based on Chloe Cherry’s Faye (Art by Instagram users @ihatevaniiaicecream @magicallydeclined and Redditors u/diet_chola and u/Thesloppypencil)

Instant Audience Favorite

Fans, Cosmopolitan noted, were “completely divided over Faye’s character, with some calling her out for getting in the way of a potentially sweet romance, while others are just loving the pandemonium that surrounds her.”

Whatever their take on chaotic Faye, it was clear that, with only a few minutes of screen time, Cherry had managed to capture the audience’s imagination.

Reactions on Twitter were swift and overwhelmingly positive, including “Faye is the funniest character in Euphoria,” ”I love Faye so much already” and “Faye is the cutest thing ever.”

“FAYE FROM EUPHORIA SEASON 2 SUPREMACY,” someone even declared in all caps.

By the second episode, the Faye fanbase had coalesced. “I wanted more Faye and we got more Faye!” a Twitter user celebrated.

Cherry’s performance made such an impression that the show’s creative team chose to highlight her comedic delivery, during an Uber ride scene with Zendaya, as the punchline of the season’s trailer.

Cherry’s inclusion in one of the most lauded and talked-about cable TV offerings — along with her gutsy choice to keep her adult performer name in the credits — marks yet another step in the erosion of the discriminatory barriers that have been known to prevent sex workers and adult performers from auditioning for mainstream roles.

Chloe Cherry as Faye in “Euphoria” (Photo: HBO)

The Mainstream Embraces Adult Performers

At 24, Cherry is already a veteran of the adult industry, having left Pennsylvania to join the biz in 2015, when she was 18. She made her high-profile “Euphoria” debut confidently and matter-of-factly, skipping across the absurd line separating performers who have or have had sex on camera from those who don’t. Doing so, she follows in the very recent footsteps of such crossover stars as 2022 XBIZ Performer of the Year Maitland Ward, who has a sitcom in the works premiering this year; retired performer Zelda Morrison, nominated under her legal name for a prestigious Independent Spirit acting award for her brilliant supporting role in Ninja Thyberg’s “Pleasure”; and erstwhile solo model Simon Rex, heralded internationally for his role as a male talent in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket.”

The casting department of “Euphoria” has been known to work with agents to fill background or nude roles, and several of such roles have been filled by Motley Models.

“We had a great experience working with them,” Motley founder and agent Dave Rock told XBIZ. “We had worked with them for season one and when they were casting season two they wanted more girls to send video auditions. We also placed four of our models in the upcoming Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee biopic, including Aiden Ashley, who has a featured role with lines alongside Seth Rogen.”

Another Motley model, Freya Parker, has recently shot a prominent top-secret nude scene for an Academy-Award-winning director’s big-budget production, alongside two of the biggest movie stars in the world.

These nude background gigs “have been around for years,” added ATMLA head honcho and agent Mark Schechter. “They’ll send out a casting request and we’ll submit models that fit whatever they’ve been looking for … They’re very specific with the roles they want. But it’s picking up — we’ve done several in the last six months with Netflix and Showtime.”

Schechter says that one of these waves of mainstream interest involved the biker drama “Sons of Anarchy,” where the casting agents “started picking through adult talent for a lot of their extra roles.”

Asked if the models get very excited by these opportunities to flex their acting chops and take a break from adult set work, Schechter laughed and immediately retorted, “Fuck yeah, are you kidding me?!”

Veteran industry director Craven Moorehead — who has done double duty with technical roles in music videos and other mainstream projects since the beginning of his career — has collaborated with music icon Glenn Danzig in his forays into filmmaking, bringing along adult talent to flesh out the punk pioneer’s horror scenarios.

“A few years ago, Glenn wanted to make one of his comics — ‘Verotika’ — into a movie,” Moorehead explained. “He asked me to suggest adult talent and ended up casting Ashley Wisdome, Emma Hix and Katrina Jade.”

Danzig was set on Kayden Kross for the movie’s central role and key poster art image: a “Crypt Keeper”-like character that serves as the thread between all the stories. Like Cherry in “Euphoria,” Kross used her performer name and ended up having a well-defined, non-background role in the 2019 cult horror anthology film.

“Glenn liked working with her after shooting the album cover for his ‘Skeletons’ album,” said Moorehead. “Needless to say, she is extremely talented and professional and he liked that.”

Danzig later also cast Tasha Reign in “Death Rider in the House of Vampires,” a bigger-budget production co-starring Devon Sawa, Danny Trejo, Julian Sands and actor-director Eli Roth.

“Danzig took the chance and put girls from the adult movies in his movies when he was advised not to,” Moorehead added. “Glenn has always done it his way and has respect for the talent of adult stars even when others stigmatize them. He sees talent and gives people a chance when no one else would.”

BTS shot of Chloe Cherry in the “Euphoria” set (Photo: Chloe Cherry’s Instagram @perfect_angelgirl)

A Cult ‘It Girl’ for Our Time

It remains to be seen whether the stigma against casting adult performers for non-adult roles is waning, but Cherry’s “Euphoria” appearance and her immediate connection with non-porn fans is encouraging.

Originally known as Chloe Couture, Cherry quickly became a dependable go-to performer in the “teen” niche, where she embraced her success without ever leaving behind her delightfully quirky personality.

Cherry’s Instagram stories are full of that same zaniness, with no contrivance or affect. She is an ideal avatar of Gen Z, with a certain “young Goldie Hawn” quality that screams stardom. Keen eyes can see that her natural gift for slapstick and bold choices — making her huge eyes even huger, grimacing back and forth from “sexy” to disaffected to totally antic — reveal yet-untapped comedic potential. And though Cherry’s persona — a feral kid past her bedtime — may be a perfect fit for “Euphoria,” there’s so much more beneath the surface.

She’s also a real fashion maven — or “stylish AF” in the parlance of the day. “Does anybody know where I can find Faye’s top?” asked a fan on Reddit minutes after her first episode aired. The show’s costume designers could very well have taken their inspiration from Cherry’s social media posts, which are always a few steps ahead of established trends, which she doesn’t follow so much as she comes up with them herself.

On January 19, barely a week after her debut appearance on the show, prestigious London-based mainstream modeling agency Anti-Agency announced that they were representing Cherry and added her to its website. Established in 2014, Anti-Agency’s stated mission is “to break traditional beauty standards within the modeling and fashion industries” and “to celebrate diversity, authenticity and character.”

On their Instagram account, Anti-Agency made the announcement with the now-iconic “Euphoria” still of Cherry holding the turquoise handbag with her arms crossed, a car’s headlights literally shining the spotlight on her charmed opportunity.

This article was originally published in the February print edition of XBIZ World.

Main Image: Chloe Cherry as Faye in HBO’s “Euphoria” (Photo: Eddy Chen. Courtesy of HBO)

PARIS — Gianna Dior and Seth Gamble topline the starry cast of director Kay Brandt’s “Climax 2” from Dorcel.

“Kay’s latest production for the Paris-based powerhouse focuses on newlyweds Danielle (Dior) and Jason (Gamble). Although they have a busy sex life, they are always looking for new experiences to spice up their marriage,” noted a rep. “Before he met Danielle, Jason was already a member of the Joy Club, a very private establishment where members can indulge their every desire and fantasy. In a few days, Danielle will get the opportunity to join the club, but she’s a little anxious about it; what if the owner and the other members don’t like her?”

The cast includes Britney Amber, returning, like Gamble, from the first “Climax” along with Robby Echo, Emma Hix, Kit Mercer, Brad Newman, Lena Paul and Harmony Rivers.

“Running 145 minutes in total, each sequence in this colorful, fast-paced opus is shot with searing intimacy,” the rep said.

Gamble added, “It was humbling to have Kay and Dorcel invite me back for the sequel to ‘Climax.’ Working on the original was an absolute joy.”

“It’s an honor to be a lead in the sequel; I’m in four scenes, including two group sex scenes. I loved working with the whole cast — Gianna, Emma, Britney, Harmony, Kit, Lena, Robby and Brad, and I know fans and reviewers will enjoy their work as well,” he said.

Daniel Metcalf, U.S.-based publicist for the studio, praised Brandt as “an invaluable addition to the Dorcel team.”

Find additional details about “Climax 2” here.

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