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Shy Love
Sicilian and Puerto Rican spitfire Shy Love made big
strides in the adult entertainment industry. A popular
performer who had a penchant for anal scenes, Love was
nominee for Female Performer of the Year at the 2006
AVN Awards, as well as a former Hustler Honey. Love
performed in more than 300 adult movies during her
career for virtually all the big production houses. She’s
also a director whose most recent movie, El Gordo y La
Flaca XXX, is up for five AVN Awards, including Best
Parody - Comedy, while Love herself earned a nomination
for Best Director - Parody as a result of the project. After
she stopped performing, Love founded Adult Talent
Managers (ATM/LA), which in quick succession has
turned into one of the industry’s largest adult modeling
agencies. Love’s agency currently represents a plethora of
A-list stars.
Anna Malle
Anna Malle, who was proud of her Native American
ancestry, entered the adult industry in 1994 at the age of
27 with both guns blazing. She appeared in 26 hardcore
movies during that year, often with her actor-husband,
Hank Armstrong, but quickly showed an aptitude (and
affection) for bondage and other fetishes, which formed
the majority of her work from 1998 until her untimely
death in a car accident near her home in Las Vegas in
January 2006.
Katie Morgan
You can’t help but be mesmerized by the blond and
bubbly Katie Morgan. Of course there’s her trademark
high-pitched voice, but don’t let that fool you—Katie is
smart as a pistol. Making her debut in 2001 in Dirty
Debutantes 197 for Ed Powers, she went on to shoot over
250 adult titles during her career. Morgan was a bit of an
unsung performer during her career on camera, but made
the most of her opportunities, parlaying her blue screen
career into a bona fide mainstream one. She has been
featured in a variety of HBO specials, including Katie
Morgan on Sex Toys, Katie Morgan: Porn 101 and the
HBO documentary Katie Morgan: A Porn Star Revealed.
In 2008 Morgan made a guest appearance on HBO’s
Entourage playing herself. She made her first mainstream
feature film appearance in Kevin Smith’s 2008 comedy
Zack and Miri Make a Porno. For her mainstream efforts,
Morgan won Crossover Star of the Year at the 2009 AVN
Awards. She currently hosts Having Sex, With Katie
Morgan every Friday night at 9 p.m. PST on S.I.R. at
Smodcast.com.
Ralph Parfait
The multi-talented offspring of the late adult director
Henri Pachard, Ralph Parfait vividly recalls being
introduced to porn on the set of Devil in Miss Jones II at
the age of 18, though he’d already helped his father at the
editing station for some of Pachard’s prior movies. While
it’s difficult to discover how many movies Parfait has shot
as a camera operator, the Internet Adult Film Database
credits him as director of 47 movies, the vast majority for
Vivid ... with plenty more to come.
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Mike Quasar
Without a doubt one of the funniest people in the
business of adult entertainment, Mike Quasar, or
Quasarman, has a long and colorful history in porn. After
moving to Los Angeles from his native Canada in 1989
hoping to be a rock star, Quasar soon found himself
immersed in the world of pornography. During his initial
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salad days, Quasar was the go-to shooter at Metro before
moving on to the Zero Tolerance/Third Degree
Films/Black Ice conglomerate. One of Quasar’s greatest
strengths is his versatility; he can shoot gonzos, dramas,
comedies, parodies—virtually everything—with equal
aplomb. After directing hundreds of adult titles, Quasar
has put his stamp on signature series including Ass
Cleavage, Double Decker Sandwich, Finger Licking Good,
Dreamgirlz, Girlvana, Fishnets, Mother Load, Tits Ahoy
and Zero Tolerance’s Interactive Sex series.
Julie Simone
A photo and video model for 14 years, Julie Simone has
been in more than 350 videos, served as a bondage
consultant for mainstream films, and appeared on
G4TV’s Attack of the Show and Playboy TV. She’s graced
numerous runway stages, glamour and fetish websites,
magazines and books. She is one of the leaders in BDSM
porn, specializing in latex, smoking and SM. “Aside from
wanting to make a living, it’s really important to me to
create a safe and pleasant atmosphere for women in the
business. Being a performer myself, I know how hard it
can be,” she said. “That, more than anything, makes me
feel good about what I’m doing. As an artist I can create
in any medium; I choose this one because there is a
greater good that can be achieved, a greater visibility I
think is important.”
Chris Streams
“I think Chris is the best photographer in the business,”
Jules Jordan gushed to AVN of Chris Streams when the
veteran gonzo performer/director became a Jules Jordan
Video contract helmsman in 2007. That’s high praise
from easily one of porn’s most awarded gonzo auteurs.
But Streams has lived up to it with his output of
consistently gorgeous, high-gloss fare like his Oil Overload
and Young & Glamorous series, earning him plenty awards
notice of his own. First wetting his beak in the craft with
a couple volumes of titan gonzo series Shane’s World in the
early 2000s, Streams went on to hone his lensing chops as
a house director at Zero Tolerance/Third Degree Films
before Jordan brought him over. All the while, he’s
remained true to his artisanal aim, which he himself
described at the time as making “movies that I like to jack
off to, it’s as simple as that.”
Vaniity
Mexican-born Vaniity is perhaps the best-known
transsexual in adult movies today, having recognized her
gender issues at an early age. She got into porn in 1998 at
age 25, doing most of her early work for Devil’s Film, but
quickly became a favorite of director Joey Silvera. She has
appeared in more than 50 movies, and has consistently
been nominated for Transsexual Performer of the Year, a
category she won in 2004.
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Danni Ashe, Founder of Danni’s Hard Drive
More young women than ever are starting up their own
sites and running their own careers, and whether they
realize it or not, in a very real sense they all owe their
success to Danni Ashe, who, despite having retired from
the industry years ago, remains one of the most recogniz-
able names in adult lore. A former exotic dancer who
invested $8,000 in computer equipment and taught her-
self HTML, the relentlessly entrepreneurial Ashe began
posting photos of herself on adult Usenet newsgroups in
the early ’90s, immediately building a loyal fan base
before exploding with the creation of Danni’s Hard Drive
in 1995. (The site later became simply Danni.com.) Her
unprecedented success led to her inclusion in the
Guinness Book of World Records as the most
downloaded woman in the world. Ashe’s legacy continues
to this day. The company she founded eventually became
a subsidiary of Penthouse Media Group in 2006, and
billing company DHD Media, which still sports the
initials of her original company, is still processing for
adult online merchants.
Anthony J, Founder of NetVideoGirls.com
The founder of the original audition/casting couch site,
NetVideoGirls.com, may prefer to remain behind the
scenes, but Anthony J’s legacy as a content visionary for
the internet age remains unparalleled in its influence on
those who came after him. Few have been able to match
NetVideoGirls’ track record, however. Founded in 2000,
and remaining true to its roots ever since, the site is still
updated regularly. As Anthony told us, “We’ve never
strayed. Fair and honest, with regular payouts over 10
years. I still have a few of the original members from 12
years ago. We just keep to ourselves and try and keep our
members happy.” That decade-long dedication to consis-
tency, quality and customer service is what sets
NetVideoGirls apart and above, and is what earned
Anthony J his place in the Internet Founders Branch of
the AVN Hall of Fame.
Bill Pinyon and Steve Wojcik, Founders of Badpuppy.com
When discussing adult internet pioneers, the herd thins
out considerably when you get to 1995-96, which makes
the longevity of the iconic Badpuppy brand all the more
impressive, especially when you consider that the
Badpuppy BBS was started by Bill Pinyon in 1992! About
a year later, Pinyon, a NASA administrator, met Steven
Wojcik, and the rest is history. Within a week of meeting,
the two were an inseparable couple in both their work
and personal lives. In May of 1995, Badpuppy.com was
born as the first gay membership site of its kind. It was an
immediate success, and by 1996 the company had 23
employees, 30 individual contributors and a growing list
of extremely happy members. The Badpuppy Network is
still going strong, comprising 30 websites owned and
managed by producers and webmasters.
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For details on the inductees into the Pleasure Products
Branch of the AVN Hall of Fame—Mark Franks of Castle
Megastores, Dennis Paradise of Paradise Marketing, and
Nasstoys founders Teddy Rothstein and Elliott and Irwin
Schwartz—see the story in Intimate magazine.
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