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Can’t go on the iTunes store, even though I have
wonderful movies, with great actors, with people who
put their heart into it. But for some reason, it’s okay
to show zombies ripping the guts out of humans.
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comes out of the pool and takes her top off. I had my
wardrobe stylist custom-make a bikini with a front
clip because we couldn’t find one. All the bikinis
we found, they open at the back. We did it with
Abigail Mac for Blacked.com in a scene with Flash
Brown. Kind of an homage to that scene, which really
impressed me as a teenager. She comes out of the
pool in slow motion with the rain pouring, and she
walks toward the camera. Abigail Mac looked like the
woman, too. I think Carter Cruise Obsession for Blacked
was also a good movie. These are the projects I’m
most proud of this year.
It’s nice when you do something and you’re fuckin’
exhausted at the end of the day, but then the actress
and the actor and the crew come up to you and say,
“Wow, we really feel like we accomplished something
cool today. Thank you.” To me that’s the best reward.
The best. When your crew and your actress and your
actors come to you, or when the scene comes out and
they say, “I’m proud to be part of this.” I always feel
upset that adult stars have to hide what they do, or
be shamed online. It really upsets and angers me. It’s
unfair. It’s just fucking. I’d rather my children watch
porn than a violent movie. It’s okay for a 14-year-old
kid playing a video game with a head being blown off
and a body torn apart to pieces. Where the fuck is the
logic in that?
Porn gets upset by mainstream, but we shouldn’t.
We get more attention than mainstream most of the
time. They just use the adult industry—or abuse it—
and they turn it into a sensational type of way because
it serves their agenda, and we’re happy to provide it.
It upsets me. I’ve turned down at least 15 interviews,
whether to come on my set or just talk. I’m not afraid
of tough questions, but I’m not going to control the
final product. I ask them, “What do you want to get
out of it?” That stupid fuckin’ documentary Hot Girls
Wanted, this little rich girl, the daughter of Quincy
Jones, grew up in Beverly Hills, she thinks she can
patronize and take three marginal stories in the adult
industry and make a fuckin’ documentary about
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it? What a joke. It’s the story of three girls that get
taken advantage of. You could put it in any industry.
I’m sure three girls have been taken advantage of in
the water industry. But every time you put the word
“porn” in mainstream you know you’re going to sell
papers. They know they’re going to get traction. No
attempt was made to actually getting some truth to
it, and there was no respect to the documentary from
people that reviewed it. Boogie Nights shows the dark
side of porn—drugs, violence—but to me it’s more
accurate than any documentary I’ve seen. It shows
real people. Jack Horner believed in his stuff, he wants
to make quality stuff, he wants to make beautiful
pictures. The actors and actresses are not monsters or
rapists, they’re real people with real feelings, and real
emotions. I thought it had fantastic cinematography.
The shots are fantastic. I was asked on Twitter if there
was one movie that as an adult industry member, I
thought was representative of our industry. I haven’t.
I once said that being in the adult industry was
like being a drug dealer, but paying taxes. It’s all the
problems of drug dealing: You have law enforcement
constantly looking at you, everybody in the world
thinks you’re a criminal, but you don’t have the
advantage of dealing in cash and avoiding taxes and
not having to pay worker’s comp. No. You gotta pay it,
and you gotta be treated like a criminal.
This is the way I feel most of the time. I’m cut off
from Netflix; they have a monopoly. Ten years ago it
was, “Everybody can have DVD but the porn industry
has to stay VHS.” Now Apple doesn’t want the adult
industry in their stores, so we can’t do apps. We have
great developers in-house, but we can’t go there.
We can’t go on Facebook, even though we could do
wonderful adult games. Can’t go on the iTunes store,
even though I have wonderful movies, with great
actors, with people who put their heart into it. But
for some reason, it’s okay to show zombies ripping
the guts out of humans, alive, but a beautiful woman
having sex in a beautiful setting is unacceptable to
Apple. I don’t understand the logic and Apple has
successfully created a citadel where everybody who
has an iPhone and an Apple TV can only buy through
them, but I can’t sell through them. It’s like a giant
supermarket where they refuse to let me sell my
product, but it’s the only market in town. It’s really
upsetting. If they allowed adult, everybody would have
a chance to sell their product.
Quality is something I’m very, very passionate
about. We put a lot more money and budget into our
movies than a lot of the adult productions. It was
definitely an artistic choice. I wanted a cinematic
approach. Blacked really took off faster than I had
There’s obviously a lot of people behind it besides
me, It’s a team effort. But it’s been heartwarming to
see that people appreciate the quality. To read the
feedback of paying customers saying “I can see this
is expensive lingerie. I watch it with my wife and we
like the cinematography, we like the story, we like the
attention to detail. We like your vision.” It’s been a
very rewarding ride so far. I have hopes to grow it as
big as I can.
Playboy started this groundbreaking magazine
that changed American history. When you create a
project—a magazine, a movie, a website, anything—
and the actor, actress, performers, artists that are in it
feel proud to be part of it, you get something unique
into it. On social media we have so many performers
that are promoting Blacked or Tushy, and they’re
doing it because they’re proud of being part of the
project. I would never want to do any type of adult
movies or photography where performers would just
do it for the money and they wouldn’t be proud of it.
It’s so gratifying when a girl like Kendra Lust says, “I
wasn’t planning on doing anal, but Tushy studio is so
incredible and the brand is so great, I’m going to do
it for you.” We used to hear girls all the time say, “I
would never pose nude, but for Playboy I would do it.”
That’s been my vision all along. That is the essence of
my vision: Creating something where girls would say,
“I’m not necessarily going to do that, but this studio
does it better than others.” That is a huge part of the
vision that I have. It’s super important to ma that the
people who are part of the projects that I do be proud
of it. That’s been important my whole career.
I am notoriously selective with casting. People say,
“You only cast the same type of woman.” Of course
I do. I don’t cast somebody because of how many
Twitter followers they have or how popular they are in
the adult industry. I cast based on my own definition
of beauty. I just cast on beauty. Nothing else. Some
performers are more talented than others, but that’s
my choice. If I don’t know the girls I’ll meet them
before, I’ll have a short interview with them in our
office, and if I don’t feel it’s a good fit we won’t work
together. Being selective gives you leverage. I look for
beauty first, and talent. Some of these girls are able to
make you believe. They take you on a trip. That’s what
I look for.
The message I want to come across is I love beauty,
I love the adult industry, I love porn. I do think it’s
a form of art and I do think that expressing yourself
through the adult industry is the same thing as
expressing yourself through painting or mainstream
film or singing. I have a very strong opinion about
that, and I’m proud of it.
expected. It blew up. And then when it was time
to launch a second site I was even more worried:
Can I do it a second time? Then Tushy took off
faster than Blacked did. It’s been a fantastic ride.
Kendra Lust in Miss Tushy “Sometimes when you go to the
studio you think, ‘It’s just a scene,’ but I look at it more like a short film.
It was her first anal.”