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INTERVIEW | | By Dan Miller
Stoney’s Lethal Dose Porn biz ironman still going strong 23 years later
10 most popular studios as far as views in the PornHub members section. They
are a huge supporter of Lethal content and send members as well.
You can be a great pornographer but make bad business decisions and kill
your business off. I consider myself a pornographer, not what I mainly see in the
business today, which is good camera guys. There’s a big difference.
Shooters will brag to me how good their lighting is and then I go, ‘Well she had
a big ass and you hardly showed it,’ or ‘The camera angles are not good’ or ‘Every
scene looks the same to me. There are no surprises in the whole movie.’ Or ‘Talent
had no chemistry but the location was awesome.’ I don’t get it. It doesn’t work for
me as a fan.
WHO’S WHO
What do you attribute to your longevity?
Understanding what my fans want; having a pulse on the trends that are
happening in the world of porn; being able to watch a girl and say she is truly
into the sex for more than the fame and money; evaluating male talent as well to
determine if I like them to be in my movies or not; understanding passion and
chemistry is key between two human bodies. I look for girls that will let you mind
fuck them as well as fuck their body. Their aura is key. I don’t listen to what girls
say as much as I feel their aura. ...
I don’t imitate what others are doing. I like to innovate by shooting for myself
and hope others love it, too. I find that a lot of studios will copy ideas I have come
adaptability, survival instincts and shrewd business decisions.
Not to mention producing some of the most ridiculous series in the
Stoney Curtis considers his longevity in porn to be a combination of
up with over the years so I am more careful on my initial idea until it is released.
For example, the Fuck My Mom and Me series I did in 2007. Look at the amount of
similar titles that came out after June 2007. Look at the incest niche now. We like
business and still generating profits 23 years later.
to think that Fuck My Mom and Me started this craze a bit. Studios refrained from
The owner of Lethal Hardcore, a porn ironman of sorts who overcame
doing incest stuff in 2006 and earlier.
open heart surgery in 2014, has endured more than most from his
generation of pornographers and is still rolling out one new release per week in a
climate when others have scaled back their production schedules.
But Curtis says there is more to his success than creating movies such as Drop
Them Drawers Give Daddy Some Candy and That Rapper Destroyed My Crapper, the latter
stopped for eight hours while doctors
of which won a 2016 AVN Award for Clever Title of the Year last month.
In this exclusive interview, the self-proclaimed “Brett Favre of Porn” discusses
his prolific run through Porn Valley to where he is today.
”In 2014, my heart and lungs were
performed open heart surgery on me
but this couldn’t hold me down for
AVN: How many years have you been in the adult biz now?
Stoney Curtis: Since 1993. Bill Clinton was taking office. Most of the girls in
long. I was back to shooting porn four
porn were not born or toddlers when I was starting in porn. While most of my
contemporaries have disappeared I am still here doing one movie a week.
months later.
In 2014, my heart and lungs were stopped for eight hours while doctors
performed open heart surgery on me but this couldn’t hold me down for long. I
was back to shooting porn four months later. My studio was still releasing titles
thanks to Chucky Sleaze, who kept the perversion alive.
What new series or titles are you planning to unveil in 2016?
We are doing a whole amateur line called OC Amateurs that came out on
January 12 with different editions like Laguna Beach Bunnies, Newport Beach Nymphs
and Huntington Beach Hunnies. Since I am the only one shooting down here I
How would you describe how your career has evolved?
thought why not do a line around Orange County, California?
I started out in features and jumped into the gonzo world in 1995. I was able to
A new concept no one is doing is Boober Drivers, which is out January 26. Girls
shoot successful movies for other studios while building my own brand Celestial
or guys pull up the Boober Driver App and order a car. Either a man or a woman
Productions in 1998, which became Lethal Hardcore in 2004 when the porn
driver shows up and sex happens in the backseat of the car parked.
industry turned more hardcore.
The series Hot Bods and Tailpipes with two girls and one guy in every scene
launched my own distribution company strong.
I have had hit movies from ’95, ’97, ’98, 2000, 2002, 2004, etc. I believe I have a
natural ability to supply the audience new creative ideas because I am such a huge
fan of adult movies myself and try to think of sexual situations and titles that turn
me on and then go shoot it.
Also I’ve picked great partners as well. Pulse Distribution confirms Lethal
Hardcore is still one of the best sellers on DVD. AEBN and various VOD sites
promote Lethal titles on their front page monthly. Lethal Hardcore is in the Top
What is it that keeps driving you to create new titles and continue producing porn?
I have a burning desire to create a sexual idea that exists only in my brain. Then
I will write it up and then cast it, shoot it and put it out, and to watch it come
alive is still so exciting and gratifying to me. Like when I did That Rapper Destroyed
My Crapper inspired by a girl I knew that wanted to hang with a certain rapper and
this was my assumption of what I believed would happen.
It is fun to create titles from personal experiences. It is an artistic expression. I
still enjoy jacking off to porn daily and love watching and training new girls and
turning them into great performers with some coaching.
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