| --Saturday, May 10, 2008--
April Flores, Alix Lakehurst, and Mr. Skin
 Two of my favorite people talk with each other in a recent article on Mr. Skin.com.
Alix Lakehurst interviewed April Flores for the Chicago-based mainstream movie nudity website and the Kiss Attack performer talked about working with Belladonna, idolizing Rita Hayworth, and being her own favorite porn star.
Read the article here.
Previously: April Flores: Diva; Young Hollywood and the birth of the United States; No Easter for Alix Lakehurst
See also: April Flores: The Skinterview; April Flores, Alix LakehurstLabels: alix lakehurst, april flores, bbw, belladonna, chicago, WGL
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--Friday, March 21, 2008--
No Easter for Alix Lakehurst
 Alix Lakehurst is Greek, and lives in Chicago. We talked by computer, the way they do in Space.
One thing about Alix Lakehurst (who interviewed me for Mr. Skin), is that, like Mike Wallace, she conducts her interviews topless. I, on the other hand, wore a full iron diving bell.
I asked what she was doing for Easter, because topless girls in bonnets is a multi-million dollar niche for my Caymans-based affiliate program.
"Greeks don't celebrate Easter until the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox," she said. "So it won't be until late April."
"Oh," I said, thinking: What will I do with all this spanikopita?
Previously: Alix Lakehurst: Riding on the Metro; Jenny Hendrix keeps in touch
See also: Alix Lakehurst, Mr. SkinLabels: alix lakehurst, Apple, bbw, chicago, interviews, jesus, technology, WGL
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--Tuesday, March 04, 2008--
On the road with Alix Lakehurst
 "It's a fantasy of mine to be a fantasy of someone else's," said Alix Lakehurst, a Chicago porn actress who is a throwback to a brassier, fleshier time.
Lakehurst makes me think of Gina Gershon, but not because she's little and ropy.
"I took my porn (last) name from the movie theatre I first went down on a guy in," she said.
It was while I was watching Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly in Bound when that first happened to me. I should check to see if there's any porn girl working named Susan Showcase Cinemas Lawrence.
 Lakehurst is busty and Greek in a way that must make people ashamed for knowing, like if your school crossing guard, postal carrier, or waitress was that busty and Mediterranean. She catches people looking at her when she's on the train in Chicago.
"They don't know the half of it," she said.
Lakehurst lives in Wicker Park, a community north of the Loop in Chicago, and when she's not working for boobcentric companies like Score in Florida, Big Top, or Homegrown Video, she is making guerilla porn on public transportation or Amtrak.
It was her flashing video on the train that first made me aware of her, then I met her in Las Vegas at the AVN convention, and recently she sent a DVD of her home videos to fans, in which we are treated to her philosophy on boob oiling ("I moisturize them every day") and see her joining the 20 feet high club in the bathroom of a moving train.
Lakehurst's appeal is not that she looks like a porn star. She started getting naked on camera two years ago and now, at 34 and far away from Porn Valley, she has neither the motivation nor the pressure to look a certain way.
 "I work out and count calories," she said, "but otherwise I'm lame and geeky. And I don't want to be 95 pounds."
As much as she has created a vocal and supportive fan base on her website, We Could Be Naked, Lakehurst's weight does bring out some surprisingly harsh responses from detractors, who want their porn performers to look a certain way.
"What surprises me is that they go to the trouble of logging in and writing things like that," she said.
 Many of Lakehurst's fans compare her to fleshier porn stars of the 80's. One of them, Christy Canyon, became a particular obsession of Lakehurst's, too. A blog and a series of articles for Mr. Skin, The Road to Christy Canyon, detailed Lakehurst's quest to meet her hero, whom she'd first seen in a porn when Lakehurst was 19.
"She changed my life," Lakehurst said. "I thought she was so beautiful."
Lakehurst eventually met and interviewed Canyon on the set of the latter's Playboy Radio show.
Lakehurst is different from other porn stars, too, in that her lack of proximity to America's Great Porn Proving Grounds limit her exhibitionism to her website where, self-directed, her persona is much more vulnerable.
 "It's also because I actually like sex," she said. "I know I'll get tired of it if there's no connection, or if it's like a factory down there. I don't want to be desensitized."
Because of this, Lakehurst has not developed a thick skin, or the killer instinct required to either succeed in mainstream porn or at least to not feel personally slighted.
"I know it's a business about bodies and boobs and asses," she said, "but it's hard to get away from the feeling that when someone doesn't like my ass, they don't like me."
Lakehurst is discouraged with mainstream porn after a recent bad experience with the company Bang Brothers, which she wrote about on her site. "I could win a hip and thigh award but not an ass award," she said.
 This vulnerability makes Lakehurst worth watching, especially in a business where 18-year-olds can develop the thousand-yard-stare pretty quickly.
"When I was younger I drank a lot," she said. "I was unhappy all the time. I liked cocaine. But now I don't. I want to feel more."
Previously: Riding on the Metro; Urban Friction: Sexual Equality in Chicago
See also: Alix LakehurstLabels: alix lakehurst, avn08, chicago, websites, WGL, zaftig
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--Wednesday, October 31, 2007--
Alix Lakehurst and her Mountains of Madness
 Gentlemen:
No doubt you have heard whispered in forbidden hallways and perhaps studied in ancient and eldritch tomes the weird and extra-geometrical dizziness from beyond time that is Alix Lakehurst of Chi-ka-goh. Many learned men have attempted her, and none have returned whole, some reduced to gibbering madness and others to a primordial ooze known to the indifferent Elder Ones. The dreaded Necronomicon describes her thusly:
"What a rack"
Previously: Alix Lakehurst: Riding on the Metro
See also: Alix LakehurstLabels: alix lakehurst, chicago, geekery, lovecraft
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--Monday, October 15, 2007--
Alix Lakehurst: Riding on the Metro
 Maybe Chicago's Transit Authority is not called the Metro, but Alix Lakehurst's recent adventure on the train was a lot sexier than While You Were Sleeping (though I do watch that movie at Christmas, just not for prurient reasons).
Ms. Lakehurst sets up her camera on the train and proceeds to insert a discreet bullet vibrator. We see nothing but her facial expressions, several kinds of tension building simultaneously as we share her fear that she'll be interrupted at the next stop, or just as likely by a curious engineer.
It reminded me of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". We never see the ghost, but we're scared anyway. What I mean to say is that Lakehurst remains fully clothed, but it almost doesn't matter.
After seeing this fascinating video I would watch Alix Lakehurst do anything. I just wouldn't let her drive.
See the video here.
Previously: Hirsch's Heavies heave haunches heavenward; At home with April Flores and Carlos Batts
See also: We Could Be Naked, Lakehurst as Tromette of the MonthLabels: alix lakehurst, bbw, chicago, transport
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--Monday, October 01, 2007--
Urban Friction: Sexual Equality in Chicago
 Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders, is the home of Libido Films, a company that favors a gender-equal approach to erotic movies. Does this mean they don't engage in the exclusionary and demeaning practice common to California's porn industry of paying female performers twice as much as male performers? That would be good. Does this mean the male talent do just as much gaping? That would be bad.
Jack Hafferkamp and Marianna Beck started the quarterly LIBIDO: The Journal of Sex And Sensibility, in 1988, and over its decade-long run its founders realized that the contemplation of someone's privates is best accomplished without a book in one's hand. That is why they started Libido Films, and have produced arty, filmic, couples-friendly porn for the past eight years. Couples-Friendly=No Gaping by Anyone.
Read more after the gap.
 What is interesting (to me, anyway, who subsists on a diet of highly processed porn) is how natural people look, and by natural I mean everything from older, shorter, flabbier, more exotic, less affected, and more compelling than the folks who are in porn down here. Still, I'm amazed that the paths don't cross.
"We are in Chicago, where people are naturally beefier," Jack Hafferkamp told me. "We find our talent through word-of-mouth referrals; people we know send us to other
people."
Libido Films.com is a pay site that features retouched antique porn from a variety of sources, as well as the company's original productions.
I call this photo "When Batman's Away."
"Our biggest seller is the feature Urban Friction." Hafferkamp said. "Historically --because it still sells -- it is Ecstatic Moments. Stories of Oh! Part One has done well, too."
That's all well and sex positive and good, but my interest was sparked by Orgasmi: The Faces of Ecstasy, a collection of orgasm faces made by 22 SF Bay Area residents. Shot from the neck up, the film seems like a great aid for novice porn stars.
I noticed that in Libido Films' previews that there were very few blondes; that is probably why Chicago native Hillary Scott had to move here.
I applaud any effort that adds a coast (in this case, Lake Michigan) to porn's beachheads in America. Only Massachusetts' Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg remains unconquered.
Previously: Postcard from Porn Week; Pornfidelity 8; Digital Playground's Cavalcade of Synonyms
See also: Libido Films Labels: chicago, interviews, midwest, websites
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