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Falcon Exclusive Erik Rhodes moved his slow thighs in a Bethlehem-directed slouch today, confessing to a vicious fight with his longterm Road Rules boyfriend, Dan Dias, that resulted in a six-cop response and a trip to the pokey.

According to Rhodes’ blog:

Apparently he watched a preview from my new movie and was upset i bottomed in it, when he thought i didnt. To make a long story short, a bunch of pictures were smashed (not by me), a couple bloody lips, i think my foot is broken (i’m clueless to how that happened) and the good old cops were called.

We remember simpler days when the most highly sought-after domain names were for actually desirable URLs–like Madonna.com and ClubJenna.com. Get out your checkbook, johnny-come-lately perverts ’cause AnusTaste.com is finally up for sale… and a steal at only $29,411,765! 

Domain auctioneer Moniker.com will be hawking its impressive line-up of adult-themed domain names this weekend at the Internext Expo in Vegas, but we might feel a little squeamish bidding on MuslimSchoolgirls.net (starts at $5,000 but could easily go higher) or GushingCunts.com ($14,000). If you do decide to join the bidding, for a cool hundred thou Moniker will also sell you back your Morals (.com, that is).

The delicate twink NakedSword once dubbed “the Kate Moss of Gay Porn” has moved inches (42-38-42, that is) closer to making the corny moniker a reality. Stonie, the David-Forest-repped bottom who appeared in a slew of classics including American Booty, Up the Wazoo, and Nudes at Eleven has morphed into transexual beauty Brittany Coxxx without a word of warning.

Charming and hung porn superstar Colby Taylor was named NakedSword’s NakedSwordsman 2008 today, dashing the hopes of eleven other hopefuls and cementing Taylor’s place in the porn firmament. The legendary top man will make his debut this Saturday at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. We’ll be first in line.

Noted porn star Milan Gamiani is expanding his audience: by July of this year, he’ll be helping jill-off the horny cougar and cougar-ettes of Cosomopolitan. Video vixen Milan, star of both Lucas Entertainment’s Barcelona Nights and Collin O’Neal’s London shows off his abs off for the 2008 Cosmopolitan Calender, though canny ladies will have to hit the internet or the backroom of Family Video for the good stuff.

Has Britney Spears’ new album, Blackout, triggered something darker in Francois Sagat? In a twist reminiscent of The Manchurian Candidate, the album’s debut has caused Sagat to debut an increasingly esoteric and oft-terrifying cycle of videos whose explorations of identity borrow as much from Matthew Barney and Ryan Trecartin as they do, um, Titan Media or TRL. With his masks, his ass-less tights and his weird barking dog, it’s like he’s trying to tell us something; but what? In today’s lecture, we posit some answers.

It’s a pants off dance off with Southern twink Caleb Carter gyrating in front of a confederate flag to Pittburgh Slim’s “First Date.” We fuck on the first date, too, but we’d forgo the pleasure in order to bask in the glow of Caleb’s cognitive dissonance.

For decades we knew our porn stars birth marks better than we knew their birth names. While the post-Paris era has decreased the stigma of sex stardom, we still generally only get to know porn stars real names when they appear in court or on a stretcher.

When a hedge-fund manager turned up dead in West Palm Beach a few weeks back, we had a hard time getting excited about the possible gay porn connection.
At the supposed center of the male-strom was “Tiger,” a poorly tattooed one-time star with a penchant for posing on eponymous rugs. It was easy to look away. But now that annoying tranny star Kayla Coxx is involved, it seems there’s no avoiding it.

After all the nog and slog of the holiday season, what we really want for Christmas is a hooker. Not some tarted up masseur offering mutual-touch with release, but an honest-to-god two-hundred-dollar escort.

We asked fifty working porn stars for a moment of their time.  Turns out not everyone is available

Alex Castro, who seems to have appeared under the name Elian Cortez in a COLT photo shoot, is now making prime time television appearances under the name “Militia” on American Gladiators. (Is that still on?  Oh, apparently it’s a revival.)  We can’t seem to find evidence of Elian Cortez working in the gay adult film industry, as Perez Hilton seems to imply and COLT would like to claim-only a calendar photo shoot. But this wouldn’t be the first time a COLT man got some mainstream TV play this year. Gage Weston dropped in on Bravo’s Workout, chatting up lipstick lez gym owner Jackie Warner and flirting with gay trainer Jesse…

That Boy star Peter Berlin captivated
audiences for years with his iconic Dutch Boy cut and too-tight jeans, and now
claims that beauty like his might help bring about world peace. In an interview
in this month’s issue of GayVN magazine,
explains the cause behind the terrible phenomenon that begat Darfur and Iraq:

“The world
is ruled by ugly people. Look at your Congress. The natural thing is for men to
express their sexuality, to enjoy it. Those fat men in suits and short hair who
rule the world, no wonder they fight wars. Such schizophrenia! Men still have
no self-respect, no self-love. If you do not respect or love yourself, you
cannot respect or love anyone else. Therefore, war. Rather than showing a dick,
they take up a gun. I have so much I would like to say. Perhaps this interview
will convince someone out there that I am not just a stupid blond.”

Finally we’ve found a porn that taps into the gay experience of the Pacific Northwest. Do you even know what a “pumphouse” is? We do, and we had one in our backyard. It’s a weird little shack that’s used to pump water when you’re so secluded from civilization that your household operates on well water. How perfect that the studio named after the spider-den rabbit hutch of our 4H youth has produced FAG WAGON! Remember the time we all took that trip up to Portland in our friend’s parents’ van and got wasted in Eureka, and you met that fag from that band and totally gave him a blowjob in said van, which was parked in the driveway of the punk house where they played? Remember when you took him back with you and made out to Pinback CDs in the backseat but then he started to annoy you so you ditched him in Ukiah?

This vintage clip from Snowballing (Gentlemen’s Video) features a trio of 70s hunks cruising one another on a mountainside, spliced with a skiing montage, to the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around.” Though not included here, they later retreat to a lodge and fuck to David Bowie!  We wish we were making this up.

People said it wouldn’t last–and it didn’t. One YouTube-video filled year later, Ginch Gonch spokestwunks Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds are no more. So while the rest of the world is celebrating the impending nuptials of Roman Heart and Benjamin Bradley (together again, just like Pam and Tommy!), we thought we’d take this time to ponder the romance that was too hot not to cool down. We can only hope that Benjamin brings his enthusiasm for banal video diaries with him in this new romantic venture. Godspeed, camera-loving faglets!

The Toyota
Motor Corp is suing bareback porn company Eboys Studios over a (Swiss?) star’s use of
the trademarked name of luxury car brand Lexus. Eboys has not-so-cleverly
responded that said star based the name on the Greek god Lexus who,
inconveniently for them does not exist.  Oddly, and apropos of nothing, according to Jonathan Mahler’s The Lexus Story, one of the inspirations…

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On the latest Tim and
Roma Show, the two “Best Personality” nominees (thanks for giving them big heads, Cybersocket!) wax political over how barebacking
titles seem to be gaining popularity and how the trend parallels increased HIV
rates among gay men. Too bad the episode didn’t air before the filming of British Bareback Vacation, because one
of the co-stars contracted HIV on the set and is now thinking of suing the
film’s producers in
order to prevent other young men from suffering the same fate.. Hasn’t anyone told him that being popular is
the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS? (via GayVN
News)

Based on a survey of fifty working gay porn stars, The Sword gladly brings you this handy statistical pie chart of where the bodies you know and love currently reside. 

Gossip Girl
here, bringing you all the latest from the trenches! Thanksgiving in the flesh mines
is a little different than elsewhere: as porn maven mr. Pam reminds us, it
means penis-stuffed turkeys, undressed men rather than well-dressed birds, and thanking
God for anal-ese
during Grace. You know you love us, XOXO, and here’s this week’s Gossip Gangbang:

The Cockfather (Private DVD, 2005) – Talk about an offer we can’t refuse. Sometimes we come across a title so ready-made for porn parody that we can’t believe we haven’t seen it before. The Cockfather? We give props to Man-Size for pouncing on the obvious. Sure, the costumes are more Dick Tracy than The Godfather, but since Al Pacino starred in both, we’ll let it pass. Of course, someone should tell Big Smoker that the fuschia lip stain is clashing with his Crayola-red zoot suit and it kind of femmes up his whole gangster motif.  And the phallic imagery of a marionette cross? Subtle. 

Testing Testing

When Michael Lucas labeled Raging Stallion “snitches” last week, claiming they had inspired and furthered the legal troubles that arose after Lucas released Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita, it was the shot across the bow in what could be a larger legal battle between the two. Meanwhile, the Fellini Estate, assisted or unassisted by Raging
Stallion, continues to press Lucas with renewed interest. Here’s our
selected time line of the butting heads, the blogs and the lawsuit that
has everyone ducking for cover.

You want to play with the big boys? Be prepared to put in the work. We talked to four porn stars-Ricky Sinz, Jake Deckard, Rafael Alencar and Steve Cruz about what it takes to look like they do-and what it’ll take for you to look as good as they do. If you’ve ever thought about getting into porn, or ever wondered how these hot, masculine guys treat their legendary bodies, you have to see this clip. A Sword Exclusive.

In case you’ve been thinking about quitting your job at the office and getting a position in another field (particularly one that involves getting on all fours), the cast of Raging Stallion’s GRUNTS will tell you how to get into the business of sex on camera and share stories about how they were able to penetrate the industry from the outside-in!

Joining the burgeoning ranks of porn stars who delight in recording everyday tasks for YouTube (“You may know me as a piss-drinking cum dumpster, but I also brush my teeth!”), Italian beefcake and COLT Man Carlo Masi teaches us to make coffee in this simple how-to using his native tongue.  Of course, we always find it entertaining when a porn star, no matter how foreign and domestic, makes such a grand gesture in dipping his finger in a pile of white powder to taste it for quality. Zucchero? Che lindo!

Full video after the jump…

Three young porn models, ages 18 to 26, were infected with HIV by another 26-year-old model during a recent single day’s bareback shoot in Britain.  The giving party in this case had tested negative several weeks before the shoot, which was assurance enough for producers, only to discover a few days after the shoot, during another routine antibody test, that he was in fact positive.  The three other models subsequently discovered their status using the newer viral DNA test which requires only a 48-hour window after infection. 

Your one-stop shop for getting up in everybody’s asses! Each week we’ll dig up all the dirt that’s served to be dished so you won’t have to dig it up yourself. This week we have Michael Lucas’s faked death, Danny Roddick’s real death and porn star responses to Britney’s career death!  Who could ask for anything more?

Swallow it all down after the jump…

Let’s face it: John Travolta is a terrifying and disturbed individual. If you sat back and enjoyed him in Hairspray we’re going to stop being friends with you, and his creepy, narcissistic, Scientology-framed interviews in entertainment magazines are enough to make us lock ourselves in a room with DVDs of AbFab just so we won’t get brainwashed by the madness. Imagine the exquisite triumph then, when we discovered Get Shorty J! It’s like we can go back in time and un-cast John Travolta from that “cool” movie, and replace him with a trio of men of our dreams! Instead of going from mobster to Hollywood producer, this character goes from mobster to NAKED – and it rules. Throw out that little gift you received free with your first DVD player, because there’s a new version on the market and there’s no shitty sequel…yet.

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For years our favorite porn stars were ones with popped collars and golden locks, but the masculine influence of the gay bears seems to have killed the once-dominant preppy aesthetic. The days of the Bumble-and-Bumble- moussed, frosted-tip, blond-spiked porn star is officially over, according to our survey of nearly fifty working men, few of whom even have time for highlights.

News that Cal/OSHA, the government agency which monitors and enforces workplace safety and health, had been snooping around a Naughty America shoot sent ripples through the porn industry this week, sending gay porn producers in particular into a frenzy.

More after the jump…

As much as we love the porn industry, it’s not always the most reliable source of accurate information. Facts are notoriously hard to come by, and anecdotes quickly get cemented as truth.  While The Sword loves rumors as much as the next homosexual, we thought we’d go straight to the source and ask a few dozen of our favorite porn stars to take a quick survey on life, libido and the pursuit of good hair.  We’ll start publishing results early in November – in the meantime, we’re looking for a few more good men to give us their best. If you’ve been in more than one adult movie in the past two years, give us a holler and join our porn panel!

Which recent San Francisco studio man is not only a star –  he’s also a client! While industry insiders have snickered about the model’s toupee-like Caesar cut since his debut this summer, several have forwarded links to the guy on another website — not hawking porn, but hair implants!

More blind items after the jump…

With fashion weeks wrapped until January, we thought we’d commemorate TimandRomaBlog’s Best Boxcovers feature with an inspired nod to all things editorial. Granted, it may only be issue #1 of “Testi-Clay Magazine” but they seem to be hitting all the right angles (“What is the secret to success in Gay Porn?” and more importantly, Who is stocking that fabulous choker?). 

See larger front cover (and more comment) after the jump…