This one's bound to catch the attention of the anti-Occupy sect: Porn company Dirty Boy Video, which (we're guessing) specializes in videos of boys who are dirty, used a tent in the middle of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza as the set for a recent video shoot. As Le Fag reports, along with the promotional stills, "This video could be a nice historical document in years to come, should the movement prove more than a flash in the pan." more ›

Documentary filmmaker Michael Stabile, who chronicled San Francisco's birth as the Smut Capital of America in a short film last year — and who has brought us amazing archival footage of Dianne Feinstein railing against porn and took us on a tour of The Magazine on Polk Street — publishes a piece today in the Bold Italic about the often amazing things he's found while digging around in the dusty archives of our local GLBT Historical Society. He's working on a full-length feature, you see, about the life of Chuck Holmes — the founder of pioneering gay porn studio Falcon, and the namesake of S.F.'s LGBT Center Charles Holmes Campus. more ›

What with the (somewhat benign yet very popular) Folsom Street Fair approaching this Sunday, it's not shocking that Treasure Island Media, a local porn company that specializes in bareback (i.e., condom-free) adult entertainment, has been 86'd from Sunday's festivities. In fact, they've been banned for several years now. No, not for distributing films with such titles as Plantin’ Seed (Folsom Underground) or Dawson's 20-Load Weekend, but for having had actual sex acts inside their booths at past Folsom Street Fair. more ›

Welcome again to Twentysomething, SFist's nifty interview series. This week we have iconic sex writer/guru Susie Bright answering our twenty questions of insight and probe, with a few personal queries thrown in for good measure. Bright, we should add, recently published an excellent memoir (seriously, it is excellent) called Big Sex Little Death. What's more, she will make a special appearance at the Victoria Theater this week to kick off the Good Vibrations Independent Erotic Film Festival. But more on that later. For now, read all about Bright's favorite San Francisco neighborhood (the answer might surprise you), her Zodiac makeup (wow, that's a lot of fire), her favorite restaurant, her views on "bareback" porn (wherein she invokes the good name of Justin Bieber), and why asking to choose between Berkeley and Oakland ain't right. more ›

Anthony Josef Norris, 46, the founder and director of Kid Serve Youth Mural, was charged with possession of child pornography. He surrendered to FBI agents yesterday morning, who "reportedly traced Norris’ log-on name of 'Spanky' to his home computer and discovered 600 pornographic images of children." ... more ›

You've been waiting a week for low-grade security footage from that spontaneous combustion in a SoMa porn store. And here it is. Enjoy it, in all its naked glory. (Sidenote: what is that soundtrack? Also, misshotz.com credit at the beginning is an evil splog. Don't bother visiting.) [Hat tip: Examiner] more ›

A man remains in the hospital with third-degree burns after somehow catching fire inside a SoMa porn booth. The fire occurred at an adult arcade at Sixth and Mission streets a little after 6 p.m. Police aren't sure exactly how the patron caught fire, but saw him run out of the Sixth and Mission store "engulfed in flames." more ›

"Making $10,000 or $15,000 for porn isn't worth your life," says porn actor Derrick Burts to the LA Times, calling for mandatory condom use on porn shoots and saying, "Performers need to be educated." Burts, who goes by Cameron Reid in straight porn and Derek Chambers in gay porn, tested positive for HIV in October after contracting the virus on a gay porn shoot in Florida. Burts is straight, and says the only person he had had sex with privately was his girlfriend, who has tested negative. After Burts' positive test, half a dozen straight studios around LA halted production for a bit to "evaluate" the situation, but they have since returned to business as usual. more ›

Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs and porn theaters, and a boomlet occurred right in this very city in which theaters began flipping over into porn palaces one after another. more ›

Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near numerous strip joints and bars. Bruce Rossignol wanted to call it The Joynt Collective. Bruce Rossignol wanted The Joynt Collective to feature live jazz and good food. Bruce Rossignol had a phenomenal idea. But, Bruce Rossignol was wrong. See, the city turned down Rossignol's plan to convert the old North Beach Theatre (a former strip club across the street from Larry Flynt's House of Vagina) into a marijuana joint because pot clubs, unlike boobie and booze bars, cannot be located near elementary schools. more ›

Armed with a Stinger cocktail and a Friday night alone, Valleywag editor Ryan Tate emailed Apple czar Steve Jobs with a question about the iPad. (Jobs responds to public emails, by the way, so have at it.) Tate writes "An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about 'freedom from porn.'" more ›

Matier and Ross share some juicy gossip today about the possible firing of veteran zoning administrator Larry Badiner and three other higher-ups in the planning department over the circulating of porn in inter-office emails. more ›

This weekend for your viewing pleasure, alternative movie house Red Vic is opening up the vault containing a plethora of early 1900's girly shows. Playing this Friday-Monday, "The Good Old Naughty Days" is a series of 12 vintage pornographic films that have been well-restored and re-edited by director Michel Reilhac as well as given a new soundtrack by Eric Le Guen. more ›

The son of dead, famed San Francisco pornographer Jim Mitchell -- he himself a murderer, convicted of fratricide and sentenced to having his story portrayed by the vile Charlie Sheen -- will be in court today. James Raphael Mitchell, 27, if you recall, (allegedly) beat to death Danielle Keller, 29, the mother of his one-year-old daughter. Then, in yet another brilliant move, he kidnapped his daughter and tried to flee. Anyway, the troubled, combative soul is due in court today. Will he eventually beat this mess? Probably. Because he comes form money and has a semi-famous name, and they get everything. (No offense, Peter Getty.) But the victim's mother, Claudia Stevens, hopes otherwise, saying, "His father always bailed him out of every piece of trouble he ever got into. Now that Daddy's gone, there's no one to bail him out...I do not think all the money in the world is going to set him free." He'll be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today. more ›

You might want to sit down for this one. Because when online porn companies start reducing its staff due to the economic downturn, you know times are tough. Local porn superpower Kink.com laid off 15% 11% of its staff yesterday. Founder Peter Acworth confirmed this today. Kink.com is headquartered at the San Francisco Armory, a "200,000 square foot 1914 reproduction of a Moorish Castle that served as a National Guard Armory and Arsenal until the 1970s." Is bad organizing, with Acworth at top and not much structure after, to blame? Alas. Anyway, in addition to producing stellar pornographic cinema, they host parties, photo shoots, live action play, and more. [Inset filmed fornication joke here] Update: A Kink.com rep tell us that they "laid off 11% (12 people)." more ›

The GayVN nominations we announced today. What are the GayVN Awards, you ask? They are the Oscars of male homosexual pornography. Up for Best Picture kudos are Ass Cruisin', Best Men Parts 1 & 2, Betrayed, Breakers, Endgame, Grind - Volume 1, Italians and Other Strangers, Paradise Found, The Porne Ultimatum, Return to Fire Island, Rio, Sex Hiker, Skin Deep, To the Last Man, and (our favorite title) Verboten 1 & 2.\ more ›

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Mission Mission's Allan Hough brought this to our attention today. Ahem. more ›

Recently transferred to federal prison in Oklahoma, former KGO radio host and child porn connoisseur Bernie Ward has been transported to a federal prison in eastern Texas to serve out the remainder of his seven-year sabbatical. Although it wasn't Ward's first choice -- his ideal jail was a minimum security prison in Lompoc -- FCI Beaumont holds low security male inmates and is a mere 35 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Ward's release date, according to Dan Noyes, is December 21, 2014. See you then, Bernie! (KGO) more ›

That's it. Former KGO radio host Bernie Ward gets seven years and three months in the clink for sending child pornography over the Internets. A former Roman Catholic, Ward sent images where "children depicted were as young as 2 or 3 and were subjected to the most horrific torment of their lives," according to CBS 5. Ward initially claimed that his child pornography culling was all part of research for some book, but "the influence of alcohol" has gotten in the way. (What?) The disgraced radio personality will also "participate in an alcohol abuse recovery program." more ›

FILM: Those crazy bitches at Femina Potens Gallery are at it again. This time they plan on teaching you prudes out there how to make your very own blue movie at Hot Queer Film & Porn. Shine Louise Houston of Pink and White Productions, Dana Dearmond director for Vivid Alt, Julie Simone director for Abigail Productions and Julie Simone Productions, Trouble Royale for Trannywood Productions, Madison Young director for Madison Bound Productions, and Morty Diamond director of Trannyfags and Trans Entities will be on-hand for a Q&A and vegan cookie binge. Hot Queer Film & Porn is also an open mic-like night where the public is invited to show their very own "hot erotic films" and sordid amature porn. Sort of like XTube, only IRL. Nice. more ›

Oh my. Um, yeah, we'll let Flickr's artolog explain the above. more ›

Christopher Burt Wiltsee, 57, of Morgan Hill pleaded guilty this week to a charge of child pornography possession. This makes him the third ex-NASA employee to get busted fo having kiddie porn on his government-owned computer. According to the Gate: more ›

• For your viewing pleasure, more Pelli Clarke Pelli Transit Bay Terminal renderings -- now with birdies! [Curbed]
• More each day. [SFoodie]
• More blasted Berkeley tree tomfoolery. [Daily Clog]

According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom getting all Berkeley City Council on us after he declared Feb. 23 to be Colt Studio Day last year? -- coinciding with that hairy-large-gay-appreciation festival thing happening. more ›

As many of you know, Bernie Ward, former Catholic priest and KGO 810 AM host, was fired from his job after the Feds hit him with charges of child pornography. Although he used the Pete Townsend defense that he was merely doing a little kiddie porn research, that doesn't seem to be the case. more ›

Former Catholic priest and KGO 810 AM host Bernie Ward was finally fired, ending his working relationship with the station. This stems from last year's federal indictment of child pornography charges that befell the (now former) host of "the Bernie Ward Show" and "Godtalk." He was officially let go, it seems, at the end of 2007. According to Dan Noyes at KGO, Ward admitted to "downloading images from the internet and trading them with people he met on-line. His attorneys have said Ward was doing research for a book at the time." Hmm. more ›

Say it ain't so, Bernie! Wow. Former Catholic priest and SF radio talk show host has been "indicted on federal child pornography charges," according to the Chronicle. It seems that the popular KGO 810 AM host turned himself in to authorities earlier today. Although the "specifics of the allegations against him are under seal," said the authorities, we're dying to know exactly what happened. Because: whoa. Like, really. In addition to being a reporter... more ›

O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). Tomorrow they will unveil "raw and unedited" footage that they shot during this year's Folsom Street Fair for the National Press Club. "Raw" footage, you say? Oh my. You may remember that there was a scant bit of controversy due to... more ›

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