Max Steiner turned Hardcore in the begining was cutting edge, true. It was over-the-top in a tame gonzo-dawning era & it was hot. I thought it was great, too, but I never dug the speculums. One the first anal internals I saw was Max w/ Mila & a champagne glass in her pre-skag days.... But now, as he has raised the stakes; the puke & the smeared clown-ish lipstick, his stuff is no longer erotic borderline just gross or sick. Sorry, puke don't get me hard likewise brutally clinical examinations of "cunts." It is not sex anymore nor porn, it is almost more like simulated child abuse or just plain misosgyny. It leads me to question who he is catering to: wife-beaters, women-haters or outright molester types? If not, he is feeding off of misery in a way. I wonder if his sales are declining like his publicity in the review mags has because they are probably are being cautious these days or are just turned off by his promo images. Also, whether or not he is unwittingly trying to incite violence towards women or market it to sickos it just plants seeds in unspoiled minds or fuels the urges of the the truly twisted. That is just my take on the now-fallen once-great mighty Max