The author complains about the decor of Remmet Studios and seems shocked that people are joking around on set

The Valley
POSTED BY SUSANNAH BRESLIN, JULY 16, 2009 4:11 PM | PERMALINK
Susannah Breslin is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. She is a freelance journalist who blogs at Reverse Cowgirl and is at work on a novel set in the adult movie industry.


I took these photos on the set of an adult movie in the San Fernando Valley this April. It was April 10th, to be exact. Which is my birthday. Why I was on the set of an adult movie on my birthday is another story altogether. The story of my life.

The location was a hideous brown building in Canoga Park, not far from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, where rocket engines are built and in front of which sits a giant rocket engine as if it has fallen out of the sky. Both sides of the soundstage were lined with themed rooms: a shower room, a weight room, a sex dungeon. That day's scene would take place on one of the ugliest adult movie sets that I have ever seen: pea soup-colored walls, a diarrhea-colored leather sofa, a faux wood floor. All the flowers were fake.

The name of the movie was "Interactive Sex with Tori Black." The director explained: "We were going to go with 'Existential Musings of a Porn Star,' but we thought we'd dumb it down. If you want to have sex with Tori Black and don't have chloroform, this is your next best option."

Tori is 20 and very pretty. She has long brown hair and long tan legs. When she came out of the dressing room for her scene, wearing pink lingerie and matching pink high-heels, she said: "And here we go." Then she said: "Off to work."


Her co-star was James Deen, who is the hipster generation's answer to Dirk Diggler. He's 23 and has been doing porn since he was 18. When I asked him if he had had sex with 1,000 women in his lifetime thus far, he looked down, thought for a moment, and replied: "More than that."

While the director filmed, Tori and James went at it like dogs. Even when he stopped shooting, they kept going. It was impressive. It was Olympic. It was also Passover. In between shots, all the crew guys standing around and watching kept making jokes about Deen being Jewish and what they called his "Hobbit feet." Deen ignored them.


When it was time for the money shot, which in the business is referred to as the "pop shot," somebody called out: "Actually, he can't pop until sundown." After that, everybody got very quiet and respectful while Deen delivered his closing shot. Then they burst into a rousing rendition of "Hava Nagila," and everybody clapped.

Afterward, Tori checked her face in the mirror. She told me that the heavy makeup makes her face break out. I thought it was the pop shot. But what do I know? I guess you learn something new every day.

Just wait until she sees Brandon's place.

Tori is a cutie.

Two comments from the link:


This guy must be really sad:

"#16 posted by Anonymous, July 16, 2009 8:49 PM

I agree that a lot of porn seems to be very degrading to women, and I do worry about what role it plays in establishing how people view sex.
My girlfriend is into porn far more extreme and degrading than anything I ever enjoyed. At first I was disturbed but over time I've begun to get used to it and even find it kind of sexy. I've tried to figure out where this comes from in her, she has no history of abuse (and I'm confident she would of told me), but she did grow up very sexualized (in the sense that at a young age she wanted to be sexy) and started watching porn in her teens, she didn't have sex particularly young, I think 15 or 16.
The way she explains her porn habits is that over time she needed more and more extreme things in order to feel aroused enough to orgasm while masturbating. I'm hoping she has hit a plateau with her current preferences, both in porn and in bed. If it keeps escalating I'm not sure how to deal with it. It's sexy in a very perverted dirty-girl kind of way now, she's like my own private porn star, but there is really no where else to go from here that I am comfortable with.
I suppose my life is pretty good when one of my biggest worries is that my girlfriend likes hardcore pornography and kinky sex more than I do..."



This contribution displays deep thinking as an art form:

"#23 posted by WalterBillington, July 17, 2009 2:33 AM

Agh porn is such a dry, dusty, one way street to nowhere. Go to the gym!"

I'm looking forward to the day when all the SEX AND THE CITY porno-writer spawn cease blogging and getting book deals. But I might blow my brains out before then.

Here's the poopy couch that ruined a birthday.



The plant arrangement in the background ruined my "Encourage A Young Writer Day" (also April 10.)