4 EDITOR'S PIXXX 6 SNEAK PREVIEWS
12 My Virtual Jr. Daddy: Jason Ridge
(Virtual Male/U.S. Male)
Get to know Jason... intimately.
16 COVER: Euro Sex Demons
(Phil St. John Productions)
Cock and more cock at a Prague orgy.
24 The Crave, Vol. 2
(Tom Bradford Presents)
Eastern Europe's finest horse-hung, horny studs.
32 Just Add Water
(Jet Set Productions)
Sexy pup Jesse Santana and his sexed-up pals.
40 Trade
(Mustang Studios)
Revisiting `70s porn with sexalicious Dean Tucker.
48 Rocks & Hard Places
(Sarava Productions)
Scenes 5-6 of Kristen Bjom's new sex-drenched epic.
56 Rocks & Hard Places
(Sarava Productions)
Finish yourself off with scenes 7-8 of Bjorn porn.
64 Playback
(Raging Stallion Studios)
Barrett Long fucks Roman Ragazzi. Hit rewind.
74 PROFILES
Euro-pup Tim Hamilton grows up nicely.
76 SOURCES DIRECTORY & FINAL SHOT
EDITOR'S PIXXX
This month in Adam Gay Video XXX Showcase were taking a tri overseas-Eastern
Europe, to be precise. Gay adult studios have been spending a great deal of time
in recent years filming the gorgeous local lad that seem to grow on trees in the
Czech Republic and Slovokia (the home countries of last issue's cover studs, Robert
Van Damme and Marco Paris, respectively) as well as Hungary, Poland and everywhere
in betweei (to say nothing of South America, but that's another issue).
Vet director Phil St. John decamped to Prague earlier this year and came back
with an all-sex extravaganza titled Euro Sex Demons. That's the lean and tightly
muscled Drago Lembeck toplining and gracing this month's cover. St. John offered
us, and therefore you, a sneak peek at hot-o the-presses pics culled from the
shoot. You'll see some familiar faces among the cast (albeit some with different
stage names, which is par for the course We stay in Eastern Europe for The Crave
Vol. 2 from acclaimed director Tom Bradford and imported to these shores by The
French Connection. Volume One with Roberto Giorgio graced our cover three issues
ago and although Bradford is back for a second helping, he's slightly altered
the recipe. We think you'll appreciate the results.
Continuing our excursion overseas is the conclusion of a three-part look at Rocks
& Hard Places 1-2. In 2006 helmer Kristen Bjorn moved his base of operations
from Miami to Barcelona and this terrific epic is the first filmed at his new
digs. We loved the sexy photographs so much that we decided to spread out the
goodness over three issues; why waste a good thing? Pages 48 - 55 this issue cover
scenes 5-6, and pages 56 - 63 are all about scenes 7-8. As usual, Bjorn has culled
the cream of the crop of the world's sexiest men.
For another quick peek into the current Eastern European porn scene, flip to pages
74-75 for a heart-thumping look at the newly buffed and extraordinarily beautiful
(as ever) Tim Hamilton. He has left Bel Ami and reinvented himself as a musclebod
and director for Falcon International.
Elsewhere this issue, Virtual Male's new My Virtual... series continues with My
Virtual Jr. Daddy: Jason Ridge. This interactive DVD feature allows you the opportunity
to explore the gorgeous Jason Ridge like never before. That's all I need to know!
And yummy pup Jesse Santana, alongside the insanely hot Russian topman Nickolay
Petrov, topline Jet Set's Just Add Water.
Playback from Raging Stallion Studios and director Ben Leon is all-around scorching.
Australian hottie Remy Delaine figures in three scenes and the megahung Barrett
Long finally finds someone who can take every inch of his formidable baseball
bat-drool-worthy Israeli stunner Roman Ragazzi, one of 2007's big new stars.
Finally this month, we invite you to visit your local neighborhood porn emporium
(or click over to AdamGayVideo.com) and pick up a copy of The Films of Blue Blake.
All of the directorturned-star's films as a helmer are featured, as well as a
handful of select pics from his days as an acclaimed performer. The mag is packed
with hardcore photos from some Blake movies that haven't been seen in print for
years, as well as an extralong layout on his new flick The Muscle Pit. Blake himself
gave us a very candid interview during which he dishes on all of his films and
reveals some surprising tidbits about his life and career. Check it out! Happy
porning!
- JC Adams, Editor
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Drago Lembeck (Nude) photographed by Phil St. John Productions
Want, Need More Sex? All In The Crave 2, Just Add Water & Trade
Wild Exotic Hunks! Eurosex Demons
Gorgeous Jason Ridge Is My Virtual Jr. Daddy!
Plus Musclebod Roman Ragazzi Takes On Megahung Barrett Long!
About Adam Gay Video XXX Showcase
Adam Film World (AFW) and Adam Film World Guide (AFWG) were American magazines about pornographic film, starting in 1966 as The Adam Film Quarterly.
Knight Publishing Corp. had launched Adam magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow Playboy's success. Adam Film Quarterly was spun off from that magazine by William Rotsler in 1966 to cover the sexploitation film industry. The first issue's cover price was US$1 and the cover story was about The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill, an erotic movie directed by Peter Stootsberry and produced by Bradford Hallworth.
Originally, like Playboy, the publication also covered mainstream films and included feature stories on stars such as Orson Welles or Judy Garland. However, by 1969 it was renamed Adam Film World and issued monthly.
The Internet Adult Film Database owes its start to Peter Van Aarle, who began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World starting in 1982.
Adam Film World was called "one of the industry's leading trade publications" in 1994 by the Associated Press.
In his 2001 book Pornography and Sexual Representation, Joseph Slade states, "Extremely valuable are the reports, reviews and gossip of Adam Film World and Adult Video Guide, the oldest American monthly devoted to explicit cinema and generally more reliable than similar magazines, though the information on actors and actresses should be approached with caution. Best described as a fan magazine, Adam Film World hypes the careers of performers for a credulous audience, but partly for that reason it is unparalleled as a guide to the mores and customs of the porn subculture." Slade pointed out that the magazine's interviews with performers were, to an extent, similar to celebrity interviews in popular mainstream magazines: "Actors and actresses usually begin by talking about their parents, their adolescence, their own children, lovers, the importance of grooming, then move on to discussions of augmented breasts, relative penis sizes, favorite costars and directors, referred techniques of oral, vaginal, or anal sex, striptease dancing on tour as a sideline and—most important—their fan clubs or their 900-telephone numbers."
The publication is also notable for having issued the first movie awards for excellence in pornographic film, first with the X-Caliber Awards in 1975, then replacing them with the AFWG awards starting in 1981 when its sister publication, Adam Film World Guide, was launched. Today the role of adult film awards has been mostly supplanted by Adult Video News, with its AVN Awards, which launched a decade later.
Adam Film World Guide, in turn, spawned an annual Directory of Adult Films starting in 1984. The annuals were "important directories of...hard-core films and videos of the previous eighteen months, with lists of notable films of the past, capsule reviews that rate eroticism from 'warm' to 'volcanic,' addresses of distributors and retail outlets, brief biographies of actors, directors, and producers and indexes by theme, director, and performer."
Edward S. Sullivan was the first editor of Adam Film World, followed briefly in 1984 by John Zeus, while former pornographic film actor Tim Connelly was editor, under the name Jeremy Stone, from 1985 to 2003. Connelly, as Stone, was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in the Fifth Estate category in 1998.
Knight Publishing eventually expanded to add several other magazine titles such as Adam Black Video Illustrated, Adam Gay Video, and Cinema X Monthly and several others, but Adam Film World remained the flagship of the group until it was discontinued in the late 1990s in favour of Adam Film World Guide. By 2008, owner Bentley Morriss put the company up for sale. When a buyer was not found, the magazine empire folded.
The Adam Film World annual X-Caliber Awards based their selection of winners "largely on the votes of readers who are members of the audiences of the adult theaters." although after the popular vote is counted, "an editorial panel makes the final selections". The winners were announced annually starting with the August 1976 issue for films released the previous year. By the second year, the Z-Caliber Awards, for the worst movies, were also introduced.
