4 EDITOR'S PIXXX 6 SNEAK PREVIEWS
12 BELOW THE BELT
(AmateurStraightGuys.com )
Hottie heteros wank it.
16 COVER: GRUNTS: THE NEW RECRUITS
(Raging Stallion Studios)
You'll want to be nearby when their guns go off.
24 SLEAZE
(Mustang Studios)
Good of dirty fun.
32 EUROPEAN HOLIDAY 1-2
(Falcon International)
Horned-up Euro-pups on parade.
40 COCK TEASE
(Jet Set Productions)
"Straight" guys, hard cocks.
48 LINK V: THE EVOLUTION
(All Worlds Video)
Chi Chi LaRue's epic raunchfest evolves.
56 BOTTOM OF THE 9TH: LITTLE BIG LEAGUE 3
(All Worlds Video)
Adorable pups and their bulging jock straps.
64 AMAZONIA: CAPTURE AMAZONIA: RELEASE
(AMG Brasil)
Danny Roddick sexes his way through the Amazon.
74 PROFILES
A closer look at cover stud Steve Cruz!
76 SOURCES DIRECTORY & FINAL SHOT
EDITOR'S PIXXX
This month in Adam Gay Video XXX Showcase we're giving the cover to Raging Stallion
Studios firecracker Steve Cruz, one of the headlining stars of Grunts: The New
Recruits. Steve is one of our top skin stars right now and we're happy to lend
him the spotlight (he's also a featured player in this month's Link V). Raging
Stallion shot their mega-epic last summer on location in Central California, where
they actually built an entire M*A*S*H unit and brought in Hollywood set decorators
to give it added pizzazz. There is so, so, so much sex packed into the movie that
it was divided into three parts; Grunts: Misconduct and Grunts: Brothers in Arms
will debut in these pages over the next two months. In the meantime, thrill to
the sexcapades of Mr. Cruz alongside Justin Christopher, Jake Deckard, Kamrun,
Max Schutler and the popular Israeli stud Roman Ragazzi, plus newcomers RJ Danvers,
River Fiasco, Mason Garet and Ricky Sinz.
The hilariously titled Bottom of the 9th: Little Big League 3 closes out this
winning trilogy in fine form. From director Doug Jeffries and All Worlds Video
(via Channel 1 Releasing) we get to see a lot-and we mean that-of
humpy blondine pups Cameron Marshall and Josh Vaughn and a big of gang-bang with
model-handsome Jeremy Hall anchoring lots of blowjobs, rimjobs and fuckjobs. Hey,
all those baseball bats have to be stuffed somewhere, right?
AMG Brasil has made a name for itself over the past year as an adjunct line of
the venerable Athletic Model Guild. Producer-director Dennis Bell borrowed star
Danny Roddick from Buckshot Productions and flew him to Brazil for this huge,
big-budget two-parter (Roddick is the first Caucasion to appear in an AMG Brasil
flick.) Both Amazonia: Capture and Amazonia: Release are packed with outrageously
handsome (Rick Ferraz) and hung (Ricardo Onca) South American studs doing the
suck-and-fuck in the lush rain forest. And that's just the beginning of this sultry,
appealingly surreal adventure!
Elsewhere this month, AmateurStraightGuys.com and The French Connection offer
a peek at Below the Belt, which offers up a passel of horny heteros wanking it
for the cameras (and doing a little sucking, too). Heartbreaker studpup Tim Hamilton
left the confines of Bel Ami in 2006 to sign a directing-starring deal with Falcon
International. He debuted his newly pumped up physique in Knockout, but stayed
behind the camera for this appealing two-parter, European Holiday 1-2 with a few
familiar hotties, and a lot of exciting newbies, among the cast. And Mustang Studios'
Sleaze from helmer John Bruno gives us such studs as Derrick Hanson, Andrew Justice,
Kamrun (his second film this month and we're happy to see him so busy), Vin Nolan
and Dak Ramsey, plus the aptly named Justin Riddick among others, in sexual scenarios
that we like best-the sleazy (notch!) kind.
Dept. of Self-Promotion: After you've wanked to this month's issue, don't forget
to visit your friendly neighborhood porn shop or newsstand for The Films of Blue
Blake. Each of the porn mogul's films under his Big Blue Productions banner are
presented, including an extra-long look at his latest, The Muscle Pit. We've also
featured a select handful of films from Mr. Blake's acclaimed run as a performer.
And the legend himself gave us a very candid interview covering his career as
an actor and director. Packed with hardcore photos, many of which have not seen
print in years, we think you'll find The Films of Blue Blake well worth your time!
Happy porning!
- JC Adams, Editor
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Steve Cruz (Nude) photographed by Raging Stallion Studios
Link V: The Evolution Chi Chi LaRue's Raunchiest Returns Dirtier Than Ever!
30+ Studs! Tommy Blade, Eddie Diaz, Tyler Riggz, Joe Strong, Manuel Torres, Josh Weston...
Don't Miss The Blue Movies! Amazonia, Below The Belt, Bottom Of The 9th, Cock Tease...
European Holiday & Sleaze
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.
