4 EDITOR'S PIXXX
6 SNEAK PREVIEW
Lucas Kazan's erotic fantasy about The Men I Wanted.
12 Thugzilla's Bitch Hunt
(Pitbull Productions)
Do you wanna say 'no' to a topman named 'Thugzilla'?
16 COVER: On Fire!
(Jet Set Productions)
Dean Phoenix, Jesse Santana and Sebastian Young whip out their leaking hoses.
26 U.K. Fratboys
(Fratboy)
Young, killer-cute hotties from over the Pond.
32 Bunker
(Mustang Studios)
Ken Browning, Trey Casteel and roughed-up musclesex.
40 Bed Heads 2: Butt Heads
(Adonis Pictures)
Trevor Knight and Bobby Williams are back for more pole smoking.
48 The Pentrator
(South American Pictures)
Brazilian studs poke, prod and penetrate.
56 Father Knows Best
(Dirty Bird Pictures)
Tory Mason, Tyler Riggz and Josh Vaughn work out their problems like civilized
men.
64 Grunts: Brothers in Arms
(Raging Stallion Studios)
Steve Cruz, Jake Deckard, Ricky Sinz and troops shoot their red-hot rifles.
76 SOURCES DIRECTORY & FINAL SHOT
EDITOR'S PIXXX
This month in Adam Gay Video's XXX Showcase, we're On Fire! thanks to Jet Set
Productions and co-directors Chad Donovan and Chris Steele. This tale of horned-up
firemen and their hoses (yes, we had to go there) toplines our cover stud this
month, adorable pup Jesse Santana, whose career is scorching hot right now thanks
to a whopping eight (!) GAYVN nominations. (By the time you read this, we'll know
how many he took home.) He costars alongside veteran stud Dean Phoenix, who doesn't
appear to have aged more than a week or two since his debut years ago. Our ten-page
spread spotlights their sexcapades with Braxton Bond, Jeremy Hall, Aaron James,
Jonathan Lowe, CJ Madison, Guy Parker, Jason Reddick, Max Schutler, Nathan Sommers
and Sebastian Young.
Also this month, we've got our third and final layout (12 sizzling pages!) on
the massive Grunts three-part epic from Raging Stallion Studios and NakedSword.com.
Following Grunts: The New Recruits and Grunts: Misconduct, this month's Grunts:
Brothers in Arms is packed to bursting with military-themed mansex and stars many
of today's sexiest stars, including: Antonio Biaggi (hung 11 inches!), Trey Casteel,
the unsinkable Steve Cruz, RJ Danvers, Jake Deckard, Kamrum, Luke Haas, Roman
Ragazzi and Ricky Sinz.
Elsewhere this issue, Pitbull Productions centers the colorfully titled Thugzilla's
Bitch Hunt around the colorfully named Thugzilla, as he tears his way through
Manhattan on an erotic search for-what else?-a new bitch.
Director John Bruno is back with another sweaty, lightly raunchy fuckfest for
Mustang Studios. Bunker features busy bees Trey Casteel (looking better than ever,
we should point out) and rising newcomer Justin Riddick with fan-favorites Dean
Campbell and Brad Rock, plus Ivan Andros (where has he been lately?), Troy Brewer,
Ken Browning, Rodin Kohl, Nick Marino and Trojan Rock.
Arena Entertainment and South American Pictures' The Penetrator tells you exactly
what you need to know in the title-youngish Brazilian studs do the suck-and-fuck
in- and outdoors, while Fratboy's U.K. Fratboys features sweet, vanilla-flavored
sex between slender, adorable English cuties. Dirty Bird Pictures is back with
the amusing Father Knows Best featuring terrific Tory Mason, Tyler Riggz and humpalicious
Josh Vaughn, while Bed Heads 2: Butt Heads is a return to form for Adonis Pictures
with the fantastic Trevor Knight, Nick Marino, Tristan Mathews and the ever-watchable
Bobby Williams.
Oh, and be sure to look out for the 2008 Adam Gay Video Directory-featuring
COLT Men and bodybuilder-boyfriends Adam Champ and Carlo Masi on the cover-at
your local newsstand, friendly neighborhood porn emporium and at TLAvideo.com
or AdamGayVideo.com. Happy porning!
- JC Adams, Editor
Features in This Issue
Coverguy Jesse Santana (Nude) photographed by Jet Set Productions
Cock Your Rifle: Get Off With Horny Studs Military Gear! Raging Stallion's Grunts: Brothers In Arms
Hard Cocks, Open Holes!
Pitbull's Thugzilla's Bitch Hunt
Mustang's Bunker
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.
