Adam Film World Guide Directory # 15 Number 15 Magazine Back Issue

6 Performers
103 Reviews
213 New Media
225 Amateur
237 Fetish
247 Best of the Rest
279 Award Winners
282 Movie Makers
288 Retail Sources
302 Sources Directory

EDITORIAL

he 15th edition of the Adam Film World Directory of Adult Films was sometimes a Sisyphean task. Each week, hundreds of tapes reach our offices. Many of them are part of the new wave of shot-on-video releases that are reality-based porn. You know, a camera person (often a male porn star) picks up a camera and shoots what gets him hot. For what it's worth, this reworking of the Buttman/Ed Powers' theme is making for some of the hottest erotica ever, on tape. Still, there's a ton of movies that we pass over, try to forget and wish we'd never seen. European projects are flooding our offices and we try to sort out which ones are of merit. Only a few companies are releasing films these days, though the quality of shot-on-video is better than ever. It's making for an adult movie industry with some of the best releases since thegolden age of hardcore in the late '70s. Which is why now, more than ever, a porn fan needs the Directory of Adult Films to sort through the more than 8,000 releases annually. This year, we have continued to keep our pared down reviews section of 321 of the best movies - putting the other new releases with more recent tapes in the Best of the Rest. A word to the consumer: sometimes a great movie from this past year ends up in the back due to the lack of co-operation from the porn video companies when we ask for one picture to illustrate their video release. We also have expanded our coverage of newer performers and deleted the Theme Index. One can pretty much figure out what porn movies are about by their title these days. We still list the themes in the main reviews section for easy reference. So read on, but don't begin this book until you read what amounts to our code of erotic ethics.
We proudly state our case for being the one source of ethics and integrity in adult video review commentary. That is why this book has become the bible on adult film criticism. While we acknowledge that movie criticism is a subjective medium, our acceptance by the consumers proves we know whereof we speak. There are all new full reviews of 321 top adult movies in the main Reviews section, plus close to 1000 encapsulated reviews of classic and highly rated movies we have reviewed in the past six years in The Best of The Rest section. The movies have been picked for a number of reasons, the obvious one being they are in our opinion, excellent examples of erotic entertainment. Others have been included for their historical significance, and many for a variety of special features they contain. Many older titles, lower rated movies and features out of circulation have been eliminated.
This year, due to the continued interest in all forms of New Media, including CD-ROMs, web sites and DVDs, we have expanded our coverage and included other forms of new and interactive media along with Amateur and Fetish material. We have assembled a pro-active Directory of these types of releases to better aid you in your search tor something in these fields. Rating these categories proves a difficult and pointless task.
The emphasis of this Directory continues to be on feature films and videos for their general appeal as well as the erotic factor. Of course, the movies differ in degree of effectiveness, so our ratings guide is based on two essential elements.

Eroticism is graded as Warm, Hot, or Volcanic. A movie that be highly rated for technical and professional reasons may still receive a Warm rating. On the other hand, a picture that is not very good for technical reasons may be Volcanic in its sexual intensity and delivery. We hope that singling out both aspects of a production will help you shape your erotic viewing choices.

***** A time-tested classic that no collector should be without.
**** An excellent picture, combining good production with superbly crafted sex.
*** A very good, highly entertaining product.
** An otherwise good erotic movie that has several major flaws.
* Not a very good show, but it may have some appeal because of subject matter.

In the Awards section, prize-winning movies, classics and Hall of Fame films and members are identified. The Performers Directory includes profiles of major performers and their best credits. We are proud to say this section is truly a book within a book. We have focused on close to 200 full bios of stars, both women and men, concentrating on current favorites. Directors who have contributed to the development of erotic pictures are listed in the Moviemakers Index along with a selection of their best movies. The Source Directory is a full listing of companies by the products or services they provide. The Retail Sources will help you find local outlets to rent and purchase the adult videos reviewed in this Directory.
The most complete, legitimate and widely respected directory of this nature ever published, Adam Film World's Directory Of Adult Films is designed to give you full access to the ever-expanding adult movie industry.

Jeremy Stone

• Covergirl Sunset Thomas (Nude) photographed by Scott St. James
• Performers
• Video Reviews
• Award Winners
• Retail Sources

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.