Porn Star Confidential: A Loose-Lipped Smut Tattler Tells All

How much do they make? Who’s servicing a Hollywood bigwig? Who got screwed out of a part by a competitor? Who got infected with what on the set?

The porn business has hardly ever been what you could call gossip-free — you could always count on a particularly tawdry arrest or some vicious smack talk between rivals — but lately the industry’s self-imposed sealed-lips policy seems be in jeopardy of some leering insider prying.

Too much information about what’s going on above, beneath, and beyond the San Fernando Valley has Smut City’s identity crisis kicked up to a fever pitch. The Internet has done more than just change how porn is made and disseminated — it may now be altering the means by which the biz keeps its own secrets.

The Leaks Revolution that’s rocked government, the military, and Wall Street now has its own XXX variation, and nothing — real names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, criminal records, and now, even HIV statuses — is off-limits.

Yes, in the age of Web-based public interest whistle-blowing, even porn has its own self-appointed activist, though most in the industry would cast him less as confidential source Bradley Manning than they would gossip gadfly Hedda Hopper — his motivations rooted in career frustration, envy, misogyny, and an apoplectic disdain for gay-for-pay male stars playing both sides of the fence.

Back in the ’90s, it was iconic Colt Man Paul Barresi who proved to be an irksome thorn-in-the-ass for for the Adult Film Industry. The former star-turned-director-turned-Hollywood-P.I. was notorious for badmouthing Hollywood’s smut doyens, undercutting models’ asking prices to rock bottom, presiding over multiple mainstream tabloid scandals, and even cooperating with authorities to bust top-tier pimp David Forest’s male escort service. Today, his heir apparent seems to be one Donny Long — straight performer-cum-director — whose visceral contempt for the industry and its participants has him ready to snatch the title of The Most Hated Man In Porn.

Fingers are pointing at porn bad boy Long (left) — who denies spearheading the Netherlands-based Porn WikiLeaks — as the likeliest suspect by nature of his known assertions that gay-for-pay performers are a serious threat to the hetero side of the business. Most are clear in casting him as an embittered wash-out with a serious axe to grind against and industry that’s shunned him. Sample claim: “The straight porn business has changed a lot and not for the better and hopefully one day it will get cleaned up and get the scumbags and gays out for good. The industry has never ever needed condoms and is fine with just testing monthly if the gays would stay over on the gay side.” That’s one his more coherent statements, mind you; most play like paranoid diatribes devoted to perceived injustices and petty vendettas.

You could drive a semi through that kind of logic — the 2004 HIV porn outbreak found its vector in a veteran straight performer, while anyone screened by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation can be negative on paper when a test performed two weeks ago can’t possibly reflect an unprotected sexual encounter from last night — but that hasn’t stopped Porn WikiLeaks from engaging in its mission to brand crossover male stars as positive, gay-to-straight defector Maxx Diesel (now known as Christian and Christian XXX, right) a favorite target for defaming. AIM claims its database was hacked earlier this month, and with private health information now turning up on the Porn WikiLeaks forum, the industry is inferring Long to be the records-breaching culprit.

It gets worse. Racial and ethnic slurs are commonplace in the forum — currently offline as of today’s date — and female performers are especially vulnerable to attack. The site has gone so far to predict actresses’ demises, and even urge readers to make contact with their families and neighbors. Home addresses are now public fodder, and even family members’ personal details are being leaked.

What form will all the fallout take? Ruined careers? Further stigmatization of male stars who moonlight in gay features? AIDS hysteria? Emboldened stalkers? Death threats? Suicide, even?

Ears may not be the only thing burning in San Fernando.