The company plans to have a DVD titled “Kim Kardashian Superstar” in stores by Feb. 28, with additional footage on kimksuperstar.com. Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch said, “We are comfortable that we have the legal right to distribute this video . . . I’ve seen the video and it’s really great. It has over 30 minutes of explicit sex that fans of erotica will find very appealing . . . Apparently, the video was shot by Ray J about three years ago when he and Kim were in a relationship. Viewers will definitely get their money’s worth.” A rep for Kardashian said, “Are you [bleep]ing me? Kim is going to die . . . are you sure?” Later, he added, “She will be taking legal action against anyone responsible for this. She was unaware of this and caught completely off-guard.” Ray J could not be reached.

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The Bang Bus usually contains three men: the driver (known as Ugly in early episodes), the camera man (Greg Entner aka “Dirty Sanchez”), and an actor who plays a “random” guy who gets to engage in sexual intercourse with the woman picked off the street. Sometimes the driver and camera man will randomly pick up a man first then pick up a woman and persuade the two to have sex. In most cases, the woman is convinced to get into the van under the guise that they are making a documentary about people in the area. They offer money, usually around a couple hundred dollars, just to answer questions about their life. After some “interviewing”, they usually offer more money to disrobe, and then additional money to have sex. The woman usually is persuaded to enter the van in less than 5 minutes, then persuaded to strip in 20-50 minutes (during which Entner is often verbally abusive to the woman), and is dropped off in a random location after the completion of the sex act, ostensibly without being paid.

Although the theme of the site is the ease with which supposedly unknown women can be persuaded to engage in hardcore sexual acts, the videos are in fact staged and all the women shown are actresses paid a pre-negotiated price. Some have gone on to work in other pornographic productions or even became regular performers (e.g. Annie Cruz appeared as “Kyra” in 2004). Despite this, Bang Bus is regarded as a highly controversial website, in part due to its popularity and Entner’s misogynistic behavior. For these reasons, it has appeared in multiple news stories, particularly in the Miami area, where the site has earned a certain degree of infamy.

On October 14, 2004, Miami New Times published an investigation of the porn site based primarily on interviews with a woman who performed for the site to pay for an abortion. She claimed that her ex-boyfriend, father of the child, kept all of the payment.

On November 18, 2004, the South Florida news station and website WPLG ran a video segment and article revealing the staged nature of the videos, as admitted by a Bang Bus videographer. They also ran a follow-up in which they asked police whether the activities depicted on the Bang Bus site are illegal. The police responded that they were not, because the van’s windows are tinted to avoid violation of indecent exposure laws and because the women consented.

Dozens of the pictures were rated “level 5″ by prosecutors - the most serious on the scale of child pornography images.

Source: The Press Association (ya, we’ve never heard of it either).

Lisa Van Allen, the last witness before prosecutors rested their case, also told jurors in more than three hours of graphic and dramatic testimony that Kelly last year offered her $250,000 to recover a tape of one of the trysts.

Defense attorneys accused her of trying to extort the singer.

Prosecutors rested their case in R Kelly’s child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.

Star prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen cried on the witness stand, pausing to regain her composure, as she described several alleged sexual encounters with the R&B star, some of which she claimed Kelly videotaped.

Van Allen, 27, also told jurors that Kelly offered her $250,000 (BD94,500) last year to recover a tape of one of the trysts.

The witness said that after she and Kelly met in late 1997, they filmed each other with the alleged victim on two occasions in 1999 and 2000, although prosecutors stressed that neither tape was the recording shown the jury at the trial.

During cross-examination, a defence attorney accused Van Allen of plotting to extort money from the singer, which she denied. Under further questioning, she admitted she once stole Kelly’s $20,000 (BD7,560) diamond-studded watch from a hotel.

A recently surfaced 2000 Playboy column he wrote has become an attack opportunity:

On Thursday, the Minnesota Republican Party released a letter, signed by six prominent GOP women, including a state senator and state representative, calling on Franken to apologize for his “demeaning and degrading” article.

“The words and descriptions you write about are beyond vulgar,” read the letter, circulated by the Minnesota Republican Party and posted on its Web site. “They demean and degrade women as thoroughly and disrespectfully as any article we have ever seen, and we are horrified to believe that someone running for the U.S. Senate could have written them. This column shows flagrant disregard for women, and an extreme objectification of women as sex objects for your pleasure.”

The bigger crime is that its not even funny, but then again (since when has Al Franken ever been funny?)

In his Playboy romp, Franken fantasized about oral sex delivered by a machine, as well as sex with combinations of females who fit the Playboy view of women as big-breasted automatons, panting at the prospect of servicing the likes of Franken. That’s why they call it fantasy, I guess.

I wonder how many DFL officials will be able to pull Porn-O-Rama through their Internet filters and read it before the party endorses its candidate for U.S. Senate this weekend. I wonder, too, whether folks like Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Attorney General Lori Swanson, whose campaigns took money in 2006 from Franken’s so-called Midwest Values PAC (yes, you read that right) will feel compelled to return those bucks on truth-in-advertising grounds.

Gonzo videos tend to focus far less on the plots, extended dialogue, elaborate costumes/sets, and artistic camerawork commonly found in conventional porn. However, due to the explosive growth in its popularity since the mid-1990s, gonzo has attained mainstream popularity; several individually distinct styles of no-frills, filmed pornography can be labeled gonzo porn. Today, several companies produce gonzo that has excellent lighting and sound quality, (temporary) lingerie costuming, and is shot in various rooms of luxury homes. One trait that all gonzo films share, though, is a much greater emphasis on intense (almost hyperactive) sexual performance. Regardless of camera techniques or the degree of director involvement in the scenes, a gonzo film has “more sex”, per se, than a traditional (e.g., Vivid or Adam&Eve) adult video. Gonzo scenes tend to run longer; it is common for a single boy-girl scene to run anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes.

John Stagliano is considered to have started the Gonzo pornography genre with his Buttman series of films.