Max Hardcore Jailed for 46 months !

[t88]

For those of you that are unaware the Porn Actor Max Hardcore has been jailed for 4 years, here is an article on it, I think it is absolutally rediculous personally, please add your 2 cents here:

Last Friday, adult director Paul Little, aka Max Hardcore, was sentenced to 46 months in prison. Back in June, Little had been found guilty on 20 federal counts of distributing obscene material over the internet and through the US mail. At his sentencing in Tampa, Florida, where federal agents had bought the materials in question, Little asked Judge Susan C. Bucklew for what appeared to be mercy. "I didn't realize I'd made a mistake," he told the court. "My entire life I've been trying to do the right thing by people and by the law." A sentiment to which Judge Bucklew replied: "Mr. Little, I find this almost incredible."

Indeed, Little's porn story is more that of a man who wanted to find out how far he could push the law before it snared him. Since the early Nineties, he has committed himself to exploring the farthest reaches of the pornographic frontier. As an auteur, he came into his own in the golden age of gonzo-porno. With the advent of video, porn was delivered into any American home with a video player. Meanwhile, any aspiring pornographer who could get his hands on a video camera could shoot low budget porn on the fly. Alongside his peers in the movement--John "The Buttman" Stagliano and Adam "Seymore Butts" Glasser among them--Little was the dick-for-hire star of his own lo-fi productions. Yet while Stagliano and Glasser inhabited oversexed personalities on camera, who reveled in the pleasures of sexually adventurous lives shot cinéma vérité style, Little, armed with a half-crazed grin, a George W. Bush cowboy hat, and a set that consisted primarily of a yellow sofa, appeared hellbent on taking human sexuality to the outer limits. At a time when the Clinton administration was taking a mostly hands-off approach to obscenity prosecutions, and the Wild, Wild West of the Internet meant distribution was easy and censorship was turning into an antiquated concept, extreme porn became the new new thing.

In Max Hardcore movies--"Anal Agony," "Hardcore Schoolgirls," "Max! Don't Fuck Up My Mommy!"--women are verbally and physically degraded in an unprecedented myriad of ways. They are choked, slapped, throat-fucked, penetrated with fists, given enemas, pile-driven, urinated upon, vomited upon, and in some instances instructed to drink from glasses the money shots that have been delivered into their rectums. Most of the time, Little as Hardcore is the perpetrator of these acts. Not infrequently, his scenes are fraught with pedophilia themes, beginning when he stumbles upon his subjects in playgrounds, where they sit alone, in pigtails, talking baby-talk, and sucking on lollipops. Mostly, the sex scenes end with his latest costar a mess and Hardcore triumphant. Even for the most jaded porn watcher, Little's ouevre is over the top. Watching Little's work is less like watching a porn movie than it is akin to witnessing a vivisection. On the screen, Hardcore bends over the female bodies before him, sometimes with speculum in hand, as if attempting to get at something within her at which he can never quite get, and so to which he is doomed to return, his methods more and more hardcore.

In Porn Valley, Little is something of a pariah. The larger, more mainstream-oriented and consumer-friendly adult production companies like Vivid Video and Wicked Pictures pride themselves on turning out adult content that plays by the rules, thereby, they hope, protecting the industry from legal persecution. In contrast, Little and company, other producers believe, put the entire industry at risk by creating content more likely to be targeted in obscenity indictments. (See: The Cambria List.) In 2005, the Bush administration launched its so-called "War on Porn," forming the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, a Department of Justice outfit dedicated to pursuing obscenity prosecutions, and the FBI began recruiting for a "porn squad," otherwise known as the Adult Obscenity Squad, focused on "manufacturers and purveyors" of pornography. In late 2005, federal agents raided Little's offices in Altadena, California, but it wasn't until early 2007 that his indictment was unsealed. As it turned out, OPTF Director Brent Ward had found getting US Attorneys to pursue obscenity prosecutions wasn't easy. Consequently, US Attorneys who preferred dedicating their resources to crimes other than obscenity in districts more likely to win the administration obscenity convictions were eliminated. Late last year, the OPTF's first trial began in Phoenix, Arizona, pitting the US government against a producer of bukkake videos, but the result was an embarrassment, the pornographer slipping out of the government's hands in the courtroom. When it came to Little, prosecutors were gunning for a win. Finally, three years after the OPTF was formed, the Feds got their man.

According to Jezebel's Megan Carpentier, we've come a long way, baby, when it comes to porn. "Say what you will about pornography, objectification and exploitation, the growing legitimization of the pornography industry--which led to much more government- and self-regulation--also led to a significant decrease in the kind of exploitation described by those performers as well as increased opportunities for women to participate in the higher-earning aspects of the production." Where Carpentier came upon her theory regarding the current state of the adult movie industry is a mystery. One would have to assume her research didn't include watching this NSFW series of video clips, in which a young woman is gangbanged, instructed to crawl across the floor on all-fours while stating repeatedly, "I'm a fucking whore," and then directed to drink the contents of a dog bowl, the side of which reads "SHIT-HOLE," into which her costars have ejaculated. The video wasn't directed by Little; these days, extreme porn is everywhere you Google.

Of course, what we are talking about here is not the girl on the floor, but the letter of the law. Yesterday, former lawyer, Salon blogger, and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, whose First Amendment client list included Matthew Hale, a neo-Nazi who mistakenly attempted to enlist an undercover FBI agent to kill a federal judge, posits the conviction and sentencing of Paul Little as the latest glaring example of Bush administration hypocrisy. According to Greenwald, porn consists of "films featuring only consenting adults and distributed only to those consenting adults who chose to purchase them." Ironically, Little's defense, Greenwald points out, is the same defense the Bush administration has used to defend interrogation techniques used on detainees: "because the acts in question didn't involve the infliction of severe pain, they weren't illegal." In the case of Little's videos, he asserts, "There was no suggestion that any serious violence was ever inflicted or that the adult actors in the film were anything other than completely consensual." In conclusion, he proclaims: "So, to recap, in the Land of the Free: if you're an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ will prosecute you and send you to prison for years."

Reading Greenwald's post, I wondered if he had ever watched a Max Hardcore movie. I sent him an email, asking if he had. A few minutes later, I received a reply. "No, I haven't. But I read about its content. Why?" I replied: "You should." He replied: "I really don't care what consenting adults do with one another in order to entertain themselves or please themselves sexually--I'm not a busy body trying to sit in judgment of what other adults choose to do with themselves, especially in their sex lives. Not even the Government claimed that these films involved minors or non-consent, so as far as I'm concerned, it's nobody's business what they do, and whatever they do isn't going to change my mind in the slightest." In 1964, US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart opined famously of pornography: "I know it when I see it." In Greenwald's case, one would imagine it would be hard to know what one has seen if one has not, in fact, seen it. If one hasn't seen "it," how can one know what one has seen?

On an online message board, a member who calls himself "Sick Fuck" posted an inventory of Max Hardcore's most extreme scenes. The list is long. Some of the videos were created for European distribution, where the market is more permissive, an argument Little used to defend the graphic nature of his videos to little effect in the Tampa courtroom. The litany of highlights includes urination, defecation, and vomiting, all of which appear repeatedly. As a matter of fact, the image located at the top of this post is a still from one such video, the European edition of "Planet Max 16." Her name is Summer Luv. In the scene, her costar, Catalina, who was Little's girlfriend, vomits on Summer. Their three-way sex with Little includes fisting and a mechanical device that holds Summer's mouth open as he ejaculates onto her face, upon which a clown smile has been drawn. The other extremely explicit, NSFW images can be found here. Because if you're going to talk about how far we've come when it comes to porn, if you're going to posit Paul "Max Hardcore" Little as the latest victim of the Bush administration, if you're going to lament one more strike against your First Amendment rights, you should bear witness as to what a porn star drenched in vomit looks like. Otherwise, you're blind when it comes to the hardcore realities of making porn in the 21st century. After all, as the bukkake video producer who squirmed out of the OPTF's grasp once told me: "If people didn't want it, it wouldn't be made." That is, if you didn't want it, they wouldn't make it. In the end, porn is the real American dream, and the dream is all yours.

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Website is blocked as well

http://www.maxhardcore.com/


That's just crazy ! I mean he fuck all well known porn stars who know exactly what they will get there, I mean WTF !??!.........I can imagine what kind of penalty John Thompson should get

[hopless3]

I've seen some of his work and to be quite frank I think he got what he deserved.

Throughout the videos he just degraded the women. They were treated like shit.

Nick Bloomfeld made one of his documentry features about a young british girl trying to break into the us porn scene (porn was still Illeagal here even if it was produced).

She was happy and well treated until she met Max Hardcore. He left her in tears and when she tried to say that she didn't want to be choked any more Max went balistic screaming abuse at her and threatening her.

She simply had no idea beforehand what was going to happen to her. Her manager (another evil git) had told her it was all going to be nice and easy and the only reason Max payed so well was he was a generious guy.

Nick Bloomfeld's comment was telling. He said "for the only time in my documentry carear I steped in and interfeared". He got the girl out of there and that was the right thing to do.

Needless to say she quit porn having previously having had a realy good time (she like being a fluffer).

Personly I think 46 months is too short a time he deserved at least that long for just that one incident.

[just_me]

I stumbled upon a personal account some months ago (at least remembered enough to find it searching )
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?p=1771582#post1771582

He got what he deserved. Probably got off easy. I don't really care.

[laura]

as a female consumer of porn i get really annoyed at the whole 'porn is degrading to women' outlook. Clearly the vast majority isnt and imho actually empowers the women to be in control of their sexuality. However having read the accounts of max hardcore and the poor girl unfortunate enough to be involved in that creep mysoginists work i am shocked and disgusted that he was allowed to operate without such control. I have a very liberal attitude and have fairly extreme tastes myself but there is a boundary which that prick clearly crossed. Lets hope he rots inside and if he is gay(as the actress suspects) he gets ass raped in san quentin x

[hopless3]

Lets hope he rots inside and if he is gay(as the actress suspects) he gets ass raped in san quentin x

The trouble with that is he may enjoy it.

I got the impression that he was taking out some deepseated rage against any woman he could. Weather deep down he hated his mother or some other such Frauidian is behind it who Knows. Hopefully behind bars they will give him the psycological treatment he needs or even the time inside itself makes him see that he is wrong. He even commented at the end of the trial "I didn't realise what I was doing was wrong"

[Cheater!]

Sorry for my bad english.

People have sex before they turn 18. So why is porn only allowed when you are older than 18?
I tell you why: Porn has effects on people, both producers and consumers. And these effects can be bad. So the society has to declare an age when you are "old enough" to deal with the things you are doing or watching.
This age is 18. Every person who is older than 18 is responsible for what they do. And as long as Max Hardcore doesn't force the women (who are older than 18 ) there is nothing bad I can see in him.

[hardware]

I have a very liberal attitude and have fairly extreme tastes myself but there is a boundary which that prick clearly crossed.

Unfortunately, Little was tried for distributing pornography, not for being a prick.

Had one of the women he supposedly abused taken him to court, I would happily agree that the asshole got what he deserved. In this instance, however, he was simply an unattractive character who was easy picking for an administration bent on destroying the porn industry in the US. That is to say, the government makes no distinction between the pornographers you don't like and those that you do.

[sbando]

About time.

[Lee]

I watched some of his stuff from years ago. I was getting into hard porn at the time & Max's stuff seemed way over the top & risky, I was curious. After the initial interest of seeing this type of porn I soon realised that this was going beyond the acceptable limit. Teen porn is OK if it's done with tongue in cheek but there was something vile in the way he wanted us to believe he was vilifying an underage girl. Watching an act of an abused woman is not sexual, it's not porn. Not to me anyway & not to most people. I would worry about someone who seriously got their kicks out of this type of shit.

Max's acts are extreme, of that there is not doubt. I think he degrades women which is why I can't watch what he does. But, I guess it's personal taste. I love hard anal, some people would find that offensive.

However, what is his actual crime?
If it was all done with legal age women & with their consent, then while I think the guy is a creep, it's up to us whether we watch it or not.
If he used underage girls or forced his acts on the women then yes, the guy deserves to go down.

[just_me]

Unfortunately, Little was tried for distributing pornography, not for being a prick.

Had one of the women he supposedly abused taken him to court, I would happily agree that the asshole got what he deserved. In this instance, however, he was simply an unattractive character who was easy picking for an administration bent on destroying the porn industry in the US. That is to say, the government makes no distinction between the pornographers you don't like and those that you do.

And of course you have other examples that support this claim?

He was convicted on distributing pornography. Do you *really* believe that is the whole story? Al Capone was jailed for 10 years for not filling income tax. You believe the only thing Capone did was not pay his taxes, right? Just like the only thing Little did was distribute pornography.

[sbando]

Other examples of what? Are you serious? US-based websites cannot post cover scans without risking a kid porn charge!

What are exactly these 20 federal counts?

[laura]

nothing wrong with extreme porn providing it is genuinely consentual and the girls dont suffer any abuse. Any apologists for this creep need to read the link posted to the porn babe who was forced into a position where consent was thrown out of the window. I would think the fbi or whoever have evidence to this effect which has only compounded their desire to lock up this fool. Have any other pornographers ever been convicted of such crimes?

[just_me]

Other examples of what? Are you serious? US-based websites cannot post cover scans without risking a kid porn charge!

Then don't post a cover scan. What I do know is, porn was created in record quantities while Bush is in office, and porn has never been more accepted by the public than while Bush is in office.

The government is regulating more - but the comment made was that the administration wants to destroy all porn in the U.S., and that's just not true. With the administration having just a mere 3 months left in office, porn is still very much alive. Regulation != Destruction. The internet is still a work in progress.

[hardware]

And of course you have other examples that support this claim?

Did you miss this part?

In 2005, the Bush administration launched its so-called "War on Porn," forming the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, a Department of Justice outfit dedicated to pursuing obscenity prosecutions, and the FBI began recruiting for a "porn squad," otherwise known as the Adult Obscenity Squad, focused on "manufacturers and purveyors" of pornography.

They went after Extreme Associates, they went after JM Enterprises and they went after several websites that I know of. I don't know how many others they planned to go after before the "war on terror' distracted their attention.

Thankfully, Gonzalez was a lousy Attorney General.

PS - Lest you get carried away thinking about how acceptable porn is, let me remind you of the furor caused by Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction."

[sbando]

In other words, in the war against porn the Bush administration has accomplished what they've accomplished in the war against terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, forein politics in general, the aftermath of Katrina and the national economy.

Then don't post a cover scan.

YEAH. "You can't write books", then don't write them.