Porn Valley Observed

Gram Ponante has been writing about the porn industry since 2002 for classy publications like Playboy, Hustler, AVN, XBiz, Fleshbot and, if there were some mag called Skanky Elegance, he probably would have had a couple of pieces in there, too. Gram has edited GramPonante.com since 2005 and has, since 2013, been Editorial Director of Gamelink.com's Naked Truth.

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Uncomfortably Close wih Gram Ponante: Danielle Stewart

Gram Ponante talks with comedian (and 2015 AVN Awards show host, now airing on Showtime) about comedy, drinking, promiscuity, addiction, and Massachusetts. "Shortly after I talked with Danielle, she became absolutely the best host of the AVN Awards in my personal 10-year history of attending. (This was not because I'd talked to her; I just happened to be there slightly before she went onstage.) Most comedians just don't know how to walk the line between the audience at home and the one at whatev...

Aug 25, 2015•1 hr 34 min

Uncomfortably Close with Gram Ponante: JACKtheZIPPER

This is Episode 4: A New Hope with Jack The Zipper. Jack the Zipper comes from a different time — He's an artist, he's a hustler, he's a Westie from New York, and the women he likes to shoot - he'll tell you himself - all possess a certain witchiness. So I guess you can say he comes from a time, mentally, when the commodification of porn was secondary to the aesthetic loininess of the pervert.

Aug 12, 2015•1 hr 25 min

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