The legacy of Max Hardcore - Part 2
Continued from Part One. Read it here: https://xhamster.com/posts/10312154
Second prosecution
In 2007 Max was charged in Federal Court with five counts of transporting obscene matter by use of the internet and five counts of mailing obscene DVDs, specifically scenes involving pissing, puking, and fisting. A Tampa, Florida jury was made to watch Max’s videos. Max’s defence team insisted that the jurors watch all his movies from start to finish. To appreciate fully the whole oeuvre, one assumes. The jury of conservative housewives and blue collar workers carefully chosen by the prosecution in jury selection managed to get through around 8 hours worth before they mutinied. Those poor people were traumatised by what they saw. It was reported that some wept openly. Others suggested they might need counselling. They convicted Max on all 20 counts. If they could have sent him to the electric chair one suspects that many of them would have done so. Obscenity is determined by applying community standards and the Feds carefully chose the community where they brought their case as well as the members of the jury.
Now even in 2007, this was absolutely fucking ridiculous. That jury was not, by any means, representative of the wider community even in that state. The other half of the country should have been up in arms. We cannot have a nation where if a man living in Southern California sells a DVD to an FBI agent in Florida, the seller can be prosecuted for violating the standards of the Florida man’s community, which the California man has never visited and knows nothing about. That was the law but it was absurd. And it was a major threat to the rights of adult citizens everywhere to think and watch in private whatever material they wanted. Had the prosecution been brought in Los Angeles, where Max lived, it is most unlikely that a conviction would have been obtained.
Max’s case should have been recognised immediately for what it was: one of the most important criminal trials ever in the history of the United States and the most important First Amendment case since the Pentagon Papers case 34 years earlier. The New York Times and the Washington Post should have written editorials excoriating the state for a prosecution that was plainly out of kilter with its time and that set a dangerous precedent of state interference with free speech. The nation’s best constitutional law professors should have lined up to offer expert evidence. The issues it raised about the limits of individual freedoms and the disparity in community values across the nation should have been discussed in schools and around family dinner tables everywhere. Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz should have represented Max in court. The ACLU should have paid Dershowitz, just as it had funded in 1977 the National Socialist Party’s (i.e. the Nazi party) challenge to a ban on a march they had planned in Skokie, Illinois. Every Democrat in the nation should have been appalled by what was happening to free speech. Max should have been a celebrity with his face on the cover of Time. Remember that in 1973, three of the Beatles had attended a fundraiser to pay the legal bills of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and who was prosecuted for it before the Supreme Court ruled in his favour. But Ellsberg was a nice nerd with principles. Max was Max. And no-one stood up for Max.
Alone with no friends
No-one wanted to help a middle-aged man who regularly appeared on video naked with his cock in the arse of some unfortunate woman with ‘SLUT’ written across her forehead and puke running down her tits. No newspaper would write about pissing, fisting, and puking. It was impossible to mention these subjects on television. No self-respecting academic wanted to write papers about it. Cowards. Every one of them without exception. They knew well what was potentially at stake but they put their personal embarrassment ahead of their professional duties and their obligations to their society. And the ACLU was already on its path to its current position of only representing people they like. That is, those who - in their view - have the correct thoughts. Jesus.
Max had no friends. So he was fucked. And so the prosecutors fucked him in the arse liberally with a horse cock sized cactus dildo and without an ounce of lube. And they enjoyed it. As the federal government of the United States is wont to do to the vulnerable and defenceless repeatedly and whenever it can. And the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens had no idea it was happening then and they know almost nothing about it now.
The internet is largely ungovernable
So the government won. But it’s efforts to stem the tide of extreme porn came too late. It was confronted by an even more powerful force: free internet porn. As billions of people logged on daily to watch every kind of porn imaginable hosted on servers around the world it was not practically possible to govern that domain. The U.S. government, no doubt, sensed that public opinion had shifted. And they knew they had framed Max and cynically orchestrated his conviction. They have not tried anything like the prosecution against Max again. If they did, they would surely lose unless it was an actual minor or a living creature with four legs that got their holes so badly abused. So Max sort of won after all, but he would not benefit from that win. He lost everything. What the government did not take (his home - and only because a single juror held out on that subject) went on legal bills. He was done. In the wake of his conviction, Max’s work disappeared almost completely from stores and even from the internet. Everyone was fearful to handle it. It was the only commercially made porn that a court in a Western country had ever decided was obscene. To this date, his work is extremely hard to find on tube sites. But it can now be bought from maxhardcore.com, which is not to say that it is wise to do so.
Imitators
If the prosecution of Max was intended to have a chilling effect on porn producers (and it must have been because otherwise why did the government bother), it failed utterly. In fact, smut peddlers were emboldened rather than intimidated. If the federal government needed to go to Tampa to find a jury that would convict Max then, they reckoned, they were free to do as they pleased in L.A. And they would just not sell their DVDs out of state by mail order. In any event, the future was in downloads and streaming rather than physical product. One just had to be sure the servers weren’t in Florida where Max’s (presumably rented) servers had been.
What emerged after Max’s demise, however, was a small army of mini-Max’s. Men with video cameras who would bring young women to their homes and ruthlessly fuck them, facefuck them, and sometimes piss on them. Stagliano and Max had shown, punk rock-like, that anyone could make porn. Instead of three chords, all one needed was an erection, a video camera, and some innocent girl ill-advisedly to answer a $5 'Models Wanted' ad in the L.A. Weekly classifieds. Why start a band so that you could fuck girls if you became successful when you could just pay the girls and start fucking on day one? And then sell the recording of it.
Max even set the colour palette for porn. Baby blue, bright magenta, Sou’wester yellow, orange, lime, and shocking pink. These colours started appearing in porn from around the world. It could soon be seen in Russia in Teencoreclub and it can be seen today in England in the work of The Real Toby Dick. And in the States in Hookup Hotshots.
Hookup Hotshots is pure Max down to the clothing rails of neon coloured costumes that the actresses wear. Even the dialogue is Max. Repeatedly saying “yeah” in a lascivious tone whilst fucking a girl is Max. Here is Hookup Hotshots' Bryan Gozzling in an early scene with Lacey Noir. She's the sort of girl who might have been in a Max video 10 years earlier. She’s pretty but not beautiful. She’s very youthful looking. She gets fucked ruthlessly. By the end of the scene she looks wrecked (but, unlike many of Max’s scenes she does not actually look unhappy.) Note the word “MEAT” on her socks.
Likewise Hoby Buchanon. His thing is sticking his cock down women’s throats. He has made both the late Violet Rain (my sadness about that young girl’s unspeakably shameful death has no end) and the lovely Harmony Wonder puke. Probably others too but I don’t watch that much of his stuff. He likes to put a girl’s head in an armlock and make like he is choking her. No thanks. But in his aggression he’s just channeling Max. Facefucking.com is Max. LatinaAbuse.com is absolutely Max. Analvids (formerly LegalPorno) is a mix of Max and John Stagliano. The uglier, more aggressively misogynistic parts come from Max. If it’s abusive and nasty, it can probably be traced back to Max. Max is not the first man to hate the women he fucks. But it was Max who made it possible to run a respectable business, that paid its taxes, and made and distributed this sort of porn, openly and commercially.
Vile as Hoby Buchanon is, neither he nor any of the others that have come after Max seem to have quite the same real hatred of women that permeates Max’s work like one journalist who interviewed Max said the smell of stale piss and disinfectant permeated Max’s home. I suppose we can be grateful for that. Lots of established porn actresses work with Buchanon and a number of popular actresses have worked with him more than once, which tells one that he does not treat them so badly. There were many actresses who worked with Max once and swore they would never go back.
Max’s Accomplice
A quick aside about Layla Rivera - she appears in a lot of Max’s later films and was apparently his girlfriend for a time. Christ, what a thankless task that must have been. Sometimes she appears on her own but mostly with another, younger, and more attractive girl. Layla is a striking woman of Mexican-Polish-Hawaiian descent with a fine body in a luxuriously beautiful soft brown colour. And, unfortunately, fake tits. Here she is getting facefucked by someone other than Max.
After watching several scenes in which Layla is in the scene from start to finish but Max barely pays much attention to her at all, the purpose of her role has become clearer. She’s there, an experienced porn actress, and a veteran of Max’s work, to convince the younger, inexperienced girl, often 18 years old and in her first-ever porn scene and so without any true frame of reference, that what is happening to her is acceptable and normal and that she should submit to it. In other words, Layla was Max’s accomplice and enabler. Was she aware of this? In a 2011 interview with GQ she told the interviewer that she never thinks about anything. At all. Ever. She just does. And she will do anything, she told him. Then she offered to blow him. I am sure that mindset has helped her a lot in her work.
Continued in Part 3. Read it here: https://xhamster.com/posts/10312162
Second prosecution
In 2007 Max was charged in Federal Court with five counts of transporting obscene matter by use of the internet and five counts of mailing obscene DVDs, specifically scenes involving pissing, puking, and fisting. A Tampa, Florida jury was made to watch Max’s videos. Max’s defence team insisted that the jurors watch all his movies from start to finish. To appreciate fully the whole oeuvre, one assumes. The jury of conservative housewives and blue collar workers carefully chosen by the prosecution in jury selection managed to get through around 8 hours worth before they mutinied. Those poor people were traumatised by what they saw. It was reported that some wept openly. Others suggested they might need counselling. They convicted Max on all 20 counts. If they could have sent him to the electric chair one suspects that many of them would have done so. Obscenity is determined by applying community standards and the Feds carefully chose the community where they brought their case as well as the members of the jury.
Now even in 2007, this was absolutely fucking ridiculous. That jury was not, by any means, representative of the wider community even in that state. The other half of the country should have been up in arms. We cannot have a nation where if a man living in Southern California sells a DVD to an FBI agent in Florida, the seller can be prosecuted for violating the standards of the Florida man’s community, which the California man has never visited and knows nothing about. That was the law but it was absurd. And it was a major threat to the rights of adult citizens everywhere to think and watch in private whatever material they wanted. Had the prosecution been brought in Los Angeles, where Max lived, it is most unlikely that a conviction would have been obtained.
Max’s case should have been recognised immediately for what it was: one of the most important criminal trials ever in the history of the United States and the most important First Amendment case since the Pentagon Papers case 34 years earlier. The New York Times and the Washington Post should have written editorials excoriating the state for a prosecution that was plainly out of kilter with its time and that set a dangerous precedent of state interference with free speech. The nation’s best constitutional law professors should have lined up to offer expert evidence. The issues it raised about the limits of individual freedoms and the disparity in community values across the nation should have been discussed in schools and around family dinner tables everywhere. Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz should have represented Max in court. The ACLU should have paid Dershowitz, just as it had funded in 1977 the National Socialist Party’s (i.e. the Nazi party) challenge to a ban on a march they had planned in Skokie, Illinois. Every Democrat in the nation should have been appalled by what was happening to free speech. Max should have been a celebrity with his face on the cover of Time. Remember that in 1973, three of the Beatles had attended a fundraiser to pay the legal bills of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and who was prosecuted for it before the Supreme Court ruled in his favour. But Ellsberg was a nice nerd with principles. Max was Max. And no-one stood up for Max.
Alone with no friends
No-one wanted to help a middle-aged man who regularly appeared on video naked with his cock in the arse of some unfortunate woman with ‘SLUT’ written across her forehead and puke running down her tits. No newspaper would write about pissing, fisting, and puking. It was impossible to mention these subjects on television. No self-respecting academic wanted to write papers about it. Cowards. Every one of them without exception. They knew well what was potentially at stake but they put their personal embarrassment ahead of their professional duties and their obligations to their society. And the ACLU was already on its path to its current position of only representing people they like. That is, those who - in their view - have the correct thoughts. Jesus.
Max had no friends. So he was fucked. And so the prosecutors fucked him in the arse liberally with a horse cock sized cactus dildo and without an ounce of lube. And they enjoyed it. As the federal government of the United States is wont to do to the vulnerable and defenceless repeatedly and whenever it can. And the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens had no idea it was happening then and they know almost nothing about it now.
The internet is largely ungovernable
So the government won. But it’s efforts to stem the tide of extreme porn came too late. It was confronted by an even more powerful force: free internet porn. As billions of people logged on daily to watch every kind of porn imaginable hosted on servers around the world it was not practically possible to govern that domain. The U.S. government, no doubt, sensed that public opinion had shifted. And they knew they had framed Max and cynically orchestrated his conviction. They have not tried anything like the prosecution against Max again. If they did, they would surely lose unless it was an actual minor or a living creature with four legs that got their holes so badly abused. So Max sort of won after all, but he would not benefit from that win. He lost everything. What the government did not take (his home - and only because a single juror held out on that subject) went on legal bills. He was done. In the wake of his conviction, Max’s work disappeared almost completely from stores and even from the internet. Everyone was fearful to handle it. It was the only commercially made porn that a court in a Western country had ever decided was obscene. To this date, his work is extremely hard to find on tube sites. But it can now be bought from maxhardcore.com, which is not to say that it is wise to do so.
Imitators
If the prosecution of Max was intended to have a chilling effect on porn producers (and it must have been because otherwise why did the government bother), it failed utterly. In fact, smut peddlers were emboldened rather than intimidated. If the federal government needed to go to Tampa to find a jury that would convict Max then, they reckoned, they were free to do as they pleased in L.A. And they would just not sell their DVDs out of state by mail order. In any event, the future was in downloads and streaming rather than physical product. One just had to be sure the servers weren’t in Florida where Max’s (presumably rented) servers had been.
What emerged after Max’s demise, however, was a small army of mini-Max’s. Men with video cameras who would bring young women to their homes and ruthlessly fuck them, facefuck them, and sometimes piss on them. Stagliano and Max had shown, punk rock-like, that anyone could make porn. Instead of three chords, all one needed was an erection, a video camera, and some innocent girl ill-advisedly to answer a $5 'Models Wanted' ad in the L.A. Weekly classifieds. Why start a band so that you could fuck girls if you became successful when you could just pay the girls and start fucking on day one? And then sell the recording of it.
Max even set the colour palette for porn. Baby blue, bright magenta, Sou’wester yellow, orange, lime, and shocking pink. These colours started appearing in porn from around the world. It could soon be seen in Russia in Teencoreclub and it can be seen today in England in the work of The Real Toby Dick. And in the States in Hookup Hotshots.
Hookup Hotshots is pure Max down to the clothing rails of neon coloured costumes that the actresses wear. Even the dialogue is Max. Repeatedly saying “yeah” in a lascivious tone whilst fucking a girl is Max. Here is Hookup Hotshots' Bryan Gozzling in an early scene with Lacey Noir. She's the sort of girl who might have been in a Max video 10 years earlier. She’s pretty but not beautiful. She’s very youthful looking. She gets fucked ruthlessly. By the end of the scene she looks wrecked (but, unlike many of Max’s scenes she does not actually look unhappy.) Note the word “MEAT” on her socks.
Likewise Hoby Buchanon. His thing is sticking his cock down women’s throats. He has made both the late Violet Rain (my sadness about that young girl’s unspeakably shameful death has no end) and the lovely Harmony Wonder puke. Probably others too but I don’t watch that much of his stuff. He likes to put a girl’s head in an armlock and make like he is choking her. No thanks. But in his aggression he’s just channeling Max. Facefucking.com is Max. LatinaAbuse.com is absolutely Max. Analvids (formerly LegalPorno) is a mix of Max and John Stagliano. The uglier, more aggressively misogynistic parts come from Max. If it’s abusive and nasty, it can probably be traced back to Max. Max is not the first man to hate the women he fucks. But it was Max who made it possible to run a respectable business, that paid its taxes, and made and distributed this sort of porn, openly and commercially.
Vile as Hoby Buchanon is, neither he nor any of the others that have come after Max seem to have quite the same real hatred of women that permeates Max’s work like one journalist who interviewed Max said the smell of stale piss and disinfectant permeated Max’s home. I suppose we can be grateful for that. Lots of established porn actresses work with Buchanon and a number of popular actresses have worked with him more than once, which tells one that he does not treat them so badly. There were many actresses who worked with Max once and swore they would never go back.
Max’s Accomplice
A quick aside about Layla Rivera - she appears in a lot of Max’s later films and was apparently his girlfriend for a time. Christ, what a thankless task that must have been. Sometimes she appears on her own but mostly with another, younger, and more attractive girl. Layla is a striking woman of Mexican-Polish-Hawaiian descent with a fine body in a luxuriously beautiful soft brown colour. And, unfortunately, fake tits. Here she is getting facefucked by someone other than Max.
After watching several scenes in which Layla is in the scene from start to finish but Max barely pays much attention to her at all, the purpose of her role has become clearer. She’s there, an experienced porn actress, and a veteran of Max’s work, to convince the younger, inexperienced girl, often 18 years old and in her first-ever porn scene and so without any true frame of reference, that what is happening to her is acceptable and normal and that she should submit to it. In other words, Layla was Max’s accomplice and enabler. Was she aware of this? In a 2011 interview with GQ she told the interviewer that she never thinks about anything. At all. Ever. She just does. And she will do anything, she told him. Then she offered to blow him. I am sure that mindset has helped her a lot in her work.
Continued in Part 3. Read it here: https://xhamster.com/posts/10312162
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