In case you haven’t noticed, thanks to the generous patronage of Pjur USA, there’s a freebie when you by the Damon and Hunter DVD – a little bottle of Pjur Original, the same lube Damon and Hunter use, and the same one that in my and Peggy’s night-stand.

It’s truly luscious stuff. It is, of course, absolutely wonderful for keeping your sex parts super slippery when you make love, but it is also absolutely wonderful for rubbing all over the object of your affection. With a few drops of Eros, hands glide effortlessly over tired, tense shoulders, uncrinkle bent spines, and soothe aching legs. Try that with any other lube and you’ll just have a sticky mess. With Eros you’ll be a slippery as a seal and ready for whatever comes next!

And after you’ve had your slippery fun, no need to jump in the shower. Just doze off in each others arms. By morning it will have disappeared; no stains on the sheets, no clumps or gobs, nothing save perhaps a just enough left over slipperiness in your deepest crevices to start the day right without hunting around for the bottle!

If you haven’t tried Bodyglide, perhaps you’re intimidated by the price. Yes, by the ounce it’s about the most expensive lube you can buy. But buy the application it’s no more costly than any other quality lube, and no other lube feels like, or lasts like Pjur.

But if you’re still not convinced (and you live in Melbourne), we’ve cooked up a little surprise with Pjur AU for the MUFF screening of Damon and Hunter. That’s all I’m at liberty to say right now, except to promise you that we’re not going to go getting you all worked up with our sexy little film, and then send you off into the night having to fend for yourself. Once watching Damon and Hunter gets you going, we’ll make sure you have everything you need to keep going, and going and going! After all, the best way to cap a fun, sexy, provocative evening out is to have a sexy, slippery, sensuous night in!

Peggy made this very lovely poster which my very wonderful friend Ell is going to be putting up in various trendy spots in Melbourne over the next few weeks to promote the MUFF screening.

If you live in Melbourne and you see one, take a picture and send it to us, and we’ll send you a copy of the Damon and Hunter DVD!

P.S. Snapping a pic at Glitch Bar does not count!

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival just posted a .pdf of the program for next months screenings, and I’m not embarrassed to admit it is very exciting to see Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together listed on page 7:

DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER
Dir. Tony Comstock | 46 mins. | 2006 | Documentary | USA
“Damon and Hunter” is a frank, humane and erotic exploration of the sexual and emotional relationship between longtime lovers Damon Demarco and Hunter James. The film offers a candid look at the central role that sex plays in the relationship between these two men. Forget Brokeback Mountain, if you want gay sex, check this out. Screens with PORNSTAR PETS.
Tuesday 11 July 9pm | Glitch
Q + A with filmmakers.

Of course I very nearly squealed with delight when I read “Forget Brokeback Mountain…”

Damon and Hunter: Doing it Together is an official selection for the Melbourne Underground Film Festival taking place next month in Melbourne Australia!

The screening will take place on Tuesday July 11 9pm at the Glitch Cinema. Also on the bill is Margie Schnibbe’s documentary Pornstar Pets

What are two things Germans love, Alex? (Peggy tells me Germans love Alf too.)

Over the past couple of days we’ve had a noticable spike in sales to Germany. That combined with a spike in the number of people who are arriving at our website via the seach query ‘comstock films’ leads me to suspect that somewhere in all the World Cup madness, there’s been a mention of Comstock Films in the German press.

We are, of course, ever curious about such things. If you happen to know that such a thing has actually happened, we would be most grateful if you’d let us know!

About two months ago, wrapping up a post entitled Am I Every Woman?I wrote:

“I’m not stupid. I know that when I say race or gender or sexual orientation aren’t always the most important thing, I’m saying it from the point of view of a person who’s never had his race, or his gender, or who or how I fuck held against me in any but the most trivial sort of way. And so I suppose it’s only natural that if I, as a middle-aged, white, straight man make a film about young, black, lesbian women, I’m going to have to prove that I can make the things they and I have in common count for more than our differences.That’s fine. It’s my privilege and honor to have the chance to try.”

Earlier today I found out that my film Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract received the award for the hottest straight sex scene at the first ever Feminist Porn Awards held last Thursday night in Toronto, Canada.

The Feminist Porn Awards (the Emmas) were part of Vixens+Visionaries: Female erotic directors revolutionizing porn, an evening that along with the awards, featured a round table with some of today’s leading voices in women-made porn, and I have to admit I was surprised to see Xana and Dax on a list alongside films from Candida Royalle, Tristan Taormino, Shine Louis Houston (Way to go, Shine!) and other directors who are not men.

But the criteria was “genuine female pleasure, women having a good time, films that were produced or directed by women, and adult movies that ‘expand the range of pleasure for women’, and by that criteria Xana and Dax is a worthy recipient. My films are very much about sexual pleasure, and I will gleefully admit to giving a little extra consideration to women’s sexual pleasure, both the women who appear in my films, and the women I imagine will be watching them, and I’m proud to have that recognized.

Anyone who’s a regular reader of this blog knows that I sometimes get my nose out of joint over the “by women for women” porn thing, but the fact remains, the notion of women viewing, let alone making sexually explicit imagery remains a radical and polarizing phenomenon. When I ask a women to spread her legs for my camera, I’m just “doing what men do”. For whatever risks (financial, social) I take to make my films, being a man making porn doesn’t make me a sex radical. There’s nothing revolutionary about a man wanting to take nudie pictures of women.

But twenty or so years ago, when Candida picked up the camera, she was making enemies of everyone — the old boys network that made porn, the “feminists” and fascists that opposed porn, and the academics with their studies proving that “women’s sexuality isn’t visual”. Twenty years later, the landscape is only slightly less hostile to the idea of women making or even enjoying sexually explicit imagery. And when a woman presents erotic work, it’s always evaluated in the context of her gender – what does it mean that a woman made it?

Doing this work is hard enough without feeling like the whole world is sitting in, whispering in your ear about what a “proper woman” or a “good feminist” would or wouldn’t do. So for whatever envy I feel at the way the press pricks up its ears when it hears “woman-made porn”, in the end I’m thankful I can do my work unburdened by other people’s expectations of how I should represent my gender, or how I should represent their politics.

And while I’ll probably still get my nose out joint when I hear that the problem with porn is that it’s made by men, I’m proud to be counted among a group of artists who are challenging poisonous, devisive assumptions about what it means to be a proper woman or a good feminist. Thank you to Good For Her for sponsoring the event, and congratulations to all the winners!

The 2006 Feminist Porn Award Winners

Hottest Anal Adventure
Winner: House of Ass | Tristan Taormino; Adam & Eve
Presented by Josey Vogels and Carrie Singh

Best Smutty Schoolteacher (Educational)
Winner: Orgasmic Women | Betty Dodson
Presented by Rebecca Rosenblatt (aka Dr. Date) & Valerie Scott (Sex Professionals of Canada)

Sexiest, Most Diverse Performers
Winner: Caribbean Heat | Manuela Sabrosa; Femme Productions
Presented by Manjeet and Michelle Chai

Hottest Straight Sex Scene
Winner: Xana And Dax: When Opposites Attract | Tony Comstock ; Comstock Films
Presented by Tara McKee

Hottest Dyke Sex scene
Winner: The Crash Pad | Shine Louise Houston ; Pink and White Productions
Presented by Chanelle Gallant and Deidre Walton

Hottest Fetish/Kink Scene
Winner: Tanya Hyde’s World Without Men | Tanya Hyde
Presented by Russell Smith & Carrie Gray

Hottest Trans Sex Scene
Sugar & Steele: All that’s Good For Her | Good For Her productions
Presented by Lorraine Hewitt and Flare

Fiercest Female Orgasm
Nina Hartley’s Guide to Double Penetration (Bonus scene) Aria | Adam And Eve
Presented by Renee Pilgrim

Indie Porn Pioneer
Dana Dane
Presented by Cheri Michael

Best New Canadian Pornographer (Vixen Next Door) Angela Phong
Presented by Niki Clover, star of ErocktaVision

Lifetime Achievement in Women’s Erotica
Candida Royalle
Presented by Carlyle Jansen

Australia’s Ms. Naughty writes about watching her first gay porn film.

“There I was at the post office, excitedly ripping open the package with my copy of Damon and Hunter: Doing It Together inside and my husband was shushing me and telling me not to wave it around in public.“So we went home and I promptly watched it.

Thank you Ms. Naughty!