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Q:
You've recently redesigned
your site, why did you decide to do the redesign and what are some of the
new features/ aspects of your site?
Michael:
"For almost a year I had been
looking for a way to cut expenses. When I started building my original
website back in 1998 and opened it for business in 1999 it was my first
attempt at doing anything on the Internet. I started with about 15 HTML
pages and then grew it bigger with each new release. I was editing on an
AVID/Macintosh back then so I built my original website on Adobe GoLive,
back then a Macintosh program."
"In 2003 my website crashed along with my Macintosh and I couldn't find
anyone in South Florida who worked on Macs. I rushed to Best Buy and
purchased my first PC and I've stuck with them ever since. There are
almost too many people who are anxious to work on them. Contrary to what
Mac owners say they DO break down and need service and they DO get
viruses. There was an article in FORBES magazine that said one-fifth of
all Macs are infected with viruses and the owners don't even realize it."
"At the television Studio I
worked at back then we had Macs and from time to time they would need
service. We had to pack them up and send them back to Apple and it was a
pain. Of course, we were a 24 hour News/Sports/Weather Station so they
were never shut down. In my case, I wasn't ready to pack up my own Mac
loaded with porn, and UPS it back to Apple. With my PC I have a Tech who
drives out to my house and works on it here in my office. I must say that
it is very seldom my PC needs service. I am very satisfied with my PC and
especially the cost. I could buy 5 PCs for the cost of 1 Mac."
"I have always been annoyed by Pay websites. Its like going to a Strip
Club and having to stand at the door and peek in. Do I pay the cover
charge or not? I've always felt that you should get to view the
merchandise first and then decide whether or not you want to purchase it.
That is why my website has ALWAYS been free. Come on in, take a look
around, have a taste and if you like what you see then buy something. That
has always been my business model."
"When I introduced the free sample videoclips to my website it changed
everything for me. My original website cost me $49/month in hosting fees.
Once I released the free sample videoclips it quickly jumped to $99/month.
Within a year it jumped again to $199/month. By 2005 it was $249/month. In
2005 I heard the term "hotlinking" for the first time, a word that would
change everything for the worse."
"Hotlinking is when someone places a link on their website(s) that directs
their members/visitors to content somewhere else on the web. The advantage
to hotlinking is that it costs the hotlinker nothing as it uses the
bandwidth of the website at the end of the link. This was what had
happened to me. I found a half-dozen hotlinks located in Japan, Canada,
Germany, Denmark and the US. A couple of the hotlinkers had links to my
free preview clips located in their Members Area. This meant they were
charging their members for the privilege of viewing my free sample clips
and I was paying for the bandwidth. At this point I strongly considered
removing the free preview clips but can you imagine how many of my
visitors would have complained? Unless you own a website and pay the bills
you wouldn't understand how expensive it can be. I decided to just eat the
extra expense while hunting down the hotlinkers, threatening prosecution
and renaming my clips so that their hotlinks became invalid."
"In 2008 a couple of things happened. I lost Ipayment, my payment gateway
that had been processing my credit cards from the very beginning. They
told me by letter that they had a policy change and were no longer
servicing Adult websites. PayPal dropped me a month later for the same
reason. I could have lied and told both companies that I was not an Adult
website and kept them but that's not my style. If I had lied I probably
wouldn't have changed websites so it turned out to be a good thing in the
long run."
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Q:
Would you say that most of
your customers come to see the Tribadism or the fighting/competition in
your videos?
Michael:
"I've never tracked it because I
respect the privacy of my customers and there is nothing more private than
a person's sexual fantasies. Having said that if a customer initiates the
conversation I am very interested in sharing stories about how we were
each drawn to female erotic competition. Talking about our fantasies is a
form of therapy after all. Personally, I'm in it for the competition. I
could care less whether or not there is trib. One of my favorite videos is
DEEP FINGER DUEL (CF#060) where Joslyn and Mishell fight extremely hard to
conquer each other sexually. There is some trib in the video but it is not
the main course."
"My customers are varied in their interests. I would say the majority who
speak about my videos are interested in the Tribadism. Those videos seem
to sell the best but not by much. I get a lot of requests for more
wrestling/fighting than anything else and since I don't script the action
it has been hit or miss in that area. The women I work with now are
Professional Models and don't want to do anything that would risk injury,
bruising or scarring and/or could jeopardize potential work. The closest
thing I could predict would be if a rivalry, like the Gina-Joslyn
sexfights had, or the Amber-Rachel sexfight had that lasted 100 minutes,
or more recently the rivalry that has developed in the Amber-Joslyn sexfights, where the
personalities of the two women cause a clash and ramp up the heat."
"I refuse to script because my interest is solely about the competition. I
could probably sell more videos if I did script but I've said from the
beginning that I produce these videos for myself and then choose to share
them with everyone else. Watching two women compete using only their sex
still excites me beyond belief. I find wrestling and catfighting fairly
boring now. When I was younger I would watch women wrestle and add the
sexual competition fantasy in my mind. Now I get right to it and save a
lot of time. LOL!"
"There are so many other Producers who are making the wrestling/fighting
videos that I could never compare to them. My heart just wouldn't be in
it."
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Q:
Do you like Tribadism videos
that don't have a competition aspect or do you think that this is a vital
part?
Michael:
"For me the competition is a
vital part. Whenever I see a trib video released by another Producer I do
like I've done in the past which is convince myself, in my mind, that the
two women are competing for a man, a job, some prize or just sexual pride.
In my mind there always needs to be a reason for the sexfight, trib or
otherwise, for me to be interested. It is why I treasure women like
Joslyn, who really and truly enjoys the sexual competition, and it is why
I continue to feature her as much as possible."
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Q:
Do you think consumers of
Tribadism overall favor videos with or without the competition aspect?
Michael:
"I have no idea. Any answer
would be a total guess on my part. I speak often with my customers and
many are curious about the sexual competition probably because they find
my website through a link placed at a wrestling or catfight site where
competition is featured."
"From the requests I receive from my sponsors I know that they are very
interested in the trib. Some sponsors request more close-ups of clits
touching or pussy lips clinging together. Still others request fewer
close-ups and more wide-shots that show the emotion on a woman's face. It
is truly all over the board as far as that is concerned. Whenever I have
tried a Poll in the past only a dozen or two take the time to respond even
though I have almost 5,000 people registered on my website. I'm not sure
that many people care. Sexual fantasy is such a personal thing and,
unfortunately, most of us have felt guilty about having them."
"The competition guarantees, especially in a trib-only match, that both
women will trib with everything they have even if they are not attracted
to each other. Chemistry between the two women is hit or miss at times but
if there is a competition aspect introduced most women can relate to that
and put forth more effort than they would otherwise."
"My video (CF#082 Arianna vs
Brianna) is a trib-only competition and there was/is chemistry between the
women because they have worked together many times in girl/girl videos
with other Producers. However, I was the first Producer who asked them to
compete sexually and they had no problem getting into it. In fact, there
was a forced orgasm just about every five minutes throughout the length of
the video. I love high scoring matches."
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Q:
Why do you think that
Tribadism is so rare in mainstream porn?
Michael:
"Penis and vagina. Howard Stern
has said it on his morning radio show for many years. All anyone
cares about really is penis and vagina. Personally, I like my penis in my
wife's vagina but that is as far as I go with penis and vagina. Vagina and
vagina was a rare dish when I was growing up in the '50s and initiating a
conversation about lesbianism with a woman, or even with your guy friends,
was frightening to me because of the fear of getting slapped, laughed at,
or even scorned and ridiculed."
"I have a very clear memory of being at a Bachelor Party and there being
stag films shown in another room. There were a dozen guys all watching the
8mm black/white films projected on a white wall and, of course, there was
cheering and comments being made by those who felt they were experienced
or witty. It was your basic penis pounding vagina with the woman looking
like she was in pain or discomfort. But when the scene changed to two
women kissing or touching the cries became, "C'mon! Let's see some fuckin'!
Get these dykes off the screen!" When the scene changed back to another
woman getting crammed by some guy then the room full of guys started cheering
again."
"Of course, I wanted the scene with the two women to continue but I didn't
speak up because I was afraid of being ridiculed. The effect that it had
on me was that I felt like a freak or an oddity. It just added another
layer of guilt on top of what I was already carrying. I've checked
websites like YouPorn and there is much more "regular" porn available than
lesbian porn. There's even less trib. Trib is a delicacy not enjoyed by
everyone. Maybe that is a good thing? If there was too much trib-porn we
might not appreciate it as much."
"I will be 68 years old in 2017 and I can still remember becoming
interested in seeing two women together. Ever since I watched June Byers
wrestle Penny Banner on WTTV-TV Channel 4 out of Bloomington, Indiana when
I was about 5 or 6 years old I've craved two women in close body-to-body
competition. We had a Philco B/W television set and only 4 channels from
which to choose. June wore a black one-piece suit and Penny wore a black
two-piece. When they took each other to the mat the woman on the bottom
would lay there with her legs spread wide apart and I remember wondering
why there was no bulge there. They were so competitive as they took turns
dominating each other that I became aroused for the first time in my very
young life. I had no idea why. Maybe if it had been a man wrestling with a
woman I would never have become enchanted with trib or female/female
competition. Who can say?"
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Q:
How would you define
Tribadism? (ie. is it purely pussy-pussy, any women-women rubbing, any
rubbing between two people)
Michael:
"Trib to me is pussy-to-pussy
and clit-to-clit. I
don't like thigh-to-pussy or knee-to-pussy and I have no interest in
man-woman rubbing. My favorite trib is clitfighting, which Joslyn loves as
well. Watching and listening to pussylips suck on each other when the
women become aroused can quickly push me over the edge. I don't care if
the women are naked or not. Some of my favorite trib scenes take place in
my earlier lingerie videos. The final scene in CF#004 between Joslyn and
Faye, for example, I watch at least once a month. I love it when Faye
says, "Ooooh! Slippery wet!" and then she grinds Joslyn to an intense
orgasm."
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Q:
While Tribadism is as popular
as many other lesbian positions, there are many that think that its by far
the most erotic position. What do you think the attraction is?
Michael:
"I can only speak for myself
and, as a man, I think it is the "unknown" or "mystery" we have about a
woman's sexuality. It is not something that we men know a lot about. Even if
you look at a woman's vagina in a medical textbook you don't know why it
is designed the way it is. As men we wonder - 'What does it feel like?' -
'How does it work?'"
"I had no idea back then and
I'm still not completely sure now. LOL!"
"When I was in high school we, a bunch of guys, would sit together at the
cafeteria lunch table and speculate about the virtues of whichever
Cheerleader happened to walk by. My fantasies often turned to our
Cheerleaders wrestling another school's Cheerleaders behind the stands
after a Friday Night Football Game. This was not something I shared with
my tablemates in the cafeteria. I kept my fantasies to myself. I would
imagine the most popular cheerleader from my school squaring off against
the most popular cheerleader from the other school. They would spread
their legs wide and meet pussy-to-pussy and try to grind each other into
submission while the rest of the cheerleaders from both schools cheered
them on. They were never naked in my fantasies back then because I didn't
know what was under their panties."
"The first time I witnessed Tribadism was when I was shown a video called
"Pussyfight" back in the late 70's. I didn't even know that was what it
was called. The video was a grainy VHS with terrible lighting and almost
non-existent sound,
but there was something about watching their hairy pussies grinding into each
other that hooked me from that point on. After I watched it I had to own
it and wound up paying $300 for the crappily produced video. That was two weeks pay for me
back
then. I didn't care. I just had to own it. I had just started working at a
new television station that year and I decided right then and there that
someday I would produce my own pussyfight videos. I'm just sorry it took me
until 1998 to finally get the courage to do it."
"Even when I videotaped CF#001 Gina vs Faye I remember being curious about
what was taking place between their legs. It must have felt pretty good. CF#020 Sasha vs Monique was my first look at nude trib live and up close. The
sound was incredible, especially when they lined up just right and the
suction formed by their pussyholes mashing together could be heard. The
smell of female sex was also incredible! And the sounds! I love listening to
the changes in a woman's breathing as she gets more and more turned on."
"There is a definite give-and-take to trib. In CF#039 Alissa vs Joslyn
there is a point early in the video where they make direct and deliberate
clit-to-clit contact for the first time and both women gasp together from
the feeling. You could never script a moment like that convincingly
although many Producers try."
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Q:
The term 'Tribadism' is a
pretty obscure word and I think that this is one of the reasons that its
not a mainstream interest. Do you agree/disagree with this and do you have
any suggestions to solve this problem?
Michael:
"I agree. I once heard a lesbian
pronounce it TRY-badism and TRIBE, like an Indian tribe. Maybe that is how
it is supposed to be pronounced, I don't know, but every other lesbian I
know pronounces the "I" like "IT" instead of "EYE"."
"I'm not sure it qualifies as a problem to be honest. Why is it a problem?
Tribidism, to me, is just another flavor of sexual interest, like
chocolate-vanilla-strawberry, like 69-dildos-doggie style. It doesn't
matter to me whether anyone agrees with my love of trib or not. Its my
preference and very personal to me. I'm a very open person and I'll tell
you anything you ask but I'm not at all anxious to delve into anyone
else's fantasies unless they trust me enough to share them. Even then I
may not understand why they get turned on by fisting or DP or scat play.
Each of us has our own reason for why we like what we like. I really don't
care if trib is mainstream or not. Since I started producing my own videos
and my former co-workers learned of my website I've discovered that they
have an appreciation for trib as well. There are definitely a lot of women
who enjoy my videos and I've been very fortunate to speak with some of
them on the phone. They have always spoken favorably about trib."
"Just last week I had a wife call me and ask about my videos. She
wanted to purchase her husband some videos
for a present. She told me my videos really get her husband
aroused and that they have the best sex after they watch my videos
together. I asked her what she thought of my videos and she said she liked
it when the women were more friendly. She wasn't a fan of the
trash-talking and name calling. She said she was curious about the trib
and would like to maybe try it someday. She didn't know it was called
"trib" which I found interesting."
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Q:
Illegal pirating, downloading
and sharing is becoming a big problem for producers of every type of
multimedia including porn. Do you have any comments on this and especially
comments on the effects on small business operators such as yourself?
Michael:
"My website is free and my
preview videoclip trailers are free, so I have no problem with copying or sharing
those. Even the pictures on my website may be shared and I encourage it
and hope that people mention my website when they do share."
"However, pirating and sharing is the biggest problem any Producer faces.
It is so much easier to steal than it is to earn. It is much easier to
copy than produce. It makes me sad and sometimes angry. My attorney keeps
a file and whenever I call him with another website that I learn is
distributing my material illegally he contacts them and then adds them to
his file. He's very anxious to litigate because he gets 60% of any
judgement. I'm more calm about it because it has been my experience that a
website may not know it is mine. My videos have an "amateur" quality to
them due to the unscripted nature, unmatched cameras and the fact that I
am most often the lone cameraman on a very small budget."
"There recently was a copy of CF#039 Alissa vs Joslyn that had been
uploaded to YouPorn. Not a short clip but the entire full-length
video. It had been "branded" by another website as their own.
I went to their website and it was, of course, a paid membership site. The clip
had been viewed over 1.5 million times. I wondered how many of those "views"
had caused people to visit that website thinking that they had produced
it? That angered me greatly and my attorney went after them immediately.
The clip was removed within the hour. CF#039 seems to be the most common
pirated clip of mine so I have a feeling it is the same "pirate" who
continues to
distribute it."
"This is such a tough time for us due to the economy and I really don't
mind if a customer shares one of my videos with his best friend. I've
traded porn with my best friend a lot in the past. What bothers me is
when it is distributed to the masses and it is viewed or copied hundreds
or thousands of
times. It is definitely money out of my pocket, especially if it is
branded with someone else's website."
"I've spoken with Mojohost, my webhosting company, and they tell me Adult
websites are closing at an alarming rate. Most Adult sites rely on
recurring fees to pay for their bandwidth and, with this economy, monthly
membership fees to an Adult site are the first cut-backs most people
choose. My website has always been free so it hasn't affected me as much."
"Piracy of porn to a large Producer like Vivid Video hurts and robs them
of millions of dollars. I'm sure they "feel" it but I doubt it could put
them out of business. Piracy of my videos hurts me much more because I run
my business on a shoestring and the generosity of sponsors who pay the
women to compete. It is entirely possible that I could have to shut my
website down if piracy in the future goes unchecked."
"I used to frequent a Message Board that was dedicated to trib until they
started sharing videoclips. I'm not talking about 2-3 minute preview clips
but 15-20 minute scenes stolen from copyrighted material. I scolded the
Moderator of the Message Board and I've never been back. It makes me too
angry and I've got no time for anger in my life. It is a shame that it has
become so accepted."
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Q:
If someone was considering
downloading one of your movies illegally is there a message that you would
like to give them?
Michael:
"Yes. Shame on you! We probably could
have become friends, but not now!"
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Q:
Who chooses the costumes the women wear?
Michael:
"Some of the clothing the girls bring with them but most of the costuming we buy at the local Goodwill Outlet Store. The lingerie we buy at various lingerie stores in our area. The Cuban Heeled Hosiery we order over the Net. I've recently had a very good customer ship lingerie to me which we use during videotaping sessions. I don't mind that.
Sometimes the SPONSOR will purchase the lingerie and
ship it to me prior to the match. There are also
sponsors who want the women totally nude starting in
high heels."
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Q: How do you find new girls?
Michael:
"By referral. mostly. There is a pretty wide network of bi-sexual women and those who have worked with me talk about my videos with their friends. I have several women I've been told about but have not yet had the pleasure of meeting. I am hopeful that there will
always be new faces sexfighting for my cameras."
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Q: Why don't you produce more videos than you do?
Michael:
"All I can say is that I am but one man... and between updating the website, cooking the books and worrying about taxes, editing and answering correspondence I don't have the ENERGY to do more than I do. I
also have to rely on sponsors in order to pay the women.
I am not rich. I'm not Scrooge McDuck swimming in
a pile of cash. I barely make enough to pay my
bills and have a little left over. Also, I've been
working all my life. I worked 3 jobs for many years
putting my first wife through Medical School. I'm 67 and
I'm retired now. I just don't want to work any
harder than 1 video per month."
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Q: Which of your videos is your favorite?
Michael:
"Tough question. At the
moment my favorite is CFC125 JOSLYN vs ALISSA 4 because
they just tore into each other! They started out just
pulling on panties and giving wedgies, then it escalated
into pussy pinching and pulling. A secret about Joslyn
is that she enjoys pissing Alissa off. Alissa is a
very passionate woman and she's not afraid to fight.
Alissa gets lost in her head when fighting and lashes
back out of instinct. Its non-stop action
throughout!"
"CF#105 JOSLYN vs KENNA because
they had an instant chemistry and attraction to each
other. Joslyn told me afterwards, 'I could see the lust
in her eyes and it made me want to fuck her brains out!'
You've got to love a video like that"
"CF#003 JADE vs FAYE is probably my favorite PURE sexfight because it is no-nonsense, non-stop sexfighting. Neither woman had a grudge with
the other and the day we videotaped both wanted just to prove she was the superior sexfighter. They never disconnected from each other, maintaining some form of erotic contact throughout. That... I had never seen up until then. Both women are VERY BEAUTIFUL and sexy.
Listening to their breathing remains a BIG turn-on for
me to this day. I keep a copy of it very near my DVD
player at home and I watch it more than any of the others."
"Another favorite of mine is CF#086 ARIANNA vs JOSLYN. I love this video because the women have such great
chemistry. They established an instant rivalry and
knew how to bring the best out of each other. Their nasty trash talk touches me in a primal way and
they really want to sexfight again and again."
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Q: Which video is your second favorite?
Michael:
"I would say either CF#004 FAYE vs JOSLYN or CF#007 TAYLOR vs JOSLYN. Both were hotly contested. CF#004 was SO CLOSE to being a tie. The winner told me she couldn't have held out another 30 seconds she was THAT close to her orgasm. Plus I like hose, garter-belts and heels... and the opening stand-up sequence was so nasty.
Both women abused pussies with little concern for defense. CF#007 is a study in DETERMINATION and WILL-POWER... both women refused to give in. It was rough and sexy. CF#017 TAYLOR vs CANDY is another favorite because it was so competitive. It gets really NASTY when they start using their fingers on each other and their trash-talking pushes my buttons, too."
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Q:
Are your videos scripted or faked in any way?
Michael:
"Rules are
chosen by the sponsors. The women know and must
agree to these rules even
before they show up. We DO
sometimes script the introductory opening sequence to introduce the women but once they hit the mats I keep my mouth shut and leave the rest to them, so from that point on there is no script nor predetermined outcome. The uncertainty of it, the REALNESS of it, is WHY I started producing my own videos in the first place."
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Q: Are/Were any of the outcomes
predetermined?
Michael:
"No, absolutely not.
Sometimes I have the women 'set the scene', so to speak, which
is staged at the request of a sponsor, but once we get past that they
know they are on their own.
I set a countdown timer for 60 minutes and I don't stop recording until
I hear the timer start beeping. In fact, in one of the
older videos you can hear me frantically trying to change tapes in each of the three cameras during JADE vs FAYE, it is very clear on the soundtrack. The same thing happened in CF#018. I didn't want to stop them for fear of them losing their intensity. So I hurried from camera to camera as fast as I could.
That was a long time ago and now I shoot on cameras that
output to microchips that hold almost 7 hours of video
each."
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Q: If a woman wanted to participate in one of your videos what should she do?
Michael:
"First, she should
either call me at (239)303-9142 or email me at
avidmike2008@gmail.com with
any questions and concerns. It is important that she
understand what I produce and that nothing is faked. I offer an appearance fee of up to $600, providing she signs a Release Form
and provides me with 2 forms of picture identification
and a current STD/HIV Certificate. It is
guaranteed to be athletic eroticism and can be quite lucrative, too,
especially if she becomes popular."
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