Luke Ford

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Luke Ford is a writer, blogger, and pornography gossip columnist known for his salacious disclosures and traditionalist Jewish religious views.

Professional

Luke Ford studied Economics at UCLA but did not graduate. Instead, he worked as an investigative journalist for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry, and started to write a book, which would become A History of X.

In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed, and acted in What Women Want, a pornographic video, not related to the movie What Women Want with Mel Gibson. It was not a great success.[1]

In 1997, he started his pornography gossip website, LukeFord.com. It was criticized for being badly organized, but contained a large amount of information; Ford would take a tape recorder with him nearly wherever he went, and transcribed many conversations.

He exposed a 1998 HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors (including Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice. Ashley eventually sued Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World’s Biggest Anal Gangbang.

Discretion has never been a Ford strong suit. In his own words "I'm not a businessman. I'm not a conventional journalist. I'm a story teller/entertainer/lunatic."[2] Prominent porn stars such as Asia Carrera and Brandy Alexandre criticized the errors and inaccuracy on the site. But its impact was undeniable, and he was referred to as the Matt Drudge of porn. [3]

He was sued for defamation multiple times by people from the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (and the Federal Trade Commission) accused of dishonesty, Christi Lake, whom he mislabeled in a bestiality photo, and [[Misty Rose|Laurie Holmes (also known as Misty Rose, the widow of John Holmes), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Wired magazine called him The Most Hated Man in Web Porn [4]. He was even physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for Hustler.[5]

On August 8th 2001, driven by religious motivations, he temporarily quit his main profession of documenting pornography, and sold his main website, LukeFord.com, to Netvideogirls.com for $25,000, and created lukeford.net, which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. This lasted until August 25, 2002, when he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com, with many of his old archives. Ford also contributes Adult news and gossip to Booble Nation.

The Lukeford.com site is currently headed by Scott Fayner and publishes gossip that is friendlier to the porn industry.

Bibliography

  • A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Prometheus Books, 1999. isbn: 1573926787
  • The Producers: Profiles in Frustration. iUniverse, Inc., 2004. isbn: 0595664636
  • XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul. iUniverse, Inc., 2004. isbn: 0595664415

References

External links

Run by Ford

Luke Ford has an extensive online presence, actively maintaining quite a few Web sites.

Associates

A Personal Note from Robin

I sometimes use Luke Ford's information/biographies as background info when I am writing articles for SM-201

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