Three of tonight’s panelists: Candida Royalle, Nina Hartley and me!

Tonight I’ll be at the Pleasure Chest in LA (7PM) on a panel with some of my favorite women who work in the sexy sorts of filmmage (not a real word perhaps, but go with it, okay?)

Jane Hamilton had to pull out at the last minute – yes, ye olde withdrawal method – and in her place we’ve been blessed with another gifted filmmaker, one who’s leanings are slanted towards the east, even if she lives out west.

Today, I’ve decided to share something with you about each of the panelists. Something that I love about each of these women and a reason why, when creating this panel, they were who I wanted for the sake of contribution. I think this panel could have had Dana DeArmond and Joanna Angel on it too, since they’re both cool women making porn here in LA, but alas, or until next time…

So here’s something about each of the panelists:

Candida Royalle. Truth be told, Candida is family to me, and there are lots of reasons I admire and love this woman. But one of the things that I will always remember is that she is a bad ass in the best of ways. She went on Phil Donahue’s show in the 80s with her spiked hair and “no one can fuck with me” attitude and showed the world that women make porn – although she doesn’t like, or use, the term herself. And she didn’t make excuses or apologies back then. She just made her mark.

Nina Hartley has starred in over 650 films. She truly loves being in front of the camera, and just as important as that, she really loves her fans. She’s made this her life’s work, and you can’t find a more honest woman in the industry. And the stories she can share, well, you have to be there to believe some of them. The time she mentioned the pee bowl in one of our workshops, that was an interesting “teachable” moment.

April Flores, a “Mexidorian” beauty (she’s Mexican and Ecuadorian), was recently on the cover of AVN because she’s one of the sexiest women in adult movies today, and she’s part of a pack of full-fleshed voluptuous vixens. That means she’s no skinny bitch (it’s a book, not an insult) and the confidence and message she promotes, the one about embracing our bodies and our selves, well, that’s what she gets across on camera, the camera that’s often held by her partner Carlos Batts or by the sexy babes at Good Releasing.

Jaiya Ma and I first connected a few years back in Las Vegas. The woman behind the RedHotTouch video series, her brand of education is eccentric and sexy, and Jaiya’s hands on in everything she does. She recently gave birth to her first son, and videotaped her attempt at an orgasmic birth for the whole world wide web to see.

So that’s it. In a nutshell. For info on tonight’s panel at The Pleasure Chest, click here.