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Photographing naked women–When is enough, enough?

April 4, 2013 Jack Corbett Leave a comment

Ideally photographing naked women can be pure art. As much as a Rodin sculpting the perfect body of a nude goddess. But where should such nudity end?

I took this picture of Alex more than 20 years ago. Alex picked the location of the photo shoot. I think the picture
is in good taste.

But Twenty Years later YouTube canceled my video channel with no warning whatsoever for showing Pretty Thai women dancing with no hint of breasts or buttocks whatsoever.

Going back twenty years ago, shooting pictures of fully naked women came with the territory. About every two months I’d be driving somewhere new in the United States to cover the Pure Talent Agency’s feature showcases. Which I won’t describe here because I’ve already covered them at Amazon.com where you can buy my latest book. Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World. But you have to buy the book to find out.

For example, I traveled to Providence Rhode Island to shoot hundreds of pictures a night at Club Fantasies for Pure Talent while staying in the same hotel as the feature entertainers who were performing in the showcase. Three times I’d travel to Big Al’s in Peoria, Illinois to shoot Pure Talent feature showcases. I did at least one showcase at the Lumberyard Strip Club in Des Moines, Ia. (The place really is an adult night club). Later I’d return to cover Miss Nude World at the Lumberyard, and after that I’ve lost count of how many times I’d come back to cover numerous adult events such as SPEW (Sexy Professional Exotic Wrestling) for Big Daddy and Big Mike (the Lumberyard’s G.M.) There would be a feature showcase at Lafayette, Indiana for the Continental Agency, two feature showcases for Pure Talent at the Candy Store in Mobile, Alabama, two more feature showcases for Pure Talent in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and so on.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s no telling how many digital pictures I wound up taking, but it’s has to be 100,000 or so,

and after shooting the Rhode Island Showcase I turned in my Canon G-2 digital camera for the Nikon D-1 X, Nikon’s top of the line professional camera which set me back over $5000 for the camera body plus another $1300 for my favorite lens. By then I had decided that within the limits of what I could afford the women I was shooting deserved the best. Furthermore I was shooting for Pure Talent while writing for Xtreme Magazine, and I was doing professional work with an amateur camera which I felt was like bringing a BB gun to a gun fight. The Nikon D-1 X with the lens I had gotten could easily deliver over 1000 pictures a night at a quality level the other photographers around me could not match.

That lens was so fine that even today I marvel at how it was able to produce a Three D effect. The entertainers seemed to literally be jumping out of their backgrounds.

Lesser lenses simply wouldn’t do it. During all of this I met so many naked ladies that I cannot begin to count them. Such superior results came not because I was the superior photographer. It simply took a lot longer for other professional photographers to catch up. Several of them were having their equipment provided by the magazines they were shooting for and it took awhile for such magazines to catch onto the fact that shooting with film simply was no longer competitive. Photographers shooting next to me had to keep reloading their expensive Nikon film cameras while I was able to shoot over two hundred pictures before I had to pull my memory card out and put a new one in, a process that took less than 10 seconds. Other photographers covering the same events I was covering were using lesser cameras than the D-1 X that were fitted with cheaper lenses. Even today, I can tell a big difference between the heavy 28-70 mm Silent Wave Nikon lens and my much newer 18 by 200 mm Nikon that has anti vibration and all the other bells and whistles that retails for around $600.

And now, with my publishing Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World, once again the question has come up over how much photographing naked women I should allow in the pictures I was publishing?

Sculpture of Venus by Rodin. So what difference is there really between a master like Rodin sculpting the beautiful female form and Photographing naked women? Both can be pure art. With the intention of depicting the ideal female form.

For me, the naked female body can be a beautiful thing. While photographing naked women can be an artistic accomplishment that depicts what women should strive for. If they want to be sexy. But during the past thirty years or so the average American has put on over 25 pounds, and although the guys compose part of this average the women have been even worse.

Meanwhile clothing styles have evolved into what I will call the gunnysack cut. For men most of whom have pot bellies once they reach a certain age and fat behinds, this amounts to a lot of extra material in the legs and seats of their pants.

For women, garments have evolved into gunny sacks of shapeless cut. Oftentimes they are called suits. But make no mistake, these “suits” were designed to hide the human body. But for those who’ve got it, it’s best to flaunt it. So show it off if you’ve got a nice trim waist or finely sculpted back muscles (Leah Layne comes to mind here who I’ve featured with the Tec 9).

As for naked breasts, if they look nice show them for God’s sake. Most people wouldn’t shirk away at all from a woman who’s breast feeding her baby in public. But for a stripper to expose her breasts on stage, that’s bad. And why is it bad? It’s bad because strip clubs are bad evil places in the eyes of many people. But which is really more beautiful, a trim naked stripper showing off a pair of nicely formed breasts or a woman who’s recently been pregnant, pulling her breasts out of her bloated body to give milk to her baby?

If you ask me the reason so many are offended when a stripper shows off her body, is jealousy compounded by the fact that whenever a prettier, more physically attractive woman shows off her well proportioned body, that act of displaying her beautiful body acts as a sad reminder of the far less attractive woman’s shortcomings.

So, for those who appreciate real beauty in the female body, nakedness is good while wearing gunnysacks amounts to a huge cover up

for all the bad habits the Western world has acquired these past thirty years. Such as gluttony, unwillingness to exercise, too much drinking, and the denial of what one has become. But I’ll also contend that too much of a good thing is just too much.

Today now that I’m living in Pattaya, Thailand which probably has the best looking women in the whole world, if you took me to six Pattaya go go bars, a couple of my friends might say that two of them are beautiful because the go-go dancers are completely naked. Whereas the other four are just so-so because the women have clothes on.

But I don’t care because I’m more concerned with how beautiful the women are. Are they friendly or not friendly. Will they treat me as a number? Or will some of the girls try to know me just a little. Even if ultimately they want to get as much money from me as they can. The same was true in all the American clubs I used to visit. In the U.S. not only was it important for a club to employ good looking women. It was equally important that I establish a meaningful rapport with at least one of the girls. So that I could view the women as much more than strippers taking off their clothes. and see them as real people who I either really liked, despised or was ambivalent about.

At Nudes-A-Poppin all 100 of the female contestants are roaming around the outdoor nude beauty pageant completely naked.

Here I’d first meet Dirty Heather, Darien Ross, Pleasure and Pain, Leah Layne, and Amy. I would feature all six of them in my Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World articles. At Nudes-A-Poppin after a few hours all that nudity would overwhelm me. To the point of my wishing to find women wearing at least some clothing. Because the slightest physical defect in a contestant’s body detracted from her overall sexuality. The other thing that bothered me about photographing naked women was when the nudity started to go too far.

I Believe that a woman’s privates should remain private. Now I really don’t have any problems photographing naked women from a distance or in such a manner that her private areas do not appear in the pictures.

Here I must draw a distinction between showcasing a picture of the most exquisitely formed breasts. And all those vaginal shots that attract so much attention in porn movies. A sculpture of a naked Venus by a Rodin or Michelangelo is art. While I’d consider a picture displaying a dildo penetrating a woman’s privates to be grotesque. Such pictures diminish the real woman lurking inside a body showing off its most intimate areas. I see nothing wrong with taking pictures of a woman’s ass. So long as the picture suggests that her body is very beautiful. Instead of showcasing it as a target for anal penetration.

Once in awhile I’d be called upon for photographing naked women sticking dildos up their privates.

I can’t say that a show featuring dildos disgusted me. But I was bored to death photographing them.

The same would be true about photographing naked women performing oral sex during a shower show. Once again, I felt that those kinds of pictures diminish the women

Whether they are pretending to get it on in during the shower show or really getting into doing the real thing. In fact this happened that weekend when Lolly Topps and her boyfriend visited me while I was shooting her for the SKS Xtreme Magazine article. After doing the shoot with Lolly Topps posing with Vic Meyer’s SKS the three of us had dinner together. And then I took them to one of my favorite St. Louis Metro East strip clubs.

Danny and I were drinking beer together when an angry Lolly Topp came back from visiting the club’s restroom. Lollytops told us that one of the club’s customers had grabbed her breasts. And that she almost slugged the man on the spot. A few minutes later two of the club’s entertainers were practicing cunnilingus in a shower show as the club’s male customers cheered them on. Which got Lollytopps telling us, “I can’t believe this. I’ve never seen anything like this in a club before.”

Lolly Tops was just flat out disgusted. Yet how many times had I taken nude pictures of her? And Club Maximus’s dg calling her a porn star while she was competing for MS. Texas. But I never thought she did any porn.

I got to know Lolly pretty well. And whenever I was around her I’d get the most wonderful vibes that I rarely ever felt with other women.

I think it was during the Miss Nude World pageant that I fell asleep in Lolly Topps room for a few minutes. While she quietly talked with one of the other entertainers. She was just good people and that’s the best explanation I can give of her.

I really don’t know what Lolly Topps is doing right now. Because I’ve been living in Thailand for the last fifteen years. And although I talked just three days ago with Arianna a Del on Skye I doubt if Arianna could tell me what Montana Steel is up to. Even though both women live in Louisville. And that when I first met them they were rooming together in a hotel room Big Al paid for at a Pure Talent Feature Showcase.

But I saw Montana as a very intelligent woman who was as unpretentious as they come. So I sure don’t want to be publishing any pictures of Montana where men can gawk at her privates.

As a group these were some of the finest women I’ve ever met. It’s been a real privilege working with them on the Extreme Magazine photo shoots.

There’s three distinct versions of Extreme Guns and Babes for an Adult World. I’ve modified some of the pictures down to attract a wider readership. And I have eliminated displaying my models’ privates out of respect for the women who did an outstanding job in the photo shoots. I’ve even covered up all breast shots even though I have no problem with displaying them. I wanted my models’ overall attractiveness to shine in a book that will hopefully be around for a long time. Because if I can. If I ever had the talent to do it. I’d prefer for this book to later on be considered as pure art.

Thoughts from the expats corner

Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word

March 6, 2013 Jack Corbett Leave a comment

Comparing Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word, bottom line is Word is unacceptable. Microsoft’s Word might be able to masquerade as a competent Word processor for those who don’t have to do anything more challenging than to write letters or memos. But it’s a complete nightmare to work with for anyone who must do far more complex and challenging projects. Such as formatting a print ready novel. But before comparing Microsoft Word to Corel’s Wordperfect it’s necessary that I bring everyone up to date on how we got to this sorry state of affairs.

The background for Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word

A few years before Windows 95 was getting established, I really enjoyed doing my Word processing with Microsoft products. Back then Microsoft had a beautiful little program called Microsoft Works for Dos. It had three basic components, a Word processor, a spreadsheet and a database module. And each component was accompanied by a terrific hands on tutorial program that was far superior to anything Microsoft has ever produced. But after a year or two the Windows operating system started to replace Dos.

Microsoft was quick to introduce its Microsoft Word for Windows which according to most software reviews was far more user friendly than Wordperfect’s first releases of Wordperfect for Windows. I wound up getting a copy of each. And I kept trying out one, then the other. I quickly found, however, that the not so user friendly Wordperfect was at least as easy to work with as the far more favorably reviewed Microsoft Word for Windows.

It wasn’t long,however, that Microsoft started to virtually give away its Word for Windows software. Meanwhile I wrote and published my first novel, Death on the Wild Side. I even typeset the entire novel with the help of Wordperfect’s excellent technical support.

In 1995 I could call Wordperfect any time I liked. Wordperfect support hand held me through the intricacies of line and word spacing, gutter margins, and formatting for two sided printing.

But of course that level of technical support costs money. So Wordperfect had to pass the cost of all that superb technical support onto its customers. So it charged them a hefty initial price for its Word processing software.

What I didn’t realize was that Microsoft was throwing out the seeds of addiction to an unsuspecting user base.

In those days, just as now, every time you bought a new computer you had to buy Microsoft’s operating system. But to make the bitter pill of being forced to buy Windows easier to swallow Microsoft often included a freebie or two . That freebie usually included either a free CD of Microsoft Word for Windows or Microsoft Works. At first Microsoft Works contained an abbreviated version of its full blown Microsoft Word software. But it wasn’t long before it supplied the full featured version of Word. Even though its Spreadsheet module didn’t have all of Excel’s capability.

So here’s what happened. Nearly everyone buying a computer wound up getting some version or the other of Microsoft’s Word for Windows for free. Or so they thought. But Wordperfect sales plummeted since its high priced software couldn’t compete with free.

Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word advertising dollars

And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft, which by this time was the dominant player in computer software heavily advertised its products in such magazines as Computer World and P.C. Magazine. Well, I think you already know how that one went. Think Computer World or P.C. Magazine’s going to give a bum review to the company that’s done the most advertising in their pages?

Allow me to demonstrate how such magazines have consistently trashed Wordperfect while giving excellent reviews to a product that is completely unacceptable to anyone who’s serious about his writing. I quote P.C. Magazine’s latest review of Wordperfect X-6:

WordPerfect versus Word P.C. Magazine’s review

The major attraction of the suite is WordPerfect, the only modern word-processing app that makes gives me almost total control over the way my documents look. Microsoft Word, in contrast, sometimes seems to have a mind of its own—formatting documents in ways I never intended, or unpredictably retaining or discarding formatting in text imported from a Web browser.

But WordPerfect almost always does exactly what I want. And it’s the only modern app that still formats and organizes documents by inserting normally-invisible “codes” in the text, so when you want to troubleshoot the formatting of your document, you can open a “Reveal Codes” pane at the foot of the editing window, find the code that’s causing the problem and either remove it or double-click it to change its settings. The “Reveal Codes” pane has always looked ugly, but the new version changes the font and color so it’s not as hard on the eyes as it once was.

In contrast to WordPerfect’s code-based formatting, Microsoft Word and all other modern word-processing apps format documents by “painting” them with attributes such as fonts and margins, and it’s almost impossible to tell where the invisible format “painting” begins and ends. If you’ve ever deleted a few letters in Word, only to find that that the format of a whole paragraph changed unexpectedly, you’ll see the point of WordPerfect’s method. Of course, Microsoft Word performs tricks that WordPerfect can’t do at all, like split a document window so you can edit the first and last page of a file on the same screen.

Now, here’s what P. C. Magazine’s review of Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word tells us.

It tells us that there is no way to predict how one’s final output is going to wind up looking in Microsoft Word. And that it has a mind of its own. This means that when I write a book, I’m not creating the book. I am allowing Microsoft to make my book look the way Microsoft wants it to look. It also tells us that Microsoft’s Word Processor is tremendously difficult to use. Since its nearly impossible to try to figure out how Microsoft has changed a document’s formatting. Or how I can change it so my document looks the way I want it to look.

But let us not forget that Microsoft is paying P.C. Magazine a lot more advertising dollars than Corel. So the reviewer who’s being paid by P.C. Magazine must come up with some miraculous way to give more stars to Word than he’s giving to Wordperfect. Even though he’s already said that Word is a terrible program. Even though he’s not said it directly.

So in the last sentence the reviewer states that Microsoft Word allows the user to edit both the first and last pages of a document of a file on the same screen. Which is a total crock.

Now just what kind of nonsense is that? The reviewer for P.C. Magazine’s states contending that it’s nearly impossible to edit a document properly in Word under any circumstances. And after he tells us you can’t do it, he claims there’s a huge advantage to to editing the first page and last page of a document on the same screen. Now do you really want to be able to edit the first and last pages of a document on the same screen? I don’t. I can’t even walk and chew gum at the same time. So why would I want to be able to do that?

Nevertheless it’s obvious that the reviewer probably hates Word just as much as I do. But he can’t actually say what he really thinks because he might wind up losing his job.

So P.C. Magazine’s review of Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word concludes:

“ For years I’ve been using WordPerfect and Word side-by-side. Neither is ideal, but once you’ve learned—as I have—what WordPerfect can do that Word can’t, you may not be willing to live without it.”

The bottom line is Microsoft Word gets 4.5 stars whereas Wordperfect only gets 4 even though Wordperfect can do so much more than Word ever could.

My experiences with Word have been so horrible that I would take if off my computer. If I wasn’t being forced to rely upon it. I have recently published still another book in Kindle format.

My problem is that I cannot upload a Wordperfect file to Amazon’s web site. Instead I must use a doc Windows file or a pdf file.

It’s easy to write the e book in Wordperfect. The formatting’s a cinch and the file winds up looking perfect no matter how many pictures it contains, tables or captions. Moreover, Wordperfect converts its wordprocessing files into perfect pdf’s that in theory should work very well when they are uploaded to Amazon’s web site for e book publishing.

Unfortunately the table of contents that works in the pdf file does not work in the resulting Mobi or Kindle file once I upload and convert it at Amazon. So that alone forces me to go back to using Word.

Just about everything about Word is terribly difficult. From its outlining feature to doing something as simple as page numbering. The ribbon interface is very difficult to use. Which requires me to do internet google searches on just about anything I want to do in Word.

My latest revelation from doing a google search was what I already suspected. Word was automatically compressing the pictures I was inserting into my latest book.

Since there were 115 pictures this wasn’t a small deal. For one thing, the overall size of the file I was submitting to Amazon was only about sixty percent the size I had calculated it out to be. So when I went through the ribbon to to find the feature for compressing pictures I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Which is all too typical.

But Google informed me where to find it. And sure enough there it was. Word automatically defaults so that it compresses any pictures one puts into his documents. I was overjoyed. Here I had spent days formatting 115 pictures so that each one represented the best compromise I could come up with between quality and file size. Amazon, after all would be charging me more than seventy-five cents each time a customer bought one of my e–books at so many cents a megabyte. I had been thinking the cost would be more like a dollar and a quarter based on my file size. The end result was I had used my graphics arts program to compress my images at a 30 % factor. And here Microsoft was compressing them even more.

Wordperfect’s X-6 Office software now has an e book publishing feature. it will transform the Wordperfect file to a Mobi file. Which I can upload to Amazon. This bypasses the need for using Microsoft.

When I finished using the e book publishing feature everything turned out letter perfect. I was able to create perfectly formatted columns. And I was able to easily create captions for a large number of those 115 pictures. While easily customizing them to look the way I wanted them to look.

The e book that I wound up with at the Amazon web site was perfect in every way except for two unacceptable glitzes. At this point I don’t know if it was something I did or if Corel has not quite perfected its e book publisher yet. The first problem is that the image or picture for the first page the potential buyer of my book would see was only about a quarter the size it should have been. It looked like a postage stamp.

The second defect was that there were a few lines of code or garbage appearing on the page between the title page and the publishing page. Other than that the table of contents worked like a champ. And all my tables, margins, and captions underneath my pictures were gorgeous.

I was forced into using Microsoft Word and it took me something like three extra days doing what I had already done in Wordperfect.

When I published my Word file to Amazon most of my picture captions were either missing entirely or they were all over the place. The tables were all screwed up as well. I wound up having to delete all my captions, and then when I tried to put new lines of text in that weren’t actually captions but which I hoped would appear similar to captions I found out that they’d appear on top of some of my pictures instead of beneath them or they’d appear a paragraph down from where I had placed them. As for the caption feature in Word, the bottom line is it didn’t work. At least not when it came to doing an e book.

I also had a problem with some of my tables. Many of them would be hidden behind my pictures. And even when I moved the pictures around with my mouse oftentimes I couldn’t find them. But their being there in the first place sure played havoc with how some of my other lines of text appeared. Only after I deleted the pictures could I find some of the hidden tables.

Microsoft Word isn’t even compatible with Microsoft Word.

I was having such a tough time that I decided to try saving my Word files in docx format instead of doc. Because it’s a much more up to date file type. So I felt that it might allow me to do some things in Word that I had been able to do easily in Wordperfect. Such as my captions. But once I converted the 2003 Microsoft doc file to a 2007 docx file and uploaded it to Amazon I found that the docx file format had turned a lot of my formatting to absolute gibberish.

I finally got the job done so now I have a new e book for sale over at Amazon. But it still doesn’t appear exactly as I’d like. So I then moved onto publishing a printed version of my new book. Among other things this meant having to deal with all 115 pictures again since print requires a resolution of at least 300 dpi whereas e book publication is best done at 72 dpi. The pictures would be far larger than the ones I had been putting into my E book file so I wound up having to deal with inserting all those pictures again, captions, etc.

But surprise surprise, I no longer had to deal with Word. I might be dealing again with Amazon but this time I’d be uploading all my files to their Createspace web site which is the one that’s used for their paperback printing business. And Createspace does do a good job with pdf files.

I could line up all my text and my margins exactly the way I wanted them to appear. And when it came to dealing with the pictures, once I had prepared a picture the way I wanted it in my graphics arts program all I had to do was to click on the 72 dpi picture that was already there, go to “content” which I found easily with one click of my mouse. And change the filename, and voila, my new picture would instantly appear replacing the old one. My caption if I already had one appeared just the way it had before. And if it didn’t it was very easy to correct.

Sure, all this took a little time but there was no frustration at all because everything worked the way it should work while the process of making all my adjustments and formatting changes was very intuitive.

Conclusion for Wordperfect versus Microsoft Word

Make no mistake. Wordperfect is very easy to use and it does what it’s supposed to do. You can write complex books with it, prepare newspaper and magazine layouts, insert pictures while sizing and placing them exactly as you want them to appear. As for Word, as one of the reviews I once read about it suggested, “it handled e-mail very well.” Now I don’t know what email has to do with word processing but I suppose someone has to give Word a star for something that it handles responsibly because as a Word processor, it’s so bad that it shouldn’t be allowed to be sold anywhere.

You might also enjoy reading “Corel Wordperfect outclasses Microsoft Office”.

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Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World on Kindle

February 21, 2013 Jack Corbett Leave a comment

the Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World is now published on Kindle. Hopefully I can finish a printed version in a month. Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World is my fourth book and the first I’ve published on Kindle after publishing the printed edition.

from Extreme Guns Babes — Of all the things I miss most about the U.S., it’s my Wilson Arms customized .45 automatic. I started shooting my Dad’s World War II .45 automatic when I was 10 years old. My Dad used to wet the tip of his thumb. Then he’d make a mark with the saliva on a board. I could hit it most of the time when I was 10. Dad always said that nothing compared to a good .45 auto. My nephew and I agree. Both of us claim, “Real Men shoot 45’s.” You will find much of this in “xtreme Guns Babes for an Adult World”.

The book has a lot of pictures. And since a book containing full color images is so expensive to produce I felt Kindle represented a far more affordable option. Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World contains sensational pictures of sexy strippers. Carrying guns. And Kindle captures such riveting pictures much better than print ever can.

I think electronic publishing is the future, but I still want to have my own copy. That I can see, feel and touch of something that’s entirely my own.

That represents a combination of the best that I could do with camera, and Graphics Arts to design the book. But the pictures will be much smaller and they will be in black and white. So for most of you who are interested in this book, I recommend getting it on Kindle.

The title Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World says a lot about this book. I produced the book within the context of the adult world. That is the adult entertainment world of strippers, topless dancers, feature entertainers and topless clubs. I did some of my photo shoots in topless clubs, And all of my models for Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World without a single exception were strippers or feature entertainers. I wrote over twenty of my articles for Xtreme Magazine, a small adult magazine on the East Coast. And I shot all the pictures of the models in the articles. Some of the articles never made it into Xtreme for one reason or the other.

Jeremy was the reason I was able to write gun articles for an adult magazine. When I met Jeremy he was Xtreme’s editor.

Now he’s in charge of all four of Xtreme’s franchises and has to concentrate on making money for the magazine. When Jeremy asked me to write an article about my .454 Casul revolver, he was writing a large portion of Xtreme’s articles himself. There was the Horror Scope. And no, that is not a misspelling. Jeremy’s horoscopes were insanely funny. And when I first started out writing for Xtreme Jeremy was writing his “Adventures of the Backdoor Man in his Search for the Holy Tail” series. By the time he wrote “The Laundryman Pervert” which he did not dare publish in Xtreme, it was obvious that Jeremy was pretty far out there.

My article on my .454 Casul, a revolver that’s so powerful that it would often be used to hunt elephants and Alaskan Brown Bear, represented an abrupt departure from anything that could be expected from an adult magazine focusing on Tits and Ass. “The 454, One handed Buffalo Stopper”didn’t even mention women. There were no pictures or reference to them whatsoever.

Taylor from PT’s posed with the Walther PPK for the Roxy’s Bombshell article of Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World

I didn’t even include in my second second gun article either. For “The Israeli Soldier and his Uzi”

I went to a university’s library to find articles covering Israel’s Seven Day War. Although I actually put a couple hundred rounds through a fully automatic Uzi sub machine gun the article focused on the Historical reasons Israel would arm its troops with such a short ranged weapon. I did not bring female models into my gun articles until the book’s third chapter. And then I brought a young shapely PT’s stripper to my apartment for “The Roxy’s Bomb Girl and 007’s Walther PPK.

There are several aspects about the Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World magazine articles that made them unique .

First, I never wrote them for an audience whose concern is only about guns. Since “Xtreme” was a free magazine that was distributed in topless clubs, I had to design it to appeal to readers who are less technically inclined than your typical gun magazines reader.

Since I have a keen interest in History I’d often write about the Historical context that caused each weapon to evolve the way it did. I’m sure the book turned out to be vastly different from what most from what people expected from a series of gun articles called Xtreme Weapons Babes in an Adult World.

For the most part the articles are all about guns just as one might expect out of any other gun article. True enough, I spent a lot of time choosing the models for the photo shoots accompanying the articles. There was also a lot of attention to detail during the photo shoots.

Not only from me, but also from the women posing with the weapons.

These are exotic entertainers after all and what most people don’t realize is the women are very professional when it comes to doing pictures.

Professional adult entertainers such as Leah Layne will insist that a photographer shoots at least 100 pictures of them. Leah Layne will play her part in the Tec 9 Shootout at Peter’s Corral episode of Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World

Most women outside the adult industry will pose in front of a camera for two or three pictures tell their husband or boyfriend photographer, “That’s enough. ” But adult entertainers will shoot over two hundred pictures knowing full well that nothing less than perfection will do. And that the lighting for a picture can change at a moment’s notice. Or the slightest change of expression will ruin a picture. The photographer also needs to take the most favorable angles of the model to show her figure off to full advantage. Typically my photo shoots for Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World would comprise between one and two hundred pictures.

Above all I wasn’t just some guy out to make a buck who’s snap up a couple of women to shoot pictures of them with guns. I was a gun nut myself who truly looked forward to doing each gun article as an opportunity to fully explore the potential of those weapons I was personally interested in.

Consider that my first gun was a 30-06 Springfield which I worked all summer for when I was just twelve years old. This was no pellet gun or even a .22.

It shot three and a half inch shells and it would penetrate right through a thirty inch tree. So when I’ was contemplating what weapon to cover next for Xtreme I’d start thinking about what gun I wanted to shoot next. Or which gun I had read a lot about, oftentimes from boyhood on,. And then I’d set about trying to find that particular gun for my next gun article.

When it came to the M-1 Garand, I went out and spent eight hundred dollars of my own money just so that I could personally experience all the great things about the M-1 that gave the American infantryman such a huge edge over his counterparts during the 2nd World War.

The same thing happened to me with the Springfield M-1 A. When I first wrote about the rifle for Xtreme I had taken Darien Ross all the way down to Vic Meyers’ farm so that she could model with his M-15.

Which was a fully automatic version of the M1’s successor. But I became so intrigued with my own article that I went out and bought my own Springfield M-1 A. Which is a commercialized version of the miliary’s M14 and M15’s.

The same would prove true with my M-16 article. Again, I took the model, in this case Arianna a del, to Vic Meyer’s farm where she poses with an M-16. But it wasn’t long after Xtreme Published the article that I bought my own M-16 in the form of an AR-15 which is the civilian version of the military weapon.

I think everyone involved had a terrific time doing those Xtreme Weapons photo shoots that were the heart of the gun articles.

The girls loved posing with the guns, oftentimes getting to shoot automatic weapons in the process. And since I didn’t have any automatic weapons which are illegal to own unless one has a specialized license to have or sell them, I was able to get anything I wanted because I could offer the gun dealers who had them a part in the photo shoots that centered around a very attractive personable adult entertainer.

It took a lot of far sighted fun loving people to get all those photo shoots and magazine articles done. Starting with an editor who wanted to produce something that was far more interesting than what all the other magazines were printing. And it took a group of women who’d be willing to spend a lot of their time getting to and from the photo shoots without receiving any direct cash reimbursement. And then there were the gun dealers. It’s not easy to find a 50 caliber tripod mounted machine gun and then one needs to set it up for the photo shoot. So I owe all of them a lot for all their hard work and time. This is the result of all that went into over two years of all that tremendous effort.

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