The Rialto Report: Documentary Archives for Adult Films

1st August 2021

When the Mitchell Brothers opened the wildest live sex in their empire, they turned to one person to headline: adult film star, C.J. Laing.

25th July 2021

An unpublished, candid, revealing, late-night conversation with west coast adult film star, Lesllie Bovee, from 1977.

18th July 2021

We look back at Adam Film World magazine in 1987, and the life and legacy of Carl Esser, the magazine’s editor that year.

27th June 2021

Porsche Lynn, part 2 – from adult film stardom in America and Europe to BDSM and the life of a dungeon mistress.

20th June 2021

Porsche Lynn, part 1 – from stripping at Cinema X in Michigan to adult films with Reuben Sturman and Lenny Burtman in California.

13th June 2021

Rare pictures of adult film star George Payne, and his current day reaction to his first ever interview, in The Advocate back in 1973.

6th June 2021

How were photographs of 1970s New York adult film stars connected to a major drug ring in Harlem?

30th May 2021

What connects one of the highest budget adult films of the 1970s with a mysterious book of poetry?

23rd May 2021

Gloria Leonard’s launch of ‘Celebrity Skin’ magazine was met by lawsuits from the likes of Barbra Streisand.

16th May 2021

Years after finding fame as star of countless golden age adult movies, Jamie Gillis made a series of controversial home videos.

9th May 2021

High Society expanded its focus in 1979, inventing the celebrity nude profile and featuring clothed celebrities as well.

25th April 2021

What links Donald Trump’s attorney, an Oscar-winning producer, and a porn film? The story of Radley Metzger’s cult film ‘The Image’.