(Yes, this is a real book, available at Amazon.)
Posted on 11/28/2004 6:52:07 AM PST by aculeus
Out of the blue
From the Giant's Causeway in the far north to the Ring of Kerry in the deep south nothing, it seems, is sacred for Ireland's first homegrown porn director.
Geoffrey Dowey - the man who introduced striptease acts involving dancers wearing the uniform of the old Royal Ulster Constabulary - guarantees to us Irish stars in his new porn film business.
And his favourite movie locations include Ireland's world-renowned tourist attractions.
All the actors and actresses will be Irish and the 'themes' of his films will be an erotic take on Irish history, Dowey insisted.
'I would love to make a porn film about Finn Mac Cool up in the Giant's Causeway,' Dowey says as he points his video camera at the first recruit to www.eroticaireland.com, 21-year-old Vikki.
Filming the part-time stripper turned porn actress from Belfast, down at the city's Lagan Look-Out last Friday, Dowey said his ambition was to build up a locally based island-wide adult film industry.
The creation of indigenous Irish porn marks another milestone in Ireland's sexual revolution. Less than 15 years ago condoms could only be obtained in the Republic from GPs, while even soft porn publications like Playboy were banned from shops.
'I want to use the films to poke fun at our history and our current situation. There is a massive market for adult movies in Ireland north and south.
'Porn users in Ireland would rather enjoy seeing women and men in action who actually come from Ireland. The same goes for the millions of people around the world of Irish descent,' Dowey said.
A controversial figure in Northern Ireland who runs the Angels Stripogram Agency, Dowey said he is applying to the Department of Education and Learning for a grant to study for an NVQ in filmmaking.
'I'm going to ask because the company needs to develop a skills base to produce the movies and recruit people into jobs,' he said.
Shivering with cold and stripped down to her pants and bra, Vikki posed in front of the camera just a few hundred yards from a packed Belfast's Waterfront Hall on Friday evening.
Asked if there was a danger she was being exploited, Vikki replied: 'I've been stripping full frontal nude for three years now, dressing up as an RUC woman or a paramilitary at venues all over Ireland, so it doesn't bother me having sex in front of the camera. I get turned on by that so why not do it and get paid for it?'
Although her family know she is one of Angel's most popular stripograms, Vikki admitted that becoming a porn actress was a step too far for some of them.
'They are going to find it difficult but I'm 21 and can do what I want,' she said.
'My main aim is to become as famous as Jordan but, unlike her, everything you see here is real.'
Dowey was prosecuted for producing a Belfast-based porn magazine also called Erotica Ireland, but claims that under new European Human Rights legislation he will not break the law either in the north or south.
'Europe has ruled that adults can enjoy adult fun and I am determined to provide an Irish flavour to that fun,' he said.
'Imagine a porn version of 1690 with King Billy crossing the Boyne, that would be different and fun.'
After enduring the cold and the wind at Belfast's riverside, Vikki rushed off to her car to get to her other job.
'I have to rush because I've three strip shows tonight, two in Belfast and one in Omagh,' she added.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
Hubba hubba PING!
I couldn't believe how young I looked.
(Yes, this is a real book, available at Amazon.)
I wanna see them kiss the Blarney Stone
Porn makes its way into Ireland...another milestone, or snake, of "progressive culture" invading the land of St. Patrick...so much for the nation that once saved Western civilization...
Gives new meaning to "Bigora!"
It's not really a real book - it's nothing but blank pages....
-Yossarian, Irishman
Porn queens with an irish accent... yummy.
All those freckles
Somehow, a potato MUST be involved in these things.
Really? That shows my level of interest in the subject. I saw the book in a bookstore, but never opened it to see what was inside.
There IS a potato involved. Read the authors' abbreviated titles on #4.
I have to rush ... because
I've three strip shows tonight
Two in Belfast and one in Omagh.
I guess now we will really find out what an Irishman wears under his kilt.
Hahahahaha. An Irishman wearing a Scottish kilt. Good one.
... that contains nothing but blank pages, per the reviews.
Nice cover, though.
I thought it would be a humour classic, so I'm disappointed.
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