Adult film producer and director Michael Lucas was recently in Atlanta to shoot porn movies, including one featuring Issac Conn, who lives in South Georgia. (Photo by Bo Shell)
Homegrown porn Atlanta attracts adult movie newcomers and veterans
Ryan Lee visited Lucas’ Atlanta porn shoot on July 31, 2008. The two
films, “Flip This” and “Raunch Farts,” are available now at
www.lucasentertainment.com.
With
a
case
of
24
water
bottles
in
his
arms,
Jason
Sparks
reaches
down
to
remove
the
“For
Sale”
sign
that
is
in
the
lawn
of
the
Atlanta
home
he
is
entering.
The
sleek
mini-mansion
near
the
Ansley
Park
neighborhood
was
featured
in
a
recent
pictorial
in
Atlanta
Magazine,
and
receives
about
three
offers
every
month.
But
today
would
be
most
untimely
for
any
potential
homebuyers
to
knock
on
the
door.
That’s
because
the
water
Sparks
is
carrying
is
for
the
15-20
cast
members
— models,
photographers,
camera
operators
— who
are
inside
the
home
to
shoot
the
latest
two
movies
from
director
Michael
Lucas,
one
of
the
biggest
names
in
gay
porn.
The
scene
inside
the
home
is
hardly
hedonistic,
with
a
couple
of
bare-chested
guys
standing
around
a
kitchen
island
placing
call-in
lunch
orders.
“They’ve
discontinued
the
Cobb
salad,”
a
production
assistant
told
one
of
the
“models,”
a
more
respectable
term
for
people
who
used
to
be
known
as
porn
stars.
The
discontinued
Cobb
salad
is
a
bump
in
the
road,
over
shadowed
by
the
bigger
“model
issue”
that
has
Lucas
pissed
off
prior
to
shooting.
“He
plucked
his
eyebrows
way
too
much,”
Lucas
said
of
one
of
the
local
actors.
“We
always
ask
them
on
our
forms,
don’t
change
how
you
look.
Don’t
pluck
eyebrows,
this
is
a
big
no
— eyebrows
should
be
natural.
“So
he
plucked
the
hell
out
of
them,
he
went
to
probably
some
lady
to
wax
them,
then
he
bled,”
Lucas
fumed.
“Basically,
he’s
scarred,
and
he
looks
like
he’s
Marlene
Dietrich,
from
the
’30s.
“It’s
like
out
of
some
cartoon,”
he
said.
“I
like
the
natural
look
anyway.
I
like
chest
hair,
the
pubic
hair
should
be
there,
you
know,
fully
grown;
otherwise
it’s
like,
you
know,
did
you
go
through
puberty?
Or
did
you
fight
crabs?”
For
almost
a
dozen
years,
Lucas
has
used
high-standard
shoots
and
guerilla
marketing
to
position
his
firm,
Lucas
Entertainment,
as
one
of
the
best-selling
gay
porn
companies
in
America.
Atlanta
is
making
its
debut
for
Lucas
Entertainment
at
the
shoot
near
Ansley
Park,
where
the
crew
is
filming
a
real
estate-themed
porn
called
“Flip
This,”
and
a
video
called
“Biggest
Raunch”
that
kick
starts
Lucas’s
new
line
of
fart,
piss
and
ass
play
movies.
“Isn’t
that
sweet?”
Lucas
said.
“There
are
a
lot
of
new
guys
here,
you
get
to
meet
lots
of
new
faces,
which
is
great.
I
will
come
again
because
there’s
a
lot
of
guys
I
want
to
shoot
here,
and
it’s
definitely
cheaper,
everything
— food,
and
transportation,
and
guys,
you
know,
because
living
here
is
cheaper
than
in
New
York.”
Both
“Flip
This”
and
“Biggest
Raunch”
have
scenes
of
Atlanta
in
the
movie,
but
having
a
gay
mecca
in
the
title
or
setting
usually
does
little
to
influence
video
sales,
Lucas
said.
“It’s
always
about
the
boys,
it’s
not
about
the
location,”
Lucas
said.
LOCAL
TALENT
To
find
local
talent
for
his
films,
Lucas
dispatched
Atlanta
scout
Jason
Sparks,
who
scoured
gay
dating,
escort
and
massage
websites,
along
with
local
gay
nightclubs.
“When
I
was
out
at
bars,
if
I
saw
someone
who
I
thought
might
be
good,
I
approached
them
and
said,
‘Hey,
what
do
you
think
about
doing
porn?’”
Sparks
said.
“Sometimes
you
get
some
really
good
responses,
and
sometimes
you
get
something
like,
‘You’ve
got
to
be
kidding
me.’”
One
of
the
local
actors
in
“Flip
This”
is
Issac
Conn,
20,
a
South
Georgia
resident
who
started
porn
in
2007,
but
is
working
with
Lucas
for
the
first
time.
A
personal
crisis
drew
Conn
to
porn,
which
in
turn
created
a
new
crisis.
“I
went
through
a
real
bad
relationship
and
kind
of
decided
to
live
on
the
wild
side
and
try
something
new,”
Conn
said.
“The
first
time
I
did
it
was
a
really
bad
experience.
I
was
treated
like
I
was
just
a
piece
of
meat,
not
really
a
person
with
feelings.”
As
it
has
with
many
media
forms,
the
Internet
has
democratized
pornography
by
granting
exposure
to
amateur
filmmakers
and
start-up
companies.
And
while
some
established
porn
companies
were
not
known
for
their
exemplary
treatment
of
their
employees,
newer
firms
tend
to
cut
every
corner
possible
while
making
flicks
on
the
cheap.
“Mainly
it’s
the
smaller
companies
that
don’t
care
about
their
models,
they
just
care
about
making
money,”
said
Conn.
“You
keep
promoting
a
model,
it’s
better
than
using
them
one
time
and
never
again,”
he
said.
Conn
could
probably
get
more
porn
work
if
he
moved
to
Los
Angeles
or
even
Atlanta,
but
he
said
it’s
not
his
style.
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