Scott Stein and the great Mexican sex vacation held last October get nice coverage and uncoverage [some tactfully nude photos] in the February issue of Detour magazine now on the news stands. Detour magazine writer Andrew Berg paints the picture: "You are lying poolside at a Mexican resort, sipping an umbrella-and-fruit-garnished cocktail. Exotic birds are squawking. Perfect blue waves are crashing perfectly on the beach. It's been a long day. After the breakfast buffet, the 9 a.m. tennis clinic, the yoga class, an hour of clothing-optional aqua-aerobics with Kristen, Chocolate, and Angelica S, you gorged on lobster and cervezas frias at the lunch barbecue, where you won the scavenger hunt [billed on the schedule of events as "If I was a dildo, where would I be?"] with your partner Sydnee Steele, the talented star of Stop, My Ass is on Fire. " Berg goes on to paint a picture of a week's splendid vacation in five colorful, well-hung paragraphs.
Now, you can either choose to read some gonad-grabbing, penis prose in a magazine or take the actual vacation itself which, this year, is being scheduled twice: May 27 to May 31; and October 22 to October 26. Check out smspromotions.com for all the details. Scott Stein had this to say.
Stein: "We're supposed to be doing another promotion with Howard Stern in the next couple of weeks."
G. Ross: "Now that you guys have discovered Smally Paulie and got Jason the virgin laid, what do you do for an encore?"
Stein: "We're looking to get an editor involved for some sex scenes - an older, more distinguished-type guy who's been in the adult business for a number of years."
G. Ross: "Don't know anybody by that description."
Stein: "But we're looking. If you know of anyone, we're looking for a big crossover..."
G. Ross: "Or a double-cross."
Stein: "I think between this recent article [in Detour] with Meg Ryan on the cover is a coup because I think it will attract a lot of attention, and it's a Valentine's issue. What could be more romantic than going to Mexico.."
G. Ross: "...and getting laid by another woman."
Stein: "You bring your significant other. We are making a concerted effort to get more couples involved, and I think a magazine like Detour is perfect much like the other magazines we've appeared in. There's an air of legitimacy and credibility. People see that it's very much for real. We're doing two trips now. There are that many people interested in attending a vacation of this nature, that we've added another trip."
Stein said several new wrinkles may be added to this year's vacation package.
Stein: "We just recently sent out a press release. We're going to be doing what we call the Triple X-treme Games. It's kind of like an Olympics for testing sexual prowess. We're hoping that it will be an annual event. Of course you need amateur status to be involved."
G. Ross: "So you'll have the clean and jerk."
Stein: "That will take on a whole new meaning, here. We're going to have events like the long hump, the dildo throw. There will be several events testing longevity, accuracy, stamina, and we'll crown the winners at the end of the week. Another idea occured to me. Maybe we'll do a game show in the evening, So You Wanna Be a Porn Star. We'll ask guest questions related to the adult industry and see if they have what it takes to be a porno star. In other words if somebody asks you to turn a d.p., do they mean a double play? We'll have those varieties of quesrtions."
G. Ross: "You did revert to old form in the Detour article by bringing up [former baseball player] Joe Pepitone."
Stein: "I knew you'd appreciate that..it's kinda like you referring to the Mendoza line. [An old Gene Ross editorial.] And you know, Joe Pepitone is funny. I could have gone with Pee Wee Reese, Vic Wertz, someone along those lines, but absolutely no one would know who he is."
G. Ross: "Or Frank Malzone."
Stein [laughing]: "...or Duffy Dyer...but I'm excited about it. Right now we're distributing brochures right now at the Hustler store [on Sunset]. We're extending our visibility on the retail level. We recently sent out probably 20,000 brochures in the past month. Metro's going to come down and film again. They won't have the exclusive. We are looking for another company that might be interested and can work together with us and Metro. We have brochures being distributed throughout all of the Metro stores back east. We're trying to hit as many outlets as possible. Today on the Internet I'm doing a live show called Taboo Talk on spikeradio.com" [10:30 to noon - and it will be archived in case you miss the airing.]
Stein: "I'm trying to do as much multi-media as possible between print, radio, TV, Internet. At CES we probably gave out 8,000 brochures. Almost everybody across the board have said they heard of us. We're getting the word out there. Stern was huge."
G. Ross: "Maybe you can invite him down to receive a special achievement award."
Stein: "Great, then I'll get Beetlejuice down there. Immigration will grab him. They'll have to keep him in quarantine. It's like bringing your family pet to the country."
