"This," says Dick Tater, executive producer of a new political satire Web site and adult DVD, Porn For Kerry: Fahrenheit 69, "is porn that wants to make you think before you blow your load."
It's certainly made for a few laughs courtesy of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, whose irrepressible host couldn't resist a pass at the DVD, which is aiming to help raise money for the Massachusetts senator's presidential campaign in the so-called battleground states.
"Here's something really strange," Leno cracked on a recent show. "A group of porn stars have made a Porn for Kerry DVD to raise him campaign money. Remember the good old days when campaign volunteers were just licking envelopes?"
The Village Voice, the left-leaning weekly based in New York, has also weighed in on Porn For Kerry. "For committed anti-Bushites, the tragedy of being a New York resident is that your vote doesn't really count. How else to pitch in for the Democratic cause?" said a Q&A-style article by Voice writer Brendan I. Koerner, "Mr. Roboto," in mid-September.
"Perhaps by buying a copy of the Porn for Kerry DVD, described on the website as 'part political satire and part hardcore hot sex!' (Their exclamation point, natch.) Mr. Roboto can't verify whether it's true that 100 percent of the profits will go to the Kerry-Edwards campaign. But you've got to give some love to the twisted mind that conjured up a hot-tub scene between 'Jorge Bush' and his 'personal squad of sex minions'."
"Basically, we're a group of Ivy League graduates with a love of porn and a love of politics," Tater told AVNOnline.com, "and we wanted to do a project that would meld the two together. We created what I feel is the world's best, if not first, 'pornlitical' satire."
Tater was joined by director Rake Muckshot, developer Barry Hopkins, producer Wade Casper, and public relations group HelmutSaus in bringing the project off.
Tater admitted that bringing porn and politics together isn't always as cut-and-dried as people think, other than when politics tries to push porn back to the brown wrappers if it lets porn hang around at all.
"We kind of saw that a lot of people who watch porn are not into politics, and a lot of people who are into politics are not into porn," said Tater. "Porn For Kerry bridges that gap."
The DVD includes four themed vignettes, each satirizing one or another facet of the Bush presidency and even some of his family, notably the publicized-enough activities of the president's college-age daughters. In that vignette, one Genteel Bush has her apartment raided by Rugs Ridge and Homeland Security, where she has "bigger problems than alcoholism… swigging Jack Daniels while she's riding the guy cowgirl," Tater said.
The second vignette involves "Jorge Bush" visiting Saudi "King Fahk," who gives "Jorge" a special offer of liberated Iraqis to keep the oil flowing. "You see how Jorge lubes up with Iraqi oil before the sex minions come," Tater said.
The third features "Donnie Cumsfeld" given a tour of prison by "Private Lynndie Dickland," while the fourth features debaters "Ann Cunter" and "Al Frankenbeans" in a vicious debate before "Ann Cunter" is found "loving herself off with a handgun with Al Frankebeans walking in on her," Tater said.
"We're trying not only to have hot porn but to point our what we see as the moral hypocrisy of the right," he added. "We're trying to kind of show this war is about oil, trying to point out and remind people of these scandals. It's hot porn with an intellectual, humorous edge to it."
Though the proceeds may be targeted to the Kerry campaign – the Kerry campaign itself hasn't yet made any known comment about Porn For Kerry –Tater isn't exactly ringing a big note of optimism for Kerry himself so much as he's trying to ring a big thumbs down to the incumbent.
"I'm not going to make a political statement either way," he said, "but we've seen over the past four years the country has not gone in a positive direction. And we'd like to give Kerry the opportunity the opportunity to take the reins of our country. It's very unrealistic to think he's going to take us right out of Iraq, or fix the economy, but we'd like to give him the chance because we need a change."
Porn For Kerry: Fahrenheit 69 retails for $19.99.
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