JM Productions
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JM Productions is a hardcore
Hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...

  pornographic film production and distribution
Film distribution
The distribution of a film is the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience by a film distributor...

 company based in Chatsworth, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. The studio's material is controversial, with its films often featuring erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation is the consensual use of psychological humiliation in a sexual context, whereby one person gains arousal or erotic excitement from the powerful emotions of being humiliated and demeaned, or of humiliating another; often in conjunction with sexual stimulation of one or both...

 and rough sex
Rough Sex
Rough Sex is a single by Lords Of Acid, and was released in 1992. Remixes of "Rough Sex" were done by Joey Beltram, and the CD includes "Take Control" as a B-side...

. JM has faced legal charges of obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...

 in the U.S., and its films have been accused of being demeaning to women.
The studio has also won many industry awards.

History

The company was founded by Jeff Steward. Previously he had worked for Legend Video. The first film it produced was The Violation of Rachel Love, in 1995.

On 21 May 2001 the company's offices were raided by twenty officers from the LAPD
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...

. The officers confiscated several bukkake-themed videos. In response Jeff Steward stated, "Some guy swims in feces on MTV, and that's OK? But for a girl to swallow 80 loads of cum is obscene? I dont think so." On the evening of the raid, Jim Powers was in North Hollywood filming another bukkake film. In reference to what he considered the injustice of the raid, he announced to the men involved, "We're doing this for all of America".

On 31 May 2006, the company, Jeff Steward, Mike Norton and distributor Five Star Video were indicted
Indictment
An indictment , in the common-law legal system, is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In jurisdictions that maintain the concept of felonies, the serious criminal offence is a felony; jurisdictions that lack the concept of felonies often use that of an indictable offence—an...

 for distribution of obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...

 by the Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...

. The named JM movies were American Bukkake 13, Gag Factor 15, Gag Factor 18 and Filthy Things 6. In Gag Factor 15 Ashley Blue
Ashley Blue
Ashley Blue is an American pornographic actress.-Biography:Ashley Blue has won multiple Adult Video News awards, including 2004 Female Performer of the Year and 2005 Best Supporting Actress. In March, 2004, she signed a three year contract with JM Productions, appearing in the Girlvert series...

 performs a throat fucking parody of the torture at Abu Ghraib prison
Abu Ghraib prison
The Baghdad Central Prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib prison is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad. It was built by British contractors in the 1950s....

. The defendants faced a maximum sentence of five years for each of the obscenity counts. Jeff Steward was defended by lawyer Al Gelbard, who also represented Evil Angel
Evil Angel (studio)
Evil Angel is a production company and distributor of pornographic films, founded and owned by John Stagliano.Stagliano and Evil Angel pioneered the Gonzo pornography genre in the late 1980s....

 in their obscenity trial. In his opening arguments at the trial, the prosecutor cited "the sacred place of mothers in society", in reference to the treatment of the film's actresses. On 16 October 2007 all obscenity charges against JM and Jeff Steward were dropped, due to lack of evidence that JM had sold the films to Five Star. Cast interviews demonstrating that actresses appearing in roles that simulated abuse or degradation did so willingly played a role in the acquittal. A Phoenix jury later found Five Star guilty of interstate transportation of obscene materials, due to it having posted “Gag Factor 18” to an FBI agent in Virginia. The jury acquitted Five Star on charges related to “Filthy Things 6” and “American Bukkake 13.” In an embarrassing revelation for the prosecutors of JM, during the legal proceedings it emerged that the U.S. Trustee’s Office of the Justice Department had previously supervised the sale of the same films involved in the case, while administering the bankruptcy of Arizona-based Castle Megastore. After the trial a juror said the jury had great difficulty deciding on the "community standard" section of the Miller test
Miller test
The Miller test , is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.-History and details:The Miller test was developed in the...

 used to judge obscenity, and that the jury thought prosecuting obscenity crimes was a waste of time and FBI resources.

JM started filming in high-definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 in 2006. It released its first Blu-ray Disc in 2008, The Violation of Trina Michaels
Trina Michaels
Trina Michaels is an American pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet.Prior to entering the adult film business, she worked in a car insurance claims office and also worked as a waitress....

.

In February 2008 a bukkake shoot directed by Jim Powers was subject to an armed robbery. An armed man held a gun to the head of production manager Johnny Thrust and demanded money. The shoot featured actress Ami Emerson eating 71 men's semen
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...

, which had been mixed into an omelet. The men involved were to be paid $75 each, making the total amount stolen around $3,500. Powers offered a $1000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. After the robbery the shoot went ahead.

Distribution deals

JM is the distributor for Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron is a Canadian pornographic actor and director.-Performer:Iron's first film was with Ashley Nicole in Bonfire of the Panties in 1991, however he did not start performing on a full time basis until 1997....

 Productions, Jim Powers’ Powersville Inc., Khan Tusion’s Pariah Pictures, Max Hardcore
Max Hardcore
Max Hardcore is a male pornographic actor, producer and director, who rose to prominence in 1992 with the film series Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore. His work has been classified as gonzo pornography and described as "testing the limits of acceptability"...

’s Max World Entertainment, Grip & Cram Johnson’s Chatsworth Pictures and FuckYouCash.com. In 2005 it signed a deal to make JM content available on HotMovies.com's pay-per-minute video-on-demand site. Its films are also available on Fyre TV, and on AdultRental.com's pay-per-view
Pay-per-view
Pay-per-view provides a service by which a television audience can purchase events to view via private telecast. The broadcaster shows the event at the same time to everyone ordering it...

 service.

Film series

The company has produced the following film series
Film series
A film series is a collection of related films in succession. Their relationship is not fixed, but generally share a common diegetic world. Sometimes the work is conceived as a multiple-film work, for example the Three Colours series, but in most cases the success of the original film inspires...

:

American Bukkake, American Gokkun
Gokkun
is a Japanese term for a sexual activity in which a woman consumes the semen of one or more men. It also refers to the sexual act of swallowing semen after performing fellatio or participating in a bukkake...

, Anal Full Nelson, Assy, Attention Whores, Black Monster Dicks Fucking White Chicks, Bootylicious, Cock Star, D.P. Virgins, First Time Lesbians, Fuck Machines, Gag Factor
Gag Factor
Gag Factor is a series of pornographic films made by JM Productions featuring rough deep throating . Most scenes in the films have an actress who hangs her head over the side of a bed, and a male actor who thrusts his penis down her throat...

, Girlvert, Gutter Mouths, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion. It is a functional bowel disorder characterized by chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits in the absence of any detectable organic cause. In some cases, the symptoms are relieved by bowel movements...

, Lesbian Bukkake, Liquid Gold, Mother of the Year, Over Stuffed, Perverted Stories, Porn's Most Outrageous Out Takes, Reverse Bukkake, Slave, Stuff Your Ass, Stuff Your Face, Swirlies, The Violation of...
The Violation of…
The Violation of… is a porn film series from JM Productions. The first chapter was released in 1995 and the series is regularly expanded. It has been awarded the AVN Award and the XRCO Award...

, Tough Love, White Trash
White trash
White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to poor white people in the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded living standards...

 Whore
, Wife, Mother, Whore and Young & Anal.

American Bukkake

American Bukkake is a series focussing on bukkake directed by Jim Powers. JM shoots scenes in North Hollywood every Wednesday night, for three weeks running, every third month. The male performers are members of the public who have replied to newspaper adverts or have called the "bukkake hotline" telephone number. Normally 50 to 100 men take part, who are paid $35 each. Some of the men disguise their identities by wearing masks or bandanas over their faces. The female performers are professional pornographic actresses, and are paid $500 for a shoot that usually lasts around two hours.

Gag Factor

Gag Factor
Gag Factor
Gag Factor is a series of pornographic films made by JM Productions featuring rough deep throating . Most scenes in the films have an actress who hangs her head over the side of a bed, and a male actor who thrusts his penis down her throat...

is a film series featuring rough
Rough Sex
Rough Sex is a single by Lords Of Acid, and was released in 1992. Remixes of "Rough Sex" were done by Joey Beltram, and the CD includes "Take Control" as a B-side...

 deep throating (irrumatio
Irrumatio
Irrumatio, also called irrumation, is a type of sexual intercourse performed by actively thrusting one's penis into a partner's mouth and throat. It may also be the thrusting of the penis between the legs, breasts, feet, upper thighs , or between the abdomens of two partners."Latin erotic...

). Most scenes in the films have an actress who hangs her head over the side of a bed, and a male actor who thrusts his penis down her throat. The goal is to make the actress gag
Gag reflex
The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the soft palate or sometimes the back of the tongue. It prevents something from entering the throat except as part of normal swallowing and helps prevent choking...

 and thereby coat her face in mucus
Mucus
In vertebrates, mucus is a slippery secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes. Mucous fluid is typically produced from mucous cells found in mucous glands. Mucous cells secrete products that are rich in glycoproteins and water. Mucous fluid may also originate from mixed glands, which...

, saliva
Saliva
Saliva , referred to in various contexts as spit, spittle, drivel, drool, or slobber, is the watery substance produced in the mouths of humans and most other animals. Saliva is a component of oral fluid. In mammals, saliva is produced in and secreted from the three pairs of major salivary glands,...

, occasionally vomit and eventually semen
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...

. The makers of the films refer to the women participants as "victims" and ask them to respond to the name "Head". The series motto is "The best throatfucking ever lensed". The movies also feature some of their female "victims" wearing black tape over their eyes in the shape of X's. Gag Factor 1 was released in 2000.

Lesbian Bukkake

Lesbian Bukkake is a film series specialising in lesbian bukkake: the practice of several women taking turns to ejaculate
Female ejaculation
Female ejaculation refers to the expulsion of noticeable amounts of clear fluid by human females from the paraurethral ducts through and around the urethra during or before an orgasm...

 on one woman. The behavior of Lesbian Bukkake in film is listed as one of the many that are an example of "contemporary hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...

."

Actresses

In March 2004 Ashley Blue
Ashley Blue
Ashley Blue is an American pornographic actress.-Biography:Ashley Blue has won multiple Adult Video News awards, including 2004 Female Performer of the Year and 2005 Best Supporting Actress. In March, 2004, she signed a three year contract with JM Productions, appearing in the Girlvert series...

 signed a three year contract with JM, and appeared in the Girlvert series. In 2005 the company bought her a Jaguar
Jaguar (car)
Jaguar Cars Ltd, known simply as Jaguar , is a British luxury car manufacturer, headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England. It is part of the Jaguar Land Rover business, a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors....

 car after she extended her contract by a year. On February 14, 2007 she ended her contract, entering immediately into a one-year commitment with LA Direct Models
LA Direct Models
LA Direct Models is the adult industry's largest talent agency.It was formed in 2000 by pornographic actor Derek Hay, initially as a London-based agency that booked adult work in the United States for British females. The following year, once demand had grown, Hay and his porn actress...

. Hillary Scott appeared in American Bukkake 29, Swirlies 2, Irritable Bowel Syndrome 2 and Hillary Scott Cock Star. In 2004's Guttermouths 30 Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma is a former American pornographic actress and director.-Biography:Paloma grew up in Walnut, California and is of Italian ancestry. Her stage name comes from Gia, a 1998 movie in which Angelina Jolie played model Gia Carangi, and Paloma, the Spanish word for dove and the name of Pablo...

 became the first known recipient of a Donkey Punch
Donkey punch
Donkey punch is slang term for an apocryphal and potentially lethal sexual practice supposedly performed during anal or vaginal sex. The purported practice involves the penetrating partner punching the receiving partner in the back of the head or neck...

 in a pornographic film, when Alex Sanders
Alex Sanders (actor)
Alex Sanders is a veteran pornographic actor who has performed in over 1,500 sex scenes. Sanders, who is still active, began his career as performer in 1993 at the age of 27. He has also directed over 100 adult films...

 punched her in the back of the head. The sex act was previously thought to be an urban legend
Urban legend
An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true...

.

Directors

Numerous JM movies are directed by Jim Powers. Other directors include the Johnson Brothers. Ashley Blue directed the Girlvert and Lesbian Bukkake series.

Criticism

Gag Factor 10 is discussed in a piece by Robert Jensen of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He includes it as an example of pornography which he alleges is dangerous and denigrates women, as the actresses appear to be in pain in the film.

The Tough Love series is criticized in an article in The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

 as an example of pornography that contains sexual violence, and "images that are gratuitous or offensive towards women". The Tough Love films feature, among other things, naked woman having their heads flushed down a toilet bowl. Some of the film covers feature the slogan: "Love should leave marks."

In 2005 JM released Donkey Punch, which features actresses receiving a Donkey Punch. Actress Alex Divine reportedly posted on ExtremeGirlForum.com that "Donkey Punch was the most brutal, depressing, scary scene that I have ever done."
Although she initially agreed to be hit on the head during the scene, she claimed to have misunderstood exactly how physical the scene would be.

JM producer Tony Malice has said it does not produce extreme content for extremity's sake, they produce it because there is a demand for this sort of content. Malice says consumer demand for extreme content has been driven by an excess of Vanilla sex
Vanilla sex
Vanilla sex is a description of what a culture regards as standard or conventional sexual behaviour. Different cultures, subcultures and individuals have different ideas about what constitutes this type of sex...

 content, produced by more mainstream studios.

Awards

The following is a selection of some of the major awards JM films have won.
  • 1999 AVN award - 'Best Continuing Video Series' for White Trash Whore
  • 2000 AVN award - 'Best All-Girl Series' for The Violation Of...
  • 2000 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Mila
    Mila
    Mila , is a female name of Slavic Origin. It is a diminutive of Slavic names beginning or ending with Mila which derived from the element Мил Mil meaning "gracious, dear".- Notable people with this name :First...

    , Herschel Savage
    Herschel Savage
    Herschel Savage is an American pornographic actor and porn movie director.He was born Herschel Cohen to Russian Jewish parents in New York City....

     and Dave Hardman
    Dave Hardman
    Dave Hardman is a pornographic actor and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.His mother, Davina Hardman, has also appeared in pornography in her later years in gerontophilia films and his sister is also a pornstar.-Awards:...

     in Perverted Stories 22
  • 2000 AVN award - 'Best Vignette Series' for Perverted Stories
  • 2001 AVN award - 'Best Vignette Series' for Perverted Stories
  • 2001 AVN award - 'Best All-Girl Series' for The Violation Of...
  • 2002 AVN award - 'Best All-Girl Series' for The Violation Of...
  • 2002 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Kristen Kane, Herschel Savage and Rafe in Perverted Stories 31
  • 2003 AVN award - 'Best All-Girl Series' for The Violation Of...
  • 2003 AVN award - 'Best Oral-Themed Series' for "Gag Factor"
  • 2004 AVN award - 'Best Oral-Themed Series' for "Gag Factor"
  • 2004 AVN award - 'Best Continuing Video Series' for Girlvert
  • 2004 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Julie Night
    Julie Night
    Julie Night is a pornographic actress.Night took a job as a stripper while attending college in Northern California. A couple of years later she began appearing in adult movies...

    , Maggie Star and Mr. Pete
    Mr. Pete
    "Mr. Pete" is the stage name of an American pornographic actor and director. Mr. Pete has been an active performer in the adult film industry since the year 2000, starting at the age of 20...

     in Perverted Stories, The Movie
  • 2005 AVN award - 'Best All-Girl Series' for The Violation Of...
  • 2005 AVN award - 'Best Oral-Themed Feature' for Francesca Le
    Francesca Le
    Francesca Le is an American pornographic actress and director.Le started in the adult industry in 1990 and retired from performing around 1994. She worked in sales at Extreme Associates where she met her future husband, Mark Wood...

    's Cum Swallowing Whores 3
  • 2005 AVN award - 'Best Specialty Release - Big Bust' for Francesca's Juggies
  • 2005 AVN award - 'Best Continuing Video Series' for Girlvert
  • 2006 AVN award - 'Best Continuing Video Series' for Girlvert
  • 2007 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Ashley Blue, Amber Wild and Steve French in Girlvert 11
  • 2008 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Cindy Crawford
    Cindy Crawford (porn star)
    Cindy Crawford is an American pornographic actress, known for having the same name as the super model Cindy Crawford. The model disputed the use of the name but the pornographic actress was able to prove that it was her legal name....

    , Rick Masters and Audrey Hollander
    Audrey Hollander
    Audrey Hollander is an American pornographic actress.Her first scene was in the film More Dirty Debutantes 268 with Ed Powers. As of December 2009, she has appeared in over 294 productions and is credited as co-director for the "Otto and Audrey Destroy the World" series of films...

     in Ass Blasting Felching
    Felching
    Felching is a sexual practice involving the act of sucking semen out of the vagina or anus of one's partner after sex.-Earliest appearance of the term:...

     Anal Whores
  • 2008 AVN award - 'Reuben Sturman
    Reuben Sturman
    Reuben Sturman was an American pornographer and businessman from Ohio. He was featured as a subject in Eric Schlosser's 2003 book on underground economies Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market....

    Award' for Jeff Steward of JM Productions

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