Porn Valley- I’m sharing some elixir with Otto Bauer and Audrey Hollander at Jerry’s Deli in Woodland Hills. Otto’s telling me about his cable problems. By the time the company’s sent a guy for the umpteenth time with no apparent remedy to the reception problem, Otto’s blowing his stack. He’s imitating the Hispanic cable guy telling him he’s out of control.

“Dude, I’m flipping- this is the third time they were out here. He’s telling me it’s fine right now. But it won’t be fine. It’s not fine four o’clock in the morning.” Otto’s told something about needing an amplifier on a pole.

Otto then gets a call on his cell. It’s from Van Damage. Damage is ready to spill some story about working with the “worse piece of shit” he’s ever been with on camera, until he’s made aware of the fact that I’m within ear range.

Damage tells Otto he’ll call him back. That and the cable story is pretty funny. But Otto’s not really in the mood for jokes. Realizing he got the shiv in the Spearmint Rhino deal with Ninn Worx, Otto had no choice but to strike out on his own. Seems like he landed a business partner in the process, although Otto introduces Raj as “a love guru” from Trinidad.

Himself raised on the text of the Kama Sutra, Raj boasts a Ph.D in human sexuality and broadcasts a love doctor show on Power 102.FM.

Of the belief that married couples eventually become bored out of their skulls [“you can’t eat the same thing every day- you got to change the menu”], Raj is all for the kind of mayhem Otto and Audrey portray on the screen.

Spearmint Rhino apparently wasn’t and employed attorney Paul Cambria to wield a deft axe in determining that a certain type of porn morality be adhered to for the merger. On the chopping block was Otto’s sense of porn, and he’s still smarting from the blow.

When he was still with Ninn Worx, Otto went to Trinidad to shoot a movie where apparently he struck a relationship with Raj. And the movie’s future plus its planned sequels forms the basis of what Otto now calls Supercore USA.

Consequently Otto announces the launch of Supercore USA and says Multimedia will handle the fulfillment of his gonzo titles. The features such as the one Otto shot in Trinidad will probably be handled another way for now.

“I own those,” Otto says. “I have strong foreign licenses in play. And Ninn Worx will no longer receive one frame of footage.”

Otto’s saying this like someone who’s been kicked in the nuts really bad.

“Who in the Sam Hill are these people adjudicating morality?” Otto wants to know, referring to the “hubris” of the legal system. You know he’s talking about Cambria.

Besides, Otto says he and Audrey were made to feel like freaks in the circus and claims this whole Spearmint Rhino episode evolved into one big self-esteem issue for himself and Audrey. Audrey mentions a website that encourages spouses to cheat on one another.

“This is being advertised in the mainstream for shock value, and I’m made to feel bad about being a porn star?” she asks.

“We’re no more whacked out then the whacked out who enjoy our movies,” Otto adds. “And there’s a lot of them out there. If I’m such a sick fuck there’s many more out there who are buying this product.”

Along those lines, Otto also wonders what’s weird about rakes and shovels doubling as instruments of pleasure, because, certainly, other civilizations long before ours must have thought of it.

“I think a lot of people enjoy seeing hands going into a butthole,” he adds. Who am I to judge? And who came up with that thumb rule, anyway?”

Otto’s referring to a long-held porn belief that four fingers in the ass is okay while the addition of a thumb makes it fodder for prosecution. [Just as porn’s always held that sex with a bound and tied woman is illegal although there’s no specific law on the books about it.]

In a similar instance, Audrey remembers trying to buy a butt plug in Texas and being told it was only legally available in a small size.

“No wonder women are sticking their hands up their ass,” she laughs.

“A lot of people like hands in the butthole,” Otto agrees, acknowledging that his buddies in Texas, where he’s from, think of him as a hero.

“But because of the double standards they wouldn’t want me around their daughters although I’m as regular as any guy.”

“People assume that we’re debased and reel in girls from Kansas; and by the time we’re done with them, they’re sphincters are blown out,” he continues.

“If anything, we’re the ones doing the rehab. I’m just the facilitator to the freakiness which they’ve already brought to the party.”

“Gable got an Oscar for roughing up Scarlet O’Hara; me? I’m a creep.”

Otto, likewise, applauds Audrey’s work ethic noting how she’s up by 4:30 AM each day, a time when most crack whores are rolling in.

“If you were cracked out, you’d have shit running down your legs like a lot of these girls,” Otto states. “There’s a lot of work to take the immense physical challenges that Audrey does. I praise girls like Audrey.”

Audrey’s saying that she wants to write a how-to book on anal sex which will be different from those already out there.

“I want to help young ladies achieve their fullest potential.”

In any event, Otto hopes there’s a different political environment by the time his company’s rolling into high gear.

Asked about these Trinidad features, Otto explains them in terms of An Innocent Abroad- with Hollander playing a naif who’s introduced to an entirely new sexual culture.

“She’s a disaffected Angelino,” he explains.

Raj said he’s seen the first movie and loved it. [Each of the films will have their own web page and marketing capsules.] Otto describes them as highly upscale features but packing the loose, raw energy of a gonzo production.

“You can have a good time having dirty sex in a professionally produced movie,” he feels.