Tristan Taormino Joins Vivid Entertainment

[Dave Monroe]

Writer-Director Tristan Taormino Joins Vivid
Entertainment; Will Head New Vivid-Ed Imprint and
Direct New Line

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/10/2006 --
Writer and director Tristan Taormino has joined Vivid
Entertainment and will be involved in two major
projects simultaneously. She will head an innovative
imprint called "Vivid-Ed" that will produce a new
breed of instructional movies and she will direct a
new line of reality videos for Vivid. 

"Tristan is one of the bright talents to come into the
adult business in this generation. We are thrilled
that we'll be able to have her fresh perspective on
two very exciting new projects simultaneously," said
Steven Hirsch, co-founder and co-chairman of Vivid
Entertainment. 

Taormino, the author of the best-selling books "Down
and Dirty Sex Secrets" and "True Lust: Adventures in
Sex, Porn and Perversion," will direct the first two
titles in the Vivid-Ed series and will bring in other
directors for the second and third productions in the
first year. 

"I plan to combine education and information with
entertainment and arousal," says Taormino. "It's all
about teaching people techniques and inspiring them to
want to practice what they learned right away! We will
appeal to couples looking to improve their sex lives
and be more adventurous. The films will feature
attractive, intelligent real-life people as well as
articulate, exemplary adult performers. With Vivid-Ed
we have a chance to inform, educate and get someone
off simultaneously. This definitely will not be your
father's sex ed tape." 

Much of the inspiration for the Vivid-Ed project comes
from sex workshops Taormino has been teaching around
the world for the past eight years on subjects
including safer sex, g-spot stimulation, erotic
role-playing, and sex toys. "Plenty of men and women
tell me that they love all-sex features so the focus
of my Vivid work will be on fresh performers, hot,
spontaneous sex, real chemistry and real orgasms for
everyone. Couples already trust Vivid for erotic
features, now they can count on Vivid for hot reality,
too." 

The niece of famed novelist Thomas Pynchon, Tristan
Taormino grew up on Long Island and now lives in New
York City, where she is a columnist for the Village
Voice. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in American
Studies from Wesleyan University and is the author of
three books and editor of 14 anthologies. 

About Vivid: 

Vivid Entertainment Group is the world's leading adult
film company. Its "Vivid Girl" concept brings together
top adult film stars who are signed to exclusive
agreements styled on the old Hollywood contract star
system which it pioneered in the adult entertainment
industry. Vivid has wide brand-name awareness through
films and licensing programs that extend to
advertising, apparel, book publishing, virility
supplements, condoms, snowboards, calendars, comic
books and a variety of other products. For more
information write rm at vivid.com.

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