Luke Ford Luke Ford , circa 2000 Luke Ford is a Los Angeles -based writer , journalist , and blogger , popularly known as a pornography gossip columnist . Personal He was born May 28 , 1966 , in Kurri Kurri , New South Wales , Australia , and moved to California in 1977 . His father , Desmond Ford , was a noted Seventh-day Adventist Christian preacher . His mother , Gwen Ford , died in November 1970 , from bone cancer , so Ford hardly knew her . His father remarried , to Gillian , his stepmother , known as Gill . He has a sister , Ellen ( born October 29 , 19 55 ) , and a brother , Paul ( born December 20 , 1957 ) . After first becoming an atheist , he converted to Orthodox Judaism ( in 1992 , greatly influenced by Dennis Prager ) , which had a large impact on his life . He observes the Jewish Sabbath , attends synagogue regularly , and keeps kosher . His faith conflicts with his chosen profession , which many rabbis see as immoral , and he wrote about his religious ostracism in XXX-Communicated : A Rebel Without a Shul . For a time , he maintained DennisPrager.Net , an unofficial web site alternating between criticising and praising Prager , talk-show host and moralist ( it now redirects to Prager 's official site ) . He suffers from Chronic fatigue syndrome , which kept him bedridden for a time in his twenties . Professional Luke Ford studied Economics at UCLA but did not graduate . Instead , he worked as an investigative journalist for southern California newspapers and at a radio station . In 1995 , he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry , and started to write a book , which would become A History of X . In January 1996 , after researching porn for a year , Ford wrote , produced , directed , and acted in What Women Want , a pornographic video , not related to the Mel Gibson movie . It was not a success . In 1997 , he started his pornography gossip web site , LukeFord.com . It was criticised for being badly organized , but contained a large amount of information ; Ford would take a tape recorder with him nearly wherever he went , and transcribed many conversations . Prominent porn stars such as Asia Carrera and Brandy Alexandre criticised the errors and inaccuracy on the site . But its impact was undeniable , and he was referred to as the Matt Drudge of porn . He helped expose a 1998 HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors ( including Tricia Devereaux , Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade ) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice . Ashley eventually sued Wallice , claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World’s Biggest Anal Gangbang . He was sued for defamation multiple times by people from the porn industry , including by RJB Telecom , whom he ( and the Federal Trade Commission ) accused of dishonesty , Christi Lake , whom he mislabeled in a bestiality photo , and Laurie Holmes ( widow of John Holmes ) , for accusations of prostitution on the set . Wired magazine called him The Most Hated Man in Web Porn . He was even physically assaulted by Mike Albo , an editor for Hustler . On August 8 , 2001 , driven by religious motivations , he temporarily quit his main profession of documenting pornography , and sold his main web site , LukeFord.com , to Netvideogirls.com for $ 25 , 000 , and created lukeford.net , which avoided pornography , and focused more on Jewish issues . This lasted until August 25 , 2002 , when he started lukeisback.com , with many of his old archives . With the relaunch of lukeisback.com , Luke has come full circle , returning to his pornographic roots . The Lukeford.com site is currently headed by Taylor Rain , `` Owner and Editor In Chief '' , and publishes gossip that is friendlier to the porn industry . Bibliography A History of X : 100 Years of Sex in Film . Prometheus Books , 1999 . ISBN 1-57392-678-7 The Producers : Profiles in Frustration . iUniverse , Inc. , 2004 . ISBN 0-595-66463-6 XXX-Communicated : A Rebel Without a Shul . iUniverse , Inc. , 2004 . ISBN 0-595-66441-5 Yesterday 's News Tomorrow : Inside American Jewish Journalism . iUniverse , Inc. , 2004 . ISBN 0-595-66768-6 References Luke Ford : Another Brash Web Columnist Online Journalism Review article by Emmanuelle Richard , July 9 , 1997 Porn Muckraker and Son of a Preacher Man Luke Ford Holds Forth on Converting , Dennis Prager and the Trials of the Triple-X Industry , article in The Forward by Nancy Beiles , January 7 , 2000 Porn Stripped of Gossip Maven Wired article on Ford 's temporary retirement by Noah Shachtman , August 13 , 2001 LA People 2006 : The Xxxorcist LA Weekly Article on Luke Ford by Dan Kapelovitz , April 19 , 2006 Luke Ford at the Internet Movie Database Appearances in What Women Want and pornography documentaries External links Run by Ford Luke Ford has an extensive online presence , actively maintaining quite a few Web sites . Official website , without pornographic content Luke Is Back ! Porn News `` professional site '' , as of 2002 Your Moral Leader blog about Judaism and moral issues Luke Ford 's Relationship Blog tongue-in-cheek blog about Ford 's relationship problems , with regularly changing titles . Nearer My God To Thee Buzznet site with many photos MySpace site Used for personal and social activities Protocols : A group of Jews endeavors towards total domination of the blogosphere . Defunct blog ; the first major Jewish-issues blog , contributed to by Ford in the last six monts of its existence . Associates Luke Ford Fan Blog Friendly Parody blog , run by Nicholas Vance ( who occasionally guest-blogs for Ford ) . Luke Ford.com is no longer associated with Ford , other than the name , and run by Taylor Rain Categories : 1966 births | American bloggers | American journalists | Australian Americans | Jewish-American journalists | Living people | Pornography | Converts to Orthodox Judaism 0285760 Luke Ford 