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AJ BAILEY

The amazing American babe chats to Australian Penthouse about anthropology, living in Australia, and the adult industry

You’ve only been in the adult industry for a couple of years, and now you’re the new girl at Vivid.  Did you plan that?

No way! I got into the business in 2006 to pay for graduate school, where I was studying anthropology. I thought I had what it takes, so I answered a website ad for models and Vivid came soon after.

What have you been up to recently?

Work, work and more work! My first DVD, The AJ Bailey Experiment, was released a few months ago, and another, AJ’s Sexy Stories, is about to be released, so I’ve been doing a lot of press for both. It’s been really fun.

We hear you used to live in Australia…

Yes, I lived in Oz off and on for a few years. I would be there for about five months, then head back to the States for a bit – whatever my visa would allow. I originally went to visit a friend and loved it so much that I went back to stay.

What did you love most about life down-under?

The boys and the beaches! In fact, the best sex I’ve ever had was with an Aussie boy.

Do tell…

He was a really straight-laced surfer with a very unassuming package. I really like passion and foreplay because I get sex on set all day long, and this guy knew what he was doing. We did anything and everything. It blew my mind.

What were you like as a teenager?

Well, I dropped out of high school and moved to Australia by myself, if that’s any indication! I was very restless and bored with Midwestern life and was always pushing boundaries. However, just before my Aussie odyssey, I was a straight-A student, in the choir, and on the cheerleading squad.

What do you think you’ll be doing in 10 years’ time?

I would love to be a conservator for a historical organisation, looking after historic houses, manor homes or castles, or even museums. I’ve had so many different jobs – dog walker, waitress, collections manager, art seller. I also worked at a hair salon – the politics were brutal. I’m an anthropologist, so being a conservator really interests me.

But you’ll be staying in the adult industry for a while, right?

Yes, I love it. I love being a Vivid girl, I love the sex, and I love the glamour!

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REALITY BITES

Australian artist Ben Frost creates art that entertains as much as it aggravates.  And that suits him just fine…

Interview:  Kate Hutchinson

What inspired you to become an artist?
“It’s better than a normal job—and I can nap whenever I feel like it.”

What would you do for a buck if you couldn’t make art?
“I would probably be the guy in the factory who tests disposable lighters.”

What’s behind the style of art you create?
“I believe that any creative endeavour is about trying to process and figure out the world around us. I’m still trying to come to terms with how saturated we all are with advertising, television, the media, and what this means for our society. I don’t pretend that I’ve come up with any answers, but being able to critically assess how we live and why we’re so obsessed with ridiculous things like Britney Spears and Fly-Buys, is my main motivation.”

What have you been working on recently?
“Lately I’ve been working a lot with artists on Stupidkrap.com, the art portal I run.  It’s always funny when I call  a new supplier or client, and say: “Hi, I’m calling from Stupidkrap..”, the irony is quite delicious. We make prints and help promote Australian artists in exhibitions and projects, mostly out of Sydney, but also in other States as well.”

How do you stay inspired?
“I spend a lot of time trawling the Internet and in second-hand book stores looking for bizarre images that I can find new ways to subvert.  In my art practice, I’m only as good as the images I can find to work with,  so I have to be constantly updating my library of pictures to keep it fresh.

“I have boxes and boxes of strange old magazines I bought on Ebay and scraps of packaging I found on the street somewhere.  I love going through the supermarket aisles and buying products based entirely on the merit of its packaging design–it’s totally inspiring. The packaging on the Ratsak box is my favourite; I always look at it when I visit the supermarket, even though I don’t have rodent problems.”

Do you have other interests, outside of art?
“I sing in a punk band when we have time to rehearse and do gigs.  I also like watching really bad movies.”

What can we expect from you this year?
“More exhibitions closer to home. I have shows planned in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. You can get updates on my exhibitions by joining the mailing list at my website: www.benfrostisdead.com”

What do you think makes your work popular?

“I make Pop Art, so there’s heavy use of popular imagery in my work that most people can instantly recognise. I think people also enjoy seeing their favourite—or least favourite—icons and logos manipulated and subverted to create new dialogues that you [otherwise] wouldn’t get to see.

“Pop Art [offers] a way to ‘take the power back’, because you can have some control over the images that companies and the media are always  ramming down our throats.  You can take these images and characters and alter them to show the kind of twisted things they probably do behind the scene—like Astroboy giving you the finger, Pluto and Goofy doing it doggy-style, or Bambi giving birth to a stream of baby Bambis.”

Didn’t some guy slash one of your paintings at a recent exhibition?
“I’ve made a few paintings that speak too directly for some people to be able to process.  I did a painting of two children preparing to shoot up drugs in an idyllic setting, with an aeroplane crashing in the background.  The piece was displayed in an area of Brisbane where there was a marked increase in the use of intravenous drugs by younger people, and it caused some controversy but at the same time it also created healthy discussion about the context of what [the painting] means and [why] it was displayed [there].

“I think many people are frightened of the reality of their own environment, and rather than try to do something to change it, they compensate by being overly critical of people who are trying to express what is staring them in the face.”

Is there a specific piece that you are especially proud of?
“I’ve always really liked the painting ‘Kmart After Dark’.  It was one of the first paintings I made when I returned [to Australia, in 2005] after living in Tokyo, and I feel like it captures the frenetic and fluoro energy of what it’s like to walk through Shibuya—or Kmart, for that matter.”

Do you have a favourite gallery to exhibit your work?
“The solo show I did at Brooklynite Gallery in New York [in June 2009], is definitely my favourite. It’s in this intense section of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn, and there’s this great grassed area out the back where DJs play and you can continue [viewing] artwork from the gallery space inside through to the outdoors.”

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
“Hopefully, I will have made the ultimate painting that will end world hunger, prompt world peace, and help Brad and Angelina work out any difficulties with Jennifer Aniston.”

See more of Ben’s work at: http://www.benfrostisdead.com

ONE-ON-ONE: JORDEN

Our 2009 Pet of the Year Runner-up, Jorden, likes girls, sex in the shower, and reading Australian Penthouse every day.  No wonder we love her so much…

You last appeared in Australian Penthouse in September 2008.  At that time, you were living on the Gold Coast and working as a personal trainer while studying nursing.  Has anything changed?

I’m still living in sunny Brisbane, and I’m still a freelance personal trainer; however, I had to cut right back on that last year in order to complete my Bachelor of Nursing.  I currently dance at Jo-Anne’s Exotic Dancers on the Gold Coast. Oh, and now I’m 25 years old, not 24!

How did you get into the adult industry?

I was always intrigued about the world of nude glamour photography and decided to give it a go.  I never thought I would go this far, but it’s great and I find that there are a lot of perks when you’re a Penthouse Pet, especially when it comes to getting offered more work.

Did you ever think you would be posing naked in Australian Penthouse?

Not at all!  Getting into nude modelling is the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.  I was so worried about what my family would think, but surprisingly everyone’s been really supportive.  It makes the job a lot more enjoyable and fun, knowing you’ll always have people who are proud of you.

What is your favourite sexual fantasy?

Girls, girls, girls…

Wow! Who is your ideal lady lover?

A girl with confidence and a cheeky smile will be able to get away with anything… I like girls because I went to an all-girls school, and from what happened there, I don’t think the nuns would be smiling down at me!

If a guy were to take you on your ideal date, what would it consist of?

There would be lots of chocolate, a few strawberry daiquiris, and sex in the shower.  Angelina Jolie in attendance would also get the guy a few more brownie points!

And the ideal present?

I’ve always wanted a brand-new red VE SV6 Commodore, but I just bought one for myself, so I guess that’s out! A trip to Thailand would be nice…

If you could write, direct and star in your own adult film, what would it be about?

Definitely something to do with the mile-high club, so maybe me and a guy go up in an aeroplane, get caught having sex by a hostess, and we ask her to join in.

We love it! What would you do if you won a million dollars?

I’d spoil myself by travelling for a few months, donate some money to charity, and put the rest away for a rainy day. Oh, and I’d renew my Australian Penthouse subscription!

You are too kind. Can you tell us a funny story about nude modelling?

Not really, but just to let you know, it’s very hard to look sexy and ‘summery’ when it’s the middle of winter and you’re naked in ice-cold water with gusty winds swirling around!  During my Pet of the Month shoot, I had goose bumps where I didn’t think it was possible!

When will we see you next?

I just completed a new photo shoot with Richard Arthur for the 2010 Pet of the Year competition, so hopefully I’ll be in the magazine again really soon. Keep your eyes out, guys!

♦ Read Jorden’s blog at: www.australianpenthouse.com.au

FIVE MINUTES WITH… DR PETER EWER

Dr Peter Ewer explains how Australia’s infatuation with the British Empire, poor command decisions and secret government agendas resulted in the undefended bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1942

Interview: Ben Smithurst

What piqued your interest in the bombing of Darwin and prompted you to write a book about it?

I’ve had a lifelong interest in the politics and history of the Australian military, particularly the Air Force, and I had this kind of boyhood enthusiasm for the aeroplane, so I decided I’d look at the politics of Australian aviation in the 1930s.  I’m a Republican, and the further I got into it, the more outraged I was by the extent to which men of empire undermined the interests of the country.

Can you sum up your book’s findings?

That a group of, well, they would probably call themselves ‘British Australians’, such as Robert Menzies, actively undermined the policy decisions of their own cabinet, ignored the advice of the head of the Australian Air Force, and pushed aside local aviation heroes like Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in an effort to ensure that Australian aviation, both militarily and in civil air transport, conformed to the interests of Britain.

What exactly were the consequences of their irresponsible actions?

The consequences were that in December 1941, when the Japanese entered WWII, there was not a single fighter aircraft in the whole of Australia, there were no radar sets to warn of the approach of enemy aircraft, there were no heavy bombers, and those combat squadrons that did exist only had half their trained personnel.  So the fierce determination to build the Australian aviation industry in the image of London had very sharp consequences in early 1942.

What difference would it have made, having those defences?

Firstly, the Australian defence system would have known that Japanese reconnaissance flights took place over Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart two days after the fall of Singapore.  The Japanese were able to mount reconnaissance flights over those key Australian cities without the Air Force even being aware of the fact.  On February 19, 1942, Darwin was bombed unopposed by any Australian aircraft—more than 250 people died.

Would it have been practical to arm Australia to a reasonable extent in the time frame you’ve described?

Absolutely.  Arguably the best military mind that Australia has ever had, a chap called Richard Williams—who was the head of the Australian Air Force in the 1920s and ’30s—had advanced plans for the construction of an Australian fighter aircraft in 1938.  And it was that kind of rational, national-interest planning that Menzies and his colleagues pushed aside.

Did they have a stated reason for doing so?

One of Menzies’ colleagues in this was a chap called Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who was a conservative Prime Minister in the 1920s, and then went on to be the Australian High Commissioner in London.  Bruce advised the government in 1937 that the Australian people had to be convinced that only Britain could defend them.  What we see at this time is a competition between those like Menzies and Bruce, who had no belief in Australia, and those like Richard Williams and Charles Kingsford Smith, who had a positive vision for Australia.

But without the backing of Britain, Australia would have had a hard time standing up against almost anyone, wouldn’t it?

Australians have a sense of insecurity because it’s a big place and there’s few of us, in relative terms. But from a military and geopolitical point of view, those problems are much more profound for an aggressor against Australia.  A successful invasion of this country would be a very difficult thing to mount because there are huge distances involved and we’re a long way from any kind of supply base that would support an invasion force.  The Japanese did consider an invasion and discounted it precisely because of the reasons I’ve just indicated.

But the Japanese certainly had very advanced plans to bomb the east coast of Australia and destroy the industrial infrastructure.  Had that happened, we’d think back on 1942 in very different terms, and the only reason it didn’t happen was because of an accident of history that Australia had no control over, and that was the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Were the upper echelons of government really convinced that Singapore wouldn’t fall, as the population was?

No, not at all.  The Australian military through the ’30s was telling the Australian Government that relying on Singapore was not a viable national defence strategy.  Those propositions were put by a chap called John Lavarack, who was the chief of the general staff through the 1930s.  He was kind of the Army equivalent of Richard Williams.

Did the Japanese know that Australia had no air defence?

Presumably they did because one of the things that I uncovered in the book is that the Japanese actually undertook reconnaissance of Australian air bases six months before the outbreak of the war.

And in June 1941, the Australian Army recorded that a Japanese reconnaissance flight had taken place, but that there was nothing on hand to oppose it. When they bombed Darwin, the leader of the Japanese attack formation—who incidentally led the attack on Pearl Harbour—described the air defences as “contemptible”.

Why bomb Darwin? It was hardly an eastern seaboard industrial hub…

You’re right; Darwin was more of a tactical target for the Japanese. In February 1942, the Japanese had conquered what was then called the Netherlands East Indies—now Indonesia—and they were in the midst of invading Java, Sumatra and Borneo, for their oil reserves. Darwin was the last supply stop for the Allies fighting in Java and Timor, so the Japanese mounted that raid on February 19, 1942.

“The greatest failure was a political one: the Menzies government of the late 1930s refused to take the advice of its military professionals”

And Darwin was completely defenceless?

Completely defenceless in the sense that there were no Australian fighter aircraft there.  There were a few anti-aircraft batteries, but they didn’t get into effective operation until well after the bombing started because there was no radar warning set.  There was subsequently a Royal Commission into the Darwin bombing, and it concluded that at any time a radar set could have been installed in Darwin.

One of the reasons they weren’t installed was that the Australian Air Force was then headed by a chap called Charles Burnett—a British officer whom the Menzies government appointed to get rid of Richard Williams.  Burnett had absolutely no interest in local defence, and the radar sets that were delivered to the Australian Air Force in 1940 were delivered to the University of Sydney so they could be studied by physics students.

In the meantime, our first-line defence bases, such as Darwin, made do with the human eyeball and a pair of binoculars.

I understand that there was some warning of the impending attack, but that went unheeded as well…

Yes, that’s right.  It was a bit like Pearl Harbour.  An American fighter squadron was staging through Darwin to go to Timor, and it turned back because of bad weather.  The Australian Air Force commanders thought the incoming Japanese might have been those American fighters, so the base wasn’t put on high alert.

You’ve said defence personnel based around Darwin were more concerned with their own welfare than that of the civilians they were there to protect. How so?

Without effective leadership, because few of the Australian commanders had been in action, and indeed the Air Force base was commanded by a reserve officer who had no combat experience, command and control broke down, rumours got around, and there was an exodus of service personnel into the interior because of the fear of Japanese invasion.  If there were some failures among the rank and file, there were many more failures of command and, of course, the greatest failure was a political one, in that the Menzies Government of the late 1930s refused to take the advice of their military professionals.

Had the Battle of the Coral Sea not gone the way it did, what do you think would have happened to Australia?

The Japanese were committed to cutting the supply route between Australia and America through the invasion of New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa—there were very advanced plans for the Japanese to do that in the middle of 1942.  But for the Battle of the Coral Sea, we’d have had Japanese aircraft carriers off Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, and probably Melbourne, bombing industrial sites that were irreplaceable.

How come, 70 years on, the average Australian doesn’t know about this?

There are a couple of reasons.  Immediately after Darwin, the Curtin Labor Government wasn’t keen to publicise Australia’s vulnerability, so there was a measure of censorship, and the Royal Commission reported in Canberra, so I suppose the worst defects were not released to the public.

After the war, interest in the dark hours was probably less than it might have been, so there was little reflection until quite recently, with this re-emergence of debate over whether 1942 really constituted a defence crisis.

Wounded Eagle: The Bombing of Darwin and Australia’s Defence Scandal by Dr Peter Ewer (New Holland Press) is available in all major bookstores nationally.

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