Porn king Pierre Woodman: 'Pope is right on condoms'

Pierre Woodman and his stars

A whole page of the Sun today is devoted to an ad for Xcalibur: The Lords of Sex, a full-length porno movie take on the Arthurian legend which cost a surprisingly incontinent £700k to make. That puts its "legendary" director Pierre Woodman up there with James Cameron or even Cecil B DeMille as a blockbuster (relatively) big spender. As the ad promises of the movie: "It starts with an epic battle involving hundreds of extras... " Extras? Not armoured soldiers? Call a spade a spade, I guess.

The movie datebase Imdb does have a bio Woodman entry but you can't find his name just by tapping it into the site's search box. Oh no. He's not respectable, see, though he's done photographic work for Vogue. You have to do that via Google or some other search engine and find a way in through a feature or promo site which features him. And then you find him on Imdb. Born April 29, 1963, Auvergne. His 200-movie oeuvre as director includes Superfuckers and the Private Casting series. As actor he has starred in 60-odd flicks including Hustler: Anal Intensive.

So moralisers will be surprised to learn that he is in full agreement with the Pope on the subject of condoms. "Today everyone makes a big deal about what Pope Benedict XVI said, you know, that condoms help to get AIDS. In fact, what he said is not so stupid," Woodman pronounced at the Eros Show 2009, Sofia, last March. "In terms of pure sexuality - he [the Pope] said condoms help spread AIDS, and in a way this is true. Because the governments all over the world push people to use condoms by telling them, 'Use condoms, and you will be protected'. But no one has the balls to say that every time you get a deep throat blowjob this is the same as having unprotected sex, sex without a condom. Because no one uses condoms for blowjobs.

"Because no one tells people they should use a condom for every part of their sexual experience. They just tell them, 'Use a condom'. Thus, the teenagers beginning their sexual life figure that they can get any blowjob with any girl without any danger which is not true. So when they say that they in fact help spread AIDS. This is terrible. And nobody in the government of any country on the planet has the balls to say that. So what the Pope said was not so stupid after all."

Good to see the Pope in good company. How do you avoid HIV infection then? Read the interview here. Woodman for Pope?

Oh, and the trailer for Xcalibur ...