Simple enough. You can use the shiny new "Submit Corrections" form found on our movie and performer pages. Your submission goes into a queue and our team of editors takes it from there.

If we have a missing movie, find one of the performers in the movie, and submit a correction with the info on the missing movie.

While we're working on adding to our gallery of perofmrer headshots, we're not going to be posting galleries anytime soon.

Posting naked pictures may seem like no big deal, but to us, they're quite a big deal for a few reasons:

1. Copyright. Sure, everyone and their cousin is posting copyrighted pictures on the net. But that doesn't make it right. We do have a modicum of respect for the work the photographers, models and everyone else does not to rip off their work.
2. Sheer numbers. We have around 20,000 performers in the database. That's a lot of jpgs.
3. Decency. The American government loves passing laws about decency on the Net. We don't want any part of it. We don't want to have to worry about it. Let 'em pass all they want -- we're virtually untoucahable if we stick with words. Pictures open us up to all sorts of problems.
4. John Law. Don't even get us started on the record keeping nightmare known as s2257. Someone else with a staff and lawyers can deal with that.

So, the bottom line is we're sticking with non-nude headshots. Maybe when amazon.com buys us out... but until then, we recommend Freeones.

We have entered into partnerships with some of the Net's leading retailers to bring you information close to home.

If a partner of ours carries a movie you're interested in, you'll see it listed along with its price on the movie page. Clicking on the link will bring you to the vendor's site, where you will complete the transaction.

The IAFD does not sell any movies directly. We will merely point you to someone who does.

Every effort is made to ensure that the movie linked to is the correct movie, but you should still do your best to verify this with the vendor. We can't be held reponsible for any mistakes in incorrect links into our partners' catalogs.

Every effort is made to make sure the pricing information is correct. We get the pricing information nightly from the vendors, but you should double check the pricing at the vendor's site.

If the movie page does not have a link to a retailer on it, try searching on the movie name in the "vendor titles" catalog. There's a chance we haven't catalogued the movie yet, so while it doesn't appear on the main page, it is in our database of over 90,000 items.

If that fails, you can try the outfits recommended by the readers of rec.arts.movies.erotca by looking at one of these lists: The Mail Order FAQ Listing, The Where to Find Difficult to Find Movies List or Sources for 70s movies or this more recent Article.

No, we have nothing to do with the sale or distribution of movies. That's between you and your vendor. We can try and help sort out problems with your vendor should they arise, but we're not responsible for them.

You need to use a RSS reader like FeedDemon or Sage, or even Google's personalized homepage.

The XML feeds are a way to view our info without having to come to our site.

Your best bet would be to start here:

• RSS @ Google
• RSS @ Wikipedia
• List of RSS Readers/Aggregtators at Wikipedia
• List of RSS Readers at Yahoo

Probably not.

And please don't send us pictures. We love hearing from folks, but our mailboxes are full enough without pictures attached.

We'd prefer you contact the good people in rec.arts.movies.erotica for help. The way to do it is post your pictures to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstars and then ask for help in RAME, telling people where the picture is. (No binaries are allowed in RAME.)

As they're a wider audience you have a better chance of (a) finding someone who knows and (b) finding someone with the time to help.

Unfortunately, there are not enough hours in the day for us to keep the site running, do our jobs and answer the volumes of e-mail we receive asking these types of questions. We're not a helpdesk for porno -- our website aims to be, but we personally cannot be. It pains us to say that, but things have grown rapidly since we started and we're not quite able to keep up as much as we'd like... so we focus on the issues and e-mails that point out things that are wrong or broken and work on fixing them, as well as adding new functionality to the site.

We suggest you contact the good people in rec.arts.movies.erotica or Adult DVD Talk for help. There's a ton of people at those sites with far more specialized knowledge than we on the other end of the iafd@rame.net address have.

You can access RAME via Google Groups on the web at http://groups.google.com/groups?group=rec.arts.movies.erotica.

You can access Adult DVD Talk via http://www.adultdvdtalk.com

Since by using their or both groups, you're reaching a wider audience you have a better chance of (a) finding someone who knows and (b) finding someone with the time to help.

Unfortunately, there are not enough hours in the day for us to keep the site running, do our jobs and answer the volumes of e-mail we receive asking these types of questions.

We're not a helpdesk for porno -- our website aims to be, but we personally cannot be. It pains us to say that, but things have grown rapidly since we started and we're not quite able to keep up as much as we'd like...

So, we focus on the issues and e-mails that point out things that are wrong or broken and work on fixing them, as well as adding new functionality to the site.

Sounds like you might be in need of our searching tips.

Beats us. We don't have anything to do with the adult film industry beyond being fans, so we aren't up on all the latest comings and goings of your favorite stars past and present.

Your best bet would be to ask in RAME or ADT.

The short stock answer is "they left the business to try and fade back into mainstream society. They prefer to 'not look back'"

You can also check the Adult Movie FAQ for the more notable persons

The easiest way is to take a glance thru the help file. The engine we use is very similar to AltaVista's or Google's in its use of + and - and quotes for phrases.

The magic lies in RSS.

We don't have all of our info available via RSS yet, but that day probably isn't too far off. We need to balance user desire, developer time, and not giving away the farm. We have a bunch of feeds already that you can subscribe to and use that info on your site.

How to integrate those feeds are beyond the scope of this FAQ, but with most things, the answer can be found in the Google.

However, scraping our pages to use our data elsewhere is a violation of our terms of service, so we ask that you respect that.

It's pretty basic... we take the dates of first the earliest film in the performer's career to the latest non-compilation film in the performer's career.

It gets a little tricky when we have a date of death. Under normal circumstances, the server can tell what year someone dies, and it cam make sure that the years active does not go past that date... Issues arise when our dates aren't definitive and the server can't figure out the year. When that happens, the server doesn't even try to guess what we mean, it just gives up and we hope that it does't create an issue.

For example, recently, Nancee Kelly's Years Active were marked as 1991-1993. Since she died in 1991, an astute visitor sensed something was wrong. In this case, we only had "November 1991" marked as the date of death, which wasn't enough for the server to go on (it likes full dates; tho we can manually override this shortcoming). Once we changed her deate of death to "November 17, 1991" it all snapped into place...

No matter what kind of error you're experiencing, please report it to iafd@rame.net.

If you want to forward along any sort of correction, please include the URL of the page you are trying to correct. It makes updating things much easier. (Also, we make every effort to verify updates before placing them into the database, so please don't be offended if it takes sme time before your updates make it to the web.)

If you have a website/database error of some sort, please make sure you include the following things:

1. The URL of page you got the error on
2. The exact error message (its what copy and paste was invented for)
3. Browser version

We're working on it.

The data that makes up the bulk of the IAFD was compiled by the "Dutch Master" Peter van Aarle. For a single person to maintain the database, lines had to be drawn, and they were drawn around the American hetero sex industry. Sadly, Peter passed away in September 2005, leaving many improvements and upgrades unfinished.

Happily, the community rallied around the site and since Peter's death, many collectors have come forward to offer assistance in keeping the IAFD alive. As such, we'll be able to implement a great many changes Peter and I had hoped to accomplish.

So, we're trying to broaden our reach on European porn, and especially the performers who perform in both American and Euro productions. We're working with a researcher in Canada who has compiled data on a great number of gay titles which we will be integrating to the IAFD come 2006.

So let us know the direction you want the site to go, and we'll try to take you there.

Under each perfomer's vital stats there is a searching box for you to enter the name of the other performer you are interested in. The resulting list will show you movies in which the two stars have scenes together. However, since only around 8,000 of our 30,000 have scene information, we also give you movies which the two stars both appear in the credits, even tho they may not have scene together.

A: Because we're still of the mind that information should be handy and free.

B: Stupidity, probably... but mostly because it is useful and people like it.