Bang Bus

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Bang Bus is a reality porn website that is part of the Bang Bros network run by Kristopher Hinson and Penn Davis's company, Ox Ideas. The two are friends who attended the University of Florida ^[1]. Greg Entner (known as "Sanchez" or "Dirty Sanchez") worked for the company as a scene director and camera operator and has appeared in most Bang Bus episodes. The videos, mostly 24-40 minutes long, are shot by Entner in gonzo style and are also known for their humorous approach.

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[edit] Concept

Each video consists of an actress who plays a typical everywoman who is "picked up on the street," and is then persuaded to engage in sexual intercourse with men in the back of a van - the titular Bang Bus. Each storyline usually ends with the woman being dropped off unpaid and in the wrong location, shouting at the men as they drive off laughing. The series is shot primarily in Miami, Florida.

The Bang Bus usually contains three men: the driver (known as Ugly in early episodes), the camera man (Greg Entner aka "Dirty Sanchez"), and an actor who plays a "random" guy who gets to engage in sexual intercourse with the woman picked off the street. Sometimes the driver and camera man will randomly pick up a man first then pick up a woman and persuade the two to have sex. In most cases, the woman is convinced to get into the van under the guise that they are making a documentary about people in the area. They offer money, usually around a couple hundred dollars, just to answer questions about their life. After some "interviewing", they usually offer more money to disrobe, and then additional money to have sex. The woman usually is persuaded to enter the van in less than 5 minutes, then persuaded to strip in 20-50 minutes (during which Entner is often verbally abusive to the woman), and is dropped off in a random location after the completion of the sex act, ostensibly without being paid.

Although the theme of the site is the ease with which supposedly unknown women can be persuaded to engage in hardcore sexual acts, the videos are in fact staged and all the women shown are actresses paid a pre-negotiated price.^[2]^[3] Some have gone on to work in other pornographic productions or even became regular performers (e.g. Annie Cruz appeared as "Kyra" in 2004). Despite this, Bang Bus is regarded as a highly controversial website, in part due to its popularity and Entner's misogynistic behavior. For these reasons, it has appeared in multiple news stories, particularly in the Miami area, where the site has earned a certain degree of infamy.

On October 14, 2004, Miami New Times published an investigation of the porn site based primarily on interviews with a woman who performed for the site to pay for an abortion. She claimed that her ex-boyfriend, father of the child, kept all of the payment. ^[2]

On November 18, 2004, the South Florida news station and website WPLG ran a video segment and article revealing the staged nature of the videos, ^[3] as admitted by a Bang Bus videographer. They also ran a follow-up in which they asked police whether the activities depicted on the Bang Bus site are illegal. The police responded that they were not, because the van's windows are tinted to avoid violation of indecent exposure laws and because the women consented. ^[4]

[edit] Locale

The videos are shot, produced and distributed by a Miami company called Ox Ideas, whose offices are located on upscale Brickell Avenue at the mouth of the Miami River, and whose warehouse is located on Northwest 24th Street.