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Most people would say 'hire a good adult industry lawyer'. I hate lawyers so I tend to do my own legal homework...but as a disclaimer - I am totally not a lawyer so my ways of getting the job done could be totally fucked.
Read up on 2257. Don't even think about shooting someone under the age of 18 no matter how much clothing they are wearing. ---then you definitely need a good lawyer to keep you out of trouble.
There are tons of samples of model releases for adult content on the web. Just look around for them (= Google: "adult model release"). Look at a bunch and add all the clauses that you can together that make sense for you...if you need more help to understand what clauses are relevant then maybe you do need a lawyer.
Make sure you tell your models what you are trying to get out of the shoot and make sure the model release reflects that purpose. My releases usually have a paragraph that says "Purpose of Shoot: Erotic images for adult website use. "
Ahh shooting in hotels ...I do this quite a bit. I have heard varying opinions on doing a hotel shoot without permission. I think about the issue the same way I think about model releases (but I am probably wrong) - if you shoot in a hotel room then what you are doing seems to be an act in the privacy of your own room and as long as nothing in your photographs would allow someone to recognize that you were staying at the Marriott then you should be ok...but if you shoot a shot with a copy of the room service menu and a Marriott logo on the cover then you are violating. The big flaw in this reasoning is that by taking pics in a room you are conducting business in the room...I'm not sure what the rules are on that.
Not sure what you mean by interviewing the models...I mean do you really care what they think? You just want to know if they can look good for the camera...I find that the worst adult models are the ones who are really confident about their modeling capabilities. The best can be the shy girls who you get to relax and show you a part of them that they never even knew they had. ...and that, not technical photo capability, is what makes a great photographer of amateurs.
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