Sure. Working in adult video from 2003 to 2018 was something every red-blooded, straight male would dream of doing. And it’s an industry that fascinated me from a young age. Think about it: getting paid to have sex with beautiful women. It sure sounded better than my initial plans to graduate from college, go to graduate school, and teach world history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You see, while I wasn’t a great student, I enjoyed picking up a random volume from an encyclopedia and just reading. Did you know the female fruit fly lays her eggs in manure? That’s something I’ve remembered since I was about 10 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast-forward to 2003. I was 23 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I knew having thick skin and unlimited patience would work wonders when dealing with some of the personalities in adult video. Here are a few times I had to bite my tongue to secure next week’s paycheck\u2014and avoid criminal and civil charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember when James first got into the business in 2004. Chico would book him for the big blowbang-type shoots, and James always came through. Chico eventually gave him more work, and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around early 2018, James was booked for a Dogfart shoot with a female performer and another male talent. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details, but I do remember James trying to tell me he needed a towel during the shoot. He mouthed it to me, but I couldn’t quite make out what he was saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, he snapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A towel. I need a fucking towel!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the while, he was waving his arms around like one of Tony Soprano’s New Jersey crew members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got him the towel while seeing red. I was overcome with the desire to drop his bony ass right then and there. My bank account\u2014and my desire to avoid civil and criminal litigation\u2014convinced me otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To his credit, he later apologized, and all was well. This happened at a time when I was already planning my exit from the industry, so I wasn’t exactly in the calmest state of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seth was a former member of one of the military branches. He looked like a real-life Johnny Bravo, and Billy Watson booked him for a ManoJob scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These were handjob scenes where the male performer didn’t talk, didn’t show his face, and didn’t get hands-on with the female performer. For all intents and purposes, he was simply a “stunt cock.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We instructed all male talent to avoid groaning, yelling, screaming, hooting, hollering, or just plain being loud during the pop shot. Seth acknowledged the instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He made it through the photos and video without an issue\u2014until it came time to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, and did I mention male talent wasn’t allowed to masturbate themselves on camera? Seth got himself close enough that we could cut in with the video camera, and I could edit it together cleanly later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten minutes became twenty, and he’s jerking off like an asteroid is about to level the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again, we reminded him to stay as quiet as possible when he was about to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, Seth stood up, walked over to the female performer, and started yelling like he was getting a rectal exam from Dr. Edward Scissorhands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Jerk that cock, baby! Yeah! Fuck yeah! Hell yeah! That feels so fucking great!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was literally screaming all of this during a shoot for a site whose members didn’t want to hear the guy at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Needless to say, Billy and I weren’t thrilled\u2014especially me, since I now had to fix the audio in post-production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Billy never hired Seth again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know it isn’t right to speak ill of the dead, so I’ll be as fair as possible here. After all, don’t you want the unfiltered truth? I thought so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We shot Kagney Linn Karter for Blacks On Blondes in late 2011. I remember the time frame because my father was knocking on death’s door. More on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kagney already seemed annoyed by my presence, and if you’ve ever been on set with me, you know I do my best to make everyone feel comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She proceeded to make my day miserable by criticizing my behind-the-camera work\u2014specifically the behind-the-scenes video and photography. She was condescending with a capital “C.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With my father dying just 15 miles away, she picked one hell of a day to make me feel less than zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I left early, and she couldn’t resist getting in one last jab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“D, you’re good at your job.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said it with the same sarcastic tone as a prostitute telling a virgin he’s “the biggest one” she’s ever had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oddly enough, we shot with her again a few months later, and she was a completely different person. She was friendly, professional, and our previous encounter might as well have never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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