Why I Quit Making Porn

I get asked that question a lot.  The truth is I didn’t, I just quit making DVDs.

When I started in this biz in 1992 there was no internet, at least not as we know it, and Porn Valley was booming.  Distributors couldn’t get enough product, and it wasn’t too hard to get in.  That and nobody told me I couldn’t….

The main thing it was, was fun we were all having fun shooting porn, mostly none of us thought of what we were doing as “art”, excepting maybe Paul Thomas.  We were thumbing our nose at society and having fun. I remember Rog from rogreviews once asked me how long I planned to stay in porn and I told him, until it stops being fun.

And that’s what happened, it stopped being fun.  I had to deal with scumbags who would go 270 days past due on an 8000.00 dollar invoice, then bounce three checks. Even the best payers went 90 days past due on product that had a very thin margin to begin with. But that was OK because we were having fun making it. We had fun at the CES Show, before AVN took it over and in conjunction with the economy, ran it into the ground.  Back when CES had it you had to at least be bright enough to be able to print a business card saying you were in the biz to get in, it was a show for people in the biz, store owners and the like, not a fan show, and it was free to attend.

When AVN got a hold of it it started transitioning to a fan show, good for AVN bad for the biz.  The internet dealt the deathblow with mom and pop video stores going out of biz left and right the biz had nobody left to attend BUT the fans.

But shooting was still fun. I never intended to be in front of the camera, that happened by accident and it’s another story entirely but I had a lot of guys writing me or coming up to me at hockey games or trade shows saying man you are my hero.  This always struck me as odd….why I would ask.  They always said because you are like me, you are a regular guy who gets to bang all these gorgeous girls and you don’t have a big head about it.  I dont want to see some long hair or some body builder banging these girls, I want to see someone like me, you give us all hope man, keep up the good work.

There’s a lesson there that porn still hasn’t learned.

It quit being fun with an influx of people, mainly performers who had no sense of the history or the social structure of the business, and didn’t care, they werent having fun they were making a dollar check, like a hooker who clock watches, their hearts weren’t in it.  Guys who would rather be with guys, girls who would rather be anyplace. And the boomers saw it and lost interest.

Who are the boomers?  The baby boomers, the guys who were porns core audience, the largest segment of the population, the guys who made porn big business in the 80s and 90s.  The guys who now could care less because porn doesn’t look fun anymore, because it isn’t.

So now I shoot for southernbukkake.com, a niche that isn’t saturated and isn’t as available on the net and one thing nobody who has ever seen one of my shoots can say is that we don’t have fun. The guys, the girls, the cameramen, the make up artist.  I have girls who come to other girls shoots just to hang out cuz its FUN.  I pride myself in that. When was the last time any porn chick in porn valley went to a shoot without being paid, just because it would be fun to hang out?  Hint:  It don’t happen.

So now I stick to the internet and I have discovered this group of website owners, all independents who are doing porn and having fun, girls like Marie Madison, whom I recently met.

Read About it Here

I often got asked why did you quit NASA and the answer has always been: It quit being fun.

How long will I keep doing southernbukkake and stripperfacials?

You know the answer.