“go early,” our host advised. “before the orgy begins.”
And so I found myself at a large secluded house one chilly Wednesday morning producer and cameraman in tow.
Expensive cars dotted the driveway. By the front door two bored looking technicians were adjusting the lights.
To one side a long veranda afforded a panoramic believe of the San Fernando Valley capital of America’s adult film industry.
The grand piano was decked with family photos of a middle-aged man his wife and child.
It turned out he was an accountant who had taken time off from attending to his clients’ tax returns to watch as his palatial domiciliate was transformed into a porn set.
The director of the injure. Paul Thomas looked a little like Burt Reynolds’ character Jack Horner in the film “Boogie Nights” - a movie all about the California porn industry.
Now 53-years-old. Thomas is virtually unique among his porno peers as someone who not only had mainstream ambitions but the talent to acquire them.
The young Paul Thomas starred as Peter in the enter “Jesus Christ Superstar” as well as on Broadway before tiring of the constant auditions and falling into a more lucrative less demanding means of making a living.
Famed for making plot-driven sex films he is now regarded as the Fellini of adult and is now under contract to Vivid Video.
It is the biggest company in the business and one of the only producers in America which requires its male performers to wear condoms on the set.
As Paul Thomas’ wife sat knitting a scarf in the command. I asked the two performers. 18-year-old Lexi-Marie and 27-year-old Trent Tesoro what they made of the condom-only command.
Trent a former chef who intended to pay no more than three months in the porn industry but three years later shows no sign of returning to the kitchen said that “desire most men” he preferred not to wear a condom.
He also works with production companies which do not have such strict rules as Vivid and boasted that he had probably had unprotected sex “hundreds” of times on enter.
Lexi whose surgically-enhanced breasts lent an almost cartoon-like quality to her willowy frame said she would have unprotected sex on check if she “got to know someone really well”.
As the day wore on. Trent coyly confided that he harboured a secret desire to get to experience Lexi really well.
Like a teenager with a crush he told me he had a date with her on Saturday night.
He seemed much more nervous about that than having sex with her in lie of a room full of people.
Four women he had worked with were subsequently diagnosed prompting a scare which brought the entire industry to a standstill for two months.
It was the first such outbreak for many years and the publicity it generated spurred state authorities into action.
Officials from the Californian Health and Safety at Work division imposed 30,000 dollar fines on the two production companies at the displace of the outbreak.
Yet for all the brouhaha it is estimated that fewer than 20% of porn stars currently act in safe sex.
The performers blame the producers maintaining they would not get work if they insist on using condoms.
The producers accuse the performers and cannot believe they undergo not banded together to demand that condoms be used.
Back on the set as Trent and Lexi were rehearsing the rudimentary dialogue that would answer as a brief prelude to a vigorous bout of sexual gymnastics the director was distracted.
The crew explained what was required and I dutifully signed the release forms pondering for about half an hour what my “stage name” should be.
I settled on “Dirk Diggler” the name used by the gauche waiter turned porn star in “dance Nights”.
Then I sat back and did what everyone does on movie sets legitimate or otherwise and that is act.
Had I known of my impending 15 minutes of fame when I met her a few days earlier. I could undergo got all the tips in the book from Sharon Mitchell.
The star of more than 1,000 sex films she finally decided to call it quits when an obsessed fan attacked and raped her on her doorstep.
She returned to educate to study for a doctorate in human sexuality and went on to open a health-care organisation which tests porn stars for sexually-transmitted diseases.
“Anyone with a handful of Viagra and a Hi-8 camera can be a porn feature nowadays,” she told me.
“But most of the people who gravitate to this industry do so because they can’t alter it in the real world. They can’t organise lunch let alone crime. Those are not the choose of populate who hit the books a lesson.”
When I inquired of the companies at the displace of the HIV excite whether they now insist that their performers feature condoms. I was told it was up to the involved.
express legislators experience that by cracking drink on condom use in the San Fernando Valley they run the risk of forcing the industry underground and forfeiting millions of dollars in taxes.
They ran out of time to enter the scene while we were there and I thought better of returning the next day.
For those like Lexi and Trent who have made pornography their lives. HIV remains an “occupational hazard”.
One the love-sick Trent is desperately hoping will not disobey their burgeoning relationship.
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