The Real “Golden Years”

I had a long chat this morning with a legendary male performer and director about the state of the industry… not from the oft-discussed financial perspective, but simply from a jerking-off perspective.

We agreed that the golden years of this business were from the mid-90s up until around 2002. This was the era when girls were only working a few days a week, and at least half of those scenes were "easy", i.e. for features, Ed Powers, Peter North, Randy West, etc. Basically producers that didn’t require them to be throatfucked or do anal. There were only a small number of "hard" scenes out there, for guys like Joey Silvera, Max Hardcore and the Anabolic crew. But based on the percentages, when a girl showed up on one of those sets, she was rested (mentally and physically).

My theory is that everything started collapsing around the time Red Light District took off in 2002-03. They were shooting so many hardcore scenes that girls were now doing anal and getting throatfucked every day of the week. Not only was RLD/PXP shooting so much, but the increased competition in the gonzo market forced other longtime producers to ramp up the roughness of their scenes. Boy/girl scenes were almost a thing of the past.

This trend begat a new breed of  male performer who could do these types of scenes twice a day. Longtime European guys moved to LA because the money was flowing. With all those guys around, you didn’t need the Anabolic wrecking crew to shoot a DP. Almost every available guy could handle that sort of work.

Suddenly you have gone from Tom Byron being considered a "hardcore shooter" in 1996, to his stuff looking downright tame 8 years later. This is the downfall of gonzo porn. It isn’t DVD sales. It’s the zombie-like expressions on every performer’s face. Nothing is new or interesting to the talent. There are rarely unpredictable moments. There is no realness. Because everyone does everything everyday.

57 thoughts on “The Real “Golden Years”

  1. The Golden years were 1988 thru 1992. Peter North was still blowing loads across the room, Tom Byron was still young and had humility along with the ability to shoot cumshots with multiple squirts. Ron Jeremy was much less offensive then he is now. Girls like Bunny Bleu, Christy Canyon and others were idols because there was a limited number of numbers and less then 15 porn companies. If you walked into a backroom of a porn backshop you were bound to see the same girls over and over again and it was okay. The girls were hot and enjoyed the work.

    Once of my favorite scenes of all time is of Peter North tit fucking Christy Canyon. When he goes to blow his load he points his cock in the air and start shooting. Christy leans up and tries her best to catch as much cum as she can. It was incredible. Being 14 or 15 yrs old jacking off to a women like Christy Canyon trying to catch every fucking drop of cum was simply too much to take. THAT SCENE IS WHY I MOVED TO LA AND GOT INTO PORN!!!

    You simply dont see scenes like that any more.

    You wanna turn the business around? You need to fund the next Peter North, the next Jake Steed or the next Lex Steele who someone told me last night liked trannies. The business needs decent looking guys with massive cocks that shoot insane loads . .simple as that.

  2. Mr. Schmeckel says:

    fuck jeremy steele.

  3. Jeremy Steele, Donny Long, Andrew “Bald” Andretti, Scott Lyons, Faceblaster, Kris Rock, Teel Real and other bozos are the reason porn is worthless and unwatchable.

    Thank you guys for fucking things up you damn losers.

  4. RickMadrid says:

    Yep maybe the sales would jump again and companies would profit and it would be great !!! leave the weed alone guys!!! Happy b-day to me!!!!

  5. I would have to agree with mid ’90’s thru 2001-02ish…but I am biased. 🙂 Of course this has alot to do with age and involvement in the industry. I’m sure the RLD guys would disagree with us…lol

  6. skronkboy says:

    The RLD glory days was when porn got AWESOME. But greed fucked it up. Throat fucking is the Grail!!

  7. I agree with BDD, the best were the late 80s early 90s.

    But the sheer degradation of: “They were shooting so many hardcore scenes that girls were now doing anal and getting throatfucked every day of the week.” makes reading about porn more strokeworty that watching it.

  8. jeremysteele says:

    Hey “BigDickDaddy”, LittleDickSonny is wondering when you’re gonna help him with his homework instead of watching and writing about smut all the time. Also BucketCuntMomma is wondering when you’re gonna stop watching porn all the time and take her out to eat somewhere besides just McDonalds. Also, you shouldn’t be staring at guys so much when you watch porn and let guys upset you like that. I think you might be gay. Meanwhile, you speak of “losers” but take a look at yourself: You’re working all the time on the internet for free making money for Fake Luke just like you were working for Luke (or are you being paid under the table?). If you like working for free I know a few neighbors who need their lawn mowed. You make attention whores look like nomads.

  9. Jeremy, your mad because you are a worthless cunt and should be greeting people at Walmart instead of begging producers for video shoots. Maybe you should stick to editing videos with your HD BOXXX system instead of embrassing yourself by dropping your pants anywhere near a video camera. Porn is supposed to be a fantasy. You, not a fantasy. You are a small, unintelligent, fan boy that hangs on the fringes. You are disliked and you hate it but you will get over it.

  10. jeremysteele says:

    (insert John Williams music here:)… Porn Star Wars, Episode Who cares?… Last we left off, Steele and Daddy were at it again, much to the bemusement of the poon community: Fuck You Daddy, I am not a cunt, nor am I worthless. Maybe you have me confused for BucketCuntMomma who forces you to obsess over porn instead of having a real life. Walmart? No thanks. Begging for work? Nope. HD system? Wrong again. Drop my pants for any video camera. How much? I’m so sorry I’m not your fantasy, Daddy. I hope you find the right boy you’re looking for who does it for you. Meanwhile, shut the fuck up bitch and stop repeating yourself, repeating yourself; you don’t need to vomit the same insults out over and over. It’s really redundant and retarded. Small? I’m over 6 feet tall if you include length, but what of it? Unintelligent? Maybe it’s stupid to even respond to the likes of you, but several times I’ve been plagerized and accused of not writing my own stuff, which really is praise disguised as insult. Disliked? I’m always working on improving myself and am open to constructive criticism. I’ve also already admitted to having in the past chronic fatigue which made it very hard to have much energy or personality, so maybe you’re still reading yesterday’s yellowed papers. Of course I should be forever hated for that, right, even in 2008? Personally, I don’t believe you can know a person based on negative gossip from negative people, or am I missing something? I believe alot of people need designated scapegoats to blame their misery on and/or try to make themselves look and feel superior. Am I disliked by people who really secretly hate themselves, such as you BDD (after all, what do you do with your precious moments?); you who aren’t man enough to identify themself, but instead hide behind a computer and act brave? Real men do not hide. By the way, I see it didn’t take long for you to respond to my last post. Did I miss anything? Oh, I almost forgot, BDD, you’re a loser!

  11. i was gonna read that post jeremy but i got so much more truth from this

  12. BigDickDaddy is Roy Garcia ….the cynical has been porn shooter.

  13. I loved 70’s porn because they had a storyline. YES A STORYLINE! But 80’s porn was great. The women looked human and didn’t look like used up whores. The Gingers and the Tracis and the Ambers looked like the girls next door compared to the women of today with all the plastic surgery, botox, silicon, and huge implants. And the women then did allot more sexually than the women today. That fucker Steve Hirsch ruined porn! He got a girl that was happy doing almost everything. But then he got his hands on them and the girls who have contracts do barely anything and they look dead in the face. How can a girl who does vanilla porn, gets paid a fortune for 4 movies a year, and still looks dead in the face??

  14. moonkelly says:

    skankfuk, do you know for sure that BigDickDaddy is Roy Garcia? My experience of Roy is that he’s too stupid to put more than two complete sentences together, and he can’t spell either. Also, Roy is bi-polar and raves on incoherenly, whereas BDD’s posts are rationally argued and developed. Do you think it may be Roy’s fat and bloated wife/gf/whore, Chelsea, posting as BDD?

  15. Porn went to hell and became unwatchable when guys started getting paid more than a couple hundred bucks to be in a scene. This gave rise to the new crop of guys out of gay porn that think they are the reason people watch, thus you have lockwood, christian x, and all the rest of the steroided up injected dicks who otherwise would be deemed to stupid to even greet at wallyworld.

  16. Mike,

    2 guys wouldnt be considered a “crop” of guys no matter how steroid inflated their ego and butt plugs are.

    Its guys like mentioned earlier that are so pathetic, so lame, so disgusting that the viewer at home who at one time purchased 5 to 7 videos per month simply found something else to do because they were so revolted by looking at Jeremy Steele and others like him. Take a look at this picture:

    http://www.wandalustxxx.com/sexynursewanda/index.html

    Grandma sucking off a hairy midget wearing moon boots is simply not sexy. Its gross.

  17. moonkelly says:

    What Mike said. I can’t watch porn with big male stars as the scene nearly always ends up about them, not the girl they’re banging. I guess the director figures he’s paying the meat puppet $800 or whatever, so the boy should get lots of screen time. It’s very gay.

  18. jeremysteele says:

    Egad! Always gotta find those shoots where I’m looking my worst! 😛

  19. jeremysteele says:

    Hey Dudley, it took you 18 minutes to respond this time? What’s wrong with you? Were you actually not hanging on LIB waiting to post for 15 minutes? Thanks again for showing me when I look my worst. It keeps motivating me to never look like that again. “Grandma” was wearing high heels. I think the fat shoe is from when I sprained my foot trying to moon walk. Your Hitlerian philosophy against those who are vertically challenged would lead to the execution of alot of male talent. I think this is a bit extreme. Now, why don’t you identify yourself you coward so a gang of midgits can go O.J. on you.

  20. Why cant you be motivated to get a real job or maybe a girlfriend? You are as useful to the porn business as a one legged man at an ass kicking contest. No one wants to hear your pathetic excuses. Granny could be on stilts but you shouldnt have to be on your tippy toes like a child sneaking into the cookie jar. Its almost comical.

    You simply dont understand that people like you are helping destroy the adult business for the rest of us. The value of porn is plummeting faster the US Dollar vs the Euro because people dont want to look at you. I challenge LIB readers to rate who needs to get out of porn first and get a real job:

    – Jeremy “Little Man” Steele
    – Andrew “Hair Club for Men” Andretti
    – Scott “Where is Brandi” Lyons
    – Ty “Jenny Craig” Endicott
    – Brandon “Herpes” Iron
    – Dick “Stay at my place” Nasty
    – Rodney “Big Nose” Moore
    – Dave “$300 for two popshots” Cummings
    – Brett “I have a tourbus” Rockman
    – Nick “I dont do gay privates” Manning
    – Christian aka Mrs. Donny Long
    – Donny “Never seen a film permit” Long
    – Tee “Short Stuff” Real
    – Kurt “My asshole is sore” Lockwood
    – Tony “Droopy Balls” Tedeschi

  21. jeremysteele says:

    Why should I be motivated to find a real job when I get paid to fuck, even when I’m at my worst (like from the time those pics are from)?… You’re making foolish assumptions or getting bad leads about my personal life, which may be a reason why I don’t work so much anyways… If pairing me barefoot with say the tallest girls on high heels is comical then what’s wrong with a good laugh (see JM’s “Tall and Small”)? Why don’t you take a look at or stay tuned for some of more recent works like Hustler’s “Breaking and Entering” or any of the myriad of titles I’ve been doing for Will Ryder?… I still see I have 100’s of fans in my yahoo groups… Gay guys are giving me the googily eye looks so I must be looking good again… I would sooner blame the decline of the porn industry on the fact that people are downloading it for free, market oversaturation, amateurs doing it and posting it for free,etc… Speaking of laughs, I’d like to see you put on a g-string BigMouthDickLover and show us all how a porno scene is done.

  22. BDD Oh I agree…I just singled out those two…the list is very long.

    BTW you ever want a column on my site its yours I dont even give a fuck if you bag on me, yer a fun read.

  23. realwomanspeaks says:

    Okay Jeremy then stop calling me for work if you are really that fucking busy! BBD Have a lovely day!

  24. I’d also like to offer Big Dick Daddy a Guest Blogger spot at I Shoot Porn.

  25. jeremysteele says:

    “realwomanspeaks” who the hell are you? I swear on my mother’s life I have not called anyone looking for work this year. And I don’t “keep calling” anyone so fuck you! This is unbelievable!

  26. Jeremy, the fact you sucked Will Ryder off three times so that he would hire you for a movie is unbelievable.

    Billy Watson, I would only be a guest blogger if I could ass fuck whatever girl you have falled in love with this week. I heard you really had a thing for Jayma Reed. I would need to ass fuck her raw while you watched stoically in the corner wearing a large vietnamese field hat. Once I see a tear run down your face I will know my work is complete and you can return to shooting bukkake rejects like faceblaster(the moron on the left):

    http://www.spunkmouth.com/scenes/krystal_wett/01.jpg

    Mike South, I had some interest in making guest spots for you but when I saw the pathetic attempt at humor with the lengthy and drawn out Brian “not the hair” Pumper piece I had to seriously rethink things. Let “the onion” do their thing and you do yours.

  27. jeremysteele says:

    “realwomanspeaks”, I’m hopeful that you will respond because that really was incredibly low and for what purpose, I don’t know. I can only guess that you’re either an an alterego of BDD, or more likely you have me confused with some other Steele in the industry. I’ve looked up your alias regarding previous LIB quotes and it does seems you are a real person of some sorts, athough not legitimate enough or real to identify yourself. However you’ve got some fucking nerve making that fictitoius comment! I happen to know that the worst way of getting work from someone that doesn’t know you is to repeatedly ask for it and to call them back over and over, as you have lied about. I don’t know who the hell you are, but if I ever actually did contact you even once for work it must’ve been based on someone else’s recommendation. It is rare that I call anyone looking for work and it’s likely been several months since I have, as I don’t need to thanks to the empoloyers who hire and rehire me. If you are a legitimate employer identify yourself! Otherwise go back to sucking BDD’s tiny dick!

  28. realwomanspeaks says:

    While it may prove to be a pleasure to suck BDD’s dick I assure you that it seems to me that you are not working that much if you are always on here defending yourself. I try not to engage is ridiculous commentary as you like to post however seeing you on here constantly defending yourself makes me laugh! Since I am a little bored tonight I decided to partake in some of the talent bashing here this evening at your expense.Again thank you for the good times!

  29. jeremysteele says:

    Very funny “real” woman. Now get real and have a “lovely” night.

  30. Larry Horse says:

    After looking at that list I am going over to Greyhound and buying a fist full of bus tickets. I figure Christian can go to Frisco and be happy. Manning can go out to Palm Springs and hustle old rich brawds and rich guys…as their pool guy. Shoot Steele you aint bad compared to that group. Where are TT “Test, schmest” Boy and his brother Talon on that list, or Rod “found God” Fontana. Glory days ended when PT starting thinking he was an auteur, the third generation of Vivid Girls popped up and Buttman got HIV. I think the girls are better than ever, especially the milfs. It would also help that someone like Peter North wasnt so damn lazy.

  31. BigDickDaddy is turning down a column at Mike South’s site and then critiques Mike’s writing? Mike has been in the business for ever. I’ve even heard of Mike and I don’t know that much about porn. Try starting a blog and see if it would match what Mike has done.

  32. I heard TT Boy gets turned down by allot of the girls because he’s a known rapist and almost lost out on getting a lifetime achievement or whatever those are called awards. But they gave it to him eventually.

    And Peter North I heard doesn’t do anything unless it’s through his company.

  33. jeremysteele says:

    btw, “realwomanspews” do you even know “BigDickDaddy”? Does he even have a dick? Since he’s so angry all the time, it might be a vienna sausage. Or are you just entranced by the repeated mantra of his name, sending you into wild nauseating romance novel-like fantasies? Way back, I think it was in 2nd or 3rd grade, I figured out all by my little self that the ones who gotta brag about themselves are the ones who are full of shit! Some adults have never had this epipheny. His boasts make me wonder, not that I really care or want to know about his or anyone’s dick size anyway. Certainly I would never want to address someone by their dick size. That’s incredibly gay, amongst other things! Thanks for the compliment Larry. Coming from you, that’s something special, especially now as I’m still lacking a little in self-esteem thanks to that previous link where I looked like shit. ugh. I think Rod Fontana should do a movie called “The Rod of God”. He can molest a bunch of nuns.

  34. Mr. Schmeckel says:

    We can play this game all day. mention a performer and watch big dick daddy rip him apart. ok lets start with??? alex sanders!

  35. “Droopy Balls” is downright hilarious.

  36. jeremysteele wrote:

    I swear on my mother’s life I have not called anyone looking for work this year.

    You called me three times last week, trying to sell health insurance.

  37. Bastard just called me right now for a booty call.

  38. BDD that bit wasn’t mine it was submitted by a reader one of the xpt guys i think I credited him for it too. The offer is open anytime…unedited of course

  39. Dragnet 2007 says:

    BDD: Im told stands in front of the mirror singing :”It was just my imagination once again, running away with me” then out comes the tweazer and magnafying glass. and the party starts.

  40. Dragnet 2007 says:

    I m shocked you even figured it out.

  41. ForrestHump says:

    Say what? The Golden Years of this biz were when both producers and fans had to risk jail time to make and consume it. When US pop culture was more civilized, X was filled with real people and better actors and not all hardbodies and airheads.

    It was a window of 20 some odd years from the late 60s to the late 80s. Modern porn or erotica has been dead since the advent of the Internet. Anything and everything new done in Y2K+ showbiz by generation bohemian psycho is utter dreck. Old is gold.

  42. RickMadrid says:

    Roy Garcia?? nahhh can’t be?? Roy are U still working in the Valley?? I heard you were working on Major Motion pictures and making Bank?? This industry is detriorating because of craigslist and Talent is working for $ 200-300 dollars for just b/g, b/g-anal comeon? I wonder how much the Managers and agents are making ?? think about his one!! I just turned down a b/g offer for $200 and I got another railroad pension coming in along with a 2.3 million dollar settlement coming stay in porn no way I’m going to write and produce videos with some of the most talented and god gift people in Porn !! where are they??? please tell me! and also composing some music with some of Sardos best performers Hahahahaha!! Have a great and hot week the weather better for Fucking outside guys and gals, get my drift Mr. Producers.

  43. Larry Horse says:

    Steele thanked me for a compliment? Oh God. People in porn still risk jail time, like everytime Donny Long shoots without a permit, or if Mr Bone ever decides to come back to the US and anytime Mr Hardcore decides to piss in a girls mouth.

  44. jeremysteele says:

    3 people now have said to me that they think “BigDickDaddy” is Roy Garcia. Wow. I hope for his sake it isn’t true. At first I thought, “nah”, but after thinking about a misunderstanding from years back, it’s possible. He used to book me for good paying boy/girl magazine gigs around the turn of the millenium, I always did a good job, and he was appreciative of the fact. Then one day after dropping off Violet Blue (who I had just worked with) at his place where she was staying, I was hanging out and made the big mistake of offering to help him type because I noticed he was typing with two fingers (I am not making fun of this now nor was I then. I used to type for my Dad who’s got his own business but cant type too well, either). I remember he got really upset about this. I soon realized it was stupid to interfere, t, but I only had good intentions. I mean, think about it; why the FUCK would I intentially try to insult him when he was booking me on a regular basis? Anyway, soon after he wasn’t booking me for any gigs any more. Then one day I read on lukeford when it was still owned and run by Luke a sardonic missive from Roy stating the top 10 reasons why Belladonna was crying during the ABC interview and every other reason he repeated himself in capital letters “BECAUSE SHE WORKED WITH JEREMY STEELE!!!!” I read that and was like “WTF?” Eventually, I called him, asked him what that was about, he didn’t respond, so I interjected about the misunderstanding with my offer to type for him, and all of a sudden he said, he has to go now and hung up. Sorry to bring this up Roy, especially if you aren’t BDD. I hadn’t spoken of it at all all these years till now, but it’s been about 8 years since you booked me for anything so I don’t expect it’s gonna make a difference anyway. If you are BDD, then you’ve certainly downward spiraled into a most pitiful and insane, sociopathic state. When I first knew you I thought you were a decent guy. Again, my apologies for briging it up, but then again you said that silly shit on the internet. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re still pissed off about that after all these years. Again I hope for your sake that you’re not “BigDickDaddy”.

  45. Roy Garcia = Peter Romero …look him up…he shoots or did shoot for Playboy’s Adult.com sites …he drops Playboy’s name a lot and has a rep for refusing to pay talent that perform for him. He used to be talent years ago as Peter Romero. He owns POVPORN.com …he used to be a playgirl model but now he’s fat. He ran an agency (sort of) called Sex Symbols Talent Management (sstm.net – which now links to San Diego real estate) and is a great recruiter of female talent; He brought Bree Olson & Cody Lane into the business among many other top talent….but he’s a hot head who has burned more bridges than he’s built and failed at more than a few ventures and he has fallen so far out of the community (he lives in San Diego?) that it’s believable that the angry, cynical voice of BigDickDaddy is in fact the dishonorable Roy Garcia aka Peter Romero.

  46. Who watching the children ??? HAS ANYONE THOUGHT OF THE CHILDREN??

  47. Africanus says:

    well. i must weigh in. the golden years of porn will always be the late 80’s early 90’s. todays porn is rather boring. the same chick from hungry getting drilled and abused in every scene. gets old. in fact, it has driven me to discovering the model like photo shoots, softcore, but the women are very beautiful and all natural. sort of like perfect 10. girls look beat up after a few months in the biz these days…sad situation.

  48. themoodyblues says:

    What made the golden years of the industry the golden years is something that the gonzo century has completely lost – class. What set apart the Christy Canyons and Annette Havens and Veronica Harts was a sense that the viewer had that this just possibly COULD happen to him. That he might meet a classy woman (not a hoe or bitch) that, when he slid his hand up her skirt he also might find a corset and garters and stockings and a woman who would not have 38 tattoos between her clit at her tits.
    We have lost the style and class and, yes, the fantasy of possibility that what someone was beating his meat to might just be duplicated in real life.
    Quite frankly, most of the skanks in many of the gonzo vids I see now I wouldn’t screw with my worst enemies’ cock. As BDD (whoever he may be) said, when girls are getting cocks anally and orally every day of the week it shows, both in their performance and on their face.
    Why not try plot, class and style and maybe the next product that comes out will be the next big thing – something that is based in somewhere close to what could be for the average chud on the couch with his dick in his hand.

    Stop selling cold, clinical sex and start selling FANTASY again!

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