How I Became a Porn Star

Over the last few years I've been writing my memoirs. I thought that it might be interesting to post some excerpts on the blog.

Looking through Mike Donner's book reminded me about how I became a porn star so I thought I'd post a short section that tells that story.

Kidnap Me

A little before I got out of the Marine Corps, I started looking for jobs. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do. I interviewed for a lot of different things. I actually went down and got hired to sell cars in National City. What better person to sell cars in a military area like San Diego than someone who just got out of the military, someone who had been a Marine.

One day I called this modeling company which claimed to be a “legit” modeling agency – allegedly! The modeling agency’s office was very close to the Marine base. It was right across Pacific Highway. How convenient and how weird to have an office right across the street from a military base, if you’re looking for ‘porn stars’! What was funny about it was that there was actually a talent agency in that same office building – for legit acting, child actors, and so on.
I talked to this guy named Richmond who explained that they recruited models for porn. I told him that I would be interested in doing some porn, some straight porn. He said “Well you can do straight porn, but we can’t really get you that much work.” Obviously, it became clear later that this company didn’t work with straight porn companies. “But you can make a ton more money doing gay stuff.”

I said, “Well I’m pretty open minded person, I’ll think about it.” A couple of days later I said “I’ll try it.” The money really talked. “Well,” he said, “before we do this. I have to see you jerk off first, to make sure you can do this. We have to make sure you’re going to be able to perform before we send you out. We can’t send you somewhere if you’re not able to get a hardon.” Then he said, “you have to lie down on the floor and jerk-off for me.”

I thought that was a kind of strange. But I thought to myself, “Okay …this is weird.”
I did it but it just didn’t seem right. The guy seemed way too shady.
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Richmond had also lined up something with Scott Masters, one of the owners of Studio 2000, to do my first gay scene for $1200, which is pretty damn good money. When I spoke with him on the phone he said, “Now before you come do this scene I need you to go have sex with a man and tell me if you like it or not. And if it works out.” Okay, but I wondered, where do I find somebody to have sex with?

“Have you ever had sex with a man before?” he asked.

“Well, not really.” I said. But actually there was this one time when I nineteen years old and went to Daytona Beach, Florida, for spring break during my [senior year] in high school. I had taken out a $300 loan from the bank to go on spring break, because my parents couldn’t give me any money. I went down there with the girl who later married Jenna’s uncle. It was right after Jenna and I had started dating. While was I down there, I cheated on Jenna, and this girl called her up and told her all about it. Jenna and I had a big fight. But one time during that week, I was walking, drunk and almost broke, and this guy offered me a ride and conned me into letting him suck my dick for $40 bucks in his truck.” It was the first time I ever had a man’s mouth on my dick. After I was done, he said, ‘You want a ride.” And I just hopped out of the truck and ran. After that I didn’t think about it for a long, long time.

But Scott Masters said, “Okay, but have you ever had intercourse with a man?”
“No.”
“Well, you’ve got to do that.”

A couple of days after that conversation, Richmond told me to “Go and enter this contest at The Hole,” which was a gay bar, “there’s a contest down there. It’s an easy way to make $125.” So I went there, got in my underwear, hopped in the shower and won $125 the first night I entered it.

I started dancing at Flicks. I started to look around and before I know it, I recognized a couple of drill instructors from the base, other Marines and navy personnel from base – I saw more and more people that I knew. I was an MP so I knew everybody on that base – I thought to myself, “Oh my God this is crazy!” In another week or two Anthony Cortez introduced me to Rick Ford, who is also known as Dirk Yates, and who owned a company based in San Diego called All Worlds Video. Dirk Yates put out the Dirk Yates Private Amateur Collection which were videotapes of Marines jerking off or having sex with girls and guys.

Anthony took me over to Rick’s office or gave me directions to it, I can’t remember. It was a small building at that time on Almany Blvd. You wouldn’t believe the amount of work they did out of that tiny little building. Some apartments are bigger than that place. We talked and he took some nude pictures and told me that he wanted to schedule something. He said, “I want to schedule you to do a solo.” That’s a masturbation video. So I drove over to his house on Banker’s Hill in San Diego. He had a tiny two bedroom apartment. It may have seemed tiny because Dirk collects all these fancy things. His apartment was just cluttered with these things. He had a chandelier almost the size of his dinner table. It was crazy. But he had this great view that overlooked the San Diego Bay.

Dirk also talked me out of working with Richmond and doing the thing with Studio 2000. As I look back at it now, I don’t really know if I made the right choice. Honestly, Dirk Yates only paid me $500 for a solo masturbation scene. The first time Dirk actually saw me on camera he knew I was going to be good at it. He kind of freaked out because I was so good and it was only my first time. Rick put that scene in The Few, the Proud, and the Naked series which he puts his best solos in and the guys he wants to put into more movies.

When Dirk does one of his amateur tapes he always tries to make you as comfortable as possible. He gives you a beer, if you want a beer. He always feeds you if you’re hungry. It’s like Uncle Dirk. I wore my regular khakis. He started to interview me. He asked about me, where I’m from, all that good stuff. Then you go in the bedroom. He asks some more questions, then leaves you and walks away. He doesn’t want anybody to feel uncomfortable. He tries to see what you’re comfortable with and what you are not comfortable with. That made it really easy. Every now and then he’d come back and move the camera. It was cool. You’d get to watch a porno, sit there and jerk-off and drink a beer. And get paid for it.

“Why do you want to do adult videos?’ he asked me.

I told him, “I think it’s an exciting business. Sex is just about my favorite pastime.”

As I was lying on the bed stroking my dick, he asked, “Tell me one of your sexual fantasies?”

“I think a sexual fantasy for me…. Whenever I jerk off or masturbate, I think about being kidnapped and sold as a sex slave in some foreign country."

“That’s cool. You’re not alone in that.”

“…. So come kidnap me.”

Rick set the camera at the end of the bed. I raised my legs, and started to play with my asshole. I put my finger into it.

He really liked that.

After I came, he said to me, “Well, I think you’ve got a future with us.”