Interview With Seka

When you think about it, adult stars come a dime a dozen. There is an endless sea of women who drift in and out of the adult business never to be heard from again. Most of them come along to make a quick buck, not giving much thought into what they are doing. They disappear just as quickly as they came never to be heard from again.

There are a few who come along who turn the entire industry on it’s head. Women who become superstars and achieve a level of fame not often achieved by a porn star. What makes these women different from the average run-of-the-mill starlet? What is it that they have that the others do not?

Women who reach the upper echelon of porn greatness all have a few things in common with one another. First and foremost, they are beautiful creatures, with an appeal that sets them apart from the rest of the crowd. There is just something about them, that you just cannot put your finger on, that adds to their attractiveness. They also have to have a little luck, and come into the business at the right time and place. But most of all they are all enthusiastic about what they do. They are painfully aware of their sexual power, and use it to light-up the screen with powerful performances, and instantly capture the desire of multitudes of men.

You can literally count the number of women who reach the very top of the porn business on your fingers. You have your Annettes, your Gingers, your Jennas and then you have Seka. One of a kind, Seka was one of the first superstars of adult cinema. Like a blond sex bomb she burst upon the scene and was an instant star. She passionately performed for several years and enjoyed a longevity that few women in the adult entertainment industry achieve.

I recently contacted her, and she agreed to be interviewed. I was completely surprised how easy she was to contact and how willing she was to participate. She is a very gracious and down-to-earth person and it has been an absolute honor to interview her.

Where were you born?

Seka: Radford Virginia

Where did you grow up?

Seka: Virginia

What was your family life like, your parents, siblings, how would you describe your family?

Seka: 1 brother 1 sister, both older; I’m the baby. Pretty normal I guess. Parents divorced when I was young. I am still close with nearly everyone in my family.

What was your earliest sexual experience? At what age did you lose your virginity?

Seka: April 22,1972, the day after I got married the first time.

I read that you were a beauty queen in high school and during your early adult life. What are some of the pageants you won?

Seka: Miss Hopewell High School and Miss South-side Virginia.

What other jobs did you have before getting involved in adult entertainment?

Seka: Factory worker, waitress, shoe sales person, bartender…

Did you go to college?

Seka: Yes, Northwestern in Chicago

I read that you were once a co-owner of a few adult bookstores before you became involved in the adult film business. How did you get involved with the owning a bookstore and was that something you enjoyed?

Seka: I was dating a person who owned one and then as time went on we bought several more of them and yes I did enjoy the stores very much.

When did you first become involved in the adult film industry?

Seka: It was in the late 70’s.

When did you start using the name “Seka” and what does it mean?

Seka: The first movie I did I was asked what name I wanted to use and I said ” I don’t know use “SEKA” What I have been told it means is “LITTLE GIRL”

You performed with some of the best known studs of the 70’s and 80’s. I’m going to throw out a couple of men that you performed with and I want you to give me your impression of them. Randy West, John Leslie, Jamie Gillis, and Ron Jeremy.

Seka: They were, and still to this day, some of the most wonderful men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or being with.

You also performed with the “King” John Holmes. In fact, it appears that you may have performed with him more than any other woman, and according to your IAFD page, you did more scenes with John than any other man during your career. How close were you with John in your personal life? Were the two of you ever romantically involved off-screen? How was he as a performer? A person?

Seka: I loved John and will always love John. We were never lovers off screen. John was always a perfect gentleman with me as a performer and as a person.

I read somewhere that you spent a year in rehab in the late 70’s. Is this correct?

Seka: I was never in rehab for anything ever. I never did see drugs on the movies I worked on so I can not answer this question for you.

I was also surprised to learn that you actually spent some time in jail in San Diego during the early 80’s. What lead to that ordeal? What were you arrested for? Were you actually sentenced to a prison term, or just arrested?

Seka: I spent 12 hours in the Women San Diego Prison for lewd dancing and obscene conduct.
I was never convicted as it was a case of they just wanted to try to make an example of someone and it turned out that I was not the one.

Your IAFD page says that you actually directed two titles. Was directing something that you enjoyed? Why did you not pursue more directing jobs?

Seka: I enjoyed it very much though it is very stressful and I just wanted to give it a try.

You stayed active in adult film from the late 70’s through the early 90’s, which is an eternity in adult film. You started at 24 years old which is the age most girls retire from the business. You actually retired at about 40 which is just way beyond when most girls give it up. Despite your age, you were in high demand throughout your career. Why did you give it up? What made you quit the film business? Could you have kept going?

Seka: I am sure I could have kept going but I am in love with living and there were no demands being made for testing in those days so I stopped.

The adult film business has changed a lot since your heyday. Do you think has changed for the better or worse? What do you think is lacking in today’s porn movies?

Seka: I don’t fell it has changed for the better. It seems to me that most everyone looks the same these days, there is no romance any more or at least a reason for sex to happen in the first place. It seems to me that that there is so much ANGER in today’s Adult Movies and for me at least SEX and that kind of ANGER do not mix.

What have you been up to all these years after you left the adult film business? Where have you lived? What have you been through? Tell us about things you have been involved in. Your fan club, websites, personal life… etc…

Seka: For the most part I have been working on www.seka.com and my life.

I remember reading that you performed in a hardcore scene a few years ago and that it is available on the Internet. Where can your fans go to see the scene?

Seka: On my site www.seka.com under the VOD banner that says ” clips.com “

What was it like to perform in a sex scene after all the years away from adult film?

Seka: I didn’t miss a beat. LOL

Describe the scene, what can your fans expect to see watching you perform hardcore at over 50?

Seka: The only difference I saw was that I had a hell of a lot more fun, there was no pressure.

Was it just the one scene, or have you done more? If not do you plan on doing any more?

Seka: There were several scenes, go and watch.

Did you ever have any children over the years?

Seka: No, I never wanted children.

It’s surprising to learn that you never really left the adult business. You pretty much stayed active with your fan club, dancing and websites, etc. Do you have any plans of ever retiring completely?

Seka: No.

Are you currently romantically involved with anyone? Married? Dating? Single?

Seka: Married.

Do you enjoy interaction with your fans? Have you ever dated any of your fans? What is the best way that your fans can contact you?

Seka: Yes I enjoy interacting with my fans, never dated my fans. and the best way to reach me is through www.seka.com .

Any chance you would ever hookup with a younger fan, say by about 20 years, who runs a website about retired porn stars?

Seka: No, I’m married and I take that very seriously.

That was a joke… I guess it does not hurt to ask

Seka is still a hot, sexy, smokin' lady

Is there anything else in your life that you would like to mention that I did not cover? Anything you would like to say to your fans?

Seka: Thank each and every one of my fans from the bottom of my heart, with out all of you I would not be who I am today and I owe that to my fans. They were and to this day the BEST FANS a girl could ever have.

Thank you very much for your time, and I would love to do another interview sometime in the future when there are new things to talk about. Please stay in touch.

Seka: Well hopefully that will be very soon. You see I have a book coming out …
The title is “Inside Seka” just like the movie and as a matter of fact it will have the same cover on the book as the movie has.

I will get in touch with you when the book comes out to discuss it.

Inside Seka box cover

An Interview With Tiffany Towers

Here is the text from an interview I did with Tiffany Towers through her MySpace account.

Big thanks to Tiffany for her time!

You were born in Toronto Canada according to several sources, is this where you grew up as well?

TT: Yes

What was your childhood and early family life like?

TT: Difficult but we are very close now

Do you have any siblings?

TT: Yes I have 2 younger brothers

Looking back, were there any things in your childhood that influenced your decision to become an adult performer?

TT: Probably…..

Where did you go to High School?

TT: I went to several before dropping out

What was your first sexual encounter?

14

How old were you when you lost your virginity?

14

What is your natural breast size?

TT: Before any surgical procedures. D

Your Wikipedia entry says that you started out as a dancer and then moved on to men’s magazines. What was your first job as a dancer and how was that experience?

TT: I was a table dancer for 5 bucks a dance and they were good times, I was 17

What are some of the magazines that you posed for early in your career? How did posing for men make you feel? Do you consider yourself an exhibitionist.

TT: I think Gent was my first mag I posed for and at 18 it was very exciting

When did you have your first breast enlargement surgery?

TT: Probably just after I turned 18

What is the largest breast size you ever carried?

TT: Tripe HHH

You have had breast reduction surgery in recent years. Why did you reduce the size? Were they becoming burdensome?

TT: Yes they were, very difficult to find clothes and it really wasn’t me, plus one burst…

Do you have a large-tit fetish or were the surgeries something you did to please a lover, or were they done to help your career by appealing to a certain genre of porn?

TT: I was young and foolish…

How did you become involved in adult films? What industry insiders did you meet? How did you meet them?

TT: I really don’t know it just went hand in hand with the job

Did you enjoy having sex with men on film? Any particular scenes that you enjoyed? Any particular performers you enjoyed working with?

TT: I did in the beginning, but I didn’t like the way I was treated for the most part and I really don’t remember any men that stand out, would have liked to work with Rocco

What was the most challenging scene you ever shot?

TT: Probably Tommyknockers only movie with a real script and had to memorize lines….

Did you ever perform on film with more than one guy at once? If so how was that experience?

No

I myself have never seen any scenes where you did anal? Did you perform anal and if so what are some of the films?

TT: I unfortunately did in my last movie with Seymore Butts but I regret giving it to his company

Any crazy or horror stories from you involvement in the adult industry?

TT: No

Have you ever been involved in any real-life gang bangs, group sex, or swinging, off camera?

TT: Yes

You also preformed with women on film, in life are you bisexual or were the scenes something you just had to do?

TT: I love cock….

You have left the adult industry more than once, are you currently retired? and if so, do you have any plans on returning to adult films?

TT: I am retired and have no plans to return

In 2005 you were in Faster Pussycat, Fuck! Fuck!, which won an AVN-award. What type of scene did you do for that movie, who did you perform with, and what was it like to perform after such a hiatus?

TT: It was o.k. I did a girl-boy and girl- girl..was not the highlight of my life….

Do you keep in touch with any friends from the adult business?

TT: No

Many sources report that you are currently a dancer in Toronto. Are you still dancing, and if so what club?

TT: No I am in Thailand working with animals and teaching

Do you enjoy meeting your fans and are you available for any private sessions?

TT: Yes

Your MySpace says you are currently single. Have you ever been married, if so how many times? If not, what are some of the long-term relationships that you have had that you consider important in your life?

TT: All my long term relationships were important

You volunteer at several animal shelters around Toronto. How important are animals in your life? Do you have any plans for a career path in this field?

TT: I would love to be able to just make money from helping animals unfortunately it’s not really possible, animals mean everything to me..

I noticed that you are planning a trip to Thailand to work with animals. What type of work will you be doing and is there any way that your fans can donate or assist with the expenses of the trip.

TT: Yes anybody can donate on paypal to tiffanytowers@hotmail.com

Is there anything you would like to plug? Sites, upcoming movies or events?

TT: Just want to wish everybody well!!

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Katie Gold the Webmaster

Remember Katie Gold? The cute-as-can-be gonzo girl from the late 90’s. The one who retired from the adult business in 1999 at the age of 21?

Well after her retirement, Katie graduated from Philadelphia University with a degree in fashion merchandising and promptly returned to the porn life in August of 2002. Apparently she is putting her education to good use. Katie’s MySpace page says that although she is not officially retired, she has not been performing much lately because she is focusing on producing her own web content and managing her own websites. One of her sites is www.xxxUrbanLegends.com according to her profile.

Katie has also attempted to form a porn actors union similar to the Screen Actors Guild in mainstream Hollywood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Gold

http://www.myspace.com/katiegoldxxx

40 Years Of Marilyn Chambers

Marilyn Chambers (born Marilyn Ann Briggs, April 22, 1952, in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.) is a former American pornographic actress and stripteaser perhaps best known for her 1972 hardcore debut Behind the Green Door.

Early life

According to John Hubner’s book Bottom Feeders, (1994), Chambers came from a middle-class household. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. She was the youngest of three children. Her father tried to discourage her from pursuing a modeling career, citing brutal competition. Chambers landed some modeling gigs and a small role in the Barbra Streisand starred The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), where she was credited as “Evelyn Lang”. Her parents were not impressed, so she moved to Los Angeles for more work. But she didn’t get any roles, except for a low-budget film Together (1971), in which she appeared nude. Depressed, she left Los Angeles for San Francisco where she held several jobs, including work as a topless model and a bottomless dancer. She also married a hippie named Doug (whose surname she did not provide to writer-researcher John Hubner).

Adult film career

Chambers happened to see an advertisement for a casting call, and rushed to the audition only to find out that it was for a porno film. She was about to leave when the Mitchell brothers stopped her, because of her resemblance to Cybill Shepherd, and feeling that a wholesome blond actress was needed for their film. (At this point, they did not realize that she was the “cover girl” on the Ivory Snow soap box; she posed as the woman holding the baby. According to some urban legends, Chambers was the baby; this turned out to be false, as was the claim that the baby was Brooke Shields). The product’s manufacturer, Procter & Gamble quickly dropped her after discovering her double life as an adult film actress. Chambers, who was initially ambivalent about starring in Behind the Green Door, asked the Mitchell brothers, Artie and Jim, for a $25,000 salary and a percentage of the gross, never expecting that they would agree. After filming concluded, she dropped the Ivory Snow bombshell, which resulted in her being billed as the “99 and 44/100% pure” girl.

In the film, Chambers had sex with the well-endowed African-American actor Johnny Keyes. She also fainted at the end of one scene lasting over 45 minutes. The porno industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man. (Chambers’ parents refused to talk to her for several years after the film’s release, but eventually reconciled with her). In subsequent porno films with John Holmes, who was noted for his extremely large penis, Chambers “talked dirty” to him off-camera to give him an erection. Eventually, mainstream films noticed Chambers, who in 1977, nabbed a major role in David Cronenberg’s Rabid. However, her adult film career made Hollywood studios nervous, and hence she was unable to transition to mainstream films.

She was noted for her enthusiastic performances of deep throat, anal, lesbian, interracial, extreme bukkake, and double or triple penetration scenes. She was one of the first female stars to shave her pubic hair, a practice now routine for porn actresses. Chambers continues to appear in porn films for such companies as Naughty America and MILF Hunter. Later in her career, she had a series of breast augmentations raising her from a B-cup to at least a D. She is reputedly one of the first porn actresses to have her genitals pierced.

Her first marriage ended after the release of Behind the Green Door. During her 1975-1985 marriage to porn producer/director/manager Chuck Traynor, Chambers continued in both mainstream and porn films. After that marriage ended, Chambers married for the third time to truck driver Tom Taylor. She gave birth to their daughter, McKenna Marie Taylor, in 1991, before that marriage also ended in divorce. Chambers has admitted to writer John Hubner and other interviewers that she has battled drug and alcohol addiction in the past.

In recent years, Chambers has appeared primarily in independent films, claiming that their more laid back pace suits her as “there’s a lot less pressure on you to perform (and) you don’t have to be young and skinny.”

Other work

* Marilyn Chambers also had some chart success with the Disco single “Benihana” in 1976, produced by Michael Zager on the Roulette Records label. In the 2004 United States presidential election, Marilyn Chambers ran for Vice President on the Personal Choice Party ticket, a quasi-libertarian party. She received a total of 946 votes.

Fictional portrayals

* In 2000, Tracy Hutson played Chambers in the made-for-cable biopic about the Mitchell Brothers, Rated X.

Literature

* Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on her.

Taken from Wikipedia

Amber Lynn, Still Occasionally Performes At 44

Amber Lynn (born Laura Allen on September 3, 1963, in Newport Beach, California, U.S.) is an American porn star and exotic dancer.

Amber Lynn was born and raised in southern California. her brother later gained fame in the adult industry as Buck Adams. As a teenager, she got involved in the club scene in Los Angeles, where she met Althea Flynt, wife of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Before long, Lynn was posing for layouts in Hustler as well as other “men’s magazines” such as Penthouse. She entered the adult film industry in 1983, after her friend Ginger Lynn Allen (aka Ginger Lynn) did the same. The two friends, along with Porsche Lynn, became known as the “three Lynns” and were among the most successful female porn stars of the 1980s.

Lynn’s on-screen sexual exploits included primarily vaginal intercourse and oral sex, as well as lesbian scenes. She starred in several movies with exceptionally well endowed men, and did a few scenes involving double vaginal penetration. In her early career, she did not do anal sex. She got her older brother (porn actor Buck Adams) into the porn industry,and the two kept the fact that they were siblings hidden until they were scheduled to perform a scene together, at which point they confessed.

Although Lynn was not directly affected by the Traci Lords underage-porn scandal in 1986, the episode shook her confidence in the business. She had also been deeply hurt by the 1984 suicide of friend Shauna Grant, and left adult films.

She began dancing and making personal appearances in Canada with adult film actress Tracey Adams, with whom she was involved at the time in a lesbian relationship. She soon decided that she preferred “live entertainment” to filmmaking.

After a few years, however, the number of porn stars on the dancing circuit exploded, reducing the amount of money any could earn for each appearance. Lynn moved back to Los Angeles and returned to posing for magazines.

She returned to adult films in the mid-1990s, but was unable to regain her earlier level of success. Several of her roles were lesbian scenes or non-sexual parts. By 1999, her struggles with drug abuse and alcoholism had severely damaged both her personal life and her career. She and Adams had ended their long-term relationship, and Lynn dropped out of the business again to clean herself up.

While in her early porn career Lynn refrained from breast enlargement surgery. However, by the time she returned to porn in the 1990s, her modest B-cup breasts had been enhanced to at least a DD.

Soon after her second retirement, reportedly in need of money, she began making films again. Some of these films were more extreme than those that she had done earlier in her career, including scenes containing interracial and anal sex (which she had previously refused to do) and extreme lesbian bondage (including spanking and abuse). She still appears in films from time to time, but her involvement is usually limited to one sex scene.

She has worked for Naughty America in movies such as My Friend’s Hot Mom and My First Sex Teacher, as well as other MILF movies.

Taken from Wikipedia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Lynn

Trinity Loren, Dead At 34, Overdose

Trinity Loren (born Joyce Evelyn McPherson August 21, 1964 in La Jolla, California, USA and died October 25, 199 was a porn star, model, and stripper.

Loren began her adult career as a model in various men’s magazines, gaining attention due to her natural 38E breasts. Loren began her porn career on screen in late-1985, and quickly achieved renown as one of the first starlets of the straight-to-video era of adult films. She retired from pornographic films in the early-1990s, fearing the threat of the AIDS virus.

Loren specialized in oral and anal sex, as well as lesbian scenes. She was also one of the first mainstream adult stars to appear in videos noticeably pregnant and (later) lactating. Before this, many adult films with the pregnancy/milking theme were available only as underground 8mm loops or fringe fetish short films.

Loren shared a short marriage to Barry Woods (who also appeared in adult films under the pseudonym of Shane Hunter), with whom she had a daughter, Tess, born 1990. After the couple’s divorce, Loren moved to Texas, seeking to build a life with her daughter. Unfortunately, Woods and McPherson were fighting over the custody rights of their child; Woods won custody.

Loren moved back to California to be closer to her daughter. She continued to do photo layouts for men’s magazines including Hustler, Gent and D-Cup. During this time, she sought help for clinical depression and drug addiction. As a part of her rehabilitation treatment Loren was working on an autobiography, which was never finished.

In 1998, Loren’s boyfriend, pornographic director Joe Gallant claims that the pair were about to start doing some sex scenes together as a start of Loren’s comeback into the adult industry.

Trinity Loren died on October 25, 1998 due to either an overdose of prescription painkillers, or a brain aneurysm.  She is interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California under her legal name, “Roxanne McPherson”. Gallant started his company, Black Mirror Productions, in part to raise money to support Loren’s daughter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Loren

Where is Christy Canyon? Runs Her Own Website

Christy Canyon (born Melissa Bardizbanian on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, U.S.) is a retired American pornographic actress.

Personal life

Born to an Armenian-American father and an Italian American mother, Canyon is the younger sister of author/editor Carla Sinclair. She holds an associate’s degree in merchandise marketing. She has been married and divorced three times.

Adult film career

Canyon appeared in nearly 200 adult films. Canyon has won several “best female performance” awards and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame. She retired several times only to return to the adult business. Her first stint in the business was September 1984 to March 1985, the second June 1989 to December 1992 and the third (and final) February 1995 to June 1996.

Canyon is best known for her large natural breasts, voluptuous body and natural beauty. During her career, her measurements were reportedly 36DD-24-36. On screen, she engaged in standard adult fare consisting of vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and facials, sex with women, and group sex in small groups.

In a 2005 interview on Taylor Wane’s radio show, Canyon stated that although on-camera she had protected sex (with condoms) with all of her male co-stars during her time with Vivid Entertainment in the mid 1990s, this was definitely not something she practiced in her private life. Canyon stated that she engaged in unprotected sex with every one of her male co-stars off camera, prior to their filmed sex scenes. In her personal life, Canyon has dated Max Baer, Jr., directors John Frankenheimer and Adam Rifkin, and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.

In her autobiography Lights, Camera, SEX!, Canyon notes that the Italian mega porn star Rocco Siffredi attempted several times to add her to his prodigious list of sexual conquests. Although initially interested, Canyon later changed her mind about sex with Siffredi, who insisted on a sex scene between himself and Canyon. Siffredi was eventually granted the scene, but Canyon retired from Vivid (the second time in her career) the day before it was to be shot.

Retirement

Canyon retired and returned to films several times during her career, mainly due to changes in her marital status. Currently, she is retired from performing in films, but still has an adult-related career, concentrating on her web site, working as a host for Playboy Radio, and selling merchandise on eBay. In 2003, she published her autobiography: Lights, Camera, Sex. In November 2005, she appeared as a judge on the first episode of Jenna’s American Sex Star.

Cultural references

* Attended junior high school with Man Show co-star Adam Carolla. Carolla also asked Christy out on a date but she never showed up. (Loveline showlog- 10-20-2004)
* The music group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark mentions Christy in the song “Heaven Is” from 1993’s Liberator. The lyrics go: “Heaven is Christy Canyon falling in love with me.”
* Canyon appears as a minor character in Louis Nowra’s 2001 novel Abaza: A Modern Encyclopedia. She is rejected as a kidnap target due to her inability to demand a large ransom.

Taken from Wikipedia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Canyon

http://www.christycanyon.com/indexmain.php?x=af8b01c33aaedd7057d6b74ba8272d7b

Where is Cassidey? Back For A 2nd Stint With Vivid

Cassidey (born December 24, 1980) is an American pornographic actress.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Cassidey now resides in Redondo Beach, California.

Cassidey began her career in 2000 with “Diary of Desire”, starring as an erotic novelist. She appeared in Enrique Iglesias’s music video Sad Eyes and made a surprise guest appearance on the internet talk show Tom Green Live, for the host’s birthday.

During her hiatus, she worked with children as a counselor, then worked for Brad Greenspan. She also got married to Raylene’s younger brother.

She renewed her contract with the Vivid Entertainment label in 2006.

Taken from Wikipedia