Thoughts: My connections to the sex industry

Maybe it's just a way to deal with some late night horniness, but I found myself trying to count how many connections I've had to the porn industry in my life. They end up being rather weak connections, but it still is fun to see how many connections there are to my life...

1) I grew up in Sausalito, California. The Alta Mira Hotel in my town was the setting for the filming of "Behind the Green Door" - a 1970's porn hit that was almost as popular as "Deep Throat."

2) Marcia Owens, a.k.a. Sally Stanford, the former bordello madam who famously ran for the Sausalito town council in the 1970s, won by a landslide, and eventually became my town's mayor.

3) The houseboat I grew up on was purchased from a man who rented it out as a film set for porno films. It was quite an amazing boat. 3000 square feet and each of the three levels was very different looking in style, so it made for a good indoor film set. I didn't now about any of this until after I had left home. My godfather was watchig some porno and recognized the distinctive look of the houseboat. He sent me and my parents a copy of the XXX tape so we could see it too. It was pretty funny to see that my old room had been the setting for some lesbian orgies.

4) I dated a woman who did phone sex to help pay for graduate school. And no, I never really had phone sex with her. Although, she was wonderfully vocal in bed.

5) A friend and co-worker also had a side job as a professional dominatrix. And no, I was never a client. Although I did tie her up and she did pay me the compliment of saying I was quite good with bondage rope work.

6) I lived in West Hollywood for a time, and this is just over the hill from the San Fernando Valley - the epicenter of the US porn industry.

7) I lived in San Francisco for a time as well, which has the Condor Club. Now it's just a regular cafe, but the Condor Club actually has California historic landmark status because in 1969 (of course) it became the first fully nude bar in the USA.

Well, that's about it. If anyone else wants to list some of their own connections or brushes with the sex industry, leave a comment.