Abby Normal
Clicking through hundreds of Wikipedia pages eventually led me to the page for Lexington Steele, a porn actor1. In it, he talks about his struggle:
Yes, I am religious. I am Christian, Baptist. I grew up in as close to a Cosby-show lifestyle as you can get. Doing porno, on a repeated basis, I am committing Coitus interruptus like Onan. I’m not married, so I’m fornicating for a living. I’m paid to have sex, which means what? I’m prostituting by definition. These are things I have to reckon with my God on a daily basis. I knowingly do these things.
My decision to do porno has forced me to take my religion within. Because of my job I am stronger in my relationship with God, because now I take God with me everywhere I go; if I don’t, I’ll fail. I didn’t know that God blessed me with an abnormally large penis that allows me to make porno. But I feel blessed.
Apart from the whole religion thing and the bit about having an abnormally large penis, I know exactly how you feel, buddy.
- Actor? Is there much acting involved? Although, if questioning wrestlers leads to getting bopped in the head, I think I may leave this question alone [↩]
I have a book called ‘XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits’ by Timothy Greenfield. it’s got an interesting forword by Gore Vidal and some insightful articles on Sex in general. it’s basically a coffee table book showing 30 ‘actors’ with their clothes on and their clothes off. Mr Lexington Steele is in it and is, indeed, blessed with an abnormally large penis.