# Ever Google yourself and find out you're a star of gay erotica? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060 "2013-04-18T19:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/21 "2013-04-19T23:31:24Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > _I_ am an Italian porn star! I’m not even Italian! I’m also a sociologist in Germany. I’m not a porn star. It’s much, much worse than that. _I_ am apparently a preacher in Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/22 "2013-04-20T00:32:03Z")
Nope, no porn joy here. Couple of criminals, though. Grumble. > [@Smeghead](#): > > It just occurred to me that someone out there may have written SDMB-themed erotica. If such a thing exists, do me a favor and don’t tell me, please. You know Rule 34 as well as anyone else around these here intarwebs… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/23 "2013-04-20T01:56:19Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > No - but I did find out that a guy who is a _competitive eater_ shares my name. My family had a field day with that one. So that’s what they’re calling it these days? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/24 "2013-04-20T02:02:43Z")
No, but I am apparently both a lawyer and a man in need of one. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/25 "2013-04-20T17:46:11Z")
\*\*Ever Google yourself and find out you’re a star of gay erotica? \*\* Sort of. Ages ago, when my SO and I lived in West Hollywood, we met some nice German tourists and showed them around town and had them over to our apartment for dinner. About three months later, we got a phone call from one of the Germans who said, “Do you guys film porn in your apartment?” An odd question. Then he said he saw a documentary on German TV about American Gay Porn and it showed our apartment! They sent the VCR tape (I told you it was ages ago) and we had it transferred to the USA system. Sure enough, the film makers filmed the outside of our apartment building, then they filmed OUR DOOR (with the apartment number clearly shown on it!) and then cut to a scene of a porn being filmed in a different apartment\* in the building. I am sure they simply filmed our door as the light was better and they had a better shot with the film camera, but still…rather amazing to know that everyone who had ever visited us from Germany in our apartment and saw this probably thought the exact same thing. My guess is that the German film makers never thought in a million years that the guys living behind that door not only spoke German and had lived in Berlin, but would also see the documentary. \*We knew of the guys who made the porn, as they are rather famous porn directors in West Hollywood, but we were not really aware they actually filmed the scenes in their own apartment. Just always assumed they filmed elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/26 "2013-04-20T18:03:43Z")
Okay, so your _apartment_ was a porn star. Got it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/27 "2013-04-20T18:11:27Z")
I share my birth name with a whole smackload of people, several of them famous, but no, no porn stars. My favourite reaction to porny fan stuff was a fictional one, but probably comes pretty close to the reaction of the actors and writers. (Aside from being in the first person.) ‘They know we’re brothers, right?’ ‘Doesn’t seem to matter…’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060.md?page=1)