# Have you ever recognized anyone you knew in a commercial porno movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292 "2004-03-03T13:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/21 "2004-03-07T04:56:58Z")
Nah, I’d never met any of them before. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/22 "2004-03-07T07:26:40Z")
I used to live in West Hollywood, CA. It seemed that on any given night, in any Gay bar, at least two porno “stars” were present. By the way, ever notice that no one is a porno “supporting star”, they are all “stars”. I had an ex-roomate who was in a couple of Gay pornos, plus my favorite bartender who at the time was in the army, and a friend of mine worked for a porno film company and got me copies of all the new releases. Jeff Stryker used to live down the street and…well, you get the idea. The porn business is alive and well in West Hollywood. My personal experience came from a German television documentary on the porn industry in Los Angeles. Suddenly, I got this flurry of calls from Germans who had visted me in LA. In shock they were all asking if I was a producer of porno films. Are you ready for this? The film makers used my apartment building, and a close up of MY DOOR with the apartment number clearly displayed, and then cut to porno films being make in another apartment elsewhere in my building. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/23 "2004-03-07T09:19:47Z")
I can’t top **Mr Frink** ’s story, but a guy I used to… well, “date” is too strong a word–screw around with is probably more accurate–starred in a few magazine spreads. No full-on porno action (not that I knew about anyway), just muscle and dick shots, plus some whacking off for the camera. Sweet guy, really. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/24 "2004-03-07T15:21:08Z")
> [@Mr. Frink](#): > > My third year of attending college at the University of Southern California, I met this very interesting girl at a party. She was an Asian girl with an English accent. She told me she was from Singapore. Well, my roommate Nick was from England, and he had a weakness for Asian women…so I thought he’d get a kick out of meeting her. I introduced myself & took her into the next room to meet Nick. Well, she wasn’t very interested in getting to know Nick, but she made it very clear that she was interested in little ole me! _Dear Penthouse letters. you’ll never believe what happened to me…_ ---
**Author:** ![bookbuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@bookbuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bookbuster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/25 "2004-03-07T20:24:35Z")
> [@klockwerk](#): > > [CS Superchick](http://www.nothingisreal.com/w_superchick) > My older brother’s website. That is a crazy story. I cannot beleive that it could have been an accident. My vote goes towards seduction, but that is a really strange way to go about seducing people. Of course, if it happened to me, I wouldn’t mind! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/26 "2004-03-07T22:46:03Z")
Anybody else thinking about Jill Souble’s song Margaret right about now? Spent several years doing RenFaire’s. Yep, know some girls who have done porn. ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/27 "2004-03-07T23:43:17Z")
My 8th grade science teacher was married to a photographer. One day a classmate brought a Penthouse or whichever one you sent amateur pictures to - and yes - my science teacher was on page two in a collage of about 10 other pictures, spread eagle. _shudder_ She was not happy when she found out and told us “we all make mistakes”. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/28 "2004-03-08T00:32:54Z")
A few years after I left high school, I came across an old copy of Penthouse and discovered that the Penthouse Pet of the Year had been a “say hi in the hallway and so forth” kinda acquaintance in high school. I had not expected to know what her inner labia looked like, but … there they were. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/29 "2004-03-08T13:49:47Z")
Several couples that my wife and I know have been in commercially available tapes that are produced by the couples themselves - sort of a do-it-yourself porn trade. Some of the amatuer stuff is much more erotic than the professionally produced dreck. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/30 "2004-03-08T14:51:00Z")
> [@Mr. Frink](#): > > (Brings to mind the W.C. Fields quote about not wanting to join a club who would accept a person like myself as a member!) > [@Otto](#): > > Groucho Marx, I believe. I thought Woody Allen said this. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/31 "2004-03-08T14:52:54Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > I thought Woody Allen said this. Woody Allen said it in Annie Hall but attributed it to Groucho Marx. I think. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/32 "2004-03-09T05:34:05Z")
There was a girl from high school who I heard was on Jerry Springer (or something like that) as part of a show on teens who strip (or are in porn). This was pretty much right after high school. I don’t knowe if it was actually true, but it was interesting because I wasn’t surprised. It’s not that it was really obvious, she wasn’t a huge slut (in the parlance of our times), it just somehow fit her personality. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/33 "2004-03-09T14:19:00Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > …I came across an old copy of Penthouse… Absolutely no comment… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/34 "2004-03-09T18:15:30Z")
The prettiest girl in my HS class (she was the Homecoming Queen, a cheerleader and was also a princess in our local annual festival) appeared in Playboy’s “Girls of the PAC-10” feature the following year. We weren’t actually “friends” - I had just transferred to this school for my senior year and so really didn’t have time to get to know a lot of people. But this girl was one of those extremely popular kids who is popular at a level where being seen talking to the “nerds” wasn’t going to hurt her any. She was a very sweet girl who I got to speak with now and then. I’ve run into her a few times since her photo appearance, and she’s still sweet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292/35 "2004-03-09T18:57:55Z")
I went to high school with [Melana Scantlin](http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article3887.art&page=1), the first [Average Joe](http://www.nbc.com/Average_Joe/bios/Melana_Scantlin.html) chick. She whored out her diginity to be on that show. Does that count? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-recognized-anyone-you-knew-in-a-commercial-porno-movie/232292.md?page=1)