Never heard of a cock ring?
Yes, they do. I have one. I also have severe anxiety/insecurity issues- so I have experimented with things like “PE” exercises and that culture, even though most ostensibly reliable surveys say I don’t “need” it. I know about penis pumps, cock rings, jelqing, clamping at the base, using cable clamps for “girth exercises,” etc.
If you get blood into the penis and get at least a partial erection, you can squeeze the base and keep the blood in. You see this with a lot of porn guys with wood problems. That and/or slapping their noodly dicks against a woman’s thigh or ass until they get semi-erect. What’s funny is I have read many interviews with the older stars where they complain about the new age of Viagra and brag about how they don’t need it. It’s like reading about some older athletes or sports fans complaining about PED users in sports. But a lot of these same guys have wood problems. There are a lot of pre-Viagra (and post Viagra) porn scenes of guys out there banging very attractive women with bendy, floppy semi-erections. It was always accepted that someone like Holmes had trouble getting a full erection because of the size (and drug issues), but you see a lot of spongy 6-7 inchers out there on film (and video and tube), too.
Jeremy is notorious for squeezing his semi to keep it up. He’s also very very fat and recently had a death scare- I don’t know the particulars of his finances or lifestyle, but he certainly seems like a typical working-class person with no secure retirement, who is struggling to get by at an age when his body can no longer do the job. The industry is in decline, and I don’t know what kind of opportunities there are for mainstream and non-sex appearances and reality stuff.
I also read too much about porn. There are all kinds of “legends” who are homeless or semi-homeless. Guys like Tom Byron and others who live in their friend’s offices, etc. Dudes who used to own their own lines with big companies and do all the hot female stars of the 90s are now doing $50 bukakke shoots, etc. Famous directors are dying of suicide or completely broke after inevitable terminal illness. There are also many stories out there of veteran porn guys who moved back in with their parents or took up construction in their 40s/50s. It’s probably fairly comparable to pro wrestling. Though at least they have their Hulk Hogans and The Rock and maybe some others (well that’s probably about it; even Ric Flair is a broke mess).
Even the female stars who supposedly made it and were either considered savvy business women, like Jenna Jameson… and/or genius and multi-talented like Asia Carrerra…are begging for money from fans, doing cam shows, etc.
I’m not saying this to put anyone down. Rather I’m saying it’s not an easy job and from most appearances nowhere near as glamorous as some people seem to think. There are guys being paid to have sex for close to 4 decades with 1000s of scenes who really have nothing much to show for it, other than the “tapes.”
Ron Jeremy is famous, but I’m just saying that doesn’t mean he is doing great as a porn actor in 2015. I know some fairly famous people who live pretty depressing existences.
I don’t know who I would consider the King of Porn, if there is such a thing. I’d be inclined to give it someone who had a large body of work over a sustained period of time and didn’t die a horrible early death, become involved in any murders, etc.
Maybe it really IS Ron Jeremy. But part of that is because, IMHO, there really aren’t that many guys who made a career out of it and didn’t have tragic (or oblivious) endings. And at least in his younger years he wasn’t repulsive, seemed to actually get aroused by attractive women, and certainly is a “character.”
Anyway that’s just IMHO. If I were just picking my favorite (though not necesarily “king”), I might go with someone like Mike Horner. The problem with that is probably no one knows who that is- I’m just trying to think of any male talent w/ a long run who didn’t seem to have some sort of tragic demise or sad life, but I know little about any of their lives. But to me it was cool to see a guy with a full erection in movie/scenes with someone like Seka and then also with Jenna Jameson and girls of their eras, without gaining or losing 80lbs, being accused of murder, living in Rob Black’s office, begging for a penis surgery on Gofundme, etc.
To me is the most obvious one. I don’t know a lot about him, so correct me if wrong.
But from what I have observed:
He has a long career. I think he owns his productions. He was in above average shape and has maintained his appearance about as well as can be expected. Is above average in penis size, though exaggerated in claims like everyone else. He actually tends to be aroused and stay aroused by having sex with women. While a lot of his sexual acts and productions were more on the “filthier” and gonzo side, he had many attractive women.
And perhaps being biased due to my age/era, even though most aficionados don’t care for the “Vivid Girl” era… I got into porn during the whole Jenna Jameson, Asia Carrera, Taylor Hayes, Ashlyn Gere, Nikki Tyler, Jjuli Ashton, etc run… when there were a series of “Loves Rocco” features like “Jenna Loves Rocco” and so on. He was probably the only “name” Male, and most of these women did numerous scenes with the same boring guys like Brad Armstrong and Micky G, and skinny dick of death Marc Wallice. There were only so many times I could watch an attractive woman do a DP w/ Tom Byron and Marc Wallice in a mansion or Marc Davis in a field. It seemed like sort of a big deal when these women did Rocco, because he was a star in his own right and also had a big penis and less pedestrian appearance than those other handful of guys. I could be wrong, but I also don’t think he lost 2" of penile length due to increased fatpad like 95% of the other guys still around from that era. Nor does he make Dave Cummings look like a teenager. He might even have a positive net worth.
Good point/distinction.
My most memorable Gillis scene (scenes? They probably did a few) is a 3some with Holmes.
Probably Holmes and Gillis w/ Seka. If you watch that you’ll see why Holmes was a big star.
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I think Ron might win, since he is the one who is often cast as a porn star in non-porn stuff. He actually has a fairly wide and deep filmography outside porn.
*And *he’s funny and laughed at one of my jokes.
John Holmes was the first pornstar to become something of a household name and earned the title the King Ron jeremy has arguably passed Johns name recognition so he would be the living King and successor to Holmes.
Jamie Gillis is the first pornstar who could really really act he was christian grey way before that hack E L James was running down daddys leg…
For that, see “The Little French Maid”, where Connie Peterson gets dp’d by John Homes and Mike Ranger. Utterly epic!
King of Porn, I’m gonna have to go with Ron. For one, how many male porn stars have had documentary features about them? (OK, there is one about Holmes, but if he hadn’t been involved in the Wonderland crime, it wouldn’t have happened) I saw the film in a legit movie theater, packed with fans. Also, he’d been featured in Robot Chicken.
He was the villain in Orgazmo, too.
Career length, penis size, stardom, net worth - all those things aside, Mr. Siffredi is, IMHO, just straight-up better at porn than any of the other contenders.
Ron Jeremy is to porn what KISS is to metal - the stupid, goofy, funny, “safe” alternative, in on the joke and offensive to none.
By contrast, Rocco Siffredi is the Slayer to Jeremy’s KISS - the passionate, die-hard desperado, the unhinged fanatic, bangin’ away like his life depended on it.
“Yeah, you’ve got no confidence, it’s sweet, I like that in a man. I can’t stand those johns who come in and throw down a couple of hundred and whip out a big dick and wave it all over the joint.” – Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
And I vote for Ron Jeremy too.