During his college days in the 1970s, a Reddit user named Bi-Elder starred in an adult film he’s desperate to find.
“I was a starving, questioning college student in Santa Barbara in about the mid ‘70s. Broke as most college students were, I did a bunch of gay [adult films],” he writes in one of two posts.
He then describes the long-lost clip. “It was 5+ of us surfer-type kids driving up and down [the Pacific Coast Highway] in a red Chrysler convertible, f*cking and sucking. We ended up at the beach where we did our thing. Just a vintage 10-minute-or-so video of all of us in this convertible on the highway, then [on] the beach. I got paid and went home with a sore butt.”
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Bi-Elder says an older guy recruited him — and his college roomie, who drove the convertible in the clip — and paid the participants in cash. “His requirements were, ‘Do what you guys do. Make it real, and make it happen,’” he recalls. “It paid the rent, [paid for] books, and kept us fed until graduation. I got over the initial sore ass.”
He lost his copy of the original video, but he saw a version — with “really cheesy” groaning dubbed in — on the vintage section of an XXX website. (“At 19 you are not cognizant of the future and the Internet, but it is what it is,” he added.)
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Now Bi-Elder — who says he eventually married and had kids and grandkids — is trying to find the clip again. “Any ideas and leads?” he asks.
So far, no Redditor has found the clip, but there is one potential lead. “I think I do remember it and if it’s the one I’m thinking of, I’ve got a copy of it,” one commenter wrote. “Give me a little time to locate it on my dedicated external hard drive.”
Hope this Bi-Elder can track down the video. If you have any info, respond to the guy here. After all, every tale needs a happy ending!
RomanHans
Actually, I’m looking for video evidence of a porn star I used to know, if anybody can help me out. This was around 1976, and either his porn name was Tony, real name Eric or vice versa. He was a super muscular blonde. Maybe a mustache, maybe Swedish? Appreciate any help.
jscotty
Pretty sure you’re thinking of Eric Stryker. Very buff blond. Starred in numerous second-tier productions like Student Bodies. Sadly succumbed to AIDS
Johnjx
I’m sure his grandchildren will be thrilled to find that after he’s gone.
D_Bro
Nice. Judgement for a sexual past.
Harley
I’m sure he would be unrecognizable.
GlobeTrotter
Haha! Several years ago I once rented a porn video (back then when videotapes were still a thing), stuck it in the VCR and lo and behold, there was a guy I used to know from college getting the bejesus screwed out of him by a group of three rough looking Latin guys! At first, I couldn’t believe it – I used to have a passing crush on that guy, but had no idea he was gay. If I’d known back then that he took it up the butt, I’d have been all over him like white on rice >:)
Anyway, I sent him an email and he confirmed that he had made a video. He was 19 or 20 and needed the cash and the guy that made the video promised that it would only be sold locally in the college town in upstate NY where we were living at the time. I found the video in NYC.
In another case I heard through the rumor mills that one of the popular guys from my high school did a gay porn video. Supposedly there was a clip being passed around on social media but sadly I never got around to getting a copy.
ho
This is silly. Why try to hunt it down. It will expire like all the old grainy porn and no one will be the wiser. Let it be.
barkomatic
I can understand why he’d want it. He was probably the best looking in his life at the time, it might bring back nice memories and it certainly makes for a colorful family history. He also may not be entirely straight.
Chrisk
barkomatic
I did some porn in the 90s. It’s funny looking at myself interacting with the other models as a twenty something like it was yesterday. I’m 53 today.
I do miss those days when every day was a great day in the looks department though. Lol
iminheatlikeacat
Serves me right for reading so fast – I thought it said he wanted to find it TO SHOW his kids and grandkids smh lol
Norm
He’s probably trying to blackmail one of the people in the video for big money.
RandomGuy
His wife and kids must be thrilled at his longing to take a stroll down gay memory lane yet another reason to never date a bi guy because he’ll always choose the easy way out and marry a woman which he will then immediately start cheating on.
Cam
Except there was nothing in the article about him cheating, but nice try.
Res1
Someone asked him what’s he up to now in the Reddit post and he said he has a wife, kids and grandkids and then someone asked if he’s bi and he said he’s undecided. Wow even at 65. Not much has changed with these guys.