Special Edition 504 - Anal Ecstasy

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Swedish Erotica 281 - Ski Bunnies, Part 1

 

This loop was shot in 1979 and is also known as Snow Bunnies, Part 1. The quality isn't great but I've never been able to find a better version. It's one of the few time we get to see Seka having anal sex. There is a great close-up as Paul Thomas slides his cock into her ass as she sucks off David Morris.

Paul Thomas is one of the most famous and iconic porn stars of the 1970s and early 1980s. He came from a wealthy upper middle class family in Illinois that owned household-name businesses, such as Sara Lee and Jim Beam. 

with Holly McCall

After studying political science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he turned to acting and joined the cast of Hair as it toured Chicago and New York.  He then auditioned for the Broadway musical Jesus Christ Superstar in New York and became the understudy to Jesus and played the High Priest. In 1973, after touring the play across the country, Paul Thomas and Carl Anderson (who played Judas) were both asked to audition for the upcoming film version of the musical. Both were successful and Thomas was given the role of Peter. 

Paul Thomas then moved to Hollywood to further his mainstream career. Although he appeared in a couple of TV shows, he struggled with the competition.

"I was now competing for major films with major stars like Michael Douglas and Michael Moriarty, and I didn't get them. They got them. They were better actors than I was. And I wasn't studying the way I should have been studying. You can only go so far on natural talent."

He eventually moved to San Francisco in 1974 and got a role in the musical Beach Blanket Babylon, which became the world's longest-running musical revue (1974-2019). While there he alternated between stage-work and flying down to Los Angeles to appear in TV shows and commercials.

with Kandi Barbour

"I got involved in X rated movies because the Mitchell Brothers came to see the show Beach Blanket Babylon and I met them. San Francisco was the epicenter of the adult movie industry. I got to know them a little bit. They got to understand how much I enjoyed pornography and they were doing a movie called The Autobiography of a Flea (1976) and they offered me the lead role. It was a 100 page script, $1,000 a day and gorgeous women. I did it because I didn't have the confidence that I could compete at the highest level of acting. I had the talent but didn't have the dedication to maintain it. And also, I was a sex monster. When I discovered that I could express myself in X rated movies, it was amazing. This was a community that embraced me. For the first time I had a feeling that this is where I belong. This is what I should be doing."

Over the next decade Paul Thomas appeared in hundreds of adult movies and loops, including classics such as Desires Within Young Girls (1977), Hard Soap Hard Soap (1977), Reflections (1977), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Pretty Peaches (1978). In the mid-1980s he moved behind the camera and started directing porn films. 

Swedish Erotica 242 - Afternoon Snacks

This loop was released in 1979. It's the fourth she made for Swedish Erotica and the first in which she appeared with Desiree Cousteau. This loop is silent.

Desiree Cousteau began her adult career by posing nude in the June 1974 edition of Penthouse, under the title ‘Georgia Girl’. She was 17 at the time and still in college. Soon after she quit college and moved to Los Angeles with her boyfriend to be a movie star. 

“I discovered that you had to do a lot of fucking behind the scenes to get in front of the camera. Everybody’s ‘friend’ wants to meet you and ball you, and they expect you to do that.” 

Movie poster

Despite securing minor roles in B’ movie exploitation films like Caged Heat (1974) and Super Lady (1975), her mainstream career never took off and she was soon working as a nude model and stripper to support herself.

“I worked for Alex [De Renzy] at his club called ‘The Playpen’. I was dancing there with three other girls – we put on a live sex show. We did a lesbian thing. Sometimes it was simulated on stage, and sometimes we did the real thing. He asked me if I’d like to make a movie, and so we made Pretty Peaches (1978). That was my first starring role. It wasn’t exactly the kind of movie star I was hoping to become.” 

Pretty Peaches was a big success and quickly made Desiree a star, but she always felt conflicted about doing porn.

Seka later said: “Desiree Cousteau was an interesting character. Very pretty. She had a tight body to die for, with a pair of early implants. But she was another one who was absolutely wacko nuts. She could be hot and heavy in the middle of a scene with a dick in one hand and a mouth full of pussy, when all of a sudden there was a look on her face and a total change would come over her. ‘I can’t do this anymore. God told me not to.’ She’d just stop what she was doing and walk off the set. A few minutes later she might come back and start the scene all over again, or sometimes she’d just disappear entirely. This happened several times. She was just crazy!”

The last movie Desiree made was Inside Desiree Cousteau (1979), but other movies such as Delicious (1981) and Center Spread Girls (1982) were still being released long after she had left the industry.

Numerous rumours began circulating as to what she did after leaving porn. Some said that she started a family and lived as a housewife, others that she had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalised. The most recent rumour was that she went back to college and completed a degree in psychology and now practices in her native Georgia.

 

Special Edition 101/102 - Carpenter's Coffeebreak/Anal Sandwich

Seka worked for Special Edition in 1978, and then again in 1980. Carpenter's Coffeebreak and Anal Sandwich are the first two loops she made for the company. The footage was all shot on the same day as a single 20 minute movie, but was then split and released as two seperate loops - SK101 and SK102. Obviously you can make more money that way. The two men Seka fucks this time are Mike Ranger and Ray Wells.

Still from loop

Ray Wells moved to San Francisco in 1970 after getting a degree in business in Charlotte, North Carolina. He lived in a hippy commune for a couple of years before eventually meeting Connie Di Angelo, one of the city's top madames. Through her he hooked up with the photographer Paul Johnson and started working as a nude model. It didn't take long before he started appearing in loops and by 1975 had appeared in his first feature length porn film. He became known as Radio Ray within the industry because he had been to broadcasting school and wanted to work in radio.

In 1979 he moved to Los Angeles. By the mid-1980s he had quit porn and was working for Jim South's World Modelling agency. He’d answer phones, set up appointments, and take Polaroids of the aspiring actors and actresses. Traci Lords and Shauna Grant were two of the models he met this way.

Diverse Industries F695 - Dream Goddess

This was filmed in 1978, and although it was released before the Fire & Ice loop, it was actually filmed after it. So chronologically this is probably the third loop Seka made. Its original catalogue number was F-695 but it was later re-released as Raffaelli Film #106. They seem to have done this with a lot of the Diverse loops and it can get confusing.

Catalogue for loop

This is an extended version. I found extra footage from the shoot on a compilation a few years ago and re-inserted it, so it runs for about four minutes longer than the original loop. Seka's co-star here is Mike Ranger. 

Mike Ranger began appearing in loops and low-budget porn movies in 1974, but it wasn't until 1979 that he made a name for himself by appearing in quality films such as Heavenly Desire, Hot Rackets and and Taxi Girls. The high point of his career was in 1980 when he starred in Taboo as Kay Parker's son. Although he made dozens of loops, Mike Ranger made relatively few feature films, and by 1985 had quit the business.

Seka really enjoyed working with Mike Ranger and they appeared together in a number of loops and movies. Years later she remembered shooting a scene with him:

Still from loop

"I was doing a scene with Mike Ranger, and we were getting ready to do the money shot, and so we gave them the shot, and the director said, 'Cut!' And I said, 'Cut, my ass! I'm not finished yet.' I looked up at Mike, and said, 'Keep going!' We made the director and crew leave the room and we stayed in there for maybe three hours. We weren't screwing the whole time, but we were enjoying it and we had a couple of cigarettes and we talked, and Mike said, 'Well, do you think we should let them know that we finished?' And, I said, 'No, that's cool. Let's take a break.' We locked the doors and wouldn't let them in. It was hot. We enjoyed being around each other and talking, and the crew was knocking on the door, but we just told them we would be with them when we finished. Neither of us were acting like big stars or anything. And after the money shot, they didn't care if the girl was finished, but I was just wasn't done that day. I was not done."

Swedish Erotica 237 - Aunt Peg's Big Interview

This is the second loop Seka made for Swedish Erotica in 1978. Like most loops by this label it has been used in numerous compilations over the years. Her co-stars here are the legendary Jamie Gillis and Juliet Anderson (who used the name Aunt Peg in a lot of her loops). 

Jamie Gillis had spent most of the 1960s travelling around Europe as a mime artist before going to college and becoming a stage actor in New York. In 1971 saw an advertisement in the Village Voice for nude actor work.

with Annette Haven

"I was driving a cab around that time to make money, and also working theater at night. It was hectic and it was hard to do all that. So I was looking for something easy to do for a couple hours during the day. I picked up the Village Voice looking for a part time job. I thought I’d do something like packing boxes, anything, and I saw this ad under ‘part time jobs’. I thought why not?"

"That was placed by Bob Wolfe. He filmed 8mm hardcore sex loops in a dirty basement on 14th St. I responded, and my career in porn films started. I still did plays from time to time, but in truth, there was no going back."

Gillis, along with with actors like Harry Reems and Marc Stevens, is considered one of the original pioneers of the New York porn inductry. He was there at the beginning.

 

 

Juliet in the 1960s

Juliet Anderson grew up in a middle class family in Burbank, California. After graduating from California State in Long Beach with a major in Art and a minor in English, she worked a series of jobs before leaving America in the early sixties to teach English in Mexico, Japan and eventually Europe. She moved to Greece in the late 1960s and had a romantic relationship with the Greek politician Alexander Papadogonas. In 1971, she settled in Finland where she worked for the Finnish Broadcasting Company as a radio programmer until 1977.

She moved to San Francisco in 1977, where she hoped to resume her radio career, but opportunities proved thin on the ground. The following year she met Alex de Renzy, who was also producing porn films. Juliet was a broad-minded woman with a high sex drive, and it didn't take much convincing for her to investigate this option.

"I was so impressed with what a gentleman he was. He did not put the make on me at all. He was bright, he was sweet. I thought, 'What a nice man'. He didn’t even ask to look at my breasts! He trusted his assistant, he just looked at the schedule and asked when I could start work."

Her first movie was Pretty Peaches in 1978 where she had sex with John Leslie.

"So about twelve hours later the phone started ringing off the hook from all the producers in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. Everyone from the 16mm loops to the 35mm films; I was like hot property!"

Swedish Erotica 291 - Spring Vacation

Seka's co-stars in this 1979 loop are David Morris and Joan Thomas. 

David Morris was originally part of the New York porn scene and had already been in the industry for three years. By 1979 he was at the peak of his popularity, having starred in classic films such as Odyssey (1977), Debbie Does Dallas (1978), Here Comes The Bride (1978) and Fantasy (1979). Perhaps his most famous scene is from Insatiable (1980) when he fucks Marilyn Chambers on the pool table. He was never a A' list porn star, and by the early 1980s started to fade away. 

Morris was bisexual, having already appeared as a 'bottom' in the 1978 loop Special Delivery (Fantasy Playhouse #110) when he was fucked by R.J. Reynolds. By the mid-1980s he was appearing mainly in bi or gay movies. He died of a drug overdose in 1999.

Not much is known about Joan Thomas. She appeared in a few loops between 1979-1980 for Swedish Erotica and Diverse Industries, then vanished.

Diamond Collection 76 - Expensive Lady

The Diamond Collection series ran from 1979 until 1984, and was probably second only to Swedish Erotica as the most successful loop carier. In total it released over 300 titles. 

Unlike Swedish Erotica which consistently seemed to attract the top porn stars, Diamond Collection would cast second division stars or unknowns. Nevertheless, top porn actresses such as Jessie St. James, Dorothy Le May, Chris Cassidy and Brooke West all made loops for the company. Seka starred in three loops, all shot in 1980. This is the second she made. Her co-stars here are Jesse Adams and an unknown woman.

Jesse Adams came from a broken home in Ohio and was put in an orphanage by his mother. He was later subjected to physical abuse by his adoptive parents. As soon as he turned 17 he joined the U.S. Army to escape. A year later he was sent to Vietnam.

with Valerie Paulson

"I admit there was a little bit of John Wayne in me. I wanted to go to Vietnam, and fight for freedom. Freedom was the most important thing to me... At first it was an adventure, but then the shit started hitting the fan. Things got real very fast. There were always mortars flying everywhere. Guys were killed just 20 feet from where I was standing. When that happens, your adrenaline starts running like a racehorse. I was scared as all hell but excited at the same time. There’s something weird about adrenaline that lets you do things you normally couldn’t... When an attack happens, you have to rely on your training. The guys who didn’t would do stupid things… and they’d suffer the consequences... I made friends, but I lost a lot of them."

Jesse was discharged in 1969 and spent the next few years drifting around the States until he moved to California in 1972.

"I picked up some construction work in Los Angeles, and I thought about going back to college but didn’t get far with that, so I took some acting classes at Warner Brothers Studios – mostly to meet girls but also because I enjoyed it." 

with Samantha Fox
and Vanessa Del Rio

Despite the odd theatre job, his acting career didn't get very far. In 1974 he was struggling to pay the rent and agreed to what he thought was a non-sex part in a short movie.

"When I turned up, I realized immediately it wasn’t a real movie set because there was just a director, a pretty young woman, and a redhead from Simi Valley in her 40s. No other crew… and there was just a single camera on a tripod – not even any lighting or anything. Well, the director said I’d get $100 if I did it, and I was broke. I needed to pay the rent which was $80, so $100 was a lot of money – that would leave $20 for food for the month. You have to understand, I really didn’t want to do it. But… I needed the money so I said yes.

"The next day I got a phone call from a guy wanting me to perform in his film. He said, 'You don’t know me, but my name is Howard and I heard you did pretty good when you shot yesterday.' Then I got three more phone calls from other guys with similar offers. I’d ask them how much they were paying and then I said yes. Before long I was a regular. Sometimes I’d wind up doing four loops in a single day. I kept getting calls ‘cause I could cum a lot. I was working every single day: I’d do a couple of scenes, then I’d cover for guys that couldn’t get a hard-on… and there were a lot of those. I used to stand in for them all."

with Mai Lin

Over the next 20 years Jesse appeared in hundreds of loops and movies. He rarely had the lead role and most of the movies he appeared in are instantly forgettable. But some, like Tangerine (1979), Female Athletes (1979), The Blonde (1980) and Peaches and Cream (1981) are among the best porn films of the time. According to Jesse, video was the beginning of the end for quality porn.

"The early business consisted of a group of people who wanted to make good films. Some of the films were terrible – but that’s not the point. They all wanted to make good product. So in a sense, we all were invested in each other. We all wanted to contribute to make each other do well because that would be good for all of us. When the business switched to videos… anyone could pick up a video camera and shoot something without getting any assistance from anyone else. That was a huge change. It meant that production costs went down and so people were less interested in trying hard anymore. Non one needed to help anyone else. And of course there was less money to go around so we all got paid less. It was less fun. In fact sometimes it was grim."

If you want to know more about Jesse Adams and what happened to him after porn, read this excellent interview by the Rialto Report. It's where all these quotes are from.

Limited Edition 136 - Try Me

Still from loop

Limited Edition was a US series that ran from 1978-1982. It released over 200 loops and starred some of the biggest names in porn at the time, including Georgina Spelvin, Annette Haven,Juliet Anderson, Desiree West, Candida Royalle and Lisa De Leeuw. This is the first of two loops Seka made for the series. Her co-star is Alan Adrian, who later recalled working with her: 

“I did a loop with Seka in California called 'Try Me'. I played a producer and she was coming in to be cast. I keep a copy of the loop at home. I show it to my friends. Seka gives me a great blowjob because she’s really into it. She has these long strokes and her tongue moves really fast... She’s a great fuck too. She let me do the moving – that’s the way I like it. She wasn’t passive; she was just the right combination of action and reaction.”

Pretty Girls 13 - Seka

Girls of the World cover

The Pretty Girls series began in the early 1970s as Pretty Girl Pictures using pink boxes. By 1975 the design had changed and the series became know as Pretty Girl. Towards the end of the 1970s the design changed again, the boxes became brown, and the series was re-branded Pretty Girls. To confuse matters further, many of the early loops in pink boxes were re-issued later in brown boxes, but not always with the same number. Then they released some of the loops under the title Girls of the World.

Seka made three loops for Pretty Girls. This is the first. It was originally released around 1978, but I can't be certain. It was later released as Girls of the World #1. I've no idea what the guy in this is called, other than he's named Mike. I love these early loops of Seka. She looks young and vivacious. This loop is silent.  

Swedish Erotica 240 - Sweet Alice

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