I was worried about Stephanie going to Los Angeles to work with Max Hardcore. There were plenty of models that after working with Max decided porn was definitely not for them  and would hit the eject button on the porn vehicle career path before even really pulling out of the starting gate. Shooting a Max Hardcore scene was certainly a trial by fire. He demanded high intensity, extreme sexual acrobatics, and absolute obedience to his directing style. Love him or hate him for the type of content he makes, one still has to acknowledge that he does have a standard of style and, scoff at this all you want, an artistic vision for what he is doing.

I once saw a memo from one of his chief production company clients, internationally successful porn company Private Media, and one of the directives stated “Start with the female dressed up and with good make-up then start with one male performer but add another or two or three more and do not retouch the make-up during the scene. By the end of the scene the female should look completely opposite, sweaty, disheveled, a complete mess”. This was the type of scene that made Private a successful company and Max cut his porn chops on this kind of client, but I wasn’t sure Stephanie was ready for this type of stuff. It was a long way away from the kind of amateur porn Homegrown Video distributed, which apart from the Max line was based on letting horny folks do whatever they wanted to do with whomever he or she wanted to be with.

I told Stephanie to call me and let me know how it went.  When I didn’t hear from her, I didn’t know what to think.  I worked for Max back when there was a rumor that a girl had died on his set and he had buried her in the San Fernando Valley somewhere. Even though I knew that wasn’t true I still knew some models that were so freaked out by the sort of crazed scenes that they did afterwards would disappear to mend their fragile and shattered sense of self. Then you might never hear from the model again, or the model would say “Don’t ever work for Max” to any other aspiring starlets, or the model would realize that it wasn’t so bad – the pay good, the notoriety better – and they would spend the next couple of weeks  shooting exclusively for Max.

I called Stephanie a few times. Almost a week later she finally called me back.

At this point, we new Stephanie Swift was the kind of girl true fans of porn, amateur, pro, doesn’t matter, true fans love seeing REAL SEX.  Fans definitely know the difference between the one that  is really getting off… in the sense of getting off just on being in front of the camera and those performers who  are just going through the motions to get the job done. Unfortunately, since those truly hyper sexual sort of freaks that get off on that sort of kink don’t really form the majority of performers. We all would like to think otherwise, but that is just a fantasy. So, finding someone like Stephanie, with her erotic Eurasian good looks and potent sex drive, meant discovering that rare sort of person that really should make xxx movies and would obviously be a superstar.

And superstars sell videos.

Unfortunately, Stephanie was adamant about not wanting to go that route. She just wanted to be in videos and to be able to get her freak on; however, not at the risk of those well heeled La Jolla level wealthy parents of her handsome and well educated boyfriend finding out. Well, well, well, ok. We could respect that. She was welcome to be in as many of our videos as she wanted and if she ever changed her mind then we would talk about putting her in one of our “Here Comes” videos.

The “Here Comes” series from Homegrown Video was created to take people that wanted to become superstars in porn and give them the best possible vehicle and spotlight for navigating that path. This meant shooting an entire video of scenes featuring the model and getting a big shot photographer with a make-up artiste and an assistant or two to shoot a picture that we would put on the box cover. Then before the title released, we would contact the adult press and try to light a fire of publicity that would be burning furnace hot as soon as the video came out. At this point, the mainstream Los Angeles based porn companies that signed stars to lucrative contracts would come a ‘calling and then that model would be well on her way to fast money, rock star boyfriends, and snorting coke at swank parties in the Hollywood Hills. Stephanie Swift naturally was a candidate for shooting this sort  of title, where the ante was upped by such a greater investment of time and energy.  

At Homegrown, we had seen this condition before. Total orgasm junkie using porn to get her fix; possessed by a demon whore raised from some oozing, teeming jungle swamp of pure fucking muck. We could not contain her. She caused an emergency for more videotape when we realized that we had not brought enough to tame the sex beast inside her. All day Stephanie had been so quiet. Now her low, groaning, moans were starting up from some deep and profoundly sensual. Her body would convulse with spasms that every now and then would freeze her still, except for her toes, which would twitch like shrimp swimming away. At times we wondered if she was alive or dead, and the only way we could tell was the variety of colors that seemed to iridescently shimmer across her chest, shimmering from pert pretty breast to breast – colorful proof that she was in fact an alien sent to collect orgasmic energy with which to control the universe.

At Homegrown, we have a dedicated responsibility not to let that happen. No matter the consequences. Our mission is to make a world where sex is safe; says so right in the handbook.

When the situation was finally brought under control,  the cameras were smoking, all the other guys and girls in the room  were sweating, except Stephanie who apparently does not sweat, the room was literally melting in the dank sweet swampy smell of over four hours of people fucking. At the end, we all bowed out to just watch Stephanie get off. She created a sense of awe because she was just so intensely focused and concentrated on getting off. We knew what we were witnessing.

A star is porn.

Stephanie “Chinacat” Swift was introduced to us by a San Diego local who goes by the alias “Mark Giffy”. He had met her the day before on a set where Stephanie was set to perform her first scene. Unfortunately, according to Stephanie, the guy had trouble performing (remember, this was before the days of drugs like Cialis and Viagra). When we met, I could scarcely believe that she wanted to be in adult videos.  She was so quiet; shy to the point of being like an oblique liquid transparency of anything resembling a personality that I thought if I looked at her long enough then she would blow away and pop like a glistening bubble blown by a kid on a hot summer’s day. Upon asking her the standard array of questions though, would you like to be in a Homegrown Video, why would you like to be in amateur porn, what would you like to do in a xxx video, how far do you want to go in the adult industry, and questions like that then I realized what a completely complex person Stephanie actually is.

Stephanie was inspired by a big star at the time named Raquel Darrian. She simply lusted for the opportunity to have sex with her. In fact, Stephanie admitted that getting into porn would be an excellent way to indulge her bisexual tendencies since, as she explained, finding a girl to bring into her relationship with her boyfriend had been tough. (Some people have problems the rest of us wish we had!) The one hitch to the plan was the fact that Stephanie didn’t want her boyfriend’s parents to find out that she was making amateur sex videos or indulging in any other kind of naughty and inappropriately erotic pastimes. The parents were apparently dusty and crusty old money San Diegans that would sincerely not approve of such things.

However, no matter what her boyfriend’s parents thought, Stephanie was determined to make some amateur porn with us. If she felt that way about it, then there was just one way to determine if she was being sincere about it or not – put her in the middle of an orgy and see how well she accounts herself.  Our strategy for the stuff that we used to shoot ourselves was entirely based on the type of amateur porn submittal content that we like best; keep the cameras rolling as long as people are having fun and make sure you have enough tape to capture it all. There were two cameras that day and it was still hard to capture all the action, especially when Stephanie was practically melting them down in her pursuit of absolutely intense orgasms.

One question frequently debated in the hallowed halls of porn message boards and bedroom sets the world over centers upon the difference between amateur and pro porn. One side says how anything can be amateur when the people are going to be paid? The other side replies that amateur porn features people that aren’t porn stars because they don’t want to be porn stars, would never be able to pass themselves off as being porn stars, or don’t have enough porn movie credits to qualify as a porn star. The debate clouds into a haze of minute details though the moment one finds there are people who want to be porn stars and enjoy getting paid to fuck on video but tell themselves that staying in amateur porn is a great way to keep one’s friends and family from finding out that he or she is doing xxx.  Such was the case with Stephanie Swift, who we originally knew by the alias “Chinacat”, back in the days when she first entered the wild and wacking off world of  adult entertainment. (to be continued)

At this point, everyone probably knows  about the furry niche where people dress up in cute, fuzzy, animal costumes and have sex, or things like clown niche where people dress up as clowns,  trade cream  pies in the face, and have  sex, but here are ten new ones to  look out for…

1.        James Bonding. Couples dress in fancy evening gowns and tuxedos and have dangerous sex in public places like hotel balconies and underneath baccarat tables. Instead of talking dirty, couples exchange pithy remarks. After having rough sex they fall in love then try to kill each other.

2.       Parapoopchuting:  Couples jump out of airplanes and engage in anal sex and try to come right at the moment of opening their parachutes.

3.       Banking: Couple stands on either side of a glass window and male masturbates until he can “make a deposit” on the glass. Female pays only minimal interest.

4.       Tennis Balling: Couple wears tennis outfits and attempts to have sex on famous tennis courts around the world while spectators look on. (Derivations include baseballing, golf balling, and soccer balling)

5.       Scrapping: Couples take amateur porn sex photos of them fucking then create scrap books which they make other friends look at and masturbate while viewing.

6.       Grinding: Woman makes a cup of coffee and pours the hot liquid on a guy’s balls before sitting atop his erect penis and grinding on him in the cowgirl position to orgasm. Refills on the coffee are considered a must.

7.       Hairy Potter:  Women develops a nice hairy bush then let’s guys dressed in black capes jack off their “magic wands” all over her pubic hair.

8.       Facialbooking: People use social networking websites to post endless inane messages about the joys of facial cumshots.

9.       Oprah: Couples discuss their sex lives endlessly and feign interest while indulging in mutual masturbation while seated across from one another.

10.   Homegrowning: An oldy, but a goody… people make amateur sex videos of themselves and send them to Homegrown Video so that other people can watch them and jerk off!

There is no denying that Homegrown Video celebrates the hairy pussy. Sure, this goes against convention. Typical wisdom on the subject from our peers and colleagues tends to be completely disapproving and we are criticized and told women in amateur porn should have unshaven cunts. In their minds, Homegrown Video has some sort of problem. We are seen as being out of touch, behind the times, prone to purchasing content that seems in their view to be unpopular and unpleasant. Nothing could be farther from the truth of course. We have been around long enough and heard enough feedback to  know that our hairy bush amateur videos are a treasure to those fans of hairy bush that cannot find good unshaven pussy hair content any place else.

Author Eric Schlosser, who wrote the best sellers “Fast food Nation” and “Reefer Madness”, described Homegrown Video in the latter with these words: “Made by the people, for the people, Homegrown Video represents the democracy of porn”.  To this day, that description is one that fills us with a certain sense of pride and heritage, and continues to inspire us in our mission to offer authentic and patriotic amateur porn, which as much as ever still represents an essential freedom celebrating liberty and our right to pursue happiness – albeit of an erotic nature. There could be no more important basic way to express that freedom than through our sexuality which next to eating and sleeping and thinking is such a basic and essential part of life.  The right to express ourselves sexually and in a creative way personally and for the enjoyment of others is something that we feel absolutely precious about so obviously we have our own reasons for celebrating the 4^th of July with special enthusiasm and gusto.

This year Homegrown Video will celebrate the 4^th with a major site update that is sure to make our membership stand up and salute our eternally vigilant efforts to provide top quality amateur porn to a republic of fans that has shown over 25 years of loyalty and support.  We are finally restoring some classic sections from our previous site iterations as well as adding new sections that are sure to impress our audience with not only great freshly rendered amateur sex action but also enhanced ways to access the material and bond with other members of the community. The tireless efforts of our dedicated staff should  be saluted!

1.       When the Dead and Phish regrouped to come back on tour after a long hiatus, then young hot and hirsute women were sure to proliferate with big furry bushes and fuzzy arm pits.

2.       Sales of merkins (a pubic wig) have sharply increased for women that want that unshaven bush look.

3.       With many Brazilian waxing salons closing due to health code violations, many women are finding that they are forced to grow out their pussy hair rather than having to shave down there.

4.       Since Capri style pants are back in fashion, women that don’t yet want to trim down the winter bush in preparation for summer bathing suits can buy some time before whipping out the razors.

5.       Porn stars are finding a second life to their sagging careers by letting their cunt hair grow out.

6.       A commercial for feminine razors makes winking references to keeping women’s bushes neat and trim.

7.       Nostradamus made a prediction; the translation states “In the year of 2009 the red dog will bark for Adam as Eve will no longer know shame of her hairy pussy”

8.       The resurgence of shag carpet has been shown to have a direct correlation to the length of pussy hair.

9.       New grooming tool innovations have made it possible to shave ingenious designs in your pubic hair such as my girlfriend Lani’s fave, Hello Kitty.

10.   Amateur  porn  made for Homegrown Video’s “Natural Bush” series is winning fans worldwide!

As has been noted before,   I would never have had any sort of issue of these sorts if it were not for my upbringing which is a mix of cherished though weathered Southern gentility mixed with a dash of East Coast blueblood aspirations. Those affectations are to this day like a starched suit of propriety worn over a leopard print dong thong. Dressed underneath the pleasant manners and the stuffy cordialities there is only the half naked, fully sweaty, panting hard, trappings of a bona fide sex fiend ready to be exposed. So trying to maintain acting all dressed up and unruffled while all the while feeling the completely nude emotion of intense sexual desire was literally causing me to sweat. And a sweaty guy with a couch in his office that innocent young San Diego girls would take their clothes off and lie on was not making Daphne’s friend change her mind about amateur porn at all. The way she was looking at me I might as well have had horns on my head, a pointy tale, and sitting in a fiery office chair.

But when the going gets tough, then the tough get hard… and make some porn!

I won’t bore you with the details of what we did sexually; what would be the point? You can watch that video in Homegrownvideo.com or catch it in the “Eye Contact #2” from Homegrown.  Suffice to say it was all that and a cherry on top that left me smiling for days and led to many future videos and wild sex adventures – I guess most of  which was captured for the camera. And who can forget when Daphne worked as our “naughty secretary” who was on a live cam all day… the fact that she loved to hike her panties aside and play with her wet pussy all day was certainly a plus  for our fans, but  the downside was  having other work to do… lesson learned. All sex and no work is no way to run a porn biz.

And what about Daphne’s porn hater pal? She stayed in the office next to where I was fucking her BFF, not long though, as soon as the sounds of our frantic fucking began to echo down the hall she was out of there. Leaving Daphne stranded in the clutches of a dangerous pornographer?  What are friends for if you can’t fuck them or be fucked over by them, right?

The funny part is that Daphne and her friend did make up and start talking again… Only to find out that while Daphne had become an amateur porn queen and Homegrown Video legend, her pal was working in a jack shack with twisted perverts paying her hundreds of dollars to pee on them. The wonders of this world never cease to amaze me.