Porn star in the steam room
I recently worked out a friends gym near Chicagos Boys Town, a standard nice urban gym with a fair share of well-toned millennials. My buddy is a regular and exchanged polite chatter about weekend plans with a few in the mens steam room. They were all wrapped in towels just like in the movies, but I sat naked on my towel as a 50+ visitor and no one seemed to notice. Nor did I give it any thought that they were talking about their gay lifestyle, because it was all suitable for a church coffee hour.
Yesterday I found out one of the men there is a famous porn star. I googled his stage name and sure enough, he was just like in the movies, but a different kind of movies than his G-rated steam room persona. First I was shocked, then charmed. What is his real demeanor, I thought: the squeaky clean all-American boy every grandma would love or the voracious cocksucker on porn hub? Yes, a squeaky clean porn star. They dont all have to have moustaches and look sleazily out of the corners of their eyes after all. Millennials seem navigate whatever worlds they define themselves by, and shine through it all, and I have a lot to learn. Next time I sit naked in the steam room next to toweled world-class porn star, I will smile that no one needs to care, and its all good.
I've hung out with and/or worked for a lot of famous people. And it seems what they want more than anything is to be treated normally. So a normal steamroom conversation about their workout, the weather, weekend plans, etc that you'd have with anyone else in a steamroom is usually quite welcomed. To be a rock star, actor, or porn star (in this case), you have to be able to compartmentalize the persona you've created and your real self to stay sane. Strangers approaching them in public expecting a performance or feeling entitled to a piece of them because they are famous are violating their space/privacy.
I met my favorite porn star at a pool party in Palm Springs! And it was weird because I was looking at this man and I was like... "I know him! Where do i know him from..." and like an hour later after hanging out, talking, drinking at this party it finally clicked! It was Alan Silver, this crazy hot daddy bear. Even though I had a 100 questions about his work, I kept it cool and just continued with the normal party small talk. He was a nice guy, very unassuming, and handsome, which was refreshing.
I met a porn star while staying at one of the low key resorts in Palm Springs. We hit it off lounging around the pool ....naked of course. Cant remember his name, but he was a looker. Not my speed though. I prefer hair brunets and he was a smooth, well built young blond. We may have hit it off simply because I wasnt attracted to him and vice versa. Even though he played the party bottom in gang bang films, he was a really nice and normal acting young man.
Having lived in the Hollywood/Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles, running into stars is a common event. Los Angelenos pretty much ignore them in public.
Many years ago a porn star introduced himself as such when my buddy and I went to his country dance lesson for gay men at a CW bar in Chicago. He was the teacher. None of us were quite sure what to do with the info. He told us the names of his flicks, perhaps some went to check them out. But my friend and I learned to two step and waltz pretty well together, he was a porn star that was a good dance teacher.
Its also notable that many adult film stars view their work as just that - work they have an entire range of personality and interests outside of their chosen profession - unfortunately, they get pigeonholed as having a singular focus (not that you see them that way) so outside of the environment they definitely surprise folks when they are just hanging out I live in the neighborhood and these days the performers are just strolling the streets in the summer time - fully clothed of course LOL