Amateur Porn...Fact or Fiction?

Mark from Los Angeles asks... "Willy, when I come across one of these internet videos where male strippers are hired to work a bachelorette party and halfway through the video the women start giving the male strippers blow jobs and sex (and I believe these women are 'real' women, not porn stars)...is this real? Does this actually happen? And, do they get releases from everyone there?"

Mark...wow, this question is a doozy....I'll try to hit all three parts.  I guess my first reaction would be--why are you watching internet videos of male strippers? You do know you can actually see live performances by the Chippendales on any given weekend in Vegas.  It's only a 5 hour drive from Los Angeles...    okay, just kidding...

My overall response to your inquiry would be 'no'...this is not real.  Working in both the adult and mainstream worlds, I have found that anything tagged 'reality' these days is anything but--and that includes celebrity 'sex tapes.'  The only show on television that I believe to be true 'reality' is COPS.  There is absolutely no way that any producer or writer (J.J. Abrams included) could write scenes as genius as the ones on COPS.  A trucker getting busted for masturbating in his cab while wearing a leopard-pattern mini skirt?  An elderly woman driving through the front of a Circle K, then walking inside to buy a six-pack of Coors?  Now, that's reality.  Everything else...forget it.

Case and point #2...OPERATION REPO--TruTV ('not reality, actuality'). Now, I've known a few repo men in my time, and there is one thing I know for sure--any repo man with half a brain isn't doing his repo-ing during the day. They do it at night when the vehicle's owners are asleep. Repo men do not intentionally look for confrontations a-la the overfed crew on OPERATION REPO.  And when repo men do have run-ins with vehicle owners, they are not dressed as Star Trek characters or clad in leather and chain mail.  The shows producers are writing said segments and casting actors to play these ridiculous roles. There is no form of 'reality' on such shows, in fact, most reality shows seem to be more scripted then their fictional contemporaries. 

The same goes for SPEEDERS, THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY (DC, OC, etc), GENE SIMMONS: FAMILY JEWELS, etc.  Now, these shows are shot in 'docu-reality-style,' yet the storylines and character actions are very much scripted...otherwise, you'd have some very boring television (Gene going to synagogue on Yom Kippur...Caroline dealing with her period on a heavy-flow-Maxy-Monday...you get the gist). 

The same applies to these celebrity 'sex tapes.' I mean, really?  Pam & Tommy's sex tape somehow gets lost and out to the public?  And the same thing happening to Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Danielle Staub (can't believe I'm considering her a celeb), Tila Tequila?  C'mon, people.  Anybody who is anybody has a sex tape out these days.  What better way to get your celebrity star out of the dumpster and shining back on TMZ--and without paying a dime to high-end PR companies!  And you better believe most of these celebs have teamed up with the company releasing the said 'sex tape,' splitting the video's gross profits with Vivid. 

But I digress. So...we have several women, some married and some not (but most likely with boyfriends), ripping the speedos off their Chippendale dancers and performing Grade-A fellatio while one of their friends films the event on video?  Forget it. Now, if it was a bachelor party with a room full of drunk dudes and two strippers/high-end call girls...maybe.  But women are way too cool (and savvy) to be involved in such an idiotic foray.  I'm sorry to throw water on your internet fantasy, but the women in this video are porn starlets (or at least starlets-in-training), and yes, everyone performing in the video has most likely signed a release form and a 2257 (standard porn release form stating that you are at least 18 and are aware of what you are doing).  And the stripper dudes are most likely porn stars as well--or at least working for a second-tier Chippendale spin-off company that allows 'happy endings' in their performances.

In this day and age of videotaping every moment of every day, anything that seems 'too dramatic' or 'too sexy' or 'too good to be true,' well...it is.  Reality is no longer reality.  Everyone is a celebrity.  And 'amateur sex tapes' are usually anything but.  You want reality?  Go to the DMV on a Monday morning and feast your eyes on real life.