American Goddess

Don't you love when Misanthropy Central works the red light district?

So, the other week NetFlix sent me a DVD that I'd queued up YEARS ago, that somehow made its way to the top. A volume of "Midnight Blue": a cable access show produced by smut-peddler Al Goldstein in the 1970s/1980s that featured interviews with popular porn stars of the day. These DVDs are particularly cool because they keep in all the original commercials (with numbers blocked out, just in case some numbskull tried to call an escort who put out an advert in 1977) which depict all of these long-gone sex businesses that were everywhere in old New York. From the looks of it, New York City was the Jerusalem of Smut back in those glorious days.

This "Midnight Blue" volume featured an interview with one pornstar that caught my eye...

SEKA...

(Pronounced "Say*kuh".)

This platinum blond goddess was the queen of the adult film industry in the 70s/80s. She was dropdead gorgeous but there was also this sweetness to her. A sense of screen presence and charisma that reached through the celluloid. Something that arguably rivals some mainstream actresses of today. (BURN!)

This was, of course, the golden age of the adult film industry. When porn flicks had actual scripts complete with non-sex scenes and some attention to the art of filmmaking. It's been said a lot but there was a sense of fun and innocence to the pornos of that era. But let me resist digression here because this entry is already bogged down by pictures.

After the "Midnight Blue" DVD, I stumbled upon a documentary from a few years ago called "Desperately Seeking Seka", which features journalist Stefan Nylén's search for whatever happened to Seka...

SPOILER ALERT... he finds her.

Meet Seka (aka "Linda Grasser"). 2002 model, based in Chicago.

Time is one sick fuck, man. Though this more recent 2007 picture of a slimmer Seka has her looking more like Dame Judi Dench.

Like any object of lust, she's a human being. Instead of burning out like so many of her contemporaries, she matured. Got out of the porn industry. Pursued a quieter life. Enjoys cooking Italian food. And shopping. You could probably walk right past her in a mall and not take a second glance.

Good for her, if she's happy. I personally find the aging process somewhat melancholy.

Then there's one of Seka's peers, Veronica Hart (née "Jane Hamilton"), who seems to have aged remarkably well. Featured in the same documentary, she went on to writing/producing/directing in the adult film industry. An interview with her (featuring a NSFW picture up top).

Preverts seeking a little NSFW Seka imagery, CLICK HERE.