A Survivor In The Smut Business
Saturday, May 25th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
Silent Porn Star has an exclusive interview with Irv O. Neil — a writer and editor of smut for books, magazines, movies, video, the web, and your Kindle since 1974. It looks like SPS will be doling out the interview in parts (only the first of which is up yet) but even this man’s list of all the porn jobs he’s had reads like a history of the industry. Here’s his memory of Times Square, back in the day:
Eighth Avenue near Times Square was lined with streetwalkers, some of whom were really beautiful and sexy – amazing blondes in hot pants and platform shoes. I was smitten. Strip clubs, inexpensive massage parlors, hookers and dominatrixes advertising in Screw, porn movie theaters with live shows. The Melody Burlesque with the porn stars as feature dancers and where girls danced naked in your lap for a dollar – and with its infamous “Mardi Gras,” where customers lined up to eat out the dancers at a buck a lick…
