Will the Real JimmyD Please Stand Up

Someone posted a comment today that included a link to a XXX clip from a movie I once directed. The clip included yours truly portraying himself. Well, not exactly me but "me" in the role of a porn director directing a couple of meatpuppets on a beautiful Southern California beach. No, I don't have sex with anyone in the clip and I remain fully clothed throughout. (The world should be thankful for this.)

I rejected the comment. I rejected it because this blog isn't a porn site. If I started posting links to porn clips Google might possibly censor this blog. More importantly, this blog is about photography, glamour and tease photography for the most part. Although more than a few people on this planet might consider the pics I post along with my ramblings as porn--and most of the models displayed are, in fact, porn stars--this still isn't a porn site. Leastwise, in my opinion it isn't. And frankly, it's my blog so my opinion is really all that matters when it comes to what sort of content is included in my updates and in the comments.

I'm not sure what motivated the anonymous commenter to include the link. Is he or she attempting to "out" me as a pornographer? I don't know and I don't care. I certainly don't think I've tried to hide the fact that I work in the adult industry. Perhaps the commenter merely thought the clip was funny? The clip is, in fact, a very tongue-in-cheek commentary on directing porn scenes.

I'm not overly proud of my XXX-rated resume--with the exception of some of the photography I've produced--nor am I ashamed of it. It is what it is and I've done what I've done. I have no moral issue with porn, leastwise with what's sometimes referred to as "mainstream porn." Again, it is what it is. If people are offended by porn, don't watch it. If people (i.e., adults) enjoy it, by all means, indulge yourself. Different strokes and all that.

Just so we're all on the same page with my XXX affiliations, here's a general account of my history in the industry:

For the past few years, I've worked, principally, as a still photographer in the XXX biz. I still hold a video camera on more than a few shoots. I occasionally direct, although rather infrequently. In the past, I have directed hundreds of XXX movies, I've shot thousands of scenes, I've edited countless movies and I've photographed many hundreds, probably thousands, of porn models. I've appeared in a handful of these movies, always in non-sex roles and almost always as some comic variation of myself, leastwise the self that works in the XXX business. The majority of the movies I've directed, including those I've appeared in, are sex comedies. I've always felt that porn is more humorous than anything else. It's not that I don't think porn is (or should be or can be) sexually arousing, I simply see something very funny in it. (In addition to its sexual components.)

I've been profiled, as an adult filmmaker, in People magazine and elsewhere. (In a positive way I should add.) I've also been interviewed in many more periodicals, magazines, and newspapers. I've appeared, as myself and in the context of what I do, on (to name just a few media outlets) CNN, ABC, NBC, and Fox. I've even been interviewed by the very-conservative, Christian News Network's, "700 Club," with Pat Robertson. I'm merely mentioning this stuff to underscore the fact that I've not tried to hide my work in the XXX biz from the general public.

For a number of years, I wrote a blog, SimplyJimmyD, about the porn biz. The blog was often critical of the XXX industry, but always in a humorous or satirical way. I guess I'm a comedian at heart. That blog attracted many thousands of visitors daily. For a time, SimplyJimmyD had an almost ridiculously impressive Alexa rating. (Assuming anyone's impressed with Alexa ratings.) Like an idiot, I did nothing on that blog to generate revenue. I wrote it as a way of relieving my porn-angst. I quit writing SimplyJimmyD mostly because it cost me work and money. Obviously, there are more than a few people in the porn biz who don't share my comic observations of the industry and, in fact, took offense at them. Words that are offensive to smut peddlers: Who would'a thought?

My whole life, I've been something of a social outlaw. I suppose it's possible I eventually ended up in the adult industry because it's one of the last vestiges of politically-incorrect, social outlawishnish; legal outlawishnish that doesn't usually conflict with *MY* personal sense of morality.

Well, there you have it. If anyone has been unsure about me, you now shouldn't be. You still don't know me. The real me. The person I am. But maybe knowing more about me will suffice? (Assuming anyone is all that curious about this JimmyD character at all.)

Maybe not.