This compilation is a great example of why I love Seka! Back in the day there was no bigger star than the Platinum Princess, whose beauty and appetite for sex are legendary. Swedish Erotica 78 has compiled scenes from classic films that are really hard to find like Summer Heat and Seka’s Tale, which makes this girl very happy because I’ll watch any Seka scene I can find.
The clip from Piece of Cake (scene five) is great as Seka teaches a young stewardess how to pick up men – talk about learning from the master! I don’t want to divulge her secrets, but one of them does include roller skates. After the quick educational session, we get to see just how the scene played out as Seka strips and sucks off one very lucky guy. It may be only eight minutes long, but they managed to pack plenty of action in, including standing sex and anal.
The final scene is really what did it for me as Seka gets double teamed by John Holmes and some dude named Jamie. First, she looks absolutely gorgeous! Secondly, I love the banter between the group – Holmes sits back and watches and talks dirty while she sits on Jamie’s dick. When you’ve got two of the biggest stars ever, you know the sex is going to be good, but I really loved how laid back and fun this scene was.
If you’re a fan of Seka or classic porno, you should take a look at this rad comp video.
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At 28, I’m not “old” by any standards - except the standards set by the porn industry. Twenty eight is full on MILF territory, even though I don’t have any children. I started working in sex when I was 21 and all the models were essentially my peers, but as I’ve hung around the biz over the years and gotten older, porn performers suddenly seem freakishly young to me.
It’s possible that I’m getting conservative in my old age, but these days I find myself attracted to women and men who are in my peer age group or older. I mean, it’s true that I’m also something of a chubby chaser but I like the fuller shapes that come with age, and while I’m not lusty over granny porn (yet?), I appreciate the mature look. Maybe I was naive when I was younger, but despite knowing that sexuality is fluid and can change over time blah blah blah, I didn’t necessarily think about how age factors into that equation.
Though I’m well aware of the dangers of extending my personal tastes into the realm of thinking how others should conduct their business, I’ve become ever more acutely aware of the fact that most people who watch porn probably aren’t in the same peer age group as the performers. This is, incidentally, not dissimilar from the fact that most people who watch television shows like Gossip Girl aren’t in that peer group either - so its not exactly a revelation.
But still, I think about who I was at 18 and at 21, and I do sometimes feel weird about those young women making the porno. Its purely subjective, but I definitely didn’t know jack shit about sexuality when I was that age: I hadn’t yet perfected the Art of No, nor had I gained knowledge of my limits. Adults of all ages are both capable and incapable of making good choices for themselves, so it’s tough to actually enforce the Ready For Porn Age. The government says its 18. This is something that comes up from time to time within the porn industry, and I know of some directors and companies who have informal or sometimes formal policies about the age of their performers. Oren Cohen at TightFit Productions stepped up a few years ago and publicly stated that he wouldn’t work with women under 21 because he didn’t think they would be fully ready for the intense, SM-inspired shoots he does.
But although the debate about porn and age will undoubtedly rage on, and while Barely Legal as a brand and a wank-inspiring concept continues to be a huge share of the porno market, it wasn’t always like this. Not by a long shot. The sadly defunct but still online Eros Zine has a great interview that Joanne Cachapero did with porn legend Seka last December, in which she talks about how the age and attitudes of performers has changed:
I have girls come up to me that are like 19, 20 years old, and they say, ‘I want to be like you when I grow up…’ And I say, ‘Do you have a college education? Do you have a savings account? Do you have a plan?’
‘Well, no…’
Then I’m like, ‘Go back to school.’
They think I’m out of my mind. But I was like 25, 26 years old before I started. I didn’t just step off the bus. I owned seven adult bookstores before I even got into the performing side of the business.
However, I don’t mean to use my opinion and Seka’s opinions to shame young people about their porny decisions nor to shame older people who like getting off while looking at younger bodies. To this end I asked Trixie Fontaine, a mid-thirties indie webwhore who runs a personal porn site called Tasty Trixie, about how her attractions to younger porn performers have changed over the years, and her answer completely contradicts my feeling on the subject. For Trixie, the attraction to younger models have gotten stronger as she’s gotten older. She had this to say:
I’m not sure if it’s my age and distance from my own youth or being a pornographer whose job it is to see things from the perspective of dirty old men (or just naturally being a dirty old wo-man myself OR it just being natural in GENERAL to think ripe, young women are hot, beautiful to look at, and slightly taboo to jack to). The older I get, the guiltier I feel about it . . . and the hotter it all is. While I’m critical of the way women, especially young women, are portrayed in porn, it doesn’t quash my arousal upon seeing a big cock stuffed in a small-breasted, wide-eyed teen’s mouth.
There’s no one perfect and healthy way to think about it - I mean, its sex and sex is messy and complicated - but the category “adult” really kind of white washes the whole issue. Though clearly the Cult of the Hot Young Thang is strong and influential in the porn biz today, porn certainly allows for more body and age diversity than mainstream media. Even if that diversity gets quickly turned into a fetish, its still worth something.
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Hands down, Seka is one of my all-time favorite stars. Also known as the aptly named “Platinum Princess”, she has a natural beauty and looks like she’s having a great time when she performs. My personal favorite were the scarves she and other women wore around their necks in the classic Swedish Erotica series - and then I heard in an interview that she hated the scarves. (But I still love them!)
Seka began performing in 1978 at the time when adult movies were beginning to be shot on video instead of 35mm film. The timing of easier distribution with VHS, mixed with her gorgeous looks and sexual appetite, caused Seka’s popularity to rise to the top and live on today. Although she stopped performing in 1982 for a variety of reasons including divorce, drugs, and money, she began performing again in the late 80s, one movie being Careful He May Be Watching, which she also co-directed. Despite her past troubles, Seka is still known for professionalism and business savviness; since the early 80s she’s worked on her growing fanclub and launched her own website in the early 2000s which she runs herself, Seka.com. In 2002, a documentary film was produced about her, “Desperately Seeking Seka”.
I thought that I couldn’t be more in love with the platinum blonde classic star, but I was wrong… after this interview I just fell a little deeper.
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