So, you all know I used to sell quite a bit of porn on eBay, right? It helped financially for several years, and also helped me gain a lot of knowledge (or at least a place to look stuff up, having saved most of my html auction files after the first couple of years of sales) but I haven’t done sales on eBay in years. Keep meaning to get back into in. Mostly because I can use the space, but now, I can also use the money. But, alas, I always get distracted or overwhelmed. I was just telling someone the other day (therapist) that I am incapable of just snapping a pic, typing a few lines, and boom, up for sale on eBay. No, I always have to do some research on what other films the guys in the video have starred in, or what pseudonyms the guys in the magazines might also go by, or, as in the case of books, doing some research to get an idea if something is valuable, or at least to nab some descriptive text so I can copy and paste instead of typing out a thorough description. Well what is the first book I pull out this morning? Yup, this one, which seems to be a hard to find, out of print self-published “tell all” of sorts about the body building scene in the early 70’s
Then this little tidbit from Wikipedia – Keith Spaulding (Ken Sprague – AKA Dakota) and James Cass (Jim Cassidy) served as a template for characters in the book!
and check out the escort ads – including Jim Cassidy’s phone number!
so, afternoon blown, I’m somewhere in Chapter 2….
4 replies on “The Iron Game – by David Carter (or, why I can never get anything done around here!)”
WOW! This is pretty incredible! I now forgive you, for not posting my response to your May 28, 2016 post, about Dakota. I’ve always wanted to read this scandalous book, but I’m not willing to shell out more than a $100.00, in order to do so. Keep us posted about what’s in this “novelâ€, when you finish.
David Carter seems to have been, quite a character. He wasn’t strikingly handsome, but he was still easy on the eyes. I wish I could have seen his porn loops, but I don’t think they’re now available. From what I understand, you could only view them by mail order, back in the day. That’s probably why he’s rather unheralded, though a key figure, in all-male porn.
A number of his pictures appear on Tumblr. He should definitely be a subject for your future posts. You now have no excuse for overlooking him, the same way you previously ignored Dakota and Jim Cassidy. As I’ve always said, from about 1975, to the early to mid ‘80s, was a golden period for macho porn.
All these decades after his heyday, Dakota aka Ken Sprague, is still shocking me!
http://atkol.com/replies.asp?forum=3&topic=11820
I’m hoping that one day; he’ll come clean about his porn past, and write his autobiography. Hopefully one day, I’ll be able to see his scandalous film, “Loadstarâ€.
Sadly, Jim Cassidy died December 23, 2013 at 70. And he still doesn’t have a profile on Smut-Junkies! It’s appalling! However, I do take some solace in discovering that he now has his own Wikipedia entry – beautiful picture!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cassidy
; )
hmmmm – i don’t see any record of a response to 5/28 post! from what I can tell, it either gets automatically posted, or it gets set aside in a queue for approval – and an email goes to my account. Can’t see anything in the queue or emails – so sorry about that – please re-post if you can remember what you said.
I wish I could, but I already deleted it. I just don’t have the patience, to redo it again. I tried previously to submit it for about four times. But it kept on being rejected. Anyway, here’s another tidbit I just remembered about David Carter. He was among the porn stars and nude dudes, who posed for the “Ah Men” catalogue. It seems his fashion pictures are no longer online.
I own a copy of this book. I have not read all of it yet. It does seem to mirror John Rechy’s book “Numbers” about bisexual body builders in the beach towns of Southern CA in the late 60s-early 70s who were models and hustlers.