Regan Senter Speaks

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In article <rame.894042124p1522@bash>,
luzd...@aol.com wrote:
>
> I did the following interview by phone with Regan Senter, Thursday night,
> 4/30/98.
>
> After a conventional life of marriage, and real estate work, Regan Senter broke
> free in the 1980s, entering show business. In 1992, he entered porn (primarily
> as a talent agent, but also as a performer).
> Regan says:
>
> It was a way of combining a social life and commercial life. I was boredwith
> conventional things such as family and marriage. I tell people who want to keep
> a life like that - marriage, family, police society - that they should avoid
> the porn business. The industry is not a place for family life or
> relationships.
> I placed advertisements for models in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. I started
> placing foreign talent into the industry.
> I tested the waters of the industry. I tried to work with the two main talent
> "agents" [Reb Sawitz and Jim South]. As long as I took a fee from talent
> (which I have not done since 1993, instead I bill producers), Jim had no
> problem with it. Then when I began taking fees from producers, he had a
> problem. With Reb, I made a strategic alliance.
> I get along with Reb and Jim, in a cold political way. I consider Jim World
> Modeling building, an iron curtain.
> [AVN always bags on Regan.] AVN is junk mail. I do not believe in industry
> unification. I believe in industry segregation. Every producer, directorand
> performer in the adult business needs to be a separatist and an individual. He
> should not do things in a unified fashion. It is not in their interest to
> unify. They rather need to distinguish themselves. People should not become
> friends.
> If you Luke Ford, a producer, decides to become a producer, and you walkinto
> World Modeling and announce that you will pay talent $1200, another producer
> will say, "Please do not do that. I only pay them $400." If you go alongwith
> that, you've lost your glory as a high end producer. That constant pressure of
> gossip is an undertow. It pulls you under rather than up. Do not meet many
> producers at once.
> At a casting call, [talent should] meet producers one at a time.
>
> Regan Senter auditions his talent by having sex with them. "Ha, ha, ha. That is
> the oldest true cliché you can imagine. Whenever I have compromised and not
> done it [sex with the talent], it has been a horrific disaster. I am a
> performer and have done 75 sex scenes.
> It is normal for a casting director and performer to have sex with somebody for
> a few minutes. If someone has a problem with it: Why should you be in the
> business at all?
> This is not a business for family. Imagine I went to every producer's 18-year
> old daughter and said, "honey. Please do not go to medical school. We have
> enough doctors. Please join the adult video business.
>
> [Regan Senter told me to stay away from the industry if I wanted to marry a
> nice Jewish girl and live in polite society.]
>
> Adult is the legal low end of show business, and an upgrade for a prostitute.
> An escort who has sex for money, or who marries for money is a hooker. Hello!
> Do you (prospective talent) need this type of glory? What about the restof
> your life?
> I've given up on the real world. I don't play that game. I found my regular
> life boring.
> Anyone who has a problem with the following should have nothing to do with the
> business: I am going to USC to pick up girls to work in this business, to have
> regular boy-girl sex in front of the camera. If you have a problem with that,
> you should not be in porn. If you are troubled by this, stay away!
> My challenge is not to sign up a 19-year old girl wanting to go to medical
> school. My challenge is to sign up an avid prostitute or wanna-be prostitute.
> Hello! Escort is a prostitute. Anyone who has a sugar daddy is a prostitute.
> This is my challenge. This is the type of girl I want for Beautiful Models. Any
> girl who wants to fuck and suck for money, quietly or loudly…Masked or
> unmasked. I can promote her and make her a lot of money. Over $10,000 a month.
> The other people do not belong here even though they are the roots of this
> business. Even though they built it. The British built America, then America
> went independent.
> In today's world you do not need to live the family life anymore. You can be
> independent of it.
> A journalist who centers on this industry cannot expect the general affection
> of the population female. Even if you are a Playboy photographer. Playboy and
> Perfect Ten are the dividing line. Once you place yourself in the publiceye as
> a sex object, you cross the line.
> You become a girl who shows her body so you can get off. That is not a rated-R
> actress who happens to do some nude scenes in a legitimate movie.
> I said to some of my young ladies: It says in the Bible: The Devil took Jesus
> to the highest mountain of the earth, and said 'All of this can be yoursif you
> will follow me.' That is what I say to my female talent. I can make you a star.
> I can make you over $10K a month.
> But I let her know what it is. It is the lowest ebb of the show businessworld,
> which is not a nice place to be. Show business is not a nice business. It is
> not a place that you would want your wife, daughter or sister. Many young
> ladies from X have tried to make it in the regular business only to findout
> that they have to have sex to get work. Which is fine for porn, but sex is not
> part of the job of mainstream entertainment.
> I am happy that adult is legal in California. I wish that local law enforcement
> would leave the people alone. They are constantly bothering them. Porn has been
> decriminalized, thanks to decisions regarding defendants, not plaintiffs. Law
> enforcement's prosecution of us only makes porn more legal. People in this
> business will often stand for a principle much higher than the might dollar -
> sex.
> You (Luke) try to live the rest of your life in the mainstream world. You try
> to say, 'this adult business is ok.' And it is a big problem for you. And the
> problem is going to get worse. One day you may breakdown. Don't look to the
> business as a way to socialize and make friends. I would advise your readers to
> not do that.
> I tell my talent: Do not go to X-rated industry trade shows, conventionsor
> parties unless you are walking in the door a star. You may be beautiful or a
> great guy, but you should not be there unless it is for a commercial reason.
> And it is not to meet producers and directors, for that is what you have
> Beautiful Models International for. Don't expose yourself unnecessarily.Go
> about your life. Stay away from this business.
> If you have a problem with basic boy-girl sex, don't call. Don't come. We don't
> want to see you. The army doesn't want people who can't run a mile. And we
> don't want guys unless you can bring a beautiful new girl who will perform with
> you.
> Rob Spallone of Star World Modeling is too good for the business. He's afamily
> man. He should not be here. You can't have friends in this business. I highly
> discourage my talent from developing any personal relationship in the industry.
> I do not discourage sex. I encourage it.
> The adult industry is not a proud entity in our globe [not to be confused with
> World Modeling]. Most relationships end in trouble - force, violence, police,
> snitching, forced activities…. I told Chuck Martino that I would waivethe $275
> he owed me, if he refused to date talent.
> Considering our HIV crisis, it is very dangerous to sleep with talent from this
> industry. I tell the talent: Do not date the taxi driver who takes you to the
> set. Do not date the pizza man who delivers to the set. Do not meet your
> personal needs through this business.
> Your peers are clients, or your co-workers. You should not confuse work with
> pleasure.
> To consider Jim South and his relationship with his wife, Reb Sawitz andhis
> wife Jerry, this is not normal. These are strange marriages.
> Someone who wants a true family life should not be here. The greatest glory we
> can give you is to put you on the front of a magazine with a fluid that
> resembles Pina Colada all over your face.
>
> Luke Ford is naught but dust and ashes. He is the greatest of sinners.
> AIDS: www.lukeford.com/d63.html
> Politics, Ethics: www.dennisprager.net
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