Dorothy Le May

Dorothy Le May was born Dorothy Staton Alder in 1958, to rural conservative middle class parents. She had an uneventful upbringing and it was not until she turned seventeen that she had her first sexual experience. "In High School I went with one guy all the way though it was terrible… I gave him blowjobs, but that's as far as it went… I didn't know a lot about sex at all so I had no idea about reciprocation." Her second serious boyfriend in High School led to a more lasting affair, and she married him soon after turning eighteen. "My best blowjobs came after I was married. I was encouraged to do it."

A year later Dorothy and her husband found themselves facing economic difficulties. "In 1976 I worked at the University of California at Berkeley. I answered an ad in their Berkeley paper that said 'Make $300 a day'. So I went on to an interview with my husband… and we started doing loops." In late 1977 one of these loops was included in the movie 'House Of Green Desire' in which she had sex with Bobby Taylor. Dorothy began making contacts and soon starred in her first proper full-length porn film. "John Seeman helped me start. He knew the right people to send me to, though my first movie (Formal Faucet, 1978) was a disaster… It was gross and I ran out of the theatre crying after I saw it. They had cut the film and were using someone else's voice and they weren't the words coming out of my mouth. It didn't make sense. That experience almost made me get out of the business. Also the filmmakers worked me 18-hours a day for three days. My second movie, 'Sensual Encounters Of Every Kind' (1978), was done by Harold Lime. It turned my head around. He paid me twice as much as I was paid for the other film and he was nice to me. That was the first time I worked with John Leslie. We did a hot, hot sauna scene."

Dorothy later claimed: "It seems like every time I do a film, I haven't had sex for like a month before. So when people call me I say yes. I know it's going to be good sex. I get off on cameramen." "During the making of 'Champagne For Breakfast' (1980)… there was a scene with John Leslie and Kandi Barbour and I'm just kind of watching them do this scene and we had a small fire and the lights went out for about half an hour… We were working on a stage in Oakland so there were lots of nooks and crannies around… the cameraman and I sneaked off and fucked. But unfortunately the lights came on before we were finished and we hadn't noticed it and everyone was waiting for us to finish up."

Dorothy Le May appeared grounded concerning her career in porn films. "I have my own life that I try to keep apart from making adult movies, but I do enjoy them when the right offers come my way… The right kind of people making the right movie, the right money, and a good script. People have to treat me well and I don't do loops anymore. I enjoy movies more than loops because movies involve more acting… Whereas a loop has hardly any storyline and it's mostly silly if there is one. It's just fast sex."

Her rising status within the industry meant that she was able to work with some of the leading directors of the time. In 1979 Gerard Damiano cast her in 'Fantasy', and a year later she co-starred with Lisa De Leeuw, Brooke West and Chris Cassidy in Robert McCallum's 'Garage Girls'. Her ability to play teen roles then led to Kirdy Stevens casting her in his classic incest story 'Taboo 1' (1980), which propelled her to new levels of popularity.

Throughout this period Dorothy remained married to her high school sweetheart. Not only was he not jealous about his wife being a porn star, he actually enjoyed it. According to Dorothy he was "into two chicks at a time. Trouble is I'd come home from working on a movie and he'd really be horny and he'd have a couple over there and then he'd want me to party with them and I would be so tired. He was into couples. He got off on seeing other guys with me… My husband had always told me that I'm a great cocksucker. He'd always have mirrors around and say 'if people could see you doing this'… I've sucked two cocks at once in front of him. That isn't too difficult. Keeping them hard is probably more difficult than getting them both in your mouth."

In fact, giving head became one of the things Dorothy was renowned for. "I love it. I really do… I just get really turned on by them getting excited. It's not only the growth in your mouth either… It's nice to notice or watch the fellow you're working on, you know, his expressions, if you're doing something the way he likes… You know, just looking at him and getting it all nice and wet and hard. I try to deep throat but my eyes water. I haven't gagged yet. I always stop before."

Her family, on the other hand knew nothing about her porn career. The closest they got was to see her in Blake Edwards '10', where Dorothy, along with other porn stars such as Annette Haven, Serena and Constance Money appeared in a nude scene at a swimming pool party. "My family doesn't know about my erotic career. My mother knows I was in '10' for ten seconds in the nude scene. My sisters and brothers went to see it and they came home and called me long distance at two in the morning, and said 'Dorothy, you're sinning.'"

"We were supposed to film [10] for two days, but the weather wasn't right, and Blake Edwards didn't work if the conditions weren't to his liking. But we got paid anyway. And we'd get crazy in our Culver City hotel room. Annette Haven had her leather party one night and room service walked into it. Jamie Gillis and Serena were there. Craziness. The hotel management didn't like us after that and we didn't get any more room service."

One of the things that made Dorothy so popular, apart from her youthful looks, was her ability to immerse herself into the sex scenes. "I like to get crazy. I enjoy seeing people and I enjoy what I do. Even in my first loop, I was never self-conscious about the camera, though I wasn't used to the angles." "I've always found it real easy to do these films… I'm not an exhibitionist in my private life. But I enjoy being watched while I'm doing these movies. I like the crew… like after a scene someone says 'You looked really good sucking that thing'… I think it's real important to keep the flow going. I've worked with some girls, like Desiree Cousteau, who right after they say 'Cut', for some technical reason, will stop dead in their tracks. They'll stop sucking on the cock or something and the actor’s wondering 'what's this chick's problem?' I like to get involved and stay involved. Even when the scene is over, I keep going."

In between making porn films, Dorothy also worked as a stripper. "Annette Haven and I worked together at the Mitchell Brothers [O'Farrell Theatre] for a week. Annette took this big dildo and stuck it in me, and I said, 'Annette, you have no mercy.' We'd come in softly and she'd go offstage. I would be lying there and the music would hit a hard beat and she'd come out in her leather stuff. It was fun until she was pulling a string of balls out of my vagina, and she pulled hard and one was left inside of me. I got hurt and I couldn't perform the last day."

During 1981 she eventually divorced her husband and began a relationship with a man named Ernie whom she met while filming 'High School Memories' (1981). "I had a really good time on that film. John Leslie's extremely nice to work with… He turns me on." She then appeared in her favourite movie to date - 'Night Dreams' (1981). According to Dorothy "The people who made the movie were nuts." During the film she sucked off a black man wearing a giant Cream of Wheat box. "That guy apparently had never had a blowjob and he was 26. He was married and I don't know why his wife wouldn't get into that. He was nervous and he had to drink whiskey before the scene. And he was swerving the box so they laid him down on the floor. That was my first time working with a black guy. It wasn't something that I didn't want to do. I had just never met one in that situation." "I really enjoyed working in 'Night Dreams'. That was the first chance I had to act… 'Taboo 2' was fun too.'

Playing Kevin James' younger teenage sister in 'Taboo 2' (1982) is perhaps the role Dorothy Le May is most famous for. Director Kirdy Stevens continued where 'Taboo 1' left off two years earlier. Although perhaps not as big a success as the original, it was much more erotic and according to Dorothy, more fun to make "because I got to work more. In 'Taboo 1', I only worked one day, and in 'Taboo 2' I worked all the time… Although I do like Mike Ranger a lot, I still enjoyed my partner Kevin James in the second one. He's a very large guy but he's a real nice gentle guy." One of her most memorable scenes in the film was when she had sex with Eric Edwards. "I had on a real flimsy nightgown and I walked in and looked underneath the covers and got him hard. Then I sat on him and tried not to wake my mother [played by Honey Wilder]. We had to pretend not to make any noise to wake her up. It was really fun. It was the first time I had worked with Eric Edwards. It's not a real fantasy of mine. Maybe if I had Paul Newman for a father it would be okay."

Dorothy's relationship with Ernie often took her to new sexual levels. "I liked him a lot… we'd get kinked out and dress up. One time he wanted to put on all my clothes, garter belts and all the paraphernalia, at home and I said 'Let's go for it!' He proceeded to put them on, but then he wanted me to strap on this dildo and fuck him in the ass and I just couldn't do it… Even though I knew he wanted it, how much he wanted it, I couldn't. Maybe if I had been in a different mood… There's times when I want to be dominated and I want them to pull my head to their cock and there's other times where I'd rather be dominant and have them just lie back… I'm not sure how far I'd go to please someone. Probably not too far, I mean, I don't like to be fucked in the ass… I don't think I'd go that far. But I'm pretty easy about most things… If my boyfriend was into it [her being gang banged in public] and he wanted me to be into it and he wanted me to do it, sure I'd do it… I don't want to be hurt that's the thing… You know I'd like them to be rough with me, but not too rough. I like to be grabbed and told to 'Suck my cock', I really like that… My boyfriend and I have done some things I would probably not do with someone else. We were at Venice beach once, and we got the urge and we took a walk through one of those underground parking lots and we fucked there."

Although Dorothy claimed she was heterosexual, she often had sex with women on camera. As usual her performance would be passionate, despite occasionally being paired with actresses that obviously did not enjoy gay sex. "That happened with Desiree [Cousteau]. I didn't mind it at all. I just gave her head and I could sense that she didn't care for it. When the director said, 'Okay, cut, we're going to move some lights around,' she'd push me away from her… I've been told I give really good head to women."

By 1983, however, her relationship with Ernie had fallen apart. "I had my first lesbian affair because I hated Ernie." Her lover was Sharon Kane. "I've had a lot of pleasurable experiences with Sharon Kane, she's a really nice girl… She was my only female lover off screen." Her break-up, however, also led to Dorothy Le May drifting away from the porn industry. "I had a good job at ABC Messenger Service in LA, so I decided to cool out from the business for awhile." Her 'cooling out' period became permanent, and by 1984 she had left the porn industry for good.

Aka: Norma Gene, Dorothy Young
Real Name: Dorothy Staton Alder
Date of Birth: 1958
Place of Birth: California, USA
Film Career: 1977-1984

Debi Diamond

Although Debi Diamond is primarily known for her late 1980's and early 1990's movies, she first entered porn just as the 'Golden Age' was ending, appearing in films such as 'Her Wicked Ways' (1983) with Jessie St. James. Nevertheless, her reputation is based on her insatiable appearances towards the end of the decade when she became known as the wildest and nastiest porn actress in the business.

Debi Diamond was born Deborah Lester on 1 May 1965 in San Fernando Valley, California. She came from an upper-middle class family and attended Monroe High School in Granada Hills, in Southern California. While growing up she admits to being a tomboy: "I never wore makeup… and I certainly never put on high heals… I was a drag racer, with short greasy nails." She would later claim: “My Childhood? It didn’t last long but it was good.” After finishing acting school she attempted to break into Hollywood, appearing in such TV series' as V, The Dukes of Hazard, Fall Guy and Knight Rider. According to Debi though "People were such jerks! Everybody wanted to fuck me… I didn't wanna give them sex for this, I just said 'fuck it!' So I was just waiting 'till I was the right age, and I knew what I wanted to do… I didn't know I'd like it so much! Cuz I didn't know anything about sex… I didn't start screwing until I was seventeen". While still eighteen she became personal assistant to Hollywood producer Bob Evans, who, in turn, introduced her to photographer Helmut Newton.

Newton immediately fell in love with her body language and began to photograph her. “I would crawl around on the floor, kick in the air like Bruce Lee, bark like a fucking dog. Shit, I didn’t know what to do. He didn’t say anything – just, ‘Great, fantastic, perfect’. So I heard that he was having a show. I wanted to see if I was in it, so I went to the opening. The very first thing I saw – in the entrance of the gallery – was a four-foot shot of me. I stole some prints that Bob had in his office and went and had negatives made. I hear I’m in one of his books.”

Eventually one day in 1983, when bored, Debi and her friend Jody visited Jim South's modelling agency. They had had enough of fucking people for mainstream roles that usually never appeared. "I didn't care what it all meant at the time. I enjoyed myself and so I stuck around."

Over the next year Debi posed for numerous hard-core magazines. She lacked any inhibitions and was often photographed having anal sex or taking part in double-penetrations. She also appeared in a number of male bisexual shoots alongside Marc Wallice and various gay actors. Using the pseudonyms Shelley Ray and Josie Emerson she also starred in a number of porn movies, but they were mainly bit roles. After about a year, pressure from family and friends caused her to quit the business.

She eventually married a veteran porn actor and became a legal secretary, before moving to Las Vegas and working as a cocktail waitress. Debi, however, missed doing porn, and in 1989, after changing from a brunette to a blond, she re-entered the business. Appearing at first as Debbie Hanson, and then Debi Diamond, she soon found that the video revolution had drastically changed the porn industry. "The time, the talent, the locations, everything is different now in porn. They just don't make them like they used to. We went to Hawaii for three weeks and did one sex scene every few days. Now I may do four sex scenes in a day. It's crazy. I do my own makeup, bring all my own clothes..."

Nevertheless, once again Debi made a name for herself as the most uninhibited and wild actress in porn! "Fear and excitement go together… Anal sex scares me. I've only done it a few times on camera and liked it. I thought to myself, 'You're taking his cock and putting it in your ass!' I try not to do it for that reason. I love and hate control." Despite her self-confessed fear, she became one of porn's anal queens. She acquired the reputation of a girl that was willing to do just about anything in front of the camera, and claimed that when horny she would simply “work cheap.” When asked a few years later she admitted, "I can't think of anything that I haven't done."

Apart from anal sex, Debi became renowned for her facial cum-shots. "It gives me great skin. I love to swallow cum if the guy is clean. Peter North has a lot of it, but it has a strange flavour. Tom Byron's tastes the best. I'm good at taking a whole cock down my throat. I have no gag reflex so I can take the whole thing down, no matter what size it is. And it feels good sliding down past my lips. For the movie I just did with five guys, I lay on this pedestal, and I traded off sucking each of them. And I worked with this black guy, Sean Michaels. It was my first time with a black. He's got a long dick and I enjoyed it in my mouth. I know that's bad. I got extra money for it. I did anal a couple of times and got more money for it. It gets me excited to the point where I'm scared. I never thought I would do that, but it feels so good. My pussy is going crazy and I have to stop myself, slap myself and think, 'What the hell are you doing? You're putting this guy's dick up inside your asshole and you're putting it all the way in.'"

Debi had a reputation for losing all control and inhibitions during her sex scenes. While shooting 'Buttslammers 6' she became so carried away with Krysti Lynn that she managed to destroy director Bruce Seven's window blinds, side lamp and damage his sofa. Half way through she stopped the scene saying "Let me catch my breath for a minute… I can't help it when I get turned on like this." She then proceeded to squat down beside his bar and masturbate before twisting her nipples and rubbing herself against a light boom. Only after this two-minute break did she return to the set.

Photographer Ian Gittler recalled meeting her for the first time on a porn set in 1994, and was taken aback by her animalistic passion. “Debi is fired up from the word go. She hisses, writhes like someone possessed. She twists her body like a contortionist… at one point she’s standing on one hand, completely upside down, sucking [Marc] Wallice’s dick and stroking it with her free hand while Nick [East], also standing, eats her out.” During the shoot Wallice and East had to drip hot wax on to Debi’s body. “Debi thrashes her head from side to side. The white dress is already torn away. ‘In my mouth’, Debi urges.” The cast and director paused at this point, uncertain of her intentions. “Debi nods yes, grunts affirmative, motioning with her hand for the director to keep going… [East] pours wax into Debi’s mouth. Debi flips her legs up and spreads herself with her hands… Debi takes the hot wax everywhere…. Both Marc, who’s been acting in porn for over ten years, and Nick, a relative newcomer with four years experience, are having problems maintaining their erections. They weren’t expecting the scene to turn vicious. Debi’s snarling demands for abusive treatment are intimidating, throaty, and real.” As filming stops so the two men can regain their erections, “Debi storms off toward the bathroom. She pulls [fellow porn star] Nicole London’s boyfriend, the PA, in with her and slams the door… Violent sex noises emanate from the bathroom. Bumping, shouting. It lasts five or six minutes… Debi returns to finish the scene.” When filming starts again she turns to Wallice, “You can bang my head against the wall if you have to.” As he attempts to explain that he doesn’t have to, she snarls, “Bang my head against the wall you fucker… Do it!”

Once, having just finished a marathon sex-session with three men, she left the set complaining, “That was bullshit. I’m so fucking horny. I need to go fuck a stranger or something. That gave me nothing.” Another time, after shooting a gang-bang video for Anabolic Video she claimed, "I can't believe I did that… that was pretty wild… there was so much cum on me it gives me the chills… I was so slutty… it makes me wanna do it really bad again… I think there were twenty-seven guys or something. Biff, the director, kept calling people. He was great! I was horny, I was wound up, I was ready to go - the more the merrier!"

French porn actress Draghixa would later recall meeting Debi for first time when she visited the States in 1994. “Bruce Seven, who specialises in S&M invited me for dinner. I was a bit nervous because I don’t speak much English. Debi was there. She loves to eat and drink, and at the end of the evening she decided to toast me. She looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘Do you know my little French thing, I could eat your pussy right here on the table.’ All this was happening in a very expensive restaurant, and I didn’t know what to say.”

Draghixa and Debi later did a lesbian photo-shoot for a Suze Randall. “Debi prefers women to men, but she’ll do anything. She has no limits. She loves everything. She loves to be spanked, to dominate, to be kinky. She loves timid women and exhibitionists… I didn’t have a sex scene with her, only a photo shoot. We didn’t actually have sex. When I first met her I didn’t think she was an extremely beautiful woman, but she does have stunning eyes. She is also full of life and great fun.”

After so many years in the porn industry Debi knows what she likes. "I like anal, but I prefer to give a blowjob. I prefer it in my mouth. There's just something about that that turns me on. Sometimes I like to feel a guys butt. It all depends on who it is. I mean some people are very homophobic, and they don't want me to touch them there. And some guys really get turned on by that. I just like to feel on the outside, actually, and lick it, and lick my fingers. I like to hold the balls. If you hold the balls kinda tight, and pull 'em down, his fucking dick will stick straight up, and you can work on him. Or you start with your mouth, and do it fucking fast and hard with your hands. I dunno, I just love it." As for the more kinky side of porn she admits, "I was never fisted by anybody but Bionca. She's got a way with her, she made me squirt, and that's the only time… I put also put a lit candle up my butt, and director John T. Bone filled me up with three quarts of syrup."

After meeting her for the first time, Gittler would claim in his flawed book ‘Pornstar’, “She’s beautiful, beyond harsh, and I know – instantly – that she’s someone special… Debi is the first porn star I’ve ever met – the first star of any kind I’ve ever met – with a charisma that generates moments, images, every second. Her energy sweeps me along.” During the early 1990's Debi trimmed her figure, thereby losing her voluptuous look. Her insatiable appearances, however, continued, and she remained one of the most popular and reliable actresses in the adult industry. Nevertheless, as her fame as a porn star grew, her private life suffered. "I have a couple of loyal friends. And a few of my girlfriends and I see each other. Their husbands don't like me. They think I'm gonna take their wives out and get them fucked by ten guys. I don't go out much. I stay home and order out. When I do go out, I wear dark glasses. In Las Vegas, when I went to one of those trade shows, there were porno spotters there, and it was creepy. I like people to write me and get to know me. But some of these guys I met acted like they had just turned off their TVs and their pants were still wet. They didn't have any control."

Debi's parents were never happy with their daughter appearing in porn films. When her mother died she actually left Debi a large inheritance so that she could leave the business. Not only did she refuse to stop making porn films though, but it was rumoured that she also began working as an escort, charging US$2,500 an hour. Debi simply enjoyed sex too much. "I do porn because it's exciting. I meet a lot of nice people."

In 1994 Debi Diamond claimed: “People say they want love, but that’s bullshit. What they really want is power. They want power so they can control you, suck you in, so they can fuck you over, so they can split and leave you wasted. I’m not ready for that.” A year later she fell in love and retired from porn to get married. She then moved to Chicago where she now lives a quiet life as a housewife.

Aka: Debbie Diamond, Shelley Ray, Debbie Hanson, Josie Emerson
Real Name: Deborah Ann Lester
Date of Birth: 01/05/1965
Place of Birth: California, USA
Height: 1,83m/6’0”
Stats: 34B-26-37
Film Career: 1983-1985, 1989-1995