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Lianne Young Interviews Del Chapman for SurvivorsUK

Del has worked for over a decade developing and delivering group work for a variety of organisations. As the Community Engagement Manager at The Terrence Higgins Trust, he supported many groups including men at risk of or experiencing sexual violence, people living with HIV, and men involved in Chemsex. At National Ugly Mugs he delivered bespoke learning packages on sex work safety and legislative issues to the police and projects across the UK, as well as leading on policy and programme development. In his current role at 'SurviorsUk' and the NHS, he manages works with projects in key London boroughs to increase the sexual health provision for marginlised groups including LGBTQ+, BAME, homeless people, sex workers, and drug users. Del is the Chair of The Josephine Butler Society. SurvivorsUK was established as a service for male survivors, to cater for people not provided for by other services. They are an inclusive service and welcome anyone who identifies as male, trans, non-binary, has identified as male in the past, or anyone who feels that they are the right fit for them.

Interview with Bobby Gordon

Titled, “Debbie Does My Dad,” the show will take the audience through vignettes of Gordon’s life, including the relationship with his parents, his discovery and interest in sex and the ultimate realization of the kind of man he wants to be.  “The purpose of this show is that it’s about redefining manhood where sexuality and sensitivity are not mutually exclusive,” Gordon said.  Bobby is the son of a porn star legend but a master in his own right. He is an san aspiring actor’s foray into pornography was in part from living out a fantasy of meeting an x-rated woman and having sex in an elevator, a dream that came following a childhood that Gordon said was spent as an overweight and repressed “Quasimodo,” later blossoming into “Robert Redford” during the sexual revolution.  “Women who were saying no were saying yes,” the elder Gordon said. “I had a lot to make up for.”  After filming more than 100 sex scenes and winning numerous awards, Gordon retired from the industry as a precaution shortly after cases of AIDS were reported in the United States in the 1980s. He became an AIDS information officer and started a second career as a writer. Along with his wife, Ashley, a marriage and family therapist, the couple remained in Berkeley where they raised three children, the youngest of whom is Bobby.  When it came to talking about sex and his career, Gordon was open with his children and gradually disclosed information. He recalls the time when both his daughters, then ages 12 and 10, found out about his films.   www.bobbygordonphotography.com  www.bobbygordonpoetry.com

Seka, The Platinum Princess of porn

Seka was known as the Platinum Princess of Porn, she released her autobiography In 2013 about her life and career in the Adult Entertainment industry , titled Inside Seka.  Seka is a strong minded character and one the Adult Entertainment Industry has never been able to replace.  Seka adopted her screen name after a female blackjack dealer she knew in Las Vegas. Is noted she starred in more than 200 adult videos with a "break" in 1982, when she stopped shooting sex movies, claiming "they wouldn't pay her what she wanted and turned to stripping and nude modeling while also running her own fan club.  Jamie Gillis performed with Seka numerous times and considered her to be "a bit above porn," describing her as a "white trash queen." Among her fellow performers, she listed her favorite male screen partners as Gillis, John Holmes, Mike Ranger and Paul Thomas.   In 1997 she hosted a radio talk show in Chicago called Let's Talk About Sex on Saturday nights from 10:00 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQax3K97HMw&t=600s] pm-2:00 am on 97.9FM, The Loop; she hosted it for approximately three years.  Listen and watch as Lianne and Seka discuss, the past, present and future of the porn industry.  www.seka.com https://twitter.com/seka1954?s=20 [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fseka1954%3Fs%3D20&v=sQax3K97HMw&event=video_description&redir_token=xYkxs7vlo_-_TOK_biEsrybpQwh8MTU5MzUxOTY2NEAxNTkzNDMzMjY0]

Lianne Young Interviews John Staggliano owner of Evil Angel

Lianne Young has an exclusive interview with John Stagliano also known as Buttman, he is  an American  pornographic director who founded and owns the Evil Angel Adult Film Studio. Lianne and John talk openly about Pornography, life and what the future holds for the Industry after the Covid19 Pandemic.

Lianne Young interviews Howey Gordon aka Ricard Pacheco

Richard Pacheco (born Howard Marc Gordon; May 5, 1948) is an American former pornographic film and video actor, writer and director who retired from the X-rated business in the mid-1980s. He appeared in more than 100 x-rated films and videos. He has won multiple adult film awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. He was Playgirl [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playgirl] magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 as Howie Gordon. In 1978, he was offered his first professional erotic film role in The Candy Stripers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Stripers_(1978_film)] (released 1978) for $200 per day. Thus began his pornographic career. He appeared in that first film under the name "McKinley Howard", and used many aliases until Anthony Spinelli [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spinelli]'s Talk Dirty to Me [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Dirty_to_Me_(film)] (1980), in which he co-starred as "Richard Pacheco". When that movie became a groundbreaking success, he kept the pseudonym for the box office value it began to accrue. In November 1984, Pacheco stopped appearing in porn movies without condoms [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom] in reaction to his wife's concerns about the growing AIDS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS] epidemic. This cost him most of his adult acting job offers, and became an effective forced retirement from pornographic acting. He worked in non-sex roles, and as an assistant director to John Leslie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leslie_(porn_actor)]until 1986. He only directed one film himself, 1987's Careful, He May Be Watching [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Careful,_He_May_Be_Watching&action=edit&redlink=1], starring Seka [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seka_(actress)], but that one won the Best Film award and won him the Best Director award from AVN Awards 1988 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN_Awards_1988].