Interview with Richard Pacheco by Cindi Loftus

Porn actor Richard Pacheco won multiple awards during his 100+ adult movie career. Starting in the late 70′s , his sex scenes continued though the mid 80′s. In 1984 Richard  stepped behind the camera to work as an assistant director, a production manager,  a script writer and he also did occasional non-sex roles. He was in many well known movies including Insatiable, Talk Dirty to Me and Candy Stripers.  He now works as a writer and speaker on sex related topics.

* (Cindi note – Add Director to the top of your list after “stepping behind the camera.”  Seka hired me to write and direct CAREFUL, HE MAY BE WATCHING for which I won AVN’s Best Director Award 1987.  Ironically, it’s the only film I ever directed.  Talk about quitting while you’re ahead!) I think you said it wonderfully!

Richard Pacheco & Georgina Spelvin

Would you please give me a sentence or two on each of the following hot chicks that you worked with?

Seka - like riding a thoroughbred in the Kentucky Derby…

Juliet Anderson aka Aunt Peg – a woman among girls…

Nina Hartley - my little sister, Shirley Temple gets a spanking…

Georgina Spelvin - the finest actress this industry ever saw…
…and the classiest act in town…

Gloria Leonard -  too brief  was our encounter…

Candida Royalle – moxie, drive, and self-esteem…unstoppable…

What was YOUR favorite movie to work on? The next one.  Make me an offer.  GRANDPA DOES DALLAS? You bring the Viagra and I’m your man!  But we’ll have to wrap early each day so I can make it back for the Senior Dinner Specials -4:30 pm at your local Sizzler…”Be there or be square!”

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on set?I was backstage with the director in the control room.  His wife was entering through a sliding glass door only she couldn’t see that it was closed.  She slammed into it nose first and slid down the glass like a cartoon character.  It may have been the funniest thing I ever saw EXCEPT that the director immediately panicked because his wife had just knocked herself out and he rushed to her aid…as did I.  But I was literally choking back the laughter because I knew that there was absolutely nothing funny about the situation to him.  It was made all the more hysterical because I absolutely COULD NOT LAUGH and it was blowing the boogers out of my nose trying not to. I know that’s not a very appealing image, but that’s how hard it was to hold  back the laughter.  You asked…

What is your fondest memory of  your years in the adult biz? The incredible intimacy I got to share with extraordinary women like Annette Haven, Kay Parker, Sharon Kane, Kelly Nichols, some of the women you mentioned earlier, and so many others.  You don’tn get fringe benefits like that in any other occupation I can think of. There were a few clunkers in the bunch, women I didn’t want or who didn’t want me, but overall, I’ve been one very lucky dude.

Do you still watch adult movies? Favorite Stars & why? Not much.  Occasionally, I’ll toss one on for masturbation if my wife ain’t around, but I haven’t kept abreast of the current
industry notables for some time now.  Erotically speaking, it’s never been the same after working in the industry.  Once you’ve seen the Wizard behind his curtain, a lot of the sizzle is gone.

What is HINDSIGHT,  (your book in progress), about?It’s about 250 pages and it’ll get a little longer as soon as you let me get back to work on it…

When will it be done? Maybe another three or four months oughta do it and then I’ll
have to wrestle with getting it out to the peoples somehow.

Do you want to share an excerpt with us?

Sure…try this one on for size…
I hope you like it and when the time comes, I hope you’ll come back for more…

PART ONE: BEGINNER’S SCHMUCK

Chapter One

“I have great respect for San Francisco and for the experience shared by thousands who came there and for what the California experience meant to so many people of my generation.  You went there to be free—so that you could be gay, or you could be an intellectual, or you could be a poet, or you could be a hippie, or you could write pornography.  You could do whatever you wanted, and I will always be grateful to San Francisco for giving me its particular kind of tolerance.”

-  Anne Rice, author
Conversations With Anne Rice
Michael Riley

Let me tell you about my first movie.

The call came for my wife.  Back when we were acting students with the Blake Street Hawkeyes in Berkeley, we’d met a few agents and gotten ourselves on some casting lists.  This here was an agent calling with a feature film.  He said that they were looking for women.  As I was soon to learn, they were always looking for women.
My wife asked him to describe the film.  He said it was “a fun-filled romp through a hospital.”
“Is this a porno film?”  she asked him.  Temporarily disarmed by the complete directness of her question, he phumffed it and said,
“Yes, it is.”  I learned that agents normally tried not to spill the beans over the telephone. They had a much greater chance at success in casting if they could get the women to come on down to the auditions before they let them know it was going to be X-Rated.  Back then, it was much more difficult to find women who would act in porn, especially good looking ones.  Even prostitutes looked down their noses at porn stars.  They valued secrecy in practicing their trade.  They didn’t want to see their faces ten feet high on a movie screen or being plastered all over the sex magazines.
“I’m not interested,” my wife told him, “but I think my husband would be,” and she handed me the phone.

“Hello?”

Chapter Two

My fantasy was to meet an X-Rated woman.  I thought there was such a thing.

It seemed to me that all of my sexual experiences up to that point had been about love.  The sex had all come out of love relationships.

“I love you.  I love you.”
“ I love you, too.  Let’s fuck.”

And as you may remember from those looser days before AIDS, all of that sex with all of those lovers begat so much crazy jealousy that it made my head spin.  By now, I was ready for something else.  I had my wife and I had all the love I needed.  But sexually speaking, I wanted to explore something else.

I wanted to have a sexual experience that had nothing to do with relationship.  I wanted some sex as “recreation” and I wanted one of those “bad” girls.  Y’know, I didn’t know any of those “bad” girls… I’d never been with a prostitute…and I wanted to be with some kind of “fuck me-fuck-me” woman that I thought was really out there, that I thought was real.

Lust, I was talking about lust.  I didn’t even know it.  It was the awakening of the dirty little secret sexual desires that I hadn’t even told myself yet.  As a young husband, I had no idea how to ask my beloved wife to also be my “fuck-your-ass whore.”   It just seemed like the kind of madness that a man would rightfully take care of outside of the house and then would come home later with some candy and flowers and a lot of gratitude for his wife’s tolerance.

Yeah, I wanted some of that kind of sex, some very, very selfish lust with a sex kitten, a “fuck me-fuck me woman.”  There’d be corsets and leathers, high-heeled boots laced up to crotchless panties, breasts spilling out of nippleless bras in lush bordello bedrooms filled up with sex toys like blindfolds and vibrators, handcuffs and paddles.  Yeah, there’d be me with a genuine tarted-up, “won’t-say-‘no,’” woman, all the best drugs and oils in the world, and plenty of time.

And there’d be no “I love you” in any of it.  There’d be a thank-you and close the door on your way out.
Yeah, that’s what I thought I wanted.  And I had no idea how to tell my wife about any of that.  So I didn’t.

She was right, though, when she handed me the phone.  I was interested…

My fantasy was to meet an X-Rated woman.  I thought there was such a thing.

I would meet this X-Rated woman at the hotel where they were holding the auditions for THE CANDY STRIPERS…and I would have sex with her right there in the hotel elevator.  I don’t know why, but that was the fantasy.

And then I would go home to my wife.

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