This spicy acting legend released a tell-all memoir & the tea is piping hot
Spencer Quest—real name Spencer Keasey—was a prominent actor for Titan Media, a company specializing in gay adult entertainment with a safe sex focus.
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There’s something fascinating about hearing the stories of the gay adult entertainment industry from the analog days—and not just for the obvious reasons. Actors like Derrick Stanton have tales to tell about a time when making spicy gay content was a completely different ballgame, subject to scrutiny, stereotyping, and total ruin if your true identity came out.
One adult actor and author became a minor legend in the mid-2000s, getting into the industry right under the wire, before spicy content started being made available directly online. Spencer Quest—real name Spencer Keasey—was a prominent actor for Titan Media, a company specializing in gay adult entertainment with a safe sex focus.
As Spencer Quest, Keasey appeared in several films including “Spy Quest,” “Alabama Takedown,” and 2005’s “Cirque Noir,” Titan’s first-ever film to feature a trans man performer in a prominent role.
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But Keasey’s life at Titan is only part of the story. In his newly-released memoir, Keasey—currently living in Provincetown, where he manages an art gallery—dishes on his life as a “boy toy” in London, his foray into adult film, and his struggles with s*bstance abuse. And apparently—despite having no pictures—it’s quite a hot read. No surprise there, as Keasey is still zaddying with the best of them over on IG.
Keasey only spent four years in the adult entertainment industry, but it was a crucial period for him after struggling with his queer identity as a young man in Vermont. The end of a 17-year monogamous relationship left him reeling, and within just weeks of the split, Keasey found himself in Palm Springs embracing a completely different relationship to love and sex.
With the career change came certain pitfalls, such as a not-ideal relationship with substances and a difficult recovery journey. But through it all, Keasey remained hopeful, positive, and focused.
“I had nothing but good experiences on set,” Keasey recently told Provincetown Magazine. “I didn’t even use drugs on set. It was forbidden. All the sets were drug-free. I would stop using about a week before the shoot and then start using right after. But I enjoyed filming, the sex, the process, the friends. I do not connect p*rn to my addictions. They were like two parallel lives. They existed at the same time, but were not related.”
Keasey’s book, “A Nice Guy Like Me,” is getting rave reviews, and fortunately it’s far from the only memoir of this kind. In addition to OG classics like Charles Isherwood’s “Wonderbread and Ecstacy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano,” and Scott O’Hara’s “Autop*rnography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane,” we’ve seen a few more recent releases that promise thrills, jaw-dropping anecdotes, and moments of genuine heartbreak and introspection.
Go-Go Boy: Memoirs from the Kitchen Floor to the Dance Floor is first-time author DJ Reimer’s account of life as a—you guessed it—go-go boy in LA who dances to make ends meet.
Steacy Easton’s Daddy Lessons is less of a p*rn memoir than a memoir with p*rn, which is still a pretty tempting prospect. “P*rnography teaches. It is a genre of formal experimentation: the same limited bodies in the same infinite variations. In queer spaces, it also allows for the possibilities of those bodies in ways that religious or other moral teachings limit,” Easton explains. Sold!
Don Shewey’s recent memoir Daddy, Lover, God deals with the question of “erotic abundance” and looks back at a career in the spicy industry with gratitude and pride.
Queer producer former spicy actor Josh Sabarra recently came out with the memoir P*rn Again, which is maybe the finest title you can give an adult entertainment memoir…
Stories from people in the industry are crucial for many reasons. They give us insight into the fascinating world of spicy content—which never gets old, and is consistently full of surprises. But more importantly, works like these are documenting history, and considering how many of these legends we’ve already lost and continue to lose, we need these stories more than ever right now.
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