Jack Hawk fantasized about having sex with Queen Elizabeth II when he was a teenager. Andy Dill says the wildest sex he ever had was in Liberace’s bed with the pianist’s groundskeeper. Jacob Scott confides that he’s topped with a large dog on several occasions. Tag Adam admits to having lost his anal virginity to a plastic banana, part of a fake-fruit arrangement still decorating his mother’s dining room.
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The idea for the collection came to him during a long stint working at Unabridged Books, the Lakeview bookstore specializing in gay and lesbian material. “Guys would come in and ask about porn stars,” Keehnen recalls. “There were some guidebooks and some specific biographies, but nothing like a book that described these guys or talked to them a little bit. I saw there was a demand there, wrote up a proposal, and shopped it around.”
The 60 profiles in Starz, all accompanied by hard-core erotic photos, begin with physical stats–height, weight, size while erect–and proceed to favorite sexual position and ideal man before getting down to business. Leather-and-bondage aficionado Rik Jammer, for example, wants a man to “mark me with his scent in bed” and answered the fill-in-the-blank “I’d give anything to meet ___________” with “the founders of our country.”
Keehnen, who works days as a massage therapist and coedits a literary supplement for the Windy City Times, also has two novels and two screenplays for indie horror movies on offer. He never uses a pseudonym. “People would see a porn story I wrote in the latest issue of Torso and say, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe you used your real name.’ But I never understood why it was such an issue. . . . I don’t want to ever sound judgmental about all the sex stuff. Culture has the problem, but I don’t.”
