In a week, I'll be 66 years old.

I was 22 then, but I knew that I could look back on this moment in history and say, hey, I captured a moment in time.

Something that had never been done before.

It was brand new, and I just got lucky.

I walked in the door at exactly the right time.

I was keenly aware of it. And still am to this day,

I still consider myself the original guy.

George MacDonald was an adult film star at a time when there were no adult film stars.

He started in the era of short, silent 8mm films and saw firsthand the progression to full-length pornographic features within a couple of years.

This was an era of shame and secrecy when no one really used their real name, except for George.

And for a time that name was everywhere. He once counted nine theaters showing his films in

San Francisco at the same time. He was in the industry so early that one of his last films

was the Mitchell Brothers behind the Green Door, often cited as one of the first adult films. So what kind of person

ends up being the original porn star? Maybe not the kind of person you'd think. George was an all-American

boy, high school athlete, good looking, good grades, good future. He signed up to the Air Force when

the Vietnam War was going on, and he had political aspirations, too.

He was sure he'd be mayor one day.

But along the way, he ended up working in porn films, headlining a live sex show in Hawaii

where he competed with John Holmes, and living the life no one else had really ever lived before.

And then he retired from the industry and opted for the quiet life, which in George's

case meant joining filmmaker Alex Dorenzi on a drug smuggling round the world boat trip. Another time,

another life, another reality. This is Ashley West. We've come to the right place.

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