Sunday, February 1, 2015

Famous Black Firsts: Porn Star Johnny Keyes

While watching SNL last night a name was mentioned that I'd never thoughts of when I was doing my Cool Shit Black People Invented the last few years. Who was the first Black porn star? Who is this man that risked so much so that years later we could watch men that looked more like ourselves having sex on camera while wearing sunglasses, white socks, and baseball caps? 

Well, turns out his name was Johnny Keyes and he was slinging mad Black dick. He was in the Swedish Erotica series of films but is best known for Behind The Green Door where he fucked actress Marilyn Chambers for 47 minutes on film until she actually fainted. Everyone thought that she was acting but she wasn't. This man dicked her into another state of consciousness.

Born in 1940, Keyes was an amateur boxing lightweight champion in the U.S Army. He has a degree in theater arts and has taught theater as well. He performed in Hair and The Wiz for live performances. He currently plays jazz in Seattle and a few years back was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Now, I know there are a lot more important things that Black people have done or invented. I've written about a lot of them. But could you even begin to imagine how hard it was to be the first well known Black guy to fuck on film? He wasn't that far away from Black folks not being able to drink at the same fountains or eat in the same restaurants as Whites and there he was fucking White women on film...for 47 minutes

I can count how many times I've done that on both hands and each time I was drunk as hell or the chick made the mistake of going down on me with something minty in her mouth. Natures numbing agent! This guy did it on film. I can't fuck if an animal is in the room let alone a crew. They were probably like “Is he gonna be done anytime soon?” Nope. He was fucking for every Black man that couldn't have sex with White woman...publicly. Keyes is a true American hero!

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