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In his senior year at Herbert Hoover High, George McDonald served as student body president, received the class of 1967's vote for "Most Likely to Succeed" and took the North Fresno Exchange Club's "Boy of the Year" award. He dreamed of becoming governor of California. Hitting bad luck after graduation, he eventually became a clerk at a dirty bookstore in the Tenderloin. One night friends paid for him to see a sex film which starred a stunning actress with short blonde hair. When she took her clothes off, she was even more beautiful than George imagined - large breasts, a flat stomach, trimmed blonde pubic hair and long legs. The woman gives a man a blowjob but by the time she's finished, he's still soft. The audience groans. Shifting to the man's face, the camera reveals he's terrified. George decided that he could perform sex on film and he pestered Jim and Artie Mitchell until they give him a chance. His costar was Lelania - the beautiful blonde in the flick that inspired him to give porn a chance. Though George had been laid many times, this was his first blow job. Jim then told George to perform cunnilingus - another first. He'd always wondered what it'd be like, and now he got to find out on camera. Moments later, he bolted up, gasping for breath. George had so immersed himself in his work that he forgot to breathe. The couple moved into the missionary position and after several changes of camera angle, George received permission to come. He stroked hard, burying his face in Lelania's hair before pulling out and achieving another first - watching his own orgasm. Jim showed George where to clean up and told him they were going to Ocean Beach to shoot the socially redeeming part of the film. While washing himself, George reflected that porn is the opposite of life. In life, you meet a girl, date and perhaps go to bed. In porn, you go to bed and then you have the date. In all his features George played a sensitive young man who wanted to get to know a woman before having sex - a radical departure from the typical male characters in porn whose lines were usually confined to "Suck harder, baby." George McDonald became San Francisco's first porn star, liked by almost everybody except the Mitchell brothers and their film crew who despised those on the wrong side of the camera. On opening night of Behind the Green Door at O'Farrell, George McDonald felt too nervous to go inside the theater to watch. He stayed outside and awaited reactions. As the movie ended, guests came out thrilled but confused. On the biggest night of George's life, the projection man confused reels two and three. "Only in porn could that happen and the audience still enjoy what they saw," reflected McDonald. One effect of porn going mainstream was that George McDonald finally became the star he always longed to be. But like many celebrities before him, he found fame a burden. "Women would always go, 'OOOHHH, you did that? They tended to be less inquisitive, less verbal and more physical than men. Most guys wanted the notion verified, that it was hard to get it up on demand. Some guys wanted to kick my ass. He'd watched the film with his wife and she'd gotten turned on, and now he wanted to kick my ass. "Sometimes, I'd get accosted by venomous right-wingers. They'd say, "You're a dirty-movie star! You exploit women!' I learned that nothing I could say could change their minds, so I always just sat there and let them tell me I was responsible for the decline of American civilization. Sometimes I'd run across a real weirdo. He'd rag on me for a while and then he'd end up saying he hadn't meant to do that to his dog, it had just happened." McDonald now lives in the same apartment that he first rented in Sausalito in the early 1970s when he was a new porn star. Married for 20 years to a woman he only sees on weekends and holidays, George works on roadcrews or washes dishes often enough to pay the rent and buy groceries. According to John Hubner, he spends most of his time reading in the Sausalito Library or helping his favorite widow polish an epic poem. Source: Bottom Feeders by John Hubner.
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