A rare adult performer who can act, Tom Byron left college after one year to move to Los Angeles. While working at a Le Sex Shoppe store, the Texan asked around about how to enter the industry and eventually wandered down to Jim South's World Modeling agency in 1982. Tom began his porn career playing boys and since then he's appeared in 1600 sexvids - more than anybody.

Tom is a favorite of many female performers. "A big schlong," he explains. "How big, I couldn't tell you. I've never had a tape measure at the moment of truth. That may be why a lot of guys are the way they are; full of violence and aggression, because they're lacking in the pants department. They channel their energy and frustration in other ways. I'm comfortable in that area so I don't feel the need to overexert my masculinity.

"Anything I do on screen, I have done in my personal life. My masculinity has been documented more times on screen than anyone. I don't feel the need to prove anything." (Swank)

In Takin' It to the Limit, he gets his ass f---ed by Alexis Payne wearing a strap-on dildo. Tommy loves having his ass licked and penetrated.

In 1996, Byron began making the Cumback Pussy series.

"I don't do anything unless I can do it better than anyone," says Tom. "That's why I waited so long to direct. I'm getting a good response to the series because I know what I'm doing. Five years ago I didn't.

"Cumback Pussy is pure sex. It's good porn. I don't do silly skits. I just find people who want to f--- each other and let them go at it.

"Lots of people try to make Hollywood [porn] movies. They cast according to type and acting ability. I cast according to who wants to f--- who."

Usually women get to choose their sex partners, but not in Byron's videos. "It's the guy who's got to get the erection and do the work.

"There are some girls I love working with all the time such as Nici Sterling and Juli Ashton. But most of us guys want fresh chicks. The best scenes come from doing someone you've never met before.

"I only cast girls, whether I f--- them or not, who turn me on, because I'm going to shoot a better sex scene if I'm enjoying what I watch.

"You see some cameramen who show up on every other set, and you see how jaded they get. They shoot according to formula.

"The great thing about the business is I can walk on a set, see a girl that I've never met before, get in her face, see her totally made up and in 30 minutes I'm knee deep in poontang.

"What would I change? Cut out the silicone, girls. No tit jobs. Tit jobs are bad, bad, bad. I'm a butt man. That's my particular area. I'd rather have little f---in' raisin nipples than some stretched-out gargantuan bag of s--- in my f---in' chest."

Tom says he's always feared working for a paycheck. "I don't want to do anything that doesn't fulfill me just because the rent's due. I love doing porn. My life revolves around it. I have no other hobbies.

"I've burned out [on porn] a couple of times. Usually I'm not taking care of myself. But I always come back, and now I'm in the best shape of my life. I work out four days a week with a trainer."

Tom points to several naked porn girls, to explain how he maintains his sanity. "That's the reason. I worship beautiful women. I treat them like the goddesses that they are.

"All I see when I see couples together are these petty arguments. I'm not into that. I'd rather have a few women that I consider close friends, but we all have our own sexual identity. I'm not interested in the picket fence and the American dream… I was born to be a rebel.

"I'm getting into the business… I hope that will pay off in big numbers. I want a fat bank account. If I could go back in time and do things differently, I would've handled my money better.

"But I come from Texas white trash. We lived from paycheck to paycheck. Savings? Balancing a check book? How do you do that? I was making money, so I spent it. The IRS went up my ass because I went on TV and probably pissed off a few people, but that's my rebellious nature. If I feel myself or anything I believe in, oppressed, I fight the f---ing thing. But I ended up coming out smelling sweet in the long run. The IRS wanted to send me to jail." (Swank 1/98)

"I grew up in a family of four sisters, a gay brother and a strong mother. The macho thing doesn't appeal to me. I don't like to hang out with guys. I don't like to go to bars to try to score. I don't get into fights. All the things that the average male finds amusing, I don't. I'd rather hang out with girls and see what they're thinking about."

When stranger ask Tom what he does for a living, he answers directly. "I do porno movies. I don't care how they react. That's their problem. If they don't accept it, I don't have any room in my f---ing life for them. They are not people to me."

Tom has never married.

"America is extremely racist and that doesn't exclude us. Many of the people who hold the purse strings in this business are racist. They don't make big productions with blacks because they fear it'll cost 'em a few sales.

"A jerk is a jerk whether they are black, brown, green or yellow. I grew up in South Texas. The reason I don't live there is because of its racism. I grew up in a home where you could say 'f---' and 's---' but 'nigger' was a bad word.

"How do I stop myself from ejaculating too quickly? The same way any athlete stops himself from pulling a muscle... You learn your craft. You change your stroke or think of something different. I'm still here [in porn] because I've mastered all those little tricks. I can't throw a javelin, or box or run hurdles, but I can f--- on film. This is what I've always known I'd do - since I was 14 years old."

Byron had to cancel his booking in late 1994 on the sets of Corporate Assets and Hard Copies after his dog bit his dick while the two were watching a video together.

Tom finds Max Hardcore product interesting. "Much of his audience is weak men who wish they could be that aggressive sexually and aren't. So they masturbate to it

and try to imagine themselves as sexual conquerors. But the bottom line is that most of these people are lonely. They can't relate to women on any other level aside from as a

hole to stick their dick in."

Byron admits to beating off to Max Hardcore. "Vivid is the most incredibly boring stuff on the planet. Gregory Dark's stuff is weird. I don't understand it. But it's technically well-shot and edited. Gregory is the only porn director who choreographs the sex. He gives me good roles. I haven't been known in the last few years as a strong

actor because no one aside from Greg has given me the roles to prove that. Much of the stuff coming out is such utter dreck that I can't take it seriously and it shows in my

performances."

Nina Hartley stood next to Tom and I while we talked 3/12/97 and added these thoughts.

"It's easy for guys like Tom to become jaded for they have no incentive to develop themselves as lovers. Whether they're nice or not, whether they're good lovers or not, they know when they come on the set that they are going to get laid that day and have an orgasm. So unless they're a good person, there's no incentive to get better. In real life, you [a male] have to be nice and not bad at what you do, and accommodating, to get laid.

"The male performers have the toughest job. No matter what their mood or who they're faced with, they have to get off. To be considered a good stud you can't be human. The

men have to get an erection and an orgasm even in the face of extreme adversity, including drunk girls, stoned girls, hostile girls, sick girls, complaining girls, bitchy girls

and ugly girls. You [the male performer] have to become jaded because you have to f--- too many times when you're not in the mood.

"The mental trick is learning how to have sex morning or night, early or late, hot or cold, hungry or tired, rent overdue, cat sick, mom died, car broke down. You're not allowed to be human. You don't get to come home from a hard day's work and have a girlfriend and get all cuddly and lovey. And after a while you start dredging up weirder and weirder fantasies to get you through it, and you start spelunking into strange places. If a guy comes up to me and I see he's a sweetheart, I tell him: 'Don't do it. You will ruin yourself and your life forever, because that part of you that I find sweet now and desirable will be gone. They'll eat it.' (Paragraph from Details 9-96)

"You get some ugly director telling you 'hurry up, hurry up' and some fat guy scratching his balls and shoving a light up your ass and telling you to move your nut sack because he can't see... Remember Billy Dee with those hanging nut bags? You Tom have these tight white boy balls that stay out of the way."

Shy Tom switches the subject. "Remember that film Dreams of Desires by Mike Horner? That was weird. It had that '70s porno look."

Nina: "I admire Mike because he puts his money where his vision is. Few people do that.

"I remember the first time I did Tommy. It was Gangbangs Part One in June of 1984. He had this sunken chest with a big ol' log down to his knees. Now he's been working out and he's developing muscles. Almost as many as Sharon Mitchell.

"When did you start Tom?"

"1982."

Nina: "It was 1984 for me."

Sharon Mitchell: "1975."

Nina with enthusiasm: "f---ing A, bitch. Right the f--- on.

"I've done about 350 videos. I'm trying to catch up with Sharon."

Sharon: "I've done about 2000 scenes. I walked on to this set yesterday to do production [for director Jane Hamilton] and I ended up eating pussy."

Nina: "Poor baby."

Sharon: "Shayla LaVeaux, Julie Ashton and Taren Steele."

Nina: "You were exploited. Just used for your body.

"All workers are exploited under capitalism. If you don't own the means of production..."

Tom: "Are you a f---in' pinko?"

Nina: "Yes I am and proud of it. I'm a red diaper baby. A small c communist and a big S socialist."

Tom: "Now that I'm making money I'm becoming more Republican every day. I want money. I want money."

Nina: "When I think about money, I think about giving people a piece..."

Tom: "Giving people a piece?"

Nina: "Give them a piece of the action."

Luke: "Invest with Nina and get a piece."

Nina: "If you have the wealth, you share the wealth.

"I've made these guys [owners of porn production and distribution companies] a lot of money and I have to work for day labor? Excuse me. I want a piece [of the profits]. That's where we're exploited. And that's also where most of the prejudice, and guidelines come from [these porn owners]."

Tom: "We need to make our own sets."

Nina: "Become United Artists."

Tom: "We need to take out the heads of the five families [alluding to the leading Mafia crime families in New York]. Gambino, Bonnano... Take them out."

Sharon: "We'll seduce them first."

Nina: "We'll f--- them and you take the keys.

"We'll seduce them with interracial sex, the thing they really hate."

Sharon: "Interracial sex is the worst form of exploitation and racism that there is for now it's portrayed as a novelty."

Nina: "Black on blonde. Black on blue. Big black butts."

Sharon: "And there's more interracial sex in real life."

Nina: "Out of fear of losing a few sales in the South, the big companies [VCA and Vivid particularly] don't do big budget productions with blacks. Whether or not they are racist, these big companies acquiesce to other people's racism for a few dollars. And that burns my gourd."

Tom with a leer: "What are you? A nigger-lover? A nigger-lovin' pinko?"

Nina: "Yes. Going back to my grandpappy in Alabama. He almost lost his life fighting racism."

Tom wants to avoid serious discussion, so he starts flexing his legs.

Nina: "Oh, look at you. Look at those calves. You have great legs.

"Lots of Jews in the South fought for civil rights. Did you read the book Members of the Tribe by Zev Chafets?"

Luke: "Great book."

Nina: "My mother's side of the family came over from Germany in the 1850s and went straight to Alabama and went into dry goods. And my grandfather Joe was a communist. The only people speaking about racial equality in the 1930s [in America] were communists. Joe was idealistic. He opened an office called "Southern Office for Defense of Political Prisoners." He defended the Scottsboro boys.

"When Bill Connor was just a goon, he and other goons dragged my grandfather out into the woods, stomped on him and left him for dead. When my grandfather died a few years later of a heart attack, in 1950, they did an autopsy and found that his chest was still mangled. He never recovered from that stomping."

I've caught Nina Hartley in a talkative mood.

"I thought the US News [2/10/97] cover story on the business of porn was accurate. It didn't delve into the morality of porn."

Tom: "It didn't say anything about me."

Nina: "Poor boy. But you have a nice tushy. No one does up-and-over doggie like you, Tommy."

Luke: "What's up-and-over doggie?"

Nina: "When the woman kneels and the man penetrates her while standing."

Sharon: "His dick faces down so the camera gets a good angle."

Tom: "It kills the legs."

Nina: "If she's strong enough, you can rest your hands on her hips and relieve some of your weight... If you're going to do doggie...if you're going to take me, take me! Do it hard."

A black girl walks by.

Tom: "I know her. I've f---ed her."

Nina: "And what is her name?"

Tom: "I don't know. But she has a nice ass."

Sharon: "Joey Silvera. He is the most twisted guy. And no one knows him because he's so shy.

"In 1978, Fred Lincoln directed shows on Broadway and at Show World on 42nd and 7th. We did S-M theater. No one wanted to do afternoon shifts 'cause we were all hung over. So Joey said, 'I'll do it.' And he did the Bill Beach show. He'd wear this ski cap...hysterical. He's funny whether he means to be or not. I still can't figure him out.

"Joey and I became close. So close that we didn't work together for several years because that would've felt incestuous."

Nina: "This is a family."

Sharon: "We see people through their ups and downs. You [Nina] have seen me through four of my seven clean-ups [from narcotics addiction]."

Nina: "She's uber survivor."

Sharon: "I'm the biggest survivor of them all. I should've been dead years ago."

Nina: "When I first did stripping, I read an interview with Sharon Mitchell in The Spectator [San Francisco area sex weekly published by Kat Sunlove]. I loved her attitude. She was wacky and I was innocent. I'm still learning how to be a mentor and I can't do it all. I need someone like Sharon who has more experience than me. Mitch won't lie to me. She tells you straight up. But even when she tells you the bitter truth, Sharon does it with love. She's never mean."

Sharon has been certified by the state of California as a "chemical dependency" counselor. "I'm finishing up my AA. Then I'll do a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and then a Ph.D.. So far I have a 4.0 average.

"I find it hard to maintain a schedule because I've been freelance for 23 years.

"The new curriculum expects all future psychologists to use themselves as case studies. It's painful. When I write a term paper, it's a catharsis. I cry. I get to the core issues that caused me to use drugs and alcohol. Now I can be of service to others."

Nina: "And she looks f---ing awesome. Let it be noted that women half her age would kill for her body."

Sharon walked around the set off Mulholland Drive in Bel Air wearing nothing on this Spring day in 1997 but a bikini bottom.

Nina: "She should've been dead ten years ago."

Nina and Sharon laugh. Tom's disappeared. He performs in two scenes during the afternoon, ejaculating both times.

Sharon: "I'm supposed to be here. The universe wants me alive."

Nina: "If she hadn't been in porno, she would've been dead by now. Porno is a supportive family. They'll help you do whatever you want to do. If you want to go to hell, they'll hold your hand as you go there. And they'll take you back again and again.

"For many women, entering this business is the worst experience of their life - a way of hitting bottom so they can realize that they need help. Other women, like me, thrive in porno.

"There are only about five people [I suspect Nina refers to persons such as Mark Carriere, Paul Little and John Bone] in this business who should meet horrible endings in dead-end alleys. There are only a few evil people in porn. The rest of us are only moderately f---ed up."

"Dirk and his friend were really stupid," 03acr wrote on rame about Boogie Nights, "but I'm afraid we'd find the same vacuousness if we interviewed TT Boy, Marc Wallace, and Tom Byron for more than an hour and a half. Remember how Tom Byron announced he wouldn't do any more movies without a condom, then retracted that, and admitted he only did it because he thought that doing something "political" would give him a platform to launch his rock and roll career?"

In 1991, Byron announced that he'd no longer perform without condoms. It was his way of taking a year off from the industry to pursue a record deal singing Southern Rock. The condom stand was "to have a cause wagon I could trade on." When his music career didn't pan out, Tom returned to porn without insisting on condoms.

7/21/99

Tom Byron Sucks Cock?

Luke suspects the picture is a fake. But Jim L. writes: "Wow, that is an old pic of Tom Byron. Must be the mid-eighties. Pre-pierce, pre-tattoo, and with the old Luke Skywalker hairdo. Doesn't look obviously faked, so I'll tentatively buy that it's real. I agree that Black shouldn't be so hard on gays if Byron's got this in his past. But I don't hold it against Byron as a fan, same as Peter North/Matt Ramsey. You know, Ron Jeremy did some of this shemale/Pre-Op TS/"chicks with dicks" type of stuff also. I guess they all try some bi out at some point, whatever pays their bills... I agree with the poster to your site - it's definitely a gay thing. The strap-on stuff Byron did with chicks is not gay. No guys on guys, it's not gay. But a spade's a spade, and those femme looking guys called TS or whatever - those are guys! As long as the male actors commit to just gay or just straight films it's ok with me. You gotta pick a team and stick with it for a while, you know? It's easier for us straights to deal with while watching it, and it keeps the porno girls from getting too paranoid."

Email: "There's a whole set showing Tom and that "girl" that have circulated on a lot of the T-girl websites, so they're not faked. Must have been years ago. That said, who really cares? It doesn't impact his work today."

From www.geneross.com: "Byron is claiming that a photo, courtesy of Ramsey, allegedly depicting him sucking she-male cock on another site, are doctored. Byron says he'd like to see the movie this still is supposed to be from. Byron will have more to say about that in an upcoming interview.

Rob Black: "That Ramsey's the guy who f---ing goes after us all the time. We don't know who he is. We think it's somebody with Van. We're not sure. He's usually going after me all the time..I'm this...I'm that."

"These were Black's first reactions when the Tom Byron picture hit the Luke F-rd site and Black was informed about it. Black [laughing]: "Got the f--- outta here!! Does he look young? Man, Byron's going to lose his mind. There's no way it's real. Tommy's the most open motherf---er in this world. He would have said I did this years ago. This'll be good."

Email: "I have seen this picture before, as well as the rest of the series .... if you "watch" the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.transexual or the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.transexual.action newsgroups you will see them.... (I have seen several of them in the past). Yes, it does look like Tom. The other pic are of his... uumm.... using his member on her/him..... I don't know if it was him, but, it sure looks like him. If I had to bet, I would say it was him."

Email: "These were shot early/mid 80's for Rodox Corporations "Transexual Climax" Magazine owned as you would know by Peter Theander. They are certainly not fake."

01/22/00

Tom Byron Sucks Cock

Diablo writes 1/22/00 on alt.cult-movies.erotica: While at CES in the Sands convention I was standing in line for a beverage after walking around all day. Tom Byron comes walking by and a reporter (maybe from Colin's Sleazy Friends? Don't get that show and never seen it) starts to interview Tom. Now I was listening to the interview and it seemed to be the normal stuff every pornstar gets asked, till the interviewer asks about the pics of Tom with the tranny. When I heard this I figured Tom would get upset, walk away, make something up, or evade it somehow. But Tom came right out and said that he sucked the tranny's dick. I applaud Tom Byron for being a man about this and admitting it instead of dodging it. I guess this ends the discussion about if the pics are fake or not, or if that is Tom.

Ramsey follows up: Thanks Diablo. People should check out Luke's archive to see who exposed Tom for the first time! Here's the full story from Luke's archive (July 19th 1999):

Ramsey Berates Byron

Ramsey from Holland writes: "Luke, I gave you the scoop last week about Tom Byron's (gay) past but you didn't pick it up. I mean one of the reasons why I like your work is because you don't care who you are exposing, you are just doing your job, that's why I attacked Marc Star for attacking you. I still believe in your work even though I'm a little disappointed in the fact that you didn't print the story. Never mind, you can read the full story also on RAME (if the MODS don't reject it). Extreme Associates need to be exposed because Rob Black is the biggest scumbag in the adult-industry but you must know that after the Brick Majors-controversy. His attacks on Stagliano, Zupko and Van Damage are pathetic, especially now with Tommy's past (see the picture). Keep up the good work, the industry (still) needs you. Ramsey Ramsamoedj."

Tom Byron Sucks Cock? (Luke suspects the picture is a fake.) Yes RAME-ers it's true, Tom Byron did suck a dick of a (she)male, I saw the picture! This is truly something because it was Rob Black who attacked John Stagliano for doing a she-male. Well Rob Black doesn't call them she-males, he calls them and I quote "A f---ing guy that's made to look like a girl with tits" (on Gene Ross 28 june 1999). Then on 29 June 1999 again on Gene Ross, Rob Black made the following statement and I quote again "Tommy takes plastic dildos up his ass not real she-male cock". I guess Tommy didn't tell his boss about his (gay) past otherwise he wouldn't have made these dumb statements. Rob Black also says that Tommy will be directing a she-male line and everybody in the video's will be wearing Stagliano masks. Well Rob, I think you better use some Tom Byron masks, at least Stagliano had the courage to come out with his story, can't say the same about Tommy. Rob Black can NEVER AGAIN use this she-male crap against Stagliano or Zupko because his partner did the same thing. Also his unfounded attacks on Van Damage about the same subject should end because it's pathetic. I hope the RAME-MODS won't see this as yet another attack on Extreme because this is piece is based on facts, I mean if Rob Black has the right to make his attacks than we should also have the right to contradict it, especially since I have 100% proof of Tom Byron's past. This maybe a little hard to accept for Tom Byron-fans but that doesn't change the facts, I mean even Luke F-rd won't put this story on his site because I did send him the story a week ago and he didn't pick it up, maybe Luke thinks it's too controversial or maybe Luke doesn't want to admit that he was wrong about Tommy because Luke also didn't thought Tommy did a (she)male. I want to thank Cindy Papa for sending me the picture of Tommy, this is truly an apocalypse, any comments from Extreme?

Sergio writes: What's all the fuss about Tom Byron sucking a cock? He was SODOMIZED WITH A DILDO in Bionca/Bruce Seven's first installment of the TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT series.