Hindsight: True Love & Mischief in the Golden Age of Porn
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Nina Hartley, Author of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex
“Howie Gordon is one of the most insightful and humorous story-tellers of our generation and Hindsight is an extraordinary look into the pornography industry from a very personal point of view. If you really want to Get Yer Ya-Yas Out, see the sex industry and learn first-hand what it was like to be a porn star in the go-go 70s & the early 80s, this is the book for you.”
Sam Singer, Master of Disaster
“I had a chance to taste a small morsel of Richard Pacheco’s new book, Hindsight, read by the author, and this little snack was a far more honest understanding of the adult industry and a man’s relationship to it than any entire books I’ve heard or read so far from adult talent. More a discovery of ourselves in sexuality and its portrayal in the media and porn, than a menu of celebrity stories, or an ego trip overcooked as more, Pacheco’s writing genuinely recognizes that the real meal in porn, sex and life is in the hidden ingredients that produce insight rather than more fast food writing. This is a book that offers the possibility of meaningful truth, not a common commodity, but rather cuisine for the soul.”
Mike Horner, Adult talent for 35 years, and over 2000 movies
“Richard Pacheco has managed to synthesize the perfect blend of humor, wit and gravity in this refreshingly authentic personal account, magnifying his scintillating and also touching experiences as a leading male star during the classic golden age of pornographic filmmaking. Readers who fondly recall the vestiges of liberation and rebellion that punctuated the ‘60s and ‘70s decades will thoroughly enjoy Pacheco’s intimate recollections of one who helped cultivate the heritage of the erotic movie industry, along with several beautiful and sensuous first generation ladies.
Hindsight is one of the finest and engaging memoirs in recent years to aptly and honestly chronicle behind the lens of the X-rated film industry.”
Jill C. Nelson, co-author of John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches, author of Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema (1968-1985)
“Howie has his own sad & happy stories to tell.”
Barry Gifford, Author of Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
“It was eye opening! I felt like I was reading my own dissertation on my own checkered past.”
Kelly Nichols, Hall of Fame Adult Actress
“Howie,
Glad to find you well and up to your usual tricks, horrifying the staid and fucking 25-year-old girls in the ass, if only in the recesses of your memory. The writing sample you sent me is great, in your style and the reason why I too would bet on you if you were a horse. The best thing about it is that it sounds a lot like the opening of a memoir of your early days in the Bay area and leading up to and including your days in Porn. As I said to you all those years ago, you have an amazing and I think important book in you on this topic. Here’s why: you were there, legitimately there, and you are a great writer and you aren’t freakin nuts. A lot of people were there. Many are dead, nuts or disappeared; none who remain can write well much less with style and energy. That means, if the world wants/needs a great book on what it was all about at that time, there’s really only one guy to tell us…HG aka RP. When it gets published, you owe me a steak.”
Edward Lewine interviewed me for Stuff magazine, “Easy Come, Easy Go” (Feb. 2003), author of Death and the Sun
“Insightful Title. Superb Introduction. Enticing Photographs. I WANT MORE! It is written with an amazing and beautiful understanding of a world I remember so fondly. There is an honest enthusiasm for a subject so often victimized by lies, scurrilous attacks, and unprecedented abuse from and by those who oppose the portrayal of sex on film for entertainment purposes. I applaud your efforts.
Anna Turner, Adult Film Actress
“Hindsight, yes, it’s a book about porn, but it transcends the genre. It’s an honest book about men, sex, relationships, and seeing the world through the eyes of a Baby Boomer.
Hindsight is a generation in the making and is a tale written with humor, insight, and skill. Highly recommended.”
Dr. Neil Malamuth, Professor of Psychology and Communication at UCLA, World leader in scientific research on porn
Howie Gordon is a model citizen, loving father, devoted husband, trusted neighbor, thoughtful friend and a very funny guy who just happens to have once earned a living with his penis. Then again, maybe it was Gordon’s brief but intense career as “Golden Age” porn star Richard Pacheco that prepared him to be the ultimate Family Guy. Written with passion, warmth and wonderful self-deprecating wit, Hindsight is a rear view mirror of the soulful side of pornography from a very special time, the late 70s-early 80s, that could well be considered the climax of the Sexual Revolution.
Dr. Susan Block, Author, Entertainer, and Sex Educator
My favorite paragraph: “That out of this gallery of the broken, the curious, the rogues and the desperate may be born defenders of freedom and sexual pioneers is truly the unfathomable sense of humor of our Creator at work. But on occasion, lust, chaos, and greed have alchemically mingled to produce both beauty and nobility, in addition to all the stereotypical and wretched excesses that one would also expect.”
The quality of thought, the voice, both humble “a chronicle of underachievement” (I would say, rather, you led a very brave life) and passionate — make for a really compelling intro. I can’t wait to read the book.
Juliana Piccillo, Writer and Filmmaker
“Editing your book has certainly brightened my days. And for the record, I definitely think that it would be interesting to those outside of your typical niche — of course you have to get them to pick up the book in the first place, but I think once they do, anyone would be hooked.
The thing I like about it is the brutal honesty, and that you give us a great insight into not just the adult film industry but also into your life too. I read a lot of bios, and my favorite ones are those that really give you an idea of what that person is actually about. There are a lot of interesting ones that tell you their little stories about when they worked with X or dated Y, but you don’t really get to know them. With your book, you really get to know about you too, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly (not that I’m saying you’re bad or ugly, you get the point). But I think that’s what an autobiography should be because it’s just like life, and that’s really the idea.”
Wendy Finn, Writer and Book Editor
Mr. Howie Gordon, it is an honor. Steven Morowitz here, and I am not really anyone you would know. But, I grew up watching your films and without a doubt, you are one of the best. It is an honor to friend you.
Steven Morowitz, aka Distribpix Man