I first met JACOB SLADER back when he was working under his nom de plume of ETHAN RICHARDS. I was doing camera on a Hollywood Sales movie called ALL RISE: HUNG JURY 2 (which was also the debut of ex-military stud PAUL JOHNSON under the one-time-only name of THOMAS PRIEST). I remember him being a handsome young man with a sassy but intelligent personality whom directors PETER & CASEY O'BRIAN used again in AMERICAN BOOTY II where Ethan talked about his ethnic background and was even sassier, but not in an obnoxious way.

He also appeared in ACCOUNTS LAYABLE and PACKAGE DELIVERY for the same company before disappearing. I'd tell you more about the shooting of these films, except for the simple fact that I really don't remember much about them.



A few years passed, and I was hired by the O'Brians to do camera on an All Worlds Video shoot called MOUNT JACK, about two lovers who quarrel while hiking in the mountains and split up in a huff, only for one of them to get lost and hunted by a bear. Incidently, the title was originally in some dispute. The higher-ups wanted to re-name the movie BARE MOUNTAIN or something like that, and they (to their credit) asked me if that was okay, since I had written the script. I replied honestly, that they were buying the script from me and as was their right, could call it anything they wanted. But I asked producer DAN CROSS, "They do get the joke, right? The main character is called Jack, and he's lost on a mountain? Where guys are having sex? MOUNT Jack?" Dan smiled at me, nodded and walked off. The movie was released as MOUNT JACK.

We filmed at an outdoor location in the San Fernando Valley, up in the hills, where yellow jacket wasps were plentiful and have nothing better to do than buzz around cameramen's ears. It was a warm day, but not too warm, which was great for whomever was going to have to wear the bear suit. That was the focus of my attention when I arrived. I wanted to see that fucking bear suit. I was so excited, I couldn't think of much else. I entered the studio and said hello to Peter O'Brian, who was directing sans Casey, then to Dan and ROCK ROUNEE, the makeup man, and then I asked to see the bear suit. "Where is it? Is it here?"

Peter showed me the suit, and the most impressive thing about it was the head: fierce and snarling, the head (except for the pink plastic tongue) looked fairly realistic. The body, however, was another story: basically a football mascot skin, the fur was of a uniform length. Think a 6-foot tall stuffed teddy bear with the stuffing removed. The paws were merely mittens with four black 2-inch-long plastic claws. Disappointing was not the word for it.

All Worlds' owner DIRK YATES had green-lit the project with one concrete condition: THE BEAR MUST LOOK REAL. This was going to take some creative shooting and editing. As I was loading my camera, I noticed one of the models filling out his paperwork. He looked familiar to me, but I couldn't place him. He saw me staring and said hi. I said hi back, with no idea as to who he was. At my first opportunity, I asked the director and was told that it was Ethan Richards, only now he had another name...JACOB SLADER. I remembered him, then, and Jacob and I chatted briefly about what he had been up to the past few years. He had been travelling the world and was now back in L.A. teaching adult English classes. He had decided to return to porn, but now, covered with tattoos and possessing a rougher, more aggressive attitude, he felt that he needed a new name, and so came up with Jacob Slader. "Jacob and Ethan are really two different people", he told me. "Jacob is nothing like Ethan. I'm a new person."

The first day was all B-roll/dialogue, and Jacob did very well as the concerned young man whose boyfriend was lost. He paces before grabbing a spare rifle and setting out on his own to search. The second day Jacob did his sex scene with CHAD THOMAS. It was the second and final sex scene shot that day, and the light (and warmth) was going fast. But goosebumps and all, the guys had no problems getting and staying hard, and the oral was quickly shot. The fucking presented a bit of a problem. The models were having sex on an incline next to a stone bracing wall, which didn't seem condusive to any obvious sexual positions. Finally, we had Chad on his back on the stone wall with Jacob fucking him in a standing missionary, one foot higher than the other. Jacob slammed him with an enthusiasm that I hadn't noticed when we worked together years before, and at the end of the second position (a full missionary on the inclined ground), with the sun behind the clouds and total darkness just minutes away, coaxed a big load out of Chad before dumping one of his own.

I took two things away with me on that shoot: Jacob's acting and his ass. I was determined to see more of both.



I was thinking of what the next Red Devil movie would be, and I found myself growing more and more upset by the right-wing fundamentalist position that if you were gay, you could not be a Christian. Gay=Atheist seemed to be the message they were intent on putting across. I consider myself religious, and I couldn't help but wonder how this homophobic fundamentalist message would have affected me when I was younger and struggling with my sexuality. That quickly became the foundation of the idea for DIRTY LITTLE SINS. I wanted the main character to be a young gay man, closeted and self-hating because of what he's been taught to believe. He's a good guy, but deeply flawed, forced to believe that what he is must be scorned, because he knows nothing else. For dramatic conflict, I knew I had to pair him up with someone who was his polar opposite, in this case, a street hustler, who was openly gay, openly happy with being gay, but also deeply flawed by being an ex-Christian/now atheist because of a traumatic experience in his past. I wrote that part for Jacob, because he had the look, and I knew that he could handle the difficult acting chores. When casting the part of the closeted gay man, I knew that BRAD BENTON could pull it off. Brad had also just won the GayVN award for Best Actor, so I figured that he would love to do another meaty acting role, and the publicity would help the project. So I sent the script to his agent, and Brad jumped at it. I talked to Jacob and told him about the project, and he was very excited. His one concern: that in the last sex scene, his character had to bottom. It was important to the script (really!). For all the script's "messages", at its center, it really was nothing more than a love story between two men of different beliefs and backgrounds. Jacob's character, Currie, finally lets down his guard and allows himself to fall in love. Since his life-altering descent stemmed from being fucked when he was younger, his redemption must come about in the same manner. I assured him that I would make him as comfortable as I could and that he would have another sex scene where he would top only (oddly enough, this was ALSO important to the plot). He knew and respected Brad, and when I told him he could top JASON RIDGE in the other scene, the deal was solidified. Jacob asked me to ask Jason if he could really screw him hard, and Jason agreed.

We shot Jacob's bottoming scene the first day. It was on an open roof of a two-story house in West Hollywood. There was a wall so the neighbors couldn't see, although if you were on the next block, you could probably hear Brad moaning as he was getting dicked by Jacob in the first fuck position. When it came time for Jacob to go under, he was turning red from too much sun, but he laid on his stomach and took Brad like a champ. He had told me that he never got fucked in real life, but it was a real pleasure to see him open up. He asked me later if I was enjoying seeing him bottom, and I said yes. Then he asked me if I liked seeing tops in general, bottom, and I again said yes. "So," he laughed, "I get it now! This is a way of seeing your fetishes acted out!"

"You just now figured that out?!" I replied, then told Brad to fuck him even harder in the next position. "Hey!" Jacob protested. I grinned and said, "That's what you get for trying to psychoanalyze your director!" lol. When the scene was done, Jacob said that getting fucked was quite pleasureable, and that Brad was a good lover, but he still thought of himself as a top and versatility wasn't something he foresaw in his personal or professional future.

The shoot was a breeze. The first day we shot one sex scene, two layouts and 17 pages of dialogue at 4 different locations. The enter production took 3 days and is the best thing I've done to date. The reviews were all positive. Most critics raved about the acting, and Jacob, especially, was noticed for his acting (and bottoming) skills.

Next, I hired Jacob to do a scene for YOUNG HUSBANDS ON THE DOWN LOW for Arena Entertainment. This was shot in Palm Springs back-to-back with MARS NEEDS MEN for All Worlds. I paired Jacob up with TROY PUNK. Jacob was Troy's gardener who was secretly dicking the married man when his wife was away shopping. It was the 2nd scene on the 1st day of a 2-day shoot. We got off to a great start. Troy sucked Jacob's big dick like the pro he is, then Jacob returned the favor. We were shooting at a property on the outskirts of Palm Springs. It was a big backyard with neighbors on all sides of us and not always too well concealed...but the owner assured us it would be okay, so I didn't think about it, and neither did the guys as Jacob fucked Troy up against a tree, then on the ground in the spoons position. The sun was going down, and the amber afternoon light was stretching shadows further and further across the ground. We didn't have much time left to finish. Troy came, and Jacob worked on his. He stroked and beat that dick until I thought it was going to wear down to a nub. Nothing. Jacob asked me if he could sit in a nearby chair. He thought it might be more comfortable and thus more conducive to his cumming. I agreed, but after another 10 minutes, although hard as a post, he didn't seem any closer to finishing. Finally, he took a breather, and I noticed his hands were trembling. I asked him what was wrong. He told me he couldn't cum because he was a diabetic, and his blood sugar was too low (this is not a secret, by the way. He is quite open about his diabetes). Could he have something to drink, anything with sugar in it? The p.a. brought him a sports drink, which he sipped at, then gulped down. He rested for two minutes, then said he wanted to try again. He got back on the ground next to Troy and within 60 seconds, blew a big load. After his scene, he drove over to the All Worlds resort to use a free one-night coupon he'd been given. I invited him to join the rest of us for dinner at a chinese place called Wang's (appropriate), but he didn't show.

Months later, I had been hired by All Worlds to be one of the cameramen shooting the big orgy in Palm Springs for their 20/20 anniversary shoot, now called WORLD CLASS ORGY 2005. Jacob was going to attend, but his car conked out on him halfway there, and he couldn't participate.

Some time later, I was at Mickey's in West Hollywood attending Cocktails With the Stars, and ran into Jacob there. I was planning to do a new video for SweatShop and said I wanted him to be in it. It would be called V FOR VERSATILE, and every scene would be a flip-flop. He laughed and said that it sounded like a good idea, but he had no intention of bottoming again, on film or otherwise. If I changed the concept, he'd be happy to do it. He also told me that he was currently dating porn star NICK PISTON, which seemed like a perfect match.

The concept DID, in fact, change, as you now know, to DRIFTER 2: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, and I hired Jacob to do a scene. "Yes," I assured him while on the phone, "you will only be topping." He was partnered with ANDREW ADDAMS, who loves to take a deep hard pounding the kind of which Jacob loves to dish out, but he had to cancel. I recast his part with JOHNNY MORELLI, and you can read how their scene went in the archived post (September).

Jacob's blog is nominated for Best Porn Star Site in the Cybersocket Awards. I voted for him, then e-mailed him congratulations. He responded, saying thanks, and telling me that he was moving to Japan in June 2006. He speaks several languages fluently and was going there to teach. He is leaving the world of porn behind. Whether he returns reinvented under a new name and personality remains to be seen. Whatever happens, I wish him all the luck and success in the world.



Oh...the name Jacob Slader came from his favorite movie: JACOB'S LADDER.

JBK