Popshots of the Millennium pt. I: The Gangbang Years

Porn parodies have, as you know, come back into fashion lately, but in the early part of the millennium folks were still working on Gangbang variations like so many sperm-bedecked Glenn Goulds. After the gap: "My XXX Fat Gangbang."

Two colorful porn veterans, the late, lamented Henri Pachard and the very-much alive Rob Spallone collaborated on this project, which was the culmination of years of gangbang extravagance, including Annabelle Chong's celebrated Porn Star 'til Graduation Era and the Houston 500 (which was actually something like 212 guys making a few attempts each).

I had never been to a gangbang outside of my confirmation class, so I was delighted, as a cub AVN reporter in 2002, to watch as heavy men took on heavier ladies (as well as comparatively petite ringleaders Kat Kleevage and Pamela Peaks) in "My XXX Fat Gangbang."

Its significance was only personal; I've since met the exact same kind of person hundreds of times on gangbang sets, both on the splooging and splooge-surface fronts, but that day it was a real revelation. I can still conjure up the smells of despair, bacon, and melon body spray.

Don't get me wrong - there are still dozens of gangbangs shot every year, but even then the day of the porn spectacle was slipping away like an expired domain name written with felt marker on someone's massive left breast. To me, however, it was magic.