Tommy Gunn Takes The Old Bull By The Horns

Straight male porn performers belong to an exclusive club, and the ones who actually get their names printed on boxcovers and magazines belong to a still more exclusive club, because it takes a lot to make an impression on a predominantly male consumer base that is predominantly looking at the side of the screen occupied by a female and her wares. Tommy Gunn is such a performer. We talk with the 2007 AVN Male Performer of the Year after the gap.

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Born in New Jersey, Tommy Gunn was a Chippendales dancer in Florida when his then-girlfriend introduced him to Wicked director Brad ("Flashpoint", "Coming Home") Armstrong.

"We were at the Saddle Ranch on Sunset Blvd. and I asked him what was the best way to break into the porn industry," Gunn said. "He just jerked his thumb at my girlfriend and said, 'She's your ticket in.'"

While that relationship didn't work out and Gunn was soon back on a plane to Florida, he was already making himself indispensable to ladies.

"I was working as a clothing designer and one day Janine and Julia Ann bought bikinis that I'd sewed," he said.

You sew?

"I have three sewing machines," he said. "One does leather. When I was dancing the other guys would come to me when they needed to replace the velcro in their pants."

Gunn's porn career began in 2003; he started when he was 36.

"I think if I got into this when I was 21 I'd be washed up," he said. "But I like the story about the Old Bull and the Young Bull: The Young Bull says, "Let's run down the hill and fuck that cow." And the Old Bull says, 'No, let's walk down there and fuck them all.'" I'm the Old Bull."

Gunn currently lives with Ashlynn Brooke in a house that he's fixing up to look like the Hard Rock in Las Vegas.

"I'm extending the beach to my pool," he said, strolling around the back yard where he has built a fountain and a tiki bar.

So what's the secret to a long career as a male porn star?

"Smell good always," he said. "and when I'm with another guy's girlfriend, I want to deliver her back to him unharmed."

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