There was a sense in the biz that hardcore was likely to happen… soon… and we — agents & photographers — wondered which models would make the switch. When things broke loose after I shot SEX IN MARRIAGE we lost some good models but much of the slack was taken up by swingers getting into the biz now that they could have real sex while modeling.

    One day Reb handed me a Polaroid of a cute new swinger who he had just booked with two of her friends, a swinging couple, into their first shoot with me. This sexy little swinger was Rene Bond. This was not only her first porn but also the first time she had sex with another woman so she had two firsts in one day. She certainly liked it as she went on to become one of our first porn stars. Rene's first porn shoot ever can be found, for you collectors of fine porn, in RESPONSE vol. 1, #2 by Academy Press.  [ I have a copy. ]

Rene Bond from her 1st porn shoot

The second shoot with Rene was when I was given an assignment to shoot a white woman with a black man. In 1972 this was still very controversial behavior.  When mixing races I always asked all parties if they were OK with that; never had a black person say no but a few whites did. I tried not pulling surprises on anyone. It was common procedure to book people of the same race without checking it out. Models often came to work without any idea of who they were going to be fucking and that can be a turn-on by itself.

When I asked Rene about working with a black man she told me that she had never fucked one and would love to do the job because she was curious. I picked as her partner Slow Poke, a black 1% biker from the Chosen Few. Slow Poke had offered to "walk off" a black woman cop who entrapped me — which I appreciated but "thanks but no thanks" (more on that later). The least I could do for a man who showed me that kind of respect is get him laid with Rene. Besides he was neat, clean, good looking, a nice guy and he could get it up. They looked great together and both seemed to enjoy the experience of giving me a good porn shoot. The pix of Rene & Slow Poke can be seen in SEX IN THE BLACK WHITE MARRIAGE, again by Academy. This was still the time of Marriage Manuals with their Socially Redeeming Values.

Early Polaroid of Rene Bond

The last time I saw Rene was in '72 when the publisher of Greenleaf Classics flew Rene & her good friend, Ric Lutz, to San Francisco where I was then living. Rene no longer had those perfect little breasts I remembered but much larger breasts as perfect as silicon could make them. She was no longer that cute little girl next door but a curvy Sex Goddess. She looked great and sexy as hell either way but I preferred her with the sexy little body she had when I first met her.

Sad to say but my relationship with both was purely professional and I missed knowing these fine people on a personal level. I had worked with both before but this was the first time I worked with them together. Ric had come into the biz about the same time as Rene and  was one of the best looking guys in the biz. The shooting went smoothly with them giving me great stuff to work with. They were extremely comfortable with each other and with me. They had something going I had never seen elsewhere. Rene and Ric liked to take smoke breaks right in the middle of sex scenes. This worries me as a lot of up and down can weaken a guy, making it harder to get the scene moving again. Not with this couple. They would go back to wherever they were last and Rene would whisper into Ric's ear and his cock would rise without being touched; then they would go right to where they left off and the shoot moved smoothly and hotly along.

To this day, I kick myself for not asking what she was whispering.  Strangely, although I was shooting people fucking, I felt very respectful of their "privacy", and tried not to intrude.  On the other hand, perhaps because of this respectfulness, a lot was shared with me.  I was interested & open to it, but tried not to be pushy.  This may be one of the reasons models liked working with me, and this reputation is what landed me an ideal deal with Reb (he booked his new models first with me, to make sure each had a good experience).

I shot them for HOUSEWIVES WHO INVITE RAPE. The plot was that Ric was a repairman fixing something in this woman's apartment and naturally, this being porn, she comes on to him and they have hot sex in the living room. He leaves but later, feeling horny, he comes back, only this time the lady isn't into it. He takes her anyway, tying her up in a way that leaves her helpless but completely available to him.

Rene Bond died way too soon (at age 45).  She was a sweet, bright, friendly and sexy woman.

More early Polaroids of Rene Bond