A Walk on the Wylde Side with Luc Wylder

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Since the dawn of adult entertainment few have made an impact of epic proportion like Luc Wylder. In an industry riddled with pre-conceived notions, incrimination and prejudice, Wylder’s efforts have always catered to a more sensual and free spirited audience. Shining through a vivid spectrum of roles from performer to director to producer, the father of Fallen Angel Productions has truly come full circle; provoking fantasy and enticing passion in erotic grandeur. It is with pride and pleasure I invite you to take: A Walk on the Wylde Side With Luc Wylder

DAVE GAMMON: Luc, You’ve celebrated a decorated career spanning over twenty plus years. First emerging into the industry under the S&M/B&D moniker Master Luc Wylder.; you’ve performed, produced or directed for all the major studios. Fallen Angel was not only conceived as your production company, but from what I understand still overseen by you personally.

An innovator in the travelling gonzo style, a pioneer in the realm of internet chat– dating back to 1994, an adult video news hall of famer: Truly it is an honor and a thrill, to have you take the time out of your hectic schedule and join me today.

Most recently you’ve become certified in sexual surrogacy. Tell me a little more about this accolade.

LUC WYLDER: For many years I have been attending classes in the background to finally accomplish a degree in psychology. Mental health has always been an issue to me. Alexandra and I were trying to think of a way that we could take the work that we have done in the film making industry and bring it around into the health and spiritual side of things. We came upon this concept of sexual surrogacy. So we’d taken what we had already done in the film world and the knowledge that we had obtained in working with people in sexual scenarios and applied the academic side of what I’ve learned in college psychology. We applied them in this new field. It’s really just kind of developing….

DG: Its sounds pretty ground breaking

LW: There are only twenty five certified people in the country that are claiming to be sex surrogates and possibly many trained by professional clinicians. The scenario always involves three people. The sex surrogate and the professional sex therapist, like a psychologist or a psycho therapist or clinical psychologist, someone who’s already dealing with behavioral issues on a professional level and then the third party is the client; the person who’s complete with sexual disorders. A surrogate is not working with your average person just looking for a hookup. We’re working with people who suffer from serious sexual disorders that really need this kind of work in order to be able to achieve any kind of satisfaction in their sexuality. So bearing come the few people in the country who have become certified, they are only twenty five in number. Alex and I are in our internship program. We’ve completed all the training and we’re getting to a point where working with people but we’re not out on our own yet fully certified. It’s a process. It’s not something that we can accomplish in just a year or so.

DG: Understood. It sounds as though it encompasses all the physical, emotional and spiritual elements. It seems like a very exciting experience.

LW: What we try to focus on is widely known as sensei focus. We bring people out of the erotic thoughts in their mind and back into the sensual, like stimulation of the senses. Back into the body, back into the earth now and into the head out of tradition and past experience. It’s really a beautiful process when we work people through it. We’ve had a lot of good results through the program. People feel fulfilled in various ways every day in various manners.

Interestingly enough one of our instructors was trained over in Israel where this work, the sex surrogacy work performing is covered under their national health care. It is really widely recognized throughout the world, being effective and necessary. In America we’re kind of Victorian in our type of thinking—sexually. One of the things people like you and I all have to concentrate on is—in America we all believe we’re a progressive nation where great things happen, on many levels this is true, but in the bedroom we’re kind of lacking.

DG: I couldn’t agree more. I often think that we’re still a little on the oppressed side when it comes to sex and sexuality.

LW: I think up in Canada, you guys are a little further ahead then we are down in the States, but when I say America I include us all because Canada is still kind of backwards compared to France and England for example.

DG: When asked advice about getting into the business the common consensus seems to be, do it for the right reasons. Love what you do plus an exhibitionist side never hurts. From a performer perspective or when directing others how do you cope with obstacles in achieving and maintaining arousal. What are your views on Viagra in the industry? Is it something recommended or even safe?

LW: Well certainly I’m not a doctor so I’m not the person to ask if Viagra is safe. I think that’s all done on an individual level. The pharmaceutical companies say that it works. When I first started shooting I never used Viagra because it didn’t exist. We had different people trying different techniques. Guys would drink protein shakes before they went onto set. A lot of the sex we were having on film back then was kind of athletic. It was a lot more of an excursion then people would normally then just making love in the bedroom.

DG: A lot of uncomfortable, precarious positions and yeah, I understand…

LW: You’re under really hot spotlights, hard positions, you’re going at it for a long time, you’re not completely focused on just the joinedness scenario, it really is a physical demand as well. The protein shakes back then worked, but really the only way to maintain arousal between two people is to have some sort of energy there. And early in my career I started shooting a series called Dirty Dancers which was brand new couples that have never had sex on camera before. So its kind of an uncomfortable place for people to be in their sexuality. Very progressive people who are making wonderful love in their bedroom, put them in front of the camera, it can be entirely intimidating and uncomfortable scenario for them and they may not even be able to perform.

DG: If it is a completely vulnerable situation that they are unfamiliar with then sure…

LW: So what we would have to do is the same thing that we teach people in our surrogacy program is get back into the here and now and clear your head out. We obviously have really wonderful results. We shot this series for years and got all of these wonderful couples having sex on camera for the first time successfully. They really had to be put within a position where they were relaxed. Instead of just putting them right in front of a camera, ‘ok take your clothes off and have sex’ we would make it a little more seductive and comfortable. We would shoot in really comfortable environments. On a couch or in someone’s living room or somewhere to make them feel really at ease. We would take them out to dinner to just make them feel really comfortable with what we were about to do. I’m always representative of the good guys in the adult industry. People you would want to shoot your first scene for. We didn’t take advantage of people, we put them at ease. We cared for their needs.

In the beginning Viagra was the furthest thing from our minds. It didn’t exist. The interesting thing is early in the adult industry we had a choice number of guys working. They were the only people that could maintain an erection. As time went on we got much prettier boys, much more handsome people to be able to work in front of the camera once Viagra came around. At that point you could take any Calvin Klein model and put them in adult, suddenly you have a new adult star.

DG: That’s true and when we look back at the late ‘80’s or the early 90’s the choices for women to see men on camera were very limited. I mean we had our Jamie Gillis’s, and our Ron Jeremy’s and well even Peter North seemed to be a popular one but, almost in a certain sense what was available was sort of a distaste for women.

LW: Well the guys weren’t all that pretty

DG: True enough.

LW: You know Ronnie is a loveable guy but I don’t think he’s anyone that you’d want to put up on a pin up calendar.
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