| Jeff Stryker | |
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Jeff Stryker in 2007 |
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| Born | Charles Casper Peyton[1] August 21, 1962 Carmi, Illinois |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Jeff Stryker (born Charles Casper Peyton[1] on August 21, 1962, in Carmi, Illinois, U.S.) is an American porn star who has starred in bisexual, gay, and straight adult films. He currently lives in California.
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Jeff Stryker is primarily known as a performer in gay pornography films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time for its producer, Vivid Entertainment.[2] He describes himself (in a somewhat joking fashion) as sexually "universal".[3] He has also said, "I don’t define myself as anything."[4]
He also tried his hand at other acting, starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror movie called After Death (Revenge of the Zombies), in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton, and was seen in other movies such as Can I Be Your Bratwurst Please? and Dirty Love.[5]
The “Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls,” a dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis, is widely sold in sex stores. The dildo was academically analyzed in a paper presented at the 1995 Bowling Green State University Conference in Cultural Studies: Lesbian Pornography and Transformation: Foucault, Bourdieu, and de Certeau Make Sense of the Jeff Stryker Dildo, by Mary T. Conway, then a graduate student at Temple University. The sex toy is notable not only for being popular, but also as Stryker and the manufacturer of the item litigated for the rights to its likeness as part of Stryker's "intellectual property". (The case eventually reached a mutually acceptable resolution - see Legal Battles.)[6] In a 1999 salon.com article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture.[7] It was mentioned in Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty."[8]
Stryker has released a compact disc (Wild Buck) of country music that he performed, and in his pornographic video, Bigger Than Life, he performed a rock song of the same name.
A licensed line of Jeff Stryker products is available: calendars, playing cards, T-shirts, greeting cards, Stryker Lube and the Jeff Stryker Action Figure.[9][10][11]
Throughout Stryker's career he had been represented by notable attorneys such as Harry Wiess ("Attorney to the Stars") and John Duran (city council person of West Hollywood).
Stryker came to legal settlements with Vivid (owner of the Jamie Loves Jeff adult movies) and with Doc Johnsons (creators of the Jeff Stryker Realistic Dildo) regarding rights for the film series and matters regarding the sales of the dildo. The sex toy was billed as the "first dildo ever manufactured using an exact mold of a celebrity's body part", and reportedly is the best selling item of its kind.
Stryker later sued Health Devices Inc. and California Publishers Liquidating Corp. for over $1 million for breach of contract and piracy when they sold a bootleg dildo of his genitals without paying him sufficiently. The case was heard before a judge in Los Angeles, who eventually brokered a deal whereby the case was dismissed upon payment of $25,000 to Stryker and the return and right to reproduce all items which Stryker endorsed.[7]
In January 2009, the L.A. Weekly reported that Stryker blamed Kulak's Woodshed, a folk-music nightclub, for preventing him from completing his autobiography, as the noise and crowds disturbed his concentration. “(My writing has) been put on perpetual hold until I can get myself back together,” he told the newspaper. “I got a $25,000 advance on (the book) but could never complete it.” According to the L.A. Weekly, Paul Kulak claims that Stryker has made threats to him and the club's customers: “He constantly reminds me he’s a firearms expert and will hide behind his back door when I dump the trash. Once, he started making mechanical gun clicks. I could see he had a pistol in his hand as he was dry-firing it... I’m willing to risk my life to keep this [club] going.” Stryker responded to Kulak's claim and was quoted as saying, "That guy is so out there!"[14] Courts have denied the appeal and granted Kulak's Woodshed a conditional variance to operate (after a previous Van Nuys Criminal Court order not to operate).
Stryker toured in a 1998–99 stage show called Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time which was an erotic comedy set in a prison. The show ended with a finale in which Stryker danced completely naked. The stage production was later spoofed in an episode of the US incarnation of "Queer as Folk", in the form of a stage production known as "Twelve Horny Jurors".
Stryker appeared in "A Sophisticated Evening with Jeff Stryker" in Los Angeles, Summer 2006, and also in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Summer 2007.[15] The show was produced by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. In that show, Stryker performed a comic monologue about his life and adventures in adult films, conducted a "porn acting demo" comedy skit with an audience member, and danced in a nude finale where he greeted the audience.
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| Preceded by Derek Cameron & Kurt Young for Tradewinds |
AVN Awards for Best Sex Scene-Gay Video (with Derek Cameron) for Jeff Stryker's Underground 1998 |
Succeeded by Mike Branson & Tom Chase for California Kings |