By Dave Cummings

YNOT – It seems like quite a few production entities in the adult film industry are on, or getting closer to, the brink of financial inability to survive. Content piracy and other significant choke-point challenges are taking a larger toll. Sure, some larger and financially well-heeled companies and those with rich “investors” are still churning out new porn releases — but for how long?

Under the present circumstances, I’m financially unable to continue as an active, independent producer-director, and per my past personal policy, I absolutely will not accept investor money only later to face the wrath of an upset “money person.” However, I’ll continue to perform in select sex scenes for other companies. I’ll manage or monetize or sell some of my present 1,500-plus internet domains, and I’ll be active and involved with my personal websites and my live phone line where folks can call and chat directly with me live.

And yes, I’ll continue to use condoms in my private life, especially for in swinging situations and with groupie girls. I think we performers have a strict responsibility to make certain we protect other performers and ourselves by using condoms 100 percent of the time off-set. I hope performers with significant others are not being cheated on, especially as it concerns the need for rubbers. I’m totally comfortable with the DNA HIV-STD testing that we porn performers undergo every month, but it could be worrisome if some performers are not 100-percent sober and 100-percent condom users when playing off-camera with non-tested folks.

We’re back to NFL football season, which means swinger get-togethers to watch the San Diego Chargers games. A local couple has hosted these meetings at their house for a few years now. Interestingly, most guys usually are quick to engage with the swinger ladies — as long as the game is not in progress. They switch their sexual attention to the women if the Chargers aren’t doing well or the many advertisements become too annoying. I chuckle when the word “touchdown” is sometimes screamed out from one of the nearby bedrooms. I can’t help thinking there’s something impolite about looking over the head of the female giving you head in order to watch the football game on TV.

During halftime and after the game is over, it’s a flurry of sex fun with the women seducing each other and any guys who can still get it up. I always drive home with a big smile on my face even if the Chargers don’t do well.

Enjoy life, take time for family and self, be safe and understand that it’s perfectly OK to enjoy sex with oneself and/or with other consenting adults. And please: Be extra nice to others, just for the sake of it. I think karma happens, and there’s both good and bad karma.

Dave Cummings, “the world’s oldest porn star,” is a performer, producer and director. Visit him online at DaveCummings.com, DaveCummings.tv or DaveCummingsVOD.com or call and chat with him live at DaveCummingsInfo.com.