Literotic asexstories – The New Boy Ch. 01 by Samhain35,Samhain35
The new boy
A Novel by Samhain
CHAPTER 1 –
PYRAMID VIDEO
Downers Grove, IL, Summer 1985
The Saturday night shift at Pyramid Video Rental was always busy. It was the early start of the home video revolution – now for the first time, people could watch actual uncut and uninterrupted Hollywood movies from the comfort of their own home! Movies that could be paused, rewound, and even watched again! All over the Chicago suburbs little video rental stores were popping up in strip malls next to karate dojos and currency exchanges. Almost all were independently owned by small business owners. Blockbuster and Hollywood video were years away.
The one Skip worked at was larger than most. Much larger in fact. The great selection brought in a lot of video rental customers. The porn selection brought in even more.
Store owners had to decide whether they would carry adult video titles or not, and how to display them if they did. Porn video boxes were always adorned with x-rated images from the movie – and could not be displayed in a retail store unless displayed in a special ’18 and over’ room. But that created its own problems. Shy people, couples, and especially women wouldn’t go into a separate room filled with explicit x-rated movie boxes to find one to rent.
Skip’s store carried porn. A lot of it. The store displayed all the movies in simple black plastic cases with the title written on the outside. The porn movies had a little red dot on the case to identify it as an adult choice. All of the movies were displayed together, arranged alphabetically. The cases were displayed with the spine showing, like library books.
Skip’s job was to work the rental counter and retrieve tapes for the customers. When a customer picked out a video to rent, he or she would get Skip, who would unlock the display case, retrieve the video, take it to the counter and check it out for 3 days to the customer’s account. Three or four other college students usually worked on busy nights like Saturday nights, when the customers waved them over to get videos as fast as they finished with the prior customer.
After working there for a few nights a week for a few months, Skip got to know many of the customers. He knew what they were looking for when they came into the door. The housewives that came in early wanted some kids’ movies. The couples who came in after dinner wanted a couple of Hollywood movies for the weekend. The single guys that came in usually wanted porn.
But there were some exceptions. Skip’s favorite exceptions were the women who rented porn. The first few times a woman rented porn, she’d invariably pick out 1 or 2 ‘regular movies’, and then pick out one porn title “for her husband” or “for her boyfriend” as an ‘afterthought’. “Oh yeah, do you have any of those ‘adult movies? My husband wants one.”
This strategy served two purposes: one, since the movie wasn’t for her the video rental guy wouldn’t think she was a nympho pervert, and two, the video rental guy who could himself be a nympho pervert wouldn’t hit on her since she just told him she had a husband.
But after a few trips to the store the pretext would usually drop. The women got to know Skip. He was so clean cut that he couldn’t possibly be a pervert. And he was so shy that he couldn’t possibly be a nympho. But he was supercute and young, and they liked asking him for adult videos.
Weeknights were usually pretty slow and sometimes he worked the store by himself. He passed the time sometimes by reading the industry magazines that would come to the store. Some of the magazines were from adult video distributors. They’d hype and review upcoming product from the different adult video production companies. Interviews with the leading industry stars. Stills from the movies.
Store owners would use these magazines to help with product ordering for their stores. Ordering well was very important as the leading tapes from the leading companies were sometimes $130 or more retail per copy, so store owners had to choose carefully. Skip would take the old industry magazines and movie promo posters home. With the owner’s permission of course.
Skip could also take as many free video rentals as he wanted. His parents always liked it when he brought home a new release for them to watch. This was magic for them. Their experience with movies was always going to a movie theatre. A big crowded single movie theatre with ushers. Now they could watch the same movies in their living room!
But that was nothing compared to this new world for the porn fan. Before home video, porn was shot on film, a very expensive process, and shown in sketchy movie theatres in even sketchier parts of town. Everyone knew what you wanted if you were seen entering or leaving a porno theatre. And if you wanted kinkier or gay porn? Forget it. You had to go even farther down the bad street to find the theatres that showed that stuff.
But now anything you could see in a theatre you could now see in your own home. Over and over if you wanted. Or you could fast forward over the boring parts to get to the good stuff.
As a result the porn industry was exploding. Companies were actually struggling to put out enough product to fill the demand. You see, it was still illegal to film a porn movie. It was considered pandering or prostitution. That attitude changed eventually, but it was in full force and effect when home video was on the march. That was a bottleneck in production and as a result new product came out slowly. But when it did, it sold like hotcakes.
New companies popped up all over. Adult movies were now being shot on videotape. People were even making porn in their own homes and selling it. Amateur video was one of the hottest porn video segments.
The movie that was currently setting the industry on fire was a movie called “Reel People”. It was an original concept. The movie consisted of interviews with six amateur people. 4 women and 2 men.
These people had answered a news paper ad for an adult documentary film. The six that had been chosen for filming had consented to an on-camera interview, and then a sex scene with a prominent actor in the adult video industry.
The movie had sold more than any other videotape. Everyone wanted to see it. It was the most talked about movie since ‘Deep Throat’ or ‘Debbie Does Dallas’.
Skip liked it too. The store had several copies of the movie and it was one that he often took home if there was a copy left at the end of the night. He fantasized that he was one of the amateurs selected for the film, that he was being interviewed on camera about sex, and then he would do a scene with one of the top stars. He was much too shy to ever do it of course. But it was fun to fantasize.
Saturday night was winding down. The store closed at midnight. Skip was taking the next Saturday off. The store owner had received some passes for the Consumer Electronics Show being held downtown the following weekend. He had given skip two.
The Consumer Electronics Show was a multi-day event held at McCormick Place in Chicago. It was a huge convention center right by the lakefront. The main floor was immense, and packed with booths and display areas. All of the huge consumer electronics companies from around the World were here to show off their latest televisions, video recorders, telephone answering machines, car stereos, and any other electronic gizmo you could think of.
But downstairs, on the basement floor of the CES, was the adult industry. Because of the giant expansion of the adult video industry fueled by home video players, all of the production companies were out in full force.
For three full days, the display floor was populated by a mini-city of display booths and tents, adorned by large corporate signs, lights, posters, and autograph tables manned by the industry’s biggest stars. Anyone even tangentially involved in the video industry could wrangle a pass to the CES, which was always crowded wall to wall with autograph seekers looking to hang out with a favorite adult star in person or fill their swag bags with the free magazines and promos that each company would freely distribute.
Skip was looking forward to his first CES.
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