Heterotica looks back at the 1970's & the heterosexuals

I've been doing research on the area when I grew up -- the 1970's.  It was a very different era to be a kid than now?  I just googled advertising images of the 70's and took a look at some of the themes presented.  We grew up in an America that had just experienced The Sexual Revolution of the 1960's. 

When I was growing up I knew gay kids?  Mostly boys.  They were very flamboyant and "out."

This morning I saw a story in the Huffington Post about a coffeehouse trying to serve heterosexual Valentine's day coffee.  Well?  Personally?  There is nothing wrong with having hetero as your sexual preference.  In fact?  It might even be in the minority right now.

I think it's important to get the story straight?

I do.

One of the reasons I write in the genre I do is because my dad was the biggest pornographer in Hollywood in the 1970's.  He went by the name Bob Vosse (after Bob Fosse I'm sure).  That wasn't his name then.  It was a film nom de plume.  His real name was Don Brown and he started out shooting surfing films in California.

It was years before I saw the film Boogie Nights?  My mother cut off all contact with him when I was about thirteen.  I never saw him again.  Nor did my brother.  The 70's were a permissive time when anything went.  My nom de plume Valentine Bonnaire was chosen on purpose because it is the opposite of Bob Vosse.  Same initials, different story.

I saw the film and I went, "Oh my god, that's Dad." Yeah it was.  To this day I have never seen his films and I never will because they are not my cup of tea.

Here is the film...

The Burt Reynolds character is playing my Dad.

This is a photograph of him marrying my Mom.  In the years he made surfing films.  If you have grown up in a house where there was no pornography like me?  When we were coming of age we were reading books.

My generation.

I can begin to write a sexual history of what that was almost as a historic document.

I have.

The people writing in the genre I do -- not all of them write heterosexuality.  I do that on purpose.  It's my niche in the genre.  Write what you know!

xxoo!

Valentine Bonnaire

(Yes it was very tough growing up without a Dad, and now that I think of it?  Everybody's Dad was probably watching my Dad's films.  Geez.  Tomorrow I'm going to talk about the films we watched in the 70's -- like "Friends" or "Summer of '42" -- coming of age films for heterosexuals some of us saw as teens.)