A John Holmes Memory
 John Curtis Holmes August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988 American Pornographic Star |
Scattered among the bars and arcades and other dens of inquity were shops which had porn sections and these all featured the work of one John Holmes, who was a mega star of the genre during that time.
It seems that being a porn star had a glitz and glitter side juxtapositioned with those darker aspects of that existence and he died in the late 1980s as the results of acquired immune deficiency syndrome which can only be characterized as a job related illness. I wonder if he got workman's compensation.
Though I certainly jest; I'd like to add that his end was fraught with suffering far beyond the scope of anything a person should ever have to endure and he is deserving of our sincerest sympathies for that pain he endured during the course of his illness.
It is alleged that he continued "work" after knowing he both was a victim and could pass the illness to others.
It is said that he participated in charitable works and engaged hobbies in addition to his primary employment which was engaging in all manner of sexual intercourse for the entertainment of the slathered masses watching his antics with both interest and amazement.
So there are:
• John Holmes the pornographic legend,
• John Holmes the charitable contributor,
• John Holmes the sculptor and wood worker, and
• John Holmes the myth.
The bottom line is John Holmes was not what many thought he was, more than some thought him to be, and all-in-all existed as just a man with all the frailties and shortcomings to be had except for a single one.
Whether it was "all that" we'll never truly know for no formal metrics were ever taken so therefore they don't exist.
Rest in peace.