Richard Pacheco

:"This article is about the pornographic actor Richard Pacheco, born Howie Gordon. For the Big Brother contestant, see Howie Gordon"

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Richard Pacheco (born Howard Marc Gordon, May 5, 1948) is an American pornographic actor.

He appeared in more than 100 x-rated films and videos. He has won multiple adult film awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. He was "Playgirl" magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1979 as Howie Gordon.

Early life

Howie Gordon grew up in an orthodox Jewish family in Pittsburgh, the younger of two brothers. [http://xandria.com/talk/newsletters/2000_0630_newsletter.html#interview Richard Pacheco: The Accidental Porn Star with the Average Endowment] Xandria Collection June 30, 2000 interview] He graduated with honors from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1966 and was the president of his class.

His first role in pornography was during his term at Antioch College, Ohio, in an amateur student production. After graduation, he quit his job, and moved to Berkeley, California, to live in a commune. In 1971, he met his wife, Ashley, through the commune and they married in 1975.

Pornography career

In the mid-1970s, Gordon was earning $5 per hour for construction work, and looking to begin a new career. He applied to the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard (to study history), the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Hebrew Union College seminary in order to become a rabbi, before being offered his first professional erotic film role in "The Candy Stripers" (released 1978) for $200 per day. That began his pornographic career.

He appeared in that first film under the name "McKinley Howard", and used many different aliases until Anthony Spinelli's "Talk Dirty to Me" (1980), in which he co-starred as "Richard Pacheco". When that film became a groundbreaking success, he kept the pseudonym for the box office value it began to accrue.

In November 1984, Pacheco stopped acting in porn movies without condoms in reaction to his wife's concerns about the growing AIDS epidemic. This cost him most of his pornographic acting job offers, and became an effective forced retirement from pornographic acting. He worked in non-sex roles, and as an assistant director to John Leslie until 1986. He only directed one film himself, 1987's "Careful, He May Be Watching", starring Seka, but that one won the Best Film award and won him the Best Director award from AVN Awards 1988.

His other adult film awards include Adult Film Association of America awards for Best Supporting Actor for "Talk Dirty to Me" (1980) and "Nothing to Hide" (1981), the NY Critics Adult Film 1981 awards for Best Actor for "Nothing To Hide", and Best Supporting Actor for "The Dancers", AVN Awards for Best Actor - Film for "Irresistible", Best Supporting Actor - Film for "Nothing to Hide" in 1984, and Best Couples Sex Scene - Video (with Nina Hartley) and Best Supporting Actor - Video for "Sensual Escape" in 1989. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in January 1999, along with Bob Chinn and Annie Sprinkle. Pacheco and Sprinkle were given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) in the year 2000. And in 2006, Pacheco was presented with the pioneer induction into the X-Rated Critics Organization's (XRCO) Hall of Fame.

He has extensively written and spoken about pornography, including columns, articles, reviews, speaking about pornography and AIDS, and still seeks to publish an autobiography of his time in the adult film business.

Family life

He told his parents about his career as he was becoming successful, with appearances in Playgirl ("Man of the Month" November 1978 before "Man of the Year" in 1979), and on the Phil Donahue Show, which he says made them more supportive. He had an open relationship with his wife initially, which became considerably less open after they had children and AIDS became a threat, but he credits his pornography career for giving him the opportunity to continue sexual encounters for a time without endangering his home life. They have three children, born in the 1980s, with whom they have been open about his pornography career.

References

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About Richard Pacheco

* [http://www.lukeisback.com/stars/stars/stars/male/richard_pacheco.html "Richard Pacheco"] LukeIsBack.com page
* [http://xandria.com/talk/newsletters/2000_0630_newsletter.html#interview "Richard Pacheco: The Accidental Porn Star with the Average Endowment"] , Xandria Collection June 30, 2000 interview
* [http://stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=422 "Easy Come, Easy Go"] , Stuff Magazine article February 26, 2003
* [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/dispatch/14341922.htm "Ex-porn stars enlisted in AIDS fight"] Mercury News article April 14, 2006
* [http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=20077&repository=0001_article "Ex-porn stars talk sex to Cubberley"] Stanford Daily Online Edition, April 17, 2006
* [http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/feb/16/speaker_celebrates_sexuality/ "Speaker celebrates sexuality"] , by Jessica Roy, The "Daily Bruin", February 16, 2007. Retrieved June 25, 2007.

By Richard Pacheco

* [http://www.thehereandthere.net/howie/ The Here and There:: God's on Call Waiting] Irregular column written under both the Pacheco and Gordon names
* [http://www.bettydodson.com/pornweek.htm Love and a Good Right Hook: A Rebirth of Hope] Article about the first World Conference on Pornography, 1998.
* [http://www.adultvideonews.com/archives/199904/editorial.html Porn's Hall of Fame: A Slice Of Immortality, A Side Of Fries] April 1999 article on his induction into the AVN Hall of Fame.
* [http://www.libidomag.com/reviews/professionals/sexfrontier.html Sex Tips From Men Who Ride The Sexual Frontier] Libido magazine review of a 2001 book by Jo-Ann Baker
* [http://www.libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/pacheco01.html The Abacus of Limited Desire] Libido magazine article on the May-December romance, December 2002