Pee 'n Me
It was the mid-seventies. I can't remember the name of the movie. All I know is that I was in college, probably twenty-one or twenty-two. And, as was usually the case at that time, I was damned horny. I drove to downtown San Francisco, to Market Street, where I knew there were porn theaters. Somehow I parked my car (parking then and now is nearly impossible in SF) and walked a few blocks to the first theater I came across. Don't ask me the name of the theater, I have no idea. It might have been a Pussycat Theater, I just don't remember. What I do remember is that there was a matronly looking woman behind the ticket counter, and admission was five dollars. That wouldn't seem like a lot today, but in 1974 or '75 it was a bit pricey. I paid my five, pushed on the turnstile and I went in.
It was dark, dirty, and the chairs looked liked they were last upholstered during the Spanish-American War. I was careful not to sit near anyone...I wasn't looking for some kind of hook-up anyway. Whatever movie was being shown had just finished (they showed these things non-stop) and a trailer for a different film came on. I do remember that this film was showing at the Kearny Street Theater, which I would soon learn showed the hardest and most violent stuff in town. I sat there stunned as I saw women wearing demonic looking masks giving blowjobs, a couple having sex while the woman was on her period (blood was all over the place), a woman with a small boa constrictor, and finally the scene that changed my life: a young woman on her back, legs spread, and gushing forth an arc of piss towards the camera. Never had I seen such "filth," as I thought at the time. I was expecting to see the equivalent of Deep Throat or Behind the Green Door. I got up and left the theater right after the trailer ended, not even staying to see the feature film. I was in there for maybe 20 minutes. I was pretty shaken.
You know when an image gets indelibly etched in your mind? That scene of the pissing girl stayed with me and I couldn't get rid of it. Suddenly, I realized I had to find out more about female urination. I was so naive at the time that I didn't even know females had an opening for pee like men do. I thought it just came from their vaginas somehow.
I told my girlfriend at the time about the pee scene. We were pretty much on the outs by then. She said there had been a time when she would have gladly peed for me, but not now. Well, fuck her. I had to see more movies that showed golden showers. Finding them, though, wasn't easy, even in the 70's. I suppose it was a matter of knowing where to look. At the time, I had no idea. I even went to see "Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle," but the golden shower scene was cut. Same with "Satisfiers of Alpha Blue." Annie Sprinkle was called "the golden girl of porn," but I couldn't find any movies with her giving golden showers. It wasn't until internet porn came out that I got to see Annie in all her gushing glory. Lord knows I love Annie Sprinkle.
Some years went by. I'd buy the occasional porn mag at the local liquor store. Then in the early 80's, video recorders and VHS came out. It was a cornucopia of porn, and I became a mass consumer of 80's smut. But even then, golden showers were avoided. Something to do with the Reagan administration and Ed Meese, that bluenose. He had seen "Taming of Rebecca," which did have a couple of pee scenes, and made sure porn was limited to just your basic sucking and fucking. He probably would have banned that if he could have, but in any case the pressure was on the producers of porn to stay within legal limits or risk arrest. I did see trailers for porn on a tape I rented, and it included "Barbara Broadcast" and a hint of C.J. Laing's pissing into a bowl. But that was it.