Porn Valley- I meet Tatum Reed on the set of the Who’s Next in Porn shoot. Reed is an enterprising woman who stages gangbang parties up in the San Francisco area and advertises them on Craigslist.
Tatum, who’s repped by XTC Models, was a professional ballet dancer at one time. “I always liked being on stage,” she says, Tatum noting that she did neoclassical ballet, classical and modern dance. All of which have built her some strong leg muscles, I observe.
“I just fell in love with being on stage and in front of cameras,” Tatum says. “And I’m a Leo.” I pick up on that last comment to note that Tatum must be some kind of attention whore. “Exactly,” she says. “I enjoy attention.” She was about to do only her third scene in the business when we had our chat.
I wondered if mom and dad knew what she was up to. “Not really,” she says and plans on keeping it that way. “Until they perhaps see me on the news or something.” Tatum is saying that the porn-thing just kind of happened.
“My husband is a lover of porn just like I am. We shot a scene together a couple of years ago. It was for a website. Obviously with him it was much easier to do than with a stranger. But it was fun and I enjoyed it. I kind of had it in the back of my head for a few years. Meanwhile I had regular jobs. Then I decided I wanted to flirt with doing that again and look into it. Here I am.”
I assumed that porn put an end to her ballet career. Tatum says yes but for different reasons. “I got injured,” she states. “And I started teaching Pilates.” According to Tatum, her knees are pretty much shot at this point. “If I kept dancing I would have had serious injuries. I don’t want to go through that stuff. It was kind of a hard choice. But I’m happy where I am.”
Tatum describes herself as a good kid growing up and shy. “I hardly talked to any one,” she said. “I was very sweet and very proper. I always got good grades. I was very conscientious.” But she also kept a wild side that remained hidden. “I knew it was there but I didn’t advertise it.” And she always dressed conservatively.
“Around 13 I started getting friendly with the boys in school,” she says. “I didn’t have actual sex but it was very close. But I needed the attention of men and that whole thing.” Her first sex experience came at the age of 14. “And I still know him,” she said. “He lives in LA and is one of my best friends.”
Tatum describes the deal as kind of a boring story. “He was moving away and he was the love of my life,” she explains. “We were going to get married when we were older, the whole thing. But he was moving and I wasn’t going to have sex with him. I was going to do everything except that. But we ended up doing it. We ended up renting a limo and had sex in the limo.” Tatum said it was a bad experience. “He was Italian,” she explains. “He was really big and it really hurt. It wasn’t so much fun. I kind of liked the other stuff better- the whole foreplay as teenagers.”
And Tatum really loves girls. “I think they’re beautiful creatures. My husband and I have had many threeways. And we don’t get to do enough.” I took that to mean that Tatum regularly brings home the catch of the day.
“Yeah, I do,” she says. “I think it’s great fun. I think it’s the part that keeps the marriage alive like that.” Tatum and her husband usually troll for partners on the Internet, again using Craigslist. “It works really well and we meet girls on there. It’s very direct and you no exactly what you’re doing.”
I ask Tatum if she ever winds up meeting some Fatal Attraction wacko. She claims no. “I always meet them somewhere else before,” she explains. We get into the topic of Tatum’s gangbang parties which she holds at local hotels in San Francisco. For some reason she limits the number of guys to seven and doesn’t hold the gatherings as often as everyone would like, apparently. She’s planning a website to advertise but needs more content, she says.
Otherwise, Tatum advertises on Craigslist for those casual encounters. I ask why she limits the number to seven, Tatum explaining that she had a party in Vegas one time and it proved to be the perfect number to accomplish all the things she wanted to do, simultaneously, including getting it in the ass. I took all of this to mean that she was sexually nuts. She agrees. “I guess so,” she laughs. Tatum’s gimmick is also the fact that she looks like this girl next door. “I think that’s so much more alluring than the I’m a porn star-look.”
I asked her how it was the first time getting it in the ass. A lot of fun, she says. “I’m not into drugs and I don’t drink. But it was the first time that my husband and I tried cocaine. We had sex for hours.” Unlike most guys who can’t get it up on coke, Tatum said it made her husband last for hours. “That was kind of how that happened. He was good.” Tatum says that’s why, at her gangbang parties, her husband’s in her ass first when it comes time for the D.P. portion of the program.
Asked if things ever get out of control at the parties, Tatum says no. “I think when the guys get so excited about it, they’re actually calmer than you’d ever believe,” she says. “I once had a guy to my party and he literally came in one second.”
I took this to mean that she’s good at sucking cock. “Oh, yeah,” she says, likening blowjobs to performace art. “In my way of thinking it has to be visually appealing as well as feel good,” she says. “I like to look in their eyes and make it look really good.”
Besides having sex one time in a department store dressing room, Tatum remembers a time when she had sex at a city hall. “The city will remain nameless,” she laughs. As crazy as it could get, Tatum stresses that she will never have sex with a machine, however. “I still feel that I’m at the level where I can still enjoy a body.”
Asked how she and her husband met, Tatum states, “He’s a rock musician and we met each other through a mutual friend. The first night that he met me, he slept next to me. We didn’t have sex and talked all night. But he was grabbing my ass the whole night because he thought I had the most perfect ass. The next morning when we woke up, he asked me if I would suck his cock. I said no.
“We were friends for a couple of years,” she continues. “And then we started sharing our sexual fantasies. He told me about different things he had done with his other girlfriend- the wild, crazy things they would do. I was, like, tell me more. It really turned me on. I decided we were more compatible sexually and emotionally than everyone else I’ve ever met. So I said why don’t we try to have sex, see how that goes. Then I decided that he was the one to keep me satisfied.”
To get into the porn business, Tatum started e-mailing certain directors whose work she liked. She followed up those communications by sending photos of herself. “It’s tough to get work being in San Francisco, San Francisco’s really boring,” she says. “They act liberal but they’re not. They’re very close minded.”
That being the case, Tatum says she’s moving to Los Angeles. “There’s nothing really up there [the Bay Area] for straight porn stuff,” she says. “So I come down here and try to cram in as much as I can, meetings-wise. People want to meet me, but right now it’s difficult to go back and forth.”