“This,” explains Ron Jeremy, “was as good of an experience as you can get from almost dying.”
As long as the schmeckel still works, I think I’ll keep doing it.
- Ron Jeremy on his career
In 2013, the (VHS) world nearly lost its most famous — and hairiest — porn star after Jeremy suffered an aortic dissection. The crisis gave him new appreciation for life and made the observant Jew feel the Lord was “sending him a message.”
Jeremy was a struggling off-Broadway actor when he filmed his first porno in 1979. Since then, he’s made the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films,” with some 2,000 titles — including “Ally McFeal” and “Kick Ass Chicks 35: Pigtails.”
The Queens-born man’s recent years are the subject of a documentary, “Ron Jeremy, Life After the Buffet,” on DVD and video-on-demand Tuesday.
Jeremy, now 62, chatted with The Post about his sweaty, colorful career.
Director Hedda Muskat hadn’t planned on making this doc until she stumbled upon you hanging out at a sex club. Don’t you get enough at your day job?
No! Guys don’t tend to get jaded. Women sometimes do. Since the [heart] operation, it’s pretty much back to normal [sexually]. It takes a little longer for that full throb, [but] I’ve filmed sex scenes since then.
You grew up in Bayside, Queens. Where did you take dates in those days?
My first girlfriend, Margie [and I would] go to the school in Douglaston, Queens, and I’d climb through the window.
We’d sneak into the class at night and have sex. She was the first person I ever had sex with. There was also this giant rock in an empty lot. Me and Margie had sex behind that rock facing PS 46.
I’m looking it up online now, and I can’t believe how many people used that rock. I thought I was a genius for finding that place, but everyone was using it. How the hell did I not run into anyone?
Do strangers ever proposition you?
What I do get about three or four times a day — this happened with Paris Hilton — is a girl saying, ‘Can I see it?’ It’s not like I’m Brad Pitt where girls want to somersault right onto my face.
They’ll want to see it, and that might lead to something. I might find a dark room or a closet somewhere, and I’ll give them the flash, and they’ll flash the boobs.
That’s the deal: You flash the top, I’ll flash the bottom. It might lead to something, or it might not.
Some say porn is about fantasy. The women are young and hot, and the men are —
[Interrupts] Not really. The biggest guys in porn, and I guess I’m an example of this, are not what you’d call gorgeous. I was really nice-looking when I was younger. I was a contender. I was all muscle. I got careless. I went from the gym to the buffet.
But in the heterosexual porn films, the man is the conduit to the fantasy. The viewers substitute themselves for us. Being average-looking sometimes helps. When you see a gorgeous girl with Ron Jeremy, it’s like, “Wait! There’s hope for all of us!”
Will you ever retire?
As long as the schmeckel still works, I think I’ll keep doing it. Too many good-looking women.