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Saturday, July 10, 2010

THIRTEEN AND A HALF INCHES

In his campaign sorties, Senator Juan Flavier never forgot to use his height (or lack of it) advantage which never failed to get the audience’s attention.  When it was his time on the microphone, he would make it a point to stand beside the tallest person onstage before firing his antics.  In provincial rallies, he stood beside fellow candidate Rodolfo Biazon and said,  “General Biazon is 6 feet but has only 2 inches,  I am only 4 feet but has 11 inches”.  He then would ask the audience: “Alin ba ang mas mahalaga sa mga lalaki, ang feet ba? O ang inches?”  Always, the audience would loudly roar: “INCHES!!” Then Sen. Flavier would add, “That is how important the “inches” is.”
The most talked about character with the most inches was an American actor who was reputed to be endowed with a very long 13.5-inch instrument which made him a celebrity during the era of the “fighting fish” films.
John Holmes started his career when a female neighbor who was making short porno films knew about his very unusual characteristic.  She advised him to try the trade where he could make much money.  With his tall, slim build with curly light brown hair, a light mustache, and bright blue eyes, Holmes became an instant sensation.
Everybody soon became curious about his legendary endowment which became more controversial because magazines had conflicting descriptions as to the length of the ‘manoy’.  One women’s magazine put it at 12.5/8 inches long while other publications put it at 13 ½ inches.  In some cases there were accompanying life sized pictures of John Holmes’ penis for the curious to measure
Holmes got starring roles in over 2,000 full length films, stag films, and adult features in a career that spanned nearly 20 years.  In some of this period, he earned an average salary of 3,000 Dollars a day.  In addition to starring in films, he also did a ‘penis-for-hire’ business which became lucrative as his services were flooded with requests from clients all over the world.
His most famous character is probably Johnny Wadd, a lusty, always on-the-make detective he played in several crude porno films like 'China Cat' (1978), 'Liquid Lips' (1976), and 'Blond Fire' (1978), which is considered the best of the so-called 'Wadd Films'. He also did big-budget pictures which co-starred big names like Marilyn Chambers, Annete Haven, Seka, and Traci Lords.
In late 1970s, John Holmes fell victim to cocaine abuse which prevented him from performing in the on-screen sex, making him drop out of the adult film business. By late 1980, he was broke with all of his millions spent on drugs because he never fully got over his addiction. He made money by robbing people’s houses and cars, as well as delivering drugs for the local gangsters.
The lowest point in his life was when he was implicated in grisly, drug-related murders on July 1, 1981. William Deverell, Ronald Launius, Joy Miller, and Barbara Richardson were murdered by a gang of unknown henchmen sent by a powerful gangster, named Eddie Nash.  John Holmes was indicted when investigators presented circumstances that pointed to his presence when the murders were being committed.  The bloody crime made lurid headlines throughout southern California and became known as The Wonderland Murders, named after the street in the wooded Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles where the killings took place. Holmes refused to cooperate with police and went on the run for nearly six months before he was taken into custody.
The authorities were angered by John's refusal to co-operate in the investigation.  They put him on trial for all four murders. After a three-month, semi-public trial, John was finally acquitted on June 26, 1982. Although found not guilty of the murders, he remained in jail for burglary and contempt-of-court.  He was released in November, 1982.
After his imprisonment, John Holms tried to continue his porn career but his addiction hounded him.  In 1985 he was diagnosed to have AIDS.  Despite this, he continued working and copulating with women on and off screen without letting them know that he was afflicted with the dreaded disease. John died at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in California on March 13, 1988.
Holmes lived a short life of 44 years but he claimed to have made sex with 14,000 women since he reached the age of 12 when he lost his innocence to a 36-year old friend of his mother and he appeared in more than 2,000 pornographic films.  Surely this record would not have been possible had John Holmes not been “blessed” with this 13.5-inch length.

Quick facts on John Holmes:

Name    JOHN HOLMES
Real Name    John Curtis Estes
Nationality    American
Date of Birth    August 8, 1944
Nicknames    King of Porn
Sultan of Smut
Johnny Wadd
Height    6’2”
Unique Characteristic    Legendary endowment (12 5/8" long according to a Screw Magazine interview while other conflicting stories put it at 13 1/2" long)
Notoriety    Alleged that he had sex with over 14,000 women (on and off screen)
Date of Death    March 13, 1988
Cause of Death    AIDS-Related illness

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