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Lexington Steele's first invite to a sex party, back when he was a stockbroker, was to a 16-on-1 gangbang. He brought his best friend, also in finance, so it became 18 on 1. When he walked in, four or five of the firm's managing directors were already in line. Everyone was butt naked, the line wrapped around the walls of the room and ended at the woman in the middle, and she was there purely for the love of the game. Lex says that kind of party was one of the perks for brokers, though he never got the Hamptons stuff because he ran with guys who were still grinding. It wasn't automatic for him, but he took to it like a fish to water. The rule in the room was that your eyes never went below the other guy's nose. You could hold a full conversation while warming up, but anyone walking across the room still had peripheral vision, and the broker who trained him started calling him Log Cabin. At that party he met the man who pointed him toward hardcore magazines. Most magazines back then didn't allow penetration photos, so in a fully lit studio he had to keep an erection right at her mouth or at the point of entry without going in, while she acted like she was about to touch him and couldn't. If you could do that, you graduated to magazines that allowed penetration, then to video. When a producer from the Bronx gave him a shot at video, Lex brought the magazines as proof he could perform. Through the same guy, he says, he also did escort-type work, though for straight men that market is tiny since most of the demand is from men, which he had no interest in. One client was a silver-haired Lower Manhattan type in a velour sweatsuit and a gold chain, the kind of guy you didn't say anything to. Lex hints that this man was involved in things he can't talk about, which remind him of what people are being accused of today. From 1995 he traveled with a troupe called the Gentle Giants, working swinger events from New Hampshire down to Virginia, where husbands with big shoulder-mounted cameras filmed their wives with well-endowed men for their own home collection. Friday nights were great, and Saturdays were twice as big. There were no pills back then, so either you could do it or you couldn't. He moved to LA in 1998. Born Clifton Britt in 1969, he graduated from Syracuse, got his Series 7, and worked at Oppenheimer in the World Trade Center, and he describes the trainer's party as a hotel suite scene straight out of The Wolf of Wall Street. He says he picked his name after getting off the subway at the corner of Madison and Lexington, but Wikipedia points out that the two avenues run parallel and never meet. He has over 1,000 titles to his name. In 2003 he became the first man to win AVN's Male Performer of the Year three times, and he's in the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. On Nip/Tuck he played, of all things, a male escort at a party. Is Lexington Steele's road from Wall Street gangbangs to porn legend the best career pivot in history, or was the trading floor always just a warmup?