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Intervention: Sex Tape Confessions

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Have we not learned from R. Kelly, Ray J, Pamela Anderson and even Verne “Mini Me” Troyer? Don't make sex tapes! If you do, be sure to erase them. I don't care if no one can see either of your faces, delete, delete, delete, because you never know when that intimate footage could come back to bite you in the ass later.

I’ll admit that I've pulled out the digital camera during the act once or twice in my time and snapped a few flicks or hit the record button for future playback. But that was exclusively for the enjoyment of me and my lady friend, as we'd watch the action together and see how exactly we did what we do. As soon as we got our fill, though, I always erased it in front of her so she knew I didn't keep a copy. Any woman that knows me intimately would tell you that I'm not the type of guy to show off a tape like that to my boys and if I said I deleted it I did. Besides, how am I supposed to become president with a potential scandal-causing sex tape floating around? LOL

Despite my personal view-and-destroy philosophy when it comes to intimate footage, not everyone is as cautious. A few months back me and my homegirl Marsha were catching up over dinner and she was telling me about her new beau. Sex was off the hook and it was so good that one night they decided to tape it.

"You're crazy," I said. "What did you do with the tape?"

"Oh, it's on my phone."

"What?!? You walk around with it?"

"Yeah, I look at it all the time—it's amazing. You wanna see?"

"What?!? No...Not here at least." (Laughs)

"You can't see our faces or anything. But it's really hot."

"Yeah, I bet, but you should still delete it."

"Why, it's my tape."

"Uhm, because it's on your phone—something that can get lost or stolen and then you're ass will literally be all over the Internet. I can see it now, Marsha the School Teacher Gone Wild."

"Hmmm, maybe you're right, but I have to watch it a few more times first." (Laughs)

"Aiight, freak, suit yourself, but don't say I didn't warn you."

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FLASH FORWARD to last week and I get a frantic IM from Marsha: "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed."

"Oh, boy, what happened," I wrote back.

"Remember that ‘adult footage’ I had on my phone?"

"Uh huh."

"Well, the other day my phone mysteriously stopped working and I knew I had to take it to the AT&T store, so I decided to try to finally erase the files. Unfortunately, the phone would not let me erase the data. Anyway, I really needed to get my issues resolved so I took the phone and went to get it repaired. They informed me that they needed to take my phone to inspect it. Immediately I got nervous."

"Uh oh. Continue."

"Anyway, I assumed they would respect my privacy and not go searching through my personal files…
Three hours later I returned to the store."

"Three hours? WTF?"

"Shut up, just listen. When I got there they told me to hold on and brought out my phone. The guy comes out with a funny looking smile. He said, 'Oh, come this way. I figured out what the problem is. You have some extremely large...’ (Long pause). 'Large what,' I said? He said, 'You have some extremely large files. They need to be removed or put on your storage card. For example, this file, Me and Mr. D XXX is very large, you should move this file.' 'Uhm, okay,' I said, now clearly embarrassed. ‘I tried to erase it but I can't.' Then he said, 'I'll need to check the file to see if it's corrupted then I can trouble shoot.'"

"Yeah, I bet. LOL."

"Stop it, Ans. He said needed to basically look at the file first in order to fix it. I said, 'No way. Thanks, but I'll figure it out.' I took the phone and bolted out of there."

"LOL. So what did you do about your phone?"

"I ended up buying an entirely new phone, for fear of being exploited by the AT&T employees. Also, I had some really crazy text messages on there, so I'm sure dude went through them."

"LOL. I'm sure dude made a copy and is whacking off to your ass right now. Ha!"

"Ugh, I'm so mortified. I'm never going back to that store again."

"You know what I'm gonna say right?"

"That I should have listened to you in the first place and deleted it?"

"Well, that and this is soooo going up on my blog. LOL."

"Good grief."

"Thanx, you know I love ya."

"Whatever."

So have any of y'all ever made a sex tape? Why did you do it? Did it enhance the episode or was it basically the same? What was it like watching yourself do the deed? Did you delete it afterwards? If not, why? Ever trusted someone with the tape and the wound up showing it to people without your knowledge? Did you ever get it back? Have you ever wanted to make one but just been too scared to do it? If you did make one before would you ever do it again? Why or why not?

Speak your piece...

UPDATE: Check me out giving the ladies over at Essence.com (click HERE) some manly advice on how to tell if a man is feeling you or not. Be sure to comment on their site and let them know how you feel about my advice. Maybe that could become a regular thing :)

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  • http://nwso.net NWSO

    @YES,

    Word, as I "researched" for this post, I found the Ray/Kim tape and that shit was waaaacccck. Wasted 38 minutes of my life.

    Is it just me, or did the episode really only last like 8 mins and they just kept showing the same footage over and over again? And added the same overdub from Kim a million times, and who keeps their bra on the whole time?

    SMH

  • http://inthesunshyne.blogspot.com yes

    I don't think they're as bad as ppl make them out to be, unless you're a preacher or politician or something like that. R. Kelly is the only one of that group that should be ashamed. Maybe even Kim and Paris for their wack performances. Haven't seen the others...lol

  • distinguishedgentlewoman

    I've always wanted to make one, but am always afraid someone would find it and put it up on the Net or something. I know two people who got busted after making sex tapes. This guy with whom I worked in the '90s taped himself sexing a married man. Instead of destroying the tape after watching it, he hid it in his mother's VHS stash. His mother didn't know how to work a VCR and would always have to call him to put in a tape so he figured it was okay to stash it in her pile because she would never figure out how to put the tape in by herself. Well moms did figure out how to work the VCR, and one day decided to pop a tape in to watch. Well, there for her viewing pleasure was her son giving head and then some to the nice, very married man who lived in their building. Busted.

    And my friend came back from vacation to find a sex tape of her live-in boyfriend/baby daddy and some random chick stashed on top of their refrigerator. Again, busted.

    Nah, that's one fantasy that will have to stay unrealized. I ain't going out like that.

  • Spinster

    Naw, never made one. Don't see it ever happening either. Too paranoid for that.

    A friend of mine did one with her ex (son's father). He was the epitome of asshole; he was already physically abusive. Well, after they broke up, guess what he did?

    Yes...... put the video on that hi5 website, as well as posting some graphic pictures on there and sending them to everyone on her friend list...... including me. She had to report him (all of her friends did actually) and deleted the account.

  • sohoissooverated

    I made one and decided to delete it... u never know when love is gonna go wrong and when someone is gonna b spiteful. And who wants to be in a sex tape scandal that's sooooooo reckless!

  • hammer

    well i only considered making one with my ex boyfriend cause i really loved him, when other guys asked i never thought twice answer was always no. But when he asked me i had to think about it. Somethings happened though and me and him never got to make it and haven't met anyone to make me think twice since him. I was just gonna do it though cause i loved his ass and figured if he wants to do it with me and i don't want to i know some other woman would jump at the chance.

  • YoungJay

    I've never done one, but always though it would be fun watching myself in action. As far as the destroying of the tape is concerned, anyone with any type of integrity would destroy the tape once the two parties involved are estranged.

  • VirgoVida

    Nasty pic messages...YES. Sex tapes........NO.............not until I'm married! And they'll be stashed away in a safe that only my thumbprint can open....just like TI's arsenal that he had at the crib. Church. lmao. lmao.

  • da ThRONe

    I have not personnally made a sex tape nor do i have any desire 2. Maybe i have no shame but so what if somebody finds it? Everybody has sex it nothing 2 be ashamed of. If you and your lover is on that level @ that time and do it i dont think you should delete it. We are so weak minded and hypocritial 2 act like that behind sex tapes. Sex tapes are like public excutions "the people who watch them are just as bad as the people who are in them". We have become so judgemental about the dumbest things while the more heinous things get over looked. I wouldnt look @ a person any different with a sex tape then a person without 1 (preacher or politician). In a day in age where porn star are becoming main stream I could think of alot worst things than this. 2 me this is another "Grow Up" moment 4 people. We're always looking 4 reasons 2 be better than other people. I can understand how your friend or anybody else wouldnt want it 2 be public knowledge but 2 purchase a new phone because of it seem a lil far. Because she is a grown woman who hasnt done anything wrong. Clearly theres going be some level of embarrasment 4 the lack of security in something involing your private life ,but no more then some catching you on the toilet or in the shower. Thats just my take!

  • Michele Mellette

    always wanted to make one but never got up the nerve. after seeing others, i was scared of what it would look like. then I have heard of terrible horror stories about tapes being made of friends and them not knowing about it and those tapes being passed around. i really feel for your friend. bet she won't do that any more.

  • DefCon4

    I've done it and actually like it. I'm very visual when it comes to sex so this only heightens it. You can also set the video camera up to play on the tv without recording it so you get to see it, but don't have to worry about any exploitation!

  • Ameretta

    Well that was bold of Ms. Marsha the school teacher! Was see teaching you a special subject in class? LMBAO!!

    I always wanted to be the star of my own movie!! I was once recorded blessings someone's love stick but I never made a full blown homemade sex tape!! Sounds sexy!

    But! But! You have to completley trust your co-star in the film! Make it once, watch it during the first week of release then erase!

    oooooo remember the "Eve" sex tape?

    That one actually turned me on!

  • Righteous mama

    Oh Ans. You crack me up! Yeah, I made a few with a trusted friend. I never watched the footage though...too shy. But I liked that he wanted to document our experiences and I have no worries about it being seen by anyone other than us. We've been friends for years.

    Good luck on the Essence column homie!! I'm so sure it will absolutely become a regular thing! ;)

  • http://myspace.com/litabia Litabia

    I've never made a sex tape but I took a few questionable pics. But definitely no face shots attached. But I feel the same way...what happens when I try to run for public office and they start researching my ass and find my "ass." I feel the same way about taking pics in clubs with alcoholic beverages in my hands hammered to hell. Thats a definite no no.

  • Tabitha

    LOL ... I did a sex tape more than once, eh what can I say??? Anywho ... after I did the 2nd one I rewatched it (and showed it to some of my friends LOL) and when I was watching my boy in action I was grossed out by how he was moving. Not that the sex was bad at all bc it wasnt, but watching it made it so for me so after that I never slept with him again and wont do a tape again either.

    I think it can enhance as a lot of people say, but I also think it can just make you look at your partner in a light you might not have wanted to.

  • New Money Machink

    ... yeah. theyre awesome. i remember the 1st one. i looked so cool. my swag was on a hundred... thousand... trillion!

    ROFL

    .. once tho, i had some footage on a laptop i'd borrowed from a friend. We fell out and i deleted all my files and returned the laptop. A few months later, he IMed me to tell me that he had un- deleted my files and he saw my vid, and it was hot and he was going to put it on the net.

    My response- "as long as you wait until Im famous."

    Hahahahahaha!

    It is a crazy world we're living in these days, though. It ain't for everybody. And Defcon beat me to the live video suggestion. that's pretty cool too.
    :)

  • Simone

    I knew a male that use to hide camera's in the closet and tape episodes of his and his friends chic of the hour. I did not agree with it at all especially since the females did not know anything about it.
    Then again, those females knew that they weren't girlfriend materials and were having sex when them barely knowing them. It was not right but....Would I ever? I am not sure. I was asked that question several times by partners and so far my answer was no. I didn't want to take any chances. Maybe, when i get married i might change my mind and do it for my husband.

  • paulettebajangal

    Never made a sex tape but I had a rude.com profile a while back and prob have nude pics floating around...but I'm so damn sexy I don't mind them getting out at all.holla.

    Folk are just too sensitive about sex...we all do it.Jeez Louise.

  • paulettebajangal

    btw Anslem...nice essence article...I left a comment.

  • da ThRONe

    For everybody running for office LOL

    A man was caught smoking Cocaine Thats right crack rock and still got elected a few porn tapes wont kill you! LOL

  • asj

    you were so on point with the essence article!!

  • Elle

    Nope, not guilty. Never made one. At least not knowingly :-|
    I wouldn't be surprised if one existed though.

    Hm, theoretically, I'd probably do it. But I am still trying to go places careerwise. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't care if it got out.

  • kuntreethick

    made two with my baby's daddy. don't know if he ever got rid of it. guess i'll find out when i apply to the department of education. lol

  • give_it2me_daddy

    Well...lol...i have recorded me and my boo on my cell phone before..had to delete it cuase one day one of the kids asked to use my cell and i had forgot it was on there...but instantly after giveing it to my son i remembered and i snatched it so fast and was like oh no...u cant use my phone!!!! But we would watch it afterwards and it would kinda kick things off for us again. It was a "Magical" moment. Yea you should be carefeul, it could fall into the wrong hands but me personally. Im not ashamed of who I am or what I do. I don't mind pleasing mines!!!! Shoot after all If I dont some other women just might!!!!!

  • Just ME HC

    So i'm pretty sure i went out and bought the Ray J and Kim flick and it was HOT!!!! I dont care what anyone says watching Ray J with those sexy eyes look at the camera while doing the deed damn he is fine as HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    lol :)

  • Neska

    oh goodness, took some pics that got a standing ovation:-D but neva made footage. I listened to Ne-yo's mirror and decided that's what I'ld do

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