CATALINA: The Vintage Years by Dr Kevin Clarke

This new book from the author of the bestselling Porn: From Andy Warhol To X-Tube is a pictorial history of the first 15 years of the legendary gay porn studio, Catalina. The company was founded in 1978 by the most improbable man: 34-year-old Texan William Higgins, who had never had sex with a man or a woman. The virginal Higgins eclipsed these unlikely origins to ultimately be heralded as the man responsible for the golden years of the gay porn industry. Using a combination of essays and publicity stills from the films, the book offers behind-the-scenes stories, successes, misadventures and plenty of inside scoop on the stars. Naturally, the book is also absolutely bulging with explicit images of their many porn legends such as Jeff Stryker, Lex Baldwin, Tim Lowe, Kevin Williams, Rick Donovan, Joey Stefano, Tom Steele, Aiden Shaw, Ryan Idol and Brian Estevez.