“I’m jumping in with both feet behind my head,” said Tina Tyler, retired from performing these past five years but who now, at 43, has returned to selling her body for your pleasure.
But why the tiny window? The agoraphobe once described as The Thinking Man’s Porn Star will only be on the market and available for scenes until March 31.
“In November of 2006 I went to Hawaii for a week,” she said. “Prior to that I hadn’t taken a vacation in 20 years. On April 1, I will go on a well-deserved vacation.”
And coming out of retirement for two months is a good way to get lots of cab fare for her trip across America and points Great White North.
Public Service Announcement:
- Tina’s Favorite Alanis Morrisette lyric: “Would she go down on you in a theatre?” “Every time I scratch my nails down someone’s back I hope you feel it”
- Favorite Bryan Adams lyric: “It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right”
Sadly, she refrained from providing favorite Anne Murray, Triumph, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, or Rush lyrics, probably because there were just so many.
Tyler retired in 2003 because it was becoming apparent at the time, she said, that “growing old in porn had become such a huge sin.
“And the MILF and Cougar niches hadn’t arrived,” she said. “It’s strange how quickly aging turned into a marketable taboo.”
Tyler has maintained a Yahoo group for years, and last September decided to test the waters by finally giving in to fans’ gentle but persistent prodding. She performed scenes with Jon Jon and Marco Banderas, two performers she’d shot extensively for her “Handyman” series.
“After that, I called Lisa Ann and told her to sign me up.”
Lisa Ann’s Talent has become, as Tyler says, “the go-to place for quality MILFs.”
I asked Tyler if she was going to stand there, look me in the eye, and tell me that she had borne offspring and was officially a MILF.
“No, but I’m old enough to be the mother of half the girls I’ve shot,” she said.
Or maybe all the girls she’s shot – who is she kidding?
But when she decided to quit performing, Tyler wanted a safety net.
“I took every production assistant job I could find, shot Behind the Scenes stuff, went and picked up every cum rag so that I could effectively transition into a behind the camera role in the business.”
Then she got a call from Lexington Steele.
“Lexington is a dear friend and a sweet, sweet man,” Tyler told me in an earlier interview. “We’d just go to movies together. (Regular movies.) And he asked me if I’d work for him.”
Their friendship led to a successful working relationship. Tyler took over the new girl line “Fresh Out the Box” and created the solo male series “Handyman.”
“We say we shoot it for women,” Tyler said at the time, “but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the main audience is gay men.”
Tyler would often provide visual stimulation for her solo male performers by directing topless.
“It’s a service I provide,” she said.
So what is it like being back in front of the camera?
“Well, it’s the possibility inherent in all these young men that is so enticing to me,” she said. “I think, ‘What will this one be capable of doing in 20 years?'”
Oh, Tina Tyler, I’m so capable right now.
“But it was very strange tapping into that part of me again,” she said. “I don’t know if you’d call it an affectation, but I really needed to switch gears and remember that I’m sexy.”
Her first outing was a P.O.V. blowjob scene with Pat Myne, but I talked with her as she was walking into her first full-on younger man/older woman pairing for a site called CougarsInHeat.com.
“What’s his name?” I said.
“Some guy named Alex, I think,” she said (already having recaptured the porn star’s understanding of the real hierarchy in the adult business).
Tina Tyler is famously introverted, and this drives her fans insane.
“I really didn’t get into this business to become famous,” she said. “I honestly thought I’d maintain some kind of anonymity and insulation.
“But then Jenna Jameson came along and screwed it up for everybody.”
But even though Tyler is returning at a time when demand for MILF/Cougar movies is high, she is not looking at this as a long-term comeback.
“That’s why it’s ‘Act Now!'” Tyler said. “Because supplies won’t last. Mark your calendars, boys.”
Tyler kept the window short because she knew the temptation to stay longer would become stronger quickly. She also has to juggle performing with her directing duties.
“In this business you feel guilty for taking vacations,” she said. “You feel bad if you don’t say Yes to any work that comes along. So I’m going to work really hard for the next two months until I really feel I deserve a vacation. I plan to be exhausted.”
So what has the experience been like so far?
“How do you think it’s been?” she said. “I am sexually voracious. Because I really had to clean the cobwebs off.”
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Tina Tyler talks about Angel Dare; Tina Tyler refuses to stop being hot
See also: Tina Tyler at Clips4Sale
she looks fantastic.