IN THE BEGINNING...

It was the Summer of 1998, a year before Eric completed his graduate studies in Europe to return to the United States for good. Armed with a passion for life, Eric was truly living it up. Budapest had treated him well. Where else could a young man journey in Europe, live an incredible international student life, go out to restaurants constantly, and experiment with gay sex. Yes, it was in Europe where Eric finally realized his preference for men. In fact, it was there that Eric met his first boyfriend, got to play around with the most sensuous Eastern European twinks, the likes of which you would only see in a Bel Ami flick, and run around with guys wearing Speedos.. In Europe, many of the young men wore Speedos. It was not the 1970s, yet guys would freely wear such lyrca material without fear of embarassment. After all, it was part of the culture out there - the way people dressed. It was also one of Eric's favorites, learning that he really enjoyed guys with speedo tan lines. It was not like conservative America. This was really the land of the free and brave.

While living abroad, Eric had the opportunity to share his life with a sensational guy. They traveled everywhere together, from Amsterdam to America and from Bratislava to the Hungarian planes. Unfortunately for Eric, the turning point came when his boyfriend wrote him an e-mail from New York breaking up with him nearly 3 years since they had gotten together. It was a trying time for the soon-to-be porn star, but he survived. Many of his friends had already left for the summer. His own boyfriend had taken up an internship in New York, while Eric was running a program for one of the universities and could not leave yet. The plan was to meet up with his boyfriend back in the States, but that plan came to naught with the news of the break-up. Thus, Eric had no one really to talk to. Turning to the Internet, Eric shortly came into contact with Aaron, a male escort and amateur porn director living in New Jersey, Eric's home state. Aaron was able to console him via 10,000 miles away. It was at that time that the Internet was coming to full bloom. Whenever Eric needed to talk, Aaron helped him along. Being that his boyfriend was his very first, coming down off of that incredible high was excrutiatingly difficult. Aaron's advice served as great comfort to him.

After returning to the United States once his summer program was complete at the university, Eric called up Aaron so that they could finally meet after talking on the net for a few months. In short, that's how it all began. One telephone call - Eric later met Aaron up in Northern Jersey where they talked about Eric's past relationship and Aaron's amateur video business. Intrigued, Eric was sort of fantasizing that Aaron would ask him to be in a video. Then again, Eric did not think much of his body. He did not have a Falcon style body. He really did not think that anyone would want to see him in a porn video, but it was still a fantasy. To his amazement, Aaron indeed asked him to be in a video in a solo scene. To his greater astonishment, Eric agreed to the proposal. "Aaron's Boys Tell All 2" was the very first erotic feature Eric appeared in.

During the next few hours, Eric had his hands wrapped around his cock, stroking it and telling the camera all about himself. His number one rule was to be as honest as possible without revealing his true identity. This became something he would tell his own models for years later when they appeared in solo films for his own company. Aaron offered Eric the sort of boost he really needed. Being in a porn film actually raised his self-confidence at a time of his life when he had little to look forward to in the short-run.

A few weeks later, Aaron invited Eric up to a summer party hosted by the director of Galaxy Pictures, Robert Prion. First stopping at Aaron's, so that he could go together with the amateur pornographer, he wound up walking in on a shoot. Aaron was taping two other guys in solo action, Rob Walker, a guy who would later work for Eric in a few productions, and another guy named Will. It was yet another way for Eric to see the video taping from a different angle. It intrigued him so much that weeks later before returning to Europe, Eric asked if Aaron would consider selling videos of hot Eastern European guys on Aaron's own website. Aaron agreed, and Eric went out to buy a video camera, his first - an 8 mm camera. He would later go out to Europe, find a number of hotties, and shoot them in his own videos.

Back to our story.... Robert usually hosted these parties every few weeks. After meeting Eric, Robert was fascinated with him living out in Hungary since his own background was Hungarian. He quickly offered Eric a role in his upcoming film, Shameless. So that summer, Eric appeared in two porn films, prepared for his own, and manufactured an inspiring way to get over the loss of his now defunct relationship.