King of Porn

Jeff Krulik

Published on May 19, 2008

KING OF PORN

Meet Ralph Whittington, who amassed one of the largest private collections of pornography ever.

His collection can now be seen and studied at the Museum of Sex in New York City. Produced by Jeff Krulik. Premiered at AFI Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington DC as part of the I QUIT MY DAY JOB FILM FESTIVAL in 1996. Note: if anyone is curious who the guy at the end of the video is--he's Jose Behar who has his own starring vehicles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ij47... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-2gP...'King of Porn' Empties Out His Castle New N.Y. Museum Buys His 30-Year Collection By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 24, 2002; Page C01 In Ralph Whittington's kitchen, family photos are stuck to the refrigerator with colorful magnets. Dangling from a cabinet is a little wooden sign that reads, "Lord, Help Me Hang In There." And below the sign is a heaping helping of hard-core pornography. Whittington sifts through the pile of smut with the close attention of a retired Library of Congress curator, which he is. There's an old peep-show film. There's a video called "Tijuana Tushy," stamped with: "Shot Live at a Filthy Whorehouse in Tijuana!" There's an old copy of a magazine called . . . well, actually you can't print the title of that magazine in a family newspaper. "This is just a tiny sample of the stuff in my collection," he says. "The important thing is the diversity. That's where my collection stands out." He steps into the dining room, where a wooden dinner table is covered with a lace tablecloth, which is covered with a sheet of clear plastic. Atop the plastic is a collection of framed photographs of Whittington posing with some of the greatest porn stars of all time -- Vanessa Del Rio, Ginger Lynn, Jenna Jameson. In one picture, he's wearing a somber suit and a bright smile while a topless Candy Samples sits on his lap. Whittington smiles nostalgically. "Of course, these photos are all copies," he says. "The museum has the originals." That's right. The Museum of Sex -- a serious, academically credentialed museum opening in Manhattan on Sept. 23 -- has purchased all of Whittington's grip-and-grin photos of porn stars. The museum also purchased -- for a sum that remains secret -- nearly everything else in Whittington's world-famous porn collection, which had filled almost every inch of his modest brick house in Clinton. Whittington, 57, is thrilled.

He figures this vindicates his 30 years of curatorial labor in the vineyards of smut. "This should give me a little credibility," he says. Whittington's 85-year-old mother, May, who lives with him, is also thrilled that the museum carted his collection away. She figures it'll make the house a bit neater. "It got to the point where he had too much," she says. "He couldn't keep it clean."

Nonreturnables 3 years ago

1:16 The monkey watches him spank his monkey

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domakesaythink00 5 years ago

this guy is literally my hero

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Vivisection 4 years ago

You know you're a sick fuck when you got porno on VHS lot 

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Otherwise 8 years ago

Wow, he is a serious collector. He even has the photos and magazines in plastic sheets. He should probably have the chairs and carpet covered with plastic sheets too.

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Gristle Von Raven 1 month ago

at least he sees them as people, that's something some puritans haven't managed.

helix Videlicet 7 years ago

creepy

xTHExWASPx 9 years ago

you sir are a dirtbag

businessperson 4 years ago

Has this been proven.

xTHExWASPx 9 years ago

oh believe me i understand..............i understand that you are a sick bastard that sits alone in a dark room and watches your collection of hundreds of 70's porno films.

carry Bryant 8 years ago

Wow dude smoke a fatty & let that collection give you a awesome hummer!!

39Division 9 years ago

because you are the king

paule720 9 years ago

wow.....looks like his house is stuck in the 70's too.

rail martinet 5 years ago

I hereby take this plastic prick & officially knight you---Sir Jack-Off-Slot ! ! Scheherazade

kuglepen64 9 years ago

Hero!

nightwear 7 years ago

Lol he sleeps in porn.

buckstrickland2 9 years ago

the man is a legend.

Spike Zora 9 years ago

I just keep my shit on the PC, lol.

camel wide 8 years ago

hah aha 40gb is nothing, I have over 500GB

camel wide 8 years ago

naw, its not enough, if I had 500TB then i'd think about it!

Tom of Finland 8 years ago

xTHExWASPx: Moral puritan white knight crusader of the Internets; choosing to view videos he finds distasteful; gallantly advocating death to those he deems dirty; true class act. You sir, are a joke. But, congrats anyway for making ass-burgers work FOR YOU!!

royalnaz1 4 years ago

this would be a cool documentary

xTHExWASPx 8 years ago

whats an ass-burger? and how do i make them work for me?

soup 1223 6 years ago

i searched this: family guy fridge magnets, now how did i get here?

D. N. 2 years ago

He must of done lots and lots and lots of jerking in his days

superdog117 4 years ago

i thought that

Cobwebby 6 years ago

I wish this film had more sense of "Why?" The guy is a complete cipher, as is.

fedoracore321 6 years ago

He should be ashamed of himself

Randy Scott 1 year ago

Some people just can't throw anything away . The guy needs professional help.

xTHExWASPx 9 years ago

My point is that you should kill yourself for being such a perverted fuck.

Bubbly Tea 8 years ago

You should be very dehydrated sir... try hitting yourself in the head for a hammer for a hobby :-)

machinates 9 years ago

hahahhahahahahahaha i love this

Christopher Lion 9 years ago

Yeah, pretty much... what's your point? ;-)

kaiser doze 9 years ago

the King is here

Christopher Lion 9 years ago

My point is you really should learn that people are often facetious... maybe when you grow up, you'll understand...

Christopher Lion 9 years ago

Obviously, that's pretty old (no DVD), but his cataloging sucks. I have only a quarter the number of films, but mine is cataloged and cross-referenced.

Language Fatal 1 year ago

I'd rather be a collector of this than a collector of a bunch of old video game cartridges like a bunch of other people. Respect.

xTHExWASPx 8 years ago

Wow! And i think you jerk off to youtube videos too much! Dirty mind much?

1misanthropist 5 years ago

Same here.