American porn actor Jeff Stryker was BOTD in 1962. Born Charles Peyton in Carmi, Illinois to a working-class family, little is known about his early life. In his teens, he worked as a stripper while attempting to break into modelling. A local photographer sent his photos to gay porn director John Travis. Impressed, Travis spent six months grooming Stryker for porn stardom. He made his debut in the 1986 gay porn film Bigger Than Life, impressing viewers with his muscled physique and freakishly large penis. He became one of the most popular and well-paid porn stars of the 1980s, appearing in gay, straight and bisexual films, and was hailed by filmmaker John Waters as “the Cary Grant of Porn”. Notable titles in his gay porn oeuvre include Powertool, its imaginatively-titled sequel Powertool 2: Breaking Out, Stryker Force, In Hot Pursuit and Jeff Styker Does Hard Time. In 1999, he appeared in Rosa von Praunheim‘s comedy film Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? Unlike many of his porn industry colleagues, he avoided career collapse and drug addiction, earning substantial royalties from the sales of “The Jeff Stryker Cock & Balls”, one of the bestselling sex toys of all time. Stryker successfully sued the manufacturer and distributor for selling bootleg versions of the dildo without compensating him, which he argued breached his intellectual property. (He was eventually awarded a settlement of US$25,000). In later life, he recorded a country rock album, Wild Buck, and toured with his one-man show A Sophisticated Evening with Jeff Stryker, in which he conducted porn acting demonstrations with audience volunteers and danced nude in the finale. He featured in a portrait by French artists Pierre & Gilles, and was inducted into the Hustler Porn Walk of Fame in 2004. Describes his sexual orientation as “universal”, he had a son in 1991 with a woman he later described as “a gold-digger”, successfully suing her for sole custody. Stryker lives in Los Angeles; his current relationship status is unknown.