Story by Terry Shropshire and Curtis Waller
Photos by Michael Melendy for Steed Media Service

The response to Heather Hunter’s name is as reflexive as breathing and blinking. Merely mention her to any red-blooded heterosexual brother, and he immediately begins to dissolve into a state of arrested reasoning. His eyes widen with that familiar bulge, and blood will rush from his brain in torrents. A flood of illicit and carnal thoughts — along with the image of Hunter’s caramel-coated, tight-bodied, bite-size form — will fill his head. His mental projector rewinds back to those days when her porno videos were passed around the college dormitory like a blunt. A stupid, crooked smile is pasted on his face that couldn’t be wiped away with a scratch pad. Yeah, this salacious sexual siren has made a lot of brothers smile over the years, but it’s not because of her witty jokes. Her sexual workout videos, er, movies became the equivalent of ‘sex-for-dummies’ instructional movies. She has ushered millions of pubescent and young adult males blissfully through the awkwardness of puberty into sexual maturity.
We’ll pause here to enable your heartbeat to return to normal … At one time, Hunter was arguably one of the most famous black “actresses” of the modern era — even though no one will admit publicly to having seen any of her movies. Heather Hunter had long since graduated — magna cum laude, we might add — from mere celebrity to transcendent household name. For better or worse, her name has become an adjective for unadulterated, unabashed immersion into sexual expression. But the pornography potentate promulgates she has forever retired from the game that gave her so much fame. “I think people are now coming to terms that there’s more to me than just porn,” she says, “I’m glad people are able to embrace the transition. There’s so much stuff I want to create and show the other talents that I have. Society is definitely coming around, as people say [she laughs].”

Now Hunter is coming out with the most anticipated book from the sexual underworld since Karrine “Superhead” Steffans’ Video Vixen caused seismographic aftershocks within the hiphop nation. You might need to wear protection just to read this book, which Hunter says is filled with intrigue and mystery and promises a plot line thicker than Mo’Nique’s waistline. “It’s really about a woman who can’t get enough [sex],” says Hunter. “She’s searching for a love she can’t find, and throughout that transformation she becomes a porn star, who’s everybody’s desire, but [she’s] still searching for [true] love.” The semiautobiographical novel, centered on a sexually acrobatic woman, Simone Young, is so salacious it practically has condoms hanging off the book. Hunter admits that the debut novel contains aspects of her life.

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