Jeff Stryker

Jeff Stryker
Jeff Stryker in 2007
Born	Charles Casper Peyton (1962-08-21) August 21, 1962 (age 54) Carmi, Illinois, USA
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Jeff Stryker (born Charles Casper Peyton, August 21, 1962 in Carmi, Illinois, U.S.) is an American porn star who has starred in bisexual, gay, and straight adult films. He lives in California.

Jeff Stryker grew up in Springfield. His father was a car salesman and his mother was a nurse. Springfield was struggling economically, and there was a crime wave. Consequently, Jeff was often involved in fights. At age 13, he was sent to military school by his parents, who got a divorce while he was away.

Jeff Stryker worked as a male stripper and delivered balloon-o-grams before a local photographer sent shots of him to gay adult film director John Travis in California.

Stryker is primarily known as a performer in gay pornography films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time for its producer, Vivid Entertainment. He describes himself (in a somewhat joking fashion) as sexually "universal". He has also said, "I don’t define myself as anything."

He also tried his hand at acting, starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror movie called After Death (Revenge of the Zombies), in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton but later in the USA DVD release the name Jeff Stryker was used as well a trailer interview was added with Jeff current at the time describing the experience he had while shooting this movie in Manila. Jeff also starred in the short film by German cult director Rosa Von Praunheim Can I Be Your Bratwurst Please?. Under character Jeff Stryker, Charles also co starred in "The Judge who loved death" starring James Brolin, as well as in a feature titled "Dirty Love".

The “Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls,” a dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis, is widely sold in sex stores. The dildo was academically analyzed in a paper presented at the 1995 Bowling Green State University Conference in Cultural Studies: Lesbian Pornography and Transformation: Foucault, Bourdieu, and de Certeau Make Sense of the Jeff Stryker Dildo, by Mary T. Conway, then a graduate student at Temple University. The sex toy is notable not only for being popular, but also as Stryker and the manufacturer of the item litigated for the rights to its likeness as part of Stryker's "intellectual property". (The case eventually reached a mutually acceptable resolution - see Legal Battles.) In a 1999 salon.com article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture. It was mentioned in Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty."