He was a career military man, decorated in Vietnam. Married for 22 years, a father and grandfather.

So how and why after all of that, did this San Diegan take a mid-life life turn that now has the 68-year-old known as "America's Oldest Working Porn Star?"

"I mean look at me, I'm short, fat, bald, not particularly good looking, I'm overweight... and I'm a porn star?" says a bemused Dave Cummings.

He speaks with ease about his profession and about the law, and then delights like a wild teenager in pointing out the sex scenes that have been performed on almost every square inch of his University City condo. And if you think he's a dirty old man -- he'll agree.

"Yeah! I'm a pervert. And you know what? I think there's a lot of other people out there," wagers Dave, "The one's that are saying we're perverts and 'that's terrible, those slime balls, those scum bags,' they're fantasizing too, but they don't want to let you know."

For Dave, that's the real perversion. He considers himself an honest man who has long led an honorable life. He was a unit commander during the Tet offensive in Vietnam. He was awarded a bronze star and after 25 years in the Army, retired as a Lt. Colonel. He holds a Masters in Public Administration and raised two children with a wife of 22 years.

So how did this apparent poster child for conservatism become a porn star? Dave says, after his marriage ended in his mid-40's, friends at a swinger's party invited him to the set of an amateur adult video production where his job was to hold a light.

"Long story short, the guy couldn't do the money shot," explains Dave. "I was drafted to do the money shot. The next day I was in two amateur scenes and a month later I'm in 'The Devil And Ms. Jones - Part Five' doing the thing with Julie Ashton."

He's now been in more than 1000 sex scenes, including hundreds he's produced at his condo and numerous outside jobs.

As for acceptance outside the porn world, Dave says people generally have a sense of humor about what he does.

There were a number of questions we had for Dave that we just didn't have time for in the story. You can hear more of what he had to say, right here.

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