Early Life
Howie Gordon grew up in Pittsburgh, the younger of two brothers. He graduated with honors from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1966 and was the president of his class.
His first role in pornography was during his term at Antioch College, Ohio, in an amateur student production. After graduation, he quit his job, and moved to Berkeley, California, to live in a commune. In 1971, he met his wife, Carly, through the commune and they married in 1975. In the mid-1970s, Gordon was earning $5 per hour for construction work, and looking to begin a new career. He applied to the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard (to study history) and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was considering studying to become a Rabbi, but when he learned that he would have to travel to Israel and study Aramaic for 2 years, he opted to appear in a porn film instead.
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