Adam Glasser (born March 18, 1964), known professionally as Seymore Butts, is an American

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director, producer, and occasional performer who has produced hundreds of films in the

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genre of pornography (faux reality-based adult material).Susannah Breslin
"Extreme porn crackdown,"
Salon.com July 12, 2001, retrieved March 21, 2010.

Life and career

Butts was born to

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ish parents in the

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, New York City. After making several appearances as a supporting actor in the late 1980s, including a role in an early "Buttman" video, featuring Matthew King, by

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(''Buttman's Ultimate Workout'', 1991), Glasser adopted the popular

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Seymore Butts ("see more butts") as a pseudonym and began producing his own videos in the early 1990s after founding the Seymore, Inc. studio. The ''Seymore Butts'' series won "Best Gonzo Series" at the 1999 and 2000

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. During 2001–02, Glasser was the focus of an obscenity-based court case, ''People of the State of California v. Adam Glasser, et al.'' over the depiction of vaginal

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in his 1999 video '' Tampa Tushy Fest 1''.Concerned Women of America
"California Obscenity Prosecution Collapses,"
April 3, 2002, retrieved March 21, 2010. The film won the "Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Video" award at the 2000 AVN Awards. Glasser pleaded not guilty to violating

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Sections 311.2(a), "production, distribution or exhibition of obscene matter"; and 311.5, "advertising or promoting matter represented to be obscene", better known as "pandering obscenity". Then before trial, he reached a

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in which his company pleaded "

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" to "creating a

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", and paid a $1,000 fine, in exchange for all other obscenity charges being dropped against the defendants. Beginning in 2003, Glasser's life was the focus of Showtime's popular reality TV program ''

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''. Appearing with him were his mother, Lila Glasser, and his 60-year-old cousin, Stevie Glasser (a.k.a. "Cousin Stevie"), both of whom help Adam run the "family business" of the series—the Seymore Butts porn "empire". During production of ''Family Business'', Glasser made reference to the court case, and used this as a springboard to mount a successful Internet-based

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to raise money for freedom of speech causes. The series also focused on his life as a single father and his difficulty as a porn star in finding a meaningful relationship outside the industry. The series ran for four seasons. Glasser's ''Do-It-Yourself Porn'' (2008) is one of a number of how-to guides on shooting porn videos that have appeared in recent years. Glasser is featured in the PBS ''

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'' documentary on pornography."American Porn,"
February 7, 2002.

Awards and industry recognition

* 1999

Win – 'Best Gonzo Series' for ''Seymore Butts'' * 2000

Win – 'Best Gonzo Series' for ''Seymore Butts'' * 2013

XBIZ Award XBIZ Awards are given annually to honour "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult films" and have been described by XBIZ publisher and founder Alec Helmy as being "born out of ...

Nomination – 'Director of the Year – Non-Feature Release' for ''Pool Party at Seymore's Vol.3''XBIZ Nominees 2013
, ''

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'', January 2013

References

External links

Official website

Myspace page
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