But before he did, he got himself into the habit of putting pictures of himself in real life and posing naked in front of the camera. He and his fellow students, especially his ex-girlfriend, Jessica, eventually married. He told a friend, I wanted to do porn with my ex-girlfriend for years, but then I got caught doing it. I was caught. I was able to get off with my girlfriend just so I could get away from her. By 2013, when Mattel launched the Flesh Lesbians brand—the Velvet branded line—the Velvet name was out of fashion and it began to pop. We'd seen other companies put the same name into their line of clothing. For a while, though, vintage was an obscure brand, but it was at the top of the line. If you have a nude body that's part of your life, no one can deny that. But these kids all want a little too much. So they wear porn. For much of the rest of his life, Mattel's vultures kept his lifestyle a safe distance from the mainstream, but the fact that they were there—sometimes to see how they could make the people around them happier and show them that they were worthy—made them comfortable with their sexuality. For the moment, however, they weren't as lucky.