CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Veteran performer/director Jay Crew goes into surgery Monday to have his prostate removed after doctors discovered an agressive cancer growth on the organ, Crew tells AVN.
Following a recent biopsy, Crew said, "Two thirds of my prostate [showed] the form of very slow, non-aggressive [cancer signs], which the surgeon said most men over the age of 60 will have some form of that and it could take 20 years before it ever becomes an issue. But [I] have one spot and one third of it that is on the aggressive, but the low end of aggressive—they have a real weird scaling of how to say what is and what isn't.
"Anyway, we came to a conclusion that surgery would be the best option rather than trying to do any kind of radiation," he continued. "So just last week, I went in for a PET scan, and they confirmed that everything was isolated just to the prostate, there was nothing outside of that. So everything is looking very good."
A veteran of the Air Force who just turned 65, Crew is having the surgery performed at the Los Angeles Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Relating what he learned about the prostate's function during his consultations about the surgery, he explained, "It's kind of like just a gateway from your bladder as well as your ejaculate tubes that allow you to cum—so one door closes which allows the other door to open to allow flow. So once they take the prostate out ... attached to the prostate is the nerve endings that allow for you to achieve an orgasm. These nerves hang at the bottom of it."
When learning this, he said, "My wife was with me, and says, 'I think you need to tell the surgeon what kind of work you're in.' And so I did, and he goes, 'Ohhh, okay ... well we better make sure those all come off without a problem.' The whole thing's being done robotically. So he [told] me that it looks like that will be fine. I should be 85 to 90 percent of what I currently am. But the downside is ... he goes, 'You'll have orgasms, but no ejaculate.'"
As to what that means in terms of the future of his performing career, Crew has an optimistic outlook. "I spoke to the people over at Jeff's Models as well as some of the other companies that I do shoot for, and ... you know, the industry has always called the pop shot the 'money shot.' I mean, it's almost what the entire scene is about. Or at least they make it out that way. So they said, 'Look, we'll just movie-magic it, we will [have] you only have to do creampies, that way you could just simulate it.' So we'll see what happens."
Crew said he expects to be in the hospital for two days and return home Wednesday, after which he'll be in bed for another three to four days recovering. He also noted that he'll be using a catheter for the first week following the surgery, and then need to go into rehab to learn how to control his bladder. "I didn't know that your bladder had a sphincter," he joked. "I only thought there was one, but no, you have two. But it happens to be a small one, and so you have to train it.
"But I just look at it this way," he concluded. "It'll be gone, and it'll be done, and I don't have to worry about it. Because it hasn't been a good thing in my family, so if I can add more years to me by doing this now, I'd rather do it, and whatever happens in the adult industry happens in the adult industry."
Those who would like to send Crew well wishes for his surgery and recovery may contact him via his Twitter page @jaycrew57.
Photo of Jay Crew from his Twitter page
