PHOENIX, Ariz.—A $2.2 million mansion in the upscale Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, Arizona, lost a potential buyer this week when the couple who had made a substantial offer for the luxurious family home found out an interesting fact about the current owners, according to to a report in The Arizona Republic.
Namely, they had sex there.
Normally, the fact that a married couple had sex—with each other—in their own home shouldn’t be cause to reject a sale. The only difference was, the married couple who owned this lavish, 4,172-square-foot house not only enjoyed sexual relations in their home, they also filmed themselves doing it and sold the tapes via online streaming, and in the early days, by mail.
In fact, they’d been doing exactly that since 1997, making the couple—Kevin and Sandra Otterson—pioneers in the online porn business. The pair are best known to their fans as “Hubby” and “Wifey” on the popular site Wifey’s World.
But that was too much for Linda Fein and her husband.
"I just can't make Thanksgiving dinner on counters where a porn star has been lounging around,” Fein told the Republic. But why not? What were the Ottersons doing that most happily married coupled would do in any house with counters?
The Ottersons were high school sweethearts who have been married since 1986, according to a profile that appeared in the late 1990s, in Wired Magazine. They are now in their 50s and the Wifey’s World site is still going strong. Their Twitter feed boasts 367,000 followers.
Perhaps for Fein it was matter of “out of sight, out of mind.” By filming and openly discussing their sexual experiences, the Ottersons made it impossible not to think about them romping around, even as Fein was cooking the turkey.
"I certainly believe there are people out there who wouldn’t care about the house being used for those purposes," Fein told the paper. “I’m just not one of them.”
She also complained that her realtor had not disclosed the fact that the Ottersons had utilized the home as their personal porn set. But porn production is not an event that realtors are legally required to disclose. In fact, under Arizona law, relators are not even require to inform prospective buyers if a house has been the site of a murder.
And that’s not all. The fact that the Ottersons, who moved to Arizona from Oregon, taking their home porn business along with them in 2006, ran a business selling their own slickly produced home porn clips and photos was not a secret. In fact, they had been in the local newspapers around the time of their move, when a shadowy group calling itself the Northeast Valley Coalition Against Pornography attempted to target the Ottersons by distributing flyers “warning” neighbors of their intended move to the area.
But Kevin Otterson, at the time, scoffed at the unidentified group, telling the Arizona Republic that the business he ran with his wife was harmless to the neighborhood.
"There is no (porn) studio going in," Otterson said. "I've never had a studio. (The flyer) made it sound like we hang out with this porn element, and we're going to be having all these people over. It's complete nonsense."
In the meantime, anyone in the market for a four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home with a built-in bar and stunning view of the Camelback Mountains will now find the Ottersons’ house available.
