Meet Flora, a legend in an industry that trades on legends. I first heard about her when covering the Adult Video News Awards -- porn's sleazy answer to the Oscars -- for a British TV documentary. A male performer called Dick Nasty told me all about a scene he had just finished with her in a hotel suite.

"She's amazing," he said.

"For Christ's sake, she's 83," I replied.

"I've always liked older women." He leaned forward, and said confidentially, "Do you know, she gave the best oral sex I have ever had in my life."

"She did?" I said.

"Of course she had to take her teeth out first."

At first, I thought the whole thing was just another freak show. After all, this is a business that employs an endless variety of ugly people, overweight people, dwarfs, amputees and nonpregnant lactating women to satisfy the warped desires of an apparently unlimited market. I'd already met a few of them: I'd met a midget called Bridget, I'd met a 350-pound lady called Eartha Quake, I'd met a schoolteacher from Arizona with an 18-inch penis. Was Flora just another bizarre curiosity on the wild edges of a wild industry?

I called a seedy porn distributor I knew to find out more. "Is there really a market for this stuff?" I asked.

"Are you kidding? There's a market for everything," he said.

"But she's 83. Who wants to watch an 83-year-old woman having sex in front of a camera?"

"I do," he said.

"You do?"

"Why not?" he replied. "What's wrong with it? Just because she's old doesn't mean she can't have a good time like the rest of us. Does it?"

OK, let's be honest here. He had a point. But this wasn't just about old people having sex. This was about old people having sex on camera so that other people -- like my seedy distributor -- could watch. The yuck factor was very high. How could she do it? I decided to find out.

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