We’re talking, of course, about the Hi8 camcorder footage of Pamela Anderson and her then-husband, Tommy Lee, the drummer for heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, getting down to bedroom business on their honeymoon in 1995.
“Once the celebrity things [tapes] become more popular, the sex tape idea, I’ve seen clients feeling pressure that they should do something similar … [they] should be allowing their partner to film them during sexual activities,” says Dr Simone Buzwell, a sexual identity researcher at Swinburne University.
Pamela Anderson, pictured with then-husband Tommy Lee in Las Vegas in 1995, was asked by lawyers, “why I’d even care that the tape was out there”, given that she’d posed naked in Playboy, she said in Lee’s autobiography, Tommyland.