Seymore Butts
Career
Born Adam Glasser, Seymore Butts began performing in the late 1980s before adopting the gag name — "see more butts" — as a pseudonym and founding his own production company, Seymore, Inc., in the early 1990s. Rather than working under contract for an existing studio, he built and ran his own label from the start, winning AVN’s Best Gonzo Series in both 1999 and 2000 for the self-titled Seymore Butts line, and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2004 and the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005. From February 2003 he starred in Family Business, a Showtime reality series that ran four seasons and 37 episodes through June 2006 — corrected from a previously stated five seasons, which neither Wikipedia nor the series’ own episode record supports — in which his mother Lila Glasser and his cousin Stevie Glasser were shown helping him run what the network called his "porn empire." The series itself won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Alternative Release, an unusually literal piece of mainstream documentation for how one of these companies actually operates day to day.
Signature: The rare adult-industry business whose day-to-day operations were filmed and broadcast on a mainstream cable network for four seasons, rather than described secondhand.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Seymore Butts's placement inside “Dirtiest Pornstars”: What the Gonzo Award Record Actually Shows — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 2 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Full award record6 entries
- 1999AVN — Best Gonzo Series — Seymore Butts
- 2000AVN — Best Gonzo Series — Seymore Butts
- 2005AVN — Best Alternative Release — Family Business
- 2013XBIZ — Director of the Year – Non-Feature Release (nomination)
- 2005AVN — Hall of Fame
- 2004XRCO — Hall of Fame
Studios
Beyond performing
- Founder, Seymore, Inc. studio (early 1990s)
- Owns and operates his self-titled production label
Mainstream credits
- Family Business (Showtime, February 2003 – June 2006, four seasons, 37 episodes; won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Alternative Release)
- Featured in a PBS Frontline documentary on the pornography industry
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Sources and verification4 sources
- Exact year the Seymore Butts persona and studio began — documented only as "early 1990s"
- Whether he still performs on camera
