As Pierce tells it, his path to pornography started long before his time at Temple — the school just gave him the opportunity to go to L.A. to get into the business. His childhood in Delco, he says, was normal. "There's nothing about my upbringing that was dark, or that someone could look at and go, 'This is what brought him here.' Other than my fascination with porn, it was as average as it could be."