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Retired clergyman Norm Self is enjoying life as a porn star – at the age of 85.

The OAP has made four blue movies in two years – and urges older people to opt for the “mind-blowing” sex life he is lapping up.

Norm, not paid for the work, said: “My housemate asked me if I’d be in a film.

“I was invited in and all of a sudden all this attention comes to me.

“It’s almost like having a party, that’s one of the things I admire about this way of doing porn.

“We are going to have sex anyway so why not make it a liberating and bonding experience instead of hiding it away in the shadows?

“If the universe grants me another 10 years, who knows what will be happening with sex?

“My 85-year-old self is more vibrant than my 45-year-old self. It’s as though my erotic energy has taken over and inhabited me.”

Norm’s remarkable life story is told on Tuesday in a Channel 5 documentary, which contains graphic scenes, called OAPS On The Game: The Sex Business.

Now he wants to send a message to Brit pensioners. From home in North Carolina, he said: “One of the sad things about ageing is that a lot of elders give up on sex.”

Norm grew up in the south-eastern US state of Alabama and was surrounded by religion, joining the clergy when he was 18.

He met his wife when he was in his 20s and they were married for 28 years – but during that time, he realised he was gay.

Norm said: “I was a campus minister and there was this parade of men saying they might be gay and asking how they’d handle it. It was 1997 when I acknowledged, ‘Guess what, I’m a gay man’.”

After separating from his wife, and moving in with a man he calls his “housemate”, he was asked via a friend to join the porn industry.

Norm was unconcerned about the church reaction.

He explained: “I thought who might be offended and who might want to write me out of the address book, but I don’t worry because that’s their struggle.

“My problem with the church is that it’s rare that sex is treated as a joyous part of spiritual life.”

The show also features Abby Roberts, a gran from Amsterdam talking about her cam girl work.

Tran Pippa's tricks of the trade

Escort Pippa Jayne, 72, reveals her journey through gender reassignment surgery in the OAPS On The Game documentary.

She has an impressive room full of sex toys in the home she shares with partner Mike, 79, in Wimborne, Dorset.

But after her operation, Pippa says she lost some clients.

She adds: “It has been more exciting in a way, you get a guy treating you like you’re a woman.

(Image: Maroon Productions)

"Sex work has definitely changed – there are a lot of clients who rang me before who don’t ring me any more.

“The appeal was a girl with a c**k, I don’t have that any more so I have to learn new tricks”.

Inside Pippa’s home, she offers a range of sex services – and even has a swing.

Pippa said: “It is surprising what people like. A lot of what escorts do is satisfying people’s fantasies.”

OAPs On The Game: The Sex Business, airs on Channel 5, Tuesday June 18, 10pm