After 4 years in the Navy, Lee Parsons began working in a record store and met future porn star Clair Dia (born Emily Smith). Parsons and Dia started making loops for San Francisco porn theaters before starring together in early porn movies The Nurses (1971) and What About Jane (1972), before moving to Hawaii together, where they performed a live sex show called "49 Ways To Save a Marriage". After a phone call from his mother, Parsons quit the adult business.