Heather Harmon

Her name is Heather Harmon, founder and star of iDeepthroat.com. To your average porn viewer—thanks to a mislabeled file from the days of Limewire and Kazaa---she goes by Heather Brooke, the girl from the famous "dark blue bikini" video and inventor of what's known today as the "throatpie". But to her most devoted fans, she's simply known as "the Queen". 20 years after making her debut in the world of amateur porn---and in the hearts of an entire generation of young men and aspiring deepthroaters—her reign continues. "The name Heather Harmon isn't mentioned in the same breath as Linda Lovelace, Jenna Jameson or Ron Jeremy", writes Hersh Bavnik of Thoughtcatalog.com. "Yet she's a porn star so deeply ingrained in the millennial male culture, that if you slip the reference into any hetero conversation, the remark is always met with a nod of appreciation and a grin of reminiscence." Armed with a camcorder, a $400 computer, and a combination of girl-next-door looks with down-to-earth charm, Heather—along with her husband Jim—made her debut in 2000 and immediately sent shockwaves through the world of amateur internet porn, which was still in its infancy. The duo broke every rule and tradition that had defined pornography up to that point; no big-budget sets, no cheesy plots or dialogue, and—rarest of all—no sign of the sleazy, unsafe environment plaguing nearly every porn set at the time. Instead, we got to see two honest people working hard to make people happy and managing to be happy while doing it. There was no industry to worry about, because Heather and Jim were the industry. And then, of course, were the talents that made Heather famous. Staying true to the name and theme of her website, Heather's masterful and effortless deepthroating—matched with her husband's way*-above average measurements---turned what used to be a niche into a regular feature of both amateur and mainstream porn. We'd seen deepthroating before from professional adult actresses like Linda Lovelace, Bobbi Bliss, and Jeanna Fine, just to name a few. But we'd never seen the art of deepthroat take the center stage and become someone's identity*. To call deepthroating common in today's porn scene would be an understatement; in this day and age, it's almost a requirement. But nothing could've prepared the world for what became Heather's signature "trick": the throatpie. The act of taking a penis all the way down one's throat while their partner is cumming, Heather made history by showing people what it looked like on camera for the very first time. We'd never seen it in porn before, both mainstream and amateur—and for years afterward, we didn't see it again. It was only recently that throatpie-themed Pornhub channels of adult performers like Morgpie and SladkiSlivki started sprouting up—and many of those stars directly credit Heather as an influence. With the advent of file-sharing websites like Limewire and Kazaa, Heather's popularity soared to dizzying new heights as her catalog instantly became available to anyone with a broadband internet connection—not to mention the patience to wait two hours for a minute-long video clip to download. But ask practically any male born from the 1980s onward, and they'll tell you the wait was more than worth it. In 2020, another long wait came to an end. 15 years after seemingly vanishing off the face of the planet she'd so quickly changed, Heather Harmon announced she was back. The Queen had returned. But to her millions of devoted fans—and the new ones she picks up every day—she never left.