Simon James Honey born 23 May , better known as Ben Dover , is an English pornographic actor, director and producer. He has also worked under several other pseudonyms including Steve Perry as producer and Lindsay Honey as an actor and musician. In , Honey was nominated by the Internet Service Providers Association as an Internet Villain for his involvement with his company Golden Eye International in speculative invoicing.
Using the pseudonym Lindsay Honey as he "didn't think Simon fitted the bill somehow", he began working as a session drummer for artists such as Edison Lighthouse and White Plains. Following a chance meeting between the band's guitarist Paul Jackson and one time Bay City Rollers bassist Ian Mitchell who replaced original member Alan Longmuir in , before quitting after seven months in a taxi, the band Jackson, Honey and bassist John Jay agreed to be his backing band and the Ian Mitchell Band was launched in May Following the departure of Jackson, the band changed their name to La Rox and reinvented themselves as a glam rock band, with Honey becoming the band's keyboard player.
The change made little impact on the band's fortunes in the UK, and they split up in Honey also worked as a cabaret singer under the pseudonym "Steve Jackson" [ 9 ] and briefly reunited with Mitchell to form "Bachelor Of Hearts" who released one album in to little fanfare a version of the track "Girls in Jeans" was later used as the outro music on Ben Dover films.
In , broke from his dwindling career as a musician and working as a male stripper using the stage name "Hot Rod" due to his reported likeness to Rod Stewart at the time , Honey responded to an advertisement for models in The Stage newspaper and met agent Kent William Boulton — , [ 14 ] a college lecturer from Bromley and former Labour Party candidate on the Isle of Wight who entered the porn business late in life and was renowned for organising "spanking parties".
Honey began working as an actor for Mike Freeman's Videx Ltd. Upon release from prison in , Freeman set about exploiting the Obscene Publications Act , which didn't yet cover the new video format, and started producing hardcore pornography. Freeman was sentenced to 15 months in the case relating to the first raid in involving the video "Sex Slave". Honey took over Videx and produced and directed his first film, "Rock 'n' Roll Ransom", for the company which featured his bandmate Ian Mitchell.
