The private banker, married to a schoolteacher, won a role in a porn film — albeit a "non-active" cameo.

Rogers was the winner in an online contest that allowed him to make his adult-film acting debut in a scenario that brings a whole new meaning to "reality viewing."

The project: A skin flick starring and written by porn vixen Joanna Angel. And his wife was even okay with it.

"Ever since [I saw] 'Boogie Nights' I've wanted to be the fly on the wall," says Rogers. "But I don't think I can act — the last acting I did was in a sixth-grade production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.'"

But a lack of acting skills and love of pornography was all that was required to enter last week's contest on Fleshbot.com, a porn industry blog owned by Gawker Media and edited out of New Orleans by Bronx native John d'Addario.

Angel and d'Addario came up with the idea to hook up one lucky site visitor with the chance to appear in the latest film by Burning Angel, the name of Angel's popular Web site and production company (www.burningangel.com).

"While we've run several contests on Fleshbot before — mostly DVD giveaways and the like — this was the first time we've offered a role in a porn film as a prize," says d'Addario. "True to her do-it-yourself attitude, Joanna was very enthusiastic about the idea.

"It was far and away the most popular contest we've ever had," continues d'Addario. "We received close to 200 entries, including ones from people as far away as Boston and Washington, D.C., who told us they'd be willing to travel to NYC to attend the shoot."

Angel, a 25-year-old Rutgers grad who scored 1580 on her SATs, has starred in about 30 skin flicks, a handful of which she's written and directed for her own Web site. For the former college English major, penning the scripts is easily her favorite part of the process, even if it means compromising her vision on occasion.

"I realized that so many people I meet want to be in my movies, but they don't really want to do, you know, what we have to do," says Angel. "They're like, 'Let me be the pizza guy!' So I thought this would be fun."

Fleshbot asked site visitors to write why they should be allowed a spot in the movie in 25 words or less. Contestants only had so much to get worked up over, however: The role was advertised as a fully clothed, non-sexual cameo.

Rogers says he had never visited Fleshbot (though he admits to visiting BurningAngel.com), but a friend sent him a link to the contest.

His somewhat bizarre winning entry: "In a previous life, I was Jesus Christ. But more importantly, I want to have Kylee Kross's babies. I'd carry them in my belly." (Kross is one of the adult stars in Angel's current production.)

"I didn't know what to write in that kind of situation," confesses Rogers. "I didn't want to write 'I've always dreamed of being in a porn,' because — well, I haven't always dreamed of being in a porn.

"I just wrote something stupid, and apparently stupidity wins every now and then. This is actually my first time winning something — my luck is turning around!"

Rogers showed up on the set of Angel's new film late Saturday morning at a secret downtown location — after convincing his "very reluctant" wife that there was no need to bring along a chaperone.

After hanging out in wardrobe and makeup with the porn stars and watching the crew set up, Rogers did about three takes of his line — "Um, excuse me, is this the class on limb reattachment?" — and assumes he nailed at least one of them. "It all worked out fine," he says. "It was pretty cool."

And, hey, if banking doesn't end up panning out, Rogers now has a Plan B.

"I think I've got my foot in the door now," he jokes. "It's going to be my new weekend gig."

Joanna Angel says many of the 200-plus entries Fleshbot received were groveling pleas, or as unoriginal as, "I've always wanted to be in porno!"

Some submissions did stand out, though, including Rogers' offbeat entry, which Angel handpicked after d'Addario narrowed down the finalists. Here are others that narrowly missed the cut (selective runners-up are receiving Burning Angel posters and other items as consolation prizes):

"I've loved Joanna and Burning Angel since rumors abounded about their punkhouse/laboratory in New Jersey. And I'm a cute girl, which has rarely sunk a porn film."

"I've got more than a filthy mind. I've got a filthy heart. Plus, my hands aren't clammy, which is nice."

"I should be cast because porn scares the bejesus out of me. Plus I have vitiligo [a skin pigmentation disorder]. Like Michael Jackson. We need a new spokesperson."

"My wife won't let me watch porn. I love porn. We can tell her it's an art project."

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