It was mentioned in Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty." In a 1999 Salon article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture. The case eventually reached a mutually acceptable resolution (see § Legal Battles). The sex toy is notable not only for being popular, but also as Stryker and the manufacturer of the item litigated for the rights to its likeness as part of Stryker's intellectual property. Conway, then a graduate student at Temple University. The dildo was academically analyzed in a paper presented at the 1995 Bowling Green State University Conference in Cultural Studies: Lesbian Pornography and Transformation: Foucault, Bourdieu, and de Certeau Make Sense of the Jeff Stryker Dildo, by Mary T. The Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls, a dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis, is widely sold in sex stores.
Stryker also starred in the short film by German cult director Rosa von Praunheim Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? Stryker also appeared in a 1995 German television movie Der schwarze Fluch (Black Curse) starring James Brolin, as well as the 1988 Italian feature Dirty Love. A trailer interview was added with Stryker's describing the experience he had while shooting this movie in Manila. Later in the American DVD release, the name Jeff Stryker was used as well. He also tried acting, starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror film called After Death (Revenge of the Zombies), in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton. He has also said, "I don’t define myself as anything."
He describes himself (in a somewhat joking fashion) as sexually "universal". Stryker is primarily known as a performer in gay pornography films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time for its producer, Vivid Entertainment. Jeff Stryker worked as a stripper and delivered balloon-o-grams before a local photographer sent shots of him to gay adult film director John Travis in California. At age 13, he was sent to military school by his parents, who got a divorce while he was away. His father was a car salesman and his mother was a nurse. Jeff Stryker grew up in Springfield, Illinois.