A long time ago back in Los Angeles, I was the assistant manager for a store on Melrose Avenue called Drake's, which was once an adult peep show and had become a novelty store with an emphasis on gay porn. I heard a story once that had occurred while I was back in my office working. It seems that this girl walked in with a friend and they scoured through the gay porn to have a giggle or two. Suddenly, the clerks heard a near-scream from the girl. She held up a box and said that one of the guys on the box cover of a porn video was her boyfriend.
Sometime later, I went to a club that at the time was known as Studio One for a release party for one of Chi Chi Larue's earlier videos. I met some friends there and there was also a gay porn star in attendance with his girlfriend. The guy went on to claim that this would be his last video. His girlfriend turned to one of my friends and asked, "How stupid does he think I am?" Which, I'm sure, was a rhetorical question...but one I wanted to answer: not as stupid as I know you are!
It's funny that when I'm curious about something or want to know more about something that I normally use three examples...so, here we go...
I also used to work as a receptionist for Catalina Video, which was one of the more high-end gay porn studios in it's day. We had an in-house contract model who I had become friends with. I invited said friend to a party another friend was throwing one warm Friday evening. My friend, the gay porn star, showed up with the girl he was dating at the time. I should have had the balls then to ask him what I want to know now: how is it that all of these so-called straight men are ending up in gay porn?
Okay, I'm going to try not to be prudish about this because I have always believed 'to each his own.' However, you've got to give me something to be miffed about in this particular situation because 1) when I watch porn I want to see two gay guys go at it, and 2) it seems that straight men are having more gay sex than I am.
I could say that I don't understand this gay for pay thing, but I guess that guys will do anything for money. I've always wanted to be on the set of a video with a straight guy about to perform. Does he watch straight porn? Is his girlfriend there to fluff him up? I mean, what actually does happen during the shoot? I once saw on television this 'expose' of sorts of a gay porn shoot where two straight guys had to go at it in front of the camera. According to the journalist's report, the shoot took hours because neither one could quite 'make wood' to get the scene rolling. The director did have straight porn on a monitor close by, so I guess that helped.
Do gay guys really get off on this shit? Watching straight guys go at it with each other or with a gay guy? Does it make straight guys seem more available to them when they do see gay for pay models working? It's bad enough that porn is now as plastic and directed as any mainstream movie, so why add to the, shall I say, phoniness of it? Why am I asking myself these questions when there are websites devoted to this general type of fetish? Okay, to each his own but...eww! And now that I think about it, porn these days has become more performance than performance enhancing. It is no longer about the raw edge anymore. And I do wonder about girls who are dating these guys. Has sex become so relaxed that it's okay if your boyfriend pounds another guy in front of a camera?
I am not going to further criticize the gay porn industry, as I like porn. But I'm glad there are amatuer sites and videos even though I have to look a little harder and a little deeper to find two real gay guys going at it! Which I think is really hot!!
I guess that I am being somewhat prudish in my pursuit of the real deal about this particular topic, so I will not sit and continue to bash something that I have no clear understanding of like some religious zealot in pursuit of god-like meaning.
This does make me wonder, though, if there are gay guys that are straight for pay?
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Sometime later, I went to a club that at the time was known as Studio One for a release party for one of Chi Chi Larue's earlier videos. I met some friends there and there was also a gay porn star in attendance with his girlfriend. The guy went on to claim that this would be his last video. His girlfriend turned to one of my friends and asked, "How stupid does he think I am?" Which, I'm sure, was a rhetorical question...but one I wanted to answer: not as stupid as I know you are!
It's funny that when I'm curious about something or want to know more about something that I normally use three examples...so, here we go...
I also used to work as a receptionist for Catalina Video, which was one of the more high-end gay porn studios in it's day. We had an in-house contract model who I had become friends with. I invited said friend to a party another friend was throwing one warm Friday evening. My friend, the gay porn star, showed up with the girl he was dating at the time. I should have had the balls then to ask him what I want to know now: how is it that all of these so-called straight men are ending up in gay porn?
Okay, I'm going to try not to be prudish about this because I have always believed 'to each his own.' However, you've got to give me something to be miffed about in this particular situation because 1) when I watch porn I want to see two gay guys go at it, and 2) it seems that straight men are having more gay sex than I am.
I could say that I don't understand this gay for pay thing, but I guess that guys will do anything for money. I've always wanted to be on the set of a video with a straight guy about to perform. Does he watch straight porn? Is his girlfriend there to fluff him up? I mean, what actually does happen during the shoot? I once saw on television this 'expose' of sorts of a gay porn shoot where two straight guys had to go at it in front of the camera. According to the journalist's report, the shoot took hours because neither one could quite 'make wood' to get the scene rolling. The director did have straight porn on a monitor close by, so I guess that helped.
Do gay guys really get off on this shit? Watching straight guys go at it with each other or with a gay guy? Does it make straight guys seem more available to them when they do see gay for pay models working? It's bad enough that porn is now as plastic and directed as any mainstream movie, so why add to the, shall I say, phoniness of it? Why am I asking myself these questions when there are websites devoted to this general type of fetish? Okay, to each his own but...eww! And now that I think about it, porn these days has become more performance than performance enhancing. It is no longer about the raw edge anymore. And I do wonder about girls who are dating these guys. Has sex become so relaxed that it's okay if your boyfriend pounds another guy in front of a camera?
I am not going to further criticize the gay porn industry, as I like porn. But I'm glad there are amatuer sites and videos even though I have to look a little harder and a little deeper to find two real gay guys going at it! Which I think is really hot!!
I guess that I am being somewhat prudish in my pursuit of the real deal about this particular topic, so I will not sit and continue to bash something that I have no clear understanding of like some religious zealot in pursuit of god-like meaning.
This does make me wonder, though, if there are gay guys that are straight for pay?
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