The future is now! Falcon Studios has produced the first (?) virtually bareback gay porn film, in which condoms are digitally removed to provide the illusion that performers are fucking raw. According to Gay Porn Blog—or the press release that nobody bothered sending to me—Falcon/Raging Stallion president Chris Ward believes this “will go down as a defining moment in the production of safe, top-quality male erotica.”
He went on to state that “the innovation and use of technology to make condoms less ‘in your face’ is something that allows us to appeal to all porn fans while protecting our actors’ health.” Okay, cool quote, bro… But, um, will something like this actually appeal to all porn fans? It’s a little implausible that someone who’s been in the business as long as Ward would be naive enough to believe this.
Don’t get me wrong! I commend Falcon‘s commitment to their actors’ health, and with every studio under the sun going bareback for the sake of cash flow, it’s an incredible move for them to maintain their commitment to videos with condoms. (Whereas folks like this and this have jumped the boat on that regard, utilizing bullshit excuses to justify their hypocritical actions.)
Some safer sex advocates might be appeased by this compromise, but at the end of the day, it could be argued that Falcon is still promoting sex without a condom as the hotter alternative. One could interpret this as the studio saying, “This is what all men REALLY want, and since we can’t give it to you, we’ll fake it to our best ability!”
That, of course, leads me to the other side of this debate. How will rabid bareback fans respond to the artificial nature of this production? I’m aware the mere presence of a condom can be a turn-off for some, but it’s my understanding that the grittier aspects are what really draw a crowd. Most bareback fans I’ve talked to love visuals like cum dripping back into a stretched-open hole, tops fucking the cum back into their partners or the oft-glorified internal cum shot.
No matter how hard Falcon tries, they can’t recreate those visuals without violating one side of the condom debate with the blatant fabrication or upsetting the other side with the message it sends out about using (or not using) rubbers. I guess, at the end of the day, I’m failing to see what they hope to accomplish with this well-intentioned but, perhaps, not well-thought-out move. It could be a publicity stunt to get some attention or the game-changer that will revolutionize our masturbational material for years to come.
But I’ve gone on with my ambivalence long enough—where do you stand?
– Dewitt
Photo credit: Falcon Studios
Watch the trailer for Falcon’s virtually bareback film, California Dreamin’, below:
Watch scenes from California Dreamin’ soon at FALCON STUDIOS.
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Bullshit!!! You can see the rubber. No one is that dumb…
Dangerous territory.
With condom/without condom/digitally removed condom…makes no matter to me as long as there’s chemistry between performers
Right, Pjaxxx247, I could see the condom in more than one scene.
I think fans of bareback enjoy the fact that it’s raw. If it looks like
there’s no condom but they know there was one, they won’t go for it.
To be honest, I’d rather see the condom on in these and let the top cum IN the condom, then pull it out showing he came. For those guys that really get off on KNOWING he’s cum and that it’s not just a cut away to the crew putting some cum like looking substance in the top of the condom before slipping it back on and sliding it back in, the top squeezes the last few drops out manually. Still safer than bareback (though i love that, too. 🙂
It really makes no difference to me whether or not the actors are wearing condoms, as what I’m watching is fantasy; it’s not something I’m engaging in. I wear condoms when I have sex because, well, I don’t wanna get HIV and I’m not one of those bottoms who is only turned on by the thought of someone jizzing inside them (an obsession I don’t fully understand, but whatever). I’d only ever do it if I had a serious monogamous boyfriend, which has yet to happen.
But yeah. It’s kind of like violence in TV/movies/video games. Engaging in it in a game doesn’t make me anymore willing to do engage in it real life. Fantasy =/= reality.
Umm… this is lame. So they are protecting the models? That’s commendable. But… they are trying to make it appear as if there is no condom, which as far as the viewer is concerned, is promoting the idea that people should trying barebacking, which I still think is a dangerous message to the community at large. Until there is a cure, or until HIV conversion rates actually DROP in our community, especially among youth and other at-risk/vulnerable/susceptible populations, porn should be advocating safer sex. Period.
Lame for so many reasons……
Fantasy is not real and ‘virtual barebacking’ is
an oxymoron for even the porn world.
I agree, you can still see the condom. Industrial Light & Magic, these folks ain’t.
I’ll stick to the real bareback porn. No Splenda Porn for me.
You all know that no porn is real, right? I think this is great. I don’t mind condoms in porn, but I prefer bareback porn. Let them digitally alter whatever they want. Hell, cartoon porn is hot to me
who the guy who has to go frame by frame rubbing out the condoms hehe that wud be a fun job lol
I look forward to when computer graphics get good enough that the performers will be able to digitally replaced and enhanced like Avatar or Lord of the Rings and wont even have to have sex or be that attractive. They’ll be able to erase tattoos and scars, add hair or delete hair, enhance musculature & dick size, etc. Any scenario will be possible.
Even in the scenes where the condom is edited out, the cock still has the appearance of wearing a condom. Weirdly smooth, kind of wrinkling up the way they do when they wear condoms, exceptionally shiny. I think this is a ridiculous way of trying to appeal to an audience, and it absolutely promotes bareback as the hotter alternative. I love Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher, and I do really like bareback porn as a representation of fantasy. If I had to give a backhanded compliment to bareback productions–not like, Fraternity X, where they basically offer up the idea that someone is being raped–it would be that they seem to understand that it is a certain demographic they’re appealing to, and that they put up front that their models undergo rigorous STD testing. But it’s absolutely unreal to me to think that someone is so set on bareback porn that they would actually go “Ew, a condom.”
As far as I’m concerned, the best part of gay porn is when they pull it out and cum all over each other anyway. 😉
I think the idea is coming from a good place but I don’t think it makes a difference. As you said, people who enjoy bareback porn watch it for the money shot, the re-stuff, etc This won’t take off…
This is a great idea. It kinda meets the best of both worlds at least partially. Yea, we won’t be seeing creampies from this but that’s okay, there is no shortage of places to see that. I love technology…good on them.
Although now that I watch the clip and not just look at the pictures, it does seem that sometimes they were more successful than others at removing it. It’s just a new option for us. Like everything else, some will love it, some will hate it, most won’t give a shit.
as someone who has spent years watching, and a few performing, I have always been turned off by the obvious roll at the end of a partially unrolled condom…..joke a straight friend told me YEARS ago… “hey, have you ever seen all the writing at the (unrolled) end of a condom?? Didn’t think so….” so, please, unroll the thing ALL the way, unless you like the look unrolled (small-dick possibility). a little extra prep, and some better condom choices for video could make this a non-issue…been there, both sides….
The porn industry needs to stop handing out morality cards to their customers. Seriously. It’s porn. Take your moral guidance elsewhere. Let the customer make their own damn choices.