Hello, fellow gay porn bloggers and studios who produce the things I write about! Let me begin by telling each and every one of you that you’re great in your own special way. I commend the work you do in helping folks escape reality, indulge their wildest fantasies and relieve stress through orgasmic therapy, and as a fellow smut peddler and professional masturbation enabler, I recognize that it isn’t always easy to do your job.
With that said? There’s something you need to stop doing (if not only for my own personal sanity). When a performer or studio makes the switch to bareback content, I need you to stop turning it into an event worthy of celebration. I’m well aware that “bareback” and “raw” are buzz words that get you page views, subscribers, new readers and other sweet perks. Business is business! Honestly, I’m not one-hundred percent innocent of selling out or going for an attention-grabbing headline.
It’s just that, well, bareback doesn’t necessarily make a scene better for the viewers at home. Some might grow stiff at the prospect of a freshly-fucked hole oozing with cum, while others might cringe that these performers are setting a bad example at a time when new HIV infections amongst young people are steadily rising. It might seem wishy-washy, but I’m not even gonna go there…
The bottom line is, boring sex is still boring sex even if there’s no condom involved. Great sex is still great sex if there is a condom involved. You can’t change what’s there by merely taking out a rubber barrier. Your scenes will still suck if they suck. Similarly, your scenes will still be great, if you put in the effort to hire performers that appeal to your audience, match them for maximal chemistry and film them in a way that makes dicks go “ooooh” instead of “meh”.
While it’s not my intention in this post to shame anyone who enjoys bareback porn or sex without a condom, it’s also not my intention to glamorize the act as the “better” option. You seem to, quite often, be guilty of the latter, and it’s pissing me off in a way that these words can’t even begin to describe. Feel my rage! FEEL IT!
Also, really, stop doing this. It’s kind of the worst. Bye!
– Dewitt
Photo credit: Men of Montreal
Decide whether Men of Montreal’s bareback debut is better than any of their other scenes below:
If you want, go watch this scene now on MEN OF MONTREAL. I won’t stop you!
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Meh. Take SC as example of studio that does both (and took too long to!) I only bother with the SC bb vids – why bother with the rubbered stuff when there’s enough hot dudes doing it bare in the same place? They fill both niches – for people who want & people who don’t. That’s what’s worth celebrating. Fulfilling demand.
When will the gay world realize that rimming is just as dangerous as bareback? CDC has lied to the gay community since Regan years. Better to follow Pasteur Institute guidelines, they’re not out to kill off gays as USA agencies.
… and btw: HIV is a designer virus … Planned by Bush/Cheney under Regan: Dr Robert Gallo – I CREATED AIDS to DELIBERATELY DEPOPULATE HUMANITY .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5C3ybXhLa4
But they don’t! When was the last time they produced a video with a condom?
Bel Ami is the only studio I can think of that does both.
It’s America .. the land where obesity and heart disease contributing to the deaths of billions pales in comparison to the righteousness of the almighty dollar. In America, almost anything can become sacrosanct (Big Macs, really) as long as it generates dollars. I applaud your sentiment, DeWitt .. but, give it up. Porn producers give people what they want — not because it is right — but because it generates dollars. And that, in America, is all that matters.
Dude…. get a grip.
What kind of bizarre, whack job, paranoid delusional bullshit is this? The picture caught my eye, but the text … THE TEXT … causes me to dismiss all this … summarily. Have a nice day.
Looks like May – wow, longer than I’d thought. (Yay! :)) Ok, that’s a point, but I’m guessing that’s because demand is lower – if it gets to christmas and there’s been no rubbers, we’re prob gonna have to say SC’s transitioned into a pure bb studio (amazing how they used to be so firmly rubbered!) but it might just be an unusually long wait between models who want to rubber…
Well, I guarantee they’re getting paid MORE to do bareback… I’m curious if the studio’s even giving them the decision anymore.
I really hate this war on bareback that you’ve got going recently. It’s just another category of gay porn and we shouldn’t condemn it. Also I feel bad for the Poz readers of this blog as you make it seem like contracting HIV ends your life and makes you almost “unfit” for others. I realize it’s not something we WANT to be spreading but blaming rising rates on the porn industry is not fair. What people do is their own responsibility and the porn industry should not be expected to stop producing bareback films because people can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy. I think everyone has the right to choose condoms or bareback and they should exercise that as they see fit. Sorry for the heavies, but I had to get this off my chest.
War on bareback? I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.
I’m not against the production of bareback porn! I’m against pushing it as the “hotter” alternative to condom porn. That seems to be the direction a lot of blogs and studios are going in, and personally, I don’t agree with it.
100% agreed. I’m so sick of people complaining about condoms in porn. If you choose to watch people engage in risky behavior, fine. But stop blasting those of us who don’t appreciate it. Yes, maybe the performers are getting more money. But are the studios going to pay the $28,000/year that the current HIV cocktails cost? Are YOU?
Of course it’s an event. It’s being done to sell product. No one gives a shit about the health or safety of people who do porn – they haven’t since porn’s inception.
Designer virus ARE YOU SERIOUS ??? I think you have 2 much of a grip and need to loosen up
These BARE BACK studios really get me with all there BULLSHIT about all our models are tested and for everyone to practice safe sex it’s as FUCK UP as the tobacco companies posting the surgeon general warning that cigarettes cause LUNG CANCER ,HEART DISEASE etc…etc,,,, and yet they market the product just the same talking about HYPOCRISY in its worst form !!! .
I don’t know if the sex is better or not but clearly the director was focused on the barebacking part. Showing a cock going in a hole up close for that long (most of that clip) is incredibly boring. It’s just a dick and an ass.
I see your post about how hot condom porn is and how bareback shouldn’t hold such sway is illustrated exclusively with footage of guys fucking without a condom.
I see how you completely missed the point here, as well as the intention behind using that footage.
It IS a hotter alternative to condom porn. And by marketing it that way they are making more money so until you have a porn site of your own, that’s the way it’s going to be. And personally, I think it’s great.
Okay! That’s fine. YOU think bareback is the hotter alternative to condom porn, and I’m not judging you for that. Our dicks aren’t hard-wired to respond to the same things.
Frankly, I just don’t consider it “news” for a site or performer to “go bareback”. I would elaborate, but I feel like I said everything I need to say in the original post.
Maybe, at the end of the day, I just don’t understand the extent to which people crave bareback porn… So much so that they’d watch a crappy bareback scene over a legitimately good condom scene.
::shrug::
I agree that a studio or performer “going bareback” shouldn’t be considered news or an event. Basically its just them changing how something is working. not really worthy of being celebrated.
And I agree that bareback is not a hotter alternative. Because frankly, condom or no condom, its all fucking hot. I love it all really. And performers know the risks, they do get checked. because i don’t think any of them think a paycheck is worth a life changing disease.
also HIV is pretty hard to spread/get if both partners are clean and HIV-. okay so its not like bareback automatically mean you’re going to contract it.
Studios should still be trying to appeal to both audiences, thats definitely true. But maybe we can stop demonizing bareback, as well as the men and performers who
actually enjoy it.
if you like, you like. if you don’t like, hey thats fine too. and if a particular studio converts to bareback. then find another that still uses rubbers. its really that simple.
I actually didn’t miss the point. You advocate an end to “glamorizing” bareback porn then post a series of bareback porn photos on a sex site. Much like Cecil B. DeMille using sex and violence to preach about the immorality of sex and violence.
So, you have a problem with marketing. Do you complain when a detergent changes its packaging and adds words like ‘Fresher’ and ‘Cleaner’ without changing the content? Do you complain that movie trailers show the best part of the film to entice people to spend near $20 a ticket? Do you complain when eggs are labeled ‘Free Range’ but all that means is that the chickens had access to a window? Packaging and Marketing has little to do with how good the product is and everything to do with how to get people to buy it. Bareback, for whatever reason, is selling right now and so any studio that produces it, especially if they haven’t in the past- is going to make it ‘an event’ because they want to sell their product. PORN IS A PRODUCT. If midget-porn suddenly became really hot, you can bet studios would be pushing film after film with little people fucking as ‘an event’ without a second thought except “How can I sell this product?” PORN IS A PRODUCT and they are not saying anything about what is ‘better’ or ‘worse’ between condom or bareback. That is YOUR own hangups about sex. MEN.com just did a huge ‘Top to Bottom’ series as AN EVENT. Did you complain about it? Did it make you feel like MEN.com is ‘shaming’ tops and saying that bottoming is ‘more natural’ or ‘better’? No, because everyone took it as what it was- a hook to sell a product. If you don’t like something, don’t watch it. If enough people don’t watch it, it stops getting produced. PORN IS A…. do you get where I’m going with this?