An Interview With Bennett Anthony & His Gorgeous Balls: Adjusting To Porn, California & Being A “Ginger”

It’s really only been a few weeks since I first encountered Bennett Anthony, the southern redhead whose rosy, low-hanging balls made such a big impression on me when he fucked Tom Faulk in that men’s room. I was so impressed that I dropped Bennett a line and asked if he wouldn’t mind chatting.

I couldn’t find out much biographical info about him before the interview. (It didn’t help that Googling his name led to a lot of results about Tony Bennett and the new Lady Gaga duets album. Stupid Google.) But luckily Mr. Anthony is disarmingly nice, a fast-talking and straight-talking guy who knows what he wants and who drops the word fuck at least twice in just about every sentence.

I found him enchanting, to be honest, and not just because my mind kept wandering back to when his coppery beard was having a field day in Tom Faulk’s ass. As he drove from San Francisco to San Diego, we chatted about how he went from high-end server to MEN.COM exclusive, what prompted his recent move across the country, and what it’s like to be a gay man that has sex with women sometimes.

– Lawrence

Photo credit: MEN.COM

Read Bennett’s interview and see more pics of him below:

So when we were setting up this interview you mentioned something about being in a redwood forest? Are you on vacation right now?

I’ve been on vacation for about six weeks. I left South Carolina about a month ago and started a road trip to San Diego. I’ve been visiting friends and dancing along the way, in Key West and New Orleans and Dallas.

A working vacation, then?

I came to San Diego and looked for a place to live but didn’t find one right away. I haven’t had a real clock-in job for a while and needed some money, so I went north to San Francisco for Folsom. It was so much fun! Not only was it my first time at Folsom, this was my first time in San Francisco and California in general. I’ve never seen so many harnesses! So that was a lot of fun. Lots of public fornication, and I danced in bars all weekend.

I’ve always wanted to go but never got out there.

It’s like an Eagle, or any dirty gay bar, except it’s outside and eight blocks long, and there are women. So it’s very open. It’s a little crazy seeing people tied up to every single street light and stop sign.

But now you’re headed back to San Diego?

Yeah, I was supposed to drive back yesterday, but I ended up camping in the redwoods with my dog. I really need to get back and find a place to live. Plus, I fly out to New York on Thursday to shoot with MEN.COM.

How’s the dog handling all the travel?

Actually, very well. I’ve tried not to drive over six hours a day. My last three or four months in South Carolina were so busy, so I think forcing him to ride in the car with me and being able to hang out all the time is good. I can’t tell you the number of hotels you can stay at with a dog. It’s like ten percent. But he gets along with everyone.

He’s an Alaskan Malamute. He’s kind of like a husky that ate another husky, but having a dog over 25 pounds has made it very difficult to find a place to live. I was hoping for somewhere in the walking part of Hillcrest, the gayborhood, but nobody there wants you to have a dog.

And once you’re back it’s straight off to New York?

I’m going to be there from the 25th to the 30th.

Me too!

There’s always something fun happening there. I’ve done four or five scenes total, and I think it’s so funny, the other models that I’ve worked with have been so chill. They finish the shoot around 6 or 7pm, and then they go back to the hotel and go to bed.

I’ve never had free flights to fucking New York before! And I have friends from high school and friends from college there, so I text them as soon as I get in, and we go out to see as much as possible. I don’t stay out ALL night if I’m working the next day, but I do like to go out. The same thing happened when I did a shoot in Atlanta.

So how did you get into porn? Nobody thinks of South Carolina as a porn hub, but Atlanta’s not so far, and I know that’s where MEN.COM is…

I was working in a restaurant and a friend of a friend was looking for an underwear model for Gay Days. So I said to myself, I’m going there, and I’m going to have sex with a porn star, and it’s going to make me famous. Which my friends were all making fun of me for.

The first day I’m dancing on stage at a pool party, and Howard from Fabscout—who’s now my agent—waved me over and asked me why I wasn’t doing porn already. Then the next day, I had a quick thirty minute interview. They asked me if I was ready to really do this, and I was really fucking ready, and the next week my phone was blowing up and studios were sending me contracts. I had some serious anxiety at first, but after it all settled down, I worked out a deal with MEN.COM.

And how’s it been so far?

I keep hearing all these horror stories about porn—how they yell at you and you have to keep your dick hard when the other models aren’t hot—but so far, the shoots have been flawless and the directors are fun.

And your first scene was with Johnny Rapid! He’s very… polarizing.

Uhh…

Or maybe not even polarizing. Maybe he just has a reputation.

Yeah, but I understand. I was kind of like that when I was younger. We all grow up at different times. And, you know, in the end I was still the one fucking him.

Speaking of which, are you going to stay a top?

In every scene I’ve done so far, and from what they tell me, I’ll continue to be a top. But what I can’t believe is how many girls I’ve started having sex with since I started doing gay porn. Maybe I had a confidence thing about myself before, but I’ve got this new idea of myself that I can have sex with whoever I want. I was in LA recently at a party with eight other gay boys. One of them was my friend and four of them work for Helix, but I went home with a girl anyway. It’s fucking hilarious.

So you like to fuck everybody, it sounds like…

Yeah, there were these two people bitching on Twitter last month. I don’t go around telling people I’m bisexual. I tell people I’m gay, because I go to gay bars and have gay friends, but at the same time, I had sex with this girl and stayed hard for four hours.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not gay. I’m just trying to be careful with what I say. I mean, unless you’re actually the one sucking my dick, it shouldn’t matter to you whether I like men or women, anyway. And even if you are the one sucking my dick, if it’s flaccid, then it’s because I’m not into you as a person, not because it’s all men or all women.

To get back to porn, it sounds like you’re planning to be in it for the long haul, and this isn’t just a temporary thing.

Yeah, absolutely. People say porn careers don’t really last longer than three years, so I’m planning to do it for two. But I’m a redhead, and there aren’t that many of us. I have one year of college left before I get my accounting degree. That’s on hold for now, but I’ll be doing other work, too.

I can’t work in restaurants now and ask for five days off every other weekend. I haven’t made the step to becoming an escort yet, but it might happen in the future because I’m so comfortable with everything. But I’d definitely like a job that didn’t depend on my dick so much.

So what prompted the move to San Diego?

I’ve been trying to move to San Diego for like five years, so after my first three shoots, I had enough money for a deposit. Plus, I smoke pot, and just the smell of pot can get you arrested in South Carolina. Everybody said “Oh, move to San Francisco,” but I don’t like the cold, and I like beaches.

I have never heard one negative thing about San Diego. Trying to have a porn career is a little easier out here, too. Goddamn, it is fucking expensive though. But all my friends in Charleston get the biggest kick out of what I’m doing.

And you’re actually from South Carolina too, right?

Yes, I am originally from Conway, and then went to college two hours away in Charleston. Far enough away from my family but also not far enough away from my family. Charleston’s a great college city, a great walking city, and the food scene’s really growing there. I mean, who’s to say that I can’t go back? I’m just trying to see as much as possible before I run out of time.

So what’s coming up next?

I’ve done five scenes. We just had “Swingers Part 2” with Tom Faulk, and then there’s “Swingers Part 3” with Tom, Cameron Marshall, myself and Colt Rivers. So the next scene will be that.

I’m actually not sure I can say what’s after that. I keep finding out that there’s all these rules that I keep breaking. I keep thinking that honesty is always the best policy, and then I find out that I’m too honest. I think I can do what I want, and then I remember that I need studio approval to get a new tattoo.

You’ve got quite a few now.

Yes, I do. I love them, and I want a lot more. It’s really funny that my contract says that I won’t touch any of my body hair, and I’ve never cut any of my body hair off anyways. I don’t plan on waxing my asshole anytime soon, so I’m glad there’s at least one rule that I’m not gonna break.

I have yet to get any new tattoos since I started, but I think that step one is finding an apartment and step two is finding a job. Then once I know San Diego, I’ll work on getting a new tattoo. I also need to remember I can’t dance on a bar with a new tattoo, just out of concern for my own health.

I have to say the guns are pretty awesome.

I got them because I have a couple of straight friends that had them on their hips. I ran cross country in college, and when the shorts came down a little, it’d look like I had guns tucked in my shorts. But boy, show off those tattoos in a bear bar, and you are just displaying how hungry your bottom actually is. And Jesus!

Have you encountered a lot of Southern stereotypes since you left?

Yeah. But you know what’s funny? Every time I make a mistake driving I say to myself you fucking redneck! Even though it’s a mistake anybody could make.

Your accent’s not as strong as I expect it to be on people from South Carolina.

And after I’ve had a beer—which I don’t drink beer, I’ve been gluten free for a year and a half now—but when I do, that’s when it comes out. I notice that if I talk on the phone with my sister or my brother, ooh, I tell you what. I don’t even know how it comes out of nowhere.

And you’ve got the redhead thing. I take it you get a lot of compliments for that.

Yes! I mean, obviously I understand that that’s my niche. I’m not going to fight it. I love the fact that I have red hair and that I stand out in a crowd and that I have a giant ginger bush that I don’t trim so that I can have as much red hair as possible.

I know some guys with red hair who get offended by the word ginger. I’m ginger just like I’m a faggot. I guess having four brothers, I learned early that names will never hurt me. So yeah, I definitely try to embrace it all.

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