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Bareback porn, if you haven't noticed, is a touchy subject in the porn industry, and it's about to get touchier.
Actually, it's not, it's already touchy enough, but Out Magazine has a story in the current issue pondering whether bareback porn is responsible for a rise in HIV infections. Along the way, Out talked to just about everybody in the porn industry about the subject.
(Too bad they decided not to post the article on Out.Com or you could read it right now!) The article is called Baring the Truth. The jist of it is, producers of non-bareback porn think bareback is horrible, and producers of bareback porn think bareback is wonderful. Funny how that works!
What do consumers think? According to Out, bareback accounts for "up to 30% of the gay porn industry's output," and bareback movies make up about half of MaleDVD.Net's top rentals.
Some quotes from the article:
"I feel I have a huge responsibility. If one of my fans or a teenager sees Michael Brandon fucking without a condom, they may think, Michael Brandon does it, so why can't I?"
"We're an adult industry. We're not an educational industry."
Sam Dixon, Tipo Sesso
"People have called me a condom Nazi. Fine! I think sex is fantastic. You can still do it the right way."
Chi Chi LaRue
"I found many [young models] to be extremely naive about what they were doing. Young people were being pushed into participating in something without having a clear understanding of the ramifications. I didn't want to be part of it."
Tim Valenti, (discussing why bareback movies are not shown on NakedSword)
"I want to make porn that comes from a place even I don't understand. Porn from a place that's wild, forbidden, that's absolutely secret. That to me is gay."
Paul Morris, Treasure Island Media
"Paul is a wonderful, wonderful man, a brilliant man."
Dawson
"These films may stage a fantasy, but these are real people having unsafe sex."
Gino Colbert
"A surrender of fear happens [when you sero-convert] and the sense that now you're free to have whatever kind of piggy bareback sex you want."
"Morningwood," Radical Faerie
The bareback trend "reflects our need to be edgy and defiant in a world where being gay used to be edgy and defiant and every day has become more and more commonplace."
Will Clark
"I've talked to some [porn stars], and they say, 'The only time I ever have sex with a condom is on-screen.' So bareback isn't any huge fall from grace for them."