The End of Condom Porn

A few years hence, historians will look back to 2015 and declare that sometime during that year, gay condom pornography just sort of petered out.  By next September, you'll be hard pressed to find condoms in gay porn, and by the end of 2016, there will a few condom fetish sites (I mean, yeah, there ARE some sexy things you can do with condoms), but that will be it.  It all has to do with Neg+Prep; it's happening right now and bareback sex and by extension, porn, won't be the same.  Hey, it's still sex, and nobody's complaining, and maybe such discussion will become merely academic.  But..along with the condom fetish, there will be more dedicated poz bareback fetish sites, and there will still be chasers and gifters, and conversion parties will become more acknowledged and maybe typical, and the poz bareback cult will intensify, but I'll leave that discussion for another time.

So, the Condom Era lasted from 1989 until 2015 and at that era's dawn, I was a big Falcon Videos fan, and I remember big stars like Jeff Stryker crossing over from bareback (the term didn't even exist then!) to condom, but a lot of big names from the Pre-Condom Era already had their tickets punched for the Big Nowhere.  They had been dropping off since the mid-80's, and let me tell you youngins out there, them was creepy times...you gotta remember they were still trying to figure out what the hell AIDS was, much less working on a test or medications.  But enough about that for now...the Pre-Condom Era produced some really great stars who will live on forever, thanks to video...and I just can't help thinking: oh what Paul Morris could have done with Chad Douglas, Jon King, Kevin Williams or Chris Burns.  Shit! The mind boggles.

So we watched the old Falcon stuff all through the Condom Era, and were aware of names like Rob Cryston but didn't much care.  ChiChi LaRue became a millionairess without any help from me.  By the mid-90's, things began to change.  The advent of new drugs changed life expectations, lifestyles and sex.  The Bareback Era started somewhere around late 1997, I would say, with a couple of fisting videos directed by Steven Scarborough and videographed by Michael McKey.  I just checked Scarborough's videography on a couple websites where he's credited on about a hundred videos, and Depth Charge I & II are not listed.  I could be wrong about giving Scarborough credit, or maybe the politically-correct powers-that-be deleted both Depth Charges.  Anyway...both videos were (just about) exclusively barefisting, with a little bit of bareback fucking and one pearl of cum that somehow made it through the editing.  Now Plain Wrapped video had been releasing fetish and fisting videos for a while, but wrapped is wright; it was all condom.  Depth Charge was bare fisting, deep and real, and we were shocked.

Then Michael McKey, based in Phoenix, produced a few of his own videos; the production values and qualities were superb but his cast of players, all friends and ordinary guys, ranged from semi-hot to butt ugly.  Most of them would qualify as bears today (a few were downright obese), but that term was not widely in use in 1998.  Cigar fetishist Titpig became the first bareback star to an audience craving more.  Around the same time, Bill Gardner and John Singleton, professional cinematographers based out of Palm Springs, started Hot Desert Knights with a video called 'Bareback Buddies' and a guy in San Francisco named Paul Morris produced a little VHS tape entitled 'Raunch Lunch,' featuring a performer with my favorite nom de porn of all time...Wyatt Trash.

It was all shocking to me, based on the climate of the times, but I had been living an insular life for a few years, having unknowingly converted, losing weight, sleeping 12 hours a day, falling asleep at my computer, and not interested in sex...finally ending up in the emergency room (collapsing at work!), then living on a weird schedule of nine pills a day, and abstaining from sex all together, thinking I was just plain gonna die.  I just wanted to get through the year and not embarrass my family with an AIDS-related death.  It was 1997, a transitional year, and a lot of us were fucked up mentally.

Bareback sex was totally, inarguably and positively taboo.  If you indulged in barebacking you were signing your death lease for a condo in the deepest reaches of Hades.  It was ignorant, irresponsible and immoral.  Barebackers were fucked up shitheads who didn't give a damn.  They were ballin' down the highway, a one-way road to Hell.  Hell.  Hell.  Hell.  You're gonna die a miserable death and you're gonna end up in goddamned Hell!

So.  Escape to video.

Imagine the shock of watching for the first time, Paul Morris' second video, Breed Me, when a dude works his ass with a dildo, and a torrent of sticky, slimy, messy cum just flows out for about five minutes.  No sound except the tolling of bells...like at a funeral.  Death.  Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, etc. We were all going to hell, together.

You know the rest.  The early porn characters were our sex life by proxy, then an inspiration, then as we gained confidence, role models.  Dick Kraver, Mac Curtis, Big Ken, Billy Boyd, Tom Shannon, Will West, Chad Adams, Ray Butler, names that now sound pre-historic.  Dawson was still a few years down the trail.  Websites were still pretty basic, if they existed at all.  And you couldn't buy these videos at the porn shop.  I ordered my first TIM video from an ad in one of the many amateur 'zines circulating then, and it came back by mail order.  Then Paul would send us a notice of the next video through the mail with a self-addressed stamped (if you can imagine that!!) envelope to his mail drop on Market Street.  And of course we ordered them as they came out and eagerly awaited the next.  There was an underground aspect to all of this.  Barebackers were shameful, nasty, dirty guys and keeping it hush.

Well, I and millions of others are still here.  I resumed by sex life in 2000...that's how long it took for me to overcome the fear of barebacking, from '97 to double aught, well, just 3 years...some guys still haven't come to grips with it.  Neg+Prep will change all that, too.  In the meantime, thanks Paul, Mike, Bill (r.i.p.), and John, for 17 years of adventure, inspiration, exploration and a lot of really hot sex!!

Ah-men.

Billy Twee Wants Breeding Season 3

This is a dvd I'm actually going to buy without previewing first.  I would have it by now except my local porn emporium in San Francisco still doesn't have it in stock, and I've tried to buy it three times already.  It's supposed to be in today, Friday, December whatever, and I probably will check again.  I really want this video.

Why?  Why this particular video?  Aren't all Treasure Island Media videos all the same?
They most certainly are not!  But this one is particularly attractive, because of the match-ups: lots of poz tops churning fresh butterbutts, lots of veterans of the HIV battleground spreading their tainted DNA, lots of newbies taking raw poz dick up the ass like there's no tomorrow.  I'm especially anxious to learn how the implicit poz seed sowing is handled.  TIM has been dancing around the HIV issue for years now, but now I'm guessing that Truvada is going make it all irrelevant.  Whatever road TIM takes will make a difference, however.  I'm pretty sure that HIV won't even be an issue at all, unless the porn studios (influenced by TIM, the industry leader) take a turn at poz fetishism, which could be the next likely step.  Max Cameron, as hot a piece of ass as you're likely to find, is on prep according to his profile on barebackrt.  He'll probably become a big star if he wants to, but he'll only help define the Neg+Prep era.  I wish there were something I could do to keep the Truvada whores from killing the business.  Of course, I want negative guys to do whatever it takes to remain negative, but I'm talking about bareback video here.  Barebacking won't be risky or taboo anymore, and instead could become as thrilling as Mom-and-Dad sex.

Treasure Island Media has posted an intelligent interview with the porn daddy of the moment, Rocco Steele, who has been pretty thoughtful and philosophical about his HIV status.  Maybe this is a beginning.
And by the way, my comments on the TIM video, 'Viral Loads' were rebutted by one of the stars, Steven Richards.  I re-read my 'review,' as it was posted on the Treasure Island website, and I thought I qualified my statements about the HIV status of the 'Viral Loads' performers.  I'm not in the mood to get into a debate based on the semantics of HIV and video, but to set the record straight, I am offering a retraction of sorts, and that is, contrary to what I may have implied, porn star Steven Richards is not HIV positive.

Now what about 'Breeding Season 3?"  I just got back from the store: it's still not in!! Gawddam!!

Palm Springs Cops Bust Sex Party

Hey, nobody was arrested...but it did mess up what was a promising night of raunchy bareback sex.  Stuart's parties always are, the best regular sex parties in California.  But not for a while, I guess, and we'll have to wait to see how it all pans out.  Supposedly, somebody in the neighborhood complained about parking, and I can only assume that a careless queen, so hot to trot, parked in a neighbor's driveway.  A phone call to the PSPD was made, and these cops being dedicated cops, showed up to investigate.  I was on the mattress trying to get my fourth dick of the night (thank God, this time I showed up earlier than usual), when I heard somebody say that the cops were here and the party was being shut down and we'd all have to leave, something about code violations.  So it wasn't a morality call, although the cops couldn't let 50 guys congregate in a garage, no matter what was going on, right.  Hey, wait a minute here!  There isn't a Mexican child's birthday party that doesn't attract at least 50 celebrating relatives, so what's going on?  Are permits required for house parties these days?  Even in Palm Springs?

We'll just have to wait until all of the matter gets settled, but one thing might interest you: no fewer than five squad cars showed up, I saw them myself as I was leaving...so around 10 cops were there, 9 male and one lady cop.  And while the male cops clustered outside the garage fearful of having being recognized by any of the party-goers (well, I'm just trying to make sense of why they acted as they did), it was the lady cop who actually went into the sex garage and communicated with the party organizers...ah, those cops showed more than they told.

My Face for the World to See/My Ass for Latins to Seed

You would have seen a man's face looking out the window if you had been standing on the sidewalk looking up to the fifth floor.  You would have seen a man talking trash to the world, shit like 'fuck that ass!'  That man was I, and I was poised on an armchair facing the open window with my hands on the sill while a humpy Latino neighbor plowed my ass with his thick, veiny, uncut native meat.  The seat could have been a little higher for the best insertion and I raised my white trash butt as best I could to take his forceful thrusting; with my dirty bare feet on the seat cushion, I could poise my ass just right for this rockhard dick, he never slipped out even though it wasn't the most comfortable position for either of us.  Latino fucker had to pause to put on his shades because the sun was in his face, and sadly, there's no building across the street so there was no one there to get the best view, which would have been from a few stories up.  As for the 100+ windows down the block, I couldn't say if anybody took advantage of the free show, for as I said, it was pretty bright...broad daylight in the middle of the day.  But world, if you saw it, that was I...my gnarly face shouting obscenities with a Latin man, face obscured by sunglasses, behind me, fucking ass.  Sorry if you all missed it, and I sure would like to do it again...just for you.

Cutler X: The Black Top We All Want

Robby Mendez has been a great bottom from the beginning of his career in bareback porn, but nobody quite figured out how to film him.  His bottoming style is one of passivity; Robby doesn't move much (the sign of a good bottom) nor does he show much emotion...he doesn't exactly deadpan it, but he don't show much...that's his style and it works for him.  He doesn't have much of an ass (he's a flaquito) and he's small in stature, so he has to be photographed/recorded in a certain way, and most ways had been lacking.  But in his match-up with black megahung top Cutler X, Robby looks just right.  In a sling, strapped in specially rigged to show off his lovely butt or on the floor, we get superb views of that cute little Latino butt taking every inch of the super hung black mamba snake of Cutler X.  Give thanks to Rawstrokes for finally getting it right.

CutlerX is one fine black man, nicely muscled, with a shaved head and facial hair, and gifted with some massive equipment that when needed, comes straight up and rockhard.  Check out Rawstrokes for one of the hottest scenes in bareback porn...CutlerX vs. Robby Mendez...a scene that will be saved a million times.

Cum-drenched Fucking in Florida according to the Bible

Genesis 38:9 has been mangled by self-serving Puritans and fags for centuries.  Those of us Christians who endured hours of bible study in Sunday school will recall 'tis better to spill thy seed into the belly of a whore than to spill it on the ground,' or something like that; pick your Bible for it's been re-written, re-translated, re-edited for political and other ulterior motives for millenia now, but if you will, it's the Lord's stamp of approval on bareback cum-filling...by the throat I'd say since that's the most direct route to the belly.  But up my butt will do, too.  He didn't say cunt, He didn't say woman.  He said Whore, if you believe a common, white trash, low class interpretation of the Bible.

Down in Florida, a couple of tops are doing their best to make sure their seed ends up in the bellies of various hot ass Cuban whores and others, by lubing their dicks with cum (their own, most probably) and then fucking it up those willing butts.  What results are some of the raunchiest, cummiest free videos on the internet, courtesy of Xtube.  Yeah, and there's some assalicious butt-eating, felching, cum schmearing, and all with a subtle Latin flavor.  This pair is known as chaosity420 among Xtube contributors, check out their contributions, the quality varies and some are unfortunately short, but more than a couple are inspiring to the point where we'll all be saving and using our cum.  Put it in a jar, not the ground...you don't wanna go to Hell, do you?  Bible does and Bible says.

Fred Mayer is a Top

The shelf-life of pornstars, sadly, is rarely longer than a couple of years.  Porngrazers hitting the websites usually notice Somebody Interesting, so we follow Him, then for about a year, He's everywhere, eventually graduating to the better studios, assuming He didn't start at The Top.  And then he slips, oh so gradually, into obscurity, so when someone brings up his name, you think...oh yeah, whatever happened to Him?  So when Somebody you really enjoy watching, fades away into the archives of porn, so philosophically concede...well, that's the way it is.

So when a performer emerges from the archives of porn, a performer who was really Great, it's newsworthy for us porn aficionados.  Fred Mayer shows a new public face in his edited profile on BarebackRT.  It's the familiar body, lithe and sinewy but he's let his hair grow back, which is a good thing.  That shaved head business on a skinny dude can make him look cadaverous.  Well, wait...cadaverous is kind of a 'porn look,' especially among Euros, but Americans tend not to like it.  But I digress.  Fred is not American, of course, but a French Canadian.  He had the best quality a porno bottom can have and that is: I like what I'm doing. All the great bottoms demonstrate this quality; Dawson, Christian, Damon Dogg among them.  So Fred thought he needed to update his profile, and I guess the reason is that...he...is...a...Top.  That's what it says, that's what he wrote.  Great News indeed!  Let's hope Fred returns to porn as a top, that would be fascinating. Anytime, Fred.  Nothing would please us more than to have your pozdick up our asses.