If you want to get into the gay porn biz, advises Steve Pena (he the husband and manager of Brent Everett), “you need to be attractive, have a nice body, and a great personality.” Small penis may apply? [photo via]
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Black Pegasus
You forgot to mention “being WHITE” won’t hurt either.
*rolls eyes and leaves this pointless thread*
Devon
…………I can’t be the only one who’s turned on by big, muscular types with small man-gear…
Enron
With all the risk involved in the porn industry, no thanks. I will watch from the comfort of my DVD Player/TV/Computer which others do the work.
shanelle
Have we completely forgotten the blessing of awesome “cheeks”?
words: Shanelle
editing: Goochi
background music: Shontelle’s “Impossible”
wine: Syrah
snacks: None. Datenight is tomorrow and I got to look good.
Sceth
Why the personality?
anonymous
@Black Pegasus: Have you ever heard of Thug/Gangsta porn? You know, the sites where the words gangsta and thug are used to describe a bunch of well endowed black QUEENS who have nothing else going for them except those parts of their anatomy.
People are more than willing to watch them put their health and life on the line bare-backing, sucking juice and passing it amongst no less than three of four of their mouths. Porn, my dear, is an equal opportunity employer the the meth/crack addicts who have not lost their looks (but soon will, rest assured).
No, you do not have to be white to get into that shit. The ones who were rejected don’t realize the favor that they received in reality.
Syl
@anonymous: Ugh…that’s why I can barely stand live-action porn, unless it’s an actual irl couple. With erotic art or comics, you’re sponsoring a struggling artist who’s only doing smut because they can’t get decent employment! With live action stuff-unless it’s just a couple’s home video-you’re most likely sponsoring a strung-out junkie’s habit and the spread of STDs.
Hilarious
@anonymous: Well when you put it that way…where do I sign up?
(kidding)
It’s really disturbing that porn featuring black people is listed under “fetish”. I don’t know who started that trend but the they can go choke on a dick.
Blaine Ward
Great personality? They’re kidding, right? Anyone remember Marcus Allen? He was attractive, had a nice body, but was a psycho. So much for that theory! And how many other nasty stories have we heard? A lot of them!
I would be tempted to add big cock as the third criteria. You do see average or small men but, more often than not, they’re above average or freakishly large. But great personality? Don’t make me laugh!!
Mr. Enemabag Jones
Howabout adding actually being gay to the list? Maybe if you had men having sex with men, who actually like having sex with men, porn wouldn’t suck so bad.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Since when did “great personality” become an another way of saying for “big cock”???
jd
Amen. The only requirement seems to be a wife and kids or some other disfunctional relationship to a vadge.
jason
Porn is revolting, just revolting. It’s for losers. The gay rights movement should not be based on pornography despite the best efforts of some within our movement to encourage this notion.
Jeffree
@Jason: Please do us all a favor and do not post 19 more posts on this thread using various sock-puppets. I will call you out on that every time.
Get some help. I’m worried about you.
Matt
I would say crazy. Anyone remember a few years ago the guy who was in porn and attacked and raped in his home. It was Mason something. Anyhow, turns out a lot of it was faked and he was righting blog post on how turned on he was from it.
Blaine Ward
@Matt: You mean Mason Wyler. Yes, I remember that one. I know some men who are into some pretty weirs shit but I draw the line at enjoying being raped.
JonathanHasHadIt
@jason: Although I like porn, I do have to agree with you that our community places too much emphasis on these guys who are mostly losers. We idealize them and then try for them to be our standards of male perfection, when they are far from that. Between stds, steroids, mental issues, criminal records, and such, they’re really in no position to be our best representatives. Of course straight porn is filled with the same garbage, but ask any man if he wants to marry a porn star girl if he wants her to be his wife and the mother of his children, and 99.9 percent would consider her a skank and in no way want to be related to her, other than maybe for a quick and forgettable fuck. Yet so many gays dream about becoming porn stars as if that were the quick way to love and acceptance; they want to date porn stars; and will actually embrace them as role models, starting with gay groups that will invite them in the name of “safe sex”. This excessive importance we have attached to porn with the advent of the internet – before, in the 70s, it was dirty, prohibited, something shameful did while going to theaters – is warping our sense of community, affecting our youth and skewing our notions of what a gay man should be. Many straight girls dream of porn too, but they’ not the girls you would take home to mother. Whereas with gays, it’s almost like a badge of honor. Time to wake up and face our demons.
Queer Supremacist
@JonathanHasHadIt: Of course, we never hear about those who get out of porn alive, off drugs, and have successful lives in other fields. Your point about porn is well-taken. Those of us who grew up without supportive families do not learn that happiness comes from within, but some of us discover it ourselves. Sadly, others try to find it externally and they always fail.
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: Unfortunately, no one who can act will do porn, and I don’t think Brent Everett’s studio has a copy of Uta Hagen’s Respect for Acting for the guys to glance at first.
Another problem with porn is its sheer lack of aesthetic taste. From the repetitive and tuneless synth soundtracks to the functional camera angles and lighting to the ridiculous dialogue (and its painfully wooden delivery) to the interchangeable, preposterous and feeble plots, porn makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Lawrence of Arabia.
anonymous
@Hilarious: That’s interesting. On most sites (AEBN, Movie Monster and such)blacks come under black, inter-racial, thug and gangsta. Many of those movies have very beautiful black guys in them but the problem mainly is the in-experienced cameraman. The angles many of these poorly trained people use are just criminal. A good cameraman makes up for wooden acting, poor lighting and all the rest.
Porn simply ain’t what it used to be.
James
Yeah that’s hilarious coming from Steve Pena, the man who chose Brent Everett because he knew he could control him. Brent Everett is so bland he doesn’t even know how to stand up for himself and avoid being used and manipulated by a nobody with the biggest known coke habit in San Diego. Steve Pena has no authority on the matter.
Ms. Pink
Hunny, the main requirement for porn is to be able to get hard in front of a lot of people, keep it hard while people are working around you and to be able to stop, start, stop, start and keep it going.
As to the rest of the issues, there are valid points about “safer sex porn”, racism in porn, etc. The best porn is what you can conjure up in your own head. Imagination is the best.
Hilarious
@anonymous: And porn featuring white people is simply called porn, not white, inter-racial, red neck, and white trash.
See the point now? It’s listed under fetish. Anything beyond “vanilla” is a sub-category. Vanilla being white people merely having sex. If they’re not white they’re put in a different category just because they’re not white.
Fetish meaning you’re drawn to their skin color or some stereotype and not the person. Fetishes are sexual desires to objects, situations, or non-sexual limbs(ex: feet). A human being can’t possibly be a fetish but porn sites treat non-white people like fetishes that can be placed in sub-categories.
It’s insulting.
Dawson
@Black Pegasus: Oh please, every single porn has at least one big dicked black guy in it.
Dawson
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: I perfer men to actually get into it, but you are kidding yourself if you think only gay men can get into having sex with other men. Men are naturally exploratory in nature, and are much more stimulated physical rather than emotionally.
Dawson
@Matt: Mason Wylder and he was “raped” by a member of the military. The entire thing was a publicity stunt and never happened. It backfired big time though.
Dawson
@JonathanHasHadIt: The actual shift in porn started before the wide spread availability of online porn. It started because Jenna Jameson really was that type of girl you wanted to take home to your mom. She was a “clean girl” in a “dirty world” and made a lot of cash because of it. Oh, and every straight guy wants a girl that is a freak in the bedroom and a prude in the world. Many, many porn stars have used it as a launching pad for their own careers/enterprises.
Phil
ITT: we demonize porn.
No, the three requirements are a hard body, a nice cock and a willingness and ability to do it on camera. Faces you can crop out. Personality can be replaced with loud moaning. Or not, considering the crapton of silent fucking going on in porn. But a body and a cock are going to get filmed and focused on and there’s nothing that can be done about that. (Sort of because that’s the point of porn?)
jason
Jonathanhashadit,
I think the social gay scene is built on a sex act. I think this devalues the notion of gay rights. People who go out every night to find someone to fuck or to rent a pornographic movie are usually the most reluctant to join any gay rights crusade.
Thumbs down to porn and sexual indulgence is what I say.
jewel64
What is this, an attempt to recruit more people to the gay porn industry? I can’t believe Queerty published this article.
Any self-respecting, attractive, personality-plus gay man would have no need to consider a life in porn, when such a person could probably be successful in anything he pursues.
This articles soft-sells what is really a brutal industry that uses people, chews them up, and spits them out.
Pucifer
Don’t forget good actor! Anyone can be a movie star in Hollywood (see: Mark Wahlberg; Vin Diesel; Bruce Willis), but you gotta be able to act to get into the porn industry!