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The Sad Attempt To Delete Real World‘s Dustin Zito’s Gay Porn Past From The Internet

We have it on good authority MTV’s Real World: Las Vegas isn’t going to sidestep cast member Dustin Zito’s gay-for-pay porn past. Not only has Zito already told viewers about his X-rated history, but the show’s production company had this website sign a release to permit them to use our post on the show, which has me speculating Zito (or the housemates) read our article while cameras are rolling. But that doesn’t mean Fratpad, the amateur porn webcam studio where Zito appeared as Spencer, is trying to distance itself from the new reality star. Which doesn’t make sense!

Videos of Zito having oral and anal sex have been pulled from Fratmen.tv and Fratpad.com, while the company has been asking porn bloggers (NSFW!) to remove photos and videos of Zito’s activities. (His solo videos, apparently, are just fine.) When asked about it, the company defends its actions to Reality Blurred:

As a journalist and TV critic, I’m confident you are aware of the perils of posting links to pages containing sexually explicit content that fail to maintain the labeling required by Title 18 U.S.C. § 2257. And furthermore, if that link were truly ‘newsworthy’, I would have thought you would have gotten your story straight before you posted it, if only to avoid the journalistic embarrassment of having to amend it. Maybe the purported video never was on the site; maybe the primary producer had been forced to remove the video because one of the performers was under 18 years old on the date of production… Maybe a pack of wild dogs broke into the Fratmen data center and destroyed the content with their magnetic teeth

Which is hilarious, as the website notes: “The joke of the last sentence aside, the two possibilities he suggests are crazy: 1) He says the video never was on the site, which of course it was (how else would everyone have screenshots?) and 2) one of the performers may have been underage—in a video they distributed! The Fratmen representative obviously meant this as a threat, suggesting that I would be in trouble for linking. But considering his company produced those images, that’s an insane argument.”

Also insane: the idea that anything can ever be deleted from the Internet. Wouldn’t Fratpad stand to benefit, enormously, from having one of its former gay-for-pay stars now appearing on a reality show? Who’s putting the pressure on!

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