The Netflix show Altered Carbon shows James Purefoy entering a room naked, Russell Tovey just got engaged to a former RandyBlue performer (ho-hum), and it’s not uncommon for hookups and dates to ask, innocently, “Hey, mind if I film this while we’re at it?”
Male nudity, it would seem, is everywhere these days, so much so that the term “porn star” seems antiquated, referring to a time when there were actual stars doing the nasty and magazines you bought under wraps and videos you purchased in the backrooms of video stores. Ever since Tumblr turned into a revolving door of boys being boys’ fantasies, it’s like we’ve entered a world of 15 minutes of naked fame.
“I think that pornography has been integrated into the contemporary psychological and social world—it has become a widely accessible form of social knowledge,” says Jeffrey Escoffier, author of Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore. “It has replaced the sex education which parents used to do. Most kids learn about sex from the Internet.”
That trend is now even more pronounced with OnlyFans, the Twitter app that allows you, for a fee, to see your favorite studs in compromising positions–video and otherwise. (The app is also used for mainstream artists and for straight-related content, but for the purpose of this article we’re sticking to the gay goods.) Anyone can join–yes, that means you–and judging from what I witnessed, the content ranges from PG-13 to Triple X. Whereas former rugby player and fitness model Stuart Reardon uses the service to contemplate life mostly from the waist up (relax, kids, the REARdon shows some backside), Ginger hunk Seth Fornea has gone red hot hardcore.
“Yes, I’ve crossed the line and am now a porn performer,” Fornea (his page costs $15 a month) tells Queerty. “I decided to join OnlyFans because a few friends had snapshot their accounts for me and shown me how profitable it could be … after I started the account I really began to enjoy making the posts.”
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Similarly, straight but quite flexible Brit model Adam Coussins, who charges $12.99, loves to entertain the lads and can’t stop posting pics and videos of his private parts in all their un-cut glory. He seems as eager to please as a drunken frat boy who just discovered the camera likes him.
Says Coussins on being naked for the boys: “I don’t mind at all. I have met many people over the years with many lifestyles and hobbies and beliefs; if no one is getting hurt it’s all good. Plus, over a decade in the game I’m used to it.”
Aye, there’s the rubdown. In a competitive world of beautiful men and a more homoerotic society, is getting down and dirty becoming expected, even required, to keep up a fan base? After all, why should I stare at a zillion shots of New Fitness Model on the Block wearing muscle shirts and underwear, when, for a little cash, I can watch You Tube star and fitness model Bryan Hawn show some of that booty (yes, he’s on there too).
“I don’t feel pressure to push the limits sexually cause there is a ton of porn out there,” says Hawn. “For me, the pressure is to be phenomenal. To have the best physique I can cause there is simply more competition. Technically, the real frustration comes from competing with Photoshopped models that don’t exist. I stopped taking photos for that reason a long time ago.”
Hawn believes that sex is a natural part of life that should be celebrated, not shunned. It’s also good business.
“Our society has become so promiscuous, with everyone sending dick pics, ass pics, etc.,” he says. “It seems that everyone has naked pictures floating around these days. There’s just a smaller group of people that are smart enough to start getting paid for it. Sex sells. That is nothing new.”
“It just not much of a taboo anymore,” says Michael Lucas, founder/CEO of Lucas Entertainment who also uses OnlyFans ($9.95) to document his own sex life–the percentage of the partners he solicits are amateurs, not professional performers. “If you’re, say, a trainer, what’s easier? Jacking off for five minutes and showing your *&^%hole, or training people in the gym for an hour? The money factor is huge. They think, ‘I’m hotter than that guy. F*** morals: I want to make the money.'”
Not everyone is jumping on the OnlyFans bandwagon, and there’s a concern that models might be overexposing themselves, in more ways than one.
“I don’t want naked pictures of me floating around the Internet,” says commercial model Phil Fusco, who is not gay. “A lot of people start out as models but they don’t go anywhere because they show nudes. Their careers are blossoming, they could be really good commercial or runway models, but they see this little money factor to make a quick buck and they’re over-saturating themselves. Talking to a lot of agents, they won’t work with models that have too much of a crazy background. If their past involves sucking d*** they’re not going to hire them.”
Hawn, who charges $29.99 a month, isn’t worried about a backlash.
“The people throwing shade are the ones that aren’t making the money or don’t have the same ‘marketing materials,'” he says. “People who shame others who make money with their physique are simply those that don’t have one, or have religious hang ups. The male physique is a beautiful form of art and it should be celebrated, especially when somebody puts in thousands of hours and dollars into creating something beautiful.”
Adds Lucas: “Look at Trump. If you’re talking about sex while you’re married you can still be President. People care about immigration, and f*** political correctness. Celebrities have leaked sex tapes. Nobody gives a s***.”
For better or for worse, OnlyFans is making quite an impact on the branding of sex. Whether that means porn has lost its luster, or that we’re headed to a world where it actually becomes more competitive, where bigger, better stars pop up without the hassle of the middleman, depends on whom you ask and you’re own crystal-ball vision.
“Just like people wished they were more active on YouTube in the beginning, I believe they will be saying the same thing about OnlyFans a few years from now,” says Hawn. “The million dollar boat is gonna leave the dock, and if you have a fan base, you need to decide whether you wanna be on it.”
“It’s brand-new,” adds Fusco. “We’ll have to wait a year or two to see what happens to these models.”
Now give the camera a great…big…smile?
Bob LaBlah
From the article: “It just not much of a taboo anymore,” says Michael Lucas, founder/CEO of Lucas Entertainment who also uses OnlyFans ($9.95) to document his own sex life–the percentage of the partners he solicits are amateurs, not adult performers.”
Queerty, I think you ought to go back and reword that. It sounds as though not all of his models are of legal age the way its worded.
To answer the question in a nutshell, yes, your a porn star if thats what you so desire to be. But the question I ask is what are YOU going to do (regardless of how tight your body is and the sex act itself) that hasn’t already been done by someone with an even hotter body and won’t eventually end up on the free gay porn sites eventually?
Lacuevaman
i dont usually agree with you, but you get at something correct “that hasn’t already been done by someone with an even hotter body”. New porn production is doomed unless the performers are known for something other than there bodies.
tham
no it doesn’t.
you guys are being weird.
sonofseptember
“Adult performers” clearly refers to professional porn actors, as in adult entertainment. You’d have to have a personal propensity for underage models to assume that’s what it means.
And your rhetorical question has no real sentiment. You could ask that same question of any entertainer in any medium. Musicians, theater actors, rodeo clowns…these men have fanbases because they have individual qualities that people specifically respond to. It doesn’t matter that there are always hotter bodies. That’s a straw man argument that’s been used shame sex workers for centuries.
martin_erickson
“You’re,” as in “you are,” not “your”
Nowuvedoneit
Brian Hawn ugh just no. And Queerty what happened to your former fave Davey Wavey? He has one too.
BradWrider
Ugh, Bryan Hawn is sooooo fucking hot! Watching him and Reese Rideout fuck… literally my mind exploded
Kangol
It’s called NEOLIBERALISM. Everybody and everything is a brand to be consumed. Even private sex is now a commodity to be monetized and sold off. People are increasingly requesting or even demanding money just for posting on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook (via Patreon and similar sites). It’s kind of nuts, but it also is the perverse logic of late capitalism as we know it, with sex being another “gig” that anyone can make (a little to a lot of) money off, and couple it with the current trends in human psychology, in which people increasingly cannot function without constant attention and affirmation on social media, etc., it all makes sense.
It’s funny because I can recall a friend in the 1990s saying that everyone wanted to have sex like a porn star, and then revising that to say, Everyone wants to be a pornstar, and I said, no, you had it right the first time. I sure in the hell don’t want to be a pornstar, and I would imagine most people don’t, but there are many who do. Or at least think they do. The difference between 1998-99 and today is that back then there weren’t cameras and smartphones everywhere, whereas in our surveillance society with ubiquitous social media, there is no privacy, you’ll never get those images or links off the net, and if you go this route, you had better be ready to deal with the consequences.
Donston
That’s the unfortunate thing. People who naively indulge cetain things between 18-25 and put it out there in the world can never take it back. While older folks often get caught in a cycle of permanent sex work and certain on the skirts of society “lifestyles”.
tham
wow, that’s a lot.
You get that you lost us at NEOLIBERALISM.
right?
Kangol
@tham, you mean, lost you. Donston responded without a problem. But keep up the snark, even you’re the only one who laughs at it. Someone has to.
DCguy
Except that the highest consumption of porn in the U.S. is Utah.
sonofseptember
Can you still call it neoliberalism once it becomes an attitude of the majority? Because I don’t think millennials and Gen Z-ers on the whole give a fuck. They really don’t. In a decade I don’t think the “consequences” you’re talking about will mean that much.
mujerado
No, it’s not called neoliberalism; it’s called capitalism. You have something someone else wants, so you sell it to them. Period. Everything else is moralistic nonsense.
biguy80
I think he just wanted to use the term LIBERAL, lol. This is not Neoliberalism this is plain on CAPITALISM. The belief that anything should have a dollar value and be bought and sold. Neoliberalism has to do with sustained economic growth by means of less regulation.
bryanhawn
Thanks for writing this article. You left out so much of what I said, so I thought I would put it in the comment section 🙂
I think that Only Fans being a porn site is actually a HUGE misconception. There are many performers in the porn industry that use it, but it is actually designed for anyone with a fanbase. It’s a way for models, actors, musicians, bloggers to share content designed only for super fans. Fans that are willing to spend money to access content that is not publicly available. Maybe a famous singer can post behind the scenes footage of them in the studio or preview unreleased music, or a famous actor give a more intimate look into their daily lives. Also it’s impossible to answer all the messages on Instagram, so Only Fans is a way to communicate with your favorite social media stars, and the Influencer not being overwhelmed with messages.
Regarding the users that use the site as a platform to show off their physique, I believe its a genius money making opportunity for anyone who is an exhibitionist. It puts the power in the performers hand to make as much money as they want and not be dependent on a studio. You don’t have to do porn to have an only fans page. I’ve signed up a lot of fitness models that do flexing, workout routines, underwear modeling, etc… It’s up to the performer how little or how much you want to show. Regarding gay culture, our society has become so promiscuous with everyone sending dick pics, ass pics, etc… It seems everyone has naked pictures floating around these days. There’s just a smaller group of people that are smart enough to start getting paid for it. Sex sells. That is not something new. It’s been used for hundreds of years to market businesses. The people throwing shade are the ones that aren’t making the money or don’t have the same “marketing materials”. People who shame others who make money with their physique are simply those that don’t have one, or have religious hang ups. The male physique is a beautiful form of art and it should be celebrated, especially when somebody puts in thousands of hours and dollars into creating something beautiful. I don’t feel pressure to push the limits sexually cause there is a ton of porn out there. For me, the pressure is to be phenomenal. To have the best physique I can cause there is simply more competition, and technically the real frustration comes from competing with photoshopped models that don’t exist. I stopped taking photos for that reason a long time ago. I only do video cause its much more impressive when you can’t morph your body into an adonis with a few clicks of a mouse. I have turned down multiple photographers who morph fitness bodies in their photographs. They are selling something that doesn’t exist. DNA magazine is a big one. Every one of their covers, the models waist has been taken in, his shoulders are made broader, chest bigger, increase the thigh. It’s honestly stupid. We are literally idolizing cartoons. I’ve literally the seen the before and after picture of several of the covers. So that is where the pressure comes. There are absolutely zero marketing set backs for having an Only Fans Page. It is opened up doors financially for me beyond my wildest dreams. I have never had so much money flowing into my life and I can’t wait to see how it evolves. Money = opportunity It overturns limits, it funds dreams. As far as emotional set backs, that just stems from religious guilt. That’s an issue that is gonna affect every aspect of someones sexuality. Only Fans is just one of the symptoms. Thanks for reaching out. 2017 was about followers. 2018 is about money. Just like people wished they were more active on youtube in the beginning. I believe they will be saying the same thing about Only Fans a few years from now. That million dollar boat is gonna left the dock, and if you have a fanbase… you need to decide now whether you wanna be on it. -Bryan
Only Fans link: https://onlyfans.com/bryanhawn?ref=580558
Nowuvedoneit
Not everyone is spreading their cheeks to get paid, that is you and a few people. Don’t act or insinuate every gay is like you.
Bob LaBlah
I have to congratulate you on that informercial you just posted. However it did little to alter my opinion of the site itself. Your post reminds me of how I came of age at a time when jobs had unions and pensions, VCR’s sold for $1200 and only had a 24hr programmable clock, cable television was only available in the exclusive areas of town ($500 a month would have gotten you a penthouse and a view of the river) and one went to bars, cruise spots or bathhouses looking for sex. But hey, my house AND car are paid for so who the hell am I to judge how you get the rent paid in 2018, huh?
tham
Bob LaBlah
Wowza, you’re all over the place…as according to you, you lived in the 80’s…
then you turn into the 70’s…it’s weird cause you were so exact, then you…well…are not.
anywise…Bryan…
what the heck are you doing? You should have stopped after the first sentence. Nobody reads anymore…they only take pics of themselves. And that’s not a joke.
Bob LaBlah
@Tham………..”Wowza, you’re all over the place…as according to you, you lived in the 80’s…
then you turn into the 70’s…it’s weird cause you were so exact, then you…well…are not.”
I’m sixty years old and I ask you to please forgive my ignorance but can you PLEASE explain what the hell are you trying to say? I’m lost. I think I made myself perfectly clear but you sure didn’t. I caught the tail end of the 1950’s, grew up as a kid in the 1960’s, came of sexual age and went out on my own in the 1970’s (to California), got my first decent job in the 1980’s…………………you know what, don’t respond. Its an age thing. I was taught to think while………….as I said, don’t respond. Right now I’m committing child abuse by responding to you.
Bob LaBlah
@Tham….hugs kisses. Love you still. lol
coltonblack
Bryan, let’s be real. It’s always been about the money. Not just 2018. But those hopes will soon be dashed. YouTube is starting to ban ‘only fan’ links. Facebook also is doing the same (as you know, they own Instagram).
In fact, FB’s entire algo has changed so if you want to get the word out about the product you are selling (you) it just became a whole lot harder. And word is Instagram is close to banning any links to ‘only fans’ sites
Maybe that’s why you came here to drop the link to your site. To get some free advertising?
bryanhawn
ColtonBlack, I’m guessing you DONT have an Only Fans Account. lol If you would like for me to help you sign up, just message me on Instagram. Nobody is banning links. That’s just what porn studios want models to think because ONLY FANS is taking them out of business. It’s a myth! I didn’t come here. David who wrote the article came to me to interview the app that is blowing up the internet. It’s one of the first major apps catching fire that actually pays you per subscriber, not like youtube that does ad revenue and tries to demonetize as many videos as possible so they don’t have to pay you. So yes, the focus is gonna be on the Apps that pay, verses the apps that just allow you to brag about a big following. Don’t be a hater, get on board, make some money, you will feel better 🙂
ChrisK
@bryanhawn. Why are you attacking Coltonblack? Didn’t you just say the same damn thing? It’s all about the money and apparently the big sites are banning it on theirs. Others here have pointed out your infomercial here so I’d say he’s right on the money.
mujerado
ChrisK, Brian didn’t attack Colton. He answered him, and he smiled at the end.
ChicagoBlue
What a load…
bryanhawn
@chrisK We are NOT saying the same thing. Nobody is banning anything. I know personally cause my ONLY FANS link is on EVERYTHING lol. Yes, this is great advertising. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s how business works. Anyone who has a big following on INSTAGRAM, DM me… I will personally show you how to set up your business. You can post the same sexy pictures that you’ve been posting, except get paid for it. You’ve worked hard on your bodies, your drawing an audience, there is no reason why you should not be compensated and appreciated for your hard work. Porn is NOT required. I’ve signed up Murry Swanby, Mike Chabot, Jake Burton, Nick Masc, Alfie Cinematic, and they are all making phenomenal money. Send me a message. I’ll help you get started 🙂
pscheck2
Bryan you are smart, gifted and to the point! But all hunks like you cannot make it like you have because they don’t have that certain elan persona that makes you so attractive. Go to pinterest and see all the postings of selfies there and for the many they have the well defined body and pretty boy looks, but the picture is almost bland. But once and awhile, one pops up there that gives one a rise (especially me I have ED!), and you dream about him and bring him into your fantasizing world! But you have the lookout on life that makes it easy for you to be who you are! I think very few people have this attitude, much to their regret. Wishing you the best in your pursuit of happyness!
Donston
If you want to put yourself out there like that then you do. That’s always been the case. It’s just easier to put it out there and easier to make a profit off of it from anywhere in the world. However, from my understanding the profits for adult entertainment is pretty slim nowadays. People have to do a ton of scenes as well as a decent amount of side “esorting” in order to maintain a decent income. The widespread pirating, the amount of sites and specialized sites there are now, and how many people would rather watch amatuer and homemade stuff seems to have taken a major bite over the past ten years. The latter makes even more sense considering how “professional” gay porn remains mostly awkward, lifeless, passionless and hetero-worshiping.
tham
what porn are you watching?
Newt96
True! I never know someone that is so into suits…
Frank
People have been making money off their bodies for CENTURIES however now with the internet it reminds me of the saloons that were set up during the Gold Rush…
If you do not know, these saloons were set up and raked in the cash until the mine was dry…it made a lot of people money and left many people broke.
Long story short: I am not spending my hard earned money to support the lives of these internet “actors” that are willing to be smoothed and buffed and fluffed and stuffed….because they promise something that is as transparent as saran wrap.
I know how to search the internet for FREE skin and porn and keep my money…if someone wants to pay for sex, that is great at least they are getting something in return…after that all of this is just fodder.
Mick406
TRUE!!!
Frank
Last thought some people will say that if you do not actively support the adult industry it will dry up but guess what there is enough porn and skin on the internet to satiate people for YEARS to come…
There are people willing to show their skin for FREE all over the internet…
Sam6969
Young amateur good-looking men reading this article and tempted to go down that road, may ask themselves what they will do, if it does not work for them, or a bit later after their good looks have passed or they cannot compare anymore to younger ones. Once on the net, their videos and naked pictures, in practice, do not belong to them anymore (as Kangol suggested). It could strike them back later in more ordinary workplaces…their image being connoted…
The same issue goes for anyone else. We have entered in a post-privacy era. So, any (young) individual should probably think twice before showing themselves naked in front of their webcam or sending naked pictures. Many of those (stolen) videos and sent pictures end up on Porn Websites, without them even knowing it. It could also be a handicap for them later (workplace, private life), depending where they intend to work.
crowebobby
When everyone has done it (as most school kids already have), it’s going to be about as shocking to a future employer as a photo of your great grandmother showing her ankle as she step onto a bus.
Sam6969
Haha, it could be true! 😉
tham
again, I think it’s awesome that millennials are pushing the envelope, but sadly, much like EVERY “influencer” of the past…they will not benefit from the change.
They will be too old, and gross by then, but the young kids (the ones that are being born NOW) will not care what you did, it’ll just be “normal”.
but hey, you weren’t doing it for fame, you’re a “social warrior”
crowebobby
Why does anyone care about these jaded pros when there are millions of equally hot, beautiful, and ingenuous young guys posing for girls or guys on Skype or just to satisfied their own particular itch?
Joseph
Every time I see one of your comments. I just shake my head. Go hang out in data lounge mate,
tham
you know, only europeans say “mate” right?
and considering there’s a 9 hr (ish) time difference…I’m going to call…morning sift.
Joseph
There is this country south of the Equator, Tham. It is called Australia.
troyfight
hopefully the public isn’t getting numb to all this easily viewed sex…kind of a paradox
Jaxton
Isn’t “prostitution” a better word for it?
Bob LaBlah
@Jaxton…………….”Isn’t “prostitution” a better word for it?”
It does seem ironic one can be arrested if they stand on a corner and offer to go to someone’s home and perform for money (not touching the person that picked them up) but its perfectly legal to be paid to perform with either a person or sex toy online with no chance of arrest.
tham
umm, no one “stands on the corner”…it’s called craig’s list….gays have know this since the 90’s
Bob LaBlah
Tham, PLEASE tell me your into daddies and leather razor straps across your bare rear end. I just got my refund check and its burning a hole in my pocket.
Bob LaBlah
@ Tham (again, sigh, I know)……………oh wait. What the hell is wrong with me? Scratch that previous message. This is 2018. Ok, Tham, PLEASE tell me your into daddies and leather razor straps across your jockstrap clad ass. (There, that sounds more modern).
Coreydnyc
HAHA WORD!
UWSguy
Incubator for narcissism?
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/how-spot-narcissist-social-media
Bob LaBlah
Thanks for posting that. I don’t do or ever did Facebook because I never understood why would they need a picture AND the password to your email account. I kid you not, I was denied access because I refused to post a pic and give them my password. A message came up saying “Facebook does not store your password” but my thought was simple: if you don’t store the password then why is it a requirement that you tell them what it is in order to be able to access your page?
Lookyloo
@Bob – facebook does NOT NEED a pic nor your email password.
If fb asked for your email password perhaps it’s because you inadvertently opted-in to link the two in the set-up process.
(or- you were being scammed by some outside scammy scammer)
Asking for the email password, I think, would maybe be to opt-in to allow fb to access your email as-to quickly convert your email contacts to ‘fb contacts’ – but that process is certainly not required (I never gave fb my email password)
They do require, I think, an email ADDRESS (only) for communication and verification processes.. but not the password to that email.
And, you can post your email address to your optional ‘contact info’ on fb (or not) without giving them a password, no problem.
Also, fb does NOT NEED picture – nor does it need to be of you. They prefer you post some kind of profile pic – but the pic can be anything – your account will be activated even without a pic.
They will ‘remind’ you often to upload a profile pic if you don’t – but your account WILL function without one.
Look, I know you’re ‘an old’ but jeeze dude plenty of olds use fb without being so confused about it.
Ryanpdx25
Hmm…Fusco already has several nudes and at least 1 solo video out there. A model like Max Emerson could make a stronger case for not baring it all to preserve a career. Ultimately I think the right mix of looks, talent, work, and luck will matter more anyway if there’s a long term goal to perform. More than a few porn stars have been around for awhile, and plenty of mainstream hollywood actors and actresses have careers despite revealing just about every inch.
tham
you know, you bring up an interesting point…well…go with me on this one…
The problem with millennial’s and acting is…they are so NOT camera shy…they’re taken a pic of everything…good and BAD.
I’ve never seen so much bare ass and pubic hair in my life…and that’s coming from a gay man.
Ah, lets say this…can we skip a generation? Yep, we do it all the time…should we skip a generation. Yes.
DrEvel1
Back in the 1990s, I did appear in one commercial sex video. It was fun. I didn’t make any money from it, but I did get a couple of fan notices and it probably helped my sex life for a while. These days, considering the effects of 20 years of dissipation and how I look now, there’s not a lot of point in replicating the experience. But I’m glad that I did it then; it was a major Life Experience.
tham
did you just use “dissipation” in a sentence…really?
coltonblack
An interesting article but people have been doing this for some time now. Its called CAM.
But the party is about to end because social media platforms are penalizing posters and sites who promote ‘only fan’ sites and personalities. I’m not saying it’s right. But that is what’s happening.
Doesn’t Queerty have a pop-up box going right now upon coming to the site telling people to sign up for thier newsletter…because Facebook isn’t showing thier posts anymore? Respectfully, I think I’ve made my point.
Bob LaBlah
I’ve heard Tumblr is trying to ban nudity.
RexMovesSlow
Tragic. Would you want your family member doing this?
Geeker
I saw one of Seth Fornea’s clips on Twitter, I can’t imagine paying money to watch him be a bareback cumdump.
ptb2016
Small fact. Anyone who saw Rome a few years ago will be well acquainted with James Purefoy anatomy as he went full frontal in more than one scene. Only Fans is a rip off. For the $29 a month or whatever you get amateur camerawork where a lot of the time you can’t see what you want to see. In comparison the likes of Bel Ami gives you beautifully produced porn for less that you can download and keep. And they aren’t te only ones. One camera screwing in someone’s bedroom isn’t much of a turn on.
Coreydnyc
Am I the only one who thinks there’s a different between and porn “star” and someone who just does porn?
Paco
Porn “stars” are just body parts to be seen during brief moments of self pleasure. Have yet to see any worth paying for. Never cared about who they are and never cared to even remember their names. There is no shortage of nice bodies to be seen. A dime a dozen.
gravityyaoi
The problem with onlyfans is that there is no regulation of content like what was stated. A lot of “models” don’t tell you up front what they will be posting. You may sign up and pay 20 bucks because they advertised their junk on twitter but when you get there it’s fitness workouts or a protein smoothie recipe video and they post one nude every blue moon to keep stringing people along for money. But since there is no standards you have no recourse and are out money because they did the equivalent of this site’so click bait titles.
Brian
I was surprised that there are no previews on the site. I can’t imagine giving them my credit card number and having no idea what I’m getting for my money.
Esscourt
I wouldn’t give that sleezeball Michael Lucas one dime to look at his photos!
ChicagoBlue
What everyone seems to be avoiding is the economic question (though I stopped reading about 20 bitches into the thread)
Seth Fornia wouldn’t do hard core porn for Colt or Titan. There are a couple good reasons. One guess is that studio banner brands don’t bareback, and won’t touch you if you do.
The “split” is better on OF. I don’t know what % of the take Seth gets, vs corporate, but even if its 70%, he’s making a killing. He’s got hundred of fans @ 15 bucks. My guess is he’s not filing taxes from Brazil.
He’s already said that he’s financed his move to Brazil from the OF cash he’s making, and I believe it.
Do you know why most real “porn stars” escort? Because the average rate per scene is only $500. And it’s a lot of damn work.
You also don’t get to pick your partner, you don’t get a % of the profits, plus you basically do the marketing for free on social media to keep your brand alive. You’re basically just a dumb animal.
I don’t know how often they get paid, but imagine if you could make a couple thousand a month, total control of production and distribution, do what you want, when you want, and who you want.
Seth’s stuff is already headlining the free porn sites. He’s hot, bareback, and clearly has a thing for big, uncut, Brazilian dick. And he’s good at it.
To keep those fans, he’s going to have to keep cranking it up a notch, and you’re already raw, the last taboo, so what’s left? There’s always somebody hotter, and cheaper, behind you.
Of course, he’s the flavor of the month…for now. But then what? Seth actually has an advanced degree in chemistry, but somehow I just don’t see him fitting in at BASF, Monsanto, Dow or P&G.
Eric Rhodes once said “after they’ve seen your p***y, who’s going to hire you, outside of porn? They basically own you, and your image for life. You will never escape it.”
He was right, porn is forever.
Then his heart exploded from all the steroids + meth, and other drugs he needed to stay big and numb, and he was dead at 30.
Yeah, it’s hot now, but unless you see a future in escorting, you’re expiration date is approaching rapidly. You can’t dance on a bar forever.
Not to mention that now that your product is getting hijacked, your subscriber base will decline.
Look at Sean Cody. The *same day* they post their product, its on Vidster. So they jacked up the rates, no more free downloads…
Gay porn is the least profitable online platform. No contract, guys buy it for a month, burn out, move on. It’s called “churn.” And the cost to aquire each of those subscribers is greater as “personal porn” on sites like OF eats your lunch.
Sorry to rant, but I had a friend who was a Colt model for a while. Then some mainstream bear movies. Now he shoots porn in motel rooms.
Have at it boys…
CastleSF
I am not familiar with this particular industry nor who’s who because it goes against my moral fiber to watch young men getting exploited or forced to do things against their will. Your account of how young people just waste their youth when they can learn a useful skill and make a good living for themselves is exceedingly alarming. It’s a cautionary tale for the younger gay generation.
tommiej
It’s a career with a very short shelf-life. I’ve known people who’ve done it back in the stone ages (the 90’s) when I lived in San Francisco. The smart ones banked their dough and were very circumspect about the whole thing. Now, with the internet being what it is, how are you going to hide a past in porn?
OTOH – that easy under-the-table money is probably looking pretty good to a young millennial with bills to pay.
Lookyloo
— “OnlyFans, the Twitter app that allows you, for a fee, to see your favorite studs in compromising positions–video and otherwise.” —
Yeah, uh no.
These are not “compromising positions” – These vids/pics, etc are provided/posted on purpose by the ‘studs’ in question.
If something is “compromising” it means it was meant to be secret or very private – ya know, stuff that could be used for blackmail or would be super embarrassing if released in public. OnlyFans paid content is NOT that.
I mean, c’mon Queerty. No need to misrepresent to make everything seem more salacious even if this was secret paid content. (or wait.. do you really not know what “compromising positions” actually means?.. and you write words and phrases for a living? is so – yikes).